Famous Deaths 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  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  Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1949  On this day in history david Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72   

1956  Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48 on December - 17.   

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

1961  Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53 on this day in history.   

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 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 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 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 December - 17 otto Gotsche, writer, dies   

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  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  Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83 on December - 17.   

1993  Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer on this day in history.   

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

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  On this day in history reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86   

1999  On December - 17 death of grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)   

2002  Death of James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947) on this day in history.   

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

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

1493  On this day in history birth of philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist (Liber paramixum)   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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