Famous Deaths In October - 17

0532  Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies on this day in history.  

1174  On October - 17 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  Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53 on this day in history.  

1586  On this day in history philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32  

1616  On October - 17 death of john Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)  

1638  On October - 17 death of gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63  

1660  Death of Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601) on this day in history.  

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  Death of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683) on this day in history.  

1763  On October - 17 arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76  

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

1780  Death of William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705) on October - 17.  

1786  Death of Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723) on this day in history.  

1806  On October - 17 jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies  

1825  Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1836  On October - 17 death of orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)  

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  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 October - 17 death of nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)  

1890  Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1897  On October - 17 isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84  

1904  Nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32 on this day in history.  

1909  On this day in history nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44  

1910  On this day in history julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91  

1917  Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59 on October - 17.  

1918  Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies on this day in history.  

1921  Katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45 on this day in history.  

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  On October - 17 john S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies  

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1253  On October - 17 birth of ivo of Kermartin, ]])  

1563  On October - 17 birth of jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer  

1577  On this day in history birth of cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith)  

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

1623  On October - 17 birth of francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)  

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

1688  Domenico Zipoli, composer was born on October - 17.  

1696  On October - 17 birth of august III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen