Died on This Day (17-Apr)

Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
Jess Roskelley	Jess Fenton Roskelley was an American mountaineer.	American mountaineer	36	1
Doris Roberts	Doris May Roberts was an American actress, author, and philanthropist whose career spanned seven decades of television and film.	American actress	90	4
V. S. Ramadevi	V. S. Ramadevi was an Indian-British Raj stateswoman who was the first lady become the 13th Governor of Karnataka and 9th Chief Election Commissioner of India from 26 November 1990 to 11 December 1990.	Indian politician	79	7
Michael Sarrazin	Michael Sarrazin was a Canadian film and television actor who found fame opposite Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? .	Canadian film and television actor	70	9
Hans Gruijters	Johannes Petrus Adrianus "Hans" Gruijters was a Dutch politician and co-founder of the Democrats 66 party and journalist.	Dutch politician	73	15
Robert Atkins	Robert Coleman Atkins was an American physician and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Diet, which requires close control of carbohydrate consumption and emphasizes protein and fat as the primary sources of dietary calories in addition to a controlled number of carbohydrates from vegetables.	Atkins diet inventor	72	17
John Ferraro	John Ferraro was the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council member in the history of the city—thirty-five years, from 1966 until his death in 2001—and the president of the council for fourteen of them.	American politician	76	19
Angelo Schiavio	Angelo Schiavio was an Italian footballer who played as a forward.	Italian footballer	84	30
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian philosopher and statesman who served as the second president of India from 1962 to 1967.	President of India	86	45
Jorge Isaacs	Jorge Isaacs Ferrer was a Colombian writer, politician and soldier.	Colombian politician	58	125

Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
Barbara Bush	Barbara Pierce Bush was the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993 as the wife of President George H.	First Lady of the United States	92	2
Gabriel García Márquez	Gabriel García Márquez ; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo [ˈɡaβo] or Gabito [ɡaˈβito] throughout Latin America.	Colombian novelist	87	6
Jonathan V. Plaut	Jonathan V. Plaut, was a Reform rabbi and author. Plaut was the rabbi of Temple Beth Israel in Jackson, MI.	American writer and rabbi	69	8
John Carl Warnecke	John Carl Warnecke was an architect based in San Francisco, California, who designed numerous notable monuments and structures in the Modernist, Bauhaus, and other similar styles.	American architect	91	10
Geraint Howells	Geraint Wyn Howells, Baron Geraint was a leading Welsh Liberal Democrat politician.	British politician	79	16
Tak Shindo	Takeshi "Tak" Shindo was a Japanese American musician, composer and arranger.	Japanese American musician, composer	79	18
Anton Murray	Anton Ronald Andrew Murray was a South African cricketer who played in 10 Test matches in a little over a year from December 1952 to February 1954, appearing four times against Australia and then six times against New Zealand.	South African cricketer	72	25
Alf Sjöberg	Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg was a Swedish theatre and film director.	Swedish film director	76	40
August Lambert	August Lambert was a German Luftwaffe military aviator and ground-attack pilot during World War II.	German flying ace	29	75
William Mudge	William Mudge was an English artillery officer and surveyor, born in Plymouth, an important figure in the work of the Ordnance Survey.	General and Army surveyor	57	200

Anniversary Date: 17-Apr

Died on This Day (17-Apr)