Famous Deaths on 17 Aug

Famous Deaths on 17 Aug

1153 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)
1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1510 - Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462)
1657 - Robert Blake, British admiral (b. 1599)
1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621)
1720 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
1723 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
1786 - King Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712)
1834 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
1850 - Don José de San Martín, Argentine general (b. 1778)
1861 - Alcée Louis la Branche, American Politician (b. 1806)
1875 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827)
1880 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
1896 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality
1901 - Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842)
1903 - Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (b. 1825)
1918 - Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873)
1920 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1925 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848)
1940 - Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
1949 - Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (b. 1891)
1954 - Billy Murray, American recording artist (b. 1877)
1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (b. 1944)
1969 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1970 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (b. 1908)
1971 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1973 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
1973 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
1973 - Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889)
1979 - Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909)
1983 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1987 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (b. 1894)
1987 - Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (b. 1929)
1988 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
1988 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1914)
1988 - Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (b. 1935)
1990 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
1992 - Al Parker, American adult film actor (b. 1952)
1993 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
1994 - Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and team owner (NART; b. 1901)
1994 - Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
1995 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (b. 1933)
1995 - Howard Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
2004 - Thea Astley, Australian writer (b. 1925)
2004 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
2005 - John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
2007 - Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (b. 1913)
2007 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)