Famous Deaths Happened In October - 17

0532  Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies on October - 17.   

1174  Death of Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135) on October - 17.   

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 October - 17.   

1586  On October - 17 philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32   

1616  Death of John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560) on October - 17.   

1638  On October - 17 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 October - 17.   

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 October - 17.   

1763  Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1776  On this day in history death of pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)   

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  Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies on this day in history.   

1825  On October - 17 peter Winter, composer, dies at 71   

1836  On October - 17 death of orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)   

1837  On this day in history johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58   

1849  Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39 on this day in history.   

1868  Death of Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775) on October - 17.   

1887  On this day in history gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63   

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  Isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84 on October - 17.   

1904  On this day in history nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32   

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  Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies on this day in history.   

1921  On this day in history 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 October - 17.   

1941  On this day in history john S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies   

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1253  Ivo of Kermartin, ]]) was born on this day in history.   

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

1577  Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith) was born on this day in history.   

1582  On October - 17 birth of johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)   

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

1626  On October - 17 birth of simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt)   

1688  On October - 17 birth of domenico Zipoli, composer   

1696  August III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen was born on October - 17.