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  On this day in history death of emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)  

1365  Death of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328) on May - 17.  

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

1464  On this day in history death of thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)  

1510  On this day in history alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65  

1521  On May - 17 death of edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)  

1575  On this day in history matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68  

1591  On May - 17 jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51  

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1606  Death of Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered on this day in history.  

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 this day in history death of michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)  

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 this day in history 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  On May - 17 death of john Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)  

1838  On this day in history death of charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)  

1839  On this day in history death of archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)  

1840  Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 on May - 17.  

1851  On this day in history 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 May - 17 death of isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)  

1872  On this day in history fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63  

1875  Death of John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821) on May - 17.  

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 this day in history.  

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  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 this day in history 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 this day in history birth of martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601)  

1568  On May - 17 birth of christoph Thomas Walliser, composer