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Današnji imendani i blagdani na datum: 17. listopada 2024
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Imendan imaju: Ignacije Antiohijski, Vatroslav, Ognjen
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Povijesni događaji na datum: 17. listopada 2024
Povijesni događaji na datum: 17. listopada 2024
- 690: Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China.
- 1091: London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
- 1346: The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
- 1448: An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo.
- 1456: The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
- 1534: Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.
- 1558: Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
- 1604: Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
- 1610: French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
- 1660: The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
- 1662: Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
- 1713: Great Northern War: Russia defeats Sweden in the Battle of Kostianvirta in Pälkäne.
- 1771: Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
- 1777: American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
- 1781: American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1800: War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
- 1806: Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
- 1811: The silver deposits of Agua Amarga are discovered in Chile becoming in the following years instrumental for the Patriots to finance the Chilean War of Independence.
- 1814: Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
- 1850: Riots start, which lead to a massacre in Aleppo.
- 1860: First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
- 1861: Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
- 1907: Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
- 1912: Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
- 1919: Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of Leeds City F.C. for making illegal payments to players during World War I
- 1931: Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
- 1933: Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
- 1940: The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg is found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
- 1941: World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
- 1943: The Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
- 1943: Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
- 1945: A large demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release.
- 1952: Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace demanding President Sukarno disband the Provisional People's Representative Council.
- 1956: The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
- 1961: Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
- 1961: The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri.
- 1965: The 1964-65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
- 1966: The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
- 1969: The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
- 1970: FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
- 1973: OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
- 1977: The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
- 1979: Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1979: The Department of Education Organization Act creates the U.S. Department of Education.
- 1980: As part of the Holy See-United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
- 1988: Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome-Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
- 1989: The 6.9 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63.
- 1989: The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
- 1991: Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.
- 1992: Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- 1994: Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
- 2000: The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
- 2001: Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi is assassinated by Hamdi Quran, a member of the PFLP, thus becoming the highest-ranking Israeli to be killed by a Palestinian.
- 2003: Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest high-rise.
- 2004: A fire that lasted over 15 hours destroyed almost one third of the East Tower of the Parque Central Urban Complex in Caracas, Venezuela.
- 2017: Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last foothold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa.
- 2018: The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
- 2018: A mass shooting and bombing at Kerch Polytechnic College in Crimea kills 21 people including the attacker and injures 70 others.
- 2019: Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.
- 2019: The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.
Rođeni na datum: 17. listopada 2024
Rođeni na datum: 17. listopada 2024
- 503: Lý Nam Đế, first emperor of Vietnam (d. 548)
- 1253: Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint (d. 1303)
- 1493: Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
- 1500: Alonso de Orozco Mena, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (d. 1591)
- 1538: Irene di Spilimbergo, Italian Renaissance poet and painter (d. 1559)
- 1577: Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621)
- 1577: Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
- 1582: Johann Gerhard, German theologian and academic (d. 1637)
- 1587: Nathan Field, English dramatist and actor (d. 1620)
- 1623: Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (d. 1687)
- 1629: Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (d. 1646)
- 1688: Domenico Zipoli, Italian missionary and composer (d. 1726)
- 1711: Jupiter Hammon, American poet (d. 1806)
- 1719: Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic (d. 1792)
- 1720: Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer (d. 1795)
- 1725: John Wilkes, English journalist and politician (d. 1797)
- 1729: Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer and academic (d. 1817)
- 1735: Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German Baroque artist (d. 1803)
- 1759: Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect and painter (d. 1814)
- 1760: Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (d. 1825)
- 1768: Sophie von Dönhoff, morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1838)
- 1779: Louis Charles, French prince of the blood (d. 1808)
- 1779: José Andrés Pacheco de Melo, Argentine statesman and priest (d. approx. 1820)
- 1780: Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, ninth Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
- 1781: Johann Friedrich Meckel, German anatomist (d. 1833)
- 1784: Fructuoso Rivera, first president of Uruguay (d. 1854)
- 1785: Christen Smith, Norwegian scientist (d. 1816)
- 1792: John Bowring, English polyglot and governor of Hong Kong (d. 1826)
- 1797: Juan Lavalle, Argentine politician (d. 1841)
- 1803: Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician (d. 1876)
- 1810: Adolphe-Félix Cals, French painter (d. 1880)
- 1811: Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor and educator (d. 1876)
- 1813: Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (d. 1837)
- 1814: Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (d. 1888)
- 1817: Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and scholar (d. 1898)
- 1821: Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer (d. 1882)
- 1828: Aureliano Maestre de San Juan, Spanish scientist (d. 1890)
- 1833: José E. Días, Paraguayan general (d. 1867)
- 1835: Louis-Léon Cugnot, French sculptor (d. 1894)
- 1835: Paul Haenlein, German mechanical engineer (d. 1905)
- 1840: André Gill, French caricaturist (d. 1885)
- 1844: Gustave Schlumberger, French historian (d. 1929)
- 1845: John J. Gardner, American politician (d. 1921)
- 1853: Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
- 1859: Childe Hassam, American painter and illustrator (d. 1935)
- 1860: Henry Campbell Black, founder of Black's Law Dictionary (d. 1927)
- 1864: Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1943)
- 1865: James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1950)
- 1867: Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martí (d. 1956)
- 1871: Segundo de Chomón, Spanish cinematographer, director, and screenwriter (d. 1929)
- 1876: Hippolyte Aucouturier, French road cyclist (d. 1944)
- 1878: Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, Spanish politician and 17th Duke of Alba (d. 1953)
- 1880: Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Mexican artist and art collector (d. 1977)
- 1881: Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (d. 1959)
- 1882: Haritina Korotkevich, Russian war heroine (d. 1904)
- 1883: Alexander Neill, Scottish educator (d. 1973)
- 1883: Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (d. 1966)
- 1886: Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971)
- 1889: Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanese author (d. 1988)
- 1890: Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
- 1892: Theodor Eicke, German SS general (d. 1943)
- 1892: Herbert Howells, English organist, composer, and educator (d. 1983)
- 1893: Raffaele Bendandi, Italian clockmaker and seismologist (d. 1979)
- 1894: Prince René, Italian Prince of Denmark (d. 1962)
- 1894: Pablo de Rokha, Chilean poet (d. 1968)
- 1895: Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958-1963) (d. 1982)
- 1895: Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1958)
- 1896: Roman Petrovich, Russian prince (d. 1978)
- 1898: Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998)
- 1898: Eileen Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1898: Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (d. 1971)
- 1900: C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
- 1900: Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1900: Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (d. 1968)
- 1901: Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator (d. 1973)
- 1902: Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
- 1903: Andrei Grechko, Soviet general (d. 1976)
- 1903: Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940)
- 1905: Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly (d. 1996)
- 1906: Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
- 1906: Andrey Tikhonov, Soviet mathematician (d. 1993)
- 1907: John Marley, American actor (d. 1984)
- 1908: Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (d. 2007)
- 1908: Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (d. 1988)
- 1908: Wally Prigg, Australian rugby league player (d. 1980)
- 1908: Red Rolfe, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1969)
- 1909: Cozy Cole, American drummer (d. 1981)
- 1909: Leopoldo Panero, Spanish poet (d. 1962)
- 1909: Joaquín Satrústegui, Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 1992)
- 1910: Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivian sculptor (d. 1995)
- 1910: Ester Wier, American author (d. 2000)
- 1912: Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
- 1912: Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (d. 2001)
- 1912: Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982)
- 1913: Robert Lowery, American actor (d. 1971)
- 1913: Marian Marsh, Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist (d. 2006)
- 1913: Faik Türün, Turkish general (d. 2003)
- 1914: Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator (d. 1996)
- 1915: Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2005)
- 1916: José López Rega, Argentinean politician (d. 1989)
- 1917: Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor (d. 2013)
- 1917: Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
- 1917: Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer (d. 2022)
- 1917: Aimo Koivunen, Finnish soldier and corporal (d. 1989)
- 1917: Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
- 1917: Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (d. 1991)
- 1917: Adele Stimmel Chase, American painter and sculptor (d. 2000)
- 1918: Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1987)
- 1918: Luis Alberto Solari, Uruguayan artist (d. 1993)
- 1918: Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (d. 2014)
- 1919: Isaak Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian theoretical physicist and academic (d. 2021)
- 1919: Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (d. 2014)
- 1919: Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
- 1920: Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1920: Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2010)
- 1920: Zully Moreno, Argentine actress (d. 1999)
- 1921: Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
- 1921: Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001)
- 1921: George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1996)
- 1921: Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
- 1922: Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2001)
- 1922: Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (d. 2012)
- 1923: Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
- 1923: Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (d. 2001)
- 1924: Don Coryell, American football player and coach (d. 2010)
- 1924: Anton Geiser, Croatian SS officer (d. 2012)
- 1924: Giacomo Mari, Italian footballer (d. 1991)
- 1924: Rolando Panerai, Italian baritone (d. 2019)
- 1925: Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster (d. 2010)
- 1926: Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019)
- 1926: Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1926: Roberto Lippi, Italian race car driver (d. 2011)
- 1928: Santiago Stevenson, Panamanian singer and minister (d. 2007)
- 1928: Alejandro Végh Villegas, Uruguayan politician (d. 2017)
- 1929: Mário Wilson, Mozambican footballer and manager (d. 2016)
- 1930: Ismail Akbay, Turkish physicist and engineer (d. 2003)
- 1930: Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (d. 2003)
- 1931: José Alencar, Brazilian businessman and politician (d. 2011)
- 1932: Paul Anderson, American weightlifter (d. 1994)
- 1931: Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author and playwright (d. 2012)
- 1931: Anatoly Pristavkin, Russian writer (d. 2008)
- 1933: William Anders, Hong Kong-American general and astronaut (d. 2024)
- 1933: The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (d. 1985)
- 1934: Alan Garner, English author and playwright
- 1934: Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer (d. 2005)
- 1934: Rico Rodriguez, Jamaican trombonist (d. 2015)
- 1935: Sydney Chapman, English architect and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (d. 2014)
- 1935: Michael Eavis, English farmer, founded the Glastonbury Festival
- 1935: Carlos Pairetti, Argentine racing driver (d. 2022)
- 1936: Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
- 1936: Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic
- 1936: Santiago Navarro, Spanish basketball player (d. 1993)
- 1936: Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer (d. 2018)
- 1937: José María Álvarez del Manzano, Spanish politician
- 1937: Aida Navarro, Venezuelan mezzo-soprano
- 1937: Renato Prada Oropeza, Bolivian-Mexican scientist (d. 2011)
- 1937: Paxton Whitehead, English actor (d. 2023)
- 1938: António Calvário, Portuguese singer and artist
- 1938: Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (d. 2007)
- 1938: Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic (d. 2019)
- 1939: Oliver Rackham, English botanist and academic (d. 2015)
- 1940: Stephen Kovacevich, American pianist and conductor
- 1940: Jim Smith, English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
- 1940: Peter Stringfellow, English businessman (d. 2018)
- 1941: Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
- 1941: Paul Ellison, American musician
- 1941: Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist (d. 2022)
- 1942: Steve Jones, American basketball player and sportscaster (d. 2017)
- 1942: Gary Puckett, American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1943: Ignacio Rupérez, Spanish diplomat and journalist (d. 2015)
- 1944: Ángel Cristo, Spanish circus performer (d. 2010)
- 1946: Ronni Chasen, American publicist (d. 2010)
- 1946: Michael Hossack, American drummer (d. 2012)
- 1946: Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez, Mexican actor and comedian
- 1946: Akira Kushida, Japanese vocalist
- 1946: Cameron Mackintosh, English producer and manager
- 1946: Adam Michnik, Polish journalist and historian
- 1946: Julio Miranda, Argentine politician (d. 2021)
- 1946: Drusilla Modjeska, English-Australian author and critic
- 1946: Daniela Payssé, Uruguayan politician (d. 2018)
- 1946: José Perramón, Spanish handball player
- 1946: Jaime Ravinet, Chilean politician
- 1946: Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter
- 1946: Rüdiger Wittig, German geobotanist and ecologist
- 1947: Omar Azziman, adviser to the King of Morocco
- 1947: Gene Green, American lawyer and politician
- 1947: Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
- 1947: Robert Post, American educator and academic
- 1948: Osvaldo Castro, Chilean footballer
- 1948: Robert Jordan, American soldier and author (d. 2007)
- 1948: Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (d. 2018)
- 1948: George Wendt, American actor and comedian
- 1949: Owen Arthur, Barbadian economist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2020)
- 1949: Bill Hudson, American musician and actor
- 1950: Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal
- 1950: Sandra Reemer, Indo-Dutch singer (d. 2017)
- 1950: Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1951: Dirk Beheydt, Belgian footballer
- 1951: Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater
- 1951: Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
- 1951: Shari Ulrich, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist
- 1953: Joseph Bowie, American trombonist and bandleader
- 1953: Domenico Penzo, Italian footballer
- 1954: Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer
- 1955: Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek economist, academic, and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
- 1955: Mike Bratz, American basketball player
- 1956: Fran Cosmo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1956: Mae Jemison, American physician, academic, and astronaut
- 1956: Pat McCrory, American businessman and politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina
- 1956: Ken Morrow, American ice hockey player and executive
- 1956: Stephen Palumbi, American academic and author
- 1957: Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek folk singer
- 1957: Nelson Barrera, Mexican baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1957: Lawrence Bender, American actor and producer
- 1957: Antonio Galdo, Italian journalist
- 1957: Steve McMichael, American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster
- 1957: Pino Palladino, Welsh bassist
- 1957: Vincent Van Patten, American tennis player and actor
- 1958: Howard Alden, American guitarist
- 1958: Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter
- 1958: Sandra Mozarowsky, Spanish actress (d. 1977)
- 1958: Craig Murray, British diplomat
- 1959: Mustafa Aberchán, Spanish politician
- 1959: Ron Drummond, American author and scholar
- 1959: Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (d. 2016)
- 1959: Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1959: Eugenio Hernández Flores, Mexican politician
- 1959: Norm Macdonald, Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2021)
- 1959: Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
- 1959: Richard Roeper, American journalist and critic
- 1960: Guy Henry, English actor
- 1960: Rob Marshall, American director, producer, and choreographer
- 1960: Bernie Nolan, Irish singer (d. 2013)
- 1960: Philippe Sands, American lawyer and academic
- 1961: David Means, American short story writer
- 1962: Glenn Braggs, American baseball player
- 1962: Jay Humphries, American basketball player
- 1962: Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor
- 1963: Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist
- 1963: Toby Young, English journalist and academic
- 1964: Margarita Liborio Arrazola, Mexican politician
- 1964: Gregg Wallace, English television presenter
- 1965: Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1965: Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor
- 1966: Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach
- 1966: Danny Ferry, American basketball player and manager
- 1966: Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter and novelist
- 1966: Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and sportscaster
- 1967: René Dif, Danish musician
- 1967: Pedro González Vera, Chilean footballer
- 1967: Simon Segars, English businessman
- 1967: Nathalie Tauziat, French tennis player
- 1968: Alejandra Ávalos, Mexican artist
- 1968: Graeme Le Saux, English footballer and sportscaster
- 1968: Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
- 1968: David Robertson, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1969: Ernie Els, South African golfer and sportscaster
- 1969: Jesús Ángel García, Spanish racewalker
- 1969: Wood Harris, American actor
- 1969: Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor
- 1969: Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1970: Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
- 1970: John Mabry, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1970: J. C. MacKenzie, Canadian actor
- 1971: Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer-songwriter and dancer
- 1971: Kim Ljung, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1971: Martin Heinrich, American politician
- 1971: Derrick Plourde, American drummer (d. 2005)
- 1971: Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
- 1972: Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor
- 1972: Sharon Leal, American actress
- 1972: Musashi, Japanese karateka and kickboxer
- 1972: Tarkan, German-Turkish singer
- 1973: Rubén Garcés, Panamanian basketball player
- 1973: Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer and coach
- 1974: Ariel Levy, American journalist and author
- 1974: Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
- 1974: Obdulio Ávila Mayo, Mexican politician
- 1974: Bárbara Paz, Brazilian actress
- 1974: Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player
- 1974: John Rocker, American baseball player
- 1974: Darío Sala, Argentine footballer
- 1974: Gabriel Silberstein, Chilean tennis player
- 1974: Dhondup Wangchen, Chinese director and producer
- 1975: Jericó Abramo Masso, Mexican politician
- 1975: Francis Bouillon, American-Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975: Vina Morales, Filipino actress and singer
- 1976: Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
- 1976: Seth Etherton, American baseball player
- 1976: Carlos Loret de Mola, Mexican journalist
- 1976: Kevin Maher, English-Irish footballer and coach
- 1977: Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
- 1977: Alimi Ballard, American actor and producer
- 1977: Bryan Bertino, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1977: Walter Calderón, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1977: Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza, Mexican politician
- 1977: Ryan McGinley, American photographer
- 1977: André Villas-Boas, Portuguese footballer and manager
- 1978: Jerry Flannery, Irish rugby player and coach
- 1978: Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician
- 1978: Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress
- 1978: Chuka Umunna, English lawyer and politician
- 1979: Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist
- 1979: Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek martial artist (d. 2022)
- 1979: Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
- 1979: Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
- 1980: Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
- 1980: Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer
- 1980: Isaac Mina, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1980: Angel Parker, American actress
- 1980: Alessandro Piccolo, Italian race car driver
- 1980: Justin Shenkarow, American actor
- 1981: Horacio Cervantes, Mexican footballer
- 1981: Kurumi Enomoto, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1981: Holly Holm, American mixed martial artist
- 1981: Tsubasa Imai, Japanese singer, actor, and dancer
- 1981: Ben Rothwell, American mixed-martial artist
- 1982: Rubén Ramírez, Argentine footballer
- 1982: Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer
- 1982: Marion Rolland, alpine ski racer
- 1983: Michelle Ang, New Zealander actress
- 1983: Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater
- 1983: Felicity Jones, English actress
- 1983: Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer
- 1983: Riki Miura, Japanese actor
- 1983: Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer
- 1983: Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
- 1983: Mitch Talbot, American baseball player
- 1983: Vitali Teleš, Estonian footballer
- 1984: Sami Lepistö, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1984: Chris Lowell, American actor
- 1984: Giovanni Marchese, Italian footballer
- 1984: Randall Munroe, American author and illustrator
- 1984: Luke Rockhold, American mixed martial artist
- 1984: Anja Eline Skybakmoen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bandleader
- 1984: Gottfrid Svartholm, Swedish computer specialist
- 1984: Jared Tallent, Australian race walker
- 1985: Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1985: Max Irons, English-Irish actor
- 1985: Collins John, Dutch footballer
- 1985: Tomokazu Nagira, Japanese footballer
- 1986: Alexandre Bonnet, French footballer
- 1986: Antoni Bou, Spanish motorcyclist
- 1986: Aija Brumermane, Latvian basketball player
- 1986: Constant Djakpa, Ivorian footballer
- 1986: Yannick Ponsero, French figure skater
- 1986: Nicolás Richotti, Argentine basketball player
- 1987: Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer
- 1987: Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
- 1987: Elliot Grandin, French footballer
- 1987: Hideto Takahashi, Japanese footballer
- 1988: Sergiy Gladyr, Ukrainian basketball player
- 1988: Tori Matsuzaka, Japanese actor and model
- 1988: Marina Salas, Spanish actress
- 1989: Débora García, Spanish footballer
- 1989: Oleksandr Isakov, Ukrainian swimmer
- 1989: Sophie Luck, Australian actress
- 1989: Charles Oliveira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1989: David Timor, Spanish footballer
- 1990: Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer
- 1990: Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player
- 1990: Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer
- 1990: Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer
- 1990: Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player
- 1991: Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress
- 1992: Jacob Artist, American actor, singer, and dancer
- 1992: Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer
- 1992: Anthony Gill, American basketball player
- 1992: Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress
- 1993: Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer
- 1993: Vincent Poirier, French basketball player
- 1995: Jamal Adams, American football player
- 1995: Ha-seong Kim, South Korean baseball player
- 1996: Jake DeBrusk, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1997: Robert Williams III, American basketball player
- 2001: Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer
- 2002: Matthew Knies, American professional ice hockey player
Preminuli na datum: 17. listopada 2024
Preminuli na datum: 17. listopada 2024
- 33: Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus (b. 14 BC)
- 532: Pope Boniface II
- 866: Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (b. 836)
- 1271: Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet
- 1277: Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consort (b. c. 1254)
- 1346: John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
- 1346: Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn
- 1456: Nicolas Grenon, French composer (b. 1375)
- 1485: John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports
- 1528: Hernando Alonso, Spanish conquistador, first Jew executed in the New World
- 1552: Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
- 1575: Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511)
- 1586: Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (b. 1554)
- 1587: Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
- 1616: John Pitts, English priest and scholar (b. 1560)
- 1660: Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
- 1673: Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
- 1690: Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647)
- 1757: René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
- 1776: Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
- 1780: William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
- 1781: Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705)
- 1786: Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
- 1806: Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
- 1836: Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
- 1837: Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
- 1849: Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
- 1868: Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
- 1887: Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
- 1889: Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
- 1893: Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
- 1910: Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
- 1918: Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
- 1920: Michael Fitzgerald (Irish republican) died on Hunger Strike (b. 1881)
- 1928: Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
- 1931: Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
- 1937: J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
- 1938: Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)
- 1948: Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)
- 1955: Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1873)
- 1956: Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920)
- 1957: Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (b. 1884)
- 1958: Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
- 1958: Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876)
- 1962: Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882)
- 1963: Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1865)
- 1965: Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
- 1966: Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (b. 1883)
- 1966: Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (b. 1917)
- 1967: Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906)
- 1970: Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1921)
- 1970: Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1970: Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (b. 1890)
- 1972: Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
- 1972: George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
- 1973: Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926)
- 1978: George Clark, American race car driver (b. 1890)
- 1978: Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
- 1979: S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (b. 1904)
- 1979: John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (b. 1898)
- 1979: Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909)
- 1981: Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1927)
- 1981: Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895)
- 1981: Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
- 1983: Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
- 1987: Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
- 1991: Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
- 1992: Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (b. 1912)
- 1992: Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
- 1993: Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
- 1996: Chris Acland, English musician and drummer of Lush (b. 1966)
- 1997: Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933)
- 1998: Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
- 1998: Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920)
- 1999: Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
- 2000: Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
- 2000: Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
- 2001: Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
- 2001: Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922)
- 2001: Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (b. 1926)
- 2002: Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (b. 1935)
- 2004: Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
- 2006: Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (b. 1924)
- 2006: Christopher Glenn, American journalist (b. 1938)
- 2007: Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (b. 1918)
- 2007: Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)
- 2007: Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (b. 1939)
- 2008: Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1955)
- 2008: Levi Stubbs, American singer (b. 1936)
- 2008: Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b. 1923)
- 2009: Norma Fox Mazer, American author and educator (b. 1931)
- 2009: Vic Mizzy, American composer (b. 1916)
- 2011: Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919)
- 2012: Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (b. 1951)
- 2012: Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
- 2012: Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (b. 1930)
- 2012: Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
- 2012: Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
- 2013: Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926)
- 2013: Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (b. 1944)
- 2013: Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1926)
- 2013: Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (b. 1928)
- 2013: Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (b. 1966)
- 2014: Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (b. 1937)
- 2014: Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (b. 1943)
- 2014: Tom Shaw, American bishop (b. 1945)
- 2014: Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (b. 1919)
- 2015: Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (b. 1926)
- 2015: Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (b. 1946)
- 2015: Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
- 2015: Tom Smith, American businessman and politician (b. 1947)
- 2017: Gord Downie, Canadian musician (b. 1964)
- 2019: Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (b. 1951)