Famous Deaths Happened In October - 17
Sunday, 15 June 2025
0532 Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
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 October - 17 death of john Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)
1638 On this day in history death of gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63
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 October - 17.
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 October - 17.
1763 On October - 17 arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76
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 On October - 17 death of johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
1806 On this day in history jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies
1825 Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.
1836 Death of Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782) on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1887 On October - 17 gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63
1889 Death of Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828) on October - 17.
1890 On this day in history prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77
1897 On this day in history isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84
1904 Nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32 on October - 17.
1909 Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44 on October - 17.
1910 Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91 on this day in history.
1917 On October - 17 maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59
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 Death of Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884) on this day in history.
1934 On October - 17 death of santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
1941 John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies on this day in history.
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