Famous Deaths Happened In May - 17
Friday, 23 May 2025
1050 Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies on this day in history.
1189 On this day in history 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 On this day in history death of louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)
1395 On this day in history 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 On May - 17 jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51
1606 On this day in history death of forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered
1626 On May - 17 death of juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)
1695 Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies on this day in history.
1727 On May - 17 catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies
1729 Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies on this day in history.
1765 On May - 17 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 May - 17 death of william Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)
1807 On this day in history death of john Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)
1809 Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies on May - 17.
1822 Death of Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766) on May - 17.
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 On May - 17 death of archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
1840 On this day in history niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57
1851 Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 on May - 17.
1864 On this day in history n Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59
1866 Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70 on May - 17.
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 Death of Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805) on this day in history.
1883 On this day in history lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
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