Famous Deaths Happened In September - 17
Saturday, 27 December 2025
1179 Hildegard van Bingen, mystic/composer (Ordo Virtutum), dies at 81 on this day in history. 

1312 On September - 17 ferdinand V, king of Castile/Leon, dies at 26 

1322 Death of Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249) on this day in history. 

1422 Death of Constantine II of Bulgaria on September - 17. 

1563 On this day in history death of henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier 

1574 On September - 17 pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier/navigator, dies 

1575 On September - 17 death of heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504) 

1604 Lucas Osiander, composer, dies at 69 on September - 17. 

1621 On September - 17 death of robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542) 

1630 Death of Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567) on September - 17. 

1652 On September - 17 bonaventura Elsevier, book publisher/merchant, dies at about 69 

1665 Philip IV, King of Spain (1621-55), dies on this day in history. 

1676 On September - 17 death of sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b. 1626) 

1679 Juan Jose of Austrian, Spanish gen/gov of Netherlands, dies at 50 on this day in history. 

1702 On September - 17 olof Rudbeck, composer, dies at 71 

1727 On this day in history death of glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647) 

1732 On September - 17 josef Antonin Planicky, composer, dies at 40 

1762 On this day in history francesco Xaverio Geminiani, composer, dies at 74 

1771 Tobias George Smollett, novelist (Adv of Roderick Random), dies at 50 on September - 17. 

1803 Franz Xaver Sussmayr, composer, dies on this day in history. 

1808 On this day in history death of benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755) 

1820 Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 on September - 17. 

1823 Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76 on this day in history. 

1824 Giacomo Tritto, composer, dies at 91 on September - 17. 

1836 On this day in history death of antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748) 

1839 Ethel Mary Dell, [Mrs G T Savage], romantic novelist, dies on this day in history. 

1846 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history. 

1858 Dred Scott, US slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies on September - 17. 

1862 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate brig-general, dies at 41 on this day in history. 

1863 Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies on September - 17. 

1864 Walter Savage Landor, author, dies on September - 17. 

1868 Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies on September - 17. 

1869 On this day in history peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus), dies 

1873 Death of Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781) on this day in history. 

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