Famous Deaths on 17 Dec

Famous Deaths on 17 Dec

1187 - Pope Gregory VIII
1195 - Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
1273 - Rumi (b.1207)
1663 - Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
1721 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
1830 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan-born libertator, six nations (b. 1783)
1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (b. 1812)
1847 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (b. 1791)
1860 - Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1777)
1907 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (b. 1824)
1909 - Léopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
1917 - Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (b. 1878)
1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (b. 1836)
1929 - Manuel Gomes da Costa, 96th Prime Minister of Portugal and 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
1933 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
1940 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)
1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer (b. 1893)
1962 - Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
1964 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
1967 - Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (b. 1908)
1967 - Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
1978 - Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)
1982 - Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
1987 - Linda Wong, American porn star (b. 1951)
1992 - Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
1999 - Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1920)
1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
2002 - James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947)
2003 - Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
2003 - Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
2004 - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (b. 1931)
2005 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
2005 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (Sol) (b. 1929)
2006 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (b. 1935)
535 - Emperor Ankan of Japan (b. 466)
942 - William Longsword