December 17th Deaths |
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| December 17th, 2006 (December 17 2006) | Death | Larry Sherry, American baseball player (born in 1935) | |
| December 17th, 2005 (December 17 2005) | Death | Jack Anderson, American journalist (born in 1922) | |
| December 17th, 2005 (December 17 2005) | Death | Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (Sol) (born in 1929) | |
| December 17th, 2004 (December 17 2004) | Death | Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (born in 1931) | |
| December 17th, 2003 (December 17 2003) | Death | Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (born in 1925) | |
| December 17th, 2003 (December 17 2003) | Death | Otto Graham, American football player (born in 1921) | |
| December 17th, 2002 (December 17 2002) | Death | James Hazeldine, English actor (born in 1947) | |
| December 17th, 1999 (December 17 1999) | Death | Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (born in 1920) | |
| December 17th, 1999 (December 17 1999) | Death | Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (born in 1943) | |
| December 17th, 1992 (December 17 1992) | Death | Dana Andrews, American actor (born in 1909) | |
| December 17th, 1987 (December 17 1987) | Death | Linda Wong, American porn star (born in 1951) | |
| December 17th, 1987 (December 17 1987) | Death | Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (born in 1903) | Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes |
| December 17th, 1982 (December 17 1982) | Death | Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (born in 1889) | Homer Quotes |
| December 17th, 1978 (December 17 1978) | Death | Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (born in 1934) | |
| December 17th, 1967 (December 17 1967) | Death | Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (born in 1908) | |
| December 17th, 1967 (December 17 1967) | Death | Jack Perrin, American actor (born in 1896) | |
| December 17th, 1964 (December 17 1964) | Death | Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1883) | |
| December 17th, 1962 (December 17 1962) | Death | Thomas Mitchell, American actor (born in 1892) | |
| December 17th, 1957 (December 17 1957) | Death | Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer (born in 1893) | |
| December 17th, 1940 (December 17 1940) | Death | Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (born in 1860) | |
| December 17th, 1933 (December 17 1933) | Death | Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (born in 1876) | |
| December 17th, 1929 (December 17 1929) | Death | Manuel Gomes da Costa, 96th Prime Minister of Portugal and 10th President of Portugal (born in 1863) | |
| December 17th, 1917 (December 17 1917) | Death | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (born in 1836) | Beth Anderson Quotes |
| December 17th, 1917 (December 17 1917) | Death | Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (born in 1878) | |
| December 17th, 1909 (December 17 1909) | Death | Leopold II of Belgium (born in 1835) | |
| December 17th, 1907 (December 17 1907) | Death | William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (born in 1824) | William Thomson Quotes |
| December 17th, 1860 (December 17 1860) | Death | Desiree Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (born in 1777) | |
| December 17th, 1847 (December 17 1847) | Death | Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (born in 1791) | |
| December 17th, 1833 (December 17 1833) | Death | Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (born in 1812) | |
| December 17th, 1830 (December 17 1830) | Death | Simon Bolivar, Venezuelan-born libertator, six nations (born in 1783) | Simon Bolivar Quotes |
| December 17th, 1721 (December 17 1721) | Death | Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (born in 1640) | |
| December 17th, 1663 (December 17 1663) | Death | Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (born in 1583) | |
| December 17th, 1273 (December 17 1273) | Death | Rumi (b.1207) | |
| December 17th, 1195 (December 17 1195) | Death | Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (born in 1150) | |
| December 17th, 1187 (December 17 1187) | Death | Pope Gregory VIII | |
| December 17th, 0942 (December 17 0942) | Death | William Longsword | |
| December 17th, 0535 (December 17 0535) | Death | Emperor Ankan of Japan (born in 466) | |
