Famous people died in 17 December

Jennifer Jones was an American actress, who dominated the silver screen during the Hollywood golden years

Victor Francis Hess was an Austrian-American physicist who won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of cosmic radiation

Marie Louise was the Duchess of Parma from 1814 until her death

Leopold II was the second King of the Belgians and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State

William Thomson was a renowned physicist from Britain who formulated the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and invented the Kelvin scale of temperature

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was a 19th century English physician, the first woman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain.

Kim Jong-il was the supreme leader of North Korea for 17 years, from 1994 to 2011

Harold Holt was the 17th Prime Minister of Australia

Charles Greeley Abbot was an American astrophysicist, best known for his research in the field of solar energy

Queen Anna Nzinga was an influential and astute 17th-century queen who ruled the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundu people in Angola

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