Famous Deaths In May - 17

1050  Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies on this day in history.  

1189  On May - 17 death of minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)  

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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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  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  Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies on May - 17.  

1727  Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies on this day in history.  

1729  Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies on May - 17.  

1765  Death of Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) on this day in history.  

1796  Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89 on this day in history.  

1797  On this day in history death of michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)  

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

1807  On this day in history death of john Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)  

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  On this day in history 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  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  On May - 17 jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31  

1864  N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 on May - 17.  

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  On this day in history 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  On this day in history lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies  

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1155  On May - 17 birth of jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)  

1443  On this day in history 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  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 May - 17 birth of martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist  

1551  On this day in history birth of martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601)  

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