Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 17

1937  On December - 17 gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72   

1940  On December - 17 death of alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)   

1944  Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26 on December - 17.   

1946  Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84 on December - 17.   

1948  Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68 on December - 17.   

1949  On December - 17 david Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72   

1956  Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48 on this day in history.   

1957  On this day in history dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64   

1961  Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53 on this day in history.   

1962  On this day in history thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70   

1964  On this day in history death of victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)   

1965  On December - 17 tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76   

1966  On this day in history gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68   

1967  Death of Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59 on this day in history.   

1969  On December - 17 arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67   

1972  Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1973  Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101 on this day in history.   

1975  Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67 on December - 17.   

1978  On December - 17 death of don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)   

1982  On December - 17 leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58   

1983  Death of Erik Christensen, NHL player on December - 17.   

1985  On December - 17 otto Gotsche, writer, dies   

1986  Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer on this day in history.   

1987  Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87 on December - 17.   

1990  On this day in history don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61   

1991  On December - 17 john Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80   

1992  Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83 on December - 17.   

1993  Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer on December - 17.   

1994  Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64 on December - 17.   

1995  On this day in history lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63   

1996  On this day in history elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96   

1997  On December - 17 reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86   

1999  On this day in history death of grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)   

2002  On December - 17 death of james Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947)   

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1239  Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256) was born on December - 17.   

1267  Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324) was born on this day in history.   

1493  On December - 17 birth of philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist (Liber paramixum)   

1554  Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne was born on this day in history.   

1619  On December - 17 birth of ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician   

1619  On December - 17 birth of prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)   

1632  Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695) was born on this day in history.   

1638  On this day in history birth of johann Ulrich Sultzberger, composer