Famous Deaths In May - 17

1050  On May - 17 guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies  

1189  Death of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159) on May - 17.  

1336  Death of Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288) on May - 17.  

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  Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on this day in history.  

1521  On this day in history 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  Death of Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered on May - 17.  

1626  On this day in history death of juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)  

1695  On May - 17 cornelis de Heem, painter, dies  

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

1729  Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies on this day in history.  

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

1801  On this day in history death of william Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)  

1807  On May - 17 death of john Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)  

1809  Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies on this day in history.  

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  Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754) on this day in history.  

1839  On May - 17 death of archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)  

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

1851  On May - 17 jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31  

1864  On this day in history n Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59  

1866  Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1868  Death of Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834) on this day in history.  

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  On May - 17 lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies  

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1155  On this day in history birth of jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)  

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

1444  Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus) was born on this day in history.  

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

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 May - 17.  

1551  On May - 17 birth of martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601)  

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