Died On December 17th
Discover the most famous people who died on December 17. The list includes people like Kim Jong-il, Rumi, Leopold II of Belgium, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Jennifer Jones. Famous personalities featured on this list, include political leaders, poets, physicists and mathematicians and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom and many more countries.
Kaspar Hauser
30 April 1812
German
Dorothy L. Sayers(Writer, Translator, Novelist, Playwright, Essayist, Poet)
13 June 1893
British
Henry Heimlich(Physician, University teacher)
03 February 1920
American
Désirée Clary(Queen)
08 November 1777
Swedish
Marguerite Yourcenar(Novelist, Essayist)
08 June 1903
Belgian,American
Adelaide of Italy(Holy Roman Empress)
0931 AD
French
Don Ellis(Composer, Bandleader, Conductor, Jazz musician, Film score composer)
25 July 1934
American
Tom Wesselmann(Painter)
23 February 1931
American
Joey Smallwood(Politician, Journalist, Writer, Trade unionist)
24 December 1900
Canadian
Mehmet Shehu(Politician)
10 January 1913
Albanian
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier(Botanist, Pharmacist, Physician, Agronomist, Nutritionist)
12 August 1737
French
Francis Beaufort(Hydrographer)
27 May 1774
Irish
Leonid Kogan(Violinist)
14 November 1924
Ukrainian
Noble Sissle(American composer)
10 July 1889
American
Alexander Meiklejohn(Philosopher)
01 February 1872
American
Don Van Vliet15 January 1941
American
Lewis Henry Morgan21 November 1818
American
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi(Poet)
30 September 1207
Afghan
Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama(Dalai Lama)
12 February 1876
Chinese,Tibetan
Cesária Évora(Cape Verdean singer)
27 August 1941
Cape Verdean
Jalal ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi30 September 1207