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 July - 17.  

1025  On July - 17 boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies  

1070  On July - 17 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 July - 17.  

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

1531  On this day in history 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 July - 17 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 July - 17 death of robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician  

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

1704  On July - 17 death of pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer  

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

1746  On July - 17 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  On July - 17 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 July - 17 death of martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)  

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

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

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 July - 17.  

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

1851  Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37 on July - 17.  

1863  On July - 17 james Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35  

1864  On this day in history daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29  

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

1875  On July - 17 gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77  

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

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

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

1744  Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering was born on July - 17.  

1745  On this day in history birth of petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)  

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

1763  On this day in history birth of john Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader