Famous Deaths In May - 17

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

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  On this day in history death of louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)  

1395  On May - 17 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  Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on May - 17.  

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 May - 17.  

1591  Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 on this day in history.  

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

1626  On this day in history death of juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)  

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

1727  On May - 17 catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies  

1729  On this day in history samuel Clarke, theologian, dies  

1765  Death of Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) on May - 17.  

1796  On May - 17 jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89  

1797  On May - 17 death of michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)  

1801  Death of William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710) on this day in history.  

1807  Death of John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745) on this day in history.  

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  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 this day in history.  

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

1840  Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.  

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  Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

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

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

1875  Death of John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821) on this day in history.  

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 May - 17.  

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

1443  On May - 17 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  Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1568  Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer was born on May - 17.