Famous Deaths In October - 17

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

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 this day in history andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53  

1586  Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 on this day in history.  

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 October - 17 death of adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)  

1673  Death of Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630) on this day in history.  

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  On October - 17 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 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  On October - 17 death of orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)  

1837  Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58 on October - 17.  

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 October - 17.  

1887  Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63 on this day in history.  

1889  Death of Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828) on this day in history.  

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  Nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32 on October - 17.  

1909  Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1941  John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies on this day in history.  

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1253  On this day in history birth of ivo of Kermartin, ]])  

1563  Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer was born on this day in history.  

1577  On October - 17 birth of cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith)  

1582  On this day in history birth of johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)  

1623  On October - 17 birth of francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)  

1626  Simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt) was born on October - 17.  

1688  Domenico Zipoli, composer was born on this day in history.  

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