Famous Deaths In May - 17

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

1365  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)   

1510  On May - 17 alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65   

1521  Death of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478) on this day in history.   

1575  On this day in history matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68   

1591  On this day in history jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51   

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

1626  Death of Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570) on May - 17.   

1695  Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies on May - 17.   

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

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

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

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  Death of William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1822  Death of Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766) on this day in history.   

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

1838  On May - 17 death of charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)   

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

1840  Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

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

1864  On May - 17 n Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59   

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  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 May - 17.   

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 May - 17.   

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 this day in history.   

1490  Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia was born on this day in history.   

1551  On May - 17 birth of martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist   

1551  On this day in history birth of martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601)   

1568  Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer was born on May - 17.