Famous Deaths In May - 17

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  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 this day in history.  

1510  On May - 17 alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65  

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 this day in history.  

1591  Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 on May - 17.  

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1606  On May - 17 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  Death of Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) on May - 17.  

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

1797  Death of Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719) on this day in history.  

1801  On May - 17 death of william Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)  

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

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 this day in history.  

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  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 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  Death of Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805) on this day in history.  

1883  Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies on this day in history.  

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1155  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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 May - 17 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  Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601) was born on this day in history.  

1568  On this day in history birth of christoph Thomas Walliser, composer