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What happend on 17. July in History
In our data base we found 340 events happened on 17. July:
• 180: Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. [category: Events]
• 521: Magnus Felix Ennodius, Latin bishop and poet (b. 474) [category: Deaths]
• 607: Ali ibn Abi Talib, 4th Caliph of Islam and 1st Shi'ite Imam (d. 661) [category: Births]
• 656: Uthman ibn Affan, Islamic 3rd caliph (b. 579) [category: Deaths]
• 924: Edward the Elder, English king (b. 877) [category: Deaths]
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• 1070: Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030) [category: Deaths]
• 1203: The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile. [category: Events]
• 1402: Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming Dynasty of China. [category: Events]
• 1429: Hundred Years' war- Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc [category: Events]
• 1453: Dmitry Shemyaka, Russian prince [category: Deaths]
• 1453: John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader (b. 1387) [category: Deaths]
• 1453: Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years' War, the The French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony. [category: Events]
• 1487: Ismail I, Iranian ruler, founder of the Safavid dynasty (d. 1524) [category: Births]
• 1531: Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484) [category: Deaths]
• 1566: Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484) [category: Deaths]
• 1571: Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516) [category: Deaths]
• 1588: Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect and engineer (b. 1489) [category: Deaths]
• 1645: Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician (b. 1587) [category: Deaths]
• 1674: Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter and theologian (d. 1748) [category: Births]
• 1698: Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759) [category: Births]
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• 1704: Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (b. 1657) [category: Deaths]
• 1709: Robert Bolling, English-American planter and merchant (b. 1646) [category: Deaths]
• 1717: King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered. [category: Events]
• 1744: Elbridge Gerry, American politician, 5th Vice President of the United States (d. 1814) [category: Births]
• 1745: Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826) [category: Births]
• 1762: Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia. [category: Events]
• 1763: John Jacob Astor, German-American businessman (d. 1848) [category: Births]
• 1771: Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit. [category: Events]
• 1774: John Wilbur, American minister (d. 1856) [category: Births]
• 1790: Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1791: Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian missionary (b. 1717) [category: Deaths]
• 1791: 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. [category: Events]
• 1793: Charlotte Corday, French murderer (b. 1768) [category: Deaths]
• 1794: John Roebuck, English chemist (b. 1718) [category: Deaths]
• 1794: The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. [category: Events]
• 1797: Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856) [category: Births]
• 1823: Leander Clark, American businessman and politician (d. 1910) [category: Births]
• 1831: Xianfeng Emperor of China (d. 1861) [category: Births]
• 1839: Ephraim Shay, American inventor and engineer, invented the Shay locomotive (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1845: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764) [category: Deaths]
• 1853: Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1856: The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people. [category: Events]
• 1867: Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, Massachusetts. It was the first dental school in the U.S. that was affiliated with a university. [category: Events]
• 1868: Henri Nathansen, Danish writer and director (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1870: Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish bagpipe player (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1871: Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and caricaturist (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1878: Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812) [category: Deaths]
• 1879: Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1881: Jim Bridger, American mountain man and explorer (b. 1804) [category: Deaths]
• 1882: James Somerville, British admiral (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1883: Tu Duc, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1885: Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811) [category: Deaths]
• 1887: Dorothea Dix, American activist (b. 1802) [category: Deaths]
• 1888: Milán Füst, Hungarian writer, (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1888: Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1889: Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1893: Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833) [category: Deaths]
• 1894: Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810) [category: Deaths]
• 1894: Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818) [category: Deaths]
• 1898: Berenice Abbott, American photographer (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1898: George Robert Vincent, American historian (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1898: Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1899: James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1899: NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital. [category: Events]
• 1900: Marcel Dalio, French actor (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1901: Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1901: Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1902: Christina Stead, Australian author (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1907: Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830) [category: Deaths]
• 1910: Barbara O'Neil, American actress (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1910: Frank Olson, American biologist (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1910: James Coyne, Canadian banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1911: Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1912: Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television host (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1912: Erwin Bauer, German race car driver (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1912: Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1913: Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City building (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1913: Marc Swayze, American writer and illustrator (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1915: Fred Ball, American actor (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1917: Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1917: Phyllis Diller, American actress and comedian (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1917: Red Sovine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1917: King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor. [category: Events]
• 1918: Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan politician, President of Guatemala (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1918: Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Family of Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia. [category: Events]
• 1918: The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost. [category: Events]
• 1920: Gordon Gould, American physicist, inventor of the laser (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1920: Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports administrator, 7th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1920: Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sportscaster (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1921: František Zvarík, Slovakian actor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1921: Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1923: John Cooper, English car designer, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1924: Olive Ann Burns, American author (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1925: Jimmy Scott, American singer [category: Births]
• 1926: Charles Champlin, American critic and writer [category: Births]
• 1926: Édouard Carpentier, Canadian wrestler (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1928: Vince Guaraldi, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1928: Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (b. 1842) [category: Deaths]
• 1928: Álvaro Obregón, Mexican politician, 39th President of Mexico (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1929: Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician [category: Births]
• 1932: Hal Riney, American advertising executive, founded Publicis & Hal Riney (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1932: Johnny Kerr, American basketball player and coach (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1932: Quino, Argentine cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1932: Altona Bloody Sunday. [category: Events]
• 1933: Tony Pithey, South African cricketer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1933: After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances. [category: Events]
• 1935: Diahann Carroll, American actor [category: Births]
• 1935: Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1935: Peter Schickele, American composer [category: Births]
• 1935: George William Russell, Irish poet and artist (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war. [category: Events]
• 1938: Hermann Huppen, Belgian writer and illustrator [category: Births]
• 1938: Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. [category: Events]
• 1939: Ali Khamenei, Iranian politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran [category: Births]
• 1939: Andrée Champagne, Canadian actress and politician [category: Births]
• 1939: Spencer Davis, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Spencer Davis Group) [category: Births]
• 1940: Tim Brooke-Taylor, English actor [category: Births]
• 1941: Achim Warmbold, German race car driver [category: Births]
• 1941: Bob Taylor, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1941: Daryle Lamonica, American football player [category: Births]
• 1942: Connie Hawkins, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1942: Don Kessinger, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1942: Gale Garnett, New Zealand-Canadian singer, actress, and writer [category: Births]
• 1942: Peter Sissons, English journalist [category: Births]
• 1943: LaVyrle Spencer, American author [category: Births]
• 1944: Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1944: Catherine Schell, Hungarian-English actress [category: Births]
• 1944: Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricketer [category: Births]
• 1944: William James Sidis, American mathematician (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320. [category: Events]
• 1944: World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France. [category: Events]
• 1945: Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia [category: Births]
• 1945: Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany. [category: Events]
• 1946: Alun Armstrong, English actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Draža Mihailović, Yugoslav General (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall [category: Births]
• 1947: Robert Begerau, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1947: Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk) [category: Births]
• 1948: Luc Bondy, Swiss director [category: Births]
• 1948: Ron Asheton, American musician, songwriter, and actor (The Stooges, Destroy All Monsters, The New Order, and New Race) (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1948: The South Korean constitution is proclaimed. [category: Events]
• 1949: Charley Steiner, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1949: Geezer Butler, English musician and songwriter (Black Sabbath, GZR, and Heaven & Hell) [category: Births]
• 1950: Derek de Lint, Dutch actor [category: Births]
• 1950: P. J. Soles, German-American actress [category: Births]
• 1950: Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sisters of Glory) (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1950: Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Lucie Arnaz, American actress [category: Births]
• 1952: David Hasselhoff, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1952: Nicolette Larson, American singer (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1953: The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida killing 44. [category: Events]
• 1954: Angela Merkel, German politician, Chancellor of Germany [category: Births]
• 1954: J. Michael Straczynski, American author [category: Births]
• 1955: Christopher Chappell, Canadian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1955: Paul Stamets, American mycologist and author [category: Births]
• 1955: Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California. [category: Events]
• 1956: Bryan Trottier, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1956: Robert Romanus, American actor [category: Births]
• 1957: Fern Britton, English television host [category: Births]
• 1958: Wong Kar-wai, Chinese director [category: Births]
• 1959: Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Eugene Meyer, American businessman and publisher (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Dawn Upshaw, American soprano [category: Births]
• 1960: Jan Wouters, Dutch footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1960: Kim Barnett, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1960: Mark Burnett, English-American television producer [category: Births]
• 1960: Nancy Giles, American actress [category: Births]
• 1960: Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Guru, American rapper, producer, and actor (Gang Starr) (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1961: Jeremy Hardy, English comedian [category: Births]
• 1961: Jonathan Potts, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Roy Pienaar, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1961: Ty Cobb, American baseball player (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Bill Sage, American actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site. [category: Events]
• 1963: John Ventimiglia, American actor [category: Births]
• 1963: Letsie III of Lesotho [category: Births]
• 1963: Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper [category: Births]
• 1963: Regina Belle, American singer-songwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1965: Alex Winter, English director [category: Births]
• 1965: Craig Morgan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1965: Santiago Segura, Spanish actor and director [category: Births]
• 1966: Lou Barlow, American singer-songwriter and musician (Deep Wound, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, and The Folk Implosion) [category: Births]
• 1966: Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician [category: Births]
• 1967: Susan Ashton, American singer [category: Births]
• 1967: John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (Miles Davis Quintet) (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Andre Royo, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Beth Littleford, American comedian and actress [category: Births]
• 1968: Bitty Schram, American actress [category: Births]
• 1968: A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President. [category: Events]
• 1969: F. Gary Gray, American director [category: Births]
• 1969: Scott Johnson, American cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1970: Mandy Smith, English model and singer [category: Births]
• 1971: Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist [category: Births]
• 1971: Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1971: Wilma van Hofwegen, Dutch swimmer [category: Births]
• 1972: Donny Marshall, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1972: Elizabeth Cook, American singer and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1972: Eric Williams, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1972: Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: Jason Rullo, American drummer (Symphony X and Redemption) [category: Births]
• 1973: Eric Moulds, American football player [category: Births]
• 1973: Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1973: Tony Dovolani, Albanian-American dancer [category: Births]
• 1973: King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery. [category: Events]
• 1974: Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1974: Laura Macdonald, Scottish saxophonist and composer [category: Births]
• 1974: Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Andre Adams, New Zealand cricketer [category: Births]
• 1975: Cécile de France, Belgian actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Darude, Finnish DJ and producer [category: Births]
• 1975: Elena Anaya, Spanish actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Harlette, Australian-English fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1975: Konnie Huq, English television host [category: Births]
• 1975: Paul Hinojos, American musician and composer (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, and Sparta) [category: Births]
• 1975: Terence Tao, Australian-Chinese mathematician [category: Births]
• 1975: Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: 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. [category: Events]
• 1976: Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Eric Winter, American actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Gino D'Acampo, Italian chef [category: Births]
• 1976: Luke Bryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1976: Matt Holmes, Australian actor [category: Births]
• 1976: History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia. [category: Events]
• 1976: The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team. [category: Events]
• 1977: Lehmber Hussainpuri, Indian singer [category: Births]
• 1977: Leif Hoste, Belgian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1977: Marc Savard, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1978: Katharine Towne, American actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Mike Knox, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1978: Panda Bear, American singer-songwriter and musician (Animal Collective and Jane) [category: Births]
• 1978: Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1978: Émilie Simon, French singer-songwriter and composer [category: Births]
• 1979: Mike Vogel, American actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida. [category: Events]
• 1980: Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Ryan Miller, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1980: Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Don "Red" Barry, American actor (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Elpida Romantzi, Greek archer [category: Births]
• 1981: Hely Ollarves, Venezuelan runner [category: Births]
• 1981: A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200. [category: Events]
• 1981: The opening of the Humber Bridge by Queen Elizabeth II in England, United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1982: Natasha Hamilton, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Atomic Kitten) [category: Births]
• 1982: Omari Banks, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1982: René Herms, German runner (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1983: Adam Lind, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Jessi Cruickshank, Canadian television host [category: Births]
• 1983: Ryan Guettler, Australian bicycle motocross rider [category: Births]
• 1983: Sarah Jones, American actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Asami Kimura, Japanese singer (Country Musume) [category: Births]
• 1984: David Katoatau, I-Kiribati weightlifter [category: Births]
• 1984: Samyr Laine, Haitian triple jumper [category: Births]
• 1984: Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Tom Fletcher, English singer-songwriter and musician (McFly) [category: Births]
• 1986: Brando Eaton, American actor [category: Births]
• 1986: Dana, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (The Grace) [category: Births]
• 1986: DeAngelo Smith, American football player [category: Births]
• 1986: Lacey Von Erich, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1987: Darius Boyd, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1987: Jan Charouz, Czech race car driver [category: Births]
• 1987: Jeremih, American singer-songwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1987: Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Summer Bishil, American actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Bruiser Brody, professional wrestler (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. [category: Events]
• 1991: Mann, American rapper [category: Births]
• 1994: Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Chas Chandler, American bass player and producer (The Animals) (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: David Hogan, American composer (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Marcel Dadi, Tunisian-French guitarist (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Michel Breistroff, French ice hockey player (b. 1971) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Pam Lychner, American real estate agent and activist (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Victims of TWA Flight 800 [category: Deaths]
• 1996: TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board. [category: Events]
• 1998: Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y Borbón, Spanish son of Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo [category: Births]
• 1998: 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. [category: Events]
• 1998: 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. [category: Events]
• 2000: Maria Aragon, Canadian singer [category: Births]
• 2001: Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: David Kelly, Welsh scientist (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Walter Zapp, Baltic German inventor (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Pat Roach, English wrestler and actor (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Edward Heath, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Gavin Lambert, English screenwriter and author (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Sam Myers, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Júlio Redecker, Brazilian politician (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths. [category: Events]
• 2008: Larry Haines, American actor (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Walter Cronkite, American journalist (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners. [category: Events]
• 2011: David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Forrest S. McCartney, American general (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Marsha Singh, English politician (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Morgan Paull, American actor (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Mrinal Gore, Indian politician and activist (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ms. Melodie, American rapper (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ottorino Pietro Alberti, Italian archbishop (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Wahengbam Nipamacha Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: William L. Wainwright, American politician (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: William Raspberry, American journalist (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: İlhan Mimaroğlu, Turkish-American composer (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• _: Alexius of Rome (Western Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Constitution Day (South Korea) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Cynehelm [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Cynllo [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day (Slovakia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Jadwiga of Poland [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: July 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: King's Birthday (Lesotho) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Magnus Felix Ennodius [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Marcellina [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Martyrs of Compiègne [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Piatus of Tournai [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Romanov sainthood (Russian Orthodox Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Speratus and companions [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Day for International Justice (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Yama-boko Junkō of the Gion Matsuri (Kyoto, Japan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Yellow Pig's Day [category: Holidays and observances]