October 17th Deaths |
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| October 17th, 2007 (October 17 2007) | Death | Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (born in 1918) | |
| October 17th, 2007 (October 17 2007) | Death | Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (born in 1931) | |
| October 17th, 2006 (October 17 2006) | Death | Daniel Emilfork, French actor (born in 1924) | |
| October 17th, 2006 (October 17 2006) | Death | Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (born in 1938) | |
| October 17th, 2005 (October 17 2005) | Death | Ba Jin, Chinese writer (born in 1904) | Ba Jin Quotes |
| October 17th, 2005 (October 17 2005) | Death | Franky Gee, European techno artist (born in 1962) | |
| October 17th, 2004 (October 17 2004) | Death | Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (born in 1952) | |
| October 17th, 2002 (October 17 2002) | Death | Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (born in 1935) | |
| October 17th, 2002 (October 17 2002) | Death | Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (born in 1906) | |
| October 17th, 2001 (October 17 2001) | Death | Jay Livingston, American songwriter (born in 1915) | |
| October 17th, 2001 (October 17 2001) | Death | Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (born in 1926) | |
| October 17th, 2000 (October 17 2000) | Death | Leo Nomellini, wrestler (born in 1924) | |
| October 17th, 1999 (October 17 1999) | Death | Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (born in 1915) | |
| October 17th, 1998 (October 17 1998) | Death | Joan Hickson, British actress (born in 1906) | |
| October 17th, 1998 (October 17 1998) | Death | Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist | |
| October 17th, 1996 (October 17 1996) | Death | Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (born in 1966) | |
| October 17th, 1993 (October 17 1993) | Death | Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage) (born in 1963) | |
| October 17th, 1992 (October 17 1992) | Death | Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (born in 1912) | |
| October 17th, 1992 (October 17 1992) | Death | Orestis Laskos, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor (born in 1908) | |
| October 17th, 1991 (October 17 1991) | Death | Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (born in 1919) | |
| October 17th, 1983 (October 17 1983) | Death | Raymond Aron, French philosopher (born in 1905) | Philo Quotes |
| October 17th, 1981 (October 17 1981) | Death | Albert Cohen, Swiss author (born in 1895) | |
| October 17th, 1979 (October 17 1979) | Death | S. J. Perelman, American writer (born in 1904) | S. J. Perelman Quotes |
| October 17th, 1979 (October 17 1979) | Death | John Stuart, Scottish actor (born in 1898) | John Scott Quotes |
| October 17th, 1973 (October 17 1973) | Death | Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (born in 1926) | |
| October 17th, 1972 (October 17 1972) | Death | Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1914) | |
| October 17th, 1972 (October 17 1972) | Death | Prince George of Yugoslavia (born in 1887) | |
| October 17th, 1972 (October 17 1972) | Death | Billy Williams, American singer (born in 1910) | |
| October 17th, 1970 (October 17 1970) | Death | Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (born in 1921) | |
| October 17th, 1970 (October 17 1970) | Death | Vola Vale, American actress (born in 1897) | |
| October 17th, 1967 (October 17 1967) | Death | Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (born in 1906) | |
| October 17th, 1966 (October 17 1966) | Death | Wieland Wagner, German stage director (born in 1917) | |
| October 17th, 1965 (October 17 1965) | Death | John Barton King, Philadelphian cricketer (born in 1873) | |
| October 17th, 1963 (October 17 1963) | Death | Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (born in 1865) | |
| October 17th, 1962 (October 17 1962) | Death | Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (born in 1882) | |
| October 17th, 1958 (October 17 1958) | Death | Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (born in 1876) | |
| October 17th, 1958 (October 17 1958) | Death | Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (born in 1896) | |
| October 17th, 1956 (October 17 1956) | Death | Anne Crawford, British film actor (born in 1920) | |
| October 17th, 1943 (October 17 1943) | Death | Stefan Starzynski, Polish politician (born in 1893) | |
| October 17th, 1938 (October 17 1938) | Death | Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (born in 1854) | Karl Marx Quotes |
| October 17th, 1934 (October 17 1934) | Death | Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1852) | |
| October 17th, 1931 (October 17 1931) | Death | Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (born in 1884) | |
| October 17th, 1910 (October 17 1910) | Death | Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (born in 1819) | Julia Ward Howe Quotes |
| October 17th, 1889 (October 17 1889) | Death | Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (born in 1828) | Philo Quotes |
| October 17th, 1887 (October 17 1887) | Death | Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (born in 1824) | |
| October 17th, 1868 (October 17 1868) | Death | Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (born in 1775) | |
| October 17th, 1849 (October 17 1849) | Death | Frederic Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (born in 1810) | |
| October 17th, 1837 (October 17 1837) | Death | Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer (born in 1778) | |
| October 17th, 1836 (October 17 1836) | Death | Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (born in 1782) | |
| October 17th, 1806 (October 17 1806) | Death | Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader (born in 1758) | |
| October 17th, 1786 (October 17 1786) | Death | Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (born in 1723) | |
| October 17th, 1780 (October 17 1780) | Death | William Cookworthy, English chemist (born in 1705) | |
| October 17th, 1776 (October 17 1776) | Death | Pierre Francois le Courayer, French theologian (born in 1681) | |
| October 17th, 1757 (October 17 1757) | Death | Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, French scientist (born in 1683) | |
| October 17th, 1673 (October 17 1673) | Death | Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (born in 1630) | |
| October 17th, 1660 (October 17 1660) | Death | Adrian Scrope, English regicide (born in 1601) | |
| October 17th, 1616 (October 17 1616) | Death | John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (born in 1560) | |
| October 17th, 1586 (October 17 1586) | Death | Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle) (born in 1554) | Philip Sidney Quotes |
| October 17th, 1174 (October 17 1174) | Death | Queen Petronila of Aragon (born in 1135) | |
| October 17th, 0532 (October 17 0532) | Death | Pope Boniface II | |
