July 17 - Deaths

Deaths

• 521 – Magnus Felix Ennodius, Latin bishop and poet (b. 474)
• 656 – Uthman ibn Affan, Islamic 3rd caliph (b. 579)
• 924 – Edward the Elder, English king (b. 877)
• 1070 – Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
• 1453 – Dmitry Shemyaka, Russian prince
• 1453 – John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader (b. 1387)
• 1531 – Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
• 1566 – Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
• 1571 – Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
• 1588 – Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect and engineer (b. 1489)
• 1645 – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician (b. 1587)
• 1704 – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (b. 1657)
• 1709 – Robert Bolling, English-American planter and merchant (b. 1646)
• 1790 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1791 – Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian missionary (b. 1717)
• 1793 – Charlotte Corday, French murderer (b. 1768)
• 1794 – John Roebuck, English chemist (b. 1718)
• 1845 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
• 1878 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
• 1879 – Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
• 1881 – Jim Bridger, American mountain man and explorer (b. 1804)
• 1883 – Tu Duc, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1892)
• 1885 – Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
• 1887 – Dorothea Dix, American activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 – Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 – Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
• 1894 – Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)
• 1907 – Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830)
• 1912 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
• 1918 – Family of Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868)

• Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna (b. 1872)
• Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (b. 1895)
• Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna (b. 1897)
• Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (b. 1899)
• Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna (b. 1901)
• Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich (b. 1904)

• 1928 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (b. 1842)
• 1928 – Álvaro Obregón, Mexican politician, 39th President of Mexico (b. 1880)
• 1935 – George William Russell, Irish poet and artist (b. 1867)
• 1944 – William James Sidis, American mathematician (b. 1898)
• 1945 – Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1946 – Draža Mihailović, Yugoslav General (b. 1893)
• 1950 – Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
• 1950 – Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (b. 1885)
• 1959 – Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1915)
• 1959 – Eugene Meyer, American businessman and publisher (b. 1875)
• 1961 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player (b. 1886)
• 1967 – John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (Miles Davis Quintet) (b. 1926)
• 1974 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (b. 1910)
• 1975 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer (b. 1893)
• 1980 – Don "Red" Barry, American actor (b. 1912)
• 1980 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
• 1987 – Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
• 1988 – Bruiser Brody, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
• 1989 – Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)
• 1995 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
• 1996 – Victims of TWA Flight 800

• Michel Breistroff, French ice hockey player (b. 1971)
• Marcel Dadi, Tunisian-French guitarist (b. 1951)
• David Hogan, American composer (b. 1949)
• Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (b. 1948)
• Pam Lychner, American real estate agent and activist (b. 1959)

• 1996 – Chas Chandler, American bass player and producer (The Animals) (b. 1938)
• 2001 – Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
• 2003 – David Kelly, Welsh scientist (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Walter Zapp, Baltic German inventor (b. 1905)
• 2004 – Pat Roach, English wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Edward Heath, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Gavin Lambert, English screenwriter and author (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Sam Myers, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Júlio Redecker, Brazilian politician (b. 1956)
• 2008 – Larry Haines, American actor (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)
• 2011 – David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)
• 2012 – Ottorino Pietro Alberti, Italian archbishop (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Mrinal Gore, Indian politician and activist (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Forrest S. McCartney, American general (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Ms. Melodie, American rapper (b. 1964)
• 2012 – İlhan Mimaroğlu, Turkish-American composer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Morgan Paull, American actor (b. 1944)
• 2012 – William Raspberry, American journalist (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Marsha Singh, English politician (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Wahengbam Nipamacha Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930)
• 2012 – William L. Wainwright, American politician (b. 1947)