Famous Deaths for 17th December 2025

1651 – Wolfgang Schonsleder, German composer (Missa super Laudate), and clergyman, dies at 81
1811 – John Antes, American composer and missionary, dies at 71
1881 – Lewis H Morgan, US ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62
1891 – Msiri, ruler of the Garanganze Kingdom, Congo (Katanga), dies in battle against Belgian funded expedition
1892 – George Brayton, American engineer who developed the Brayton Cycle combustion engine, dies at 62
1946 – Constance Garnett, English translator of Russian (first to translate Chekhov and Dostoevsky into English), dies at 84
1967 – Barry Byrne, American architect (Church of St. Francis Xavier in Kansas City), dies at 83
1992 – Günther Anders, German Jewish philosopher, dies at 90
1994 – Jan Wiegel, director and producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64
2011 – Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of North Korea (1994-2011), dies of a suspected heart attack at 70

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