October 17 - Deaths

Deaths

• 532 – Pope Boniface II
• 1174 – Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
• 1586 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle) (b. 1554)
• 1616 – John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)
• 1660 – Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
• 1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
• 1757 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
• 1776 – Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
• 1780 – William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
• 1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
• 1806 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader (b. 1758)
• 1836 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
• 1837 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer (b. 1778)
• 1849 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish musician and composer (b. 1810)
• 1868 – Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)
• 1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
• 1889 – Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
• 1910 – Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (b. 1819)
• 1931 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
• 1934 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
• 1937 – Joseph Bruce Ismay, Titanic survivor and managing director of the White Star Line (b. 1862)
• 1938 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German Marxist theoretician (b. 1854)
• 1943 – Stefan Starzyński, Polish politician (b. 1893)
• 1956 – Anne Crawford, British film actor (b. 1920)
• 1958 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
• 1958 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
• 1962 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (b. 1865)
• 1965 – John Barton King, Philadelphian cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1966 – Wieland Wagner, German stage director (b. 1917)
• 1967 – Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
• 1970 – Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
• 1970 – Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1972 – Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
• 1972 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
• 1972 – Billy Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
• 1973 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926)
• 1978 – Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
• 1979 – S. J. Perelman, American writer (b. 1904)
• 1979 – John Stuart, Scottish actor (b. 1898)
• 1981 – Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
• 1983 – Raymond Aron, French philosopher (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
• 1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1992 – Orestis Laskos, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage) (b. 1963)
• 1996 – Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (b. 1966)
• 1998 – Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Leo Nomellini, football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian rock musician and poet (b. 1964)
• 2001 – Jay Livingston, American songwriter (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftains) (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (b. 1906)
• 2004 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
• 2005 – Franky Gee, European techno artist (b. 1962)
• 2006 – Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Levi Stubbs, American baritone singer (Four Tops) (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Vic Mizzy, American composer (themes to Green Acres and The Addams Family) (b. 1916)