Famous Deaths In May - 17

1050  On this day in history guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies  

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

1336  Death of Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288) on this day in history.  

1365  Death of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328) on May - 17.  

1395  On May - 17 death of constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm  

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 May - 17.  

1521  On May - 17 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 this day in history jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51  

1606  Death of Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered on this day in history.  

1626  Death of Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570) on May - 17.  

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

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 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  Death of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) on May - 17.  

1838  Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754) on this day in history.  

1839  On this day in history 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  On May - 17 n Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59  

1866  On this day in history 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  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  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  Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England was born on this day in history.  

1444  Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus) was born on May - 17.  

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

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

1568  On this day in history birth of christoph Thomas Walliser, composer