August 17th Deaths |
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August 17th, 2007 (August 17 2007) | Death | Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (born in 1913) | |
August 17th, 2007 (August 17 2007) | Death | Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (born in 1982) | |
August 17th, 2005 (August 17 2005) | Death | John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (born in 1934) | |
August 17th, 2004 (August 17 2004) | Death | Thea Astley, Australian writer (born in 1925) | |
August 17th, 2004 (August 17 2004) | Death | Gerard Souzay, French baritone (born in 1918) | |
August 17th, 1995 (August 17 1995) | Death | Howard Koch, American screenwriter (born in 1902) | |
August 17th, 1995 (August 17 1995) | Death | Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (born in 1933) | |
August 17th, 1994 (August 17 1994) | Death | Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and team owner (NART; born in 1901) | |
August 17th, 1994 (August 17 1994) | Death | Jack Sharkey, American boxer (born in 1902) | |
August 17th, 1993 (August 17 1993) | Death | Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (born in 1920) | |
August 17th, 1992 (August 17 1992) | Death | Al Parker, American adult film actor (born in 1952) | |
August 17th, 1990 (August 17 1990) | Death | Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (born in 1918) | |
August 17th, 1988 (August 17 1988) | Death | Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan (born in 1924) | |
August 17th, 1988 (August 17 1988) | Death | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (born in 1914) | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes |
August 17th, 1988 (August 17 1988) | Death | Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (born in 1935) | |
August 17th, 1987 (August 17 1987) | Death | Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (born in 1894) | Rudolf Hess Quotes |
August 17th, 1987 (August 17 1987) | Death | Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (born in 1929) | |
August 17th, 1983 (August 17 1983) | Death | Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (born in 1896) | Ira Gershwin Quotes |
August 17th, 1979 (August 17 1979) | Death | Vivian Vance, American actress (born in 1909) | |
August 17th, 1973 (August 17 1973) | Death | Jean Barraque, French composer (born in 1928) | |
August 17th, 1973 (August 17 1973) | Death | Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (born in 1939) | |
August 17th, 1973 (August 17 1973) | Death | Conrad Aiken, American author (born in 1889) | Conrad Aiken Quotes |
August 17th, 1971 (August 17 1971) | Death | Wilhelm List, German field marshal (born in 1880) | |
August 17th, 1970 (August 17 1970) | Death | Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (born in 1908) | |
August 17th, 1969 (August 17 1969) | Death | Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1888) | |
August 17th, 1962 (August 17 1962) | Death | Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (born in 1944) | |
August 17th, 1954 (August 17 1954) | Death | Billy Murray, American recording artist (born in 1877) | |
August 17th, 1949 (August 17 1949) | Death | Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (born in 1891) | |
August 17th, 1940 (August 17 1940) | Death | Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete (born in 1911) | |
August 17th, 1925 (August 17 1925) | Death | Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (born in 1848) | |
August 17th, 1920 (August 17 1920) | Death | Ray Chapman, American baseball player (born in 1891) | |
August 17th, 1918 (August 17 1918) | Death | Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (born in 1873) | |
August 17th, 1903 (August 17 1903) | Death | Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (born in 1825) | |
August 17th, 1901 (August 17 1901) | Death | Edmond Audran, French composer (born in 1842) | |
August 17th, 1896 (August 17 1896) | Death | Bridget Driscoll, world s first automobile fatality | |
August 17th, 1880 (August 17 1880) | Death | Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (born in 1810) | |
August 17th, 1875 (August 17 1875) | Death | Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (born in 1827) | |
August 17th, 1861 (August 17 1861) | Death | Alcee Louis la Branche, American Politician (born in 1806) | |
August 17th, 1850 (August 17 1850) | Death | Don Jose de San Martin, Argentine general (born in 1778) | Jose de San Martin Quotes |
August 17th, 1834 (August 17 1834) | Death | Husein Gradascevic, Bosnian rebel leader (born in 1802) | |
August 17th, 1786 (August 17 1786) | Death | King Frederick II of Prussia (born in 1712) | Frederick II of Prussia Quotes |
August 17th, 1785 (August 17 1785) | Death | Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (born in 1710) | |
August 17th, 1723 (August 17 1723) | Death | Joseph Bingham, English scholar (born in 1668) | |
August 17th, 1720 (August 17 1720) | Death | Anne Lefevre, French scholar (born in 1654) | |
August 17th, 1676 (August 17 1676) | Death | Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (born in 1621) | |
August 17th, 1673 (August 17 1673) | Death | Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (born in 1641) | |
August 17th, 1657 (August 17 1657) | Death | Robert Blake, British admiral (born in 1599) | |
August 17th, 1510 (August 17 1510) | Death | Edmund Dudley, English statesman (born in 1462) | |
August 17th, 1304 (August 17 1304) | Death | Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (born in 1243) | |
August 17th, 1153 (August 17 1153) | Death | Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (born in 1130) | |