Famous Deaths Happened In May - 17

1050  On May - 17 guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies   

1189  Death of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159) on May - 17.   

1336  Death of Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288) on this day in history.   

1365  Death of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328) on May - 17.   

1395  On this day in history death of constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm   

1464  On this day in history death of thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)   

1510  Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on this day in history.   

1521  On May - 17 death of edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)   

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 this day in history.   

1606  On May - 17 death of forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered   

1626  On this day in history death of juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)   

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

1727  Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies on this day in history.   

1729  On this day in history samuel Clarke, theologian, dies   

1765  Death of Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) on May - 17.   

1796  On May - 17 jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89   

1797  On this day in history death of michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)   

1801  On May - 17 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  Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies on May - 17.   

1822  On this day in history death of armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)   

1829  On this day in history death of john Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)   

1838  Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754) on this day in history.   

1839  Death of Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757) on May - 17.   

1840  On May - 17 niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57   

1851  On this day in history jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31   

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

1866  Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1868  On this day in history death of isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)   

1872  Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63 on May - 17.   

1875  Death of John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821) on this day in history.   

1879  On May - 17 death of asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805)   

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

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1155  Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225) was born on this day in history.   

1443  Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England was born on this day in history.   

1444  Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus) was born on May - 17.   

1451  On this day in history birth of engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg   

1490  On May - 17 birth of albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia   

1551  On May - 17 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  On this day in history birth of christoph Thomas Walliser, composer