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May 17 Deaths in History - May 17 Birthdays - May 17 Events
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May 17, 2004 Tony Randall, actor, TV's The Odd Couple, dies at 84 May 17, 1999 Henry Jones, actor, Phyllis, dies at 86 May 17, 1999 James Broughton, American Director May 17, 1996 Scott Evans Brayton, racing car driver, dies at 37 May 17, 1996 Willi Daume, olympic organiser, dies at 82 May 17, 1996 Willis Conover, broadcaster, dies at 75 May 17, 1995 Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer, dies at 72 May 17, 1994 Alain Cuny, [Rene X. Marie], French actor (La Dolce Vita), dies at 85 May 17, 1994 Andrew Brown, film Producer, dies at 55 May 17, 1994 Donald Keith Falkner, singer, dies at 94 May 17, 1994 Willian Noel Moffat, architect, dies at 82 May 17, 1993 Harry Elstrom, Danish/Belgian sculptor, dies at 86 May 17, 1992 George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87 May 17, 1992 Lawrence Welk, conductor/accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies at 89 May 17, 1992 Leonardo del Ferro, [Keyser], U.S. epic tenor, dies May 17, 1992 Warren Neal Boxer, dies of AIDS at 34 May 17, 1989 Robert Webber, actor (Nuts, Assassin, 10), dies at 74 May 17, 1987 Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88 May 17, 1985 Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas May 17, 1985 Hugh Burden, actor (Night of Laughing Dead), dies at 72 May 17, 1985 Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wizard of Oz), dies May 17, 1984 Gordon Sinclair, Canadian Journalist May 17, 1981 Hugo Freidhofer, composer, dies at 80 May 17, 1981 Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st U.S. woman free balloon pilot, dies May 17, 1980 Joseph M "Joop" Lucker, Dutch editor-in-chief (Volkskrant), dies at 65 May 17, 1978 John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd, speaker of house of commons, dies May 17, 1977 Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator May 17, 1974 Charles Braswell, actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49 May 17, 1973 Alexander J Kropholler, Dutch architect/writer, dies at 91 May 17, 1970 Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61 May 17, 1969 Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 80 May 17, 1967 John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 65 May 17, 1967 Nigel Martin Balchin, novelist, dies May 17, 1964 Otto V Kuusinen, President of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82 May 17, 1962 E. Franklin Frazier, American Sociologist May 17, 1961 French of Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81 May 17, 1961 Henri Gagnon, composer, dies at 74 May 17, 1957 Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer, dies at 54 May 17, 1955 Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer, dies at 75 May 17, 1953 Eric De Lamarter, composer, dies at 73 May 17, 1951 Karl Heinrich David, composer, dies at 66 May 17, 1950 Eduardo Fabini, composer, dies at 67 May 17, 1945 Jan van Geenen, resistance fighter, dies May 17, 1945 Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies May 17, 1943 Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65 May 17, 1935 Paul A Dukas, French composer/tutor of Messiaen (Velleda), dies at 69 May 17, 1934 Cass Gilbert, American Architect May 17, 1931 Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies May 17, 1931 Timothy Cole, wood engraver, dies May 17, 1930 Herbert David Croly, U.S. founder (New Republic), dies at 61 May 17, 1930 Herbert Croly, American Author May 17, 1926 Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies May 17, 1919 Bohumil Pazdirek, composer, dies at 80 May 17, 1916 Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer, dies at 68 May 17, 1914 Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914), dies at 79 May 17, 1892 Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72 May 17, 1889 William Roxby Beverly, artist, dies May 17, 1884 Louis Brassin, composer, dies at 43 May 17, 1883 Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies May 17, 1872 Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63 May 17, 1866 Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70 May 17, 1864 N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 May 17, 1851 Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 May 17, 1840 Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57 May 17, 1838 Charles-Maurice duke of Talleyrand-Perigord, French bishop, dies at 84 May 17, 1838 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat May 17, 1809 Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies May 17, 1796 Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89 May 17, 1729 Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies May 17, 1727 Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies May 17, 1695 Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies May 17, 1606 Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered May 17, 1591 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 May 17, 1575 Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68 May 17, 1510 Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 May 17, 1510 Sandro Botticelli, [Alessandro di Mariano del Filpepi], painter, dies May 17, 1050 Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies |