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August 17 Deaths in History - August 17 Birthdays - August 17 Events
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August 17, 2004 Carl Mydans, photographer, Life, dies at 97 August 17, 1998 James Patrick Murray, American Journalist August 17, 1996 Edward Digby Baltzell, Ivy League sociologist, dies at 80 August 17, 1995 David Warrilow, actor (Simon, Radio Days, Barton Fink), dies at 60 August 17, 1995 Howard Koch, screenwriter, dies at 92 August 17, 1995 Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner, dies at 90 August 17, 1995 William Strethan "Wild Bill" Davis, musician, dies at 76 August 17, 1994 Elias Canetti, buried next to James Joyce August 17, 1994 Joseph Paul Jack Sharkey Zukauskas, boxer, dies at 91 August 17, 1993 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72 August 17, 1993 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator, dies at 72 August 17, 1993 Robert C Maynard, CEO (Oakland Tribune), dies at 56 August 17, 1992 Andre de Villiers, South African, murdered August 17, 1992 Barbara Morgan, photographer (Martha Graham), dies at 92 August 17, 1992 Tommy Nutter, fashion designer (bell bottom pants), dies of AIDs at 49 August 17, 1991 Don Dubbins, actor (Enchanted Island, DI), dies at 63 August 17, 1991 Leo Geerts, [Marcel van der Linden], Belgian writer/critic, dies August 17, 1991 Mervyn Nelson, director (Some of My Best Friends Are...), dies at 76 August 17, 1990 Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack at 72 August 17, 1990 Roderick Cook, actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58 August 17, 1988 Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday August 17, 1988 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1978-88), dies at 63 August 17, 1988 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1978-88), dies in crash at 64 August 17, 1988 Victoria Shaw, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Westworld), dies August 17, 1987 Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, dies at 84 August 17, 1987 Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93 August 17, 1984 Holly Roffey, youngest heart transplant, dies at 4 weeks August 17, 1983 Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills at 86 August 17, 1982 Barney Phillips, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at 68 August 17, 1982 Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb August 17, 1981 Robert Russell Bennett, U.S. composer/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 87 August 17, 1979 Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), diesof cancer at 67 August 17, 1976 Murvyn Vye, actor (Road to Bali, Escape to Burma), dies at 63 August 17, 1976 William Redfield, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop), dies at 48 August 17, 1975 Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80 August 17, 1975 Vladimir Kutz, Russian distance runner (Olympic-gold-56) dies at 48 August 17, 1974 Aldo Palazzeschi, [Giurlani], Italian writer, dies at 89 August 17, 1974 Edgar Dearing, actor (Free and Easy, Abraham Lincoln), dies at 81 August 17, 1973 Conrad Aiken, U.S. poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74 August 17, 1973 Jean Barraque, French composer, dies at 45 August 17, 1973 Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations), commits suicide at 32 August 17, 1972 Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76 August 17, 1972 Wampilow, writer, dies August 17, 1971 Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64 August 17, 1969 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect (November Group), dies at 83 August 17, 1969 Philip Blaiberg, after 19 days with artificial heart, dies August 17, 1966 Michael Garrison, producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43 August 17, 1963 Richard Barthelmess, actor (Heroes for Sales), dies of cancer at 68 August 17, 1961 Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer, dies at 76 August 17, 1958 Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87 August 17, 1955 Fernand Leger, French painter (Grand Parade), dies August 17, 1954 Billy Murray, singer (Denver Nightengale), dies at 77 August 17, 1953 Johannes B Tielrooy, literature (French Living Lesson), dies at 66 August 17, 1948 Nico J Polak, Dutch economist, dies at 60 August 17, 1945 Gino Marinuzzi, composer, dies at 61 August 17, 1945 Pater Bleijs, [Louis], resistance fighter, dies in car accident August 17, 1936 Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery and Foules), dies at 36 August 17, 1927 Horace Alderman, U.S., murderer, hanged August 17, 1924 Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26 August 17, 1920 Ray Chapman, hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch, dies August 17, 1914 James Grierson, British general August 17, 1909 Richard Hoffman, composer, dies at 78 August 17, 1901 Edmond Audran, composer, dies at 61 August 17, 1898 Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer, dies at 56 August 17, 1896 Bridget Driscoll, 1st British to die in an auto-accident August 17, 1893 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 August 17, 1889 Ernst Franck, German composer and conductor, dies at 42 August 17, 1888 James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies August 17, 1887 Franz Commer, composer, dies at 74 August 17, 1880 Ole Bull, composer, dies at 70 August 17, 1878 Richard Upjohn, U.S. architect, died August 17, 1868 Duncan Forbes, British Writer August 17, 1865 Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer, dies at 82 August 17, 1865 Mosby Munroe Parsons, U.S. Confederate gen-maj, dies in battle August 17, 1850 Jose Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies August 17, 1804 Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in U.S., dies August 17, 1792 Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer, dies at 38 August 17, 1786 Frederik II, king of Prussia (1740-86)/composer, dies at 74 August 17, 1785 Jonathan Trumbull, U.S. patriot, dies August 17, 1777 Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer, dies at 54 August 17, 1731 Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer, dies at 57 August 17, 1730 Mauritius Vogt, composer, dies at 61 August 17, 1681 Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 76 August 17, 1676 Grimmelshausen, writer, dies August 17, 1635 Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna, dies at 48 August 17, 1553 Charles III, Duke of Savoy, dies August 17, 1536 Pietersz, book publisher (Kersten Knight - on Index), dies August 17, 1510 Edmund Dudley, English treasurer, beheaded August 17, 1510 Richard Empson, English treasurer, beheaded August 17, 1464 Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies August 17, 754 Karloman, abbot of Monte cassino, dies at >39 |