Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 17
Monday, 07 July 2025
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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