Famous Deaths In December - 17

1937  Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1940  On this day in history death of alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)   

1944  Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26 on this day in history.   

1946  On this day in history constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84   

1948  Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68 on December - 17.   

1949  On December - 17 david Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72   

1956  On December - 17 eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48   

1957  On December - 17 dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64   

1961  On December - 17 marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53   

1962  Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70 on this day in history.   

1964  Death of Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883) on December - 17.   

1965  Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1966  On this day in history gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68   

1967  Death of Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59 on this day in history.   

1969  On December - 17 arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67   

1972  On December - 17 erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63   

1973  On this day in history charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101   

1975  Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1978  Death of Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934) on December - 17.   

1982  On this day in history leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58   

1983  Death of Erik Christensen, NHL player on this day in history.   

1985  On December - 17 otto Gotsche, writer, dies   

1986  On December - 17 ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer   

1987  Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87 on December - 17.   

1990  Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61 on December - 17.   

1991  On December - 17 john Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80   

1992  Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83 on this day in history.   

1993  On this day in history janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer   

1994  On December - 17 jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64   

1995  Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1996  Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96 on December - 17.   

1997  Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86 on December - 17.   

1999  On this day in history death of grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)   

2002  Death of James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947) on this day in history.   

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1239  On December - 17 birth of kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)   

1267  Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324) was born on December - 17.   

1493  Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist (Liber paramixum) was born on this day in history.   

1554  Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne was born on this day in history.   

1619  On this day in history birth of ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician   

1619  On this day in history birth of prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)   

1632  Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695) was born on this day in history.   

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