Famous Deaths In May - 17
Sunday, 07 August 2022
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 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 May - 17.
1395 Death of Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm on May - 17.
1464 On this day in history death of thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)
1510 Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on this day in history.
1521 On this day in history death of edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)
1575 Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68 on May - 17.
1591 On May - 17 jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51
1606 Death of Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered on May - 17.
1626 On this day in history death of juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)
1695 On May - 17 cornelis de Heem, painter, dies
1727 Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies on this day in history.
1729 Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies on this day in history.
1765 On this day in history death of alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1796 On this day in history 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 On May - 17 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 May - 17 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 Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754) on this day in history.
1839 On May - 17 death of archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
1840 Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 on May - 17.
1851 On May - 17 jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31
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 this day in history.
1872 On this day in history fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63
1875 On May - 17 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 May - 17 lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
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