On this day: 17 June
Events, births and deaths on 17 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Alfred Brendel
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1929 · Births · Tigran Petrosian
- 1920 · Births · François Jacob
- 1936 · Births · Ken Loach
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1025 · Deaths · Bolesław I the Brave
- 1091 · Deaths · Dirk V, Count of Holland
Events · 24
- 656(Julian date)Siege of Uthman — event leading to Caliph Uthman's assassination
- 1462(Julian date)Night attack at Târgoviște — 1462 battle between Vlad III's Wallachia and Mehmed II's Ottoman Empire
- 1497(Julian date)Cornish Rebellion of 1497 — popular uprising by the people of Cornwall in the far southwest of Britain
- 1665Battle of Montes Claros — 1665 decisive battle of the Portuguese Restoration War
- 1775Battle of Bunker Hill — 1775 early battle of the American Revoluntionary War
- 1843Wairau Affray — 1843 armed clash between Māori and British settlers in New Zealand
- 1861Battle of Vienna — 1861 battle of the American Civil War
- 1863Battle of Aldie — 1863 American Civil War battle in the Gettysburg Campaign
- 1876Battle of the Rosebud — 1876 battle between the US and Native American tribes
- 1877Battle of White Bird Canyon — 1877 battle of the Nez Perce War
- 1919Epsom Riot — riot in Surrey
- 19291929 Murchison earthquake — earthquake
- 1933Kansas City massacre — June 1933 shootout in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- 1944Iceland — Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean
- 1948United Airlines Flight 624 — 1948 aviation accident
- 1967Test No. 6 — sixth Chinese nuclear test, 1967
- 1971Agreement concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands — agreement between Japan and the United States
- 1972Watergate scandal — political scandal that occurred in the United States (1972–1974)
- 1985Discovery Channel — American basic cable and satellite television channel
- 1989Interflug Flight 102 — aviation accident in Berlin, 1989
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup — 15th FIFA World Cup, held in United States
- 2009Czech Pirate Party — political party in the Czech Republic
- 20152015 Charleston, South Carolina shooting — mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, United States
- 20172017 Pedrógão Grande Wildfire — Portuguese wildfires in June 2017
Births · 60
- 1239(Julian date)Edward I of England — King of England from 1272 to 1307
- 1603Joseph of Cupertino — Italian conventual franciscan friar
- 1604John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen — Dutch soldier and administrator (1604–1679)
- 1682Carl XII of Sweden — The fifth and last emperor of Sweden (1697–1718)
- 1691Giovanni Paolo Panini — Italian painter and architect (1691–1765)
- 1703(Julian date)John Wesley — British cleric and founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)
- 1800William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse — Anglo-Irish astronomer (1800-1867)
- 1802Hermann Goldschmidt — German-French astronomer and painter (1802-1866)
- 1808Henrik Wergeland — Norwegian writer (1808–1845)
- 1810Ferdinand Freiligrath — German poet
- 1811Jón Sigurðsson — leader of the 19th-century Icelandic independence movement (1811-1879)
- 1818Charles Gounod — French composer (1818–1893)
- 1818Sophie of Württemberg — Queen Consort of the Netherlands (1818–1877)
- 1832William Crookes — British chemist and physicist (1832-1919)
- 1880Carl Van Vechten — American writer and photographer (1880–1964)
- 1882Igor Stravinsky — Russian, French, and American composer (1882–1971)
- 1888Heinz Guderian — German general
- 1898M. C. Escher — Dutch graphic artist (1898–1972)
- 1900Martin Bormann — German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900–1945)
- 1904Ralph Bellamy — American actor (1904–1991)
- 1914John Hersey — American journalist, novelist, professor (1914-1993)
- 1920François Jacob — French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
- 1920Setsuko Hara — Japanese actress (1920–2015)
- 1925Alexander Shulgin — American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author (1925–2014)
- 1928Juan María Bordaberry — Uruguayan politician and rancher (1928-2011)
Deaths · 60
- 656Uthman ibn Affan — Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate from 644 to 656
- 676(Julian date)Adeodatus II — pope
- 811(Julian date)Sakanoue no Tamuramaro — General and shogun
- 900(Julian date)Fulk of Reims — Roman Catholic archbishop
- 1025(Julian date)Bolesław I the Brave — first King of Poland (967–1025)
- 1091(Julian date)Dirk V, Count of Holland — First Count of the Northern Netherlands
- 1219(Julian date)David of Scotland — Scottish prince and earl of Huntingdon (1152–1219)
- 1361(Julian date)Ingeborg of Norway — Norwegian politician (1301-1361)
- 1463Catherine of Portugal — Portuguese Infanta
- 1501John I Albert — King of Poland
- 1565(Julian date)Ashikaga Yoshiteru — 13th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
- 1631Mumtaz Mahal — Mughal empress
- 1649Injo of Joseon — 16th King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history (1595-1649)
- 1674Jijabai — mother of Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire
- 1696John III Sobieski — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1629–1696)
- 1719Joseph Addison — English essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672–1719)
- 1734Claude Louis Hector de Villars — Marshal General of France
- 1762Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon — French poet (1674-1762)
- 1797Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar — founder of the Qajar Dynasty (1796–1797)
- 1821Martín Miguel de Güemes — Rio de la Plata military leader and politician
- 1839Lord William Bentinck — First Governor General of India, British soldier and statesman (1774-1839)
- 1858Rani Lakshmibai — queen of a princely state in India
- 1866Joseph Méry — French writer (1797–1866)
- 1889Lozen — Apache prophetess and warrior (1840–1889)
- 1898Edward Burne-Jones — British Pre-Raphaelite painter (1833-1898)
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