Famous Deaths Happened In May - 17

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

1189  On May - 17 death of minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)   

1336  Death of Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288) on this day in history.   

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

1510  On this day in history 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 this day in history matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68   

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  On this day in history catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies   

1729  On May - 17 samuel Clarke, theologian, dies   

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 May - 17 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  Death of Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766) on this day in history.   

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

1840  Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 on May - 17.   

1851  Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 on May - 17.   

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

1866  On May - 17 adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70   

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

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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1155  On May - 17 birth of jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)   

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 this day in history birth of engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg   

1490  On this day in history birth of albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia   

1551  Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist was born on this day in history.   

1551  Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601) was born on May - 17.   

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