Famous Deaths on 17th November 375 - Valentinian I The Great, Roman Co-Emperor and Ruler of Western Roman Empire (336-75), dies at 54 474 - Leo II, Byzantine Emperor (474), dies 594 - St Gregory of Tours, Frankisch bishop of Tours, dies at 55 641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593) 680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614) 885 - Queen Liutgard 1093 - Margaret, widow of Scottish king Malcolm III, dies 1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207) 1302 - St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256) 1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285) 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463) 1512 - Kempo Roeper, Frisian rebel, quartered 1558 - Reginald Pole, English cardinal/scholar/heretic, dies at 58 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518) Chronicler/Bishop Gregory of ToursChronicler/Bishop Gregory of Tours (594) 1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537) 1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542) 1608 - Adolf, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 22 1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594) 1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602) 1648 - Thomas Ford, composer, dies 1665 - John Earle, English bishop 1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634) 1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610) 1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653) 1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682) 1747 - Alain R Lesage, French author (Le diable boiteux), dies at 79 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of Newcastle, dies at 75 1770 - Gian Francesco de Majo, composer, dies at 38 1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710) 1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720) 1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738) Empress of Russia Catherine the GreatEmpress of Russia Catherine the Great (1796) 1796 - Catherine the Great [Catherine II], Empress of Russia (1762-96), dies of a stroke at 67 1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721) 1818 - Charlotte Sophia von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of England, dies 1826 - Louise Reichardt, composer, dies at 47 1848 - Jozef B Olim Cannaert, Flemish lawyer, dies 1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794) 1856 - William Knyvett, composer, dies at 77 1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771) 1862 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer, dies at 63 1865 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813) 1875 - Hilario Ascasubi, Argentina author (pampa, gauchos & indians), dies 1893 - Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, king of Bulgaria (1879-86), dies at 36 1897 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820) 1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847) 1905 - Adolf WAKF, duke of Nassau/grand duke of Luxembourg, dies at 88 1905 - Philip EFMCBLG, earl of Flanders, dies 1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817) Sculptor Auguste RodinSculptor Auguste Rodin (1917) 1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (Baiser, Thinker), dies at 77 1921 - John McLaren, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1912), dies 1921 - Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist 1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847) 1926 - Carl Ethan Akeley, American Naturalist(developed taxidermic process for museums), dies at 62) 1927 - Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44 1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865) 1929 - A F A Lilley, cricketer (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909), dies 1929 - Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician (punch card), dies at 69 1931 - Georgi Atanasov, composer, dies at 50 1931 - John P Lotsy, botanist/geneticist (Resumptio Genetics), dies at 64 1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861) 1937 - Jack Worrall, cricketer (Australian batsman 1885-99, 11 Tests), dies 1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864) 1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882) 1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879) 1941 - Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide 1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879) 1943 - Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer, dies at 74 1944 - A C MacLaren, cricketer (England batsman from turn of century), dies 1947 - Ricarda Huch, writer, dies at 83 1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890) 1955 - James Price Johnson, composer, dies at 64 1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913) 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer/pianist/conductor, dies at 72 1962 - Arthur Vining Davis, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57), dies at 95 in Miami 1968 - Wilhelm Lehmann, writer, dies at 86 1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911) 1970 - Naunton Wayne, actor (Dead of Night), dies at 69 1971 - Gladys Cooper, actress (Margaret-The Rogues), dies at 83 1971 - Jackie Cooper, actor (Peoples Choice), dies at 49 1971 - Melville Cooper, actor (Diane, Bundle of Joy), dies of cancer at 75 1973 - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878) 1974 - Clive Brook, actor/director (On Approval), dies at 87 1975 - Kay Johnson, actress (Real Glory, Of Human Bondage), dies at 70 1976 - Victor Alessandro, composer, dies at 60 1978 - Claude Dauphin, actor (Paris Precinct), dies at 75 1978 - James J Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champ (1926-8), dies at 80 1979 - John Glassock, bass (Jethro Tull), dies at 27 following heart surgery 1981 - Bob Eberly, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band), dies at 65 1982 - Bill Baldwin, announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 69 1982 - Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer, legally declared dead 1982 - Eduard Tubin, composer, dies at 77 1982 - Ruth Donnelly, comedienne, dies at 86 in NYC 1985 - Jimmy Ritz, actor (Ritz Brothers), dies of heart failure at 81 1986 - Alan Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian), dies at 71 1986 - Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered 1987 - Irene Wicker, singer/actress (Singing Lady), dies at 81 1988 - Sheilah Graham, gossip columnist, dies of heart failure at 84 1989 - Billy Lee, actor (Sons of Legion, Biscuit Eater), dies 1989 - Emerson Buckley, composer, dies at 73 1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960) Physicist Robert HofstadterPhysicist Robert Hofstadter (1990) 1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) 1991 - John Blatnik, (Rep-Minn, 1947-75), dies at 80 1991 - Kelly Jean Van Dyke-Nance, (Jerry Van Dykes daughter), suicide at 33 1991 - Paul Reid Roman, actor (Aviator, Blue Knight), dies of cancer at 55 1992 - Audre Lorde, St Croix feminist author (Black Unicorn), dies 1993 - Jthm de Vreeze, Dutch MP (KVP, 1956..77), dies at 80 1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926) 1994 - G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82 1995 - Alan Hull, singer/composer, dies at 50 1995 - Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng, dies at 66 1995 - John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist, dies at 88 1995 - Marguerite Young, writer, dies at 87 1995 - Peter John Welding, record producer, dies at 60 1996 - Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45 1996 - Johan Fleming Ramsland, broadcaster, dies at 54 1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920) 2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) 2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948) 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915) 2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946) 2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928) 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970) 2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941) 2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942) 2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929) 2006 - Flo Sandons, Italian singer (b. 1924) 2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928) 2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927) 2008 - Pete Newell, American basketball coach (b. 1915) 2008 - George Stephen Morrison, American admiral and father of The Doors lead singer Jim Morrison 2011 - Kurt Budke, American basketball coach (b. 1961) 2011 - Olin Branstetter, American businessman and politician (b. 1929) 2012 - Margaret Yorke, English crime fiction writer, dies at 88 2013 - Doris Lessing, Iranian-British novelist and Nobel laureate, dies at 94
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