17 December Deaths

Published : 17 Dec 2017, 07:31

Jagoroniya Desk

December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 14 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).

Deaths

779 – Sturm, abbot of Fulda
908 – al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i, Abbasid vizier
908 – Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Abbasid prince and poet, anti-caliph for one day
942 – William I, duke of Normandy
1187 – Pope Gregory VIII (b. 1100)
1195 – Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
1273 – Rumi, Persian jurist, theologian, and poet (b. 1207)
1419 – William Gascoigne, Chief Justice of England
1471 – Infanta Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1397)
1562 – Eleonora di Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (b. 1522)
1645 – Nur Jahan, empress consort of the Mughal Empire (b. 1577)
1663 – Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
1721 – Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1640)
1830 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela (b. 1783)
1833 – Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (b. 1812)
1847 – Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (b. 1791)
1857 – Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (b. 1774)
1904 – William Shiels, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Victoria (b. 1848)
1907 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
1909 – Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
1917 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836)
1927 – Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892)
1928 – Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b. 1861)
1929 – Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
1930 – Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894)
1932 – Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867)
1933 – 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
1940 – Alicia Boole Stott, Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (b. 1860)
1942 – Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1895)
1947 – Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877)
1956 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (b. 1903)
1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
1962 – Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
1964 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
1967 – Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
1970 – Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1896)
1978 – Don Ellis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
1981 – Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903)
1982 – Homer S. Ferguson, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1889)
1986 – Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925)
1987 – Linda Wong, American porn actress (b. 1951)
1987 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-American author and poet (b. 1903)
1992 – Günther Anders, German journalist and philosopher (b. 1902)
1992 – Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
1999 – Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1920)
1999 – Grover Washington, Jr., American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1943)
1999 – C. Vann Woodward, American historian and academic (b. 1908)
2002 – K. W. Devanayagam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 10th Sri Lankan Minister of Justice (b. 1910)
2003 – Otto Graham, American football player and coach (b. 1921)
2004 – Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor (b. 1931)
2005 – Jack Anderson, American journalist and author (b. 1922)
2005 – Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (b. 1929)
2005 – Haljand Udam, Estonian orientalist and academic (d. 1936)
2006 – Larry Sherry, American baseball player and coach (b. 1935)
2008 – Sammy Baugh, American football player and coach (b. 1914)
2008 – Freddy Breck, German singer-songwriter, producer, and journalist (b. 1942)
2008 – Dave Smith, American baseball player and coach (b. 1955)
2009 – Chris Henry, American football player (b. 1983)
2009 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919)
2009 – Alaina Reed Hall, American actress (b. 1946)
2010 – Captain Beefheart, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2010 – Walt Dropo, American basketball and baseball player (b. 1923)
2010 – Ralph Coates, English footballer (b. 1946)
2011 – Eva Ekvall, Venezuelan journalist and author, Miss Venezuela 2000 (b. 1983)
2011 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean commander and politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea (b. 1941)
2012 – Richard Adams, Filipino-American activist (b. 1947)
2012 – James Gower, American priest and activist, co-founded the College of the Atlantic (b. 1922)
2012 – Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician (b. 1924)
2012 – Laurier LaPierre, Canadian historian, journalist, and politician (b. 1929)
2012 – Frank Pastore, American baseball player and radio host (b. 1957)
2013 – Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer (b. 1929)
2013 – Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)
2013 – Richard Heffner, American historian and television host (b. 1925)
2013 – Tetsurō Kashibuchi, Japanese drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1950)
2013 – Janet Rowley, American geneticist and biologist (b. 1925)
2013 – Conny van Rietschoten, Dutch sailor (b. 1926)
2014 – Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913)
2014 – Richard C. Hottelet, American journalist (b. 1917)
2014 – Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet and playwright (b. 1949)
2014 – Lowell Steward, American captain (b. 1919)
2014 – Ivan Vekić, Croatian colonel, lawyer, and politician, Croatian Minister of the Interior (b. 1938)
2015 – Hal Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
2015 – Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist and academic (b. 1920)
2015 – Michael Wyschogrod, German-American philosopher and theologian (b. 1928)
2016 – Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (b. 1922)
2016 – Henry Heimlich, American doctor (b. 1920)
2016 – Gordon Hunt, American voice director (b. 1929)

Source: wikipedia

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