Famous Deaths Happened In July - 17

0656  Death of Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated on July - 17.   

0924  Edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924), dies on July - 17.   

1025  Boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies on this day in history.   

1070  On July - 17 boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies   

1345  Death of Jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched on July - 17.   

1453  Death of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader on July - 17.   

1510  On this day in history edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies   

1531  On July - 17 death of hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)   

1571  On July - 17 death of georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)   

1588  Death of Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489) on July - 17.   

1627  Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67 on July - 17.   

1645  Death of Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician on this day in history.   

1682  On July - 17 johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29   

1704  Death of Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer on this day in history.   

1709  On July - 17 pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60   

1746  Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53 on this day in history.   

1753  On July - 17 andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies   

1762  On this day in history peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34   

1763  On July - 17 wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45   

1764  On July - 17 johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82   

1790  On this day in history death of adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)   

1791  On this day in history death of martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)   

1793  On July - 17 death of charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined   

1794  On July - 17 jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45   

1804  Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80 on July - 17.   

1826  On this day in history joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65   

1838  John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1845  Death of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764) on July - 17.   

1851  On this day in history beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37   

1863  James Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

1864  Daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29 on July - 17.   

1871  Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29 on July - 17.   

1875  Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77 on July - 17.   

1878  On this day in history aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65   

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1487  Esma'il I, shah who converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah was born on this day in history.   

1487  Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524) was born on July - 17.   

1674  Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican) was born on this day in history.   

1702  On this day in history birth of johann Schneider, composer   

1744  Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering was born on July - 17.   

1745  Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826) was born on this day in history.   

1763  On July - 17 birth of johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education   

1763  John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader was born on this day in history.