Famous Deaths on 17 Jul

Famous Deaths on 17 Jul

1070 - Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
1453 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
1566 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
1571 - Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1588 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
1645 - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
1704 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
1709 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
1790 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
1791 - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
1793 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (b. 1768)
1794 - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
1845 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
1878 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
1879 - Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
1881 - Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
1885 - Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
1887 - Dorothea Dix, french social activist (b. 1802)
1893 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
1894 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
1894 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)
1907 - Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830)
1912 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
656 - Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.
924 - King Edward the Elder of England