May 17
May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (138th in leap years). There are 228 days remaining.
1749 - Edward Jenner , inventor of the vaccine (+ 1823 )
1768 - Caroline of Brunswick , Princess of Wales (+ 1821 )
1794 - Anna Brownell Jameson , British writer (+ 1860 )
1821 - Sebastian Kneipp[?] , naturopathist[?] (+ 1897 )
1842 - August Thyssen[?] , industrialist (+ 1926 )
1844 - Julius Wellhausen , German biblical scholar (+ 1918 )
1866 - Erik Satie , French composer (+ 1925 )
1873 - Henri Barbusse , French novelist and journalist (+ 1935 )
1873 - Dorothy Richardson[?] , writer (+ 1957 )
1879 - Simon Petlyura , Ukrainian independence fighter (+ 1926 )
1886 - Alfonso XIII of Spain (+ 1941 )
1898 - Alfred Joseph Casson[?] painter (+ 1992 )
1900 - Ruhollah Khomeini , (+ 1981 )
1901 - Werner Egk[?] , composer (+ 1983 )
1904 - Jean Gabin[?] , actor (+ 1976 )
1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan , actress (+ 1998 )
1922 - Dennis Brain , French horn player (+ 1957 )
1922 - Antje Weisgerber[?] , actress
1924 - Hannes Messemer[?] , actor (+ 1991 )
1935 - Dennis Potter , writer
1936 - Dennis Hopper , actor , director
1937 - Hazel R. O'Leary , United States Secretary of Energy
1942 - Taj Mahal[?] , singer, guitarist
1946 - Udo Lindenberg[?] , musician
1950 - Janez Drnovsek , Slovene politician
1955 - Bill Paxton[?] , actor
1956 - Sugar Ray Leonard , boxer
1956 - Bob Saget[?] , actor
1961 - Enya , singer, songwriter
1965 - Trent Reznor , singer, songwriter ("Nine Inch Nails ")
1971 - Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti , wife of Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
1510 - Sandro Botticelli , painter of The birth of Venus
1575 - Matthew Parker , Archbishop of Canterbury
1727 - Catherine I of Russia
1729 - Samuel Clarke , English philosopher
1765 - Alexis Claude Clairault , French mathematician
1829 - John Jay , first Chief Justice of the United States
1838 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand , French diplomat
1839 - Archibald Alison , Scottish author
1875 - John C. Breckinridge , Vice President of the United States
1917 - Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke , ruler of Sarawak
1935 - Paul Dukas , composer
1947 - George William Forbes , Prime Minister of New Zealand
1956 - Austin Osman Spare , magician
1985 - Abe Burrows[?] , songwriter, composer, writer
1992 - Lawrence Welk , musician
2002 - Dave Berg , cartoonist for Mad magazine
National holiday of Norway (Constitution Day)
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of 'Azaamat (Grandeur) - First day of the forth month of the Bahá'í Calendar
See Also:
May 16 - May 18 - April 17 - June 17 -- listing of all days
January , February , March , April , May , June , July ,
August , September , October , November , December
explained by Tremellius as "we think , therefore."
CHAPTER XV.
Endnote 25 . (1) "That simple obedience is the path of salvation ." (2)
embrace the Divine decrees as laws or commands; there is no need to conceive
as appears from the demonstrations given in Chapter IV .
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