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September 17 Deaths in History - September 17 Birthdays - September 17 Events
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September 17, 2004 Katharina Dalton, doctor/writer, coined the phrase pre-menstrual syndrome, PMS, dies at 88 September 17, 2002 Denys Fisher, inventor, created the Spirograph, dies at 84 September 17, 1999 Frankie Vaughan, singer/actor, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, dies at 71 September 17, 1997 Jan Peder Syse, PM of Norway (1989-90), dies September 17, 1997 John Seldon Whale, theologian, dies at 100 September 17, 1997 Red Skelton, comedian (Red Skelton Show), dies at 84 September 17, 1997 Red Skelton, comic, dies at 84 September 17, 1996 Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician, dies at 63 September 17, 1996 Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician September 17, 1995 Grady Sutton, actor (Come Blow Your Horn, Flying Blind), dies at 87 September 17, 1995 Yehuda Meir Getz, rabbi/soldier/religious leader, dies at 71 September 17, 1994 Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46 September 17, 1994 John DeLaFose, zydeco musician, dies at 55 September 17, 1994 Karl R Popper, philosopher (Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92 September 17, 1994 Paul Nicholas Young, architect, dies at 47 September 17, 1994 Karl Popper, Austrian Philosopher September 17, 1993 Christian Nyby, U.S. director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80 September 17, 1992 Feodor Chaliapin Jr, actor (King's Whore), dies after illness at 87 September 17, 1992 William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973), dies at 84 September 17, 1989 Jay Stewart, annoucer on Lets Make a Deal, commits suicide September 17, 1986 Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street), dies at 62 September 17, 1985 Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, dies by accident September 17, 1984 Richard Basehart, actor (Rage), dies following several strokes at 70 September 17, 1983 Humberto Madeiros, U.S. cardinal to Boston, dies at 67 September 17, 1980 Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan Pres, assassinated in Paraguay September 17, 1980 Katherine A Porter, U.S. author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90 September 17, 1979 Miloslav Kabelac, composer, dies at 71 September 17, 1973 Hugo Winterhalter, composer, dies at 63 September 17, 1972 Akim Tamiroff, actor (Hotel Paradisio, Lord Jim), dies at 72 September 17, 1966 Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), dies at 35 September 17, 1961 Adnan Menderes, PM of Turkey (1950-60), dies at 62 September 17, 1961 Simon Delmonte, actor and director (Bleke Bet), dies at 68 September 17, 1960 Jose Sancho Marraco, composer, dies at 81 September 17, 1959 Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director, dies at 39 September 17, 1958 Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi, dies at 70 September 17, 1958 Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist, dies at 71 September 17, 1957 John W. "John" Eisenloeffel, goldsmith, dies at 81 September 17, 1956 Mildred E "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, 1932 Olympics gold, dies at 42 September 17, 1953 Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature critic, dies at 80 September 17, 1953 Henry Holden Huss, composer, dies at 91 September 17, 1948 Andre Serot, colonel/commandant of French air force (WW II), dies September 17, 1948 Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator for Palestine, assassinated September 17, 1948 Lillian Brainthwaite, British actress (Man About the House), dies at 75 September 17, 1948 Ruth Benedict, anthropoligst, dies September 17, 1944 ... Kussin, German gen-maj/commanding Arnhem, dies in battle September 17, 1934 Edmund van der Straeten, composer, dies at 79 September 17, 1926 August Sauer, Austria literature historian, dies at 70 September 17, 1916 Seth Low, American Educator September 17, 1908 Thomas E Selfridge, earlier U.S. aviator, 1st to die in an air crash September 17, 1907 Ignaz Brull, composer, dies at 60 September 17, 1895 Auguste Toulet, Belgian balloonist, dies September 17, 1892 Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austrian, dies September 17, 1884 Louis Schubert, composer, dies at 56 September 17, 1879 Eugene Emmanuel Violletle-Duc, gothic archetect, dies September 17, 1877 William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, dies at 77 September 17, 1869 Peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus), dies September 17, 1868 Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies September 17, 1864 Walter Savage Landor, author, dies September 17, 1863 Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies September 17, 1863 Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet, dies September 17, 1863 Alfred de Vigny, French Poet September 17, 1862 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate brig-general, dies at 41 September 17, 1862 William Edwin Starke, Conf brig-gen, dies in battle at about 48 September 17, 1858 Dred Scott, U.S. slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies September 17, 1846 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer, dies at 84 September 17, 1839 Ethel Mary Dell, [Mrs G T Savage], romantic novelist, dies September 17, 1824 Giacomo Tritto, composer, dies at 91 September 17, 1823 Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76 September 17, 1820 Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 September 17, 1803 Franz Xaver Sussmayr, composer, dies September 17, 1771 Tobias George Smollett, novelist (Adv of Roderick Random), dies at 50 September 17, 1762 Francesco Xaverio Geminiani, composer, dies at 74 September 17, 1732 Josef Antonin Planicky, composer, dies at 40 September 17, 1702 Olof Rudbeck, composer, dies at 71 September 17, 1679 Juan Jose of Austrian, Spanish gen/gov of Netherlands, dies at 50 September 17, 1665 Philip IV, King of Spain (1621-55), dies September 17, 1652 Bonaventura Elsevier, book publisher/merchant, dies at about 69 September 17, 1604 Lucas Osiander, composer, dies at 69 September 17, 1575 Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss Clergyman September 17, 1574 Pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier/navigator, dies September 17, 1322 Robrecht III, of Bethune, Count of Flanders, dies September 17, 1312 Ferdinand V, king of Castilie/Leon, dies at 26 September 17, 1179 Hildegard van Bingen, mystic/composer (Ordo Virtutum), dies at 81 |