Gabriel Garcia Marquez died on 17 - 4 - 2014. He was

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, (born 6 March, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia - died 17 April, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico), Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude).