Famous Deaths Happened In October - 17
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
0532 On October - 17 boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies
1174 On this day in history death of queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
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 October - 17 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 this day in history death of thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
1702 On October - 17 walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies
1757 Death of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683) on this day in history.
1763 Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76 on this day in history.
1776 On this day in history death of pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
1780 On October - 17 death of william Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
1786 On October - 17 death of johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
1806 On this day in history jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies
1825 On October - 17 peter Winter, composer, dies at 71
1836 Death of Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782) on this day in history.
1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58 on October - 17.
1849 On October - 17 frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39
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 October - 17 death of nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
1890 On this day in history prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77
1897 Isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.
1904 On this day in history nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32
1909 On this day in history nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44
1910 Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91 on October - 17.
1917 On this day in history maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59
1918 On this day in history gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies
1921 On this day in history katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45
1931 On October - 17 death of alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
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 John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies on this day in history.
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