Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 17
Monday, 21 April 2025
1937 Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72 on this day in history.
1940 On this day in history death of alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)
1944 On December - 17 pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26
1946 Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84 on this day in history.
1948 Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68 on December - 17.
1949 On this day in history david Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72
1956 Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48 on this day in history.
1957 On this day in history dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64
1961 On December - 17 marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
1962 Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70 on this day in history.
1964 Death of Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883) on December - 17.
1965 On December - 17 tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76
1966 On December - 17 gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68
1967 On this day in history death of harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59
1969 On this day in history arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67
1972 Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.
1973 Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101 on this day in history.
1975 On December - 17 frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67
1978 Death of Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934) on this day in history.
1982 Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58 on December - 17.
1983 On December - 17 death of erik Christensen, NHL player
1985 Otto Gotsche, writer, dies on December - 17.
1986 On this day in history ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer
1987 On this day in history bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87
1990 On December - 17 don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61
1991 John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80 on December - 17.
1992 On December - 17 dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83
1993 On this day in history janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer
1994 On December - 17 jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64
1995 Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63 on this day in history.
1996 Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96 on this day in history.
1997 Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86 on this day in history.
1999 On December - 17 death of grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
2002 Death of James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947) on December - 17.
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