July 17 2005 |
And previous decades events |
Read about how to open files in Open File Database. |
| 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, 1995 (July 17 1995) | Death | Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (born in 1911) | |
| 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1885 (July 17 1885) | Death | Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (born in 1811) | |
| July 17th, 1845 (July 17 1845) | Death | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1764) | |
| July 17th, 1815 (July 17 1815) | Event | Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces. | |
| July 17th, 1745 (July 17 1745) | Birth | Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (died in 1826) | |
| July 17th, 1645 (July 17 1645) | Death | Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician | |
