October 17th
167 Notable deaths
Kōji Tsujitani
Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and director of audiography.
Born April 26th, 1962 in Kodaira.
Died October 17th, 2018 at 56 years old in Tokyo (stroke). [ref]
Bernt Balchen
Aviation pioneer and united states army officer (1899-1973).
Born October 23rd, 1899 in Tveit.
Died October 17th, 1973 at 73 years old in Mount Kisco (bone cancer).
Pavel Haas
Czech composer.
Born June 21st, 1899 in Brno. [ref]
Died October 17th, 1944 at 45 years old in Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp. [ref]
Carlo Michelstaedter
Italian philosopher (1887-1910).
Born June 3rd, 1887 in Gorizia. [ref]
Died October 17th, 1910 at 23 years old in Gorizia (ballistic trauma). [ref]
John Halliday
American stage and screen actor (1880-1947).
Born September 14th, 1884 in Brooklyn.
Died October 17th, 1947 at 63 years old in Honolulu.
Javier Suarez
Estudiante del sena.
Born April 7th, 1924 in Providencia. [ref]
Died October 17th, 2006 at 82 years old in 18th arrondissement of Paris. [ref]
Ellsworth Huntington
American geographer (1876-1947).
Born September 16th, 1876 in Galesburg.
Died October 17th, 1947 at 71 years old in New Haven.
John Stuart
Actor (1898-1979).
Born July 18th, 1898 in Edinburgh. [ref]
Died October 17th, 1979 at 81 years old in London (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Avetik Isahakyan
Soviet armenian poet (1875-1957).
Born October 30th, 1875 in Gyumri.
Died October 17th, 1957 at 81 years old in Yerevan.
May Ziadeh
Palestinian writer (1886-1941).
Born February 11th, 1886 in Nazareth. [ref]
Died October 17th, 1941 at 55 years old in Cairo.
Deaths 71 to 80 of 167
You’ll drift apart, it’s true, but you’ll be out in the open, part of everything alive again. Philip Pullman