Famous Deaths In October - 17
Saturday, 07 September 2024
0532 On October - 17 boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies
1174 On October - 17 death of queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
1312 On this day in history jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies
1552 Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53 on October - 17.
1586 Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 on October - 17.
1616 Death of John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560) on this day in history.
1638 On October - 17 death of gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63
1660 On this day in history death of adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
1673 Death of Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630) on this day in history.
1702 Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies on October - 17.
1757 Death of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683) on October - 17.
1763 On this day in history arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76
1776 Death of Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681) on October - 17.
1780 Death of William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705) on October - 17.
1786 On this day in history death of johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
1806 On October - 17 jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies
1825 Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.
1836 Death of Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782) on this day in history.
1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.
1849 Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39 on this day in history.
1868 Death of Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775) on October - 17.
1887 On this day in history gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63
1889 Death of Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828) on October - 17.
1890 On October - 17 prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77
1897 On October - 17 isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84
1904 On October - 17 nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32
1909 Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history.
1910 Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91 on October - 17.
1917 Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59 on this day in history.
1918 On this day in history gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies
1921 On October - 17 katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45
1931 On October - 17 death of alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
1934 Death of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852) on October - 17.
1941 John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies on October - 17.
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