Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 17
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
1937 Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72 on this day in history.
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 December - 17.
1948 On December - 17 edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68
1949 David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72 on December - 17.
1956 Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48 on December - 17.
1957 On December - 17 dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64
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 Death of Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883) on this day in history.
1965 Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76 on this day in history.
1966 Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68 on December - 17.
1967 On this day in history death of harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59
1969 Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67 on December - 17.
1972 Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63 on December - 17.
1973 On this day in history 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 On December - 17 death of don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)
1982 On this day in history leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58
1983 On December - 17 death of erik Christensen, NHL player
1985 Otto Gotsche, writer, dies on December - 17.
1986 On December - 17 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 December - 17.
1991 On December - 17 john Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80
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 this day in history.
1994 Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64 on this day in history.
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 Death of Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943) on December - 17.
2002 On December - 17 death of james Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947)
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