Famous Deaths In May - 17

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

1189  Death of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159) on this day in history.   

1336  Death of Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288) on May - 17.   

1365  On May - 17 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  On this day in history 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  Death of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478) on May - 17.   

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   

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

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

1729  On May - 17 samuel Clarke, theologian, dies   

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

1796  Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history death of armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)   

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 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  On this day in history jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31   

1864  On May - 17 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  Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63 on May - 17.   

1875  On this day in history 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 May - 17.   

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

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

1451  Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg was born on May - 17.   

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 May - 17.   

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

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