June 17th
129 Notable deaths
Gurgen Mahari
Armenian writer and poet.
Born August 1st, 1903 in Van.
Died June 17th, 1969 at 65 years old in Palanga.
György Kárpáti
Hungarian water polo player and coach.
Born June 23rd, 1935 in Budapest.
Died June 17th, 2020 at 84 years old in Budapest.
Paul England
Australian racing driver.
Born March 28th, 1929 in Melbourne.
Died June 17th, 2014 at 85 years old in Melbourne. [ref]
Pyotr Pavlenko
Soviet writer and screenwriter.
Born July 11th, 1899 in Saint Petersburg.
Died June 17th, 1951 at 51 years old in Moscow.
Paul-Émile de Souza
President of dahomey.
Born July 14th, 1930 in Ouidah. [ref]
Died June 17th, 1999 at 68 years old in Benin.
Augusto Samuel Boyd
President of panama (1879-1957).
Born August 1st, 1879 in Panama City.
Died June 17th, 1957 at 77 years old in Panama City.
Aleksei Kruchenykh
Russian writer (1886-1968).
Born February 9th, 1886. [ref]
Died June 17th, 1968 at 82 years old in Moscow. [ref]
Petr Král
Czech poet, essayist and writer (1941-2020).
Born September 4th, 1941 in Olomouc, Prague. [ref]
Died June 17th, 2020 at 78 years old in Prague. [ref]
Heinz Hellmich
German generalleutnant during world war ii.
Born June 9th, 1890 in Karlsruhe.
Died June 17th, 1944 at 54 years old in Cherbourg-Octeville.
Henrik Lund
Greenlandic lutheran pastor, poet, painter, and author of greenland's national anthem (1875-1948).
Born September 29th, 1875 in Nanortalik.
Died June 17th, 1948 at 72 years old in Narsaq. [ref]
Deaths 91 to 100 of 129
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner