Nekrolog April 2017

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April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
April, 30th	Leone Bagnall	Canadian politician	83	[1]
April, 30th	Belchior	Brazilian singer and composer	70	[2]
April, 30th	Claudia Bickmann	German philosopher	64	[3]
April, 30th	David A. Garvin	American economist	64	[4]
April, 30th	Mbah Gotho	Indonesian supercentenarian	146	[5]
April, 30th	Lorna Gray	US-american actress	99	[6]
April, 30th	Preston Henn	American racing car driver and entrepreneur	86	[7]
April, 30th	Norbert Hopster	German literary scholar and didactician	80	[8th]
April, 30th	Jidéhem	Belgian comic artist	81	[9]
April, 30th	Raymond P. Kogovsek	American politician	75	[10]
April, 30th	Borys Olijnyk	Ukrainian poet, translator and politician	81	[11]
April, 30th	Hans-Joachim Spangenberg	German chemist	84
April, 30th	Ueli Steck	Swiss mountaineer	40	[12]
April, 30th	Jean Stein	American author and editor	83	[13]
April, 30th	Hans-Georg Wolters	German doctor and politician	82
April 29	Diego Natale Bona	Italian bishop	90	[14]
April 29	Fritz Cron	German motorcycle racer	92	[15]
April 29	Hans-Jürgen Döring	German politician	65	[16]
April 29	Mestre Kamosso	Angolan musician	90	[17]
April 29	Saeed Karimian	Iranian media entrepreneur	45	[18]
April 29	Gerhard Kruger	German harness racing driver	92	[19]
April 29	Wiktor Osiatyński	Polish legal scholar, sociologist and civil rights activist	72	[20]
April 29	Adalbert Podlech	German legal scholar	87	[21]
April 29	Marie-Agnes Reintgen	German actress	72	[22]
April 29	Chris de Vries	Dutch soccer player	77	[23]
April 28	Anke Abraham	German gymnast, sports scientist and sociologist	56	[24]
April 28	Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck	Austrian military historian	98	[25]
April 28	Brazo de Oro	mexican wrestler	57	[26]
April 28	Walo Deuber	Swiss journalist and film director	70	[27]
April 28	Ruprecht Haasler	German major general	81	[28]
April 28	Erich Helmensdorfer	German journalist and television presenter	96	[29]
April 28	Carl Josef Hoffmann	German sculptor	92	[30]
April 28	Hans Holländer	German art historian	85	[31]
April 28	Gerhard Lutz	Austrian physicist	77	[32]
April 28	Edouard Mathos	Central African bishop	68	[33]
April 28	Hanno Millesi	Austrian medic	90	[34]
April 28	Cindy Rogge	German boxer	23	[35]
April 28	Manfred Seitz	German theologian	88	[36]
April 28	Diether Sperlich	Austrian zoologist and geneticist	88	[37]
April 28	Patrick Thaddeus	American astronomer	84	[38]
April 28	Francis Travis	Swiss conductor	95	[39]
April 28	John Whitmore	British racing car driver	79	[40]
April 27	Vito Acconci	American artist and architect	77
April 27	Karl Peter Boehr	German architect and master builder	91	[41]
April 27	Eduard Brunner	German-Swiss clarinetist	77	[42]
April 27	Vinu Chakravarthy	Indian actor	71	[43]
April 27	Jan Flinik	Polish hockey player	84	[44]
April 27	Tom Forkner	American entrepreneur, lawyer, and golfer	98	[45]
April 27	Peter George	Canadian economist and university president	75	[46]
April 27	Abdul Hasib	Afghan terrorist	?	[47]
April 27	Franz Huber	German behavioral scientist and neurobiologist	91	[48]
April 27	Eberhard Kaniuth	German mathematician	79	[49]
April 27	Fyodor Kapiza	Soviet or Russian literary critic, writer and translator	66	[50]
April 27	Vinod Khanna	Indian actor, film producer and politician	70	[51]
April 27	Joe Leonard	American racing car driver	84	[52]
April 27	Robin Millhouse	Australian lawyer and politician	87	[53]
April 27	Amparo Pacheco	Spanish actress	92	[54]
April 27	Sadanoyama Shinmatsu	Japanese sumo wrestler	79	[55]
26th of April	Frieder Arndt	German comedian	56	[56]
26th of April	Raj Bagri, Baron Bagri	British politician	86	[57]
26th of April	Walter Becker	German economic historian and journalist	85
26th of April	Wilhard Becker	Baptist theologian	89	[58]
26th of April	Hans Gerhard Bennewitz	German physicist	92	[59]
26th of April	Babalola Borishade	Nigerian politician and university professor	71	[60]
26th of April	Moïse Brou Apanga	Ivorian-Gabonese football player	35	[61]
26th of April	José Cordero	Ecuadorian politician	75	[62]
26th of April	Jonathan Demme	American film director	73	[63]
26th of April	Eldon E. Ferguson	American chemist and physicist	91	[64]
26th of April	Giorgio Guazzaloca	Italian politician	73	[65]
26th of April	Miroslav Kosev	Bulgarian actor	63	[66]
26th of April	Andreas von der Meden	German actor, dubbing and radio play speaker	74	[67]
26th of April	Marvin W. Mikesell	American geographer	87	[68]
26th of April	Christine Oesterlein	German actress	93	[69]
26th of April	Margit Pörtner	Danish curler	45	[70]
26th of April	Günter Schulte	German writer	79	[71]
26th of April	Doris Stauffer	Swiss artist and art educator	82	[72]
26th of April	Ronald KS Wood	British botanist	98	[73]
26th of April	Endrik Wottrich	German opera singer	52	[74]
April 25	Leo Baxendale	British comic artist	86	[75]
April 25	Sasha Lakovic	Canadian ice hockey player	45	[76]
April 25	Martha Lavey	American theater actress and director	60	[77]
April 25	Erik Martin	German author, songwriter and editor	81	[78]
April 25	Philippe Mestre	French politician and writer	89	[79]
April 25	Günter Rademacher	German soccer player	69	[80]
April 25	Sieghard Rost	German politician	95	[81]
April 25	Elena Rzhevskaya	Soviet and Russian writer and interpreter	97	[82]
April 25	Issa Samb	Senegalese artist and philosopher	71	[83]
April 25	Carl Schirren	German medic	94	[84]
April 25	Heinz Schrand	German painter, graphic artist and sculptor	90	[85]
April 25	Miroslav Smyčka	Czech opera singer and Esperantist	90	[86]
April 25	Munyua Waiyaki	Kenyan politician	90	[87]
April 24th	Inga Ålenius	Swedish actress	78	[88]
April 24th	Benjamin R. Barber	American political scientist	77	[89]
April 24th	František Brůna	Czechoslovak handball player	72	[90]
April 24th	Agustin Edwards Eastman	Chilean media entrepreneur	89	[91]
April 24th	Phil Edwards	British cyclist	67	[92]
April 24th	Agnes Gable	German soprano	95	[93]
April 24th	Don Gordon	US-American actor	90	[94]
April 24th	Michael Mantenuto	US-American actor	35	[95]
April 24th	Robert M. Pirsig	American writer	88	[96]
April 24th	Matti Viironen	Finnish actor	69	[97]
April 24th	Evangelina Villegas	Mexican agronomist	92	[98]
April 23	Jerry Adriani	Brazilian singer	70	[99]
April 23	Kathleen Crowley	US-american actress	87	[100]
April 23	Imre Foldi	Hungarian weightlifter	78	[101]
April 23	Karl Holl	German historian and politician	85	[102]
April 23	Karin Kahlhofer	German painter	73	[103]
April 23	Larissa Kronberg	Russian or Soviet actress	87	[104]
April 23	Åke Larsson	Swedish soccer player	85	[105]
April 23	Heinz Militzer	German geophysicist	94	[106]
April 23	František Rajtoral	Czech soccer player	31	[107]
April 23	Yameen Rasheed	Maldivian blogger and human rights activist	29	[108]
April 23	Dieter Schreiber	German medic	80	[109]
April 23	Ken Sears	American basketball player	83	[110]
April 23	Erdoğan Teziç	Turkish lawyer	81	[111]
April 23	Michael Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan	British diplomat and politician	67	[112]
April 22	Miguel Abensour	French philosopher	78	[113]
April 22	Rolf Bänninger	Swiss jazz drummer	78	[114]
April 22	Hubert Dreyfus	American philosopher	87	[115]
April 22	Henning Eichberg	German historian, cultural sociologist and publicist	74	[116]
April 22	Ernst-Ludwig Freisewinkel	German journalist and television maker	87	[117]
April 22	Karl Hecker	German ancient orientalist	83	[118]
April 22	Götz Heidelberg	German physicist, designer and entrepreneur	94	[119]
April 22	William Hjortsberg	American writer	76	[120]
April 22	Jess Kersey	American basketball referee	76	[121]
April 22	Sophie Lefranc-Duvillard	French ski racer	46	[122]
April 22	Erin Moran	US-american actress	56	[123]
April 22	Kunibert Mührel	German agricultural scientist	87	[124]
April 22	Hiroshi Nakai	Japanese politician	74	[125]
April 22	Attilio Nicora	Italian cardinal	80	[126]
April 22	Witold Pyrkosz	Polish actor	90	[127]
April 22	Gustavo Rojo	Uruguayan actor and film producer	93	[128]
April 22	Hans-Heinrich Sander	German politician	72	[129]
April 22	Michele Scarponi	Italian cyclist	37	[130]
April 22	Robert Sinsheimer	American molecular biologist and university chancellor	97	[131]
April 22	José Utrera Molina	Spanish lawyer and politician	91	[132]
April 22	Donna Williams	Australian writer and artist	53	[133]
April 21	Klaus Abt	German medical statistician	89	[134]
April 21	Ugo Ehiogu	English soccer player	44	[135]
April 21	Willibald Folz	German economist	80	[136]
April 21	Wolfgang Fürniß	German politician	72	[137]
April 21	Jari Helle	Finnish ice hockey player and coach	54	[138]
April 21	Enrico Medioli	Italian screenwriter	92	[139]
April 21	Herbert W. Muller	German machine builder	102	[140]
April 21	Onuora Nzekwu	Nigerian writer and editor	89	[141]
April 21	Edith Peres-Lethmate	German sculptor	89	[142]
April 21	Werner Persy	German painter and graphic artist	93	[143]
April 21	Thomas Schiestl	German actor	81	[144]
April 21	Jean Tordo	French jazz musician	89	[145]
20th of April	Magdalena Abakanowicz	Polish sculptor and textile artist	86	[146]
20th of April	Yüksel Arslan	Turkish-French artist	83	[147]
20th of April	Alexander Bílek	Czech athlete	76	[148]
20th of April	Jay Dickey	American politician	77	[149]
20th of April	Jang Deok-jin	South Korean lawyer and politician	82	[150]
20th of April	Roberto Ferreiro	Argentinian soccer player and coach	81	[151]
20th of April	John Freely	American physicist, historian, and author	90	[152]
20th of April	Cuba Gooding senior	American singer	72	[153]
20th of April	Craufurd Goodwin	Canadian-American economist	82	[154]
20th of April	Paul Hébert	Canadian actor, director and theater founder	92	[155]
20th of April	Lawrence Hogan	American politician	88	[156]
20th of April	Kojo Laing	Ghanaian author	70	[157]
20th of April	John W. Littlefield	American cell biologist and medical scientist	91	[158]
20th of April	Germaine Mason	British athlete	34	[159]
20th of April	Ernst Otto Steinborn	German chemist	84	[160]
20th of April	Skeeter Swift	American basketball player	70	[161]
20th of April	Anicetus Andrew Wang Chong-yi	chinese bishop	97	[162]
April 19th	Nikolai Andrushchenko	Russian journalist	73	[163]
April 19th	Anton Bogetić	Croatian bishop	94	[164]
April 19th	Tom Fleming	American athlete	65	[165]
April 19th	David French	British archaeologist	83	[166]
April 19th	Aaron Hernandez	American football player	27	[167]
April 19th	Lenz Klotz	Swiss painter and draftsman	92	[168]
April 19th	Oliver Lustig	Romanian journalist and book author	90	[169]
April 19th	Carl Manner	Austrian entrepreneur	87	[170]
April 19th	Wilhelm Prettl	German physicist	77	[171]
April 19th	Norbert Trippen	German theologian and church historian	80	[172]
April 18	Gustav Bubník	Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach	88	[173]
April 18	David Chandler	American chemist	72	[174]
April 18	Frank Dostal	German musician and producer	71	[175]
April 18	Barkley L. Hendricks	American artist and photographer	72	[176]
April 18	Gordon Langford	British arranger and composer	86	[177]
April 18	Yvonne Monlaur	french actress	81	[178]
April 18	Charles Small	American jazz musician	≈90	[179]
April 18	JC Spink	American film producer	45	[180]
17th April	Jeremiasz Anchimiuk	Polish Archbishop	73	[181]
17th April	Gavril Both	Romanian soccer player and coach	69	[182]
17th April	Ulrich Frank	German voice actor and actor	74	[183]
17th April	Horst Groll	German electrical engineer	92	[184]
17th April	Rolf Henry Kunz	German organist and conductor	78	[185]
17th April	Dawson Mathis	American politician	76	[186]
17th April	John T. Noonan	American judge and jurist	90	[187]
17th April	Jaak Panksepp	Estonian-American psychologist	73	[188]
17th April	Michael Francis Perham	British bishop	69	[189]
17th April	Rosey	Samoan wrestler	47	[190]
17th April	Sean Scanlan	British actor	68	[191]
17th April	Carlos Slepoy	Argentinian lawyer and human rights activist	67	[192]
17th April	Otto Stumpf	German canoeist, sports official and politician	77	[193]
17th April	Nicole Van Den Broeck	Belgian cyclist	70	[194]
17th April	Shōichi Watanabe	Japanese linguist and cultural critic	86	[195]
April 16	Michael Bogdanov	British director	78	[196]
April 16	Gianni Boncompagni	Italian television journalist, writer and director	84	[197]
April 16	Thomas Diehl	German entrepreneur and manager	66	[198]
April 16	Engelbert Dockner	Austrian economist	58	[199]
April 16	Rosemary Frankau	British actress	84	[200]
April 16	Bernd Fritz	German journalist, satirist and writer	71	[201]
April 16	Walter Hamm	German economist	94	[202]
April 16	Albert Henrichs	German-American Graecist	74	[203]
April 16	Helmut Jäger	German geographer	93	[204]
April 16	Johann Jurenitsch	Austrian pharmaceutical biologist	69	[205]
April 16	Horst Köditz	German pediatrician	85	[206]
April 16	Spartaco Landini	Italian soccer player, coach and manager	73	[207]
April 16	Albrecht Menke	German administrative lawyer, city director	82	[208]
April 16	Piero Ottone	Italian journalist and writer	92	[209]
April 15th	Anton Baumeister	German publisher and author	85	[210]
April 15th	Johnny Carlyle	British ice hockey player and coach	87	[211]
April 15th	Alberto Carneiro	Portuguese artist	79	[212]
April 15th	Amílcar Henríquez	Panamanian soccer player	33	[213]
April 15th	Allan Holdsworth	British guitarist	70	[214]
April 15th	Clifton James	US-American actor	96	[215]
April 15th	Josef Jochum	German actor, director and author	86	[216]
April 15th	Gerold Lingnau	German journalist	82	[217]
April 15th	Emma Morano	Italian age record holder	117	[218]
April 15th	Sylvia Moy	American songwriter and record producer	78	[219]
April 15th	Bato Tomašević	Yugoslav diplomat, journalist and publisher	87	[220]
April 15th	Reuven Virovnik	Israeli basketball referee	68	[221]
April 15th	Kurt Zurfluh	Swiss television and radio presenter	67	[222]
April 14th	George Cornea	Romanian film director, cameraman and screenwriter	86	[223]
April 14th	Jürgen Deininger	German ancient historian	79	[224]
April 14th	Henry Hillman	American entrepreneur and philanthropist	98	[225]
April 14th	Manfred Jung	German opera singer	76	[226]
April 14th	Bruce Langhorne	American musician	78	[227]
April 14th	Bill Mitchell	British theater director and set designer	65	[228]
April 14th	Hein-Direck New	German athlete	73	[229]
April 14th	Wilhelm Sachsenmaier	Austrian biochemist and marksman	90	[230]
April 14th	Girish Chandra Saxena	Indian politician	89	[231]
April 14th	Nicolás Suescún	Colombian poet, lyric poet, storyteller and illustrator	79	[232]
April 14th	Franz C. Widmer	Swiss journalist	74	[233]
April 14th	Iva Zupančič	Slovenian actress	86	[234]
April 13th	David Brodyansky	Soviet or Russian archaeologist	80	[235]
April 13th	K. Chandrasekharan	Indian mathematician	96	[236]
April 13th	Mário Contumélias	Portuguese journalist, writer and poet	68	[237]
April 13th	Dieter Cremer	German chemist	≈73	[238]
April 13th	Gerd-Peter Eigner	German writer	74	[239]
April 13th	Bo'ritosh Mustafoyev	Uzbek politician	68	[240]
April 13th	David Mwiraria	Kenyan politician	78	[241]
April 13th	Klaus Otto Nass	German politician, administrative officer and lawyer	86	[242]
April 13th	Georges Rol	French bishop	90	[243]
April 13th	Dan Rooney	American diplomat and entrepreneur	84	[244]
April 13th	Norio Shioyama	Japanese animation artist and illustrator	77	[245]
April 13th	Gerhard Spiteller	Austrian natural product chemist	85	[246]
April 13th	Robert W. Taylor	American computer scientist	85	[247]
April 13th	Diter von Wettstein	Danish biologist	87	[248]
11 April	Michael Ballhaus	German cameraman	81	[249]
12. April	Kathleen Cassello	American soprano	58	[250]
12. April	Marie-Thérèse de Chateauvieux	French politician	101	[251]
12. April	Ángel Espinosa	cuban boxer	50	[252]
12. April	Matthias Ferwagner	German government architect	74	[253]
12. April	William Norman Grigg	American writer and editor	54	[254]
12. April	Hans Alwin Ketels	German farmer and politician	103	[255]
12. April	Toshio Matsumoto	Japanese film director and video artist	85	[256]
12. April	Franco Mescolini	Italian actor, director and playwright	72	[257]
12. April	Charlie Murphy	American actor, writer, and comedian	57	[258]
12. April	Carsten Nicolaisen	German theologian and church historian	83	[259]
12. April	Walter Sage	German medieval archaeologist	86	[260]
12. April	Gerhard Trölitzsch	German politician	91
12. April	Mika Vainio	Finnish musician	53	[261]
11 April	Alberto Balestrini	Argentine politician	70	[262]
11 April	Michael Ballhaus	German cameraman	81	[263]
11 April	Martin J. Beckmann	German economist	92	[264]
11 April	Frederick H. Borsch	American bishop	81	[265]
11 April	Edward Francis	Indian bishop	86	[266]
11 April	Samir Frangieh	Lebanese politician and journalist	71	[267]
11 April	Jerzy Gajek	Polish pianist	80	[268]
11 April	J. Geils	American guitarist	71	[269]
11 April	Max Goedkoop	Dutch soccer player	88	[270]
11 April	Ina-Maria Greverus	German folklorist and cultural anthropologist	87	[271]
11 April	José Ramón Gurruchaga Ezama	Peruvian bishop	86	[272]
11 April	Susan Karike Huhume	Papua New Guinean flag designer	≈61	[273]
11 April	Harald Michel	German politician	67	[274]
11 April	Scotty Miller	American drummer	65	[275]
11 April	Thanks to Joachim	German diplomat	85	[276]
11 April	Chaim Nissim	Swiss politician and environmental activist	67	[277]
11 April	Michael Schultheis	American Jesuit and economist	84	[278]
11 April	Margit Schumann	German luge athlete	64	[279]
11 April	Toby Smith	British acid jazz musician and producer	46	[280]
11 April	Mark Wainberg	Canadian microbiologist and virologist	71	[281]
10th of April	Jack Ahearn	Australian motorcycle racer	92	[282]
10th of April	Arthur Boucot	American paleontologist	92	[283]
10th of April	Bab Christensen	Norwegian actress	89	[284]
10th of April	Erna Duhm	German psychologist	94	[285]
10th of April	Linda Hopkins	American blues and gospel singer	92	[286]
10th of April	Keith Richardson	British chess player	75	[287]
10th of April	Carlo Riva	Italian boat builder	95	[288]
10th of April	Hans-Joachim Ruckhäberle	German theater director and dramaturge	69	[289]
10th of April	Manfred Schweda	Austrian physicist	77	[290]
10th of April	Jean-Pierre von Wartburg	Swiss biochemist	85	[291]
9th April	Hans Achatz	Austrian politician	73	[292]
9th April	Carme Chacón	Spanish politician	46	[293]
9th April	John Clarke	New Zealand satirist	68	[294]
9th April	Walter Gams	Austrian mycologist	82	[295]
9th April	Peter Hansen	US-American actor	95	[296]
9th April	Harry Huskey	American mathematician and computer engineer	101	[297]
9th April	Abdoua Kanta	Nigerien journalist, writer and film director	≈70	[298]
9th April	Anna-Maria Kellen	American philanthropist	98	[299]
9th April	Dieter Kottysch	German boxer	73	[300]
9th April	Rainer strips	German logistics scientist	59	[301]
9th April	Trude Maurer	German historian	61	[302]
9th April	Jiří Ornest	Czech actor, director and translator	70	[303]
9th April	Stan Robinson	British jazz musician	80	[304]
9th April	Hans Schneider	German antiquarian and music publisher	96	[305]
9th April	Ingeborg Strobl	Austrian artist	67	[306]
9th April	Bill Sutherland	Canadian ice hockey player and coach	82	[307]
9th April	Bob Wootton	American guitarist	75	[308]
April 8th	Werner Berthold	German historian	93	[309]
April 8th	Wolfgang Braumann	German cameraman and painter	79	[310]
April 8th	Gerhard Deimling	German criminal sociologist	82	[311]
April 8th	Rudolf Dümchen	German politician	96	[312]
April 8th	Rolf Erb	Swiss entrepreneur	65	[313]
April 8th	Georgi Grechko	soviet cosmonaut	85	[314]
April 8th	Hermann Jandl	Austrian writer	85	[315]
April 8th	Heinrich Kanz	German educator and university professor	89	[316]
April 8th	Karl Kehrer	Austrian lawyer and civil servant	91	[317]
April 8th	Tom Lemke	German photographer	57	[318]
April 8th	Thuri Lorenz	German archaeologist	85	[319]
April 8th	Brian Matthew	British radio host	88	[320]
April 8th	Marie Mergey	french actress	95	[321]
April 8th	Kim Plainfield	American drummer	63	[322]
April 8th	Donald Sarason	American mathematician	84	[323]
7th of April	Alicia Agut	Spanish actress	87	[324]
7th of April	Max Amling	German politician	82
7th of April	Relja Bašić	Croatian actor and politician	87	[325]
7th of April	Arturo García Bustos	Mexican artist	90	[326]
7th of April	Marthe Gosteli	Swiss women's rights activist	99	[327]
7th of April	Rainer W. Guillery	British neurophysiologist	87	[328]
7th of April	Norbert Jäger	German musician	71	[329]
7th of April	Gerhard Kießling	German ice hockey coach	94	[330]
7th of April	Christopher Morahan	British theater, film and television director	87	[331]
7th of April	Glenn O'Brien	American journalist	70	[332]
7th of April	Tim Pigott-Smith	British actor	70	[333]
7th of April	Claudio Soliva	Swiss lawyer	88	[334]
7th of April	Barbara Wotjak	German linguist	76	[335]
April 6th	Armand Gatti	French writer and director	93	[336]
April 6th	Berndt Heydemann	German biologist and politician	87	[337]
April 6th	Newton Holanda Gurgel	Brazilian bishop	93	[338]
April 6th	Karl Hölz	German Romance studies and literary scholar	74	[339]
April 6th	Ferenc Kása	Hungarian-German veterinarian	82	[340]
April 6th	Attila Kovács	Hungarian-German painter and draftsman	78	[341]
April 6th	Michael Bernard McPartland	British clergyman	77	[342]
April 6th	David Peel	American street musician	73	[343]
April 6th	Jack Pinoteau	French screenwriter and film director	93	[344]
April 6th	Wolfgang Rehm	German musicologist	87	[345]
April 6th	Don Rickles	American comedian and entertainer	90	[346]
April 6th	Rolf say	Norwegian writer	76	[347]
April 6th	Wolfgang Sieber	German manager and politician	82	[348]
April 6th	Jerzy Vetulani	Polish biochemist	81	[349]
April 5th	Attilio Benfatto	Italian cyclist	74	[350]
April 5th	Arthur Bisguier	American chess grandmaster	87	[351]
April 5th	Hugh Brodie	American jazz saxophonist	84	[352]
April 5th	Fritz R. Bühler	Swiss medic	77	[353]
April 5th	Paul G. Comba	American astronomer	91	[354]
April 5th	Mehraban Farhumand	German-Iranian entrepreneur	83	[355]
April 5th	Gerhard Gaedicke	Austrian medic	72	[356]
April 5th	David Gove	American ice hockey player and coach	38	[357]
April 5th	Marion Hammang	Luxembourgish powerlifting fighter	53	[358]
April 5th	Hans Heinz Moser	Swiss actor	80	[359]
April 5th	Paul O'Neill	American composer and producer	61	[360]
April 5th	Makoto Ōoka	Japanese poet and literary scholar	86	[361]
April 5th	Tim Parnell	British racing car driver	84	[362]
April 5th	Memè Perlini	Italian actor, director and screenwriter	69	[363]
April 5th	Ilkka Sinisalo	Finnish ice hockey player	58	[364]
April 5th	Gerhard Stauch	German secret service agent and head of customs administration	92	[365]
April 5th	Georg Sturmowski	German politician	93	[366]
4. April	Frank Dammann	German handball player	59	[367]
4. April	Marliese Dobberthien	German politician	69	[368]
4. April	Cyrano de Dominicis	French physicist	90	[369]
4. April	Clóvis Frainer	Brazilian Archbishop	86	[370]
4. April	David Goss	American mathematician	64	[371]
4. April	Wolfgang Jehn	German composer	79	[372]
4. April	John T. Knox	American politician and lawyer	92	[373]
4. April	George Mostow	American mathematician	93	[374]
4. April	Günter Mühlpfordt	German historian	95	[375]
4. April	Frank Schepke	German rower	81	[376]
4. April	Karl Stotz	Austrian soccer player and coach	90	[377]
4. April	Michael Taylor	British racing car driver	82	[378]
3rd of April	Kishori Amonkar	Indian singer	84	[379]
3rd of April	Jeannine Davis-Kimball	American archaeologist	87	[380]
3rd of April	Eva von Gamm	German figure skater	84	[381]
3rd of April	Davuldena Gnanissara Thero	Sri Lankan monk and religious leader	101	[382]
3rd of April	David Hamer	British historian and cryptologist	82	[383]
3rd of April	Johann Höll	Austrian politician	86	[384]
3rd of April	Peter Holst	German architect	93	[385]
3rd of April	Helmut Humbach	German linguist	95	[386]
3rd of April	Claude Klee	French-American biochemist	85	[387]
3rd of April	Wolfgang Müller	German medic	91	[388]
3rd of April	Arnold Bernard Scheibel	American neuroscientist	94	[389]
3rd of April	Renate Schroeter	German actress	77	[390]
3rd of April	Roy Sievers	American baseball player	90	[391]
3rd of April	Stella Turk	British zoologist	92	[392]
2nd of April	Sam Ard	American racing car driver	78	[393]
2nd of April	Rita Jans	German pianist and university teacher	85	[394]
2nd of April	Ravi Jayewardene	Sri Lankan marksman	80	[395]
2nd of April	Ulrich Jux	German geologist and paleontologist	88	[396]
2nd of April	Rudolf-Dietrich Nottrodt	German politician	89	[397]
2nd of April	Enrico L. Quarantelli	American sociologist	92	[398]
2nd of April	Konrad Repgen	German historian	93	[399]
2nd of April	Edgar Sarton-Saretzki	German-Canadian diplomat and author	94	[400]
2nd of April	Manfred Sellge	German sports journalist	76	[401]
2nd of April	Rudolf Spang	German lawyer and diplomat	103	[402]
2nd of April	Bella Tanai	Hungarian actress	87	[403]
2nd of April	Hannes Tkotz	German soccer player	91	[404]
2nd of April	Gerard Washnitzer	American mathematician	91	[405]
April 1st	Gary Austin	American theater director, director and acting teacher	75	[406]
April 1st	Pierre Binétruy	French physicist	61	[407]
April 1st	Lonnie Brooks	American blues guitarist	83	[408]
April 1st	Pierre Cachia	British Arabist and literary scholar	95	[409]
April 1st	Antonio Ciliberti	Italian Archbishop	82	[410]
April 1st	Bob Cunningham	American jazz musician	82	[411]
April 1st	Gösta Ekman the Younger	Swedish actor, screenwriter and director	77	[412]
April 1st	Bernhard Hansel	German prehistoric archaeologist	79	[413]
April 1st	Darcus Howe	British television journalist and civil rights activist	74	[414]
April 1st	Yevgeny Yevtushenko	Soviet or Russian poet and writer	84	[415]
April 1st	Ikutaro Kakehashi	Japanese entrepreneur and digital music pioneer	87	[416]
April 1st	Kim Jong-gil	South Korean poet and writer	90	[417]
April 1st	Gebhard Kirchgässner	German-Swiss economist	68	[418]
April 1st	Antonio Lamela	Spanish architect	90	[419]
April 1st	Louis Sarno	American music researcher	62	[420]
April 1st	Giovanni Sartori	Italian political scientist	92	[421]
April 1st	Burton Watson	American translator	91	[422]

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
Death announced April 26th	Peter Wells	British medical physicist and engineer	≈81	[423]
before April 24th	Johannes Möhrle	German architect and university professor	86	[424]
between April 22nd and 25th	Mark Grajew	Russian mathematician	94	[425]
April 22nd or 23rd	Anne Pippin Burnett	American classical philologist	91	[426]
Death announced April 17th	Güven Arsebük	Turkish prehistoric archaeologist	≈80	[427]
Found dead on April 12th	Sheila Abdus-Salaam	American judge	65	[428]
Death announced April 7th	Nigel Sitwell	British conservationist and author	81	[429]
Death announced April 2nd	Delmar Brown	American keyboardist	63	[430]
April	Wolfhart Langer	German paleontologist	83	[431]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Age has not been independently verified, see article.
2. ↑ Vito Acconci, Performance Artist and Uncommon Architect, Dies at 77 ( Memento from April 30, 2017 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ Max Amling: Ticket: 2017050210014075