Famous Deaths Happened In May - 17

1050  On May - 17 guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies   

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  Death of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328) on this day in history.   

1395  On this day in history death of constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm   

1464  Death of Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427) on May - 17.   

1510  Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on May - 17.   

1521  On this day in history death of edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)   

1575  On May - 17 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 May - 17 cornelis de Heem, painter, dies   

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

1729  On this day in history samuel Clarke, theologian, dies   

1765  On May - 17 death of alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)   

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

1797  On May - 17 death of michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)   

1801  On May - 17 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  Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies on this day in history.   

1822  On May - 17 death of armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)   

1829  On this day in history death of john Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)   

1838  Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754) on May - 17.   

1839  Death of Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757) on this day in history.   

1840  Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 on May - 17.   

1851  On May - 17 jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31   

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

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

1868  On this day in history death of isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)   

1872  Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1875  On this day in history 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 this day in history lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies   

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1155  Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225) was born on this day in history.   

1443  Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England was born on May - 17.   

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

1451  Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg was born on May - 17.   

1490  On May - 17 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  On this day in history birth of martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601)   

1568  Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer was born on May - 17.