Famous Deaths In May - 17

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

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 May - 17.  

1365  Death of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328) on this day in history.  

1395  Death of Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm on this day in history.  

1464  On May - 17 death of thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)  

1510  On May - 17 alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65  

1521  On this day in history 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  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  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  Death of Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) on this day in history.  

1796  Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89 on May - 17.  

1797  Death of Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719) on this day in history.  

1801  Death of William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710) on May - 17.  

1807  Death of John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745) on May - 17.  

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 May - 17.  

1829  On May - 17 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  Death of Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757) on May - 17.  

1840  Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.  

1851  Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 on this day in history.  

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 this day in history 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  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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1155  On May - 17 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  On this day in history 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  Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia was born on May - 17.  

1551  Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist was born on this day in history.  

1551  Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601) was born on May - 17.  

1568  Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer was born on this day in history.