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What happend on 17. April in History
In our data base we found 315 events happened on 17. April:
• 69: After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. [category: Events]
• 326: Pope Alexander of Alexandria [category: Deaths]
• 485: Proclus, Greek philosopher (b. 412) [category: Deaths]
• 617: Donnán of Eigg, Irish priest, patron saint of Eigg [category: Deaths]
• 1080: Harald III of Denmark (b. 1041) [category: Deaths]
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• 1080: King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized. [category: Events]
• 1278: Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1320) [category: Births]
• 1397: Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury. [category: Events]
• 1427: John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403) [category: Deaths]
• 1492: Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices. [category: Events]
• 1521: Trial of Martin Luther over his teachings begins during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering and is given a stay of one day. [category: Events]
• 1524: Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor. [category: Events]
• 1539: George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471) [category: Deaths]
• 1555: After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army. The Republic of Siena is incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. [category: Events]
• 1573: Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1651) [category: Births]
• 1574: Joachim Camerarius, German scholar (b. 1500) [category: Deaths]
• 1586: John Ford, English dramatist (d. 1639) [category: Births]
• 1598: Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671) [category: Births]
• 1620: Marguerite Bourgeoys, French founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal (d. 1700) [category: Births]
• 1622: Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (d. 1695) [category: Births]
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• 1680: Kateri Tekakwitha, Americann-Indian religious figure, first native American to receive beatification (b. 1656) [category: Deaths]
• 1683: Johann David Heinichen, German composer and theorist (d. 1729) [category: Births]
• 1695: Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican writer [category: Deaths]
• 1696: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French writer (b. 1626) [category: Deaths]
• 1710: Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan (d. 1767) [category: Births]
• 1711: Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1678) [category: Deaths]
• 1713: David Hollatz, Pomeranian dogmatician (b. 1648) [category: Deaths]
• 1734: Taksin, King of Thailand (d. 1782) [category: Births]
• 1741: Samuel Chase, American justice of the Supreme Court (d. 1811) [category: Births]
• 1742: Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (b. 1664) [category: Deaths]
• 1750: François de Neufchâteau, French statesman (d. 1828) [category: Births]
• 1756: Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian Freedom Fighter, Tamil Revolutionist (d. 1805) [category: Births]
• 1761: Thomas Bayes, English mathematician [category: Deaths]
• 1764: Johann Mattheson, German composer (b. 1681) [category: Deaths]
• 1766: Collin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant, politician, and preacher, helped draft the Texas Declaration of Independence (d. 1861) [category: Births]
• 1790: Benjamin Franklin, American politician, inventor, diplomat, and printer (b. 1706) [category: Deaths]
• 1794: Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868) [category: Births]
• 1797: Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully. [category: Events]
• 1797: Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America. [category: Events]
• 1798: Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (d. 1840) [category: Births]
• 1799: Richard Jupp, English architect (b. 1728) [category: Deaths]
• 1814: Josif Pančić, Serbian botanist (d. 1888) [category: Births]
• 1816: Thomas Hazlehurst, English chapel builder (d. 1876) [category: Births]
• 1820: Alexander Cartwright, American inventor of Baseball (d. 1892) [category: Births]
• 1833: Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (d. 1900) [category: Births]
• 1837: J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1842: Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1843: Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762) [category: Deaths]
• 1849: William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the Supreme Court (d. 1923) [category: Births]
• 1849: Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (b. 1777) [category: Deaths]
• 1852: Cap Anson, American baseball player (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1863: Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1864: American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina. [category: Events]
• 1865: Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian religious leader (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1866: Ernest Starling, British physiologist (d. 1927) [category: Births]
• 1873: Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (b. 1783) [category: Deaths]
• 1877: Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1878: Emil Fuchs, German-American attorney and baseball owner (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1882: Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1882: George Jennings Sanitary engineer (b. 1810) [category: Deaths]
• 1884: Leo Frank, American factory superintendent, victim of lynching (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1885: Carl Goßler, German rower (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1885: Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Danish author (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1890: Art Acord, American actor and rodeo rider (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1891: George Adamski, Polish-American author and ufologist (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1892: Alexander Mackenzie, Canadian politician, contractor, and editor, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822) [category: Deaths]
• 1895: Robert Dean Frisbie, American author (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1895: The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. [category: Events]
• 1896: Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1897: Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian Advaita Vedanta spiritual teacher (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1897: Thornton Wilder, American dramatist (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1897: The Aurora, Texas UFO incident [category: Events]
• 1902: Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican politician (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1902: Francis, Duke of Cádiz (b. 1822) [category: Deaths]
• 1903: Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1903: Morgan Taylor, American hurdler(d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1903: Nicolas Nabokov, Russian composer and writer (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1905: Arthur Lake, American actor (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1905: Louis Jean Heydt, American actor (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1905: The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. [category: Events]
• 1906: Sidney R. Garfield, American physician (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1907: The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day. [category: Events]
• 1909: Alain Poher, French politician (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1910: Evangelos Averoff, Greek politician (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1910: Helenio Herrera, French footballer player and manager (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1910: Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1911: Hervé Bazin, French writer (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1911: Lester Rodney, American journalist (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1912: Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1912: Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150. [category: Events]
• 1914: George W. Davis, American art director (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1915: Joe Foss, American marine and politician (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1915: Martin Clemens, English colonial administrator and soldier (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1915: Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician and the world's first female head of government (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1917: Bill Clements, American politician (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1918: William Holden, American actor (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1919: Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1919: Gilles Lamontagne, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1920: Edmonde Charles-Roux, French journalist and writer [category: Births]
• 1921: Manwel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: Gianni Raimondi, Italian tenor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1923: Harry Reasoner, American journalist (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1923: Lindsay Anderson, English director (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1923: Solly Hemus, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1923: Laurence Ginnell, Irish politician and lawyer (b. 1852) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Erich Göstl, German soldier (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1925: René Moawad, Lebanese politician (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1926: Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1928: Cynthia Ozick, American writer [category: Births]
• 1928: Fabien Roy, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1929: James Last, German bandleader [category: Births]
• 1929: Michael Forest, American actor [category: Births]
• 1929: Peggy McKercher, Canadian educator, 11th Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan [category: Births]
• 1930: Chris Barber, English trombonist [category: Births]
• 1930: Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
• 1931: Malcolm Browne, American journalist and photographer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1933: Konstantine Marjanishvili, Georgian director (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Don Kirshner, American composer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1936: Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch politician (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian-German automotive engineer and executive [category: Births]
• 1937: Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1937: Yi Sang, Korean poet (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Ben Barnes, American politician [category: Births]
• 1938: Doug Lewis, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1938: Kerry Wendell Thornley, American theorist, co-founder of Discordianism [category: Births]
• 1939: Robert Miller, American art dealer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1940: Anja Silja, German soprano [category: Births]
• 1940: Billy Fury, British singer (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1940: John McCririck, English horse racing pundit [category: Births]
• 1941: Al Bowlly, English singer-songwriter, composer, and band leader (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. [category: Events]
• 1942: David Bradley, British actor [category: Births]
• 1942: Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician [category: Births]
• 1942: Jean Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein. [category: Events]
• 1943: Bobby Curtola, Canadian singer and businessman [category: Births]
• 1943: Richard Allen Epstein, American lawyer [category: Births]
• 1944: Dimitrios Psarros, Greek army officer and resistance fighter (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered. [category: Events]
• 1945: Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces. [category: Events]
• 1946: Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation. [category: Events]
• 1947: Linda Martin, Irish singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1947: Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player [category: Births]
• 1948: Alice Harden, American politician (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1948: Jan Hammer, Czech composer [category: Births]
• 1948: Suzuki Kantarō, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Joe Alaskey, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1949: At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland. [category: Events]
• 1950: Bruce McNall, American ice hockey team owner [category: Births]
• 1950: L. Scott Caldwell, American actress [category: Births]
• 1951: Börje Salming, Swedish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1951: Olivia Hussey, Argentine actress [category: Births]
• 1951: The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park. [category: Events]
• 1952: Pierre Guite, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1952: Željko Ražnatović, Serbian warlord (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1954: Lester Square, Canadian musician (The Monochrome Set and Adam and the Ants) [category: Births]
• 1954: Michael Sembello, American musician and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1954: Riccardo Patrese, Italian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1954: Roddy Piper, Canadian wrestler [category: Births]
• 1954: Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Pete Shelley, British musician (Buzzcocks) [category: Births]
• 1955: Todd Lickliter, American basketball coach [category: Births]
• 1957: Nick Hornby, English author [category: Births]
• 1957: Susan Roman, Canadian voice actress [category: Births]
• 1957: Teri Austin, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Sean Bean, English actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Boomer Esiason, American football player and commentator [category: Births]
• 1961: Frank J. Christensen, American labor leader [category: Births]
• 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. [category: Events]
• 1962: Henricus Tromp, Dutch rower (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Joel Murray, American actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Bart Van den Bossche, Flemish singer and actor (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1964: Ken Daneyko, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1964: Lela Rochon, American actress [category: Births]
• 1964: Maynard James Keenan, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, and Green Jellÿ) [category: Births]
• 1964: Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market. [category: Events]
• 1964: Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air. [category: Events]
• 1965: William Mapother, American actor [category: Births]
• 1965: Yoshiki Kuroda, Japanese urban planner [category: Births]
• 1966: Vikram, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Henry Ian Cusick, Peruvian-Scottish actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Kimberly Elise, American actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Leslie Bega, American actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Liz Phair, American singer-songwriter and musician [category: Births]
• 1967: Marquis Grissom, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1967: Timothy Gibbs, American actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Red Allen, American jazz trumpet player and vocalist (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven [category: Births]
• 1969: Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed. [category: Events]
• 1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. [category: Events]
• 1970: Redman, American rapper, producer, and actor (Def Squad and Method Man & Redman) [category: Births]
• 1970: Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. [category: Events]
• 1971: The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor. [category: Events]
• 1972: Claire Sweeney, English actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Gary Bennett, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1972: Jarkko Wiss, Finnish Footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: Jennifer Garner, American actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer [category: Births]
• 1972: Ruffian, American race horse (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1972: Terran Sandwith, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1972: Tony Boselli, American football player [category: Births]
• 1972: Yuichi Nishimura, Japan referee football player [category: Births]
• 1973: Brett Maher, Australian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Jeff Lewis, American football player (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1973: Kaihō Ryōji, Japanese sumo wrestler [category: Births]
• 1973: Theo Ratliff, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1973: George Lucas begins writing the treatment for The Star Wars. [category: Events]
• 1974: Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish guitarist and singer (Opeth, Bloodbath, and Katatonia) [category: Births]
• 1974: Victoria Beckham, English singer (Spice Girls) [category: Births]
• 1975: Gabriel Soto, Mexican actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Travis Roy, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1975: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender. [category: Events]
• 1976: Alex Nesic, American actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Aňa Geislerová, Czech actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Kim Young-oh, South Korean illustrator [category: Births]
• 1976: Monet Mazur, American actress, model, and musician [category: Births]
• 1976: Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Chad Hedrick, American speed skater [category: Births]
• 1977: Frederik Magle, Danish composer, organist and pianist [category: Births]
• 1977: Phil Jamieson, Australian singer (Grinspoon) [category: Births]
• 1977: Sizzla, Jamaican singer and rapper [category: Births]
• 1977: William Conway, Irish cardinal (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Jason White, Scottish rugby player [category: Births]
• 1978: Lindsay Hartley, American actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Loukas Louka, Greek-Cypriot footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan. [category: Events]
• 1979: Eric Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1979: Siddharth Narayan, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Sung Si Kyung, Korean singer [category: Births]
• 1980: Curtis Woodhouse, English footballer and boxer [category: Births]
• 1980: Fabián Andrés Vargas, Colombian football player [category: Births]
• 1980: Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player [category: Births]
• 1980: Nicholas D'Agosto, American actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer [category: Births]
• 1981: Ryan Raburn, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Zhang Yaokun, Chinese footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Brad Boyes, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1982: Chuck Kobasew, Canadian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1982: Lee Joon-gi, South Korean actor and model [category: Births]
• 1982: Martin Kampmann, Danish mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1982: Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. [category: Events]
• 1983: Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1983: Roberto Jimenez, Peruvian football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Stanislav Chistov, Russian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1983: Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (b. 1939) (Mountain) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Jed Lowrie, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Pablo Sebastián Álvarez, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Raffaele Palladino, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Rosanna Davison, model and actress, Miss World 2003 [category: Births]
• 1984: Claude Provost, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau (Embassy) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building. [category: Events]
• 1985: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player [category: Births]
• 1985: Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model [category: Births]
• 1985: Rooney Mara, American actress [category: Births]
• 1985: William Snape, English actor [category: Births]
• 1985: Evadne Price, British writer (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Takis Miliadis, Greek actor (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Romain Grosjean, French race car driver [category: Births]
• 1986: Nezar Hindawi's attempt to detonate a bomb aboard an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv is thwarted. [category: Events]
• 1986: The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends. [category: Events]
• 1987: Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Canadian actress, DJ and singer [category: Births]
• 1987: Cecil Harmsworth King, English publisher, owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Dick Shawn, American actor and Comedian (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Paraskevi Papahristou, Greek triple jumper [category: Births]
• 1989: Sunaina, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Tony Bellissimo, American dancer [category: Births]
• 1990: Gia Mantegna, American actress [category: Births]
• 1990: Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights activist (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Tessa James, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1992: Noni Răzvan Ene, Romanian singer [category: Births]
• 1993: Race Imboden, American fencer [category: Births]
• 1993: Turgut Ozal, Turkish politician, 8th president of Turkey (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Paul Litowsky, American actor [category: Births]
• 1995: Frank E. Resnik, American businessman (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Dee Dee Davis, American actress [category: Births]
• 1996: Piet Hein, Danish scientist and poet (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Allan Francovich, American director and producer (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Chaim Herzog, Israeli politician, President of Israel (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Linda McCartney, American designer and photographer (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Earl King, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: H. B. Bailey, American race car driver (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: John Paul Getty, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, Russian conjoined twins (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Robert Atkins, American nutritionist, physician, and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Soundarya, Indian actress (b. 1971) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Jean Bernard, French physician and haematologist (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Scott Brazil, American producer and director. (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70. [category: Events]
• 2007: Gil Dobrică, Romanian singer (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Kitty Carlisle, American actress and singer (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Danny Federici, American musician (E-Street Band) (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: AJ Perez, Filipino actor (b. 1993) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian composer (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Nikos Papazoglou, Greek singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Dimitris Mitropanos, Greek singer (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Nityananda Mohapatra, Indian politician, poet, and journalist (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ilias Ali, organizing secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and a former MP, disappears from Dhaka along with his chauffeur, allegedly abducted by government forces; both of them later never found. [category: Events]
• _: April 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (Canada) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Evacuation Day, celebrates the recognition of the independence of Syria from France in 1946. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: FAO Day (Iraq) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Flag Day (American Samoa) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pope Anicetus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Hemophilia Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]