Famous Deaths In May - 17
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
1050 Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies on this day in history.
1189 On May - 17 death of minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
1336 Death of Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288) on May - 17.
1365 Death of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328) on this day in history.
1395 Death of Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm on this day in history.
1464 On May - 17 death of thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)
1510 On May - 17 alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65
1521 Death of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478) on this day in history.
1575 On May - 17 matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68
1591 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 on May - 17.
1606 Death of Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered on May - 17.
1626 Death of Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570) on this day in history.
1695 On this day in history cornelis de Heem, painter, dies
1727 Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies on this day in history.
1729 On this day in history samuel Clarke, theologian, dies
1765 Death of Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) on May - 17.
1796 On May - 17 jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89
1797 On this day in history death of michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
1801 On this day in history death of william Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)
1807 Death of John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745) on May - 17.
1809 Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies on May - 17.
1822 Death of Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766) on May - 17.
1829 Death of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) on May - 17.
1838 On this day in history death of charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
1839 On this day in history death of archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
1840 On this day in history niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57
1851 On May - 17 jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31
1864 N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 on May - 17.
1866 On May - 17 adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70
1868 On this day in history death of isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)
1872 Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63 on May - 17.
1875 On May - 17 death of john C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
1879 Death of Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805) on May - 17.
1883 Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies on May - 17.
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