17 November Deaths

Published : 17 Nov 2016, 11:26

Jagoroniya Desk

November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 44 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).
344 – Emperor Kang of Jin (b. 322)
375 – Valentinian I, Roman emperor (b. 321)
474 – Leo II, Byzantine emperor (b. 467)
594 – Gregory of Tours, Roman bishop and saint (b. 538)
641 – Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
885 – Liutgard of Saxony (b. 845)
1104 – Nikephoros Melissenos, Byzantine general (b. 1045)
1231 – Elizabeth of Hungary (b. 1207)
1307 – Hethum II, King of Armenia (b. 1266)
1326 – Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
1492 – Jami, Persian poet and saint (b. 1414)
1494 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher and author (b. 1463)
1558 – Mary I of England (b. 1516)
1558 – Reginald Pole, English cardinal and academic (b. 1500)
1562 – Antoine of Navarre (b. 1518)
1592 – John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese commander (b. 1542)
1632 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
1643 – Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, French general (b. 1602)
1648 – Thomas Ford, English viol player, composer, and poet (b. 1580)
1665 – John Earle, English bishop (b. 1601)
1668 – Joseph Alleine, English pastor and author (b. 1634)
1690 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French general and politician (b. 1610)
1708 – Ludolf Bakhuizen, German-Dutch painter (b. 1631)
1713 – Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Indonesian merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
1747 – Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (b. 1668)
1768 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1693)
1776 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1710)
1780 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1720)
1796 – Catherine the Great, of Russia (b. 1729)
1808 – David Zeisberger, Czech-American pastor and missionary (b. 1721)
1812 – John Walter, English Insurance underwriter and founder of The Times newspaper (b. 1738/1739)
1818 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1744)
1835 – Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (b. 1758)
1865 – James McCune Smith, American physician and author (b. 1813)
1897 – George Hendric Houghton, American pastor and theologian (b. 1820)
1902 – Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (b. 1847)
1905 – Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
1910 – Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886)
1917 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1840)
1922 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1847)
1923 – Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (b. 1862)
1924 – Gregory VII of Constantinople (b. 1850)
1928 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (b. 1865)
1929 – Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman (b. 1860)
1932 – Charles W. Chesnutt, American lawyer, author, and activist (b. 1858)
1936 – Ernestine Schumann-Heink, German-American singer (b. 1861)
1937 – Jack Worrall, Australian footballer, cricketer, and coach (b. 1860)
1938 – Ante Trumbić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 20th Mayor of Split (b. 1864)
1940 – Eric Gill, English sculptor and typeface designer (b. 1882)
1940 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist and academic (b. 1879)
1947 – Victor Serge, Russian historian and author (b. 1890)
1954 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1899)
1955 – James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
1958 – Mort Cooper, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1959 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1887)
1968 – Mervyn Peake, English poet, author, and illustrator (b. 1911)
1971 – Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1898)
1971 – Gladys Cooper, English actress (b. 1888)
1973 – Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (b. 1878)
1976 – Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi scholar and politician (b. 1880)
1979 – John Glascock, English singer and bass player (b. 1951)
1982 – Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1905)
1986 – Georges Besse, French businessman (b. 1927)
1987 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (b. 1906)
1988 – Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, author, and journalist (b. 1904)
1989 – Costabile Farace, American criminal (b. 1960)
1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1992 – Audre Lorde, American poet, essayist, memoirist,and activist (b. 1934)
1993 – Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Premier of Quebec (b. 1926)
1995 – Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
1998 – Kea Bouman, Dutch tennis player (b. 1903)
1998 – Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2001 – Michael Karoli, German guitarist and songwriter (b. 1948)
2001 – Harrison A. Williams, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1919)
2002 – Abba Eban, South African-Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1915)
2002 – Frank McCarthy, American painter and illustrator (b. 1924)
2003 – Surjit Bindrakhia, Indian singer (b. 1962)
2003 – Arthur Conley, American-Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2004 – Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler and manager (b. 1970)
2004 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1941)
2005 – Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor and director (b. 1942)
2006 – Ruth Brown, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1928)
2006 – Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
2006 – Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (b. 1929)
2007 – Aarne Hermlin, Estonian chess player (b. 1940)
2008 – George Stephen Morrison, American admiral (b. 1919)
2008 – Pete Newell, American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)
2011 – Kurt Budke, American basketball player and coach (b. 1961)
2012 – Ponty Chadha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1957)
2012 – Armand Desmet, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
2012 – Lea Gottlieb, Hungarian-Israeli fashion designer, founded the Gottex Company (b. 1918)
2012 – Freddy Schmidt, American baseball player (b. 1916)
2012 – Billy Scott, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
2012 – Bal Thackeray, Indian cartoonist and politician (b. 1926)
2012 – Margaret Yorke, English author (b. 1924)
2013 – Zeke Bella, American baseball player (b. 1930)
2013 – Alfred Blake, English colonel and lawyer (b. 1915)
2013 – Syd Field, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1935)
2013 – Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
2013 – Alex Marques, Portuguese footballer (b. 1993)
2013 – Mary Nesbitt Wisham, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2014 – John T. Downey, American CIA agent and judge (b. 1930)
2014 – Bill Frenzel, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1928)
2014 – Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (b. 1940)
2014 – Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1922)
2015 – John Leahy, English lawyer and diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia (b. 1928)
2015 – Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, Iranian poet and songwriter (b. 1926)

Source:Wikipedia

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