On this day: 17 July
Events, births and deaths on 17 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Felix Baumgartner
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Willis Carto
- Births · Édouard Carpentier
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1085 · Deaths · Robert Guiscard
- 1070 · Deaths · Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders
Events · 30
- 1453Battle of Castillon — 1453 battle during the Hundred Years' War
- 1771Bloody Falls Massacre — conflict in 1771 in Canada
- 1791Champ de Mars Massacre — massacre
- 1863Invasion of the Waikato — campaign of the New Zealand Wars (1863 - 1864)
- 1899NEC — Japanese technology corporation
- 1917House of Windsor — royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms
- 1932Altona Bloody Sunday — April 1932 political clash in Germany
- 1936Nationalist faction — major faction in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939
- 1936Spanish coup of July 1936 — military coup against the Second Spanish Republic
- 1937
- 1944Port Chicago disaster — 1944 explosion in California, United States
- 1945Potsdam Conference — meeting of the Allied heads of state near the end of World War II
- 19481948 Summer Olympics torch relay — Summer Olympics torch relay
- 1953USMC R4Q NROTC crash — 1953 aviation incident in Florida, United States
- 1966Ultraman — 1966 Japanese television series
- 196817 July Revolution — 1968 Ba'athist coup in Iraq
- 19761976 Summer Olympics — Games of the XXI Olympiad, in Montréal, Canada
- 1981Hyatt Regency walkway collapse — 1981 structural collapse in Kansas City, Missouri
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup Final — championship match of the 1994 FIFA World Cup
- 1996TWA Flight 800 — Flight that exploded and crashed in 1996 off the coast of New York
- 1997Sempati Air Flight 304 — 1997 aviation accident
- 1998Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court — 1998 international treaty establishing the International Criminal Court
- 19981998 Papua New Guinea earthquake — severe earthquake and tsunami near Papua New Guinea
- 2000Alliance Air Flight 7412 — Aviation accident
- 2006July 2006 Java earthquake — Destructive tsunami earthquake south of Java Island, Indonesia
- 2007TAM Airlines Flight 3054 — aviation accident
- 20092009 Jakarta bombings — 17 July 2009 bombings in Jakarta, Indonesia
- 2014Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 — passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur
- 2014killing of Eric Garner — death of African American man due to chokehold from police officer
- 20152015 Khan Bani Saad bombing — suicide bombing that occurred in the summer of 2015, in a marketplace during busy hours
Births · 60
- 1487Ismail I — founder and first shah of Safavid Iran
- 1674Isaac Watts — English hymnwriter, theologian and logician (1674-1748)
- 1698Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis — French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
- 1714Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten — German philosopher (b. 1714)
- 1744Elbridge Gerry — vice president of the United States from 1813 to 1814
- 1763John Jacob Astor I — German-American businessman (1763-1848)
- 1797Paul Delaroche — French painter (1797-1856)
- 1819Eunice Newton Foote — American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819–1888)
- 1831Xianfeng Emperor — The ninth emperor (and the seventh after defeating Ming) of the Qing Dynasty (1831-1861)
- 1846Tokugawa Iemochi — Japanese shogun (1846–1866)
- 1853Alexius Meinong — Austrian philosopher (1853–1920)
- 1871Lyonel Feininger — German-American painter (1871–1956)
- 1889Erle Stanley Gardner — American writer and lawyer (1889–1970)
- 1894Georges Lemaître — Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
- 1898Berenice Abbott — American photographer (1898-1991)
- 1899James Cagney — American actor and dancer (1899–1986)
- 1917Kenan Evren — President of Turkey (1917–2015)
- 1917Phyllis Diller — American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist (1917–2012)
- 1920
- 1920Gordon Gould — American physicist and inventor (1920–2005)
- 1932Wojciech Kilar — Polish composer and pianist (1932–2013)
- 1932Quino — Argentine cartoonist (1932-2020)
- 1935Donald Sutherland — Canadian actor (1935–2024)
- 1935Diahann Carroll — American actress, singer, model and activist (1935–2019)
- 1944Carlos Alberto Torres — Brazilian association football player and manager (1944-2016)
Deaths · 60
- 521(Julian date)Magnus Felix Ennodius — Bishop of Pavia
- 855(Julian date)Leo IV — pope of the Catholic Church
- 924(Julian date)Edward the Elder — king of the Anglo-Saxons (r. 899–924)
- 1070(Julian date)Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders — Count of Mons and Hainaut and Flanders (1030-1070)
- 1085(Julian date)Robert Guiscard — Duke of Apulia and Calabria
- 1210Sverker II of Sweden — King of Sweden
- 1399(Julian date)Jadwiga I of Poland — Queen of Poland (1384–1399)
- 1453(Julian date)John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury — English Earl
- 1588Mimar Sinan — 16th-century Ottoman chief architect and civil engineer
- 1762Peter III of Russia — The seventh Emperor of Russia, 1762 (lived 1728-1762)
- 1766Giuseppe Castiglione — Italian monk, missionary and painter (1688-1766)
- 1790Adam Smith — Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
- 1793Charlotte Corday — figure of the French Revolution (1768-1793)
- 1845Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834 (1764–1845)
- 1879Maurycy Gottlieb — Polish painter and student of Jan Matejko (1856-1879)
- 1883Tự Đức — Vietnamese emperor (1829–1883)
- 1894Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle — French poet (1818–1894)
- 1903James McNeill Whistler — American painter (1834-1903)
- 1907Hector Malot — French writer (1830–1907)
- 1912Henri Poincaré — French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
- 1918Nicholas II of Russia — 14th and last Emperor of Russia (1894–1917)
- 1918Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) — Empress consort of Russia (1872–1918)
- 1918Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia — Grand Duchess of Russia (1901–1918); fourth child and youngest daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
- 1918Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia — Grand Duchess of Russia (1895–1918); eldest child of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
- 1918Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia — Grand Duchess of Russia (1899–1918); third daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
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