Deaths on 17 October
2000s
Mitzi Gaynor
2024
American actress (1931–2024)
Toshiyuki Nishida
2024
Japanese actor (1947–2024)
Andrew Schally
2024
American endocrinologist (1926–2024)
Elijah Cummings
2019
American politician (1951–2019)
Gord Downie
2017
Canadian musician and writer (1964–2017)
Danièle Delorme
2015
French actress and producer (1926–2015)
Howard Kendall
2015
English footballer and manager
Anne-Marie Lizin
2015
Belgian politician (1949–2015)
Tom Smith (Pennsylvania politician)
2015
American politician and businessman
Edwards Barham
2014
American politician (1937–2014)
Masaru Emoto
2014
Japanese pseudoscientist (1943–2014)
Tom Shaw (bishop)
2014
20th and 21st-century American Episcopal bishop
Berndt von Staden
2014
German diplomat
Antonia Brenner
2013
American nun (1926–2013)
Terry Fogerty
2013
English RL coach and former GB international rugby league footballer
Arthur Maxwell House
2013
Canadian politician
Lou Scheimer
2013
American animator and voice actor (1928-2013)
Rene Simpson
2013
Canadian tennis player
Milija Aleksic
2012
English footballer (1951–2012)
Émile Allais
2012
French alpine skier (1912–2012)
Henry Friedlander
2012
American historian (1930-2012)
Stanford R. Ovshinsky
2012
American engineer, scientist and inventor
Kōji Wakamatsu
2012
Japanese film director (1936–2012)
Carl Lindner Jr.
2011
American businessman
Norma Fox Mazer
2009
American author and teacher (1931-2009)
Vic Mizzy
2009
American composer (1916–2009)
Urmas Ott
2008
Estonian journalist
Levi Stubbs
2008
American R&B singer (1936–2008)
Ben Weider
2008
Canadian sports businessman (1923–2008)
Joey Bishop
2007
American entertainer (1918–2007)
Teresa Brewer
2007
American singer (1931–2007)
Suzy Covey
2007
American comic book scholar
Daniel Emilfork
2006
Chilean actor (1924–2006)
Christopher Glenn
2006
American radio and television news journalist
Uzi Hitman
2004
Israeli singer-songwriter (1952–2004)
Derek Bell (musician)
2002
Musical artist
Jay Livingston
2001
American songwriter (1915–2001)
Micheline Ostermeyer
2001
French athlete and concert pianist (1922–2001)
Rehavam Ze'evi
2001
Israeli politician (1926–2001)
Leo Nomellini
2000
Italian-American football player and wrestler (1924–2000)
Joachim Nielsen
2000
Norwegian rock musician and poet
1900s
Nicholas Metropolis
1999
Greek-American physicist and mathematician (1915–1999)
Joan Hickson
1998
English actress (1906–1998)
Hakeem Muhammad Saeed
1998
Pakistani medical researcher, scholar, philanthropist and governor of Sindh Province
Larry Jennings
1997
American magician
Chris Acland
1996
English drummer and songwriter (1966–1996)
Criss Oliva
1993
American guitarist (1963–1993)
Herman Johannes
1992
Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (1912–1992)
Orestis Laskos
1992
Greek film director
Tennessee Ernie Ford
1991
American singer and TV personality (1919–1991)
Abdul Malek Ukil
1987
Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (1924–1987)
Raymond Aron
1983
French philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientist (1905–1983)
Kannadasan
1981
Tamil poet and lyricist (1927–1981)
Albert Cohen (novelist)
1981
Greek-born Swiss novelist (1895-1981)
Lina Tsaldari
1981
Greek politician
S. J. Perelman
1979
American screenwriter (1904–1979)
John Stuart (actor)
1979
Scottish actor (1898–1979)
Eugenio Mendoza
1979
Venezuelan businessman
George Clark (racing driver)
1978
American racing driver (1877–1933)
Giovanni Gronchi
1978
President of Italy from 1955 to 1962
Ingeborg Bachmann
1973
Austrian poet and author (1926–1973)
Turk Broda
1972
Ice hockey player
George, Crown Prince of Serbia
1972
Crown Prince of Serbia
Pierre Laporte
1970
Canadian politician (1921–1970)
Vola Vale
1970
American actress (1897–1970)
Quincy Wright
1970
American political scientist (1890–1970)
Puyi
1967
Emperor of China (1908–1912) and of Manchukuo (1934–1945)
Sidney Hatch
1966
American long-distance runner
Wieland Wagner
1966
German stage director and impresario (1917–1966)
Bart King
1965
American cricketer
Jacques Hadamard
1963
French mathematician (1865–1963)
Natalia Goncharova
1962
Russian-French artist (1881–1962)
Paul Outerbridge
1958
American photographer (1896–1958)
Charlie Townsend
1958
English cricketer
Wilhelmina Hay Abbott
1957
Scottish suffragist, editor and feminist lecturer
Anne Crawford
1956
British actress (1920–1956)
Dimitrios Maximos
1955
Greek banker and politician
Royal Cortissoz
1948
19th and 20th-century American art historian
Karl Kautsky
1938
Austrian-German Marxist theorist (1854–1938)
J. Bruce Ismay
1937
English businessman (1862–1937)
Alfons Maria Jakob
1931
German neurologist (1884–1931)
Frank Dicksee
1928
English Victorian painter and illustrator (1853–1928)
Michael Fitzgerald (Irish republican)
1920
Irish republican (1881-1920)
Malak Hifni Nasif
1918
Egyptian feminist (1886 – 1918)
Julia Ward Howe
1910
American abolitionist, social activist, and poet (1819–1910)
1800s
Patrice de MacMahon
1893
President of France from 1873 to 1879
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
1889
Russian writer and philosopher (1828–1889)
Gustav Kirchhoff
1887
German physicist and mathematician (1824–1887)
Laura Secord
1868
Canadian heroine of the War of 1812
Frédéric Chopin
1849
Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
1837
Austrian composer and pianist (1778–1837)
Orest Kiprensky
1836
Russian portrait painter (1782–1836)
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
1806
Haitian revolutionary and first ruler (1758–1806)
Before 1800
Johann Ludwig Aberli
1786
Swiss painter and etcher (1723–1786)
Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke
1781
Royal Navy officer and politician (1705–1781)
William Cookworthy
1780
Pierre François le Courayer
1776
French Catholic theological writer
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
1757
French entomologist and writer (1683–1757)
Geoffrey Shakerley (1619–1696)
1696
English politician
Margaret Mary Alacoque
1690
French Catholic saint and mystic (1647–1690)
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
1673
English statesman
Adrian Scrope
1660
English Parliamentarian soldier
John Pitts (Catholic scholar)
1616
English Roman Catholic scholar and writer
Francesco I de' Medici
1587
Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1574 to 1587
Philip Sidney
1586
English poet, courtier, and diplomat (1554–1586)
Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta
1575
Spanish cardinal
Andreas Osiander
1552
German Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer
Hernando Alonso
1528
Spanish conquistador
John Scott (died 1485)
1485
English Yorkist landowner in Kent
Nicolas Grenon
1456
French composer
John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
1346
Joint Regent of Scotland (died 1346)
Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn
1346
Scottish noble
Beatrice of Falkenburg
1277
Queen of the Romans
Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir
1271
13th-century Icelandic skald
Al-Musta'in
866
12th Abbasid caliph (r. 862–866)
Pope Boniface II
532
Head of the Catholic Church from 530 to 532
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