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  Death of Jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched on July - 17.   

1453  On this day in history death of john Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader   

1510  On July - 17 edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies   

1531  Death of Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484) on July - 17.   

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

1588  Death of Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489) on July - 17.   

1627  On July - 17 lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67   

1645  Death of Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician on this day in history.   

1682  On July - 17 johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29   

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

1709  On this day in history pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60   

1746  On July - 17 anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53   

1753  On July - 17 andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies   

1762  Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34 on July - 17.   

1763  On July - 17 wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45   

1764  Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1790  On July - 17 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  On this day in history death of charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined   

1794  Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history.   

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

1826  On this day in history joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65   

1838  John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29   

1871  Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29 on July - 17.   

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 this day in history.   

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1487  On this day in history 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 July - 17 birth of isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)   

1702  Johann Schneider, composer was born on this day in history.   

1744  On July - 17 birth of elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering   

1745  Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826) was born on this day in history.   

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