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December 17 Deaths in History - December 17 Birthdays - December 17 Events
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December 17, 1999 "Grover Washington, Jr", jazz musician, Aria, dies at 56 December 17, 1999 Rex Allen, actor/voice, dies at 78 December 17, 1997 Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86 December 17, 1996 Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96 December 17, 1996 Francesco Siciliani, opera administrator, dies at 85 December 17, 1996 Irving Caesar, songwriter, dies at 101 December 17, 1996 Michael Saunders, barrister, dies at 22 December 17, 1996 Ruby Murray, singer, dies at 61 December 17, 1996 Stanko Todorov, PM of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies December 17, 1995 Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63 December 17, 1994 Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64 December 17, 1993 Frederik JW "Fried" Lowensteyn, Dutch lawyer/writer, dies at 71 December 17, 1993 Janet Margolin, U.S. actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer December 17, 1992 Dana Andrews, U.S. actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83 December 17, 1991 John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80 December 17, 1990 Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61 December 17, 1990 Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Neth actress (Pleasant Settled), dies at 79 December 17, 1987 Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87 December 17, 1987 Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84 December 17, 1986 Ron Kass, record co President (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer December 17, 1985 Otto Gotsche, writer, dies December 17, 1982 Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58 December 17, 1982 Philipp Jarnach, composer, dies at 90 December 17, 1975 Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67 December 17, 1975 Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86 December 17, 1973 Charles G Abbot, U.S. astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101 December 17, 1973 Patrick Hadley, composer, dies at 74 December 17, 1972 Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63 December 17, 1969 Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67 December 17, 1967 Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59 December 17, 1967 [Francis] Barry Byrne, Chicago, Illinois, architect, dies at 83 December 17, 1966 Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68 December 17, 1965 Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76 December 17, 1962 Thomas Mitchell, U.S., actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70 December 17, 1961 Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53 December 17, 1957 Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64 December 17, 1957 Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author December 17, 1956 Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48 December 17, 1949 David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72 December 17, 1948 Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68 December 17, 1946 Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84 December 17, 1944 Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26 December 17, 1944 Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies December 17, 1937 Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72 December 17, 1933 Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81 December 17, 1930 Peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36 December 17, 1926 Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer, dies at 70 December 17, 1916 Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated December 17, 1913 Stefano Gobatti, composer, dies at 61 December 17, 1907 Kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83 December 17, 1899 Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of British field marshal, dies in battle December 17, 1893 Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71 December 17, 1891 Msiri, king of Garanganja (Katanga), dies in battle December 17, 1891 Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle December 17, 1881 Lewis H Morgan, U.S. ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62 December 17, 1870 Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75 December 17, 1833 Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21 December 17, 1830 Simon Bolivar, president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Colombia December 17, 1829 Bernard Jumentier, composer, dies at 80 December 17, 1811 John Antes, composer, dies at 71 December 17, 1811 Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer, dies at 54 December 17, 1751 Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czech master builder, dies at 62 December 17, 1711 Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies December 17, 1679 Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies December 17, 1651 Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer, dies at 81 December 17, 1562 Adrian Willaert, Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82 December 17, 1471 Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, dies December 17, 1213 Jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53 December 17, 1195 Boudouin V, count of Hainault/Flanders (Boudouin VIII), dies December 17, 1187 Gregory VIII, [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies |