History Deaths on December 17

Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919)

#Jennifer_Jones

Grover Washington Jr., American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1943)

#Grover_Washington_Jr.

Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (b. 1812)

#Kaspar_Hauser

Ivan Veki?, Croatian colonel, lawyer, and politician, Croatian Minister of the Interior (b. 1938)

#Ivan_Veki?

Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)

#Nzinga_of_Ndongo_and_Matamba

Sammy Baugh, American football player and coach (b. 1914)

#Sammy_Baugh

Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)

#Leopold_II_of_Belgium

Hal Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)

#Hal_Brown

Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet and playwright (b. 1949)

#Oleh_Lysheha

Michael Wyschogrod, German-American philosopher and theologian (b. 1928)

#Michael_Wyschogrod

Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer (b. 1929)

#Fred_Bruemmer

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824)

#William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kelvin

Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1640)

#Richard_Lumley,_1st_Earl_of_Scarbrough

Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-American author and poet (b. 1903)

#Marguerite_Yourcenar

Dave Smith, American baseball player and coach (b. 1955)

#Dave_Smith_(pitcher,_born_1955)

Otto Graham, American football player and coach (b. 1921)

#Otto_Graham

Kim Jong-il, North Korean commander and politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea (b. 1941)

#Kim_Jong-il

Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)

#Dana_Andrews

Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1920)

#Rex_Allen

Freddy Breck, German singer-songwriter, producer, and journalist (b. 1942)

#Freddy_Breck

Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)

#Ricardo_María_Carles_Gordó

Walt Dropo, American basketball and baseball player (b. 1923)

#Walt_Dropo

Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877)

#Christos_Tsigiridis

Captain Beefheart, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)

#Captain_Beefheart

William Shiels, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Victoria (b. 1848)

#William_Shiels

Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)

#Baldwin_V,_Count_of_Hainaut

Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (b. 1791)

#Marie_Louise,_Duchess_of_Parma

William Gascoigne, Chief Justice of England

#William_Gascoigne

Larry Sherry, American baseball player and coach (b. 1935)

#Larry_Sherry

Conny van Rietschoten, Dutch sailor (b. 1926)

#Conny_van_Rietschoten

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836)

#Elizabeth_Garrett_Anderson

Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913)

#Dieter_Grau

Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892)

#Rajendra_Lahiri

Rumi, Persian jurist, theologian, and poet (b. 1207)

#Rumi

Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)

#Thomas_Mitchell_(actor)

Janet Rowley, American geneticist and biologist (b. 1925)

#Janet_Rowley

Frank Pastore, American baseball player and radio host (b. 1957)

#Frank_Pastore

Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician (b. 1924)

#Daniel_Inouye

Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)

#Harold_Holt

Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (b. 1774)

#Francis_Beaufort

Günther Anders, German journalist and philosopher (b. 1902)

#Günther_Anders

Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)

#Victor_Francis_Hess

Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela (b. 1783)

#Simón_Bolívar

Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b. 1861)

#Frank_Rinehart

13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)

#13th_Dalai_Lama

Laurier LaPierre, Canadian historian, journalist, and politician (b. 1929)

#Laurier_LaPierre

Homer S. Ferguson, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1889)

#Homer_S._Ferguson

Gordon Hunt, American voice director (b. 1929)

Henry Heimlich, American doctor (b. 1920)

Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (b. 1922)

Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist and academic (b. 1920)

Lowell Steward, American captain (b. 1919)

Richard C. Hottelet, American journalist (b. 1917)

Tetsur? Kashibuchi, Japanese drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1950)

Richard Heffner, American historian and television host (b. 1925)

James Gower, American priest and activist, co-founded the College of the Atlantic (b. 1922)

Richard Adams, Filipino-American activist (b. 1947)

Eva Ekvall, Venezuelan journalist and author, Miss Venezuela 2000 (b. 1983)

Ralph Coates, English footballer (b. 1946)

Alaina Reed Hall, American actress (b. 1946)

Chris Henry, American football player (b. 1983)

Haljand Udam, Estonian orientalist and academic (d. 1936)

Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (b. 1929)

Jack Anderson, American journalist and author (b. 1922)

Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor (b. 1931)

K. W. Devanayagam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 10th Sri Lankan Minister of Justice (b. 1910)

C. Vann Woodward, American historian and academic (b. 1908)

Linda Wong, American porn actress (b. 1951)

Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925)

Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903)

Don Ellis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)

Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1896)

Dorothy L. Sayers, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)

Eddie Acuff, American actor (b. 1903)

Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1895)

Alicia Boole Stott, Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (b. 1860)

Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867)

Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894)

Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)

Eleonora di Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (b. 1522)

Infanta Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1397)

Pope Gregory VIII (b. 1100)

William I, duke of Normandy

Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Abbasid prince and poet, anti-caliph for one day

al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i, Abbasid vizier

Sturm, abbot of Fulda