Famous Deaths In October - 17

0532  Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies on October - 17.  

1174  Death of Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135) on this day in history.  

1312  Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies on October - 17.  

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 this day in history death of john Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)  

1638  On this day in history death of gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63  

1660  Death of Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601) on October - 17.  

1673  On this day in history death of thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)  

1702  On October - 17 walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies  

1757  On this day in history death of rené Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)  

1763  Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76 on October - 17.  

1776  Death of Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681) on October - 17.  

1780  On this day in history death of william Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)  

1786  Death of Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723) on October - 17.  

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  Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.  

1849  Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39 on October - 17.  

1868  Death of Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775) on October - 17.  

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  On October - 17 isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84  

1904  On this day in history nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32  

1909  Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44 on October - 17.  

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  Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies on this day in history.  

1921  On October - 17 katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45  

1931  On October - 17 death of alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)  

1934  Death of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852) on October - 17.  

1941  John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies on October - 17.  

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1253  On this day in history birth of ivo of Kermartin, ]])  

1563  Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer was born on this day in history.  

1577  On October - 17 birth of cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith)  

1582  Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637) was born on this day in history.  

1623  Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687) was born on October - 17.  

1626  Simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt) was born on this day in history.  

1688  On this day in history birth of domenico Zipoli, composer  

1696  August III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen was born on this day in history.