Famous Deaths 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 this day in history pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26   

1946  On this day in history constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84   

1948  On December - 17 edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68   

1949  David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1956  On December - 17 eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48   

1957  Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53   

1962  On December - 17 thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70   

1964  On this day in history death of victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)   

1965  Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76 on December - 17.   

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  Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67 on December - 17.   

1972  On this day in history erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63   

1973  On December - 17 charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101   

1975  Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1978  Death of Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history otto Gotsche, writer, dies   

1986  Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer on this day in history.   

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

1990  Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61 on this day in history.   

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

1992  On this day in history dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83   

1993  Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer on this day in history.   

1994  On this day in history jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64   

1995  On this day in history lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63   

1996  Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96 on this day in history.   

1997  Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86 on this day in history.   

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

2002  On this day in history death of james Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947)   

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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 December - 17.   

1493  On December - 17 birth of philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist (Liber paramixum)   

1554  Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne was born on this day in history.   

1619  Ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician was born on December - 17.   

1619  On this day in history birth of prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)   

1632  On December - 17 birth of anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)   

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