17 November Deaths

November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

344 – Emperor Kang of Jin (b. 322)
375 – Valentinian I, Roman emperor (b. 321)
594 – Gregory of Tours, Roman bishop and saint (b. 538)
641 – Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
885 – Liutgard of Saxony (b. 845)
935 – Chen Jinfeng, empress of Min (b. 893)
935 – Wang Yanjun, emperor of Min (Ten Kingdoms)
1104 – Nikephoros Melissenos, Byzantine general (b. 1045)
1188 – Usama ibn Munqidh, Arab chronicler (b. 1095)
1231 – Elizabeth of Hungary (b. 1207)
1307 – Hethum II, King of Armenia (b. 1266)
1307 – Leo III, King of Armenia (b. 1289)
1326 – Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
1417 – Gazi Evrenos, Ottoman general (b. 1288)
1492 – Jami, Persian poet and saint (b. 1414)
1494 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher and author (b. 1463)
1525 – Eleanor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal (b. 1458)
1558 – Mary I of England (b. 1516)
1558 – Reginald Pole, English cardinal and academic (b. 1500)
1558 – Hugh Aston, English composer (b. 1485)
1562 – Antoine of Navarre (b. 1518)
1592 – John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese commander (b. 1542)
1624 – Jakob Böhme, German mystic (b. 1575)
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 – 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