Deaths on 17 November
2000s
Macoto Takahashi
2024
Japanese artist (1934β2024)
Young Dolph
2021
American rapper (1985β2021)
Tuka Rocha
2019
Brazilian racing driver (1982β2019)
John Leahy (diplomat)
2015
Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi
2015
Iranian poet (1923β2015)
John T. Downey
2014
American judge and CIA officer
Bill Frenzel
2014
American politician (1928β2014)
Ray Sadecki
2014
American baseball player (1940β2014)
Patrick Suppes
2014
American philosopher
Zeke Bella
2013
American baseball player (1930β2013)
Alfred Blake
2013
Syd Field
2013
American author (1935β2013)
Doris Lessing
2013
British novelist (1919β2013)
List of association footballers who died after on-field incidents
2013
Mary Nesbitt Wisham
2013
American baseball player
Ponty Chadha
2012
Indian industrialist and philanthropist (1960β2012)
Armand Desmet
2012
Belgian cyclist
Lea Gottlieb
2012
Israeli fashion designer and businesswoman
Freddy Schmidt
2012
American baseball player (1916β2012)
Billy Scott (singer)
2012
American singer-songwriter
Bal Thackeray
2012
Indian cartoonist and politician (1926-2012)
Margaret Yorke
2012
English crime fiction writer
Kurt Budke
2011
American basketball player-coach (1961β2011)
George Stephen Morrison
2008
American admiral (1919β2008)
Pete Newell
2008
American college men's basketball coach
Aarne Hermlin
2007
Estonian chess player
Ruth Brown
2006
American singer-songwriter (1928β2006)
Ferenc PuskΓ‘s
2006
Hungarian footballer (1927β2006)
Bo Schembechler
2006
American college football player and coach, sports administrator (1929β2006)
Marek Perepeczko
2005
Polish actor
Mikael Ljungberg
2004
Swedish wrestler (1970β2004)
Alexander Ragulin
2004
Russian ice hockey player (1941β2004)
Surjit Bindrakhia
2003
Indian singer
Arthur Conley
2003
American soul singer (1946β2003)
Abba Eban
2002
Israeli diplomat and politician (1915β2002)
Frank McCarthy (artist)
2002
American painter
Michael Karoli
2001
German musician (1948β2001)
Harrison A. Williams
2001
American politician (1919β2001)
Louis NΓ©el
2000
French physicist (1904β2000)
1900s
Kea Bouman
1998
Dutch tennis player (1903-1998)
Esther Rolle
1998
American actress (1920β1998)
Alan Hull
1995
English singer-songwriter (1945-1995)
GΓ©rard D. Levesque
1993
Canadian politician
Audre Lorde
1992
American writer and feminist activist (1934β1992)
Robert Hofstadter
1990
American physicist (1915β1990)
Costabile Farace
1989
Italian American mobster
Sheilah Graham
1988
American gossip columnist (1904β1988)
Paul Derringer
1987
American baseball player (1906β1987)
Georges Besse
1986
French businessman (1927β1986)
Eduard Tubin
1982
Estonian composer and conductor
John Glascock
1979
English musician (1951β1979)
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani
1976
Bangladeshi political leader (1880β1976)
Mirra Alfassa
1973
French-Indian spiritual guru (1878β1973)
Gladys Cooper
1971
British actress (1888β1971)
Mervyn Peake
1968
British author and illustrator (1911β1968)
Abdul Wahed Bokainagari
1968
Bangladeshi politician (1876β1968)
Heitor Villa-Lobos
1959
Brazilian composer (1887β1959)
Mort Cooper
1958
American baseball player (1913β1958)
James P. Johnson
1955
American pianist and composer (1894β1955)
Yitzhak Lamdan
1954
Israeli Hebrew-language poet, translator, editor and columnist
Victor Serge
1947
Russian revolutionary and French-language author (1890β1947)
Eric Gill
1940
English artist (1882β1940)
Raymond Pearl
1940
American biologist (1879β1940)
Ante TrumbiΔ
1938
Croatian politician
Jack Worrall
1937
Australian sportsperson
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
1936
Austrian-American singer (1861β1936)
Herman Hollerith
1929
American statistician and inventor
Lala Lajpat Rai
1928
Indian nationalist politician and independence activist (1865β1928)
Gregory VII of Constantinople
1924
Encumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1923 to 1924
Eduard BornhΓΆhe
1923
Estonian writer
Robert Comtesse
1922
Swiss politician (1847β1922)
Auguste Rodin
1917
French sculptor (1840β1917)
Ralph Johnstone
1910
American aviator (1880β1910)
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1905
Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1890 to 1905
Hugh Price Hughes
1902
Welsh Methodist reformer (1847β1902)
1800s
George Hendric Houghton
1897
James McCune Smith
1865
American physician (1813β1870)
Carle Vernet
1835
French painter (1758β1836)
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
1818
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland 1761-1818
John Walter (publisher)
1812
Englist newspaper publisher (1738β1812)
David Zeisberger
1808
American missionary of the Moravian Church (1721β1808)
Before 1800
Catherine the Great
1796
Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796
Bernardo Bellotto
1780
Italian painter and printmaker (c. 1721β1780)
James Ferguson (Scottish astronomer)
1776
Scottish astronomer (1710β1776)
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
1768
Prime Minister of Great Britain (1754β1756; 1757β1762)
Alain-RenΓ© Lesage
1747
French novelist
Abraham van Riebeeck
1713
Dutch colonial administrator (1653β1713)
Ludolf Bakhuizen
1708
Dutch painter
Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier
1690
French soldier and governor
Joseph Alleine
1668
English Nonconformist pastor and author (1634β1668)
John Earle (bishop)
1665
17th-century English bishop
Thomas Ford (composer)
1648
English composer (c1580-1648)
Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de GuΓ©briant
1643
French soldier (1602β1643)
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
1632
Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire (1594β1632)
Jakob BΓΆhme
1624
German philosopher (1575β1624)
Kuki Yoshitaka
1600
Japanese naval commander (1542β1600)
John III of Sweden
1592
King of Sweden from 1569 to 1592
Antoine of Navarre
1562
King of Navarre from 1555 to 1562
Mary I
1558
Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558
Reginald Pole
1558
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1556 to 1558
Hugh Aston
1558
English composer
Eleanor of Viseu
1525
Queen of Portugal from 1481 to 1495
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1494
Italian Renaissance philosopher (1463β1494)
Jami
1492
Persian poet (1414β1492)
Evrenos
1417
Ottoman military commander (died 1417)
Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel
1326
English nobleman (1285β1326)
Hethum II
1307
King of Cilician Armenia (1266β1307)
Leo III of Armenia
1307
King of Armenian Cilicia until 1307
Elizabeth of Hungary
1231
Hungarian princess and Christian saint
Usama ibn Munqidh
1188
Banu Munqidh poet and historian
Nikephoros Melissenos
1104
Usurper of the Byzantine Empire
Chen Jinfeng
935
Empress consort of Min
Wang Yanjun
935
Emperor of Min from 933 to 935
Liutgard of Saxony (queen)
885
Queen of East Francia from 876 to 882
Emperor Jomei
641
Emperor of Japan from 629 to 641
Gregory of Tours
594
Historian and Bishop of Tours (c. 538β594)
Valentinian I
375
Roman emperor from 364 to 375