Famous Deaths In May - 17
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1050 On May - 17 guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies
1189 Death of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159) on May - 17.
1336 On this day in history death of emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
1365 Death of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328) on this day in history.
1395 On this day in history death of constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm
1464 On May - 17 death of thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)
1510 Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on May - 17.
1521 On May - 17 death of edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)
1575 On this day in history matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68
1591 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 on this day in history.
1606 On this day in history death of forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered
1626 On this day in history death of juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)
1695 Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies on this day in history.
1727 Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies on this day in history.
1729 On this day in history samuel Clarke, theologian, dies
1765 On this day in history death of alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1796 Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89 on May - 17.
1797 On this day in history 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 May - 17 death of john Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)
1809 Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies on this day in history.
1822 On May - 17 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 this day in history.
1839 Death of Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757) on May - 17.
1840 Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 on May - 17.
1851 Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 on this day in history.
1864 On May - 17 n Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59
1866 On May - 17 adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70
1868 On this day in history death of isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)
1872 On May - 17 fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63
1875 On this day in history death of john C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
1879 On May - 17 death of asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805)
1883 On this day in history lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
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