Famous Deaths In October - 17

0532  On October - 17 boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies  

1174  On this day in history death of queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)  

1312  On October - 17 jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies  

1552  Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53 on October - 17.  

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 October - 17.  

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  Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies on this day in history.  

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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  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  On October - 17 death of johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)  

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

1825  On this day in history peter Winter, composer, dies at 71  

1836  Death of Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782) on October - 17.  

1837  On this day in history johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58  

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  On October - 17 gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63  

1889  On this day in history death of nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)  

1890  On this day in history prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77  

1897  Isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84 on October - 17.  

1904  On October - 17 nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32  

1909  On October - 17 nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44  

1910  On October - 17 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  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  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  John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies on October - 17.  

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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  Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith) was born on October - 17.  

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

1623  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of domenico Zipoli, composer  

1696  On this day in history birth of august III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen