Did you know
JD Souther recorded two hit songs in his solo career: "You're Only Lonely" (1979) and "Her Town Too" (1981), a duet with James Taylor.
Notable Deaths on September 17
2024 — JD Souther
American singer, songwriter, and actor (born 1945)
September 17 has 117 recorded notable deaths across history, from 456 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
117 source records
456 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on September 17
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1849 American abolitionist Harriet Tubman makes her first attempt to escape from slavery. Source
- 1787 The United States Constitution is signed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, bringing the Constitutional Convention to an end. Source
- 1778 The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe. Source
- 1543 The first Finnish-language book, the Abckiria by Mikael Agricola, is published in Stockholm. Source
Did you know
According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can be scrutinised with decisive experiments.
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Ali Adnan Ertekin Menderes was a Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister of Turkey between 1950 and 1960.
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William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.
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Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the World Straight Pool Championship nineteen times.
More major people who died on September 17
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1994
Karl Popper
Austrian-English philosopher and academic (born 1902)
Sir Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator.
1961
Adnan Menderes
Turkish lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1899)
Ali Adnan Ertekin Menderes was a Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister of Turkey between 1950 and 1960.
1877
Henry Fox Talbot
English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (born 1800)
William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.
1993
Willie Mosconi
American pool player and actor (born 1913)
William Joseph Mosconi was an American professional pool player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mosconi is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all time.
2013
Larry Lake
American-Canadian trumpet player and composer (born 1943)
Larry Ellsworth Lake was an American-born Canadian composer, trumpeter, freelance writer on music, radio broadcaster, and record producer. As a composer, he was primarily known for his electronic music.
1878
Orélie-Antoine de Tounens
French lawyer and adventurer (born 1825)
Orélie-Antoine de Tounens was a French avoué and adventurer who proclaimed by two decrees on 17 and 20 November 1860 that Araucanía and Patagonia did not depend of any other states and that he himself was King of…
1894
Deng Shichang
Chinese captain (born 1849)
Deng Shichang, courtesy name Zhengqing, posthumous name Zhuangjie, was an Imperial Chinese Navy officer who lived in the late Qing dynasty.
1864
Walter Savage Landor
English author and poet (born 1775)
Walter Savage Landor was an English writer, poet, and activist.
1971
Carlos Lamarca
Brazilian captain (born 1937)
Carlos Lamarca was a Brazilian Army Captain who deserted to join the armed struggle against the Brazilian military dictatorship.
2014
Charles Read
Australian air marshal (born 1918)
Air Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Read, KBE, CB, DFC, AFC was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He served as Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) from 1972 to 1975.
1858
Dred Scott
American slave, plaintiff in the Dred Scott Decision (born 1795)
Dred Scott was an enslaved African-American man who, along with his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v.
2015
David Willcocks
English organist, composer, and conductor (born 1919)
Sir David Valentine Willcocks, was a British choral conductor, organist, composer and music administrator.
1999
Frankie Vaughan
English singer and actor (born 1928)
Frankie Vaughan was an English singer and actor who became popular in the 1950s and 60s, recording more than 80 easy listening and traditional pop singles in his lifetime. He was known as "Mr.
1179
Hildegard of Bingen
German abbess and polymath (born 1098)
Hildegard of Bingen, also known as the "Sibyl of the Rhine", was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active during the High Middle Ages as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical…
1936
Ettie Annie Rout
New Zealand author and activist (born 1877)
Ettie Annie Rout was a Tasmanian-born New Zealander whose work among servicemen in Paris and the Somme during World War I made her a war hero among the French, yet through the same events she became persona non grata in…
1938
Bruno Jasieński
Polish poet and author (born 1901)
Bruno Jasieński was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, Catastrophist, and leader of the Polish Futurist movement in the interwar period.
1953
Hans Feige
German general (Wehrmacht) (born 1880)
Hans Feige was a German career military officer who served in the Imperial German Army, the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht.
2020
Robert W. Gore
American engineer and businessman, co-inventor of Gore-Tex (born 1937)
Robert W. Gore was an American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman. Gore led his family's company, W. L.
1863
Charles Robert Cockerell
English archaeologist and architect (born 1788)
Charles Robert Cockerell was an English architect, archaeologist and writer. He studied architecture under Robert Smirke and embarked on an extended Grand Tour lasting seven years, mainly in Greece.