July 17

2024 Calendar

July 17 is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 167 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, Latin bishop and saint (b. 474)
924 – Edward the Elder, King of England is killed in battle (b. c. 874)
1070 – Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
1399 - Jadwiga of Poland (b. 1373)
1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese commander (b. 1484)
1566 - Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese monk (b. 1484)
1571 – Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1588 - Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect and engineer (b. 1489)
1704 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French-American fur trader
1762 – Tsar Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
1790 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist (b. 1723)
1793 – Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat (b. 1768)
1845 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
1859 – Stephanie of Hohenzollern, Queen Consort of Portugal (b. 1837)
1878 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
1883 - Te Duc, Emperor of Vietnam
1887 – Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802)
1893 - Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
1894 - Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)

1901 – 2000

1906 - Carlos Pellegrini, President of Argentina (b. 1846)
1912 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
1918 - Russian Tsarist Family executed by the Bolsheviks:
- Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (Gregorian calendar date) (b. 1868)
- Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1895)
- Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1897)
- Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (b. 1904)
- Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1899)
- Alexandra Fyodorovna, Tsarina of Russia (b. 1872)
- Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1901)
1925 - Lovis Corinth, German artist and sculptor (b. 1858)
1928 – Giovanni Giolitti, five-times Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1842)
1928 - Alvaro Obregon, 39th President of Mexico (b. 1880)
1944 - William James Sidis, American mathematician (b. 1898)
1950 - Evangeline Booth, 4th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1865)
1953 - Maude Adams, American actress (b. 1872)
1959 – Billie Holiday, singer (b. 1915)
1959 – Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (The Washington Post) (b. 1875)
1961 – Ty Cobb, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1886)
1967 – John Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1926)
1974 - Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)
1975 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
1980 – Boris Delaunay, Soviet/Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
1994 - Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898)
1995 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
1996 - Victims of TWA Flight 800:
- Michael Breistorff, French ice hockey player (b. 1971)
- Marcel Dadi, Tunisian-French guitarist (b. 1951)
- David Hogan, American composer (b. 1949)
- Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (b. 1948)
- Pam Lynchner, American real estate agent and activist (b. 1959)
1996 - Chas Chandler, American bass player and producer (The Animals) (b. 1938)

From 2001

2001 - Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year a crash near Paris.
2006 – A tsunami south of Java kills around 300 people.
2007 – A plane crashes and bursts into flames at São Paulo International Airport in Brazil, killing all 187 people on board, and 12 on the ground.
2011 – Japan wins the FIFA Women's World Cup, defeating the United States in a penalty shoot-out.
2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashes in Eastern Ukraine near the border with Russia, having been reportedly shot down by a missile, killing all 298 people on board.
2014 - Israel-Gaza Strip Conflict: Israel launches a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
2015 - Over 120 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Iraq.
2015 - Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi dies of injuries sustained in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix over nine months earlier, at the age of 25.
2018 - The European Union-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement is signed.
2019 - The Kivu Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization.

Births

1901 – 1950

1903 – Takeyama Michio, Japanese writer (d. 1984)
1911 - Lionel Ferbos, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2014)
1913 - Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and Holocaust denier (d. 2012)
1915 - Arthur Rothstein, American photographer (d. 1985)
1917 – Phyllis Diller, American actress and comedienne (d. 2012)
1917 - Kenan Evren, 7th President of Turkey (d. 2015)
1918 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
1920 – Gordon Gould, American, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
1920 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish Olympic official (d. 2010)
1920 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sportscaster (d. 2002)
1921 - Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer (d. 1955)
1925 - Jimmy Scott, American jazz singer (d. 2014)
1926 - Willis Carto, American far-right politician (d. 2015)
1927 - Prosper Ego, Dutch activist (d. 2015)
1929 – Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
1930 - Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (d. 2019)
1930 - Ray Galton, English screenwriter (d. 2018)
1931 - Caroline Graham, English writer
1932 - Wojciech Kilar, Polish composer (d. 2013)
1932 - Quino, Argentine artist and illustrator
1933 - Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (d. 2014)
1933 - Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 9th Prime Minister of Malta
1933 - Valentina Rastvorova, Soviet-Russian fencer (d. 2018)
1935 – Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
1935 - Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (d. 2019)
1939 - Milva, Italian singer and actress
1939 - Spencer Davis, British guitarist
1939 – Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
1940 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, English actor and screenwriter
1940 - Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter (d. 2019)
1942 - Connie Hawkins, American basketball player and coach (d. 2017)
1942 - Peter Sissons, English journalist (d. 2019)
1944 – Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer (d. 2016)
1945 - Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
1945 - John Patten, Baron Patten, British politician, last British Governor of Hong Kong
1946 – Alun Armstrong, British actor
1947 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
1947 - Wolfgang Flür, German drummer (Kraftwerk)
1947 - Dorthe Kollo, Danish singer
1948 – Ron Asheton, American musician (d. 2009)
1948 - Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and film director (d. 2015)
1949 - Wayne Sleep, English dancer, choreographer and actor
1949 - Geezer Butler, English bass player and politician
1950 - Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
1950 – Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)

1951 – 1975

1951 – Lucie Arnaz, American actress
1952 - Thé Lau, Dutch musician and writer (d. 2015)
1952 – David Hasselhoff, American actor
1954 – Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
1954 – Edward Natapei, Prime Minister of Vanuatu (d. 2015)
1956 - Julie Bishop, Australian politician
1957 - Fern Britton, English television host
1958 - Thérèse Rein, Australian businesswoman, wife of Kevin Rudd
1960 - Jan Wouters, Dutch footballer and manager
1961 – Guru, American rapper (d. 2010)
1961 - Jeremy Hardy, English comedian (d. 2019)
1961 - António Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal
1963 - Regina Belle, American singer
1963 – Letsie III, King of Lesotho
1963 - Kim Shattuck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
1963 - John Ventimiglia, American actor
1963 - Matti Nykanen, Finnish ski jumper (d. 2019)
1964 - Heather Langenkamp, American actress
1965 - Santiago Segura, Spanish actor, screenwriter, producer and director
1965 - Alex Winter, English-American actor, director and screenwriter
1965 - Bastian Sick, German journalist, writer and entertainer
1971 - Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player and coach
1971 - Matthew Crompton, English actor
1971 - Cory Doctorow, Canadian writer and activist
1972 – Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
1972 - Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor (d. 2011)
1974 - Laura Macdonald, Scottish saxophonist and composer
1975 - Konnie Huq, English television host
1975 - Elena Anaya, Spanish actress

From 1976

1976 – Anders Svensson, Swedish footballer
1976 - Marcos Senna, Brazilian-Spanish footballer
1976 - Luke Bryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 - Gino D'Acampo, Italian-English chef and writer
1977 – M.I.A., British singer
1978 - Line Daugaard, Danish handball player
1979 - Rudi Skácel, Czech footballer
1982 – Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
1982 - Bobby Reynolds, American tennis player
1982 - René Herms, German athlete (d. 2009)
1983 - Christian Grindheim, Norwegian footballer
1983 - Sarah Jones, American actress
1984 – Asami Kimura, Japanese singer
1985 – Tom Fletcher, English singer (McFly)
1985 - Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
1986 - Dana, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
1988 - Gao Yue, Chinese table tennis player
1990 – Mattie Stepanek, American poet (d. 2004)
1992 - Billie Lourd, American actress
1992 - Taavi Rand, Estonian ice dancer
1993 - Ai Okawa, Japanese model and actress
1998 - Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón, Spanish royal
2000 - Maria Aragon, Canadian singer
2004 - Lindokuhle Modi, South African actor and podcaster

Deaths

2001 – 2010

2001 – Katharine Graham, Washington Post publisher (b. 1917)
2002 – Joseph Luns, NATO Secretary-General (b. 1910)
2003 – Hans Abich, German TV producer (b. 1918)
2003 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
2003 – Dr. David Kelly, UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
2003 - Walter Zapp, German inventor (b. 1905)
2004 – Pat Roach, American wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
2005 – Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
2005 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913)
2006 – Mickey Spillane, American writer (b. 1918)
2008 - Larry Haines, American actor (b. 1918)
2009 – Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist (b. 1916)
2009 – Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)
2009 – Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician (b. 1921)
2010 – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor and director (b. 1947)

From 2011

2011 – Juan María Bordaberry, President of Uruguay (b. 1928)
2011 - Takaji Mori, Japanese footballer (b. 1943)
2013 - Vincenzo Cerami, Italian screenwriter and producer (b. 1940)
2014 - John Walton, Australian actor (b. 1952)
2014 - Ross Burden, New Zealand chef (b. 1968)
2014 - Andries P Putter, South African naval officer (b. 1935)
2014 - Elaine Stritch, American actress (b. 1925)
2014 - Otto Piene, German artist (b. 1928)
2014 - Henry Hartsfield, American astronaut (b. 1933)
2014 - On board Malaysia Airlines Flight 17:
- Liam Davison, Australian writer (b. 1957)
- Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (b. 1976)
- Pim de Kuijer, Dutch columnist and lobbyist (b. 1981)
- Joep Lange, Dutch physician (b. 1954)
- Willem Witteveen, Dutch legal scholar and politician (b. 1952)
2015 - Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, writer and theologian (b. 1916)
2015 - John H. Gibbons, American scientist (b. 1929)
2015 - Van Miller, American football announcer (b. 1927)
2015 - John Taylor, English jazz pianist (b. 1947)
2015 - Jules Bianchi, French racing driver (b. 1989)
2016 - Wendell Anderson, American politician, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1933)
2016 - Gary S. Paxton, American record producer and singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
2017 - Harvey Atkin, Canadian actor (b. 1942)
2017 - Raymond Sackler, American physician and philanthropist (b. 1920)
2018 - Gary Beach, American actor (b. 1947)
2018 - Rita Bhaduri, Indian actress (b. 1955)
2018 - Yvonne Blake, British-Spanish costume designer (b. 1940)
2019 - Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer (b. 1925)
2019 - Pumpsie Green, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2019 - Wesley Pruden, American journalist (b. 1935)

Observances

Constitution Day (South Korea)
Independence Day (Slovakia)
King's birthday (Lesotho)
World Day for International Justice (After the day when the Rome Statute to International Criminal Court is adopted)
World Emoji Day