Famous Deaths Happened 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  On this day in history boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies   

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  On this day in history edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies   

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

1571  Death of Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516) on July - 17.   

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

1627  Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67 on this day in history.   

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

1682  On this day in history johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29   

1704  On this day in history death of pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer   

1709  Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1746  Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53 on July - 17.   

1753  Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies on July - 17.   

1762  On this day in history peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34   

1763  Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45 on July - 17.   

1764  On this day in history johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82   

1790  On this day in history death of adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)   

1791  On this day in history death of martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)   

1793  Death of Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined on July - 17.   

1794  On July - 17 jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45   

1804  On this day in history christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80   

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

1838  John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82 on July - 17.   

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  On this day in history james Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35   

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

1871  On July - 17 karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29   

1875  On this day in history gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77   

1878  Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65 on July - 17.   

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

1487  On July - 17 birth of ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)   

1674  Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican) was born on July - 17.   

1702  On this day in history birth of johann Schneider, composer   

1744  On this day in history birth of elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering   

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

1763  On July - 17 birth of johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education   

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