Famous Deaths In December - 17

0535  Death of Emperor Ankan of Japan (b. 466) on December - 17.   

0695  On December - 17 begga, ancestress of the Carolingians/saint, dies [or 693]   

0942  Death of William Longsword on December - 17.   

1187  On this day in history gregory VIII, [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies   

1195  On December - 17 boudouin V, count of Hainault/Flanders (Boudouin VIII), dies   

1213  On December - 17 jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53   

1273  Death of Rumi (b.1207) on December - 17.   

1471  On this day in history isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, dies   

1562  On December - 17 adrian Willaert, Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82   

1651  Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1663  On December - 17 death of nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)   

1679  Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies on this day in history.   

1711  On December - 17 arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies   

1721  Death of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640) on December - 17.   

1751  Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czech master builder, dies at 62 on December - 17.   

1811  On this day in history john Antes, composer, dies at 71   

1829  On this day in history bernard Jumentier, composer, dies at 80   

1830  Simon Bolivar, president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Colombia on this day in history.   

1833  Death of Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21 on this day in history.   

1847  On December - 17 death of archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (b. 1791)   

1860  Death of Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1777) on December - 17.   

1870  Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75 on December - 17.   

1881  Lewis H Morgan, US ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62 on December - 17.   

1891  On this day in history msiri, king of Garanganja (Katanga), dies in battle   

1893  On December - 17 levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71   

1899  On December - 17 frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of Brit field marshal, dies in battle   

1907  Kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83 on December - 17.   

1913  Stefano Gobatti, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1916  On December - 17 death of grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated   

1917  On this day in history death of elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (b. 1836)   

1925  A N "Monkey" Hornby, cricketer (England capt at Oval 1882), dies on December - 17.   

1926  On this day in history alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer, dies at 70   

1930  On December - 17 peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36   

1933  On this day in history hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81   

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1239  Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256) was born on December - 17.   

1267  On December - 17 birth of emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)   

1493  On December - 17 birth of philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist (Liber paramixum)   

1554  On this day in history birth of ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne   

1619  Ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician was born on this day in history.   

1619  Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682) was born on this day in history.   

1632  On December - 17 birth of anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)   

1638  Johann Ulrich Sultzberger, composer was born on December - 17.