Famous Deaths In October - 17

0532  Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies on this day in history.   

1174  On October - 17 death of queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)   

1312  Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies on this day in history.   

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

1586  Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 on this day in history.   

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  On October - 17 death of thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)   

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

1757  On October - 17 death of rené Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)   

1763  On October - 17 arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76   

1776  Death of Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681) on October - 17.   

1780  Death of William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705) on this day in history.   

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

1806  Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies on October - 17.   

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

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

1837  On this day in history johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58   

1849  On this day in history frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39   

1868  Death of Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775) on this day in history.   

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  On October - 17 prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77   

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

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

1909  On October - 17 nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44   

1910  On this day in history julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91   

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

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

1921  On this day in history katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45   

1931  On this day in history death of alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)   

1934  Death of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852) on October - 17.   

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

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1253  Ivo of Kermartin, ]]) was born on this day in history.   

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

1577  Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith) was born on this day in history.   

1582  Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637) was born on October - 17.   

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

1626  On October - 17 birth of simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt)   

1688  Domenico Zipoli, composer was born on this day in history.   

1696  August III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen was born on this day in history.