Famous Deaths In May - 17

1050  Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies on May - 17.   

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

1336  Death of Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288) on this day in history.   

1365  On this day in history 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 May - 17.   

1510  On this day in history alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65   

1521  On May - 17 death of edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)   

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

1591  On May - 17 jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51   

1606  On May - 17 death of forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered   

1626  On May - 17 death of juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)   

1695  On May - 17 cornelis de Heem, painter, dies   

1727  Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies on this day in history.   

1729  On May - 17 samuel Clarke, theologian, dies   

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  On this day in history death of michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)   

1801  Death of William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710) on this day in history.   

1807  On this day in history death of john Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)   

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 May - 17.   

1829  On May - 17 death of john Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)   

1838  On this day in history death of charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)   

1839  On this day in history death of archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)   

1840  On May - 17 niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57   

1851  Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 on May - 17.   

1864  N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1866  On May - 17 adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70   

1868  Death of Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834) on May - 17.   

1872  Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63 on May - 17.   

1875  Death of John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821) on May - 17.   

1879  Death of Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805) on this day in history.   

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

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1155  On this day in history birth of jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)   

1443  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1451  On this day in history birth of engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg   

1490  On this day in history birth of albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia   

1551  Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist was born on this day in history.   

1551  Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601) was born on May - 17.   

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