Died On May 17th
Discover the most famous people who died on May 17. The list includes people like Sandro Botticelli, John Jay, Lawrence Welk, John C. Breckinridge, Gunnar Myrdal. Famous personalities featured on this list, include political leaders, diplomats, empresses & queens and emperors & kings and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, France and many more countries.
John Deere07 February 1804, American
Founder of 'Deere & Company'
Sandro Botticelli1445 AD, Italian
Painter
Tony Randall26 February 1920, American
Actor
John Jay12 December 1745, American
First Chief Justice of the United States
Lawrence Welk11 March 1903, American
Frank Gorshin05 April 1933, American
Actor
John C. Breckinridge16 January 1821, American
Former Vice President of the United States
Gunnar Myrdal06 December 1898, Swedish
Economist
Paul Dukas01 October 1865, French
Composer
Gerald Edelman01 July 1929, American
Immunologist
Donna Summer31 December 1948, American
Singer-songwriter
Catherine I of Russia15 April 1684, Russian
Former Emperor of All Russia
Guy Clark06 November 1941, American
Musician
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord02 February 1754, French
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Jorge Rafael Videla02 August 1925, Argentinian
Politician
Herman Wouk27 May 1915, American
Writer
Ken Venturi15 May 1931, American
Golfer
Mario Benedetti14 September 1920, Uruguayan
Poet, Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Essayist
Cass Gilbert29 November 1859, American
architect, painter
Bruce Fairbairn30 December 1949, Canadian
Musician, Engineer, Audio engineer, Trumpeter,
Robert Maynard Hutchins17 January 1899, American
Educationist, University teacher
Mary, Queen of Hungary1371 AD, Hungarian, Polish
Queen regnant
Cy Feuer15 January 1911, American
Theatre producer
E. Franklin Frazier24 September 1894, American
American sociologist
Mary of Hungary1371 AD, Croatian
Queen
Ladislao Kubala10 June 1927, Spanish, Hungarian
Footballer
Alexis Clairault30 April 1713, French
French mathematician