Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 17

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

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

1948  On this day in history 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  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 this day in history thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70   

1964  Death of Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883) on December - 17.   

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

1966  On December - 17 gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68   

1967  On December - 17 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  On this day in history erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63   

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 December - 17.   

1978  On December - 17 death of don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)   

1982  Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58 on December - 17.   

1983  On this day in history death of erik Christensen, NHL player   

1985  On December - 17 otto Gotsche, writer, dies   

1986  Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer on December - 17.   

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  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  On this day in history 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 December - 17.   

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

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

2002  On December - 17 death of james Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947)   

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1239  Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256) was born on December - 17.   

1267  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)   

1493  On December - 17 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  Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682) was born on this day in history.   

1632  Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695) was born on December - 17.   

1638  Johann Ulrich Sultzberger, composer was born on this day in history.