Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 17

1937  On December - 17 gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72   

1940  Death of Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860) on December - 17.   

1944  On December - 17 pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26   

1946  Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84 on December - 17.   

1948  Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68 on December - 17.   

1949  On December - 17 david Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72   

1956  Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48 on December - 17.   

1957  On this day in history dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64   

1961  On December - 17 marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53   

1962  Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70 on this day in history.   

1964  Death of Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883) on this day in history.   

1965  Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1966  On December - 17 gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68   

1967  Death of Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59 on December - 17.   

1969  On December - 17 arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67   

1972  Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1973  Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101 on December - 17.   

1975  Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67 on December - 17.   

1978  Death of Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934) on December - 17.   

1982  On this day in history leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58   

1983  Death of Erik Christensen, NHL player on this day in history.   

1985  On December - 17 otto Gotsche, writer, dies   

1986  On this day in history ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer   

1987  On December - 17 bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87   

1990  On this day in history don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61   

1991  On this day in history john Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80   

1992  Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83 on this day in history.   

1993  On December - 17 janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer   

1994  Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64 on December - 17.   

1995  On December - 17 lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63   

1996  Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96 on December - 17.   

1997  On December - 17 reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86   

1999  Death of Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943) on this day in history.   

2002  Death of James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947) on December - 17.   

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1239  Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256) was born on December - 17.   

1267  Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324) was born on this day in history.   

1493  Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist (Liber paramixum) was born on December - 17.   

1554  On December - 17 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 December - 17.   

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

1638  On December - 17 birth of johann Ulrich Sultzberger, composer