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January 17 Deaths in History - January 17 Birthdays - January 17 Events
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January 17, 2005 Charlie Bell, Australian Businessman January 17, 2004 Noble Willingham, actor/teacher, ", Walker, Texas Ranger, ", dies at 72 January 17, 2004 Tom Wesselmann, American Artist January 17, 2003 Richard Crenna, actor, Rambo, dies at 75 January 17, 2001 Gregory Corso, American Poet January 17, 1998 Emil Sitka, actor (3 Stooges shorts), dies of stroke at 82 January 17, 1997 Andrea Fisher, artist, dies at 21 January 17, 1997 Asfa Wossen, [Amha Selassie], crown emperor of Ethiopia in exile, dies January 17, 1997 Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discovered Pluto in 1930, dies at 90 January 17, 1996 Barbara Charline Jordan, politician, dies at 59 January 17, 1996 Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist, dies at 83 January 17, 1996 Giles William Playfair, writer, dies at 85 January 17, 1996 John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83 January 17, 1996 Robert Covington, drummer/singer, dies at 54 January 17, 1995 Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82 January 17, 1995 Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54 January 17, 1994 Allan G Odell, Ad exec (Burma Shave), dies at 90 January 17, 1994 Chung Il Kwon, PM of S Korea (1964-70), dies January 17, 1994 Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor Sax Player, dies at 66 January 17, 1994 Han Jansen, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies at 61 January 17, 1994 Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77 January 17, 1994 Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/sax, dies at 84 January 17, 1993 Ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta), dies January 17, 1992 Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95 January 17, 1992 Charlie Ventura, jazz sax (Bop for the people), dies at 75 of cancer January 17, 1992 Dorothy Alison, actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm), dies January 17, 1991 Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, king of Norway (1957), dies January 17, 1990 Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies January 17, 1989 Sterling A Brown, U.S. poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87 January 17, 1983 Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian (Ring of Fire), shoots himself at 71 January 17, 1981 Bernard Lee, actor (M in James Bond Movies), dies at 73 January 17, 1980 Barbara Britton, actress (Pamela-Mr and Mrs. North), dies at 59 January 17, 1978 Don Ellis, American Musician January 17, 1977 Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st U.S. execution since 1967 January 17, 1976 Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta), dies in auto-accident January 17, 1973 Fred Essler, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 77 January 17, 1972 Rochelle Hudson, actress (That's My Boy), dies at 55 January 17, 1970 Billy Stewart, singer (I Do Love You), dies in auto-accident at 32 January 17, 1969 Grazyna Bacewicz, composer, dies at 59 January 17, 1968 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83 January 17, 1967 Evelyn Nesbit, actress (Redemption), dies at 82 January 17, 1967 Harold Edward Holt, Australian Politician January 17, 1966 Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50 January 17, 1964 Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57 January 17, 1964 T. H. White, Indian Writer January 17, 1964 Alexander Meiklejohn, English Philosopher January 17, 1964 Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist January 17, 1962 Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56 January 17, 1961 Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36 January 17, 1959 Abdul Aziz, cricket, dies at 17 struck by ball in fc match for Karachi January 17, 1955 J A Veraart, economist, dies at 68 January 17, 1955 Joannes A Veraart, Dut judge/MP, (Jews in Neth), dies at 68 January 17, 1952 Walter O "Spike" Briggs, owner (Det Tigers), dies at 74 January 17, 1946 Gottfried Rudinger, composer, dies at 59 January 17, 1942 Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61 January 17, 1941 Jose Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82 January 17, 1938 William H Pickering, astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79 January 17, 1933 Emily Murphy, Canadian Activist January 17, 1918 Julius Wellhausen, German Educator January 17, 1917 Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70 January 17, 1913 Carl Baermann, composer, dies at 73 January 17, 1911 Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88 January 17, 1910 Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies January 17, 1910 Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69 January 17, 1908 Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72 January 17, 1902 Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed January 17, 1901 Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87 January 17, 1893 Rutherford B Hayes, 19th U.S. President (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70 January 17, 1892 Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27 January 17, 1891 Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74 January 17, 1891 George Bancroft, American Historian January 17, 1890 Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85 January 17, 1889 Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56 January 17, 1886 Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51 January 17, 1874 Chang and Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, dies at 62 January 17, 1869 Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, dies at 55 January 17, 1863 E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73 January 17, 1856 Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41 January 17, 1856 John Eaton, American Politician January 17, 1847 Marie Louise, French Royalty January 17, 1833 James Ball Antyne, Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60 January 17, 1833 William Rush, Indians sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies January 17, 1830 W Waiblinger, writer, dies January 17, 1826 Juan Crisostomo Arriaga y Balzola, Spanish composer, dies at 19 January 17, 1823 Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36 January 17, 1820 Daniel W. Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73 January 17, 1805 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter, dies at 73 January 17, 1788 Alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37 January 17, 1781 Marie de Negre Dables, marquess, dies January 17, 1750 Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78 January 17, 1738 Jean-Francois Dandrieu, composer, dies January 17, 1702 Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies January 17, 1676 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73 January 17, 1661 Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed January 17, 1654 Paul Potter, Dutch painter, buried January 17, 1625 Nicolo Rubini, composer, dies at 50 January 17, 1620 Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary/writer (Peru), dies at about 59 January 17, 1617 Pieter C Bockenberg, Dutch historian, dies at 68 January 17, 1604 Santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61 January 17, 1273 Rumi, Afghani Poet January 17, 1229 Albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68 January 17, 1119 Boudouin VII Hapkin, count of Flanders, dies January 17, 1103 Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies January 17, 395 Theodosius I, the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49 |