History Deaths on July 17

Peter Appleyard, English-Canadian vibraphone player and composer (b. 1928)

#Peter_Appleyard

Dmitry Shemyaka, Grand Prince of Moscow

#Dmitry_Shemyaka

Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)

#Juan_Manuel_Fangio

Sam Myers, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)

#Sam_Myers

Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (b. 1925)

#Elaine_Stritch

Draža Mihailovi?, Serbian general (b. 1893)

#Draža_Mihailovi?

Jules Bianchi, French race car driver (b. 1989)

#Jules_Bianchi

Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (b. 1802)

#Dorothea_Dix

Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)

#Dizzy_Dean

Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque (b. 1489)

#Mimar_Sinan

Edward Heath, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)

#Edward_Heath

Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)

#Peter_III_of_Russia

Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor, singer, and director (b. 1862)

#Rasmus_Rasmussen_(actor)

Charlotte Corday, French murderer (b. 1768)

#Charlotte_Corday

Henri Alleg, English-French journalist and author (b. 1921)

#Henri_Alleg

Hector Malot, French author and critic (b. 1830)

#Hector_Malot

John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English commander and politician (b. 1387)

#John_Talbot,_1st_Earl_of_Shrewsbury

Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890)

#Boris_Delaunay

Jadwiga, queen of Poland (b. 1374)

#Jadwiga_of_Poland

Robert Guiscard, Norman adventurer

#Robert_Guiscard

Don "Red" Barry, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1912)

#Don_"Red"_Barry

Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)

#Thomas_McIlwraith

John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1926)

#John_Coltrane

Henry Hartsfield, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1933)

#Henry_Hartsfield

Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist (b. 1879)

#Maud_Menten

Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian-Polish painter (b. 1856)

#Maurycy_Gottlieb

Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)

#Billie_Holiday

Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)

#Ty_Cobb

Robert Bolling, English planter and merchant (b. 1646)

#Robert_Bolling

William James Sidis, American mathematician and anthropologist (b. 1898)

#William_James_Sidis

Eugene Meyer, American businessman and publisher (b. 1875)

#Eugene_Meyer_(financier)

Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818)

#Leconte_de_Lisle

Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1842)

#Giovanni_Giolitti

Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (b. 1893)

#Konstantine_Gamsakhurdia

Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811)

#Jean-Charles_Chapais

Leszek Ko?akowski, Polish historian and philosopher (b. 1927)

#Leszek_Ko?akowski

Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico (b. 1880)

#Álvaro_Obregón

Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)

#Evangeline_Booth

Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (b. 1918)

#Mickey_Spillane

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)

#Charles_Grey,_2nd_Earl_Grey

Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (b. 1928)

#Otto_Piene

Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet and politician (b. 1812)

#Aleardo_Aleardi

Chas Chandler, American bass player and producer (b. 1938)

#Chas_Chandler

Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)

#Adam_Smith

Sverker II, king of Sweden (b. 1210)

#Sverker_II_of_Sweden

Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)

#Josef_Hyrtl

Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)

#Katharine_Graham

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 victims: Liam Davison, Australian author and critic (b. 1957) Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (b. 1976) Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (b. 1954) Willem Witteveen, Dutch scholar and politician (b. 1952)

#Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17

George William Russell, Irish poet and painter (b. 1867)

#George_William_Russell

Walter Cronkite, American journalist and actor (b. 1916)

#Walter_Cronkite

Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)

#Ernst_Busch_(field_marshal)

Du, empress dowager of the Song Dynasty

#Empress_Dowager_Du

Jim Bridger, American scout and explorer (b. 1804)

#Jim_Bridger

William Raspberry, American journalist and academic (b. 1935)

#William_Raspberry

Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)

#Georg_Fabricius

Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854)

#Henri_Poincaré

John Taylor, English pianist and educator (b. 1942)

#John_Taylor_(jazz)

Forrest S. McCartney, American general (b. 1931)

#Forrest_S._McCartney

T? ??c, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1829)

#T?_??c

David White, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1933)

#David_White_(Scottish_footballer)

Florence Fuller, South African-born Australian artist (b. 1867)

#Florence_Fuller

Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese commander (b. 1484)

#Hosokawa_Takakuni

Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)

#Joseph_Luns

Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913)

#Geraldine_Fitzgerald

Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer (b. 1251)

#Edmund_Mortimer,_2nd_Baron_Mortimer

Victims of TWA Flight 800 Michel Breistroff, French ice hockey player (b. 1971) Marcel Dadi, Tunisian-French guitarist (b. 1951) David Hogan, American composer (b. 1949) Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (b. 1948)

#TWA_Flight_800

Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898)

#Jean_Borotra

Walter Zapp, Latvian-Swiss inventor, invented the Minox (b. 1905)

#Walter_Zapp

Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, English-Scottish politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (b. 1587)

#Robert_Carr,_1st_Earl_of_Somerset

Edward the Elder, English king (b. 877)

#Edward_the_Elder

Van Miller, American sportscaster (b. 1927)

#Van_Miller

Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (b. 1885)

#Antonie_Nedošinská

Larry Keith, American actor (b. 1931)

#Larry_Keith

Lovis Corinth, German painter (b. 1858)

#Lovis_Corinth

Leo IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 790)

#Pope_Leo_IV

Júlio Redecker, Brazilian politician (b. 1956)

#Júlio_Redecker

Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic (b. 1916)

Bill Arnsparger, American football player and coach (b. 1926)

Ian Gourlay, English general (b. 1920)

Don Flye, American tennis player (b. 1933)

Vincenzo Cerami, Italian screenwriter and producer (b. 1940)

Marsha Singh, Indian-English politician (b. 1954)

?lhan Mimaro?lu, Turkish-American composer and producer (b. 1926)

Richard Evatt, English boxer (b. 1973)

David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)

Paulo Rogério Amoretty Souza, Brazilian lawyer and businessman (b. 1945)

Grant Forsberg, American actor and businessman (b. 1959)

Joe Vialls, Australian journalist and theorist (b. 1944)

Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichord player (b. 1914)

David Kelly, Welsh weapons inspector (b. 1944)

Lillian Hoban, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)

John Patrick Spiegel, American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1911)

Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)

Bruiser Brody, American football player and wrestler (b. 1946)

Emin Halid Onat, Turkish architect and academic (b. 1908)

Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1901) Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1899) Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1895) Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1897) Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia (b. 1872) Aleksei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (b. 1904) Nikolai II of Russia (b. 1868) Anna Demidova (b. 1878) Ivan Kharitonov (b. 1872) Alexei Trupp (b. 1858) Yevgeny Botkin (b. 1865)

Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)

Carl Tausig, Polish virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer (b. 1841)

John Roebuck, English chemist and businessman (b. 1718)

Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian missionary and author (b. 1717)

Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (b. 1657)

Mózes Székely, Hungarian noble (b. 1553)

Baldwin VII, count of Flanders (b. 1093)

Baldwin VI, count of Flanders (b. 1030)

Wu Hanyue, Chinese noblewoman (b. 913)

Magnus Felix Ennodius, Gallo-Roman bishop