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Famous People Who Died in 1417

  • Apr 4 John van Touraine, 1st husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, dies
  • Jul 15 Willem Eggert, Dutch financier, 1st Lord of the free and high fief Purmerend and Purmerland, dies at 56 or 57
  • Sep 26 Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
  • Oct 18 Pope Gregory XII [Angelo Correr], Pope (1406-15), dies
  • Dec 1 Walraven I van Brederode, viceroy of Holland, dies
  • Dec 14 John Oldcastle, English nobleman and pro-protestant Lollard leader, whom Shakespeare based his Falstaff character on, hanged for heresy at 39