Famous Deaths Happened In May - 17

1050  On this day in history guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies   

1189  On this day in history death of minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)   

1336  Death of Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288) on May - 17.   

1365  Death of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328) on this day in history.   

1395  Death of Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm on this day in history.   

1464  Death of Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427) on May - 17.   

1510  Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on May - 17.   

1521  Death of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478) on May - 17.   

1575  On May - 17 matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68   

1591  Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 on May - 17.   

1606  Death of Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered on May - 17.   

1626  On May - 17 death of juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)   

1695  Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies on this day in history.   

1727  On May - 17 catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies   

1729  Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies on this day in history.   

1765  On May - 17 death of alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)   

1796  Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89 on May - 17.   

1797  On May - 17 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  On this day in history leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies   

1822  On May - 17 death of armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)   

1829  Death of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) on May - 17.   

1838  On this day in history death of charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)   

1839  On May - 17 death of archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)   

1840  On this day in history niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57   

1851  On May - 17 jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31   

1864  N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1866  On this day in history adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70   

1868  Death of Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834) on this day in history.   

1872  On this day in history fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63   

1875  Death of John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821) on May - 17.   

1879  Death of Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805) on this day in history.   

1883  Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies on May - 17.   

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1155  On May - 17 birth of jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)   

1443  On May - 17 birth of edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England   

1444  On this day in history birth of sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus)   

1451  Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg was born on May - 17.   

1490  On this day in history birth of albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia   

1551  On this day in history birth of martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist   

1551  Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601) was born on this day in history.   

1568  Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer was born on this day in history.