Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 17

1937  On December - 17 gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72   

1940  Death of Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860) on December - 17.   

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  On this day in history edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68   

1949  David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1956  Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48 on this day in history.   

1957  Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64 on December - 17.   

1961  Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53 on December - 17.   

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

1964  Death of Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883) on this day in history.   

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

1966  Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68 on December - 17.   

1967  Death of Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59 on December - 17.   

1969  Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1972  Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63 on December - 17.   

1973  Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101 on December - 17.   

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

1978  On this day in history death of don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)   

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

1983  On December - 17 death of erik Christensen, NHL player   

1985  On this day in history otto Gotsche, writer, dies   

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 this day in history.   

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

1991  On this day in history john Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80   

1992  On this day in history dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83   

1993  On December - 17 janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer   

1994  On this day in history jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64   

1995  Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63 on December - 17.   

1996  On December - 17 elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96   

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

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1239  On this day in history 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  Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne was born on December - 17.   

1619  Ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician was born on December - 17.   

1619  Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682) was born on December - 17.   

1632  On December - 17 birth of anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)   

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