History Deaths on October 17
![Johann Nepomuk Hummel](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffilter1hv3lQkeU3mMiJtGOkIn.jpg?generation=1608919918718795&alt=media)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
#Johann_Nepomuk_Hummel
![Beatrice of Falkenburg](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffilter3g2AIyrM3DGvr0eOe7LJ.jpg?generation=1608919919096846&alt=media)
Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consort (b. c. 1254)
#Beatrice_of_Falkenburg
Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
#Alfons_Maria_Jakob
![Karl Kautsky](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffilter6rAOmn4eH7OtHvch9lWJ.jpg?generation=1608919919879040&alt=media)
Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)
#Karl_Kautsky
![Bart King](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffilter8i7ImKHMCuMIBHTJmCK6.jpg?generation=1608919920260732&alt=media)
Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
#Bart_King
![Johann Ludwig Aberli](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterALlzfVwaUuQWX4aDwpMH.jpg?generation=1608919920686572&alt=media)
Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
#Johann_Ludwig_Aberli
![Ingeborg Bachmann](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterANV4XUfjKaMYpIzmZh1C.jpg?generation=1608919921067937&alt=media)
Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926)
#Ingeborg_Bachmann
![Al-Musta'in](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterAi1yz4Znwz7fnNtVynva.jpg?generation=1608919921506421&alt=media)
Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (b. 836)
#Al-Musta'in
![Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterBFGJlsnEtxhnNkqvguiy.jpg?generation=1608919921867925&alt=media)
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
#Francesco_I_de'_Medici,_Grand_Duke_of_Tuscany
![Malak Hifni Nasif](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterBtYHfdHcFpgtcVsn7trw.jpg?generation=1608919922249048&alt=media)
Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
#Malak_Hifni_Nasif
![Joachim Nielsen](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterE7S5oLKls9JMOYBRmMWx.jpg?generation=1608919922613306&alt=media)
Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
#Joachim_Nielsen
![Ben Weider](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterEsPpuUI79cFGXD4FQB5G.jpg?generation=1608919923025491&alt=media)
Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b. 1923)
#Ben_Weider
![Laura Secord](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterHUGMPsoh76chGkdi7YLE.jpg?generation=1608919923459345&alt=media)
Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
#Laura_Secord
![Orest Kiprensky](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterISQtG2JNbDKAShKKckYH.jpg?generation=1608919923829840&alt=media)
Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
#Orest_Kiprensky
![Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterL1Ota8oKpC7FRo7Pi2Uf.jpg?generation=1608919924219444&alt=media)
Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705)
#Edward_Hawke,_1st_Baron_Hawke
![Frank Dicksee](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterMSUSNsaCLpJSlge3f753.jpg?generation=1608919924588244&alt=media)
Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
#Frank_Dicksee
![Tom Smith (Pennsylvania politician)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterNAPjhc3ALf7z7L32rVt4.jpg?generation=1608919924964726&alt=media)
Tom Smith, American businessman and politician (b. 1947)
#Tom_Smith_(Pennsylvania_politician)
![Herman Johannes](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterNXqU2meeTLhVJLWny7xc.jpg?generation=1608919925351034&alt=media)
Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (b. 1912)
#Herman_Johannes
![Frédéric Chopin](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterOG6rNCyCwUdoYEh7RvAn.png?generation=1608919925784125&alt=media)
Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
#Frédéric_Chopin
![Teresa Brewer](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterOqTNlnrcyh2rw2Jv8OBh.png?generation=1608919926550088&alt=media)
Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)
#Teresa_Brewer
Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1873)
#Dimitrios_Maximos
![Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterSZClcxSlWjdsV2PjMz4P.jpg?generation=1608919927328266&alt=media)
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
#Thomas_Clifford,_1st_Baron_Clifford_of_Chudleigh
![Gustav Kirchhoff](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterT1vSXbUTdBTQwpdWsKhy.jpg?generation=1608919927681876&alt=media)
Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
#Gustav_Kirchhoff
![Royal Cortissoz](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterUwKAKMUwUNutNzJ2FNs8.jpg?generation=1608919928067007&alt=media)
Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)
#Royal_Cortissoz
![Micheline Ostermeyer](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterVU6jvg01F4x5S79XKsX1.jpg?generation=1608919928448306&alt=media)
Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922)
#Micheline_Ostermeyer
![Tom Shaw (bishop)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterVVmjdPVKzJXSCGXs6Q6U.jpg?generation=1608919928841622&alt=media)
Tom Shaw, American bishop (b. 1945)
#Tom_Shaw_(bishop)
![Julia Ward Howe](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterWpIetovfRcWKdsbdxusu.jpg?generation=1608919929210375&alt=media)
Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
#Julia_Ward_Howe
![Jacques Hadamard](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterX1DIEPEFGGZ0d5TglWHH.jpg?generation=1608919929566495&alt=media)
Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1865)
#Jacques_Hadamard
![Chris Acland](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterYg9Ddj5l0SqhN8Ge4DrF.jpeg?generation=1608919929950510&alt=media)
Chris Acland, English musician & drummer of Lush (b. 1966)
#Chris_Acland
![Turk Broda](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilteraFavL42uBneDo8aDDAQW.jpg?generation=1608919930332120&alt=media)
Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
#Turk_Broda
![Gord Downie](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilteraGdCkbYK5e2jCUjA1Ltm.jpg?generation=1608919930711692&alt=media)
Gord Downie, Canadian musician (b. 1964)
#Gord_Downie
![Anne-Marie Lizin](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterdmuN3k2z2bxwT85DTZZf.jpg?generation=1608919931107833&alt=media)
Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
#Anne-Marie_Lizin
![Margaret Mary Alacoque](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfiltereFvWzKMCoaFxpT5kGvCq.jpg?generation=1608919931478058&alt=media)
Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647)
#Margaret_Mary_Alacoque
![Vola Vale](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterefOoC0Wix35I46vK4xMM.jpg?generation=1608919931851886&alt=media)
Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
#Vola_Vale
Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
#Tennessee_Ernie_Ford
![Nikolay Chernyshevsky](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterfvP29FDb3PW7BbOKl5dY.jpg?generation=1608919932629254&alt=media)
Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
#Nikolay_Chernyshevsky
![Larry Jennings](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterggiBKOwvS9pufyOKAQJW.jpg?generation=1608919933013671&alt=media)
Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933)
#Larry_Jennings
![J. Bruce Ismay](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffilterh2WX8rJtYOWL99ijlE8F.jpeg?generation=1608919933383045&alt=media)
J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
#J._Bruce_Ismay
Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
#Nicholas_Metropolis
![Philip Sidney](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffilterim0qrVJIhA60btLGQlAI.jpg?generation=1608919934525993&alt=media)
Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (b. 1554)
#Philip_Sidney
Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (b. 1918)
#Joey_Bishop
![Berndt von Staden](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterjNfEoGuyNFKyuwjCzGpt.jpg?generation=1608919935268423&alt=media)
Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (b. 1919)
#Berndt_von_Staden
![Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterkrsGqhYgv0QmYVDbJMrP.jpg?generation=1608919935643138&alt=media)
Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511)
#Gaspar_Cervantes_de_Gaeta
![William Cookworthy](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffilterkx7h4QLh5N1NpwtaMbSg.jpg?generation=1608919936033939&alt=media)
William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
#William_Cookworthy
![Natalia Goncharova](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffilterm8rLLcEpG1SMV9r0ZftD.jpg?generation=1608919936394336&alt=media)
Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882)
#Natalia_Goncharova
![René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffiltermew1Ke7fiid7a16vdzF2.jpg?generation=1608919936783591&alt=media)
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
#René_Antoine_Ferchault_de_Réaumur
![Albert Cohen (novelist)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffiltermmt0TRbpsdWZXuloGqlS.jpg?generation=1608919937158108&alt=media)
Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895)
#Albert_Cohen_(novelist)
![Sidney Hatch](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterpM8KiIVA5Pkvd5MLkGtl.jpg?generation=1608919937510826&alt=media)
Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (b. 1883)
#Sidney_Hatch
![George, Crown Prince of Serbia](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterpjaW2ZyxritfczgzpG4X.jpg?generation=1608919937881671&alt=media)
George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
#George,_Crown_Prince_of_Serbia
![Levi Stubbs](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfiltersRNZ2iYwRRu3GpIEEmDb.jpg?generation=1608919938250582&alt=media)
Levi Stubbs, American singer (b. 1936)
#Levi_Stubbs
![Émile Allais](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffiltersrg3i5FSTMDzzfqNpN1U.jpg?generation=1608919938624423&alt=media)
Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
#Émile_Allais
![Stanford R. Ovshinsky](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfiltertN6QS478gwXjCXuSN69X.jpg?generation=1608919939017571&alt=media)
Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
#Stanford_R._Ovshinsky
![Raymond Aron](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterugCbHkpHCMhzUhbj46WJ.jpg?generation=1608919939392970&alt=media)
Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
#Raymond_Aron
![Jean-Jacques Dessalines](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilteruyGXtTQaeI5hJrQRi4Hm.jpg?generation=1608919939774331&alt=media)
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
#Jean-Jacques_Dessalines
![Giovanni Gronchi](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfiltervMUHkvR8xLLTmbAwMl7e.jpg?generation=1608919940161810&alt=media)
Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
#Giovanni_Gronchi
![Adrian Scrope](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterwEXPEQBvYcVmDyWmawVv.jpg?generation=1608919940526272&alt=media)
Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
#Adrian_Scrope
![Puyi](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterxfLPMsjCnJejv9DXYJ7u.jpg?generation=1608919940899540&alt=media)
Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906)
#Puyi
![Charlie Townsend](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffilterxmub0vZZOeAW4y82loBE.jpg?generation=1608919941283406&alt=media)
Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876)
#Charlie_Townsend
![Agrippina the Elder](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilteryGTqCZ2ONKjRNMaJSU2Q.jpg?generation=1608919941655432&alt=media)
Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus (b. 14 BC)
#Agrippina_the_Elder
![Pierre François le Courayer](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2Ffilterytlb0yFvBDwpFEIONHze.jpg?generation=1608919942072902&alt=media)
Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
#Pierre_François_le_Courayer
![Andreas Osiander](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FDeaths%2FOctober_17%2FfilterzUEandT9k2ARe9YZJAVK.jpg?generation=1608919942466295&alt=media)
Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
#Andreas_Osiander