Famous Deaths In May - 17
Monday, 27 March 2023
1050 On this day in history guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies
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 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 May - 17.
1521 On May - 17 death of edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)
1575 On May - 17 matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68
1591 On this day in history 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 May - 17.
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 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 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 May - 17.
1809 On May - 17 leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies
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 Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754) on this day in history.
1839 On this day in history death of archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
1840 Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.
1851 Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 on this day in history.
1864 On May - 17 n Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59
1866 On this day in history adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70
1868 On this day in history death of isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)
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 Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies on this day in history.
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