Amelio "Memè" Perlini (8 December 1947 – 5 April 2017) was an Italian actor and movie director. His debut movie as a director, "Italian Postcards", was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Perlini died in Rome on 5 April 2017, aged 69. He committed suicide, by jumping from the fifth floor of his house.
David Peel
David Peel (David Michael Rosario; August 1, 1943 – April 6, 2017) was an American singer, musician and political activist. He first recorded in the late 1960s with Harold Black, Billy Joe White, George Cori and Larry Adam performing as David Peel and The Lower East Side Band. His raw, acoustic "street rock" with lyrics about marijuana and "bad cops" appealed mostly to hippies.
Peel has appeared as himself many movies, including "Please Stand By" (1972), "Rude Awakening" (1989), "High Times' Potluck" (2004) and "The U.S. vs. John Lennon" (2006).
Peel died on April 6, 2017 at a hospital in Manhattan, New York from complications of a heart attack, aged 73.
Jerzy Vetulani
Jerzy Adam Gracjan Vetulani (21 January 1936 – 6 April 2017) was a Polish neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist, professor of natural sciences. He was born in Kraków.
Vetulani was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning from 1991 until his death in 2017. He was one of the most frequently cited Polish scientists in the field of biomedicine after 1965.
Vetulani died at the age of 81 on 6 April 2017 at a hospital in Kraków from complications of injuries sustained after being struck by an automobile in early March.
Marthe Gosteli
Marthe Gosteli (22 December 1917 – 7 April 2017) was a Swiss suffrage activist and archivist.
Gosteli led the fight for women's right to vote in Switzerland. Later she focused her attention on preserving the history of Swiss women. She created an archive of women's biographies and history. Gosteli's work was recognized by many honors and awards, including the 2011 Swiss Human Rights Award.
Gosteli died from complications of a fall in Muri bei Bern, Switzerland on 7 April 2017, aged 99.
Tim Pigott-Smith
Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith OBE (13 May 1946 – 7 April 2017) was an English movie and television actor and author. He won the Fantasporto Award for Best Actor in 2002 for his role in "Bloody Sunday". He was known for his role as Creedy in the 2005 movie "V for Vendetta". He won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in 1985.
Pigott-Smith was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to drama.
Pigott-Smith was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. He studied at Bristol University. In 1972, he married Pamela Miles. Pigott-Smith died on 7 April 2017 in Northampton, Northamptonshire from a suspected heart attack, aged 70.
Y. A. Tittle
Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr. (October 24, 1926 – October 8, 2017), better known as Y. A. Tittle, was an American professional American football quarterback. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants, and Baltimore Colts, after spending two seasons with the Colts in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC).
Tittle was the subject of a famous photograph of himself published in 1964. Tittle, in his 17th and final season, was photographed helmet-less, bloodied and kneeling immediately after having been knocked to the ground and lost a game, which Tittle described as "The end of the road".
Tittle was born in Marshall, Texas. He studied at Louisiana State University. He was married to Minnette Tittle until her death in 2012. They have one daughter, Dianne. Tittle suffered from a severe case of dementia. He died at his home in Stanford, California from the disease on October 8, 2017 at the age of 90.
Glenn O'Brien
Glenn O'Brien (March 2, 1947 – April 7, 2017) was an American writer, largely on the subjects of art, music and fashion. He was featured for many years as "The Style Guy" in "GQ" magazine, and published a book with that title. He was known for being part of The Factory with Andy Warhol.
He has worked as an editor at a number of publications, and published the arts and literature magazine "Bald Ego" from 2003-2005.
From 1978 to 1982, O'Brien hosted a New York city Public-access television cable TV show called "TV Party".
O'Brien died of complications from pneumonia in Manhattan on April 6, 2017 at the age of 70.
2017 Shayrat missile strike
On the morning of 7 April 2017, during the Syrian Civil War, the United States launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the Mediterranean Sea into Syria, aimed at Shayrat Air Base. The strike was ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump as a direct response to the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack on 4 April 2017.
The strike was the first unilateral attack by the United States military to intentionally target the Ba'athist Syrian government forces during the war.
President Trump justified the strike by stating that it is in the national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons in the world.
Jean Douchet
Jean Douchet (; 19 January 1929 – 21 November 2019) was a French movie director, historian, movie critic and teacher. He began his career in the early 1950s at "Gazette du Cinéma" and "Cahiers du cinema" with members of the future French New Wave.
Douchet died on 21 November 2019 in Paris at the age of 90.
Jacques Rozier
Jacques Rozier (; born 10 November 1926 in Paris) is a French movie director and screenwriter. He is one of the known members of the French New Wave movement and has worked with Jean-Luc Godard. Three of his movies have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.
Armand Gatti
Armand Gatti (; January 26, 1924 – April 6, 2017) was a Monegasque-born French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter.
Gatti was born in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Gatti's first movie, "Enclosure", was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver Prize for Best Director. Two years later, his movie "El Otro Cristóbal" was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2013 he was awarded the Grand prix du théâtre de l'Académie française.
Gatti died on April 6, 2017 in Saint-Mandé, France, aged 93.
Matt Murphy
Matthew Tyler "Matt" Murphy (December 29, 1929 – June 15, 2018), known as Matt "Guitar" Murphy, was an American blues guitarist.
Murphy was born in Sunflower, Mississippi.
Murphy worked a lot with Memphis Slim, including on his album "At the Gate of Horn" (1959). Murphy did not have a band of his own until 1982 but did work in the studio and on stage with many musicians, including Ike Turner, Muddy Waters, James Cotton, Otis Rush, Etta James, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Chuck Berry and Joe Louis Walker. He gave a memorable performance in 1963 on the American Folk Blues Festival tour of Europe with his "Matt's Guitar Boogie".
Murphy suffered a stroke in 2003 but returned to perform a few years later. He died on June 15, 2018 in Miami, Florida from a heart attack at the age of 88.
Mark Rydell
Mark Rydell (born Mortimer Horace Rydell; March 23, 1929) is an American actor, movie director and producer.
Rydell has directed many Academy Award-nominated movies including "The Fox" (1967), "The Reivers" (1969), "Cinderella Liberty" (1973), "The Rose" (1979), "The River" (1984) and "For the Boys" (1991).
Rydell was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for "On Golden Pond" (1981).
Ferenc Doór
Ferenc Doór (14 June 1918 – 10 July 2015) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist, "The lover of the Danube and Szentendre".