Famous Deaths In July - 17

0656  Death of Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated on July - 17.  

0924  On this day in history edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924), dies  

1025  Boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies on July - 17.  

1070  Boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies on this day in history.  

1345  On July - 17 death of jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched  

1453  Death of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader on this day in history.  

1510  Edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies on July - 17.  

1531  On July - 17 death of hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)  

1571  On July - 17 death of georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)  

1588  On this day in history death of sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)  

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1627  On this day in history lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67  

1645  On this day in history death of robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician  

1682  Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29 on July - 17.  

1704  Death of Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer on July - 17.  

1709  On July - 17 pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60  

1746  On this day in history anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53  

1753  On this day in history andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies  

1762  On July - 17 peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34  

1763  Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history.  

1764  Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82 on July - 17.  

1790  Death of Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723) on July - 17.  

1791  Death of Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717) on July - 17.  

1793  On July - 17 death of charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined  

1794  Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45 on July - 17.  

1804  Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80 on July - 17.  

1826  Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

1838  On this day in history john Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82  

1845  Death of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764) on this day in history.  

1851  On this day in history beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37  

1863  James Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35 on July - 17.  

1864  On July - 17 daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29  

1871  Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29 on this day in history.  

1875  Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1878  On this day in history aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65  

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1487  On July - 17 birth of esma'il I, shah who converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah  

1487  On this day in history birth of ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)  

1674  On this day in history birth of isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)  

1702  Johann Schneider, composer was born on July - 17.  

1744  Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering was born on this day in history.  

1745  Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826) was born on July - 17.  

1763  Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education was born on this day in history.  

1763  On July - 17 birth of john Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader