Famous Deaths on 17 Nov

Famous Deaths on 17 Nov

1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
1302 - St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256)
1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516)
1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
1665 - John Earle, English bishop
1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682)
1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
1796 - Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (b. 1729)
1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
1818 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King George III (b. 1744)
1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794)
1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1865 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813)
1897 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
1910 - Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado.
1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
1921 - Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist
1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
1955 - James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
1973 - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
1979 - John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull)
1980 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st Sufi master of Oveyssi order (b. 1916)
1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
1986 - Georges Besse, French automobile executive (b. 1927)
1987 - Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906)
1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
1995 - Alan Hull, English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne)
1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.539)
641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
885 - Queen Liutgard