Famous Deaths In October - 17
Friday, 26 July 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 this day in history.
1552 On October - 17 andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53
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 October - 17.
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.
1757 Death of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683) on this day in history.
1763 On this day in history arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76
1776 On October - 17 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 Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies on October - 17.
1825 Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.
1836 On this day in history death of orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58 on October - 17.
1849 On this day in history 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 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 Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77 on October - 17.
1897 On this day in history isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84
1904 On this day in history nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32
1909 On this day in history 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 Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies on this day in history.
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 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 this day in history.
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