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 this day in history jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies   

1552  On October - 17 andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53   

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

1616  Death of John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560) on October - 17.   

1638  Death of Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63 on October - 17.   

1660  On October - 17 death of adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)   

1673  On this day in history death of thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)   

1702  Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies on October - 17.   

1757  Death of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683) on October - 17.   

1763  Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1776  On this day in history death of pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)   

1780  On this day in history death of william Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)   

1786  On this day in history death of johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)   

1806  On this day in history jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies   

1825  Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39   

1868  On this day in history death of laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)   

1887  On October - 17 gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63   

1889  Death of Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828) on this day in history.   

1890  Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77 on October - 17.   

1897  On this day in history isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84   

1904  On October - 17 nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32   

1909  On this day in history nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44   

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

1917  Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59 on October - 17.   

1918  Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies on October - 17.   

1921  On October - 17 katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45   

1931  Death of Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884) on this day in history.   

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

1941  On this day in history john S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies   

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1253  On October - 17 birth of ivo of Kermartin, ]])   

1563  On October - 17 birth of jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer   

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 October - 17.   

1688  On this day in history birth of domenico Zipoli, composer   

1696  On this day in history birth of august III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen