Notable Deaths on May 17th
May 17th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1050 |
Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies |
1189 |
Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159) |
1336 |
Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288) |
1365 |
Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328) |
1395 |
Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm |
1464 |
Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427) |
1510 |
Sandro Botticelli, Florentine Renaissance painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 |
1521 |
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478) |
1536 |
George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded after being tried and convicted for high treason and incest at 32 |
1575 |
Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68 |
1591 |
Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 |
1606 |
Forges Dimitri #1, Tsar of Russia (1605-06), murdered |
1626 |
Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570) |
1694 |
Johann Michael Bach, German composer, dies at 46 |
1695 |
Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies |
1727 |
Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies |
1729 |
Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies |
1765 |
Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713) |
1796 |
Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89 |
1797 |
Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719) |
1801 |
William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710) |
1807 |
John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745) |
1809 |
Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies |
1822 |
Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766) |
1829 |
John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) |
1838 |
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754) |
1838 |
René Caillé, French explorer (b. 1799) |
1839 |
Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757) |
1851 |
Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 |
1864 |
N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 |
1866 |
Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70 |
1868 |
Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834) |
1872 |
Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63 |
1875 |
John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821) |
1879 |
Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805) |
1883 |
Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies |
1884 |
Louis Brassin, composer, dies at 43 |
1886 |
John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer of agricultural equipment who founded Deere & Company, dies at 82 |
1888 |
Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820) |
1889 |
William Roxby Beverly, artist, dies |
1892 |
Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72 |
1913 |
Dwijendralal Roy, Mathru Bhoomi |
1914 |
Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914), dies at 79 |
1914 |
Antonio Grisanti, The Last Days of Pompeii |
1916 |
Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer, dies at 68 |
1916 |
Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862) |
1917 |
Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829) |
1918 |
William L. Abingdon, Manon Lescaut |
1919 |
Bohumil Pazdirek, composer, dies at 80 |
1919 |
Guido von List, German occult author (b. 1848) |
1920 |
Maitland Hathorn, cricketer (325 runs in 12 Tests S Afr 1901-11), dies |
1921 |
Hermin Haraszti, Nobody's Son |
1921 |
Karl Mantzius, Secret of the Pavillions |
1926 |
Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies |
1927 |
Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (b. 1884) |
1930 |
Herbert David Croly, US founder (New Republic), dies at 61 |
1931 |
Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies |
1931 |
Timothy Cole, wood engraver, dies |
1935 |
Paul Dukas, French composer (b. 1865) |
1935 |
Paul Dukas, The Sorcerer's Apprentice |
1936 |
Panagis Tsaldaris, twice Greek prime minister (b. 1868) |
1936 |
Ernest Glendinning, The Seventh Noon |
1936 |
Edwards Davis, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp |
1936 |
Milla Davenport, Daddy-Long-Legs |
1936 |
Ben Greet, Victory and Peace |
1938 |
Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (b. 1877) |
1939 |
Kempton Greene, Oh, You Uncle! |
1940 |
Lewis Schooler, Deceit |
1942 |
Solly Ward, The Wife's Birthday |
1943 |
Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65 |
1943 |
Montagu Love, The Adventures of Robin Hood |
1943 |
Edward McWade, Arsenic and Old Lace |
1944 |
Felix Basch, Patience |
1944 |
Milena Jesenska, Nu devant un fantôme |
1944 |
John Wahlbom, Munkbrogreven |
1945 |
Jan van Geenen, resistance fighter, dies |
1945 |
Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies |
1945 |
Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins, Pups Is Pups |
1945 |
David Clyde, The Scarlet Claw |
1945 |
Henry H. Knibbs, Tony Runs Wild |
1945 |
Shayle Gardner, St. Elmo |
1945 |
Hans Georg von Friedeburg, Triumph of the Will |
1947 |
George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869) |
1947 |
Seabiscuit, Seabiscuit: The Lost Documentary |
1947 |
Ben Taggart, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe |
1949 |
William J. Kelly, When My Ship Comes In |
1949 |
Béla Balázs, The 3 Penny Opera |
1950 |
Eduardo Fabini, composer, dies at 67 |
1950 |
Eduardo Fabini, A Useful Life |
1951 |
Karl Heinrich David, composer, dies at 66 |
1951 |
S. Sylvan Simon, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood |
1951 |
Aleksandr Kramov, Mashinist Ukhtomskiy |
1953 |
Eric De Lamarter, composer, dies at 73 |
1953 |
Howard Fogg, Rhapsody in Two Languages |
1953 |
Eric DeLamarter, Humoresque |
1953 |
Leon Xanrof, The Love Parade |
1954 |
Arthur Lucan, Vampire Over London |
1954 |
Ethel Hill, The Little Princess |
1955 |
Alan Fairfax, cricketer (10 Tests for Australia 1928-31), dies |
1955 |
Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer, dies at 75 |
1955 |
Leslie Hylton, cricketer (West Indies quickie 1939), hung for murder |
1955 |
Francesco Balilla Pratella, Terra madre |
1956 |
Edward J. Meagher, Through Thick and Thin |
1957 |
Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer, dies at 54 |
1957 |
Herb Allen, Hail the Chimp |
1957 |
Shalva Azmaiparashvili, Ukanaskneli djvarosnebi |
1958 |
F. Hugh Herbert, The Moon Is Blue |
1959 |
Marjorie Cantor, Eddie Cantor |
1959 |
Erzsi Antal, Garszonlakás kiadó |
1959 |
Jerry Unser, |
1959 |
George Albert Smith, A Kiss in the Tunnel |
1960 |
Jules Supervielle, Le voleur d'enfants |
1961 |
Frans van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81 |
1961 |
Henri Gagnon, composer, dies at 74 |
1961 |
Andrei Demidenko, Strogiy yunosha |
1963 |
John Wilce, physician and former head football coach at the Ohio State University (b. 1888) |
1964 |
Otto V Kuusinen, pres of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82 |
1964 |
Lord Brabazon of Tara, Episode #6.35 |
1966 |
Randolph Turpin, Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Randolph Turpin |
1967 |
John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 65 |
1967 |
Nigel Martin Balchin, novelist, dies |
1967 |
Paul E. Burns, Son of Paleface |
1969 |
Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 80 |
1970 |
Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61 |
1973 |
Alexander J Kropholler, Dutch architect/writer, dies at 91 |
1974 |
Charles Braswell, actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49 |
1974 |
Ernest Nash, German born archaeologist (b. 1898) |
1976 |
Hermann Warm, Vampyr |
1978 |
John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd, speaker of house of commons, dies |
1979 |
Jerzy Kotowski, Gapiszon na stacji |
1979 |
Donyale Luna, Fellini Satyricon |
1980 |
Gertrude Sutton, The Soul of a Heel |
1981 |
Hugo Freidhofer, composer, dies at 80 |
1981 |
Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st US woman free balloon pilot, dies |
1981 |
László Ferencz, Félelem |
1981 |
Tomiko Hattori, Enoken no songokû: songokû zenko-hen |
1981 |
Hugo Friedhofer, Casablanca |
1981 |
Ross Allen, Catching Trouble |
1982 |
Dixie Walker, Game 7 |
1982 |
Pjer Majhrovski, Stanbeno rjesenje broj... |
1983 |
Victor Halperin, White Zombie |
1983 |
Herbert Körbs, The Captain from Cologne |
1983 |
Valodia Tsuladze, Dzakhili |
1983 |
Edward C. Higgins, Night School |
1984 |
Elza Gomes, All Nudity Shall Be Punished |
1984 |
William Classen, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
1984 |
Vick Knight, It Happened on Fifth Avenue |
1984 |
Luigi Alfano, Escape from Alcatraz |
1984 |
Gordon Sinclair, Ma Murray & Gordon Sinclair |
1985 |
Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas |
1985 |
Hugh Burden, actor (Night of Laughing Dead), dies at 72 |
1985 |
Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer (b. 1910) |
1985 |
Rodolfo Lombardi, Nobody's Children |
1985 |
J. Brian, Little Boy Lust |
1985 |
Abe Burrows, Just Go with It |
1985 |
Hugh Burden, The Ruling Class |
1986 |
Robert Meadows, Overboard |
1986 |
John Gibson, The Young and the Restless |
1987 |
Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88 |
1987 |
Anna Kulawinska, Król Macius I |
1988 |
Frank Gallop, Episode #14.26 |
1988 |
Wiktor Buchwald, Warszawska premiera |
1988 |
Guy Glover, The Street |
1989 |
Geoff Brewer, Midnight Run |
1989 |
Roger Ammann, Fletch |
1989 |
Georgi Alurkov, Captive Flock |
1989 |
Michael Dyne, Oliver Twist |
1989 |
Ota Hofman, Lucie, postrach ulice |
1989 |
Walter Gross, One or the Other |
1990 |
William Bosche, Mars and Beyond |
1990 |
Carlos Riquelme, The Milagro Beanfield War |
1990 |
Bob Danvers Walker, Call Me Madam? |
1990 |
Frank Wright, Rising Tones Cross |
1990 |
Vivien R. Bretherton, Love Finds Andy Hardy |
1991 |
Göthe Grefbo, Summer with Monika |
1991 |
Junchao Jiang, Cheng feng po lang |
1991 |
Ilse Trautschold, Possession |
1991 |
Mario Panzeri, Walk on Water |
1992 |
George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87 |
1992 |
Lawrence Welk, conductor/accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies of pneumonia at 89 |
1992 |
Leonardo del Ferro, [Keyser], US epic tenor, dies |
1992 |
Warren Neal Boxer, dies of AIDS at 34 |
1992 |
J.D. Trop, Une fée... pas comme les autres |
1992 |
Astrid Marmstedt, Eva går ombord |
1992 |
Lawrence Welk, The Lawrence Welk Show |
1992 |
Arthur de Titta, The Sorrows of Satan |
1992 |
Frederick Heider, Till Autumn |
1992 |
Irving Rosenberg, Anatomy of a Murder |
1992 |
George Hurrell Sr., Rabbit Test |
1993 |
Joe Ploski, Li'l Abner |
1993 |
Robert Lapoujade, Un comédien sans paradoxe |
1993 |
Holger Eckert, Ulzana |
1994 |
Alain Cuny, [René X Marie], French actor (La Dolce Vita), dies at 85 |
1994 |
Andrew Brown, film Producer, dies at 55 |
1994 |
Donald Keith Falkner, singer, dies at 94 |
1994 |
Willian Noel Moffet, architect, dies at 82 |
1994 |
Jarmila Smejkalová, Friday Morning |
1994 |
Hélène Darly, Fille du peuple |
1995 |
Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer, dies at 72 |
1995 |
Annette Henley, Nightmare in Badham County |
1995 |
Hector 'Toe' Blake, |
1995 |
Shawn Nelson, Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story |
1995 |
Robert Sommerwerck, Kennedy |
1995 |
George Metkovich, Three Little Words |
1996 |
Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), dies |
1996 |
Scott Evans Brayton, racing car driver, dies at 37 |
1996 |
Willi Daume, olympic organiser, dies at 82 |
1996 |
Willis Conover, broadcaster, dies at 75 |
1996 |
Johnny "Guitar" Watson, musician, dies at 61 |
1996 |
Kevin Gilbert, American singer, composer and instrumentalist (b. 1966) |
1996 |
Nikolaus Utermöhlen, Georgette Meunier |
1996 |
Rita Gladunko, Chasy ostanovilis v polnoch |
1996 |
Gerald Tueber, Slap Shot |
1996 |
Willis Conover, Jazz at the Smithsonian: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers |
1996 |
Georg Hensel, Instinkt ist alles |
1996 |
Virgil Ross, Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie |
1996 |
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, Syriana |
1998 |
Ivan Butler, Big Bad Mouse |
1998 |
Andrzej Kierc, Karuzela |
1999 |
Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian record producer and musician (b. 1949) |
1999 |
Nat Dickerson, Arthur Godfrey and His Friends |
1999 |
James Broughton, The Pleasure Garden |
1999 |
Henry Jones, Vertigo |
2000 |
Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909) |
2000 |
Donald Coggan, Episode dated 16 June 1974 |
2000 |
Paul Nickell, The Crucible |
2000 |
Egil Lorck, Prosessen |
2001 |
Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist and physician (b. 1908) |
2001 |
Frank Slaughter, Doctors' Wives |
2001 |
Robert Knapp, Gunmen from Laredo |
2001 |
Frank Frezzo, FernGully: The Last Rainforest |
2001 |
Yossi Yadin, Lies My Father Told Me |
2001 |
Ikuma Dan, Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto |
2002 |
Dave Berg, American cartoonist (b. 1920) |
2002 |
Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (b. 1940) |
2002 |
Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-Spanish footballer (b. 1927) |
2002 |
Suzi Bass, My Cousin Vinny |
2002 |
Earl Hammond, The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus |
2002 |
Dave Berg, The Mad Magazine TV Special |
2002 |
Ladislao Kubala, Episode #1.1 |
2002 |
Norman Vaughan, Episode #3.10 |
2002 |
Joe Black, Yogi Berra |
2002 |
Marie Kenney, The Towering Inferno |
2002 |
Sharon Sheeley, American Graffiti |
2003 |
Frank "Pop" Ivy, American and Canadian football coach (b. 1916) |
2003 |
Pop Ivy, 1962 AFL Championship Game |
2003 |
Harold Loeb, The Magnolia Touch |
2003 |
Jørgen Fønss, Hjerter i slør |
2003 |
Edith Carlmar, Fools in the Mountains |
2003 |
Blair Davies, Connecticut State Police |
2003 |
Maurice McEndree, An Act of Terror |
2003 |
Gordon Salkilld, Close My Eyes |
2003 |
Helen Jones Carter, A Labyrinth of Time |
2003 |
Clarence Tripp, Kinsey's Paedophiles |
2004 |
Jørgen Nash, Danish artist (b. 1920) |
2004 |
Ezzedine Salim, leader of Iraqi Governing Council (b. 1943) |
2004 |
Gunnar Graps, Tam, gde nas net |
2004 |
Tony Randall, Pillow Talk |
2004 |
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, The Missing Link |
2004 |
Karl Kuhn, Expedition: Bismarck |
2004 |
Jørgen Nash, Det gåtfulla leendets kavalkad |
2004 |
Ruggero Romor, The Aerialist |
2004 |
Cathy Rosier, Le Samouraï |
2005 |
Frank Gorshin, American actor (b. 1934) |
2005 |
Jarmo Porola, Toivo Kärki, unta ja totta |
2005 |
Jukka Kajava, Pallo hallussa |
2005 |
Keith Miller, A Many Splintered Thing |
2005 |
Jean-Pierre Pincemin, C'est de l'art |
2005 |
Frank Gorshin, Twelve Monkeys |
2006 |
Cy Feuer, American playwright (b. 1911) |
2006 |
Eric Forth, British Member of Parliament (b. 1944) |
2006 |
Captain Nichola Goddard, Canadian soldier (b. 1980) |
2006 |
Eva Maria Bauer, Tauchmanöver |
2006 |
Wolf Flüs, Amphitryon |
2006 |
Cy Feuer, Angel and the Badman |
2006 |
John Miles, The Tattooed Stranger |
2006 |
Dan Q. Kennis, Satan's Sadists |
2007 |
Lloyd Alexander, author (b. 1924) |
2007 |
Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron |
2007 |
Devvy Davenport, Hollywood Varieties |
2007 |
Dietmar Pflegerl, Die Sternstunde des Josef Bieder |
2007 |
Toki Shiozawa, Dodes'ka-den |
2008 |
Wilfred Mellers, The Compleat Beatles |
2008 |
Sophan Sophiaan, Regret |
2008 |
Joseph Lebworth, Walk on the Wild Side |
2008 |
Page Hearn, 3-2-1 Penguins: The Cheating Scales of Bullamanka |
2008 |
Zélia Gattai, Anarquistas Graças a Deus |
2009 |
Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet (b. 1920) |
2009 |
Jung Seung-hye, South Korean film producer (b. 1965) |
2009 |
Petar Slabakov, Tsar i general |
2009 |
Roland Arblaster, Going Up? |
2009 |
Doris L. Rich, Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight |
2009 |
Octavia St. Laurent, Paris Is Burning |
2009 |
Mario Benedetti, The Dark Side of the Heart |
2009 |
Prakash Mehra, Sharaabi |
2009 |
Radek Hajda, Tracks |
2009 |
John Sliskovich, Brother's War |
2009 |
David Herbert Donald, Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided Part 1 - Ambition |
2009 |
Mitsuko Yorichika, Hideyoshi |
2010 |
Walasse Ting, Chinese/American painter (b. 1929) |
2010 |
Bob Breitbard, Best Boxers |
2010 |
Richard L. Gregory, Blind to Science |
2010 |
Bobbejaan Schoepen, The Eurovision Song Contest |
2010 |
Carla Zilbersmith, Leave Them Laughing |
2010 |
Walter Rodriguez, ¡Que buena vida! |
2011 |
Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (b. 1936) |
2011 |
Sean Dunphy, The Eurovision Song Contest |
2011 |
Ethan Marc, Taking Flight |
2011 |
Harmon Killebrew, Rocky Colavito vs. Harmon Killebrew |
2011 |
Silvia Solar, Cannibal Terror |
2011 |
Ewa Szumanska, Cala naprzód |
2011 |
Herbert F. Schubert, Das Mädchen seiner Träume |
2011 |
Dan-San Abbott, The Red Baron: Master of the Air |
2011 |
Thomas MacAnna, Ulysses |
2012 |
Donna Summer, American singer, dies from lung cancer at 63 |
2012 |
Donna Summer, American Hustle |
2012 |
France Clidat, Episode dated 13 November 1966 |
2012 |
Michael Rosenbaum, Ted Kennedy: The Last Brother |
2012 |
Warda, Ah ya liel ya zaman |
2012 |
Ron Shock, Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary |
2012 |
Peter Zwetkoff, Kassbach - Ein Portrait |
2013 |
Alan O'Day, American rocker, dies from brain cancer at 72 |
2013 |
Ken Venturi, American golfer and sports broadcaster, dies from multiple infections at 82 |
2013 |
Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinean dictator, dies from complications from a fall at 87 |
2013 |
Barbara Faulkner, Stowaway to the Moon |
2013 |
Harold Shapero, Appuis et suspensions |
2013 |
Guido Giambartolomei, Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory |
2013 |
Ken Venturi, Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open |
2013 |
Jerome Reehuis, De boezemvriend |
2013 |
Penne Hackforth-Jones, Mao's Last Dancer |
2013 |
Alan O'Day, Super 8 |
2013 |
Jorge Rafael Videla, Condor - les axes du mal |
2014 |
Shirlee Garner, Strange Compulsion |
2014 |
Valeriy Matveev, Monologue |
2014 |
David Abbott, |
2014 |
Hussien El Imam, Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story |
2014 |
Hans Jürgen Pohland, Cat and Mouse |
2014 |
Gerald Edelman, Life Beyond Earth |
2015 |
Lita de Lázzari, Episode dated 2 September 2002 |
2015 |
Judson Randolph, A Doctor's Story |
2015 |
Don Smoothey, Labour or Love |
2015 |
Claude Carliez, Moonraker |
2015 |
Yuriy Perov, Yolanta |
2017 |
Few Mourn as One of Britain's Most Evil Serial Killers, Ian Brady, Dies Aged 79 |
2017 |
Malta football icon Ronnie Cocks dies, aged 73 |
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