Famous Deaths Happened In May - 17

1050  Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies on May - 17.   

1189  On May - 17 death of minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)   

1336  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1510  Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on May - 17.   

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

1695  Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies on this day in history.   

1727  On this day in history catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies   

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

1765  Death of Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) on May - 17.   

1796  On May - 17 jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89   

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 this day in history.   

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

1809  On this day in history 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 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  Death of Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757) on this day in history.   

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

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

1872  On this day in history fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63   

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 this day in history.   

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

1444  On May - 17 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  On May - 17 birth of albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia   

1551  On this day in history 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  Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer was born on this day in history.