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

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 this day in history.   

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

1638  On this day in history birth of johann Ulrich Sultzberger, composer