Famous Deaths In May - 17

1050  On this day in history guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies  

1189  On this day in history death of minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)  

1336  On May - 17 death of emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)  

1365  On this day in history death of louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)  

1395  On May - 17 death of constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm  

1464  Death of Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427) on May - 17.  

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  Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68 on May - 17.  

1591  Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 on this day in history.  

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1606  On May - 17 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  On May - 17 catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies  

1729  On May - 17 samuel Clarke, theologian, dies  

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

1796  On May - 17 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  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  On this day in history 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  Death of Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757) on May - 17.  

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  On May - 17 adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70  

1868  On May - 17 death of isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)  

1872  Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63 on May - 17.  

1875  On this day in history 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 May - 17.  

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

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1155  Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225) was born on May - 17.  

1443  On May - 17 birth of edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England  

1444  On this day in history birth of sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus)  

1451  Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg was born on May - 17.  

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 May - 17 birth of christoph Thomas Walliser, composer