Famous Deaths Happened In December - 17

0535  Death of Emperor Ankan of Japan (b. 466) on this day in history.   

0695  Begga, ancestress of the Carolingians/saint, dies [or 693] on December - 17.   

0942  On this day in history death of william Longsword   

1187  Gregory VIII, [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies on this day in history.   

1195  On this day in history boudouin V, count of Hainault/Flanders (Boudouin VIII), dies   

1213  On this day in history jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53   

1273  Death of Rumi (b.1207) on this day in history.   

1471  On December - 17 isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, dies   

1562  On December - 17 adrian Willaert, Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82   

1651  Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1663  On this day in history death of nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)   

1679  On this day in history don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies   

1711  On December - 17 arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies   

1721  Death of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640) on this day in history.   

1751  Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czech master builder, dies at 62 on December - 17.   

1811  John Antes, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1829  Bernard Jumentier, composer, dies at 80 on December - 17.   

1830  On December - 17 simon Bolivar, president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Colombia   

1833  Death of Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21 on this day in history.   

1847  On December - 17 death of archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (b. 1791)   

1860  Death of Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1777) on this day in history.   

1870  Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1881  Lewis H Morgan, US ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62 on December - 17.   

1891  On this day in history msiri, king of Garanganja (Katanga), dies in battle   

1893  On December - 17 levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71   

1899  On December - 17 frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of Brit field marshal, dies in battle   

1907  On December - 17 kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83   

1913  On this day in history stefano Gobatti, composer, dies at 61   

1916  On December - 17 death of grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated   

1917  Death of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (b. 1836) on December - 17.   

1925  On December - 17 a N "Monkey" Hornby, cricketer (England capt at Oval 1882), dies   

1926  On this day in history alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer, dies at 70   

1930  On December - 17 peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36   

1933  Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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1239  On this day in history birth of kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)   

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

1493  On this day in history birth of philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist (Liber paramixum)   

1554  On this day in history birth of ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne   

1619  On December - 17 birth of ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician   

1619  Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682) was born on this day in history.   

1632  Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695) was born on December - 17.   

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