The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2017. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months". Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.
Piroska Oszoli
Piroska Oszoli (21 January 1919 – 22 March 2017) was a Hungarian painter, is known as "The lover of the Danube and the beautiness". She was born and also dead in Dunaföldvár, Hungary. She made especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
Her master as an amateur artist was the famous Transylvanian painter Ferenc Doór (1918–2015). After teaching she became a pensioner, and started her painting as an individual artist.
Oszoli worked all around her village and neighborhood, after in Hungary, at Balaton. She painted natural surroundings in Italy, Croatia, Germany and Norway. Her paintings are present from Austria to New Zealand.
Oszoli died on 22 March 2017 in Dunaföldvár, aged 98.
Louis Feldman
Louis Harry Feldman (October 29, 1926 – March 25, 2017) was an American professor of classics and literature. He was the Abraham Wouk Family Professor of Classics and Literature at Yeshiva University, the institution at which he taught since 1955.
Feldman was a scholar of Hellenistic civilization, specifically the works of Josephus Flavius. Feldman's work on Josephus was widely respected by other scholars.
Feldman was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He studied at Trinity College. Feldman died on March 25, 2017 in New York City, aged 90.
All for You (Janet Jackson song)
"All for You" is a song recorded by American singer Janet Jackson. It is from her album, also called "All for You". The song was released on March 13, 2001. It became her tenth number-one song in the United States. It also reached number one in Canada and the top three in France and the United Kingdom. It reached the top ten in several other countries. It finished as the number-three song of 2001 in the United States.
The song samples the 1980 song "The Glow of Love" by the soul group Change.
The song shows Jackson dancing in a train station and in a city with a group of dancers.
Marilyn McCord Adams
Marilyn McCord Adams (October 12, 1943 – March 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and priest of the Episcopal Church. She specialized in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology and medieval philosophy.
Adams is known for writing her 1999 persuasive narrative "Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God".
Adams was born on October 12, 1943 in the United States. She studied at University of Illinois, at Cornell University, at Princeton Theological Seminary and at Oxford University. She married philosopher Robert Merrihew Adams from 1966 until her death in 2017.
Adams died on March 22, 2017 in Princeton, New Jersey from cancer, aged 73.
Robert Merrihew Adams
Robert Merrihew Adams (born September 8, 1937), known to intimates as "Bob", is an American analytic philosopher of metaphysics, religion and morality.
As a historical scholar, Adams has published on the work of the philosophers Søren Kierkegaard and Leibniz. His work in the philosophy of religion includes influential essays on the problem of evil and the relation between theism and ethics.
Adams was married to philosopher Marilyn McCord from 1966 until her death in 2017.
Monty Davidson
Montgomery Bryden "Monty" Davidson (23 October 1935 – 26 March 2017) was Canadian politician. He served as a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the riding of Cambridge from 1975 until 1981.
Davidson died at his home in Cambridge, Ontario on 26 March 2017, aged 81.
Richard Bustillo
Richard S Bustillo (January 28, 1942 – March 30, 2017) was a American martial arts instructor. He was a student of the late Bruce Lee and an authority on Jeet Kune Do Concepts and Filipino Martial Arts.
Bustillo was born to a Filipino family at a YMCA center in Oahu, Hawaii.
Bustillo taught Jeet Kune Do, Filipino martial arts, Boxing, Muay Thai, wrestling, mixed martial arts and other arts at his Torrance, California school, the IMB Academy.
Bustillo died on March 30, 2017 in Torrance, California, aged 75.
Halit Akçatepe
Halit Akçatepe (1 January 1938 – 31 March 2017) was a Turkish actor.
Akçatepe was born in Üsküdar, Turkey. He was the son of Sitki Akçatepe. He studied at Saint Benoit French High School.
In 1943, he made his debut in the movie "Dertli Pınar" at the age of 5 and made more appearances in other movies in some child roles. In 1956. he joined the army and stayed there for less than 2 years before returning to acting.
Akçatepe became a household name for his parts in "Ah Nerede Vah Nerede" in 1960 and the movies "Yasak", "Gündoğarken" and "Semaya baktım Seni Gördüm" in 1963. In 1975, he acted in "Hababam Sınıfı" and then later its sequels " Hababam Sınıfı Sınıfta Kaldı", "Hababam Sınıfı Dokuz Doğuruyor" and "Hababam Sınıfı Tatilde".
In 2011, he received the Golden Orange Life Achievement Award.
Akçatepe died in Istanbul, Turkey on 31 March 2017 from a heart attack, aged 79.
Gilbert Baker (artist)
Gilbert Baker (June 2, 1951 – March 31, 2017) was an openly gay American artist and civil rights activist. He designed the rainbow flag in 1978. Baker's flag became widely known with LGBT rights causes, a symbol of pride that became extremely used and well referenced in the decades since its debut.
Baker died on March 31, 2017 in his sleep at his home in New York City at the age of 65. He suffered a stroke a few years before his death and was suffering from stroke-complications at the time of his death.
Mike Hall (cyclist)
Michael Richard Hall (4 June 1981 – 31 March 2017) was a British cyclist and race organizer. He specialized in self-supported ultra-distance races.
In 2012, he won the inaugural World Cycle Race. In 2013 and 2016, he won the Tour Divide ultra-endurance mountain bike race across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and the United States. In 2014, he won the inaugural Trans Am Bike Race, a road-based event from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast in the United States.
From 2013, he was the principal organizer of the Transcontinental Race, an event similar to the TransAm Bicycle Race, but that traverses Europe. He died after being struck by a car while racing in the inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race.
Hall was killed in a car accident on 31 March 2017 in ACT, Australia, aged 35.
Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb
Charles Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, DL (born 27 March 1925) is a British farmer turned politician. He was the leader of the National Farmers Union.
Plumb later became active in the Conservative Party and was elected as a Member of the European Parliament. He served as an MEP from 1979 to 1999, serving as President of the European Parliament from 1987 to 1989, the only Briton to hold the post.
Plumb was made a Life peer as Baron Plumb, of Coleshill in the County of Warwickshire on 6 April 1987. He was also Chancellor of Coventry University between 1995 and 2007 and a founder of leading EU lobbying law firm Alber & Geiger.
Andreas Kaplan
Andreas Kaplan (born October 5, 1977), Professor of Marketing, is the Dean of ESCP Business School in Berlin and Paris. He is specialized in the areas of social media, viral marketing, and the digital world in general.
Kaplan was born on October 5, 1977 and grew up in Munich, Germany. His mother is Anneliese Kaplan and his father Vincenc Kaplan.
Kaplan holds a Master of Public Administration from the École Nationale d'Administration, an MSc from ESCP Business School, and a BSc from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He completed his Habilitation at the Sorbonne and his Ph.D. at the University of Cologne and HEC Paris.