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 May - 17 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  Death of Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm on this day in history.   

1464  Death of Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427) on this day in history.   

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

1521  Death of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478) on May - 17.   

1575  Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68 on this day in history.   

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  Death of Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570) on this day in history.   

1695  Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies on May - 17.   

1727  Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies on May - 17.   

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 May - 17.   

1797  Death of Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719) on May - 17.   

1801  On May - 17 death of william Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)   

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 May - 17.   

1829  Death of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) on this day in history.   

1838  Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754) on May - 17.   

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

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  N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1866  On this day in history adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70   

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

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

1875  Death of John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821) on this day in history.   

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

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  Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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