Famous Deaths Happened In May - 17

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

1189  On May - 17 death of minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)   

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 May - 17.   

1395  On May - 17 death of constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm   

1464  On May - 17 death of thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)   

1510  On May - 17 alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65   

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

1575  Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68 on May - 17.   

1591  Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 on May - 17.   

1606  Death of Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered on May - 17.   

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

1695  Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies on this day in history.   

1727  On May - 17 catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies   

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

1765  Death of Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) on this day in history.   

1796  On May - 17 jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89   

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

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  Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies on this day in history.   

1822  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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

1851  On this day in history jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31   

1864  On May - 17 n Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59   

1866  Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

1883  On May - 17 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  On this day in history birth of edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England   

1444  On May - 17 birth of sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus)   

1451  Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1568  On May - 17 birth of christoph Thomas Walliser, composer