Deaths in History on January 17

1736 Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect, dies at 73
1781 Marie de Negre Dables, marquess, dies
1805 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, French scholar and interpreter, dies at 73
1820 Daniel Albert Wyttenbach, German-Swiss classicl scholar and historian, dies at 73
1823 Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36
1830 W Waiblinger, writer, dies
1833 James Ball Antyne, Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60
1833 William Rush, American sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies at 76
1834 Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist, dies at 71
1851 Thomas Lincoln, American farmer, carpenter, and father President Abraham Lincoln, dies at 73
1861 Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
1863 Horace Vernet, French painter of battles and Orientalist subjects, dies at 73
1870 Alexander Anderson, American engraver and illustrator (Shakespeare), dies at 94
1874 Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, die at 62
1884 Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist, dies at 79
1887 William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
1889 Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56

George Bancroft (1800-1891)

American historian (History of the United States), dies at 90

Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893)

19th US President (Republican: 1877-81), dies of a heart attack at 70

1899 Jedediah Hotchkiss, American topographer and cartographer, dies at 70
1901 Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87
1902 Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed
1903 Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
1908 Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, dies at 72
1909 Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819
1910 Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, German physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69
1911 Francis Galton, British anthropologist and geneticist (eugenics), dies at 88
1917 Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70

Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)

American activist and founder of the Girl Scouts of America, dies of breast cancer at 66

1928 William Corless Mills, American museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds), dies at 68
1932 Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (b. 1893)
1933 Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
1936 Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
1938 William Pickering, American astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79
1941 Jose Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82
1942 Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal, dies at 57
1947 Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec, dies at 63
1947 Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
1955 Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch minister (1908-13), dies at 94
1962 Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56

T. H. White (1906-1964)

English novelist (England Have My Bones) and author of the King Arthur novels, dies of heart failure at 57

1965 Hans Marchwitza, German writer and communist, dies at 75
1966 Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50
1968 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83
1972 Betty Smith, American novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies at 75
1977 Gary Gilmore, American murderer executed in Utah at 36, 1st US execution since 1967
1987 Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 75
1989 Sterling A Brown, American poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87
1990 Anna Arnold Hedgeman, African-American social activist (NYC cabinet), dies at 90
1990 Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies
1991 Olav V, King of Norway (1957-91), dies at 87
1993 Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915)
1994 Allan Gilbert Odell, American Ad exec (Burma Shave), dies at 90
1994 Chung Il Kwon, Prime Minister of South Korea (1964-70), dies
1994 Han Jansen, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies at 61
1994 Yevgeny Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926)
1995 Isador Caplan, British lawyer and Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82
1995 Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54
1996 Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986)
1996 Barbara Charline Jordan, politician, dies at 59
1996 Charles Henry Madge, English poet and founder of Mass-Observation, dies at 83
1996 Giles Playfair, English writer, dies at 85
1996 John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83
1997 Amha Selassie, Crown prince of Ethiopia and son of emperor Haile Selassi, dies at 82
1997 Andrea Fisher, American artist, dies at 41
1997 Bert Kelly, Australian politician (b. 1912)
1997 Clyde William Tombaugh, discoverer (Pluto), dies at 90
1999 Robert Eads, American transsexual (b. 1945)
2001 Gregory Corso, American beat poet, dies of prostate cancer at 70
2002 Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955)
2002 Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, (Nobel Prize laureate 1989), dies at 85
2005 Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
2005 Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960)
2005 Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
2006 Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
2006 Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
2007 Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
2009 Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (b. 1943)
2010 Daisuke Gouri, Japanese seiyu (b. 1952)
2010 Erich Segal, American author (Love Story, Oliver's Story), dies at 72
2010 Jyoti Basu, Indian Communist politician, dies at 95