Famous Deaths In October - 17
Sunday, 03 July 2022
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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