Famous Deaths on 17 Oct

Famous Deaths on 17 Oct

1174 - Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
1586 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle) (b. 1554)
1616 - John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)
1660 - Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
1673 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
1776 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
1786 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
1806 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader (b. 1758)
1836 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer (b. 1778)
1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)
1868 - Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)
1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
1889 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
1910 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (b. 1819)
1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
1938 - Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (b. 1854)
1943 - Stefan Starzyński, Polish politician (b. 1893)
1956 - Anne Crawford, British film actor (b. 1920)
1958 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
1958 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
1962 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1963 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (b. 1865)
1965 - John Barton King, Philadelphian cricketer (b. 1873)
1966 - Wieland Wagner, German stage director (b. 1917)
1967 - Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
1970 - Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
1970 - Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
1972 - Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
1972 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (b. 1887)
1972 - Billy Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926)
1979 - John Stuart, Scottish actor (b. 1898)
1979 - S. J. Perelman, American writer (b. 1904)
1981 - Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
1983 - Raymond Aron, French philosopher (b. 1905)
1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (b. 1919)
1992 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
1992 - Orestis Laskos, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1908)
1993 - Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage) (b. 1963)
1996 - Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (b. 1966)
1998 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist
1998 - Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
1999 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (b. 1915)
2000 - Leo Nomellini, wrestler (b. 1924)
2001 - Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
2001 - Jay Livingston, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2002 - Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2002 - Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935)
2004 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (b. 1952)
2005 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
2005 - Franky Gee, European techno artist (b. 1962)
2006 - Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
2006 - Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (b. 1938)
2007 - Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (b. 1918)
2007 - Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (b. 1931)
532 - Pope Boniface II