Famous Deaths In October - 17
Sunday, 28 February 2021
0532 Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies on October - 17.
1174 On October - 17 death of queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
1312 Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies on this day in history.
1552 On October - 17 andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53
1586 Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 on October - 17.
1616 Death of John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560) on this day in history.
1638 Death of Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63 on this day in history.
1660 On this day in history death of adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
1673 Death of Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630) on this day in history.
1702 Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies on October - 17.
1757 On October - 17 death of rené Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
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 On October - 17 death of william Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
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 this day in history peter Winter, composer, dies at 71
1836 On October - 17 death of orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58 on October - 17.
1849 Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39 on this day in history.
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 October - 17 death of nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
1890 On this day in history prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77
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 October - 17 julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91
1917 On this day in history 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 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 On October - 17 john S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies
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