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Deaths on January 17

1103 : Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies
1119 : Boudouin VII Hapkin, count of Flanders, dies
1229 : Albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68
1604 : Santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61
1617 : Pieter C Bockenberg, Dutch historian, dies at 68
1620 : Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary/writer (Peru), dies at about 59
1625 : Nicolo Rubini, composer, dies at 50
1654 : Paul Potter, Dutch painter, buried
1661 : Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed
1676 : Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73
1702 : Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies [OS=Jan 6]
1738 : Jean-Francois Dandrieu, composer, dies
1750 : Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78
1781 : Marie de Negre Dables, marquess, dies
1788 : Alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37
1805 : Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter, dies at 73
1820 : Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73
1823 : Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36
1826 : Juan Cris¢stomo Arriaga y Balzola, Spanish composer, dies at 19
1830 : W Waiblinger, writer, dies
1833 : James Ball Antyne, Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60
1833 : William Rush, Indians sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies
1856 : Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41
1863 : E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73
1869 : Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, dies at 55
1874 : Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, dies at 62
1886 : Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51
1889 : Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56
1890 : Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85
1891 : Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74
1892 : Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27
1893 : Rutherford B Hayes, 19th US Pres (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70
1901 : Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87
1902 : Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed
1908 : Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72
1910 : Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies
1910 : Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69
1911 : Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88
1913 : Carl Baermann, composer, dies at 73
1917 : Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70
1933 : John Hodges, cricketer (6 wickets in Australia's 1st two Tests), dies
1938 : William H Pickering, astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79
1941 : Jos‚ Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82
1942 : Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61
1946 : Gottfried Rudinger, composer, dies at 59
1952 : Walter O "Spike" Briggs, owner (Det Tigers), dies at 74
1955 : J A Veraart, economist, dies at 68
1955 : Joannes A Veraart, Dut judge/MP, (Jews in Neth), dies at 68
1959 : Abdul Aziz, cricket, dies at 17 struck by ball in fc match for Karachi
1961 : Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36
1962 : Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56
1964 : Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57
1966 : Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50
1967 : Evelyn Nesbit, actress (Redemption), dies at 82
1968 : Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83
1969 : Grazyna Bacewicz, composer, dies at 59
1970 : Billy Stewart, singer (I Do Love You), dies in auto-accident at 32
1972 : Rochelle Hudson, actress (That's My Boy), dies at 55
1973 : Fred Essler, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 77
1976 : Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta), dies in auto-accident
1977 : Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st US execution since 1967
1980 : Barbara Britton, actress (Pamela-Mr & Mrs North), dies at 59
1981 : Bernard Lee, actor (M in James Bond Movies), dies at 73
1983 : Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian (Ring of Fire), shoots himself at 71
1989 : Sterling A Brown, US poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87
1990 : Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies
1991 : Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, king of Norway (1957), dies
1992 : Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95
1992 : Charlie Ventura, jazz sax (Bop for the people), dies at 75 of cancer
1992 : Dorothy Alison, actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm), dies
1993 : Ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta), dies
1994 : Allan G Odell, Ad exec (Burma Shave), dies at 90
1994 : Chung Il Kwon, PM of S Korea (1964-70), dies
1994 : Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor Sax Player, dies at 66
1994 : Han Jansen, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies at 61
1994 : Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77
1994 : Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/sax, dies at 84
1995 : Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82
1995 : Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54
1996 : Barbara Charline Jordan, politician, dies at 59
1996 : Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist, dies at 83
1996 : Giles William Playfair, writer, dies at 85
1996 : John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83
1996 : Robert Covington, drummer/singer, dies at 54
1997 : Andrea Fisher, artist, dies at 21
1997 : Asfa Wossen, [Amha Selassie], crown emperor of Ethiopia in exile, dies
1997 : Clyde William Tombaugh, discoverer (Pluto), dies at 90
1998 : Emil Sitka, actor (3 Stooges shorts), dies of stroke at 82

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