October 17
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October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1563 - Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer (d. 1611)
- 1582 – Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)
- 1688 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (d. 1726)
- 1696 – King Augustus III of Poland (d. 1763)
- 1720 - Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian composer (d. 1795)
- 1729 - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer (d. 1817)
- 1734 - Grigori Grigoryevich Orlov, Russian politician (d. 1783)
- 1760 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, French economist and philosopher (d. 1825)
- 1780 - Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
- 1813 – Georg Buechner, German playwright (d. 1837)
- 1814 - Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian writer and professor (d. 1888)
- 1817 – Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Bahadur, Hindustani intellectual (d. 1898)
- 1835 – Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch adventurer, explorer and photographer (d. 1869)
- 1853 – Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
- 1864 - Robert Lansing, United States Secretary of State (d. 1928)
- 1865 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950)
- 1883 - Alexander Sutherland Neill, Scottish educator (d. 1973)
- 1883 - Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (d. 1966)
- 1886 - Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971)
- 1890 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
- 1892 - Herbert Howells, English composer (d. 1983)
- 1892 - Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (d. 1943)
- 1898 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violin teacher (d. 1998)
- 1898 – Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer (d. 1971)
- 1900 – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1903 – Nathanael West, American writer (d. 1940)
- 1912 – Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani) (d. 1978)
- 1912 - Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter (d. 1982)
- 1914 – Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (d. 1992)
- 1915 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
- 1918 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
- 1919 – Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (d. 2010)
- 1921 - George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet (d. 1996)
- 1923 - Henryk Gulbinowicz, Slovakian cardinal and archbishop
- 1925 – Harry Carpenter, English sports commentator (d. 2010)
- 1926 - Julie Adams, American film actress
- 1930 - Robert Atkins, American nutritionist
- 1933 - Bill Anders, American astronaut
- 1933 – Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (d. 1985)
- 1937 - Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (d. 2003)
- 1938 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil and stuntman (d. 2007)
- 1945 – Graca Machel, Mozambican politician and humanitarian, former First Lady of Mozambique and South Africa
- 1946 – Adam Michnik, Polish journalist and activist
- 1946 - Cameron Mackintosh, British theatre and musical producer
- 1946 - Bob Seagren, American athlete
- 1947 - Gene Green, American politician
- 1948 – Robert Jordan, American author (d. 2007)
- 1949 - Owen Arthur, Barbadian Prime Minister
- 1950 - Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1951 - Shari Ulrich, Canadian musician and songwriter
- 1954 - Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer
- 1956 - Mae Jemison, American actress
- 1956 - Patrick McCrory, American politician
- 1958 – Alan Jackson, American singer and songwriter
- 1962 – Mike Judge, American cartoonist, filmmaker and voice actor
- 1963 – Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer
- 1966 – Mark Gatiss, English actor and writer
- 1967 - Rene Dif, Danish musician (Aqua)
- 1968 – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican musician
- 1969 – Ernie Els, South African golfer
- 1970 - Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
- 1971 – Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer ('N Sync)
- 1972 – Wyclef Jean, Haitian singer and musician
- 1972 – Tarkan, Turkish singer
- 1972 – Eminem, American rapper and musician
- 1974 - Matthew Macfadyen, British actor
- 1976 – Sebastian Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
- 1977 – Andre Villas-Boas, Portuguese football manager
- 1978 - Jerry Flannery, Irish rugby player
- 1979 – Kimi Raikkonen, Finnish racing driver
- 1983 – Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
- 1984 - Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player
- 1985 - Collins John, Dutch footballer
- 1988 - Christina Crawford, American dancer and professional wrestler
- 1988 - Yuko Oshima, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
Deaths [change]
- 33 - Agrippina the Elder, wife of Germanicus (b. 14 BC)
- 532 – Pope Boniface II
- 1174 – Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
- 1586 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle) (b. 1554)
- 1660 – Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
- 1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
- 1757 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
- 1776 – Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
- 1780 – William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
- 1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
- 1806 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader (b. 1758)
- 1836 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
- 1837 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
- 1849 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)
- 1868 - Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
- 1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
- 1910 – Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (b. 1819)
- 1931 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
- 1934 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1852)
- 1938 – Karl Kautsky, German-Czech philosopher (b. 1854)
- 1958 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
- 1962 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)
- 1963 – Jacques Hadamord, French mathematician (b. 1865)
- 1967 – Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
- 1970 – Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
- 1972 - Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
- 1972 - George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
- 1973 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926)
- 1978 – Giovanni Gronchi, President of Italy (b. 1887)
- 1979 – S. J. Perelman, American writer (b. 1904)
- 1983 - Raymond Aron, French philosopher (b. 1905)
- 1984 – Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
- 1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (b. 1919)
- 1992 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
- 1994 - Dmitry Kholodov, Russian journalist (b. 1967)
- 1998 – Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
- 2001 – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
- 2002 – Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935)
- 2004 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (b. 1952)
- 2005 – Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
- 2007 – Joey Bishop, American entertainer (b. 1918)
- 2008 - Levi Stubbs, American baritone singer (b. 1936)
- 2011 - Manfred Gerlach, German politician (b. 1928)
- 2012 - Emile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
- 2012 - Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress, model and singer (b. 1952)
Events [change]
- 1091 - A strong tornado strikes Central London.
- 1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England, near Durham, and is imprisoned in the Tower of London for 11 years.
- 1448 - Second Battle of Kosovo: A mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
- 1604 - Johannes Kepler observes a supernova, seeing it in the constellation Orphiucus.
- 1610 – King Louis XIII of France is crowned.
- 1660 - Execution of nine men who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.
- 1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France.
- 1771 - First performance of the opera Ascani in Alba, in Milan. It was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was only 15 years old at the time.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American troops defeat British troops at the Battle of Saratoga.
- 1781 - American Revolutionary War: British general Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1800 - Great Britain takes control of the Dutch Caribbean colony of Curacao.
- 1806 - Former Haitian Revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines is killed.
- 1813 - Chilean War of Independence: The Chilean army under Bernardo O'Higgins, in a battle it appeared to have lost, manages to score a victory against a royalist army, in the Battle at El Roble.
- 1854 – The Age, a Melbourne newspaper, begins publication.
- 1860 – In golf, the Open Championship is held for the first time, in Prestwick, Scotland.
- 1905 - The October Manifesto is issued by Nicholas II of Russia.
- 1907 - Guglielmo Marconi's company begins his first commercial Transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia and Clifden, Ireland.
- 1912 - Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
- 1917 - First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
- 1919 - Alfonso XIII of Spain opens the first line of the Madrid Metro.
- 1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
- 1933 – Albert Einstein flees to the United States.
- 1941 - World War II: For the first time in the war, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
- 1941 - World War II: German Wehrmacht troops execute the entire male population of the village of Kerdyllia, Serres, Greece.
- 1943 - The Burma railway is completed.
- 1956 - The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Elizabeth II at Sellafield, Cumbria.
- 1961 – A police clampdown, under the authority of Maurice Papon, turns a peaceful demonstration in support of Algerian independence in Paris into a massacre.
- 1964 - Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in central Canberra.
- 1966 – Botswana and Lesotho join the UN.
- 1966 - A fire in a New York City building kills 12 firefighters.
- 1970 – October Crisis: Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec, is found murdered.
- 1973 - OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of Western countries.
- 1979 – Mother Theresa wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1979 - The United States Department of Education and United States Department of Health and Human Services are created.
- 1980 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom makes a state visit to Vatican City.
- 1989 – 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake: An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 hits the San Francisco Bay Area, killing 57 people directly, and 6 indirectly. Widespread damage is caused to buildings and roads.
- 1994 - Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is murdered while investigating corruption in the Armed Forces.
- 1995 - Jeanne Calment officially becomes the longest-lived human ever on this date, though she actually reached this milestone much earlier as the claim of Shigechiyo Izumi to have reached the age of 120 years is no longer considered to be true.
- 1998 – An oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria kills around 1,200 people.
- 2000 – A deadly rail crash occurs at Hatfield, north of London.
- 2001 - Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi is killed in a terrorist attack.
- 2003 – The pinnacle is fitted to the Taipei 101 building.
- 2006 – According to official estimates, the population of the United States reaches 300 million.
