Famous Deaths In May - 17
Friday, 26 July 2024
1050 On May - 17 guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies
1189 On May - 17 death of minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
1336 Death of Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288) on May - 17.
1365 On May - 17 death of louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)
1395 On this day in history death of constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm
1464 Death of Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427) on this day in history.
1510 Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on May - 17.
1521 Death of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478) on May - 17.
1575 Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68 on this day in history.
1591 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 on May - 17.
1606 Death of Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered on May - 17.
1626 Death of Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570) on May - 17.
1695 On May - 17 cornelis de Heem, painter, dies
1727 Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies on this day in history.
1729 On May - 17 samuel Clarke, theologian, dies
1765 Death of Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) on this day in history.
1796 On this day in history jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89
1797 On May - 17 death of michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
1801 On this day in history death of william Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)
1807 On this day in history death of john Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)
1809 On this day in history leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies
1822 On this day in history death of armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)
1829 On May - 17 death of john Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
1838 Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754) on May - 17.
1839 On this day in history death of archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
1840 On this day in history niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57
1851 On May - 17 jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31
1864 On May - 17 n Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59
1866 Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70 on May - 17.
1868 On May - 17 death of isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)
1872 On this day in history fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63
1875 Death of John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821) on this day in history.
1879 Death of Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805) on this day in history.
1883 On May - 17 lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
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