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| July 17th, 2007 (July 17 2007) | Event | TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aereas) Flight 3054 crashed upon landing during rain in Sao Paulo. This is Brazil s deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths. | |
| July 17th, 2007 (July 17 2007) | Death | Julio Redecker, Brazilian Politician (born in 1956) | |
| July 17th, 2006 (July 17 2006) | Death | Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (born in 1936) | |
| July 17th, 2006 (July 17 2006) | Death | Mickey Spillane, American author (born in 1918) | Mickey Spillane Quotes |
| July 17th, 2005 (July 17 2005) | Death | Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (born in 1927) | |
| July 17th, 2005 (July 17 2005) | Death | Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (born in 1913) | |
| July 17th, 2005 (July 17 2005) | Death | Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1916) | |
| July 17th, 2005 (July 17 2005) | Death | Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (born in 1924) | |
| July 17th, 2005 (July 17 2005) | Death | Joe Vialls, Australian writer (born in 1944) | |
| July 17th, 2004 (July 17 2004) | Death | Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (born in 1937) | |
| July 17th, 2003 (July 17 2003) | Death | David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (born in 1944) | |
| July 17th, 2003 (July 17 2003) | Death | Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (born in 1914) | |
| July 17th, 2001 (July 17 2001) | Death | Katharine Graham, American publisher (born in 1917) | |
| July 17th, 2000 (July 17 2000) | Event | An F2 tornado ripped through Guelph, Ontario during the later portions of the evening. | |
| July 17th, 1998 (July 17 1998) | Event | Papua New Guinea earthquake: A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless. | |
| July 17th, 1998 (July 17 1998) | Event | A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. | |
| July 17th, 1998 (July 17 1998) | Birth | Felipe Juan Froilan de Marichalar y de Borbon, Spanish royal | |
| July 17th, 1997 (July 17 1997) | Event | The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business. | |
| July 17th, 1996 (July 17 1996) | Event | Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 explodes, killing all 230 on board. | |
| July 17th, 1996 (July 17 1996) | Death | Chas Chandler, bass guitarist (The Animals), record producer and manager (born in 1938) | |
| July 17th, 1995 (July 17 1995) | Death | Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (born in 1911) | |
| July 17th, 1992 (July 17 1992) | Birth | Taavi Rand, Estonian ice skater | |
| July 17th, 1989 (July 17 1989) | Event | First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. | |
| July 17th, 1989 (July 17 1989) | Birth | Josie Lopez, American actress | |
| July 17th, 1989 (July 17 1989) | Birth | Marko Todorovic, Swiss swimmer | |
| July 17th, 1988 (July 17 1988) | Birth | Summer Bishil, Arab American actress | |
| July 17th, 1988 (July 17 1988) | Death | Bruiser Brody, professional wrestler (born in 1946) | |
| July 17th, 1987 (July 17 1987) | Birth | Darius Boyd, NRL Player | |
| July 17th, 1987 (July 17 1987) | Death | Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (born in 1934) | |
| July 17th, 1986 (July 17 1986) | Birth | Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX) | |
| July 17th, 1985 (July 17 1985) | Birth | Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer | |
| July 17th, 1985 (July 17 1985) | Birth | Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly) | |
| July 17th, 1984 (July 17 1984) | Birth | Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer | |
| July 17th, 1984 (July 17 1984) | Birth | Asami Kimura, Japanese singer | |
| July 17th, 1983 (July 17 1983) | Birth | Ryan Guettler, professional Australian BMX rider | |
| July 17th, 1983 (July 17 1983) | Birth | Brooke Kinsella, British actress | |
| July 17th, 1983 (July 17 1983) | Birth | Adam Lind, American baseball player | |
| July 17th, 1982 (July 17 1982) | Birth | Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten) | |
| July 17th, 1981 (July 17 1981) | Event | Hyatt Regency walkway collapse in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200 caused by structural failure. | |
| July 17th, 1981 (July 17 1981) | Birth | Elpida Romantzi, Greek archer | |
| July 17th, 1980 (July 17 1980) | Birth | Ryan Miller, NHL hockey player | |
| July 17th, 1980 (July 17 1980) | Birth | Javier Camunas, Spanish footballer | |
| July 17th, 1980 (July 17 1980) | Death | Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (born in 1890) | |
| July 17th, 1979 (July 17 1979) | Event | Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami. | |
| July 17th, 1979 (July 17 1979) | Birth | Mike Vogel, American actor | |
| July 17th, 1978 (July 17 1978) | Birth | Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler | |
| July 17th, 1978 (July 17 1978) | Birth | Katharine Towne, American actress | |
| July 17th, 1978 (July 17 1978) | Birth | Ricardo Arona, Brazillian mixed martial artist | Martial Quotes |
| July 17th, 1977 (July 17 1977) | Birth | M.I.A., British rapper | |
| July 17th, 1977 (July 17 1977) | Birth | Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer | |
| July 17th, 1977 (July 17 1977) | Birth | Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player | |
| July 17th, 1976 (July 17 1976) | Event | History of East Timor: East Timor was annexed, and became the 27th province of Indonesia. | |
| July 17th, 1976 (July 17 1976) | Event | The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team | |
| July 17th, 1976 (July 17 1976) | Birth | Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress | |
| July 17th, 1976 (July 17 1976) | Birth | Eric Winter, American actor | |
| July 17th, 1976 (July 17 1976) | Birth | Matthew Holmes, Australian actor | |
| July 17th, 1975 (July 17 1975) | Event | Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. | |
| July 17th, 1975 (July 17 1975) | Birth | Elena Anaya, Spanish actress | |
| July 17th, 1975 (July 17 1975) | Birth | Cecile de France, Belgian actress | |
| July 17th, 1975 (July 17 1975) | Birth | Paul Hinojos, American guitarist (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta) | |
| July 17th, 1975 (July 17 1975) | Birth | Konnie Huq, English television presenter | |
| July 17th, 1975 (July 17 1975) | Birth | Terence Tao, Australian Chinese mathematician | |
| July 17th, 1975 (July 17 1975) | Birth | Gino D Acampo, Italian celebrity chef | |
| July 17th, 1975 (July 17 1975) | Death | Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (born in 1893) | |
| July 17th, 1974 (July 17 1974) | Birth | Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician | |
| July 17th, 1974 (July 17 1974) | Death | Dizzy Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (born in 1910) | |
| July 17th, 1973 (July 17 1973) | Event | King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery. | Ghani Khan Quotes |
| July 17th, 1973 (July 17 1973) | Birth | Michael Wilson, American Libratarion | |
| July 17th, 1973 (July 17 1973) | Birth | Eric Moulds, American football player | |
| July 17th, 1973 (July 17 1973) | Birth | Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer | |
| July 17th, 1973 (July 17 1973) | Birth | Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian and actor | |
| July 17th, 1972 (July 17 1972) | Birth | Jason Rullo, American drummer (Symphony X, Redemption) | |
| July 17th, 1972 (July 17 1972) | Birth | Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer | |
| July 17th, 1971 (July 17 1971) | Birth | Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player | |
| July 17th, 1971 (July 17 1971) | Birth | Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist | |
| July 17th, 1971 (July 17 1971) | Birth | Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist | |
| July 17th, 1970 (July 17 1970) | Birth | Mandy Smith, English model and singer | |
| July 17th, 1968 (July 17 1968) | Event | Revolution in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif was overthrown and the Ba ath Party installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President. | |
| July 17th, 1968 (July 17 1968) | Birth | Bitty Schram, American actress | |
| July 17th, 1967 (July 17 1967) | Death | John Coltrane, American musician (born in 1926) | John Coltrane Quotes |
| July 17th, 1966 (July 17 1966) | Birth | Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician | |
| July 17th, 1965 (July 17 1965) | Birth | Craig Morgan, American singer | |
| July 17th, 1965 (July 17 1965) | Birth | Alex Winter, English film director | |
| July 17th, 1965 (July 17 1965) | Birth | Santiago Segura, Spanish film director and actor | |
| July 17th, 1963 (July 17 1963) | Birth | Matti Nykanen, Finnish ski jumper | |
| July 17th, 1963 (July 17 1963) | Birth | Letsie III, King of Lesotho | |
| July 17th, 1963 (July 17 1963) | Birth | John Ventimiglia, American actor | |
| July 17th, 1962 (July 17 1962) | Event | Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site. | |
| July 17th, 1961 (July 17 1961) | Birth | Jonathan Potts, Canadian actor | |
| July 17th, 1961 (July 17 1961) | Death | Ty Cobb, baseball player (born in 1886) | |
| July 17th, 1960 (July 17 1960) | Birth | Mark Burnett, English-born television producer | |
| July 17th, 1960 (July 17 1960) | Birth | Nancy Giles, American actress | |
| July 17th, 1960 (July 17 1960) | Birth | Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor | |
| July 17th, 1960 (July 17 1960) | Birth | Jan Wouters, Dutch football player and manager | |
| July 17th, 1959 (July 17 1959) | Death | Billie Holiday, American singer (born in 1915) | |
| July 17th, 1959 (July 17 1959) | Death | Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (born in 1875) | |
| July 17th, 1958 (July 17 1958) | Birth | Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director | |
| July 17th, 1957 (July 17 1957) | Birth | Fern Britton, British television presenter | |
| July 17th, 1956 (July 17 1956) | Birth | Bryan Trottier, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| July 17th, 1955 (July 17 1955) | Event | Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California | |
| July 17th, 1955 (July 17 1955) | Birth | Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist | Ron Paul Quotes |
| July 17th, 1954 (July 17 1954) | Birth | Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany | |
| July 17th, 1954 (July 17 1954) | Birth | J. Michael Straczynski, American author | |
| July 17th, 1952 (July 17 1952) | Birth | David Hasselhoff, American actor and musician | |
| July 17th, 1952 (July 17 1952) | Birth | Phoebe Laub, American singer and songwriter | |
| July 17th, 1952 (July 17 1952) | Birth | Nicolette Larson, American singer (died in 1997) | |
| July 17th, 1951 (July 17 1951) | Event | Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts is chartered. | |
| July 17th, 1951 (July 17 1951) | Birth | Lucie Arnaz, American actress | |
| July 17th, 1950 (July 17 1950) | Birth | Derek de Lint, Dutch actor | |
| July 17th, 1950 (July 17 1950) | Birth | P.J. Soles, German-born American actress | |
| July 17th, 1950 (July 17 1950) | Death | Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (born in 1865) | |
| July 17th, 1949 (July 17 1949) | Birth | Terence "Geezer" Butler, British musician and lyricist (Black Sabbath) | |
| July 17th, 1949 (July 17 1949) | Birth | Charlie Steiner, American sports broadcaster | |
| July 17th, 1948 (July 17 1948) | Birth | Ron Asheton, American musician and composer (Iggy Pop & The Stooges) | |
| July 17th, 1948 (July 17 1948) | Birth | Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director | |
| July 17th, 1947 (July 17 1947) | Birth | Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall | |
| July 17th, 1947 (July 17 1947) | Birth | Wolfgang Flur, German musician (Kraftwerk) | |
| July 17th, 1946 (July 17 1946) | Birth | Alun Armstrong, English actor | |
| July 17th, 1946 (July 17 1946) | Death | General Dragoljub Mihailovic, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (born in 1893) | |
| July 17th, 1945 (July 17 1945) | Event | World War II: Potsdam ConferenceAt Potsdam, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the three main Allied leaders, begin their final summit of the war. The meeting will end on August 2. | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| July 17th, 1945 (July 17 1945) | Birth | Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia | |
| July 17th, 1945 (July 17 1945) | Death | Ernst Busch, German field marshal (born in 1885) | |
| July 17th, 1944 (July 17 1944) | Event | Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320. | |
| July 17th, 1944 (July 17 1944) | Event | World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs were dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lo, France | |
| July 17th, 1944 (July 17 1944) | Birth | Carlos Alberto, Brazilian football player | |
| July 17th, 1944 (July 17 1944) | Birth | Catherine Schell, Hungarian born British actress | |
| July 17th, 1944 (July 17 1944) | Death | William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (born in 1898) | William James Quotes |
| July 17th, 1942 (July 17 1942) | Birth | Gale Garnett, Canadian singer | |
| July 17th, 1942 (July 17 1942) | Birth | Don Kessinger, American baseball player | |
| July 17th, 1942 (July 17 1942) | Birth | Peter Sissons, British newsreader | |
| July 17th, 1941 (July 17 1941) | Birth | Daryle Lamonica, American football player | |
| July 17th, 1941 (July 17 1941) | Birth | Achim Warmbold, German rally driver | |
| July 17th, 1940 (July 17 1940) | Birth | Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian | |
| July 17th, 1939 (July 17 1939) | Birth | Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran | |
| July 17th, 1939 (July 17 1939) | Birth | Andree Champagne, French Canadian actress and politician | |
| July 17th, 1939 (July 17 1939) | Birth | Spencer Davis, British singer and guitarist (Spencer Davis Group) | |
| July 17th, 1936 (July 17 1936) | Event | Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war. | |
| July 17th, 1935 (July 17 1935) | Birth | Diahann Carroll, American actor | |
| July 17th, 1935 (July 17 1935) | Birth | Peter Schickele, American author and radio host | |
| July 17th, 1935 (July 17 1935) | Birth | Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor | |
| July 17th, 1935 (July 17 1935) | Death | George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (born in 1867) | |
| July 17th, 1933 (July 17 1933) | Event | After successfully crossing the Atlantic ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances. | |
| July 17th, 1933 (July 17 1933) | Birth | Bruce Wells, boxer/actor | |
| July 17th, 1932 (July 17 1932) | Birth | Hal Riney, American advertising executive (died in 2008) | |
| July 17th, 1929 (July 17 1929) | Birth | Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician | |
| July 17th, 1928 (July 17 1928) | Birth | Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (died in 1976) | |
| July 17th, 1928 (July 17 1928) | Death | Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (born in 1842) | |
| July 17th, 1926 (July 17 1926) | Birth | Edouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler | |
| July 17th, 1926 (July 17 1926) | Birth | Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer | |
| July 17th, 1923 (July 17 1923) | Birth | John Cooper, English race car designer (died in 2000) | |
| July 17th, 1921 (July 17 1921) | Birth | Frantisek Zvarik, Slovakian actor | |
| July 17th, 1920 (July 17 1920) | Birth | Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish chairman of the International Olympic Committee | |
| July 17th, 1920 (July 17 1920) | Birth | Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sports commentator (died in 2002) | |
| July 17th, 1920 (July 17 1920) | Birth | Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (died in 2005) | |
| July 17th, 1918 (July 17 1918) | Event | By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by Cheka, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his immediate family, and retainers were murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia. | |
| July 17th, 1918 (July 17 1918) | Event | RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the Unterseeboot 55 with 5 lives lost. | |
| July 17th, 1918 (July 17 1918) | Birth | Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (died in 2003) | |
| July 17th, 1917 (July 17 1917) | Event | King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor. | George V of the United Kingdom Quotes |
| July 17th, 1917 (July 17 1917) | Birth | Phyllis Diller, American comedian | |
| July 17th, 1917 (July 17 1917) | Birth | Red Sovine, American country music singer (died in 1980) | |
| July 17th, 1917 (July 17 1917) | Birth | Lou Boudreau, Major League baseball player and manager (died in 2001) | |
| July 17th, 1913 (July 17 1913) | Birth | Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (died in 1997) | |
| July 17th, 1912 (July 17 1912) | Birth | Art Linkletter, Canadian television host | |
| July 17th, 1912 (July 17 1912) | Death | Henri Poincare, French mathematician (born in 1854) | Henri Poincare Quotes |
| July 17th, 1911 (July 17 1911) | Birth | Ted Anderson, English footballer (died in 1979) | |
| July 17th, 1907 (July 17 1907) | Death | Hector Malot, French writer (born in 1830) | |
| July 17th, 1902 (July 17 1902) | Birth | Christina Stead, Australian novelist (died in 1983) | |
| July 17th, 1901 (July 17 1901) | Birth | Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and team owner (NART; died in 1994) | |
| July 17th, 1901 (July 17 1901) | Birth | Bruno Jasienski, Polish poet (died in 1938) | |
| July 17th, 1900 (July 17 1900) | Birth | Marcel Dalio, French actor (died in 1983) | |
| July 17th, 1899 (July 17 1899) | Event | NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital. | |
| July 17th, 1899 (July 17 1899) | Birth | James Cagney, American actor (died in 1986) | |
| July 17th, 1898 (July 17 1898) | Birth | George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (died in 1985) | |
| July 17th, 1898 (July 17 1898) | Birth | Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (died in 1999) | |
| July 17th, 1894 (July 17 1894) | Death | Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (born in 1810) | |
| July 17th, 1894 (July 17 1894) | Death | Charles-Marie-Rene Leconte de Lisle, French poet (born in 1818) | |
| July 17th, 1893 (July 17 1893) | Death | Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (born in 1833) | |
| July 17th, 1889 (July 17 1889) | Birth | Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (Perry Mason) (died in 1970) | |
| July 17th, 1888 (July 17 1888) | Birth | Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1970) | |
| July 17th, 1887 (July 17 1887) | Death | Dorothea Dix, french social activist (born in 1802) | |
| July 17th, 1885 (July 17 1885) | Death | Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (born in 1811) | |
| July 17th, 1881 (July 17 1881) | Death | Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (born in 1804) | |
| July 17th, 1879 (July 17 1879) | Death | Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (born in 1856) | |
| July 17th, 1878 (July 17 1878) | Death | Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (born in 1812) | |
| July 17th, 1856 (July 17 1856) | Event | The Great Train Wreck of 1856, occurs in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania killing over 60 people. | |
| July 17th, 1845 (July 17 1845) | Death | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1764) | |
| July 17th, 1839 (July 17 1839) | Birth | Ephraim Shay, American inventor (died in 1916) | |
| July 17th, 1831 (July 17 1831) | Birth | Xianfeng, Emperor of China (died in 1861) | |
| July 17th, 1815 (July 17 1815) | Event | Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces. | |
| July 17th, 1797 (July 17 1797) | Birth | Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (died in 1856) | |
| July 17th, 1794 (July 17 1794) | Event | The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution s Reign of Terror. | |
| July 17th, 1794 (July 17 1794) | Death | John Roebuck, British inventor (born in 1718) | |
| July 17th, 1793 (July 17 1793) | Death | Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (born in 1768) | |
| July 17th, 1791 (July 17 1791) | Event | Members of the French National guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people. | |
| July 17th, 1791 (July 17 1791) | Death | Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (born in 1717) | |
| July 17th, 1790 (July 17 1790) | Death | Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (born in 1723) | Adam Smith Quotes |
| July 17th, 1771 (July 17 1771) | Event | Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit. | |
| July 17th, 1763 (July 17 1763) | Birth | John Jacob Astor, American businessman (died in 1848) | |
| July 17th, 1762 (July 17 1762) | Event | Catherine II becomes tzar of Russia upon the accidental murder of Peter III of Russia. | |
| July 17th, 1745 (July 17 1745) | Birth | Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (died in 1826) | |
| July 17th, 1744 (July 17 1744) | Birth | Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States (died in 1814) | |
| July 17th, 1709 (July 17 1709) | Death | Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (born in 1646) | |
| July 17th, 1704 (July 17 1704) | Death | Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer | |
| July 17th, 1698 (July 17 1698) | Birth | Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (died in 1759) | |
| July 17th, 1686 (July 17 1686) | Event | A meeting takes place at Luneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an evangelical league of defence, called the Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae , against the Catholic League. | |
| July 17th, 1674 (July 17 1674) | Birth | Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (died in 1748) | |
| July 17th, 1645 (July 17 1645) | Death | Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician | |
| July 17th, 1588 (July 17 1588) | Death | Sinan, Ottoman architect (born in 1489) | |
| July 17th, 1571 (July 17 1571) | Death | Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (born in 1516) | |
| July 17th, 1566 (July 17 1566) | Death | Bartolome de Las Casas, Spanish priest (born in 1484) | |
| July 17th, 1531 (July 17 1531) | Death | Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (born in 1484) | |
| July 17th, 1487 (July 17 1487) | Birth | Ismail I, Shah of Persia (died in 1524) | |
| July 17th, 1453 (July 17 1453) | Event | Hundred Years War: Battle of CastillonThe French under Jean Bureau utterly defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony | |
| July 17th, 1453 (July 17 1453) | Death | John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader | |
| July 17th, 1203 (July 17 1203) | Event | Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile. | Stan Lee Quotes |
| July 17th, 1070 (July 17 1070) | Death | Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (born in 1030) | |
| July 17th, 0924 (July 17 0924) | Death | King Edward the Elder of England | |
| July 17th, 0656 (July 17 0656) | Death | Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated. | |
| July 17th, 0521 (July 17 0521) | Death | Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (born in 474) | |
| July 17th, 0180 (July 17 0180) | Event | Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. | |
