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Unusual Deaths in 1977

* Tom pryce, a formula one driver, and a 19-year-old track marshal jansen van vuuren both died at the 1977 south african grand prix after van vuuren ran across the track beyond a blind brow to attend to another car which had caught fire and was struck by pryce’s car at approximately 170mph. pryce was struck in the face by the marshal’s fire extinguisher and was killed instantly.

Natural disasters in 1977

* 1977 Bucharest earthquake
* Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977
* Independence Day Derecho of 1977
* 1977 San Juan earthquake

People who died on October 17 (various years)

* 2006 - Christopher Glenn, American newscaster
* 2006 - Daniel Emilfork, French actor
* 2005 - Franky Gee, European techno artist
* 2005 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer
* 2004 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer
* 2002 - Aileen Riggin, American swimmer
* 2002 - Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans)
* 2001 - Jay Livingston, American songwriter
* 2001 - Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician
* 2000 - Leo Nomellini, wrestler
* 1999 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist
* 1998 - Joan Hickson, British actress
* 1998 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist
* 1996 - Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush)
* 1993 - Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage)
* 1992 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician
* 1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer
* 1983 - Raymond Aron, French philosopher
* 1981 - Albert Cohen, Swiss author
* 1979 - S. J. Perelman, American writer
* 1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer
* 1972 - Turk Broda, National Hockey League goaltender
* 1972 - Prince George of Yugoslavia
* 1970 - Vola Vale, American actress
* 1970 - Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated)
* 1967 - Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China
* 1966 - Wieland Wagner, German stage director
* 1965 - John Barton King, Philadelphian cricketer
* 1963 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician
* 1962 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter
* 1958 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer
* 1958 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer
* 1943 - Stefan Starzy?ski, Polish politician
* 1938 - Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician
* 1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist
* 1910 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist
* 1889 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher
* 1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist
* 1868 - Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812
* 1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer
* 1836 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter
* 1806 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader
* 1786 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist
* 1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist
* 1776 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian
* 1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist
* 1673 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman
* 1660 - Adrian Scrope, English regicide
* 1616 - John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer.
* 1586 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle)
* 1174 - Queen Petronila of Aragon
* 532 - Pope Boniface II

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