Historical Deaths for Yesterday

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - Apr 17

0485 Proclus, Greek mathematician, dies in Athens [or Apr 14]

0818 Bernhard I, King of Italy, dies

0858 Benedict III, Italian Pope (855-58), dies

1272 Zita/Cita, Italian maid/saint, dies at about 59

1297 Willem van Afflighem, Flemish poet/abbot St Truiden, dies at about 86

1427 Jan IV, duke of Brabant/Limburg/wife of Jacoba van Bayern, dies

1574 Joachim Camerarius, [Liebhard Kammerer], German philologist, dies

1630 Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (battle of White Mt), dies

1679 John van Kessel, Flemish painter, dies at 53

1711 Jozef I, [Habsburg], emperor of Germany (1705-11), dies at about 32

1714 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer, dies at 56

1726 Henri‰tte Amalia, ruler of Nassau-Dietz, dies at 49

1764 Johann Mattheson, German composer/musicologist, dies at 82

1790 Benjamin Franklin, US, (Poor Richards Almanac), dies at 84

1835 William Henry Ireland, forger (Shakespearean manuscripts), dies

1837 Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies

1838 J Schopenhauer, writer, dies at 71

1854 Gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74

1863 Daniel Smith Donelson, Conf gen/cousin of Andrew Jackson, dies at 61

1873 Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer, dies at 60

1890 John Barnett, composer, dies at 87

1891 Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer, dies at 77

1899 Hans Balatka, composer, dies at 74

1915 Johannes P Kelly, [Kellij], Dutch actor/operetta writer, dies at 60

1936 Charles J M Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch PM (1918-23, 29-33), dies

1944 J T Hearne, cricketer (took 49 wkts in 12 Tests for England), dies

1945 Hannie Schaft, "Girl with red hair," executed

1945 Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului), dies

1945 Walter Model, German fieldmarshal, commits suicide at 54

1946 John Iddon, cricketer (car accident 5 Tests for Eng 1934-35), dies

1948 Johan P earl of Limburg Stirum, diplomat, dies at 75

1948 Percy Sherwell, cricketer (S Afr captain in 13 Tests 1905-11), dies

1960 Eddie Cochran, rocker, dies at 21 in a car crash

1962 Louise Fazenda, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 66

1968 Margaret Seddon, dies at 95

1970 Sergei U S Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-Orthodox church, dies at 92

1971 Roberto Lupi, composer, dies at 62

1974 Frank McGee, Today show host, dies of cancer at 52

1974 Herbert Elwell, US composer (Happy Hypocrite), dies at 75

1974 Vinnie Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a drug overdose

1976 Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter, dies at 85

1977 Marjorie Gateson, actress (One Man's Family), dies at 86

1983 Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies

1983 Mark W Clark, US general (WW II), dies at 87

1983 Peter Potter, DJ (Peter Potter Show, Juke Box Jury), dies at 78

1985 Ilona Bodden, writer, dies

1986 Bessie Head, writer, dies

1987 Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36

1987 Dick Shawn, comedian (Producers), dies on stage at 57

1988 Eva Novak, actress (Medicine Man), dies of pneumonia at 90

1988 Louise Nevelson, sculptor, dies of brain tumor at 88

1989 Charles Lampkin, dies

1990 Ralph David Abernathy, US civil rights leader, dies

1991 Jack Yellen, US poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97

1992 Hank Penny, country music singer, dies at 73 of heart failure

1993 Turgut ™zal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65

1994 Peter Hacker, US journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69

1995 A R A (Anton) Murray, cricketer (289 runs & 11 wkts in 10 Tests), dies

1995 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator, dies at 88

1996 Eva Jones, poet/novelist, dies at 82

1996 Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher, dies at 86

1996 Michele Carew, daughter of baseball great Rod, dies of Leukemia at 18

1997 Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78

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