Gregory of Tours died on this date in 594. In his "History of the Franks", Gregory stated that a heretic with powers of prophecy who was executed in Bourges was an Antichrist. Furthermore, the world was set to end 208 years after his writing - meaning sometime between 799 and 806 CE.
On November 17, 1624, Jakob Boehme died. He was a theosophist who claimed both Emperor Rudolph II, and Rudolph's succeeding brother Matthias, were the Antichrist.
And on November 17, 1858, Robert Owen died, a utopian socialist and founder of the city of New Harmony, Indiana. Like Charles Fourier and other prominent utopians, Owen preached an earthly Millennium, and founded separatist communities to help cultivate it. Fourier, for instance, called himself the Messiah of Reason.
