November 17 - Deaths

Deaths

• 344 – Emperor Kang of Jin (b. 322)
• 375 – Valentinian I, Roman emperor (b. 321)
• 474 – Leo II, Byzantine emperor (b. 467)
• 641 – Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
• 885 – Liutgard of Saxony (b. 845)
• 1104 – Nikephoros Melissenos, Byzantine general (b. 1045)
• 1231 – Elizabeth of Hungary (b. 1207)
• 1326 – Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
• 1492 – Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
• 1494 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
• 1558 – Mary I of England (b. 1516)
• 1558 – Reginald Pole, English archbishop (b. 1500)
• 1562 – Antoine of Navarre (b. 1518)
• 1592 – John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
• 1600 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese navy commander (b. 1542)
• 1632 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
• 1643 – Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, French marshal (b. 1602)
• 1648 – Thomas Ford, English composer (b. 1580)
• 1665 – John Earle, English bishop (b. 1601)
• 1668 – Joseph Alleine, English pastor and author (b. 1634)
• 1690 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier and politician (b. 1610)
• 1708 – Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
• 1713 – Abraham van Riebeeck, South African politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
• 1720 – Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682)
• 1747 – Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (b. 1668)
• 1768 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1693)
• 1776 – James Ferguson, English astronomer (b. 1710)
• 1780 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
• 1794 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
• 1796 – Catherine the Great, Russian wife of Peter III of Russia (b. 1729)
• 1808 – David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
• 1818 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1744)
• 1835 – Carle Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
• 1849 – Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (b. 1794)
• 1858 – Robert Owen, Welsh activist (b. 1771)
• 1865 – James McCune Smith, American physician and author (b. 1813)
• 1897 – George Hendric Houghton, American clergyman (b. 1820)
• 1902 – Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian (b. 1847)
• 1905 – Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
• 1910 – Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886)
• 1917 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
• 1922 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician (b. 1847)
• 1928 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (b. 1865)
• 1929 – Herman Hollerith, American businessman (b. 1860)
• 1936 – Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian singer (b. 1861)
• 1937 – Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
• 1938 – Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician, 20th Mayor of Split (b. 1864)
• 1940 – Eric Gill, English sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1940 – Robert Lane, Canadian soccer player (b. 1882)
• 1940 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
• 1947 – Victor Serge, Russian author and historian (b. 1890)
• 1954 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and columnist (b. 1899)
• 1955 – James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
• 1958 – Mort Cooper, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1959 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
• 1961 – Michael Rockefeller, American explorer (b. 1938)
• 1968 – Mervyn Peake, English poet, author, and illustrator (b. 1911)
• 1973 – Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (b. 1878)
• 1976 – Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1880)
• 1979 – John Glascock, English singer and bass player (Jethro Tull, The Gods, Toe Fat, Carmen, and Chicken Shack) (b. 1951)
• 1982 – Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer (b. 1959)
• 1982 – Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Georges Besse, French businessman (b. 1927)
• 1987 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (b. 1906)
• 1988 – Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American columnist (b. 1904)
• 1989 – Costabile Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
• 1989 – Mary Giatra Lemou, Greek actress (b. 1915)
• 1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1992 – Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American author, poet, and activist (b. 1934)
• 1993 – Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lindisfarne) (b. 1945)
• 1998 – Kea Bouman, Dutch tennis player (b. 1903)
• 1998 – Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 2001 – Michael Karoli, German guitarist and songwriter (Can) (b. 1948)
• 2002 – Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician, 1st Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Frank McCarthy, American painter (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Surjit Bindrakhia, Indian singer (b. 1962)
• 2003 – Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
• 2003 – Don Gibson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
• 2004 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
• 2006 – Ruth Brown, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
• 2008 – George Stephen Morrison, American admiral (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Pete Newell, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
• 2011 – Olin Branstetter, American businessman and politician (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Kurt Budke, American basketball coach (b. 1961)
• 2012 – Ponty Chadha, Indian businessman (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Armand Desmet, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Lea Gottlieb, Israeli fashion designer (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Arnaud Maggs, Canadian photographer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Freddy Schmidt, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Billy Scott, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Margaret Yorke, English author (b. 1924)