Famous Deaths In July - 17

0656  On July - 17 death of uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.   

0924  Edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924), dies on this day in history.   

1025  Boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies on this day in history.   

1070  Boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies on July - 17.   

1345  On July - 17 death of jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched   

1453  On this day in history death of john Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader   

1510  Edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies on this day in history.   

1531  On July - 17 death of hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)   

1571  Death of Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516) on July - 17.   

1588  Death of Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489) on this day in history.   

1627  On July - 17 lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67   

1645  On July - 17 death of robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician   

1682  On July - 17 johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29   

1704  On this day in history death of pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer   

1709  Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60 on July - 17.   

1746  On this day in history anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53   

1753  Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies on this day in history.   

1762  On July - 17 peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34   

1763  Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history.   

1764  Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82 on July - 17.   

1790  Death of Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723) on July - 17.   

1791  Death of Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717) on July - 17.   

1793  On July - 17 death of charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined   

1794  Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45 on July - 17.   

1804  Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1826  Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1838  John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82 on July - 17.   

1845  Death of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764) on this day in history.   

1851  On this day in history beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37   

1863  On this day in history james Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35   

1864  On July - 17 daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29   

1871  Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29 on July - 17.   

1875  Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1878  On this day in history aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65   

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1487  Esma'il I, shah who converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah was born on this day in history.   

1487  Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524) was born on this day in history.   

1674  Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican) was born on this day in history.   

1702  Johann Schneider, composer was born on July - 17.   

1744  On this day in history birth of elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering   

1745  Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826) was born on this day in history.   

1763  On July - 17 birth of johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education   

1763  John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader was born on July - 17.