Famous Deaths In October - 17
Friday, 26 April 2024
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 On October - 17 philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32
1616 On this day in history 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 this day in history death of thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
1702 On this day in history walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies
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 Death of Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681) on this day in history.
1780 On October - 17 death of william Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
1786 Death of Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723) on October - 17.
1806 On this day in history jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies
1825 Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71 on October - 17.
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 On this day in history frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39
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 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 October - 17 isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84
1904 Nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32 on October - 17.
1909 Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history.
1910 On October - 17 julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91
1917 On October - 17 maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59
1918 On this day in history gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies
1921 On October - 17 katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45
1931 Death of Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884) on October - 17.
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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