Famous Deaths Happened In October - 17

0532  Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies on this day in history.   

1174  Death of Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135) on this day in history.   

1312  On October - 17 jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies   

1552  On this day in history andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53   

1586  Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 on October - 17.   

1616  On this day in history death of john Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)   

1638  On this day in history death of gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63   

1660  Death of Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601) on this day in history.   

1673  On October - 17 death of thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)   

1702  Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies on October - 17.   

1757  On this day in history death of rené Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)   

1763  On October - 17 arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76   

1776  On October - 17 death of pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)   

1780  Death of William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705) on this day in history.   

1786  Death of Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723) on this day in history.   

1806  Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies on this day in history.   

1825  On this day in history peter Winter, composer, dies at 71   

1836  Death of Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782) on October - 17.   

1837  Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1849  Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39 on this day in history.   

1868  On October - 17 death of laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)   

1887  Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1889  On this day in history death of nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)   

1890  Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77 on October - 17.   

1897  Isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84 on October - 17.   

1904  On this day in history nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32   

1909  On October - 17 nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44   

1910  Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91 on this day in history.   

1917  On this day in history maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59   

1918  Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies on this day in history.   

1921  On this day in history katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45   

1931  Death of Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884) on October - 17.   

1934  On October - 17 death of santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)   

1941  On October - 17 john S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies   

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1253  Ivo of Kermartin, ]]) was born on October - 17.   

1563  On October - 17 birth of jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer   

1577  On this day in history birth of cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith)   

1582  Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637) was born on October - 17.   

1623  Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687) was born on this day in history.   

1626  On this day in history birth of simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt)   

1688  On this day in history birth of domenico Zipoli, composer   

1696  August III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen was born on October - 17.