Famous Deaths In December - 17

1937  On December - 17 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  Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26 on December - 17.   

1946  Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1948  On December - 17 edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68   

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  Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1961  Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53 on December - 17.   

1962  On December - 17 thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70   

1964  On December - 17 death of victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)   

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

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  On this day in history erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63   

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 this day in history.   

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

1982  Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58 on December - 17.   

1983  Death of Erik Christensen, NHL player on this day in history.   

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 this day in history john Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80   

1992  Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1996  On December - 17 elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96   

1997  Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86 on December - 17.   

1999  On December - 17 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  On this day in history birth of kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)   

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

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

1619  On this day in history birth of prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)   

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

1638  Johann Ulrich Sultzberger, composer was born on this day in history.