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Deaths on December 17

xxxx : Bea, ancestress of the Carolingians/saint, dies [or 693]
1187 : Gregory VIII, [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies
1195 : Boudouin V, count of Hainault/Flanders (Boudouin VIII), dies
1213 : Jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53
1471 : Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, dies
1562 : Adrian Willaert, Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82
1651 : Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer, dies at 81
1679 : Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies
1711 : Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies
1751 : Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czech master builder, dies at 62
1811 : John Antes, composer, dies at 71
1811 : Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer, dies at 54
1829 : Bernard Jumentier, composer, dies at 80
1830 : Simon Bolivar, president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Colombia
1833 : Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21
1870 : Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75
1881 : Lewis H Morgan, US ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62
1891 : Msiri, king of Garanganja (Katanga), dies in battle
1891 : Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle
1893 : Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71
1899 : Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of Brit field marshal, dies in battle
1907 : Kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83
1913 : Stefano Gobatti, composer, dies at 61
1916 : Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated
1925 : A N "Monkey" Hornby, cricketer (England capt at Oval 1882), dies
1926 : Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer, dies at 70
1930 : Peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36
1933 : Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81
1937 : Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72
1944 : Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26
1944 : Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies
1946 : Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84
1948 : Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68
1949 : David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72
1956 : Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48
1957 : Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64
1961 : Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
1962 : Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70
1965 : Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76
1966 : Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68
1967 : Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59
1967 : [Francis] Barry Byrne, Chicago Ill, architect, dies at 83
1969 : Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67
1972 : Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63
1973 : Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101
1973 : Patrick Hadley, composer, dies at 74
1975 : Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67
1975 : Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86
1982 : Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58
1982 : Philipp Jarnach, composer, dies at 90
1985 : Otto Gotsche, writer, dies
1986 : Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer
1987 : Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87
1987 : Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84
1990 : Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61
1990 : Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Neth actress (Pleasant Settled), dies at 79
1991 : John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80
1992 : Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83
1993 : Frederik JW "Fried" L”wensteyn, Dutch lawyer/writer, dies at 71
1993 : Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer
1994 : Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64
1995 : Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63
1996 : Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96
1996 : Francesco Siciliani, opera administrator, dies at 85
1996 : Irving Caesar, songwriter, dies at 101
1996 : Michael Saunders, barrister, dies at 22
1996 : Ruby Murray, singer, dies at 61
1996 : Stanko Todorov, PM of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies
1997 : Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86

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