Famous Deaths In July - 17

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

0924  Edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924), dies on this day in history.  

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 this day in history death of jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched  

1453  On July - 17 death of john Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader  

1510  On this day in history 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  On July - 17 death of sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)  

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

1645  On July - 17 death of robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician  

1682  Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29 on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

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

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

1794  On this day in history jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45  

1804  Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.  

1826  On July - 17 joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65  

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

1845  On this day in history death of charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)  

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

1863  James Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35 on this day in history.  

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  Esma'il I, shah who converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah was born on July - 17.  

1487  Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524) was born on July - 17.  

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

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

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

1745  On July - 17 birth of petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)  

1763  On this day in history birth of johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education  

1763  John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader was born on July - 17.