Famous Deaths In May - 17
Monday, 18 March 2024
1050 Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies on this day in history.
1189 On May - 17 death of minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
1336 On this day in history death of emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
1365 On May - 17 death of louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)
1395 Death of Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm on May - 17.
1464 On May - 17 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 Death of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478) on this day in history.
1575 On May - 17 matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68
1591 On May - 17 jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51
1606 On May - 17 death of forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered
1626 Death of Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570) on this day in history.
1695 On this day in history cornelis de Heem, painter, dies
1727 On this day in history catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies
1729 Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies on this day in history.
1765 Death of Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) on this day in history.
1796 On this day in history jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89
1797 On this day in history death of michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
1801 Death of William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710) on this day in history.
1807 Death of John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745) on this day in history.
1809 On this day in history leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies
1822 Death of Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766) on May - 17.
1829 Death of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) on this day in history.
1838 On this day in history death of charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
1839 On this day in history death of archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
1840 Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.
1851 Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 on May - 17.
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 Death of Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834) on May - 17.
1872 On May - 17 fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63
1875 On May - 17 death of john C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
1879 Death of Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805) on this day in history.
1883 On this day in history lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
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