October 17
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October 17 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining after October 17 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1582 – Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)
- 1696 – King Augustus III of Poland (d. 1763)
- 1760 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, French economist and philosopher (d. 1825)
- 1813 – Georg Buechner, German playwright (d. 1837)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1925 – Harry Carpenter, English sports commentator (d. 2010)
- 1933 – Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (d. 1985)
- 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
- 1948 – Robert Jordan, American author (d. 2007)
- 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
- 1968 – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican musician
- 1969 – Ernie Els, South African golfer
- 1971 – Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer ('N Sync)
- 1972 – Wyclef Jean, Haitian singer and musician
- 1972 – Tarkan, Turkish singer
- 1972 – Eminem, American rapper and musician
- 1976 – Sebastian Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
- 1977 – Andre Villas-Boas, Portuguese football manager
- 1979 – Kimi Raikkonen, Finnish racing driver
- 1983 – Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
[change] Deaths
- 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)
- 1837 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
- 1849 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)
- 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)
- 1973 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926)
- 1978 – Giovanni Gronchi, President of Italy (b. 1887)
- 1979 – S. J. Perelman, American writer (b. 1904)
- 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)
- 1998 – Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
- 2001 – Rehavam Zeevi, 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)
[change] Events
- 1610 – King Louis XIII of France is crowned.
- 1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France.
- 1777 – American troops defeat British troops at the Battle of Saratoga.
- 1854 – The Age, a Melbourne newspaper, begins publication.
- 1860 – In golf, the Open Championship is held for the first time, in Prestwick, Scotland.
- 1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
- 1933 – Albert Einstein flees to the United States.
- 1961 – A police clampdown, under the authority of Maurice Papon, turns a peaceful demonstration in support of Algerian independence in Paris into a massacre.
- 1966 – Botswana and Lesotho join the UN.
- 1970 – October Crisis: Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec, is found murdered.
- 1979 – Mother Theresa wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 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.
- 1998 – An oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria kills around 1,200 people.
- 2000 – A deadly rail crash occurs at Hatfield, north of London.
- 2003 – The pinnacle is fitted to the Taipei 101 building.
- 2006 – According to official estimates, the population of the United States reaches 300 million.
