General Events and Observations of July 17

521: Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
656: Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.
924: King Edward the Elder of England
1070: Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
1453: John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
1531: Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
1566: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
1571: Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1588: Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
1645: Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
1704: Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
1709: Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
1787: Maria Magdalena Keverich, Ludwig van Beethoven's mother (b. 1744)
1790: Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
1791: Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
1793: Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (b. 1768)
1794: John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
1845: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
1878: Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
1881: Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
1885: Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
1887: Dorothea Dix, french social activist (b. 1802)
1893: Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
1894: Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)
1894: Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
1907: Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830)
1912: Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
1918: (N.S.) - Family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868)
1918: Grand Duchess Anastasia (b. 1901)
1918: Grand Duchess Maria (b. 1899)
1918: Grand Duchess Olga (b. 1895)
1918: Grand Duchess Tatiana (b. 1897)
1918: Tsarevich Alexei (b. 1904)
1918: Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna (b. 1872)
1928: Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (b. 1842)
1935: George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
1944: William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
1945: Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
1946: General Dragoljub Mihailovic, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (b. 1893)
1950: Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
1959: Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
1959: Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
1961: Ty Cobb, baseball player (b. 1886)
1967: John Coltrane, American musician (b. 1926)
1974: Dizzy Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (b. 1910)
1975: Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
1980: Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
1987: Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
1988: Bruiser Brody, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
1995: Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
1996: Chas Chandler, bass guitarist (The Animals), record producer and manager (b. 1938)
2001: Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
2003: David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
2003: Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
2004: Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
2005: Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
2005: Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (b. 1924)
2005: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (b. 1913)
2005: Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
2005: Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
2006: Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
2006: Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
2007: Júlio Redecker, Brazilian Politician (b. 1956)

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