September 17:: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)


• 1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)


• 1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria


• 1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier


• 1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)


• 1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)


• 1621 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)


• 1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)


• 1665 - Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)


• 1676 - Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b. 1626)


• 1679 - John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)


• 1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)


• 1762 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)


• 1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)


• 1803 - Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)


• 1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)


• 1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)


• 1863 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)


• 1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)


• 1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)


• 1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)


• 1899 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)


• 1907 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)


• 1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)


• 1936 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)


• 1938 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)


• 1946 - Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)


• 1951 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)


• 1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)


• 1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)


• 1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)


• 1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)


• 1982 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)


• 1984 - Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)


• 1985 - Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)


• 1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)


• 1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)


• 1993 - Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)


• 1994 - Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (b. 1902)


• 1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)


• 1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)


• 1998 - Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)


• 2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)


• 2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)


• 2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)


• 2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)


• 2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)