Famous Deaths on December 17, Who Died on December 17
Here is a list who died on December 17. Famous deaths for the 17th of December. See which celebrities, musicians, actors, historical figures, scientists and other famous people were died on December 17. Also you can find some answers for the following questions;
Famous people who died in December 17th?
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Who died on December 17?
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1187 | Pope Gregory VIII (b. 1100) |
| 1195 | Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150) |
| 1273 | Rumi, Persian jurist, theologian, and poet (b. 1207) |
| 1316 | Juan Fernández, bishop-elect of León |
| 1419 | William Gascoigne, Chief Justice of England |
| 1471 | Infanta Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1397) |
| 1559 | Irene di Spilimbergo, Italian Renaissance poet and painter (b. 1538) |
| 1562 | Eleonora di Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (b. 1522) |
| 1663 | Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583) |
| 1721 | Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1640) |
| 1830 | Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan general and politician, second President of Venezuela (b. 1783) |
| 1833 | Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (b. 1812?) |
| 1847 | Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (b. 1791) |
| 1857 | Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (b. 1774) |
| 1891 | José María Iglesias, Mexican politician and interim President (1876-1877) (b. 1823) |
| 1904 | William Shiels, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Victoria (b. 1848) |
| 1907 | William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824) |
| 1909 | Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835) |
| 1917 | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836) |
| 1927 | Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892) |
| 1928 | Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b. 1861) |
| 1929 | Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, tenth President of Portugal (b. 1863) |
| 1930 | Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894) |
| 1932 | Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867) |
| 1933 | 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876) |
| 1935 | Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet (b. 1856) |
| 1940 | Alicia Boole Stott, Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (b. 1860) |
| 1942 | Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1895) |
| 1947 | Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877) |
| 1956 | Eddie Acuff, American actor (b. 1903) |
| 1957 | Dorothy L. Sayers, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893) |
| 1962 | Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892) |
| 1964 | Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883) |
| 1967 | Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908) |
| 1970 | Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1896) |
| 1978 | Don Ellis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934) |
| 1981 | Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903) |
| 1982 | Homer S. Ferguson, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1889) |
| 1986 | Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925) |
| 1987 | Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (b. 1900) |
| 1992 | Günther Anders, German journalist and philosopher (b. 1902) |
| 1999 | Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1920) |
| 2002 | K. W. Devanayagam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, tenth Sri Lankan Minister of Justice (b. 1910) |
| 2003 | Otto Graham, American football player and coach (b. 1921) |
| 2004 | Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor (b. 1931) |
| 2005 | Jack Anderson, American journalist and author (b. 1922) |
| 2006 | Larry Sherry, American baseball player and coach (b. 1935) |
| 2008 | Sammy Baugh, American football player and coach (b. 1914) |
| 2009 | Chris Henry, American football player (b. 1983) |
| 2010 | Captain Beefheart, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941) |
| 2011 | Eva Ekvall, Venezuelan journalist and author, Miss Venezuela 2000 (b. 1983) |
| 2012 | Richard Adams, Filipino-American activist (b. 1947) |
| 2013 | Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer (b. 1929) |
| 2014 | Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913) |
| 2015 | Hal Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924) |
| 2016 | Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (b. 1922) |
| 2020 | Jeremy Bullock, English actor (b. 1945) |
| 779 | Sturm, abbot of Fulda |
| 942 | William I, duke of Normandy |
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