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)