December 17 - Deaths

Deaths

• 535 – Emperor Ankan of Japan (b. 466)
• 942 – William Longsword, 2nd Duke of Normandy (b. 893)
• 1187 – Pope Gregory VIII
• 1195 – Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
• 1273 – Rumi (b. 1207)
• 1663 – Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
• 1721 – Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
• 1830 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan military leader (b. 1783)
• 1833 – Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (b. 1812)
• 1847 – Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (b. 1791)
• 1860 – Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1777)
• 1907 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (b. 1824)
• 1909 – Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
• 1917 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (b. 1836)
• 1917 – Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (b. 1878)
• 1925 – George Gibb, British transport administrator (b. 1850)
• 1927 – Rajendra Lahiri, Indian British anti-occupation activist (b. 1892)
• 1929 – Manuel Gomes da Costa, Portuguese politician (b. 1863)
• 1930 – Peter Warlock, Anglo-Welsh composer (b. 1894)
• 1932 – Charles Winckler, Danish athlete (b. 1867)
• 1933 – Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
• 1940 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)
• 1947 – Christos Tsigiridis, Greek electrical engineer and technological pioneer (b. 1877)
• 1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer (b. 1893)
• 1962 – Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1962 – André-Philippe Gagnon, Canadian comedian
• 1964 – Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
• 1967 – Harold Holt, Australian politician (b. 1908)
• 1967 – Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
• 1978 – Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)
• 1981 – Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903)
• 1981 – Ada Kramm, Norwegian actress (b. 1899)
• 1982 – Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
• 1986 – Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925)
• 1987 – Linda Wong, American porn star (b. 1951)
• 1987 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Günther Anders, Polish philosopher (b. 1902)
• 1992 – Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Allan D'Arcangelo, American artist (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
• 2002 – James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947)
• 2003 – Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Marc Favreau, French-Canadian humourist (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Larry Sherry, American baseball player (b. 1935)
• 2008 – Sammy Baugh, American football player (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Freddy Breck, German schlager singer and news anchor (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Dave Smith, American baseball player (b. 1955)
• 2009 – Chris Henry, American football player (b. 1983)
• 2009 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Dan O'Bannon, American screenwriter and actor (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Walt Dropo, American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Eva Ekvall, Venezuelan beauty queen (b. 1983)
• 2011 – Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (b. 1941)
• 2011 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader (b. 1941)