Famous birthdays, deaths and events of July 17
Birthdays
- 1239 - Edward Longshanks, English king (d. 1307)
- 1487 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
- 1674 - Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (d. 1748)
- 1698 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
- 1744 - Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States (d. 1814)
- 1745 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
- 1763 - John Jacob Astor, American businessman (d. 1848)
- 1797 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
- 1831 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
- 1839 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
- 1888 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer
- 1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (Perry Mason) (d. 1970)
- 1898 - George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (d. 1985)
- 1898 - Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999)
- 1898 - Berenice Abbott, American photographer (d. 1991)
- 1899 - James Cagney, American actor (d.1986)
- 1900 - Marcel Dalio, French actor (d. 1983)
- 1901 - Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and team owner (NART; d. 1994)
- 1901 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
- 1902 - Christina Stead, Australian novelist (d. 1983)
- 1911 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
- 1912 - Art Linkletter, Canadian television host
- 1912 - Erwin Bauer, German racing driver (d. 1958)
- 1913 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
- 1917 - Phyllis Diller, American comedian
- 1917 - Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980)
- 1917 - Lou Boudreau, Major League baseball player and manager (d. 2001)
- 1918 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
- 1920 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish chairman of the International Olympic Committee
- 1920 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sports commentator (d. 2002)
- 1920 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
- 1921 - František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
- 1923 - John Cooper, English race car designer (d. 2000)
- 1926 - Édouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler
- 1926 - Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
- 1928 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976)
- 1929 - Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
- 1932 - Hal Riney, American advertising executive (d. 2008)
- 1933 - Bruce Wells, British boxer & actor
- 1933 - Tony Pithey, Former South African Cricketer (d. 2006)
- 1935 - Diahann Carroll, American actor
- 1935 - Peter Schickele, American author and radio host
- 1935 - Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
- 1939 - Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
- 1939 - Andrée Champagne, French Canadian actress and politician
- 1939 - Spencer Davis, British singer and guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
- 1940 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
- 1941 - Daryle Lamonica, American football player
- 1941 - Achim Warmbold, German rally driver
- 1941 - Bob Taylor, Former English Cricketer
- 1942 - Gale Garnett, Canadian singer
- 1942 - Don Kessinger, American baseball player
- 1942 - Peter Sissons, British newsreader
- 1944 - Carlos Alberto, Brazilian football player
- 1944 - Catherine Schell, Hungarian born British actress
- 1944 - Mark Burgess, Former New Zealand Cricketer
- 1945 - Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
- 1946 - Alun Armstrong, English actor
- 1947 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
- 1947 - Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)
- 1948 - Ron Asheton, American musician and composer (Iggy Pop & The Stooges)
- 1948 - Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director
- 1949 - Terence "Geezer" Butler, British musician and lyricist (Black Sabbath)
- 1949 - Charlie Steiner, American sports broadcaster
- 1951 - Lucie Arnaz, American actress
- 1950 - Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
- 1950 - P.J. Soles, German-born American actress
- 1952 - David Hasselhoff, American actor and musician
- 1952 - Phoebe Laub, American singer and songwriter
- 1952 - Nicolette Larson, American singer (d. 1997)
- 1954 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
- 1954 - J. Michael Straczynski, American author
- 1955 - Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist
- 1955 - Christopher Chappell, Former Canadian Cricketer
- 1956 - Robert Romanus, American actor
- 1956 - Bryan Trottier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1957 - Fern Britton, British television presenter
- 1958 - Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director
- 1960 - Mark Burnett, English-born television producer
- 1960 - Nancy Giles, American actress
- 1960 - Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor
- 1960 - Jan Wouters, Dutch football player and manager
- 1960 - Dawn Upshaw, American soprano
- 1960 - Kim Barnett, Former English Cricketer
- 1961 - Jonathan Potts, Canadian actor
- 1962 - Bill Sage, American actor
- 1963 - Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
- 1963 - Letsie III, King of Lesotho
- 1963 - John Ventimiglia, American actor
- 1965 - Craig Morgan, American singer
- 1965 - Alex Winter, English film director
- 1965 - Santiago Segura, Spanish film director and actor
- 1966 - Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician
- 1968 - Beth Littleford, American comedian
- 1968 - Bitty Schram, American actress
- 1970 - Mandy Smith, English model and singer
- 1971 - Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player
- 1971 - Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
- 1971 - Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist
- 1972 - Jason Rullo, American drummer (Symphony X
- 1972 - Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
- 1973 - Eric Moulds, American football player
- 1973 - Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer
- 1973 - Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian and actor
- 1974 - Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician
- 1975 - Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
- 1975 - Cécile de France, Belgian actress
- 1975 - Paul Hinojos, American guitarist (At the Drive-In
- 1975 - Konnie Huq, English television presenter
- 1975 - Terence Tao, Australian-Chinese mathematician
- 1975 - Gino D'Acampo, Italian celebrity chef
- 1975 - Andre Adams, Former New Zealand Cricketer
- 1976 - Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress
- 1976 - Eric Winter, American actor
- 1976 - Matthew Holmes, Australian actor
- 1977 - M.I.A., British rapper
- 1977 - Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer
- 1977 - Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player
- 1977 - Tiffany Taylor, American model
- 1978 - Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler
- 1978 - Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1978 - Émilie Simon, French singer
- 1978 - Katharine Towne, American actress
- 1979 - Mike Vogel, American actor
- 1980 - Ryan Miller, American hockey player
- 1980 - Javier Camuńas, Spanish footballer
- 1981 - Elpida Romantzi, Greek archer
- 1982 - Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
- 1982 - Omari Banks, West Indian Cricketer
- 1983 - Ryan Guettler, professional Australian BMX rider
- 1983 - Sarah Jones, American actress
- 1983 - Brooke Kinsella, British actress
- 1983 - Adam Lind, American baseball player
- 1984 - Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer
- 1984 - Asami Kimura, Japanese singer (Country Musume)
- 1985 - Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
- 1985 - Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly)
- 1986 - Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX)
- 1987 - Darius Boyd, Australian rugby player
- 1987 - Jan Charouz, Czech racing driver
- 1987 - Moussa Dembélé, Belgian footballer
- 1988 - Summer Bishil, American actress
- 1989 - Marko Todorović, Swiss swimmer
- 1998 - Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y de Borbón, Spanish royal
Deaths
- 521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
- 656 - Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph
- 924 - King Edward the Elder of England,
- 1070 - Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
- 1453 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
- 1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
- 1566 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
- 1571 - Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
- 1588 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
- 1645 - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset
- 1704 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
- 1709 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
- 1790 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
- 1791 - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
- 1793 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (b. 1768)
- 1794 - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
- 1845 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
- 1878 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
- 1879 - Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
- 1881 - Jim Bridger, American mountain man
- 1885 - Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
- 1887 - Dorothea Dix, french social activist (b. 1802)
- 1893 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
- 1894 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
- 1894 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)
- 1907 - Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830)
- 1912 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
- 1918 - Family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, (b. 1868)
- 1928 - Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (b. 1842)
- 1935 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist
- 1944 - William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
- 1945 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
- 1946 - General Dragoljub Mihailović, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (b. 1893)
- 1950 - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
- 1959 - Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
- 1959 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
- 1961 - Ty Cobb, baseball player (b. 1886)
- 1967 - John Coltrane, American musician (b. 1926)
- 1974 - Dizzy Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (b. 1910)
- 1975 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
- 1980 - Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
- 1987 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
- 1988 - Frank Goodish, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
- 1995 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
- 1996 - Chas Chandler, bass guitarist (The Animals)
- 2001 - Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
- 2003 - David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
- 2003 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
- 2004 - Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
- 2005 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
- 2005 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (b. 1913)
- 2005 - Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
- 2005 - Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 2005 - Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
- 2006 - Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
- 2006 - Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
- 2007 - Júlio Redecker, Brazilian Politician (b. 1956)
- 2008 - Larry Haines, American actor (b. 1918)
- 2009 - Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician (born 1921)
- 2009 - Walter Cronkite, American newscaster (born 1916)
- 2009 - Leszek Ko?akowski, Polish philosopher (born 1927)
Events
- 1203 - The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
- 1453 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Castillon: The French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
- 1686 - A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.
- 1762 - Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
- 1771 - Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
- 1791 - Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
- 1794 - The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
- 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces.
- 1856 - The Great Train Wreck of 1856 occurs in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania killing over 60 people.
- 1899 - NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
- 1917 - King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor.
- 1918 - On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
- 1918 - The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German submatine U-55; only 5 lives are lost.
- 1933 - After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
- 1936 - Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
- 1938 - Douglas Corrigan takes off to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
- 1944 - Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
- 1944 - World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs were dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France.
- 1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference
- 1951 - Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts is chartered.
- 1955 - Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
- 1962 - Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
- 1968 - A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
- 1973 - King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
- 1975 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
- 1976 - History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
- 1976 - The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
- 1979 - Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
- 1981 - A walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri collapses killing 114 people and injuring more than 200 caused by structural failure.
- 1989 - First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
- 1996 - TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
- 1997 - The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
- 1998 - Papua New Guinea earthquake: A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
- 1998 - A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crime against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
- 2007 - TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in Săo Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.
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