August 17 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1153 – Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne (b. 1130)
  • 1304 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
  • 1510 – Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462)
  • 1657 – Robert Blake, English admiral (b. 1599)
  • 1673 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
  • 1676 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621)
  • 1720 – Anne Dacier, French scholar (b. 1654)
  • 1723 – Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
  • 1768 – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
  • 1785 – Jonathan Trumbull, American politician (b. 1710)
  • 1786 – Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712)
  • 1834 – Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
  • 1838 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian librettist and poet (b. 1749)
  • 1850 – José de San Martín, Argentine general (b. 1778)
  • 1861 – Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician (b. 1806)
  • 1870 – Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician, and activist (b. 1818)
  • 1875 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827)
  • 1880 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer (b. 1810)
  • 1896 – Bridget Driscoll, English automobile fatality (b. 1852)
  • 1897 – William Jervois, English colonial administrator, 10th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1821)
  • 1901 – Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842)
  • 1903 – Hans Gude, Norwegian painter (b. 1825)
  • 1909 – Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1883)
  • 1918 – Moisei Uritsky, Russian activist and statesman (b. 1873)
  • 1920 – Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
  • 1924 – Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
  • 1925 – Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian-Romanian journalist and writer (b. 1848)
  • 1935 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American activist and writer (b. 1860)
  • 1935 – Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872)
  • 1940 – Billy Fiske, American pilot (b. 1911)
  • 1945 – Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919)
  • 1949 – Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist and politician (b. 1891)
  • 1954 – Billy Murray, American singer (b. 1877)
  • 1958 – Arthur Fox, American fencer (b. 1878)
  • 1962 – Peter Fechter, German murder victim (b. 1944)
  • 1964 – Happy Felsch, American baseball player (b. 1891)
  • 1969 – Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
  • 1970 – Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908)
  • 1971 – Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
  • 1971 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
  • 1973 – Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889)
  • 1973 – Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
  • 1973 – Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
  • 1976 – William Redfield, American actor (b. 1927)
  • 1979 – John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (b. 1907)
  • 1979 – Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909)
  • 1983 – Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (b. 1896)
  • 1987 – Rudolf Hess, German nazi politician (b. 1894)
  • 1987 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (b. 1929)
  • 1987 – Gary Chester, Italian drummer (b. 1924)
  • 1988 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani politician, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
  • 1988 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American politician (b. 1914)
  • 1988 – Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (b. 1935)
  • 1990 – Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
  • 1992 – Al Parker, American porn actor, director, and producer (b. 1952)
  • 1993 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
  • 1994 – Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver (b. 1901)
  • 1994 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
  • 1995 – Howard E. Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
  • 1995 – Ted Whitten, Australian footballer (b. 1933)
  • 1998 – Władysław Komar, Polish athlete (b. 1940)
  • 1998 – Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
  • 1998 – Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (b. 1950)
  • 2003 – Mazen Dana, Palestinian journalist (b. 1962)
  • 2004 – Thea Astley, Australian writer (b. 1925)
  • 2004 – Gérard Souzay, French singer (b. 1918)
  • 2005 – John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
  • 2006 – Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (b. 1929)
  • 2007 – Jos Brink, Dutch actor, producer, and author (b. 1942)
  • 2007 – Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (b. 1913)
  • 2007 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
  • 2008 – Franco Sensi, Italian businessman (b. 1926)
  • 2010 – Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th President of Italy (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – Aase Bjerkholt, Norwegian politician (b. 1915)
  • 2012 – Pál Bogár, Hungarian basketball player (b. 1927)
  • 2012 – Lou Martin, Irish pianist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1949)
  • 2012 – Shirley W. Palmer-Ball, American politician (b. 1930)
  • 2012 – Victor Poor, American engineer, developed the Datapoint 2200 (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – Patrick Ricard, French businessman (b. 1945)
  • 2012 – Willem G. van Maanen, Dutch journalist (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – John Lynch-Staunton, Canadian politician (b. 1930)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
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    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)