Famous Deaths In October - 17
Saturday, 01 April 2023
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 On October - 17 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 Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 on this day in history.
1616 On this day in history 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 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 October - 17.
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 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 Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies on October - 17.
1825 On October - 17 peter Winter, composer, dies at 71
1836 On this day in history death of orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.
1849 On October - 17 frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39
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 October - 17.
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 this day in history.
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 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 October - 17 katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45
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 On October - 17 john S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies
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