September 17 - Deaths

Deaths

• 456 – Remistus, Roman general of Visigothic origin
• 1179 – Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
• 1322 – Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
• 1422 – Constantine II of Bulgaria
• 1563 – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (b. 1526)
• 1574 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)
• 1575 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
• 1621 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
• 1630 – Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
• 1665 – Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
• 1676 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbateanmovement (b. 1626)
• 1679 – John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
• 1727 – Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
• 1762 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)
• 1771 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
• 1803 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)
• 1808 – Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
• 1836 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
• 1863 – Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
• 1873 – Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
• 1879 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
• 1894 – Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
• 1899 – Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
• 1904 – Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)
• 1907 – Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)
• 1908 – Henri Julien, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1852)
• 1908 – Thomas Selfridge, First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army (b. 1882)
• 1933 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
• 1936 – Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
• 1938 – Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
• 1946 – Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
• 1948 – Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (b. 1887)
• 1948 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (b. 1895)
• 1951 – Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
• 1966 – Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
• 1971 – Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader (b. 1937)
• 1972 – Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
• 1980 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
• 1982 – Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
• 1984 – Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1985 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)
• 1987 – Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
• 1991 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
• 1993 – Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (b. 1902)
• 1995 – Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
• 1996 – Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
• 1997 – Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
• 1998 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Frankie Vaughan, British singer (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Paula Yates, British TV personality (b. 1959)
• 2001 – Lou Dog, Sublime Mascot(b. UNK)
• 2003 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
• 2005 – Jacques Lacarrière, French writer (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (b. 1968)