July 17th Deaths |
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| 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, 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, 1988 (July 17 1988) | Death | Bruiser Brody, professional wrestler (born in 1946) | |
| July 17th, 1987 (July 17 1987) | Death | Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (born in 1934) | |
| July 17th, 1980 (July 17 1980) | Death | Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (born in 1890) | |
| July 17th, 1975 (July 17 1975) | Death | Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (born in 1893) | |
| July 17th, 1974 (July 17 1974) | Death | Dizzy Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (born in 1910) | |
| July 17th, 1967 (July 17 1967) | Death | John Coltrane, American musician (born in 1926) | John Coltrane Quotes |
| July 17th, 1961 (July 17 1961) | Death | Ty Cobb, baseball player (born in 1886) | |
| 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, 1950 (July 17 1950) | Death | Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (born in 1865) | |
| 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) | Death | Ernst Busch, German field marshal (born in 1885) | |
| July 17th, 1944 (July 17 1944) | Death | William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (born in 1898) | William James Quotes |
| July 17th, 1935 (July 17 1935) | Death | George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (born in 1867) | |
| July 17th, 1928 (July 17 1928) | Death | Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (born in 1842) | |
| July 17th, 1912 (July 17 1912) | Death | Henri Poincare, French mathematician (born in 1854) | Henri Poincare Quotes |
| July 17th, 1907 (July 17 1907) | Death | Hector Malot, French writer (born in 1830) | |
| 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, 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, 1845 (July 17 1845) | Death | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1764) | |
| 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) | 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, 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, 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, 1453 (July 17 1453) | Death | John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader | |
| 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) | |
