Famous Deaths In May - 17

1050  Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies on May - 17.  

1189  Death of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159) on this day in history.  

1336  On May - 17 death of emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)  

1365  Death of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328) on May - 17.  

1395  On May - 17 death of constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm  

1464  On this day in history 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  On May - 17 death of edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)  

1575  Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1591  On May - 17 jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51  

1606  On this day in history death of forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered  

1626  On this day in history death of juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)  

1695  Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies on this day in history.  

1727  Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies on May - 17.  

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 this day in history jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89  

1797  Death of Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719) on this day in history.  

1801  On May - 17 death of william Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)  

1807  Death of John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745) on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1838  Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754) on May - 17.  

1839  Death of Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757) on May - 17.  

1840  On this day in history niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57  

1851  Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 on this day in history.  

1864  On this day in history n Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59  

1866  Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1868  Death of Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834) on May - 17.  

1872  On May - 17 fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63  

1875  Death of John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821) on this day in history.  

1879  On May - 17 death of asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805)  

1883  Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies on May - 17.  

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1155  Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225) was born on this day in history.  

1443  Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England was born on May - 17.  

1444  Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus) was born on this day in history.  

1451  On May - 17 birth of engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg  

1490  On May - 17 birth of albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia  

1551  On May - 17 birth of martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist  

1551  On May - 17 birth of martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601)  

1568  Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer was born on May - 17.