On this day: 17 September
Events, births and deaths on 17 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Hans Enoksen
- Events · Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Bahman Golbarnezhad
- Deaths · Sigge Parling
- Events · 2016 New York and New Jersey bombings
100 years ago1926
- Births · Jean-Marie Lustiger
- Births · Bill Black
- Births · Curtis Harrington
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1025 · Deaths · Hugh Magnus
- 936 · Deaths · Unni
Events · 33
- 1176Battle of Myriokephalon — 1176 battle
- 1462Battle of Świecino — 1462 battle during the Thirteen Years' War. Decisive Polish victory over Teutonic Knights
- 1620Battle of Cecora — 1620 battle
- 1631Battle of Breitenfeld — Protestants’ first major victory of the Thirty Years War in 1631
- 1658Battle of Vilanova — 1658 battle of the Portuguese Restoration War
- 1775Siege of Fort St. Jean — 1775 siege of the American Revolutionary War
- 1776Presidio of San Francisco — place in California listed on National Register of Historic Places
- 1778Treaty of Fort Pitt — 1778 treaty between the United States and Lenape
- 1793Battle of Peyrestortes — 1793 battle during the War of the Pyrenees
- 1861Battle of Pavón — 1861 battle
- 1862Battle of Antietam — 1862 major battle of the American Civil War
- 1894Battle of the Yalu River — battle in 1894
- 1900Battle of Mabitac — 1900 battle during the Philippine–American War
- 1901Battle of Blood River Poort — 1901 battle of the Second Boer War
- 1901Battle of Elands River — 1901 battle of the Second Boer War
- 1939Soviet invasion of Poland — large-scale military attack performed by the USSR on the Second Polish Republic year 1939
- 1944Operation Market Garden — 1944 Allied military operation during WW2
- 1944Battle of San Marino — 1944 World War II battle
- 1944Tallinn Offensive — 1944 military offensive
- 1961Civic Arena — arena in Pittsburgh
- 1961Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 — 1961 aviation accident
- 1978Camp David Accords — 1978 political agreement between Egypt and Israel
- 19881988 Summer Olympics — Games of the XXIV Olympiad, in Seoul, South Korea
- 1991Linux — family of Unix-like operating systems
- 1992Mykonos restaurant assassinations — assassinations in Berlin in 1992
- 19951995 Hong Kong legislative election — election held in Hong Kong
- 20042004 Summer Paralympics — multi-parasport event in Athens, Greece
- 20082008 attack on the American Embassy in Yemen — terror attack in Yemen
- 2011Occupy Wall Street — 2011 protest in New York against wealth inequality
- 20162016 New York and New Jersey bombings — Bombing attack in United States
- 2018Syria missile strikes — 2018 Israeli air strikes on western Syria during the Syrian Civil War
- 20242024 Lebanon electronic device attacks — explosive device attacks in Lebanon and Syria
- 2025Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement — security and defense agreement between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia
Births · 60
- 879(Julian date)Charles the Simple — King of West Francia
- 1552(Julian date)Paul V — 233rd pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1605 to 1621
- 1677Stephen Hales — British scientist (1677-1761)
- 1688Maria Luisa of Savoy — Queen consort of Spain (1688-1714)
- 1743Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet — French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743–1794)
- 1783(Julian date)Aleksandr Aleksandrov — Russian Army officer
- 1820Émile Augier — French writer (1820-1889)
- 1826Bernhard Riemann — German mathematician (1826–1866)
- 1857Konstantin Tsiolkovsky — Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
- 1859Billy the Kid — American outlaw and gunfighter (1859–1881)
- 1869Christian Lous Lange — Norwegian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1869-1938)
- 1883William Carlos Williams — American poet (1883-1963)
- 1906Junius Richard Jayewardene — President of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989
- 1915M. F. Husain — Indian artist (1915–2011)
- 1918Chaim Herzog — 6th President of Israel (1983–1993) – (born1918–1997)
- 1922Agostinho Neto — President of Angola (1975-1979)
- 1923Hank Williams — American singer-songwriter (1923–1953)
- 1926Jean-Marie Lustiger — French Catholic cardinal (1926–2007)
- 1928Roddy McDowall — British actor (1928–1998)
- 1929Stirling Moss — British motor racing driver (1929-2020)
- 1930Edgar Mitchell — American astronaut (1930-2016)
- 1930Thomas P. Stafford — American astronaut (1930–2024)
- 1931Anne Bancroft — American actress (1931–2005)
- 1931Jean-Claude Carrière — French screenwriter and actor (1931-2021)
- 1933Chuck Grassley — United States Senator from Iowa since 1981
Deaths · 60
- 887(Julian date)Kōkō — Emperor of Japan
- 1025(Julian date)Hugh Magnus — king (fl. 11. century)
- 1148(Julian date)Conan III, Duke of Brittany — Duke of Brittany from 1112 to 1148
- 1179(Julian date)Hildegard of Bingen — German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
- 1322(Julian date)Robert III, Count of Flanders — Count of Flanders (1249-1322)
- 1482(Julian date)Wilhelm II, Landgrave of Thuringia — Landgrave of Thuringia and Duke of Luxembourg
- 1574(Julian date)Pedro Menéndez de Avilés — Spanish explorer and governor (1519–1574)
- 1575(Julian date)Heinrich Bullinger — Swiss reformer (1504–1575)
- 1609Judah Loew ben Bezalel — Czech rabbi
- 1621Robert Bellarmine — Catholic cardinal, saint, and Doctor of the Church
- 1632Susenyos — Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1665Philip IV of Spain — King of Spain and Portugal (1605-1665)
- 1674Hyeonjong of Joseon — 18th monarch of the Korean Joseon Dynasty
- 1676Sabbatai Zevi — mystic, rabbis
- 1679John Joseph of Austria — Spanish general (1629-1679)
- 1721Marguerite Louise d'Orléans — French princess (1645-1721)
- 1762Francesco Geminiani — Italian composer and violinist
- 1771Tobias Smollett — Scottish writer and surgeon (1721–1771)
- 1786Tokugawa Ieharu — Japanese shogun
- 1803Franz Xaver Süssmayr — Austrian composer and conductor
- 1836Antoine Laurent de Jussieu — French botanist (1748–1836)
- 1852Francisco Javier Echeverría — President of Mexico (1797-1852)
- 1858Dred Scott — African-American plaintiff in freedom suit (c.1799–1858)
- 1863Alfred de Vigny — French poet, playwright, and novelist (1797–1863)
- 1863Charles Robert Cockerell — English architect, archaeologist, and writer (1788–1863)
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