Famous Deaths In October - 17

0532  On this day in history boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies  

1174  Death of Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135) on October - 17.  

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

1616  Death of John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560) on October - 17.  

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 this day in history 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  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 this day in history.  

1776  On this day in history death of pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)  

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 this day in history.  

1806  Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies on October - 17.  

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  Death of Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828) on this day in history.  

1890  Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77 on October - 17.  

1897  On this day in history isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84  

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

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 October - 17.  

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

1918  On this day in history 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  Death of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852) on this day in history.  

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  Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith) was born on this day in history.  

1582  Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637) was born on October - 17.  

1623  On this day in history birth of francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)  

1626  On this day in history birth of simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt)  

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