Famous Deaths Happened In October - 17

0532  Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies on October - 17.   

1174  Death of Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135) on October - 17.   

1312  On October - 17 jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies   

1552  Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53 on October - 17.   

1586  On October - 17 philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32   

1616  On October - 17 death of john Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)   

1638  On October - 17 death of gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63   

1660  On this day in history death of adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)   

1673  Death of Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630) on October - 17.   

1702  On October - 17 walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies   

1757  Death of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683) on this day in history.   

1763  Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76 on October - 17.   

1776  Death of Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681) on this day in history.   

1780  Death of William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705) on October - 17.   

1786  Death of Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723) on this day in history.   

1806  Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies on this day in history.   

1825  Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71 on October - 17.   

1836  Death of Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782) on October - 17.   

1837  Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58 on October - 17.   

1849  Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39 on October - 17.   

1868  On October - 17 death of laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)   

1887  Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63 on October - 17.   

1889  On October - 17 death of nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)   

1890  On this day in history prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77   

1897  Isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84 on October - 17.   

1904  On this day in history nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32   

1909  Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44 on October - 17.   

1910  Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91 on this day in history.   

1917  On October - 17 maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59   

1918  On October - 17 gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies   

1921  Katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45 on this day in history.   

1931  Death of Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884) on October - 17.   

1934  Death of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852) on this day in history.   

1941  John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies on October - 17.   

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1253  On this day in history birth of ivo of Kermartin, ]])   

1563  Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer was born on this day in history.   

1577  On this day in history birth of cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith)   

1582  Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637) was born on this day in history.   

1623  On this day in history birth of francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)   

1626  Simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt) was born on this day in history.   

1688  On October - 17 birth of domenico Zipoli, composer   

1696  On October - 17 birth of august III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen