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.
Leopold II of Belgium09 April 1835, Belgian
Founder of Congo Free State
Kim Jong-il16 February 1941, North Korean
Former Supreme Leader of North Korea
Rumi30 September 1207, Afghan, Turkish
Great Poet
Jennifer Jones02 March 1919, American
Actress
Dana Andrews01 January 1909, American
Actor
Harold Holt05 August 1908, Australian
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Simon Bolivar24 July 1783, Venezuelan
Revolutionary & Military Leader
Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma12 December 1791, Austrian
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson09 June 1836, British
Mayor of Aldeburgh
Lord Kelvin26 June 1824, British
Mathematician, Physicist
Peter Warlock30 October 1894, British
Composer
Victor Francis Hess24 June 1883, American
Discoverer of Cosmic Rays
Queen Nzinga1583 AD, Angolan
17th Century Queen of Angola
Charles Greeley Abbot31 May 1872, American
Astrophysicist
Penny Marshall15 October 1943, American
Actress
Don Draper25 September 1929, American
Actor
Kaspar Hauser30 April 1812, German
Dorothy L. Sayers13 June 1893, British
Writer, Translator, Novelist, Playwright,
Henry Heimlich03 February 1920, American
Physician, University teacher
Désirée Clary08 November 1777, Swedish
Queen
Marguerite Yourcenar08 June 1903, Belgian, American
Novelist, Essayist
Adelaide of Italy0931 AD, French
Holy Roman Empress
Don Ellis25 July 1934, American
Composer, Bandleader, Conductor, Jazz musician,
Joey Smallwood24 December 1900, Canadian
Politician, Journalist, Writer, Trade unionist
Tom Wesselmann23 February 1931, American
Painter
Mehmet Shehu10 January 1913, Albanian
Politician
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier12 August 1737, French
Botanist, Pharmacist, Physician, Agronomist,
Leonid Kogan14 November 1924, Ukrainian
Violinist
Francis Beaufort27 May 1774, Irish
Hydrographer
Noble Sissle10 July 1889, American
American composer
Don Van Vliet15 January 1941, American
Alexander Meiklejohn01 February 1872, American
Philosopher
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Lewis Henry Morgan21 November 1818, American
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi30 September 1207, Afghan
Poet
Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama12 February 1876, Chinese, Tibetan
Dalai Lama
Cesária Évora27 August 1941, Cape Verdean
Cape Verdean singer
Jalal ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi30 September 1207