Famous Deaths In May - 17

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

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 May - 17.  

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  Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on May - 17.  

1521  On May - 17 death of edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)  

1575  On this day in history matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68  

1591  On this day in history jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51  

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1606  On May - 17 death of forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered  

1626  On May - 17 death of juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)  

1695  On this day in history cornelis de Heem, painter, dies  

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

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

1797  On May - 17 death of michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)  

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 this day in history.  

1829  On May - 17 death of john Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)  

1838  On May - 17 death of charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)  

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

1864  N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

1866  Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70 on May - 17.  

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

1872  Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.  

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  Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies on May - 17.  

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

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 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 this day in history.  

1490  Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia was born on May - 17.  

1551  On this day in history birth of martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist  

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

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