Famous Deaths In May - 17

1050  On May - 17 guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies  

1189  Death of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159) on May - 17.  

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 this day in history death of constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm  

1464  Death of Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427) on this day in history.  

1510  Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on this day in history.  

1521  Death of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478) on May - 17.  

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 this day in history.  

1626  Death of Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570) on May - 17.  

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

1727  Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies on this day in history.  

1729  On May - 17 samuel Clarke, theologian, dies  

1765  Death of Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) on this day in history.  

1796  Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89 on May - 17.  

1797  Death of Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719) on May - 17.  

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

1807  On this day in history death of john Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)  

1809  Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies on this day in history.  

1822  On this day in history death of armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)  

1829  On this day in history death of john Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)  

1838  On May - 17 death of charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)  

1839  On May - 17 death of archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)  

1840  On May - 17 niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57  

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

1864  N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 on May - 17.  

1866  On this day in history adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70  

1868  On May - 17 death of isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)  

1872  Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63 on May - 17.  

1875  On this day in history death of john C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)  

1879  On this day in history death of asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805)  

1883  On this day in history lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies  

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1155  Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225) was born on May - 17.  

1443  Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England was born on this day in history.  

1444  On this day in history birth of sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus)  

1451  Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg was born on May - 17.  

1490  Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia was born on May - 17.  

1551  Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist was born on May - 17.  

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

1568  Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer was born on this day in history.