October 17 - Deaths

Deaths

• 33 – Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus ⟨b. 14 BC⟩
• 532 – Pope Boniface II
• 1174 – Petronilla of Aragon (b. 1135)
• 1575 – Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511)
• 1586 – Philip Sidney, English courtier and soldier (b. 1554)
• 1587 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
• 1616 – John Pitts, English scholar (b. 1560)
• 1660 – Adrian Scrope, English military officer (b. 1601)
• 1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician (b. 1630)
• 1757 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
• 1776 – Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
• 1780 – William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
• 1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter (b. 1723)
• 1806 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian military leader and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
• 1836 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
• 1837 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
• 1849 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
• 1868 – Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
• 1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
• 1889 – Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
• 1893 – Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, President of France (b. 1808)
• 1910 – Julia Ward Howe, American poet and abolitionist (b. 1819)
• 1928 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1931 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
• 1934 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1937 – J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman, survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1862)
• 1938 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German theoretician (b. 1854)
• 1943 – Stefan Starzyński, Polish economist and politician (b. 1893)
• 1956 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920)
• 1958 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
• 1958 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
• 1962 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (b. 1865)
• 1965 – Bart King, Filipino cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1966 – Sidney Hatch, American runner (b. 1883)
• 1966 – Wieland Wagner, German director (b. 1917)
• 1967 – Puyi, Chinese emperor of China (b. 1906)
• 1970 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian lawyer, journalist, and politician (b. 1921)
• 1970 – Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1972 – Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
• 1972 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
• 1972 – Billy Williams, American singer (The Charioteers) (b. 1910)
• 1973 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926)
• 1978 – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
• 1979 – S. J. Perelman, American author and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1979 – John Stuart, Scottish actor (b. 1898)
• 1981 – Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
• 1981 – Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
• 1983 – Raymond Aron, French philosopher (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
• 1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1992 – Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (Savatage) (b. 1963)
• 1996 – Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (b. 1966)
• 1997 – Larry Jennings, American magician (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
• 2001 – Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and pianist (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli general and politician (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Derek Bell, Irish pianist and songwriter (The Chieftains) (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (b. 1906)
• 2004 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Ba Jin, Chinese author (b. 1904)
• 2006 – Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Christopher Glenn, American journalist (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Joey Bishop, American actor (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Suzy Covey, American scholar (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Levi Stubbs, American singer and actor (Four Tops) (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Vic Mizzy, American composer (b. 1916)
• 2011 – Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
• 2012 – Frank Moore Cross, American scholar and academic (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Bandya Kakade, Indian footballer (b. 1945)
• 2012 – László Komár, Hungarian singer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress (b. 1952)