Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 17

1937  Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72 on December - 17.   

1940  Death of Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860) on this day in history.   

1944  Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26 on this day in history.   

1946  On December - 17 constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84   

1948  On December - 17 edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68   

1949  David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72 on December - 17.   

1956  On December - 17 eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48   

1957  Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53   

1962  On December - 17 thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70   

1964  On this day in history death of victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)   

1965  Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1966  On this day in history 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 December - 17 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  On December - 17 charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101   

1975  Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1978  Death of Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934) on December - 17.   

1982  On December - 17 leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58   

1983  Death of Erik Christensen, NHL player on December - 17.   

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  Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87 on December - 17.   

1990  Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61 on this day in history.   

1991  John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1992  On December - 17 dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83   

1993  Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer on December - 17.   

1994  Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64 on December - 17.   

1995  On December - 17 lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63   

1996  Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96 on this day in history.   

1997  Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86 on December - 17.   

1999  On this day in history death of grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)   

2002  On this day in history death of james Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947)   

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1239  On December - 17 birth of kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)   

1267  On December - 17 birth of emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)   

1493  Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist (Liber paramixum) was born on December - 17.   

1554  On December - 17 birth of ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne   

1619  On this day in history birth of ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician   

1619  On December - 17 birth of prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)   

1632  Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695) was born on this day in history.   

1638  On December - 17 birth of johann Ulrich Sultzberger, composer