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Deaths on May 17

1050 : Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies
1510 : Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65
1510 : Sandro Botticelli, [Alessandro di Mariano del Filpepi], painter, dies
1575 : Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68
1591 : Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51
1606 : Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered
1695 : Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies
1727 : Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies
1729 : Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies
1796 : Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89
1809 : Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies
1838 : Charles-Maurice duke of Talleyrand-P‚rigord, French bishop, dies at 84
1840 : Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57
1851 : Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31
1864 : N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59
1866 : Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70
1872 : Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63
1883 : Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
1884 : Louis Brassin, composer, dies at 43
1889 : William Roxby Beverly, artist, dies
1892 : Gy”rgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72
1914 : Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914), dies at 79
1916 : Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer, dies at 68
1919 : Bohumil Pazdirek, composer, dies at 80
1920 : Maitland Hathorn, cricketer (325 runs in 12 Tests S Afr 1901-11), dies
1926 : Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies
1930 : Herbert David Croly, US founder (New Republic), dies at 61
1931 : Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies
1931 : Timothy Cole, wood engraver, dies
1935 : Paul A Dukas, French composer/tutor of Messiaen (Vell‚da), dies at 69
1943 : Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65
1945 : Jan van Geenen, resistance fighter, dies
1945 : Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies
1950 : Eduardo Fabini, composer, dies at 67
1951 : Karl Heinrich David, composer, dies at 66
1953 : Eric De Lamarter, composer, dies at 73
1955 : Alan Fairfax, cricketer (10 Tests for Australia 1928-31), dies
1955 : Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer, dies at 75
1955 : Leslie Hylton, cricketer (West Indies quickie 1939), hung for murder
1957 : Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer, dies at 54
1961 : French of Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81
1961 : Henri Gagnon, composer, dies at 74
1964 : Otto V Kuusinen, pres of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82
1967 : John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 65
1967 : Nigel Martin Balchin, novelist, dies
1969 : Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 80
1970 : Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61
1973 : Alexander J Kropholler, Dutch architect/writer, dies at 91
1974 : Charles Braswell, actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49
1978 : John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd, speaker of house of commons, dies
1980 : Joseph M "Joop" Lcker, Dutch editor-in-chief (Volkskrant), dies at 65
1981 : Hugo Freidhofer, composer, dies at 80
1981 : Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st US woman free balloon pilot, dies
1985 : Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas
1985 : Hugh Burden, actor (Night of Laughing Dead), dies at 72
1985 : Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wizard of Oz), dies
1987 : Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88
1989 : Robert Webber, actor (Nuts, Assassin, 10), dies at 74
1992 : George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87
1992 : Lawrence Welk, conductor/accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies at 89
1992 : Leonardo del Ferro, [Keyser], US epic tenor, dies
1992 : Warren Neal Boxer, dies of AIDS at 34
1993 : Harry Elstrím, Danish/Belgian sculptor, dies at 86
1994 : Alain Cuny, [Ren‚ X Marie], French actor (La Dolce Vita), dies at 85
1994 : Andrew Brown, film Producer, dies at 55
1994 : Donald Keith Falkner, singer, dies at 94
1994 : Willian Noel Moffat, architect, dies at 82
1995 : Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer, dies at 72
1996 : Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), dies
1996 : Scott Evans Brayton, racing car driver, dies at 37
1996 : Willi Daume, olympic organiser, dies at 82
1996 : Willis Conover, broadcaster, dies at 75

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