Famous Deaths Happened In May - 17

1050  On this day in history guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies   

1189  On this day in history death of minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)   

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

1365  On May - 17 death of louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)   

1395  Death of Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm on May - 17.   

1464  Death of Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427) on May - 17.   

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

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  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 this day in history.   

1695  Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies on May - 17.   

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

1729  Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies on May - 17.   

1765  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1801  Death of William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710) on May - 17.   

1807  Death of John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745) on May - 17.   

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 May - 17 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 May - 17.   

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

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  N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

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

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  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  On this day in history birth of jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)   

1443  On this day in history birth of edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England   

1444  On May - 17 birth of sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus)   

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  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  On this day in history birth of christoph Thomas Walliser, composer