page_title: 2017
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Don Rickles.
context_page_description: 2017 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium, the 17th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.
  2017 was designated as International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
context_section_description: April 1
  Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1933)
  Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1939)
  Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (b. 1933)
  April 4
  Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist (b. 1924)
  Karl Stotz, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
  April 5 – Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (b. 1929)
  April 6 – Don Rickles, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
  April 7 – Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor and author (b. 1946)
  April 8 – Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1931)
  April 9 – Carme Chacón, Spanish politician (b. 1971)
  April 10 – Linda Hopkins, American actress and singer (b. 1924)
  April 11
  Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (b. 1935)
  J. Geils, American musician (b. 1946)
  April 12 – Charlie Murphy, American actor and comedian (b. 1959)
  April 15
  Emma Morano, Italian super-centenarian (b. 1899)
  Allan Holdsworth, British guitarist and composer (b. 1946)
  Clifton James, American actor (b. 1920)
  April 19 – Aaron Hernandez, American football player, and convicted murderer (b. 1989)
  April 20
  Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (b. 1930)
  Roberto Ferreiro, Argentine football player and manager (b. 1935)
  Germaine Mason, Jamaican-British Olympic high jumper (b. 1983)
  April 21 – Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer and coach (b. 1972)
  April 22
  Hubert Dreyfus, American philosopher (b. 1929)
  Erin Moran, American actress (b. 1960)
  Attilio Nicora, Italian cardinal (b. 1937)
  April 23
  Imre Földi, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter (b. 1938)
  František Rajtoral, Czech footballer (b. 1986)
  Luis Pércovich Roca, 118th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1931)
  April 24 – Robert M. Pirsig, American writer and philosopher (b. 1928)
  April 26 – Jonathan Demme, American film director (b. 1944)
  April 28 – Vito Acconci, American artist and architectural designer (b. 1940)
  April 30 – Ueli Steck, Swiss rock climber and mountaineer (b. 1976)
caption: Don Rickles
exif: {}