Died on This Day 17-Aug

Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: 17-Aug

Died on This Day (17-Aug)

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Cedric Benson	Cedric Myron Benson was an American professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League .	American football playe	36	1
	Arthur Hiller	Arthur Hiller, was a Canadian-American television and film director with over 33 films to his credit during a 50-year career.	American television and film director	92	4
	Jack Harshman	John Elvin Harshman was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the New York Giants, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, and Cleveland Indians between 1948 and 1960.	American baseball player	86	7
	Francesco Cossiga	Francesco Cossiga was an Italian politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Party of Italy, he was Prime Minister of Italy from 1979 to 1980 and the eighth President of Italy from 1985 to 1992.	President of the Italian Republic	82	10
	Mabel Hokin	Mabel Ruth Hokin was a biochemist who spent most of her professional career conducting fundamental research in the University of Wisconsin Medical School.	English Biochemist	79	17
	Robert Gilruth	Robert Rowe Gilruth was an American aerospace engineer and an aviation/space pioneer who was the first director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, later renamed the Lyndon B.	NASA director	86	20
	Pearl Bailey	Pearl Mae Bailey was an American actress and singer.	American singer	72	30
	Charles W. Ryder	Major General Charles Wolcott Ryder CB was a senior United States Army officer who served with distinction in both World War I and World War II.	Recipient of the Purple Heart medal	68	60
	Francis Oswald Lindley	Sir Francis Oswald Lindley was a British diplomat who was HM Consul-General in Russia in 1919, British High Commissioner in Vienna 1919–1920, Ambassador to Austria 1920–1921, Ambassador to Greece 1922–1923, Minister in Oslo 1923–1929, Ambassador to Portugal 1929–1931, and finally Ambassador to Japan 1931–1934.	British diplomat	78	70
	Ray Chapman	Raymond Johnson Chapman was an American baseball player.	Major league baseball player	29	100

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Fadwa Souleimane	Fadwa Souleimane was a Syrian actress of Alawite descent who led a Sunni-majority protest against Bashar al-Assad's government in Homs.	Syrian actress	47	3
	Yvonne Craig	Yvonne Joyce Craig was an American ballet dancer and actress best known for her role as Batgirl in the 1960s television series Batman and as the green-skinned Orion slave girl Marta in the Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy" .	American ballet dancer and actress	78	5
	Aase Bjerkholt	Aase Ingerid Nathalie Bjerkholt was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.	Norwegian politician	97	8
	John N. Bahcall	John Norris Bahcall was an American astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.	American physicist	70	15
	Jimmy Bloodworth	James Henry Bloodworth was a professional baseball second baseman who played in Major League Baseball for the Washington Senators , Detroit Tigers , Pittsburgh Pirates , Cincinnati Reds , and Philadelphia Phillies .	American baseball player	85	18
	Ted Whitten	Edward James Whitten OAM better known as Ted Whitten or E.	Australian rules footballer	62	25
	John B. Parkin	John Burnett Parkin was a Canadian architect. Parkin is best known as the principal of the firm John B.	Canadian architect	64	45
	Fernand Léger	Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.	French painter	74	65
	Dragutin Keserović	Dragutin Keserović was a Serbian military commander holding the rank of Major and Lieutenant Colonel during World War II.	Serbian war commander	48	75
	Joshua Fry Bell	Joshua Fry Bell was a Kentucky political figure. Bell was born in Danville, Kentucky, where he attended public schools and then Centre College, where he graduated in 1828.	American politician	58	150