Famous Deaths In October - 17
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
0532 On this day in history boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies
1174 On this day in history death of queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
1312 On this day in history jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies
1552 On October - 17 andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53
1586 Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 on this day in history.
1616 On October - 17 death of john Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)
1638 Death of Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63 on this day in history.
1660 On October - 17 death of adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
1673 On October - 17 death of thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
1702 Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies on October - 17.
1757 Death of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683) on October - 17.
1763 On this day in history arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76
1776 On October - 17 death of pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
1780 Death of William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705) on this day in history.
1786 On this day in history death of johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
1806 Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies on this day in history.
1825 On October - 17 peter Winter, composer, dies at 71
1836 Death of Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782) on October - 17.
1837 On this day in history johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58
1849 Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39 on this day in history.
1868 On this day in history death of laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)
1887 Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63 on this day in history.
1889 On this day in history death of nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
1890 Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77 on October - 17.
1897 Isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.
1904 On this day in history nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32
1909 Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history.
1910 Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91 on this day in history.
1917 On October - 17 maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59
1918 On October - 17 gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies
1921 On this day in history katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45
1931 On October - 17 death of alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
1934 On October - 17 death of santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
1941 On this day in history john S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies
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