Famous Deaths on March 17, Who Died on March 17
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| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 0045 | Titus Labienus, Roman general (b. 100 BC) |
| 1008 | Kazan, emperor of Japan (b. 968) |
| 1040 | Harold Harefoot, king of England |
| 1058 | Lulach, king of Scotland |
| 1199 | Jocelin of Glasgow, Scottish monk and bishop (b. 1130) |
| 1267 | Pierre de Montreuil, French architect |
| 1270 | Philip of Montfort, French knight and nobleman |
| 1272 | Go-Saga, emperor of Japan (b. 1220) |
| 1361 | An-Nasir Hasan, Mamluk sultan of Egypt |
| 1394 | Louis of Enghien, French nobleman |
| 1406 | Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian sociologist, historian, and scholar (b. 1332) |
| 1425 | Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1407) |
| 1527 | Rana Sanga, Indian ruler (b. 1482) |
| 1565 | Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian and academic (b. 1500) |
| 1611 | Sophia of Sweden, duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1547) |
| 1620 | John Sarkander, Polish-Moravian priest and saint (b. 1576) |
| 1640 | Philip Massinger, English playwright (b. 1583) |
| 1649 | Gabriel Lalemant, French missionary and saint (b. 1610) |
| 1663 | Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland, English diplomat (b. 1605) |
| 1680 | François de La Rochefoucauld, French author (b. 1613) |
| 1704 | Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch soldier and engineer (b. 1641) |
| 1715 | Gilbert Burnet, Scottish bishop and historian (b. 1643) |
| 1741 | Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet and playwright (b. 1671) |
| 1764 | George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer and politician (b. 1695) |
| 1782 | Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1700) |
| 180 | Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (b. 121) |
| 1828 | James Edward Smith, English botanist and entomologist (b. 1759) |
| 1829 | Sophia Albertina, princess-abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1753) |
| 1830 | Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French general and politician (b. 1764) |
| 1846 | Friedrich Bessel, German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1784) |
| 1849 | William II, Dutch sovereign prince and king (b. 1792) |
| 1853 | Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and mathematician (b. 1803) |
| 1871 | Robert Chambers, Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded Chambers Harrap (b. 1802) |
| 1875 | Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1832) |
| 1893 | Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (b. 1832) |
| 1917 | Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838) |
| 1926 | Aleksei Brusilov, Georgian-Russian general (b. 1853) |
| 1940 | Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854) |
| 1946 | Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897) |
| 1949 | Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882) |
| 1956 | Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894) |
| 1957 | Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907) |
| 1958 | John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (b. 1870) |
| 1961 | Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician (b. 1860) |
| 1965 | Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football player and coach (b. 1862) |
| 1974 | Louis Kahn, American architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (b. 1901) |
| 1976 | Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906) |
| 1981 | Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913) |
| 1983 | Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) |
| 1986 | Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (b.1923) |
| 1990 | Capucine, French model and actress (b. 1928) |
| 1992 | Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903) |
| 1993 | Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900) |
| 1994 | Charlotte Auerbach, German-Jewish Scottish folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist (b. 1899) |
| 1995 | Sunnyland Slim, American blues pianist (b. 1906) |
| 1996 | René Clément, French director and screenwriter (b. 1913) |
| 1997 | Jermaine Stewart, American singer-songwriter and dancer (b. 1957) |
| 1999 | Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer (b. 1921) |
| 2002 | Rosetta LeNoire, American actress and producer (b. 1911) |
| 2005 | Royce Frith, Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (b. 1923) |
| 2006 | Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer (b. 1913) |
| 2007 | John Backus, American mathematician and computer scientist, designed Fortran (b. 1924) |
| 2008 | Roland Arnall, French-American businessman and diplomat, 63rd United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1939) |
| 2009 | Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian television host and politician (b. 1937) |
| 2010 | Alex Chilton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1950) |
| 2011 | Michael Gough, English actor (b. 1916) |
| 2012 | Shenouda III, pope of Alexandria (b. 1923) |
| 2013 | William B. Caldwell III, American general (b. 1925) |
| 2014 | Marek Galiński, Polish cyclist (b. 1974) |
| 2015 | Frank Perris, Canadian motorcycle racer (b. 1931) |
| 2016 | Meir Dagan, Israeli general (b. 1945) |
| 2018 | Mike MacDonald, Canadian comedian (b. 1954) |
| 2021 | John Magufuli, the fifth President of Tanzania (b. 1959) |
| 624 | Amr ibn Hishām, Arab polytheist |
| 659 | Gertrude of Nivelles, Frankish abbess |
| 836 | Haito, bishop of Basel |
| 905 | Li Yu, Prince of De, prince and emperor of the Tang Dynasty |
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