Notable Deaths on December 17th
December 17th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
535 |
Emperor Ankan of Japan (b. 466) |
695 |
Begga, ancestress of the Carolingians/saint, dies [or 693] |
1187 |
Gregory VIII, [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies |
1195 |
Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150) |
1213 |
Jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53 |
1273 |
Rumi (b.1207) |
1273 |
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi, Rumi: Poet of the Heart |
1471 |
Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, dies |
1562 |
Adrian Willaert, Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82 |
1651 |
Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer, dies at 81 |
1663 |
Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583) |
1679 |
Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies |
1711 |
Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies |
1721 |
Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640) |
1751 |
Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czech master builder, dies at 62 |
1811 |
John Antes, composer, dies at 71 |
1811 |
Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer, dies at 54 |
1829 |
Bernard Jumentier, composer, dies at 80 |
1830 |
Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary and president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Santa Marta, Colombia |
1833 |
Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21 |
1847 |
Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (b. 1791) |
1860 |
Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1777) |
1870 |
Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75 |
1881 |
Lewis H Morgan, US ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62 |
1881 |
Giulio Briccialdi, Wide Sargasso Sea |
1891 |
Msiri, ruler of the Garanganze Kingdom, Congo (Katanga), dies in battle against Belgian funded expedition |
1891 |
Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle against Msiri, ruler of Garanganze Kingdom in the Congo |
1893 |
Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71 |
1899 |
Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of Brit field marshal, dies in battle |
1907 |
Kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83 |
1909 |
King Leopold II, Funérailles solennelles de S.M. le roi Léopold II à Laeken et à Bruxelles |
1913 |
Stefano Gobatti, composer, dies at 61 |
1917 |
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (b. 1836) |
1917 |
Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (b. 1878) |
1918 |
Lionel Bradshaw, How Green Paid the Rent |
1921 |
Gabriela Zapolska, Die Warschauer Zitadelle |
1925 |
A N "Monkey" Hornby, cricketer (England capt at Oval 1882), dies |
1925 |
Paola Pezzaglia, La vendetta dello scemo |
1926 |
Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer, dies at 70 |
1929 |
Ted Wilde, The Kid Brother |
1929 |
Marian Tatarkiewicz, Dzieje grzechu |
1930 |
Peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36 |
1930 |
Peter Warlock, Voices |
1931 |
Alfredo Testoni, Il cardinale Lambertini |
1931 |
Frank Sylvester, Father's Bluff |
1933 |
Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81 |
1933 |
Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876) |
1937 |
Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72 |
1937 |
John W. Brunius, En lyckoriddare |
1937 |
Carl McBride, Gates of Happiness |
1938 |
Norman McNeil, Turning the Tables |
1939 |
Kaichi Yamamoto, Kokyo |
1940 |
Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860) |
1942 |
Coen Hissink, Levensschaduwen |
1943 |
Lotte Spira, Hermine und die sieben Aufrechten |
1943 |
Jean Worms, Le masque qui tombe |
1943 |
Netta Syrett, A Woman Rebels |
1944 |
Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26 |
1944 |
Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies |
1944 |
Robert Nichols, The Black Pirate |
1945 |
Claudia Craddock, A Lady's Profession |
1946 |
Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84 |
1946 |
Elvira Notari, Ritorna all'onda |
1946 |
Jennie Haggar, The Maid of Cefn Ydfa |
1947 |
Hamilkar Boskovic, Gricka vjestica |
1947 |
J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd, Over the Fence |
1947 |
Wayne Nunn, The Dancing Doll |
1948 |
Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68 |
1948 |
J.R. Lockwood, Yankee Doodle in Berlin |
1949 |
David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72 |
1950 |
A. Robins, Seeing Red |
1951 |
James J. Van Dyk, Top Secret |
1953 |
Steven Slesinger, Stagecoach to Denver |
1954 |
Olga Hellqvist, Kalle på Spången |
1954 |
Zofia Nalkowska, Granica |
1954 |
Bernard Randall, The Clarion Call |
1956 |
Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48 |
1956 |
Whitford Kane, Hide-Out |
1956 |
Shankarrao Vyas, Bhakta Dhruva |
1956 |
Eddie Acuff, The Petrified Forest |
1957 |
Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64 |
1957 |
Dorothy L. Sayers, Haunted Honeymoon |
1957 |
Buena Bent, Summer Lightning |
1957 |
Gil Doud, Saskatchewan |
1958 |
Charles Gross, Attack of the Crab Monsters |
1959 |
H.R. Hignett, Silent Evidence |
1961 |
Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53 |
1961 |
Denison Clift, What Would You Do? |
1962 |
Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70 |
1962 |
Thomas Mitchell, Gone with the Wind |
1963 |
Karen Stampe-Bendix, The Hostage |
1963 |
George Meader, On the Town |
1964 |
Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883) |
1965 |
Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76 |
1966 |
Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68 |
1967 |
Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59 |
1967 |
[Francis] Barry Byrne, Chicago Ill, architect, dies at 83 |
1967 |
Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896) |
1967 |
Scott Moore, The Struggle |
1967 |
Paul Knepler, Hannerl und ihre Liebhaber |
1967 |
Harold Holt, The Presidential Tour |
1969 |
Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67 |
1972 |
Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63 |
1973 |
Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101 |
1973 |
Patrick Hadley, composer, dies at 74 |
1975 |
Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67 |
1975 |
Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86 |
1975 |
[Theodore Roosevelt] Hound Dog Taylor, American Chicago blues guitarist and singer, dies of lung cancer at 60 |
1975 |
Noble Sissle, My Girl |
1977 |
Henry DeMond, Brideless Groom |
1977 |
Benny de Weill, Straßenserenade |
1978 |
Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934) |
1978 |
Gregorio Barrios, Campeón a la fuerza |
1979 |
Dorothy Crehan, None Are So Blind |
1979 |
Donald Marye, Alice's Restaurant |
1980 |
Grizelda Harvey, The Informer |
1981 |
Børge Ralov, Frøken Nitouche |
1981 |
Ada Kramm, Bernardas hus |
1981 |
Pepe Blanco, La chica del barrio |
1981 |
George Moon, Breath of Life |
1982 |
Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58 |
1982 |
Philipp Jarnach, composer, dies at 90 |
1982 |
Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889) |
1982 |
Vittorio Gorresio, Torino nei cent'anni |
1982 |
Big Joe Williams, Superbad |
1982 |
Eileen Molony, Outlook: Discovery and Experience |
1982 |
Léonide Kogan, My Night at Maud's |
1982 |
Leonard Christmas, Harlem Rides the Range |
1983 |
Erik Christensen, NHL player |
1983 |
Francisco Marín, Even Angels Eat Beans |
1983 |
Hal Pereira, Rear Window |
1983 |
Joe Massengale, Stir Crazy |
1984 |
Isa Pola, The Children Are Watching Us |
1984 |
Ella O'Neill, Flash Gordon |
1984 |
Cash Shockey, The Birth of a Nation |
1984 |
Tilly Perin-Bouwmeester, The Mark of the Beast |
1985 |
Otto Gotsche, writer, dies |
1985 |
Åke Whilney, Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown |
1985 |
Harry M. Leonard, The Day the Earth Stood Still |
1985 |
Kaarlo Kytö, Dynamite Girl |
1985 |
Maria von der Osten-Sacken, Toxi |
1985 |
Simone Paris, A Man and a Woman |
1985 |
Roger Torrey, The Plunderers |
1985 |
Peter Camlin, Witch or Wife |
1985 |
Armand Delmar, Flying Down to Rio |
1985 |
Albert Cavens, Cyrano de Bergerac |
1986 |
Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer |
1986 |
Boris Telegin, Rasteryaeva ulitsa |
1986 |
Oakley Haldeman, The Nightmare Before Christmas |
1986 |
Peter Beauvais, Ein Duft von Blumen |
1986 |
Alan Stern, Old Boyfriends |
1986 |
Stacy MacGregor, The Great Santini |
1986 |
Alfred Technik, Pavlínka |
1987 |
Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87 |
1987 |
Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84 |
1987 |
Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903) |
1987 |
Hans-Dieter Schlegel, Karbid und Sauerampfer |
1987 |
Irving Allen, Cromwell |
1987 |
Lia Corelli, Bitter Rice |
1987 |
Mrs. Nicholas M. Schenck, Mighty Manhattan, New York's Wonder City |
1987 |
Linda Wong, Easy Alice |
1987 |
Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de grâce |
1987 |
Rosaline Greene, Moments of Charm |
1987 |
Marion Sundh, 91:an Karlssons bravader |
1988 |
Jerry Hopper, The Private War of Major Benson |
1988 |
Paul Löwinger, Wiener Schnitzel |
1988 |
Jack McKenney, Under the Emerald Sea |
1989 |
Ellis Jackson, Down Melody Lane |
1989 |
Carolyn Moody, Emmerdale |
1989 |
Luciano Salce, White Collar Blues |
1989 |
Albert Wedemeyer, Universal Newsreel |
1989 |
Josephine Hill, Burnt Wings |
1989 |
Josephine Perrin, The Grapes of Wrath |
1990 |
Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61 |
1990 |
Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Neth actress (Pleasant Settled), dies at 79 |
1990 |
Don Draper, Caddyshack II |
1990 |
Mieke Verstraete, Beeldromance |
1991 |
John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80 |
1991 |
Frank Weatherwax, Sounder |
1991 |
Eszter Tamási, Die Straße nach Budapest |
1991 |
James Landis, The Sadist |
1992 |
Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83 |
1992 |
Gustav Opocenský, The Ear |
1992 |
Dana Andrews, The Best Years of Our Lives |
1993 |
Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer |
1993 |
Janet Margolin, Annie Hall |
1993 |
Bob Shepard, Episode dated 3 January 1955 |
1993 |
Samuel Jaegers, Battleground |
1993 |
Eddie Cruse, Roller Boogie |
1993 |
Gisèle Ansorge, Fantasmatic |
1993 |
Kathryn Hereford, A Patch of Blue |
1994 |
Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64 |
1994 |
Ella Hval, Hjem går vi ikke |
1994 |
Arline Blackburn, Annabelle Lee |
1994 |
Carlos Rigual, Point of No Return |
1995 |
Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63 |
1995 |
Olivette Thibault, Mon oncle Antoine |
1995 |
Lexie Bigham, Se7en |
1996 |
Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96 |
1996 |
Francesco Siciliani, opera administrator, dies at 85 |
1996 |
Irving Caesar, songwriter, dies at 101 |
1996 |
Michael Saunders, barrister, dies at 22 |
1996 |
Ruby Murray, singer, dies at 61 |
1996 |
Stanko Todorov, PM of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies |
1996 |
Ruby Murray, Brixham |
1996 |
Suryakantham, Gundamma Katha |
1996 |
Michael Arthofer, The Adventure of the Two-Faced Woman |
1996 |
Han Hsiang Li, The Love Eterne |
1996 |
Irving Caesar, Entrapment |
1996 |
Norman Florence, The Loaded Tourist |
1997 |
Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86 |
1997 |
R.V. Jones, How Hitler Lost the War |
1997 |
Peter Taylor, The Bridge on the River Kwai |
1997 |
F.W. Dustmann, Hyppolit, the Butler |
1997 |
Tony Ulasewicz, Watergate |
1997 |
Vera Valtonen, Onnellinen ministeri |
1998 |
András Mikó, Dzsamile |
1998 |
Moya Fenwick, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time |
1998 |
Allan D'Arcangelo, Heavy |
1998 |
Kevin Brennan, Get Carter |
1998 |
John Robert Lloyd, The Exorcist |
1999 |
Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943) |
1999 |
Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1920) |
1999 |
Rex Allen, Charlotte's Web |
1999 |
Joe Pearce, Dragonslayer |
1999 |
Roger Frison-Roche, Premier de cordée |
1999 |
Angelo Mercuriali, The Immigrant |
1999 |
François Dyrek, The Judge and the Assassin |
1999 |
Ryszard Raduszewski, Pan Szaraczek |
1999 |
Grover Washington Jr., Four Brothers |
1999 |
Joan Carr, Stolen Heaven |
1999 |
Warren Ball, The Corpse Grinders |
2000 |
Gérard Blain, The American Friend |
2000 |
Barney McNulty, Mrs. Santa Claus |
2001 |
Frédéric de Pasquale, The French Connection |
2001 |
Charles Vernon David Cypert, Seminole |
2001 |
Martha Mödl, The Merry Wives of Windsor |
2001 |
Mark Laneader, Killer Instinct |
2001 |
Al Lehman, The Missiles of October |
2001 |
Reinhard Michalke, Der Kurschatten |
2001 |
Aleksandr Volodin, Nastya |
2002 |
James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947) |
2002 |
Frederick Knott, Dial M for Murder |
2002 |
Asaideo Handige, Joymati |
2002 |
Blair Robertson, The Slime People |
2002 |
Imre Szabó, Anarchisták |
2002 |
Hank Luisetti, Campus Confessions |
2002 |
Edana Romney, Corridor of Mirrors |
2002 |
John Sherlock, Earthquake in Macedonia |
2002 |
Colin Clark, Rembrandt: The Bible |
2002 |
Uwe Belz, Berlin |
2002 |
James Hazeldine, Pink Floyd The Wall |
2002 |
Levon Khachatryan, Three from Prostokvashino |
2003 |
Brian Lee, father of Wikipedia user, James Lee (b. 1948) |
2003 |
Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925) |
2003 |
Otto Graham, NFL Quarterback, dies of a heart aneurysm at 82 |
2003 |
Basilio Franchina, The Fall of the Roman Empire |
2003 |
Pierre Daigneault, J.A. Martin photographe |
2003 |
Henry Cuesta, Big Band Days |
2003 |
Mary Ann Jackson, Pups Is Pups |
2003 |
Karol L. Zachar, Janosik |
2003 |
Christopher N. Seiter, Save the Tiger |
2003 |
Otto Graham, Super Bowl XXIX |
2003 |
Monica Doerr, The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship |
2003 |
Alan Tilvern, Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
2004 |
Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (b. 1931) |
2004 |
Héctor Collodoro, Yellow Flowers in the Window |
2004 |
Jerzy Groszang, Colonel Wolodyjowski |
2004 |
Dick Heckstall-Smith, Charlie's Angels |
2004 |
Dietrich Schwanitz, Campus |
2004 |
Janina Niedzwiecka, The Hourglass Sanatorium |
2004 |
Erich Auer, The Monastery's Hunter |
2004 |
Robert Taplett, Our Time in Hell: The Korean War |
2004 |
Jerzy Karaszkiewicz, A Trip Down the River |
2005 |
Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922) |
2005 |
Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (Sol) (b. 1929) |
2005 |
Trevor Duncan, Ed Wood |
2005 |
Jean Schlegel, Three Colors: Red |
2005 |
Jack Anderson, Episode #5.24 |
2005 |
Sándor Kocsis, Sellö a pecsétgyürün I |
2005 |
Marc Favreau, Le chapeau ou L'histoire d'un malentendu |
2005 |
Agnès Guillemot, Vivre Sa Vie |
2006 |
Larry Sherry, American baseball player (b. 1935) |
2006 |
Albert Hetterle, Das zweite Gleis |
2006 |
Kyôko Kishida, Woman in the Dunes |
2006 |
Larry Sherry, Strike Out |
2006 |
Esko Nikkari, The Man Without a Past |
2006 |
Don A. Ferris, Somebody Up There Should Stay There |
2006 |
William Wyrick, Our Time in Hell: The Korean War |
2006 |
Denis West Payton, Hold On: It's the Dave Clark Five |
2006 |
Gracie Hanneford, The Riding Hannefords |
2006 |
Timmie Rogers, Episode #3.29 |
2007 |
Don Chevrier, Outdoor World |
2007 |
Mel Leven, 101 Dalmatians |
2007 |
Joel Dorn, Play Misty for Me |
2007 |
Celestino Piatti, The Happy Owls |
2007 |
Jack Zander, Gnomes |
2008 |
Dave Smith, American baseball player (b. 1955) |
2008 |
Sammy Baugh, American football player, dies at 94 |
2008 |
Freddy Breck, German schlager singer, composer, record producer and news anchor (b. 1942) |
2008 |
Nasir P. Ramlee, Budak lapok |
2008 |
Willoughby Sharp, Police State |
2008 |
Dave Smith, 1990 MLB All-Star Game |
2008 |
Freddy Breck, Episode #1.3 |
2008 |
Paul Greco, American Reunion |
2008 |
Justin Levens, UFC 59: Reality Check |
2008 |
Sammy Baugh, King of the Texas Rangers |
2008 |
Francisco Casavella, Volverás |
2008 |
Raymond Trouard, La valse de l'adieu |
2008 |
Héctor Malamud, Highlander II: The Quickening |
2009 |
Chris Henry, American football player (b. 1983) |
2009 |
Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919) |
2009 |
Dan O'Bannon, Screenwriter, after a short illness (b.1943) |
2009 |
Dan O'Bannon, Alien |
2009 |
Bob Hamilton, Episode #2.3 |
2009 |
James Cairncross, Tom Jones |
2009 |
Chris Henry, Tennessee Titans vs. Denver Broncos |
2009 |
Alaina Reed-Hall, Cruel Intentions |
2009 |
Dusan Jaksic, Noc na Gornjaku |
2009 |
Peter Sandloff, Mädchen in Uniform |
2009 |
Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette |
2009 |
Erkki Pitkänen, Niskavuoren naiset |
2010 |
Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941) |
2010 |
Walt Dropo, American baseball player (b. 1923) |
2010 |
María Jesús Sansegundo, Episode dated 28 September 2004 |
2010 |
María Jesús San Segundo, Episode dated 9 June 2005 |
2010 |
Ruth Park, Playing Beatie Bow |
2010 |
Andrew Ardolino, A City of Shoulders and Noses |
2010 |
Lina Romay, Love Laughs at Andy Hardy |
2010 |
Don Van Vliet, The Big Lebowski |
2010 |
Marcel LeBon, Episode #1.3 |
2010 |
Martti Pennanen, One Man's War |
2010 |
Nikos Papatakis, Thanos and Despina |
2011 |
Kim Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) 1994-2011, dies of a suspected heart attack at 70 |
2011 |
Sérgio Britto, The Greatest Love of All |
2011 |
Cesária Évora, Underground |
2011 |
Joãozinho Trinta, Samba of the Creation of the World |
2011 |
Kim Jong-il, The Juche Idea |
2011 |
Eva Ekvall, Miss Universe 2001 |
2011 |
Krzysztof Szmagier, Zamknac za soba drzwi |
2012 |
Daniel K. Inouye, American politician, dies from respiratory complications at 88 |
2012 |
Jesse Hill, The Third Annual Black Achievement Awards |
2012 |
Tony Charlton, Today |
2012 |
Rudolf Rudin, Russkoe chudo |
2012 |
Frank Pastore, W 3sixty5 |
2012 |
Sándor Horváth, The Fifth Seal |
2012 |
Emma Style, Exam |
2012 |
Richie Dye, Road Trip |
2012 |
Daniel Inouye, The Ghost Front: December 1944 - March 1945 |
2012 |
Géza Galán, Magellán |
2013 |
Azean Irdawaty, Waris jari hantu |
2013 |
Gisela Richter-Rostalski, Geschwister |
2013 |
Tetsuro Kashibuchi, Spiral |
2013 |
Richard Heffner, This Film Is Not Yet Rated |
2014 |
Bill Phillips, Rain Man |
2014 |
Lowell Steward, Episode dated 24 February 2005 |
2014 |
Richard Hottelet, Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter |
2014 |
Fritz Rudolf Fries, Das Luftschiff |
2014 |
Ivan Vekic, Battle for Vukovar |
2014 |
Heinz Fabian, Aus dem Alltag in der DDR |
2015 |
Boston Marathon bombing survivor Kevin White dead at 37 |
2015 |
Motorcycle racer and Harley-Davidson guru Ray Price is dead at 78 |
2016 |
Howard Bingham, close friend and personal photographer of Muhammad Ali, dies aged 77 |
2016 |
Michael Nicholson, veteran TV war correspondent dies aged 79 |
2017 |
TV scientist Heinz Wolff dies aged 89 |
2017 |
CSX CEO Hunter Harrison Dies At Age 73 |
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