People who died on December 17

2003

Otto Graham, American football player (b: December 6, 1921 ; d: December 17, 2003)
   ► Biography of Otto Graham

Ed Devereaux (d: December 17, 2003)
   ► Biography of Ed Devereaux

1999

Grover Washington Jr., American musician (b: December 12, 1943 ; d: December 17, 1999)
   ► Biography of Grover Washington Jr.

1992

Dana Andrews, American actor (b: January 1, 1909 ; d: December 17, 1992)
   ► Biography of Dana Andrews

1987

Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (b: June 8, 1903 ; d: December 17, 1987)
   ► Biography of Marguerite Yourcenar

Irving Allen, American film producer and director (b: November 24, 1905 ; d: December 17, 1987)
   ► Biography of Irving Allen

1964

Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: June 24, 1883 ; d: December 17, 1964)
   ► Biography of Victor Franz Hess

1957

Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (b: June 13, 1893 ; d: December 17, 1957)
   ► Biography of Dorothy L. Sayers

1917

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (d: December 17, 1917)
   ► Biography of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

1909

King Léopold II of Belgium (b: April 9, 1835 ; d: December 17, 1909)
   ► Biography of Léopold II of Belgium

1907

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (d: December 17, 1907)
   ► Biography of William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

1897

Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (b: May 13, 1840 ; d: December 17, 1897)
   ► Biography of Alphonse Daudet

1830

Simón Bolívar, South American liberator (b: July 24, 1783 ; d: December 17, 1830)
   ► Biography of Simón Bolívar

1812

Kaspar Hauser (d: December 17, 1812)
   ► Biography of Kaspar Hauser

1721

Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough (d: December 17, 1721)
   ► Biography of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough

1663

Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (d: December 17, 1663)
   ► Biography of Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba

1273

Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (b: September 30, 1207 ; d: December 17, 1273)
   ► Biography of Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

1195

Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (d: December 17, 1195)
   ► Biography of Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut

1187

Pope Gregory VIII (d: December 17, 1187)
   ► Biography of Pope Gregory VIII

More on December, 17

• December, 17 in History
• People Born on December, 17