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October 17 Deaths in History - October 17 Birthdays - October 17 Events
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October 17, 2000 Frederick Clarke, writer/publisher, Cinefantastique, dies at 51 October 17, 1998 Joan Hickson, actress, Miss Marple for the BBC, dies at 92 October 17, 1997 Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54 October 17, 1996 Berthold Goldschmidt, composer and conductor, dies at 93 October 17, 1996 Christopher Acland, musician, dies at 30 October 17, 1995 Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66 October 17, 1994 Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83 October 17, 1994 Bernard Caulfield, judge, dies at 80 October 17, 1994 Dmitri Cholodov, Russian journalist, murdered at 27 October 17, 1994 Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50 October 17, 1994 Rik van Bentum, painter/art director of Paradiso, dies at 57 October 17, 1993 Frank J Del Giudice, U.S. industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77 October 17, 1993 Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist, dies at 84 October 17, 1993 Wim van Dooren, theologist/humanist/philosopher, dies October 17, 1992 Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies October 17, 1991 J[ames] G Devlin, actor (No Surrender), dies at 84 October 17, 1991 Piet van Est, The Vuurbal, bicylist (7x Tour de France), dies October 17, 1991 Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer, dies of liver disease at 72 October 17, 1990 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64 October 17, 1984 Alberta Hunter, U.S. blues singer/composer, dies at 89 October 17, 1983 Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78 October 17, 1982 Peterus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist, dies at 47 October 17, 1981 David Guion, composer, dies at 88 October 17, 1979 John Stuart, actor (Number 17), dies at 81 October 17, 1979 Karel Reiner, composer, dies at 69 October 17, 1979 S J Perelman, U.S. humorist (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 75 October 17, 1978 Jean Amery, [Johannes Mayer], Austr writer (Mind's Limits), dies at 65 October 17, 1977 Robert C "Cal" Hubbard, U.S. baseball player/umpire, dies at 77 October 17, 1975 Vittorio Gui, Italian composer (Batture d'aspetto), dies at 90 October 17, 1974 Rene A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57 October 17, 1973 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet (Gott von Manhattan), dies at 47 October 17, 1967 Henry Pu Yi, last emperor of China, dies at 61 October 17, 1966 Soledad Jiminez, Spanish actor (Phantom ofthe Range), dies at 91 October 17, 1966 Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies October 17, 1963 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97 October 17, 1957 John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70 October 17, 1944 Pavel Haas, composer, dies at 45 October 17, 1941 John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies October 17, 1921 Katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45 October 17, 1920 Gerard Leman, Belgian general, dies October 17, 1917 Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59 October 17, 1910 Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91 October 17, 1910 William V Moody, U.S. poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies October 17, 1909 Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44 October 17, 1904 Nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32 October 17, 1897 Isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84 October 17, 1890 Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77 October 17, 1887 Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63 October 17, 1849 Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39 October 17, 1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58 October 17, 1825 Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71 October 17, 1806 Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies October 17, 1763 Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76 October 17, 1740 Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47 October 17, 1705 Ninon de L'Enclos, French Author October 17, 1702 Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies October 17, 1638 Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish painter, buried at about 63 October 17, 1586 Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 October 17, 1552 Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53 October 17, 1312 Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies October 17, 532 Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies |