Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 17

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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1239  Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256) was born on this day in history.   

1267  Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324) was born on this day in history.   

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  Ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician was born on this day in history.   

1619  Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682) was born on this day in history.   

1632  On this day in history birth of anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)   

1638  Johann Ulrich Sultzberger, composer was born on December - 17.