Famous Deaths In May - 17

1050  Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies on this day in history.  

1189  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm  

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

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.  

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

1626  On May - 17 death of juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)  

1695  On this day in history cornelis de Heem, painter, dies  

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

1729  On May - 17 samuel Clarke, theologian, dies  

1765  On May - 17 death of alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)  

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  Death of William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710) on this day in history.  

1807  On May - 17 death of john Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)  

1809  On May - 17 leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies  

1822  On May - 17 death of armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)  

1829  Death of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) on May - 17.  

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

1839  Death of Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757) on this day in history.  

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

1851  On May - 17 jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31  

1864  On May - 17 n Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59  

1866  Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70 on May - 17.  

1868  On this day in history death of isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)  

1872  Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.  

1875  Death of John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821) on May - 17.  

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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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  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  On this day in history birth of albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia  

1551  On this day in history birth of martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist  

1551  On this day in history birth of martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601)  

1568  On May - 17 birth of christoph Thomas Walliser, composer