Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 17

1937  On this day in history gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72   

1940  On this day in history death of alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)   

1944  On this day in history pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26   

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

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

1949  David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72 on December - 17.   

1956  On December - 17 eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48   

1957  On December - 17 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  Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70 on this day in history.   

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

1965  On this day in history tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76   

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

1967  On this day in history death of harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59   

1969  On this day in history arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67   

1972  Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63 on December - 17.   

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

1975  On this day in history frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67   

1978  Death of Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934) on December - 17.   

1982  Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1983  On this day in history death of erik Christensen, NHL player   

1985  Otto Gotsche, writer, dies on December - 17.   

1986  On this day in history ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer   

1987  On December - 17 bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87   

1990  Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61 on December - 17.   

1991  John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1992  On this day in history dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83   

1993  Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer on this day in history.   

1994  On this day in history jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64   

1995  Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

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

1997  Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86 on this day in history.   

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

2002  Death of James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947) on December - 17.   

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

1267  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)   

1493  On this day in history birth of philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist (Liber paramixum)   

1554  On this day in history birth of ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne   

1619  Ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician was born on December - 17.   

1619  Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682) was born on December - 17.   

1632  On December - 17 birth of anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)   

1638  On December - 17 birth of johann Ulrich Sultzberger, composer