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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 17th of April 0069 | EVENT | After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. |
| 17th of April 1080 | EVENT | King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized. |
| 17th of April 1397 | EVENT | 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) the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury. |
| 17th of April 1492 | EVENT | Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices. |
| 17th of April 1521 | EVENT | Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings. |
| 17th of April 1524 | EVENT | Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor. |
| 17th of April 1555 | EVENT | After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army. The Republic of Siena is incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. |
| 17th of April 1797 | EVENT | Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America. |
| 17th of April 1797 | EVENT | Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully. |
| 17th of April 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins : Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina. |
| 17th of April 1895 | EVENT | The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan. |
| 17th of April 1905 | EVENT | 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. |
| 17th of April 1907 | EVENT | The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day. |
| 17th of April 1912 | EVENT | Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150. |
| 17th of April 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. |
| 17th of April 1942 | EVENT | French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Konigstein. |
| 17th of April 1945 | EVENT | Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces. |
| 17th of April 1946 | EVENT | Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation. |
| 17th of April 1949 | EVENT | 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. |
| 17th of April 1961 | EVENT | Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. |
| 17th of April 1964 | EVENT | Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air. |
| 17th of April 1969 | EVENT | Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek is deposed. |
| 17th of April 1969 | EVENT | Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. |
| 17th of April 1970 | EVENT | Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. |
| 17th of April 1971 | EVENT | The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor. |
| 17th of April 1975 | EVENT | The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender. |
| 17th of April 1982 | EVENT | Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. |
| 17th of April 1984 | EVENT | Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building. |
| 17th of April 1986 | EVENT | The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends. |
| 17th of April 2006 | EVENT | Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70. |
| 17th of April 1278 | BIRTHDAY | Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1320) |
| 17th of April 1573 | BIRTHDAY | Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1651) |
| 17th of April 1586 | BIRTHDAY | John Ford, English dramatist |
| 17th of April 1598 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671) |
| 17th of April 1620 | BIRTHDAY | Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame (d. 1700) |
| 17th of April 1622 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (d. 1695) |
| 17th of April 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (d. 1767) |
| 17th of April 1734 | BIRTHDAY | Taksin, King of Thailand (d. 1782) |
| 17th of April 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Chase, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1811) |
| 17th of April 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Francois de Neufchateau, French statesman and intellectual figure (d. 1828) |
| 17th of April 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868) |
| 17th of April 1798 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Bobillier, French mathematician (d. 1840) |
| 17th of April 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Josif Pancic, Serbian botanist (d. 1888) |
| 17th of April 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876) |
| 17th of April 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Joy Cartwright, Inventor of the Modern Game of Baseball (d. 1892) |
| 17th of April 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (d. 1900) |
| 17th of April 1837 | BIRTHDAY | J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913) |
| 17th of April 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (d. 1911) |
| 17th of April 1849 | BIRTHDAY | William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1923) |
| 17th of April 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician (d. 1940) |
| 17th of April 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (d. 1939) |
| 17th of April 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Starling, British physiologist (d. 1927) |
| 17th of April 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (d. 1949) |
| 17th of April 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Fuchs, German-born American attorney and baseball owner (d. 1961) |
| 17th of April 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951) |
| 17th of April 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Frank, American victim of lynching (d. 1915) |
| 17th of April 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Danish author (d. 1962) |
| 17th of April 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Art Acord, American actor and rodeo rider (d. 1931) |
| 17th of April 1891 | BIRTHDAY | George Adamski, Polish-American author and ufologist (d. 1965) |
| 17th of April 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Senor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (d. 1999) |
| 17th of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Thornton Wilder, American dramatist (d. 1975) |
| 17th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican politician (d. 1974) |
| 17th of April 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (d. 1976) |
| 17th of April 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Taylor, American athlete (d. 1975) |
| 17th of April 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Lake, American actor (d. 1987) |
| 17th of April 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney R. Garfield, American physician (d. 1984) |
| 17th of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Poher, French politician (d. 1996) |
| 17th of April 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Evangelos Averoff, Greek politician (d. 1990) |
| 17th of April 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999) |
| 17th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Lester Rodney, American journalist (d. 2009) |
| 17th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-born actress and singer, naturalized citizen of the United States |
| 17th of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | George W. Davis, American art director (d. 1984) |
| 17th of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Foss, United States Marine and politician (d. 2003) |
| 17th of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Clemens, Scottish guerilla fighter (d. 2009) |
| 17th of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Sirimavo Bandaranaike, A Sri Lankan politician and the world's first female head of government (d. 2000) |
| 17th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Helenio Herrera, French footballer player and manager (d. 1997) |
| 17th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Clements, American politician |
| 17th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | William Holden, American actor (d. 1981) |
| 17th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Lamontagne, French Canadian politician |
| 17th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer |
| 17th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Reasoner, American journalist (d. 1991) |
| 17th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsay Anderson, English film director (d. 1994) |
| 17th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Solly Hemus, American baseball player |
| 17th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Gostl, German War Hero (d. 1990) |
| 17th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004) |
| 17th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Cynthia Ozick, American writer |
| 17th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | James Last, German band leader |
| 17th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Forest, American actor |
| 17th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Peggy McKercher, 11th Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan) |
| 17th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Barber, British jazz band leader |
| 17th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Don Kirshner, American composer (d. 2011) |
| 17th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Piech, Austrian-German automotive engineer and executive |
| 17th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry Wendell Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism |
| 17th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Barnes, American politician |
| 17th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Fury, British singer (d. 1983) |
| 17th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Anja Silja, German soprano |
| 17th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John McCririck, English television horse racing pundit |
| 17th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician |
| 17th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | David Bradley, British actor |
| 17th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Martin, Irish singer |
| 17th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player |
| 17th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Hammer, Czech composer |
| 17th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | L. Scott Caldwell, American actress |
| 17th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce McNall, American former NHL team owner |
| 17th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born actress |
| 17th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Borje Salming, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 17th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Zeljko Raznatovic, Serbian warlord (d. 2000) |
| 17th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Riccardo Patrese, Italian race car driver |
| 17th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Rowdy Roddy Piper, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 17th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Sembello, American musician |
| 17th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Lester Square, Canadian musician |
| 17th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Shelley, British musician |
| 17th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Roman, Canadian voice actress |
| 17th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Hornby, English author |
| 17th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Bean, English actor |
| 17th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Boomer Esiason, American football player and commentator |
| 17th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Frank J. Christensen, American labor leader |
| 17th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Murray, American actor |
| 17th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Daneyko, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Maynard James Keenan, American singer (Tool and A Perfect Circle) |
| 17th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Lela Rochon, American actress |
| 17th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | William Mapother, American actor |
| 17th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshiki Kuroda, Japanese urban planner |
| 17th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Vikram, Indian actor |
| 17th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Marquis Grissom, American baseball player |
| 17th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Ian Cusick, Peruvian-born Scottish actor |
| 17th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Gibbs, American actor |
| 17th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Bega, American actress |
| 17th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberly Elise, American actress |
| 17th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Liz Phair, American musician/songwriter |
| 17th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Maurits of the Netherlands |
| 17th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Redman, American rapper |
| 17th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Bennett, American baseball player |
| 17th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Garner, American actress |
| 17th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 17th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Boselli, American football player |
| 17th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Terran Sandwith, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Claire Sweeney, English actress |
| 17th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jarkko Wiss, Finnish Footballer |
| 17th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Maher, Australian basketballer |
| 17th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Theo Ratliff, American basketball player |
| 17th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kaiho Ryoji, Japanese sumo wrestler |
| 17th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mikael Akerfeldt, Swedish guitarist and singer (Opeth) |
| 17th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Beckham, English singer (Spice Girls) |
| 17th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Soto, Mexican actor |
| 17th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Roy, American hockey player |
| 17th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Monet Mazur, American actress and musician |
| 17th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Geislerova, Czech actress |
| 17th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Nesic, American actor |
| 17th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Hedrick, American speed skater |
| 17th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sizzla, Jamaican dancehall artist |
| 17th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Jamieson, Australian singer (Grinspoon) |
| 17th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsay Hartley, American actress |
| 17th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Loukas Louka, Greek-Cypriot footballer |
| 17th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jason White, Scottish rugby player |
| 17th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Siddharth Narayan, Indian actor |
| 17th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Woodhouse, English footballer/boxer |
| 17th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player |
| 17th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas D'Agosto, American television and film actor |
| 17th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Fabian Andres Vargas, Colombian football player |
| 17th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Lydon, American baseball player |
| 17th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer |
| 17th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Zhang Yaokun, Chinese football player |
| 17th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Raburn, American baseball player |
| 17th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Jun Ki, South Korean actor and model |
| 17th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Boyes, Canadian hockey player |
| 17th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Stanislav Chistov, Russian hockey player |
| 17th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Jimenez, Peruvian football player |
| 17th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player |
| 17th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jed Lowrie, American baseball player |
| 17th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player |
| 17th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer. |
| 17th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Nari Yang Kim, South Korean diplomat. |
| 17th of April 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Paulie Litt, American actor. |
| 17th of April 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Dee Dee Davis, American actress. |
| 17th of April 0326 | DEATH | Alexander of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria |
| 17th of April 0485 | DEATH | Proclus, Greek philosopher (Born 412) |
| 17th of April 0617 | DEATH | Donnan of Eigg, Celtic Christian martyr, patron saint of Eigg |
| 17th of April 1080 | DEATH | King Harald III of Denmark (Born 1041) |
| 17th of April 1427 | DEATH | John IV, Duke of Brabant (Born 1403) |
| 17th of April 1539 | DEATH | George, Duke of Saxony (Born 1471) |
| 17th of April 1574 | DEATH | Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (Born 1500) |
| 17th of April 1680 | DEATH | Kateri Tekakwitha, first American Indian to receive beatification (Born 1656) |
| 17th of April 1695 | DEATH | Sor Juana, Mexican writer |
| 17th of April 1696 | DEATH | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French writer (Born 1626) |
| 17th of April 1711 | DEATH | Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1678) |
| 17th of April 1713 | DEATH | David Hollatz, Pomeranian dogmatician (Born 1648) |
| 17th of April 1742 | DEATH | Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (Born 1664) |
| 17th of April 1761 | DEATH | Thomas Bayes, English mathematician |
| 17th of April 1764 | DEATH | Johann Mattheson, German composer (Born 1681) |
| 17th of April 1790 | DEATH | Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, diplomat, and printer (Born 1706) |
| 17th of April 1799 | DEATH | Richard Jupp, English architect (Born 1728) |
| 17th of April 1843 | DEATH | Samuel Morey, American inventor (Born 1762) |
| 17th of April 1849 | DEATH | Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (Born 1777) |
| 17th of April 1873 | DEATH | Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (Born 1783) |
| 17th of April 1882 | DEATH | George Jennings Sanitary engineer (Born 1810) |
| 17th of April 1892 | DEATH | Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1822) |
| 17th of April 1902 | DEATH | Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (Born 1822) |
| 17th of April 1921 | DEATH | Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (Born 1860) |
| 17th of April 1930 | DEATH | Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (Born 1863) |
| 17th of April 1933 | DEATH | Konstantine Marjanishvili, Georgian theatre director (Born 1872) |
| 17th of April 1936 | DEATH | Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch Prime Minister (Born 1873) |
| 17th of April 1937 | DEATH | Yi Sang, Korean poet (Born 1910) |
| 17th of April 1941 | DEATH | Al Bowlly, British dance band vocalist (Born 1899) |
| 17th of April 1942 | DEATH | Jean Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1870) |
| 17th of April 1944 | DEATH | J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (Born 1867) |
| 17th of April 1954 | DEATH | Lucretiu Patrascanu, Romanian communist activist (Born 1900) |
| 17th of April 1960 | DEATH | Eddie Cochran, American musician (Born 1938) |
| 17th of April 1967 | DEATH | Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (Born 1908) |
| 17th of April 1975 | DEATH | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher (Born 1888) |
| 17th of April 1976 | DEATH | Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1895) |
| 17th of April 1977 | DEATH | William Conway, Irish cardinal (Born 1913) |
| 17th of April 1983 | DEATH | Felix Pappalardi, American musician and recording producer (Born 1939) (Mountain) |
| 17th of April 1984 | DEATH | Claude Provost, French Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1933) |
| 17th of April 1985 | DEATH | Takis Miliadis, Greek actor (Born 1922) |
| 17th of April 1987 | DEATH | Cecil Harmsworth King, owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (Born 1901) |
| 17th of April 1987 | DEATH | Dick Shawn, Actor and Comedian (Born 1923) |
| 17th of April 1988 | DEATH | Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (Born 1900) |
| 17th of April 1990 | DEATH | Reverend Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights activist (Born 1936) |
| 17th of April 1993 | DEATH | Turgut Ozal, 8th president of Turkey (Born 1927) |
| 17th of April 1994 | DEATH | Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1913) |
| 17th of April 1995 | DEATH | Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (Born 1928) |
| 17th of April 1996 | DEATH | Piet Hein, Danish scientist and poet (Born 1905) |
| 17th of April 1997 | DEATH | Allan Francovich, American documentarian (Born 1941) |
| 17th of April 1997 | DEATH | Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983 : 1993) (Born 1918) |
| 17th of April 1998 | DEATH | Linda McCartney, American designer and photographer (Born 1941) |
| 17th of April 2003 | DEATH | Robert Atkins, American dietician (Born 1930) |
| 17th of April 2003 | DEATH | H. B. Bailey, American racing driver (Born 1936) |
| 17th of April 2003 | DEATH | Earl King, American musician and songwriter (Born 1934) |
| 17th of April 2003 | DEATH | Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (Born 1932) |
| 17th of April 2003 | DEATH | Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (Born 1910) |
| 17th of April 2004 | DEATH | Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (Born 1908) |
| 17th of April 2004 | DEATH | Soundarya, Indian actress (Born 1971) |
| 17th of April 2006 | DEATH | Scott Brazil, American television producer and director. (Born 1955) |
| 17th of April 2007 | DEATH | Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (Born 1910) |
| 17th of April 2007 | DEATH | Gil Dobrica, Romanian singer (Born 1946) |
| 17th of April 2008 | DEATH | Aime Cesaire, French Martinican poet and politician (Born 1913) |
| 17th of April 2008 | DEATH | Danny Federici, American organ player (E-Street Band) (Born 1950) |
| 17th of April 2011 | DEATH | AJ Perez, Filipino teen actor (Born 1993) |
| 17th of April 2011 | DEATH | Nikos Papazoglou, Greek singer and songwriter (Born 1948) |