Famous Deaths Happened In May - 17

1050  Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies on this day in history.   

1189  Death of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159) on May - 17.   

1336  Death of Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288) on May - 17.   

1365  On May - 17 death of louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)   

1395  Death of Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm on this day in history.   

1464  Death of Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427) on this day in history.   

1510  Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on this day in history.   

1521  Death of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478) on May - 17.   

1575  On this day in history matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68   

1591  On this day in history jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51   

1606  On this day in history death of forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered   

1626  Death of Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570) on May - 17.   

1695  On this day in history cornelis de Heem, painter, dies   

1727  Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies on May - 17.   

1729  Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies on May - 17.   

1765  Death of Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) on May - 17.   

1796  Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89 on this day in history.   

1797  Death of Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719) on this day in history.   

1801  On this day in history death of william Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)   

1807  Death of John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745) on May - 17.   

1809  On this day in history leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies   

1822  Death of Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766) on this day in history.   

1829  Death of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) on May - 17.   

1838  On May - 17 death of charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)   

1839  Death of Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757) on May - 17.   

1840  Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1851  Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 on this day in history.   

1864  N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 on May - 17.   

1866  Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70 on May - 17.   

1868  Death of Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834) on this day in history.   

1872  On May - 17 fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63   

1875  On May - 17 death of john C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)   

1879  Death of Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805) on May - 17.   

1883  On May - 17 lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies   

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1155  On May - 17 birth of jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)   

1443  On May - 17 birth of edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England   

1444  Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus) was born on May - 17.   

1451  On May - 17 birth of engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg   

1490  Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia was born on May - 17.   

1551  Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist was born on May - 17.   

1551  On this day in history birth of martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601)   

1568  On this day in history birth of christoph Thomas Walliser, composer