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October 17 in recent years
2023 (Tuesday)
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2021 (Sunday)
2020 (Saturday)
2019 (Thursday)
2018 (Wednesday)
2017 (Tuesday)
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2015 (Saturday)
2014 (Friday)
DateTemplate:SHORTDESC:Date
October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 75 days remain until the end of the year.
Events [ ]
690 – Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China.[1]
1091 – London tornado of 1091 : A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
1346 – The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
1448 – An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo .
1456 – The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
1534 – Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.
1558 – Poczta Polska , the Polish postal service, is founded.
1604 – Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
1660 – The Nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
1771 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba , composed by Mozart at age 15.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York .
1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown .
1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
1806 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I , is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
1814 – Eight people die in the London Beer Flood .
1817 – The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered.[2]
1827 – Bellini's third opera, Il pirata , is premiered at Milan.
1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open ).
1861 – Aborigines kill Nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre .
1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1907 – Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
1912 – Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War .
1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1940 – The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
1941 – World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first US Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
1943 – The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
1943 – Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
1945 – A massive demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release.
1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield , England.
1956 – Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of the Century .
1961 – Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
1965 – The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
1966 – The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
1969 – The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo .[3]
1970 – FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
1973 – OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
1977 – The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
1979 – Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act creates the US Department of Education.
1980 – As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
1988 – Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport , in Rome , Italy , killing 33 people.[4]
1989 – The 6.9 Template:M Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing Sixty-three.
1989 – The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
1991 – 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who exploded two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand , killing 41 people.[5]
1992 – Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1994 – Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
2000 – The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
2001 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
2003 – Taipei 101 , a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest highrise.
2005 – The Colbert Report , an American satirical news television program and talk show hosted by Stephen Colbert , premiered on Comedy Central .
2018 – The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
2018 – Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.
2019 – Drug dealers in Culiacan , Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.[6]
Births [ ]
503 – Lý Nam Đế , first emperor of Vietnam (d. 548)
1253 – Ivo of Kermartin , French priest and saint (d. 1303)
1493 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli , Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
1500 – Alonso de Orozco Mena , Spanish Roman Catholic priest (d. 1591)
1538 – Irene di Spilimbergo , Italian Renaissance poet and painter (d. 1559)[7]
1577 – Cristofano Allori , Italian painter (d. 1621)
1577 – Dmitry Pozharsky , Russian prince (d. 1642)
1582 – Johann Gerhard , German theologian and academic (d. 1637)
1587 – Nathan Field , English dramatist and actor (d. 1620)
1623 – Francis Turretin , Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (d. 1687)
1629 – Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (d. 1646)
1688 – Domenico Zipoli , Italian missionary and composer (d. 1726)
1711 – Jupiter Hammon , American poet (d. 1806)
1719 – Jacques Cazotte , French author and academic (d. 1792)
1720 – Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini , Italian harpsichord player and composer (d. 1795)[8]
1725 – John Wilkes , English journalist and politician (d. 1797)
1729 – Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny , French composer and academic (d. 1817)
1735 – Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger , German Baroque artist (d. 1803)
1759 – Andrey Voronikhin , Russian architect and painter (d. 1814)
1760 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon , French economist and philosopher (d. 1825)
1760 – Henri de Saint-Simon , French political and economic theorist (d. 1825)
1768 – Sophie von Dönhoff , morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1838)
1779 – Louis Charles , French prince of the blood (d. 1808)
1779 – José Andrés Pacheco de Melo , Argentine statesman and priest (d. approx. 1820)
1780 – Richard Mentor Johnson , American politician, ninth Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
1781 – Johann Friedrich Meckel , German anatomist (d. 1833)
1784 – Fructuoso Rivera , first president of Uruguay (d. 1854)
1785 – Christen Smith , Norwegian scientist (d. 1816)
1792 – John Bowring , English polyglot and governor of Hong Kong (d. 1826)
1797 – Juan Lavalle , Argentine politician (d.1841)
1803 – Ferenc Deák , Hungarian politician (d. 1876)
1810 – Adolphe-Félix Cals , French painter (d. 1880)
1811 – Albertus van Raalte , Dutch-American pastor and educator (d. 1876)
1813 – Georg Büchner , German-Swiss poet and playwright (d. 1837)
1814 – Yakiv Holovatsky , Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (d. 1888)
1817 – Syed Ahmad Khan , Indian philosopher and scholar (d. 1898)
1821 – Alexander Gardner , Scottish photographer (d. 1882)
1828 – Aureliano Maestre de San Juan , Spanish scientist (d. 1890)
1833 – José E. Días , Paraguayan general (d. 1867)
1835 – Louis-Léon Cugnot , French sculptor (d. 1894)
1835 – Paul Haenlein , German mechanical engineer (d.1905)
1840 – André Gill , French caricaturist (d. 1885)
1844 – Gustave Schlumberger , French historian (d. 1929)
1845 – John J. Gardner , American politician (d. 1921)
1853 – Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
1859 – Childe Hassam , American painter and illustrator (d. 1935)
1860 – Henry Campbell Black , founder of Black's Law Dictionary (d. 1927)
1864 – Elinor Glyn , English author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1943)
1865 – James Rudolph Garfield , American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1950)
1867 – Josep Puig i Cadafalch , Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martí (d. 1956)
1871 – Segundo de Chomón , Spanish cinematographer , director, and screenwriter (d.1929)
1876 – Hippolyte Aucouturier , French cyclist (d. 1944)
1878 – Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart , Spanish politician and 17th Duke of Alba (d. 1953)
1880 – Jesús Reyes Ferreira , Mexican artist and art collector (d. 1977)
1881 – Maria Dulęba , Polish actress (d. 1959)
1882 – Haritina Korotkevich , Russian war heroine (d. 1904)[9]
1883 – Alexander Neill , Scottish educator (d. 1973)
1883 – Thaddeus Shideler , American hurdler (d. 1966)
1886 – Spring Byington , American actress (d. 1971)
1889 – Mikha'il Na'ima , Lebanese author (d. 1988)
1890 – Roy Kilner , English cricketer (d. 1928)
1892 – Theodor Eicke , German SS general (d. 1943)
1892 – Herbert Howells , English organist, composer, and educator (d. 1983)
1893 – Raffaele Bendandi , Italian clockmaker and seismologist (d. 1979)
1894 – Prince René , Italian Prince of Denmark (d. 1962)
1894 – Pablo de Rokha , Chilean poet (d. 1968)
1895 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes , President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (d. 1982)
1895 – Doris Humphrey , American dancer and choreographer (d. 1958)
1896 – Roman Petrovich , Russian prince (d. 1978)
1898 – Shinichi Suzuki , Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998)
1898 – Eileen Sedgwick , American actress (d. 1991)
1898 – Simon Vestdijk , Dutch author and poet (d. 1971)
1900 – C. C. van Asch van Wijck , Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
1900 – Jean Arthur , American actress (d. 1991)
1900 – Yvor Winters , American critic and poet (d. 1968)
1901 – Emma Gamboa Alvarado , Costa Rican educator (d. 1973)[10]
1902 – Irene Ryan , American actress (d. 1973)
1903 – Nathanael West , American author and screenwriter (d. 1940)
1903 – Andrei Grechko , Soviet general (d. 1976)
1905 – Leopoldo Benites , Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly (d. 1996)
1906 – Paul Derringer , American baseball player (d. 1987)
1907 – John Marley , American actor (d. 1984)
1908 – Hjördis Petterson , Swedish actress (d. 1988)
1908 – Wally Prigg , Australian rugby league player (d. 1980)
1908 – Red Rolfe , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1969)
1908 – Kenji Miyamoto , Japanese politician (d. 2007)
1909 – Cozy Cole , American drummer (d. 1981)
1909 – Leopoldo Panero , Spanish poet (d. 1962)
1909 – Joaquín Satrústegui , Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 1992)
1910 – Ester Wier , American author (d. 2000)
1910 – Marina Núñez del Prado , Bolivian sculptor (d. 1995)[11]
1912 – Pope John Paul I , Catholic pope from August 1978- September 1978 (d. 1978)
1912 – Theodore Marier , American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (d. 2001)
1912 – Jack Owens , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982)
1913 – Faik Türün , Turkish general (d. 2003)
1913 – Robert Lowery , American actor (d. 1971)
1913 – Marian Marsh , Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist (d. 2006)
1914 – Jerry Siegel , American author and illustrator (d. 1996)
1915 – Arthur Miller , American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1916 – José López Rega , Argentinean politician (d. 1989)
1917 – Adele Stimmel Chase , American painter and sculptor (d. 2000)
1917 – Martin Donnelly , New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
1917 – Sumner Locke Elliott , Australian-American author and playwright (d. 1991)
1917 – Marsha Hunt , American actress and singer
1917 – Norman Leyden , American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
1917 – Alfred Benlloch Llorach , Spanish inventor (d. 2013)
1918 – Rita Hayworth , American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1987)
1918 – Ralph Wilson , American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (d. 2014)
1918 – Luis Alberto Solari , Uruguayan artist (d. 1993)
1919 – Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov , Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic
1919 – Violet Milstead , Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (d. 2014)
1919 – Zhao Ziyang , Chinese politician (d. 2005)
1920 – Montgomery Clift , American actor (d. 1966)
1920 – Miguel Delibes , Spanish journalist and author (d. 2010)
1920 – Zully Moreno , Argentine actress (d. 1999)
1921 – George Mackay Brown , Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1996)
1921 – Priscilla Buckley , American journalist and author (d. 2012)
1921 – Maria Gorokhovskaya , Russian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001)[12]
1921 – Tom Poston , American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
1922 – Luiz Bonfá , Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2001)
1922 – Pierre Juneau , Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (d. 2012)
1923 – Barney Kessel , American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1923 – Charles McClendon , American football player and coach (d. 2001)
1924 – Don Coryell , American football player and coach (d. 2010)
1924 – Anton Geiser , Croatian SS officer (d. 2012)
1924 – Giacomo Mari , Italian football midfielder (d. 1991)
1924 – Rolando Panerai , Italian baritone
1925 – Harry Carpenter , English sportscaster (d. 2010)
1926 – Julie Adams , American actress (d. 2019)
1926 – Beverly Garland , American actress (d. 2008)
1926 – Roberto Lippi , Italian race car driver (d. 2011)
1928 – Santiago Stevenson , Panamanian singer and minister (d. 2007)
1928 – Alejandro Végh Villegas , Uruguayan politician (d. 2017)
1929 – Mário Wilson , Mozambican footballer and manager (d. 2016)
1930 – Ismail Akbay , Turkish physicist and engineer (d. 2003)
1930 – Robert Atkins , American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (d. 2003)
1930 – Jimmy Breslin , American journalist and author (d. 2017)
1931 – Ernst Hinterberger , Austrian author and playwright (d. 2012)
1931 – José Alencar , Brazilian businessman and politician (d. 2011)
1931 – Anatoly Pristavkin , Russian writer (d. 2008)
1932 – Paul Anderson , American weightlifter (d. 1994)
1933 – William Anders , Hong Kong-American general and astronaut
1933 – The Singing Nun , Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (d. 1985)
1934 – Alan Garner , English author and playwright
1934 – Johnny Haynes , English-Scottish footballer (d. 2005)
1934 – Rico Rodriguez , American trombonist (d. 2015)
1935 – Sydney Chapman , English architect and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (d. 2014)
1935 – Michael Eavis , English farmer, founded the Glastonbury Festival
1935 – Carlos Pairetti , Argetine racing driver
1936 – Sathima Bea Benjamin , South African singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1936 – Hiroo Kanamori , Japanese-American seismologist and academic
1936 – Santiago Navarro , Spanish basketball player (d. 1993)
1936 – Bert Nievera , Filipino-American singer (d. 2018)
1937 – Paxton Whitehead , English actor
1937 – José María Álvarez del Manzano , Spanish politician
1937 – Aida Navarro , Venezuelan mezzo-soprano
1937 – Renato Prada Oropeza , Bolivian-Mexican scientist (d. 2011)
1938 – Evel Knievel , American motorcycle rider and stuntman (d. 2007)
1938 – Les Murray , Australian anthologist, poet, and critic (d. 2019)
1938 – António Calvário , Portuguese singer and artist
1939 – Oliver Rackham , English botanist and academic (d. 2015)
1940 – Stephen Kovacevich , American pianist and conductor
1940 – Jim Smith , English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
1940 – Peter Stringfellow , English businessman (d. 2018)
1941 – Earl Thomas Conley , American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
1941 – Jim Seals , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist
1941 – Paul Ellison , American musician
1942 – Steve Jones , American basketball player and sportscaster (d. 2017)
1942 – Gary Puckett , American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Ignacio Rupérez , Spanish diplomat and journalist (d. 2015)
1944 – Ángel Cristo , Spanish circus performer (d. 2010)
1946 – Ronni Chasen , American publicist (d. 2010)
1946 – Michael Hossack , American drummer (d. 2012)
1946 – Cameron Mackintosh , English producer and manager
1946 – Adam Michnik , Polish journalist and historian
1946 – Drusilla Modjeska , English-Australian author and critic
1946 – Bob Seagren , American pole vaulter
1946 – Manuel Ibáñez , Mexican actor and comedian
1946 – Julio Miranda , Argentine politician
1946 – Daniela Payssé , Uruguayan politician (d. 2018)
1946 – José Perramón , Spanish handball player
1946 – Jaime Ravinet , Chilean politician
1946 – Rüdiger Wittig , German geobotanist and ecologist
1946 – Akira Kushida , Japanese vocalist
1947 – Gene Green , American lawyer and politician
1947 – Michael McKean , American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
1947 – Robert Post , American educator and academic
1947 – Omar Azziman , adviser to the King of Morocco
1948 – Robert Jordan , American soldier and author (d. 2007)
1948 – Margot Kidder , Canadian-American actress (d. 2018)
1948 – George Wendt , American actor and comedian
1948 – Osvaldo Castro , Chilean footballer
1949 – Owen Arthur , Barbadian economist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Barbados
1949 – Bill Hudson , American musician and actor
1950 – Philippe Barbarin , French cardinal
1950 – Howard Rollins , American actor (d. 1996)
1950 – Sandra Reemer , Indo-Dutch singer (d. 2017)
1951 – Annie Borckink , Dutch speed skater
1951 – Roger Pontare , Swedish singer
1951 – Shari Ulrich , American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist
1951 – Dirk Beheydt , Belgian football player.
1953 – Joseph Bowie , American trombonist and bandleader
1953 – Domenico Penzo , Italian footballer
1954 – Carlos Buhler , American mountaineer
1955 – Georgios Alogoskoufis , Greek economist, academic, and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
1955 – Mike Bratz , American basketball player
1956 – Fran Cosmo , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956 – Mae Jemison , American physician, academic, and astronaut
1956 – Pat McCrory , American businessman and politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina
1956 – Stephen Palumbi , American academic and author
1957 – Lawrence Bender , American actor and producer
1957 – Steve McMichael , American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster
1957 – Vincent Van Patten , American tennis player and actor
1957 – Antonio Galdo , Italian journalist
1957 – Nelson Barrera , Mexican baseball player (d. 2002)
1957 – Pino Palladino , Welsh bassist
1957 – Eleftheria Arvanitaki , Greek folk singer
1958 – Howard Alden , American guitarist
1958 – Alan Jackson , American singer-songwriter
1958 – Craig Murray , British diplomat
1958 – Sandra Mozarowsky , Spanish actress (d. 1977)
1959 – Ron Drummond , American author and scholar
1959 – Francisco Flores Pérez , Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (d. 2016)
1959 – Russell Gilbert , Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1959 – Norm Macdonald , Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
1959 – Mark Peel , Australian historian and academic
1959 – Richard Roeper , American journalist and critic
1959 – Mustafa Aberchán , Spanish politician
1959 – Eugenio Hernández Flores , Mexican politician
1960 – Guy Henry , English actor
1960 – Rob Marshall , American director, producer, and choreographer
1960 – Bernie Nolan , Irish singer (d. 2013)
1960 – Philippe Sands , American lawyer and academic
1961 – David Means , American short story writer
1962 – Glenn Braggs , American baseball player
1962 – Mike Judge , American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor
1962 – Jay Humphries , American basketball player
1963 – Sergio Goycochea , Argentinian footballer and journalist
1963 – Toby Young , English journalist and academic
1964 – Gregg Wallace , English television presenter
1964 – Margarita Liborio Arrazola , Mexican politician
1965 – Aravinda de Silva , Sri Lankan cricketer
1965 – Rhys Muldoon , Australian actor
1966 – Shaun Edwards , English rugby player and coach
1966 – Danny Ferry , American basketball player and manager
1966 – Mark Gatiss , English actor, screenwriter and novelist
1966 – Tommy Kendall , American race car driver and sportscaster
1967 – Simon Segars , English businessman
1967 – Nathalie Tauziat , French tennis player
1967 – René Dif , Danish musician
1967 – Pedro González Vera , Chilean footballer
1968 – Graeme Le Saux , English footballer and sportscaster
1968 – Ziggy Marley , Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
1968 – David Robertson , Scottish footballer and manager
1968 – Alejandra Ávalos , Mexican artist
1969 – Ernie Els , South African golfer and sportscaster
1969 – Jesús Ángel García , Spanish racewalker[13]
1969 – Wyclef Jean , Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor
1969 – Rick Mercer , Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1969 – Wood Harris , American actor
1970 – Anil Kumble , Indian cricketer
1970 – John Mabry , American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
1970 – J. C. MacKenzie , Canadian actor
1971 – Blues Saraceno , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1971 – Chris Kirkpatrick , American singer-songwriter and dancer
1971 – Kim Ljung , Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player
1971 – Martin Heinrich , American politician
1971 – Derrick Plourde , American drummer (d. 2005)
1972 – Eminem , American rapper, producer, and actor
1972 – Tarkan , German-Turkish singer
1972 – Akio "Musashi" Mori , Japanese karateka and kickboxer
1973 – Andrea Tarozzi , Italian footballer and coach
1973 – Rubén Garcés , Panamanian basketball player
1974 – Ariel Levy , American journalist and author
1974 – Matthew Macfadyen , English actor
1974 – Obdulio Ávila Mayo , Mexican politician
1974 – Bárbara Paz , Brazilian actress
1974 – Janne Puurtinen , Finnish keyboard player
1974 – John Rocker , American baseball player
1974 – Darío Sala , Argentine footballer
1974 – Gabriel Silberstein , Chilean tennis player
1974 – Dhondup Wangchen , Chinese director and producer
1975 – Francis Bouillon , American-Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Jericó Abramo Masso , Mexican politician
1975 – Vina Morales , Filipino actress and singer
1976 – Sebastián Abreu , Uruguayan footballer
1976 – Seth Etherton , American baseball player
1976 – Carlos Loret de Mola , Mexican journalist
1976 – Kevin Maher , English-Irish footballer and coach
1977 – Dudu Aouate , Israeli footballer[14]
Alimi Ballard , American television actor
1977 – Alimi Ballard , American actor and producer
1977 – Bryan Bertino , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Walter Calderón , Ecuadorian footballer
1977 – Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza , Mexican politician
1977 – Ryan McGinley , American photographer
1977 – André Villas-Boas , Portuguese footballer and manager
1978 – Pablo Iglesias Turrión , Spanish politician
1978 – Jerry Flannery , Irish rugby player and coach
1978 – Erin Karpluk , Canadian actress
1978 – Chuka Umunna , English lawyer and politician
1979 – Marcela Bovio , Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist
1979 – Alexandros Nikolaidis , Greek martial artist
1979 – Kimi Räikkönen , Finnish race car driver
1979 – Kostas Tsartsaris , Greek basketball player
1980 – Yekaterina Gamova , Russian volleyball player
1980 – Mohammad Hafeez , Pakistani cricketer
1980 – Isaac Mina , Ecuadorian footballer
1980 – Angel Parker , American actress
1980 – Alessandro Piccolo , Italian race car driver
1980 – Justin Shenkarow , American actor
1981 – Horacio Cervantes , Mexican footballer
1981 – Kurumi Enomoto , Japanese singer-songwriter
1981 – Tsubasa Imai , Japanese singer, actor, and dancer
1981 – Ben Rothwell , American mixed-martial artist
1982 – Rubén Ramírez , Argentine football striker
1982 – Nick Riewoldt , Australian footballer
1982 – Marion Rolland , alpine ski racer
1983 – Michelle Ang , New Zealander actress
1983 – Milica Brozovic , Serbian-Russian figure skater
1983 – Felicity Jones , English actress
1983 – Toshihiro Matsushita , Japanese footballer
1983 – Riki Miura , Japanese actor
1983 – Junichi Miyashita , Japanese swimmer
1983 – Ivan Saenko , Russian footballer
1983 – Mitch Talbot , American baseball player
1983 – Vitali Teleš , Estonian footballer
1984 – Chris Lowell , American actor
1984 – Giovanni Marchese , Italian footballer
1984 – Randall Munroe , American author and illustrator
1984 – Luke Rockhold , American mixed martial artist
1984 – Anja Eline Skybakmoen , Norwegian singer-songwriter and bandleader
1984 – Gottfrid Svartholm , Swedish computer specialist
1984 – Jared Tallent , Australian race walker
1985 – Carlos González , Venezuelan baseball player
1985 – Max Irons , English-Irish actor
1985 – Collins John , Dutch footballer
1985 – Tomokazu Nagira , Japanese footballer
1986 – Alexandre Bonnet , French football midfielder
1986 – Antoni Bou , Spanish motorcyclist
1986 – Aija Brumermane , Latvian basketball player
1986 – Constant Djakpa , Ivorian footballer
1986 – Yannick Ponsero , French figure skater
1986 – Nicolás Richotti , Argentine basketball player
1987 – Bea Alonzo , Filipino actress and singer
1987 – Jarosław Fojut , Polish footballer
1987 – Elliot Grandin , French football winger
1987 – Hideto Takahashi , Japanese footballer
1988 – Sergiy Gladyr , Ukrainian basketball player
1988 – Tori Matsuzaka , Japanese actor and model
1988 – Marina Salas , Spanish actress
1989 – Débora García , Spanish football midfielder
1989 – Oleksandr Isakov , Ukrainian swimmer
1989 – Sophie Luck , Australian actress
1989 – David Timor , Spanish footballer
1990 – Paolo Campinoti , Italian footballer
1990 – Maica García Godoy , Spanish water polo player
1990 – Ronald González Tabilo , Chilean footballer
1990 – Saki Kumagai , Japanese footballer
1990 – Patrick Lambie , South African rugby player
1991 – Brenda Asnicar , Argentine actress
1992 – Sam Concepcion , Filipino musician and dancer
1992 – Keerthy Suresh , Indian actress
1993 – Kenneth Omeruo , Nigerian footballer
2001 – Thomas Strudwick , British motorcycle road racer
Deaths [ ]
AD 33 – Agrippina the Elder , Roman wife of Germanicus (b. 14 BC)
532 – Pope Boniface II
866 – Al-Musta'in , Abbasid caliph (b. 836)
1271 – Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir , Icelandic aristocrat and poet
1277 – Beatrice of Falkenburg , German queen consort (b. c. 1254)
1346 – John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
1346 – Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn
1456 – Nicolas Grenon , French composer (b. 1375)
1485 – John Scott of Scott's Hall , Warden of the Cinque Ports
1552 – Andreas Osiander , German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
1575 – Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta , Spanish cardinal (b. 1511)
1586 – Philip Sidney , English courtier, poet, and general (b. 1554)
1587 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1616 – John Pitts , English priest and scholar (b. 1560)
1660 – Adrian Scrope , English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh , English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
1690 – Margaret Mary Alacoque , French mystic (b. 1647)
1757 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur , French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
1776 – Pierre François le Courayer , French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
1780 – William Cookworthy , English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
1781 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke , English admiral (b. 1705)[15]
1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli , Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
1806 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines , Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
1836 – Orest Kiprensky , Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel , Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
1849 – Frédéric Chopin , Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
1868 – Laura Secord , Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff , German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
1889 – Nikolay Chernyshevsky , Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
1893 – Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta , French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
1910 – Julia Ward Howe , American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
1918 – Malak Hifni Nasif , Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
1928 – Frank Dicksee , English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
1931 – Alfons Maria Jakob , German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
1937 – J. Bruce Ismay , English businessman (b. 1862)
1938 – Karl Kautsky , Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)
1948 – Royal Cortissoz , American art critic (b. 1869)
1955 – Dimitrios Maximos , Greek banker and politician (b. 1873)
1956 – Anne Crawford , Israeli-English actress (b. 1920)
1958 – Paul Outerbridge , American photographer (b. 1896)
1958 – Charlie Townsend , English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876)
1962 – Natalia Goncharova , Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882)
1963 – Jacques Hadamard , French mathematician and academic (b. 1865)
1965 – Bart King , American cricketer (b. 1873)
1966 – Sidney Hatch , American runner and soldier (b. 1883)
1966 – Wieland Wagner , German director and manager (b. 1917)
1967 – Puyi , Chinese emperor (b. 1906)
1970 – Pierre Laporte , Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1921)
1970 – Vola Vale , American actress (b. 1897)
1970 – Quincy Wright , American political scientist and academic (b. 1890)
1972 – Turk Broda , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
1972 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
1973 – Ingeborg Bachmann , Austrian author and poet (b. 1926)
1978 – George Clark , American race car driver (b. 1890)
1978 – Giovanni Gronchi , Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
1979 – S. J. Perelman , American humorist and screenwriter (b. 1904)
1979 – John Stuart , Scottish-English actor (b. 1898)
1979 – Eugenio Mendoza , Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909)
1981 – Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1927)
1981 – Albert Cohen , Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895)
1981 – Lina Tsaldari , Greek politician (b. 1887)
1983 – Raymond Aron , French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
1987 – Abdul Malek Ukil , Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford , American singer and actor (b. 1919)
1992 – Herman Johannes , Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (b. 1912)
1992 – Orestis Laskos , Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1993 – Criss Oliva , American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
1996 – Chris Acland , English musician & drummer of Lush (b. 1966)
1997 – Larry Jennings , American magician and author (b. 1933)
1998 – Joan Hickson , English actress (b. 1906)
1998 – Hakim Said , Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920)
1999 – Nicholas Metropolis , Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
2000 – Leo Nomellini , Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
2000 – Joachim Nielsen , Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
2001 – Jay Livingston , American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
2001 – Micheline Ostermeyer , French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922)
2001 – Rehavam Ze'evi , Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (b. 1926)
2002 – Derek Bell , Irish harpist and composer (b. 1935)
2004 – Uzi Hitman , Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
2006 – Daniel Emilfork , Chilean-French actor (b. 1924)
2006 – Christopher Glenn , American journalist (b. 1938)
2007 – Joey Bishop , American actor and talk show host (b. 1918)
2007 – Teresa Brewer , American singer (b. 1931)
2007 – Suzy Covey , American scholar and academic (b. 1939)
2008 – Urmas Ott , Estonian journalist and author (b. 1955)
2008 – Levi Stubbs , American singer (b. 1936)
2008 – Ben Weider , Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b. 1923)
2009 – Norma Fox Mazer , American author and educator (b. 1931)
2009 – Vic Mizzy , American composer (b. 1916)
2011 – Carl Lindner, Jr. , American businessman (b. 1919)
2012 – Milija Aleksic , English-South African footballer (b. 1951)
2012 – Émile Allais , French skier (b. 1912)
2012 – Henry Friedlander , German-American historian and author (b. 1930)
2012 – Stanford R. Ovshinsky , American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
2012 – Kōji Wakamatsu , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2013 – Mother Antonia , American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926)
2013 – Terry Fogerty , English rugby player and coach (b. 1944)
2013 – Arthur Maxwell House , Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1926)
2013 – Lou Scheimer , American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (b. 1928)
2013 – Rene Simpson , Canadian-American tennis player (b. 1966)
2014 – Edwards Barham , American farmer and politician (b. 1937)
2014 – Masaru Emoto , Japanese author and activist (b. 1943)
2014 – Tom Shaw , American bishop (b. 1945)
2014 – Berndt von Staden , German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (b. 1919)
2015 – Danièle Delorme , French actress and producer (b. 1926)
2015 – Howard Kendall , English footballer and manager (b. 1946)
2015 – Anne-Marie Lizin , Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2015 – Tom Smith , American businessman and politician (b. 1947)
2017 – Gord Downie , Canadian musician (b. 1964)[16]
Holidays and observances [ ]
Christian feast day :
Andrew of Crete
Anstrudis
Catervus
Ethelred and Ethelberht
Florentius of Orange
François-Isidore Gagelin (one of Vietnamese Martyrs )
Hosea
Ignatius of Antioch
John the Short (John Colobus)
Marguerite Marie Alacoque (formerly)
Nothhelm
Rule of Andrew
Richard Gwyn
Victor of Capua
October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Dessalines Day (Haiti )
Digital Society Day (India )
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Loyalty Day (Argentina)
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↑ Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Biographical Dictionary of Italians), Edited by Treccani, Vol. 93, 2018.
↑ Van Boer, Bertil H. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period . Lanham: Scarecrow Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-8108-7183-0 .
↑ Mikhailova, Yulia; Michiko, Ikuta (2007). "Forgotten Heroes: Russian Women in the War". In Kowner, Rotem (ed.). Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5: Volume 1: Centennial Perspectives . Folkestone: Global Oriental. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-9052-4603-8 .
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