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| January 17th, 2038 (January 17 2038) | Event | Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. | |
| January 17th, 2008 (January 17 2008) | Death | Bobby Fischer, American chess player (born in 1943) | Bobby Fischer Quotes |
| January 17th, 2008 (January 17 2008) | Death | Ernie Holmes, American football player (born in 1948) | |
| January 17th, 2008 (January 17 2008) | Death | Allan Melvin, American actor (born in 1923) | |
| January 17th, 2007 (January 17 2007) | Event | The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing. | |
| January 17th, 2007 (January 17 2007) | Death | Art Buchwald, American humorist (born in 1925) | |
| January 17th, 2007 (January 17 2007) | Death | Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (born in 1951) | |
| January 17th, 2006 (January 17 2006) | Death | Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer, death by lethal injection administered at San Quentin prison (born in 1930) | |
| January 17th, 2006 (January 17 2006) | Death | Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (born in 1925) | |
| January 17th, 2005 (January 17 2005) | Death | Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (born in 1960) | |
| January 17th, 2005 (January 17 2005) | Death | Virginia Mayo, American actress (born in 1920) | |
| January 17th, 2005 (January 17 2005) | Death | Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (born in 1920) | |
| January 17th, 2005 (January 17 2005) | Death | Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People s Republic of China (born in 1919) | |
| January 17th, 2004 (January 17 2004) | Death | Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (born in 1914) | |
| January 17th, 2004 (January 17 2004) | Death | Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (born in 1939) | |
| January 17th, 2004 (January 17 2004) | Death | Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (born in 1915) | |
| January 17th, 2004 (January 17 2004) | Death | Noble Willingham, American actor (born in 1931) | |
| January 17th, 2003 (January 17 2003) | Death | Richard Crenna, American actor (born in 1926) | |
| January 17th, 2003 (January 17 2003) | Death | Balint Vazsonyi, Hingarian pianist (born in 1936) | |
| January 17th, 2002 (January 17 2002) | Event | Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. | |
| January 17th, 2002 (January 17 2002) | Death | Bishop Karas, First Coptic Bishop of St. Antony Monastery (born in 1955) | |
| January 17th, 2002 (January 17 2002) | Death | Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1916) | |
| January 17th, 2002 (January 17 2002) | Death | Queenie Leonard, American actress (born in 1905) | |
| January 17th, 2001 (January 17 2001) | Event | President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis rank from Lieutenant to Captain. | Bill Clinton Quotes |
| January 17th, 2001 (January 17 2001) | Death | Gregory Corso, American poet (born in 1930) | |
| January 17th, 2000 (January 17 2000) | Death | Philip Jones, British trumpeter (born in 1928) | |
| January 17th, 1999 (January 17 1999) | Death | Robert Eads, American transsexual (born in 1945) | |
| January 17th, 1998 (January 17 1998) | Event | Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. | Bill Clinton Quotes |
| January 17th, 1998 (January 17 1998) | Death | Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (born in 1930) | |
| January 17th, 1997 (January 17 1997) | Event | A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad. | |
| January 17th, 1997 (January 17 1997) | Death | Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (born in 1906) | |
| January 17th, 1997 (January 17 1997) | Death | Bert Kelly, Australian politician (born in 1912) | |
| January 17th, 1996 (January 17 1996) | Event | The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union. | |
| January 17th, 1996 (January 17 1996) | Death | Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (born in 1986) | |
| January 17th, 1996 (January 17 1996) | Death | Barbara Jordan, American politician (born in 1936) | |
| January 17th, 1996 (January 17 1996) | Death | Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (born in 1953) | |
| January 17th, 1995 (January 17 1995) | Event | The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people. | |
| January 17th, 1994 (January 17 1994) | Event | 1994 Northridge Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California. | |
| January 17th, 1994 (January 17 1994) | Death | Helen Stephens, American runner (born in 1918) | |
| January 17th, 1994 (January 17 1994) | Death | Yevgeny Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (born in 1926) | |
| January 17th, 1993 (January 17 1993) | Death | Albert Hourani, English historian (born in 1915) | |
| January 17th, 1992 (January 17 1992) | Death | Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (born in 1915) | |
| January 17th, 1991 (January 17 1991) | Event | Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation. | |
| January 17th, 1991 (January 17 1991) | Event | Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V. | |
| January 17th, 1991 (January 17 1991) | Death | King Olav V of Norway (born in 1903) | |
| January 17th, 1989 (January 17 1989) | Event | Stockton massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life. | |
| January 17th, 1987 (January 17 1987) | Death | Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (born in 1908) | |
| January 17th, 1985 (January 17 1985) | Event | British Telecom announces the retirement of the United Kingdom s red telephone boxes. | |
| January 17th, 1985 (January 17 1985) | Birth | Simone Simons, Dutch singer (Epica) | |
| January 17th, 1985 (January 17 1985) | Birth | Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer BeForU | |
| January 17th, 1985 (January 17 1985) | Birth | Kang-In, South Korean singer/dancer/actor/MC/DJ(Super Junior) | |
| January 17th, 1983 (January 17 1983) | Birth | Alvaro Arbeloa, Spanish Footballer | |
| January 17th, 1983 (January 17 1983) | Birth | Johannes Herber, German basketball player | |
| January 17th, 1983 (January 17 1983) | Birth | Andrea Lowell, American Model | |
| January 17th, 1983 (January 17 1983) | Birth | Rick Kelly, Australian racing driver | |
| January 17th, 1983 (January 17 1983) | Death | Doodles Weaver, American actor (born in 1911) | |
| January 17th, 1982 (January 17 1982) | Event | "Cold Sunday" in the United States would see temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities. | |
| January 17th, 1982 (January 17 1982) | Birth | Dwyane Wade, American basketball player | |
| January 17th, 1982 (January 17 1982) | Birth | Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer | |
| January 17th, 1982 (January 17 1982) | Birth | Alex Varkatzas, American Singer (Atreyu) | |
| January 17th, 1981 (January 17 1981) | Birth | Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer | |
| January 17th, 1981 (January 17 1981) | Birth | Scott Mechlowicz, American actor | |
| January 17th, 1981 (January 17 1981) | Birth | Ray J, American R&B singer | |
| January 17th, 1981 (January 17 1981) | Death | Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (born in 1899) | |
| January 17th, 1980 (January 17 1980) | Birth | Zooey Deschanel, American actress | |
| January 17th, 1980 (January 17 1980) | Birth | Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian ballroom dancer | |
| January 17th, 1980 (January 17 1980) | Birth | Kimberly Spicer, American model | |
| January 17th, 1980 (January 17 1980) | Birth | Gareth McLearnon, Northern Irish flautist | |
| January 17th, 1977 (January 17 1977) | Event | Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States. | |
| January 17th, 1977 (January 17 1977) | Birth | Kevin Fertig, American professional wrestler | |
| January 17th, 1977 (January 17 1977) | Birth | Leigh Whannell, Australian screenwriter/actor | |
| January 17th, 1977 (January 17 1977) | Death | Gary Gilmore, American murderer (born in 1940) | |
| January 17th, 1975 (January 17 1975) | Birth | Tom Jenkinson, English musician (Squarepusher) | |
| January 17th, 1975 (January 17 1975) | Birth | Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican-American actor | |
| January 17th, 1975 (January 17 1975) | Birth | Rami Yacoub, Swedish songwriter/producer | |
| January 17th, 1974 (January 17 1974) | Birth | Yang Chen, Chinese footballer | |
| January 17th, 1974 (January 17 1974) | Birth | Derrick Mason, American football player | |
| January 17th, 1974 (January 17 1974) | Birth | Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian musician | |
| January 17th, 1973 (January 17 1973) | Event | Ferdinand Marcos becomes "President for Life" of the Philippines. | |
| January 17th, 1973 (January 17 1973) | Birth | Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Mexican footballer | |
| January 17th, 1973 (January 17 1973) | Birth | Liz Ellis, Australian netball captain | |
| January 17th, 1973 (January 17 1973) | Birth | Aaron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 17th, 1972 (January 17 1972) | Birth | Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter | |
| January 17th, 1972 (January 17 1972) | Birth | Benno Furmann, German actor | |
| January 17th, 1972 (January 17 1972) | Death | Betty Smith, American writer and singer (born in 1896) | |
| January 17th, 1971 (January 17 1971) | Birth | Kid Rock, American singer | |
| January 17th, 1971 (January 17 1971) | Birth | Richard Burns, English rally driver (died in 2005) | |
| January 17th, 1971 (January 17 1971) | Birth | Leonardo Ciampa, Italian-American musician | |
| January 17th, 1971 (January 17 1971) | Birth | Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress | |
| January 17th, 1971 (January 17 1971) | Birth | Sylvie Testud, French actress | |
| January 17th, 1971 (January 17 1971) | Birth | Ann Wolfe, female boxer | |
| January 17th, 1970 (January 17 1970) | Birth | Jeremy Roenick, American ice hockey player | Jeremy Roenick Quotes |
| January 17th, 1970 (January 17 1970) | Birth | Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born animator | |
| January 17th, 1970 (January 17 1970) | Birth | James Wattana, Thai snooker player | |
| January 17th, 1970 (January 17 1970) | Death | Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (born in 1890) | |
| January 17th, 1970 (January 17 1970) | Death | Billy Stewart, American singer (born in 1937) | |
| January 17th, 1969 (January 17 1969) | Birth | Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film writer and director | |
| January 17th, 1969 (January 17 1969) | Birth | Naveen Andrews, British actor | |
| January 17th, 1969 (January 17 1969) | Birth | Tijs Verwest, (DJ Tiesto) Dutch DJ | |
| January 17th, 1968 (January 17 1968) | Birth | Craig Strong, American actor & voice actor | |
| January 17th, 1968 (January 17 1968) | Birth | Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer | |
| January 17th, 1968 (January 17 1968) | Birth | Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete | |
| January 17th, 1967 (January 17 1967) | Birth | Richard Hawley, English singer, guitarist and songwriter (Pulp, The Longpigs) | |
| January 17th, 1967 (January 17 1967) | Birth | Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (died in 2007) | |
| January 17th, 1967 (January 17 1967) | Birth | Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor | |
| January 17th, 1967 (January 17 1967) | Death | Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (born in 1884) | |
| January 17th, 1966 (January 17 1966) | Event | A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping four 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares hydrogen bombs incident. | |
| January 17th, 1966 (January 17 1966) | Birth | Stephin Merritt, American singer and songwriter (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies) | |
| January 17th, 1966 (January 17 1966) | Birth | Joshua Malina, American actor | |
| January 17th, 1966 (January 17 1966) | Birth | Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer | |
| January 17th, 1965 (January 17 1965) | Birth | Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 17th, 1965 (January 17 1965) | Birth | Nikos Nioplias, Greek footballer | |
| January 17th, 1964 (January 17 1964) | Birth | Andy Rourke, English bass guitarist (The Smiths) | |
| January 17th, 1964 (January 17 1964) | Birth | Michelle Obama, wife of Barack Obama | Barack Obama Quotes |
| January 17th, 1964 (January 17 1964) | Death | T.H. White, English author (born in 1906) | |
| January 17th, 1963 (January 17 1963) | Birth | Kai Hansen, German singer and guitarist (Gamma Ray) | |
| January 17th, 1962 (January 17 1962) | Birth | Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian | Jim Carrey Quotes |
| January 17th, 1962 (January 17 1962) | Birth | Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author | |
| January 17th, 1961 (January 17 1961) | Event | President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex". | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| January 17th, 1961 (January 17 1961) | Birth | Brian Helgeland, American writer and film director | |
| January 17th, 1961 (January 17 1961) | Birth | Maia Chiburdanidze, Russian women s Chess grandmaster | |
| January 17th, 1961 (January 17 1961) | Death | Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born in 1925) | |
| January 17th, 1960 (January 17 1960) | Birth | John Crawford, American musician | |
| January 17th, 1960 (January 17 1960) | Birth | Chili Davis, Jamaican-born American baseball player | |
| January 17th, 1960 (January 17 1960) | Birth | Chatchai Plengpanich, Thai actor | |
| January 17th, 1959 (January 17 1959) | Birth | Susanna Hoffs, American musician | |
| January 17th, 1959 (January 17 1959) | Birth | Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress | |
| January 17th, 1957 (January 17 1957) | Birth | Keith Chegwin, English television presenter | |
| January 17th, 1957 (January 17 1957) | Birth | Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian and radio personality | |
| January 17th, 1957 (January 17 1957) | Birth | Ann Nocenti, American comic book writer | |
| January 17th, 1957 (January 17 1957) | Birth | Michel Vaarten, Belgian cyclist | |
| January 17th, 1956 (January 17 1956) | Birth | Paul Young, English musician | |
| January 17th, 1955 (January 17 1955) | Birth | Steve Earle, American musician | |
| January 17th, 1954 (January 17 1954) | Birth | Susan Kiefel, Australian lawyer and judge | |
| January 17th, 1954 (January 17 1954) | Birth | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and environmental activist | Robert F. Kennedy Quotes |
| January 17th, 1952 (January 17 1952) | Birth | Darrell Porter, American baseball player (died in 2002) | |
| January 17th, 1952 (January 17 1952) | Birth | Larry Fortensky, seventh husband of Elizabeth Taylor | |
| January 17th, 1952 (January 17 1952) | Birth | Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician | |
| January 17th, 1950 (January 17 1950) | Event | The Great Brinks Robbery11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company s offices in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
| January 17th, 1950 (January 17 1950) | Birth | Luis Lopez Nieves, Latin American writer | |
| January 17th, 1949 (January 17 1949) | Event | The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs. | |
| January 17th, 1949 (January 17 1949) | Birth | Mick Taylor, British musician (The Rolling Stones) | |
| January 17th, 1949 (January 17 1949) | Birth | Andy Kaufman, American comedian (died in 1984) | |
| January 17th, 1948 (January 17 1948) | Birth | Davi? Oddsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland | |
| January 17th, 1948 (January 17 1948) | Birth | Jim Ladd, American freeform (radio format) Disc Jockey | |
| January 17th, 1948 (January 17 1948) | Birth | Anne Queffelec, French pianist | |
| January 17th, 1947 (January 17 1947) | Death | Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (born in 1869) | |
| January 17th, 1947 (January 17 1947) | Death | Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (born in 1883) | |
| January 17th, 1946 (January 17 1946) | Event | The UN Security Council holds its first session. | |
| January 17th, 1946 (January 17 1946) | Birth | Michele Deslauriers, Quebec actress | |
| January 17th, 1945 (January 17 1945) | Event | Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw. | |
| January 17th, 1945 (January 17 1945) | Event | The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in. | |
| January 17th, 1945 (January 17 1945) | Event | Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappears in Hungary while in Soviet custody. | |
| January 17th, 1945 (January 17 1945) | Birth | Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter | |
| January 17th, 1944 (January 17 1944) | Birth | Francoise Hardy, French singer | |
| January 17th, 1943 (January 17 1943) | Birth | Rene Preval, President of Haiti | |
| January 17th, 1943 (January 17 1943) | Birth | Geoffrey Deuel, American actor | |
| January 17th, 1943 (January 17 1943) | Birth | Chris Montez, American singer | |
| January 17th, 1942 (January 17 1942) | Birth | Muhammad Ali, American boxer | Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| January 17th, 1942 (January 17 1942) | Birth | Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and businesswoman | |
| January 17th, 1942 (January 17 1942) | Birth | Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist | |
| January 17th, 1942 (January 17 1942) | Birth | Nancy Parsons, American actress (died in 2001) | |
| January 17th, 1942 (January 17 1942) | Death | Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (born in 1884) | |
| January 17th, 1941 (January 17 1941) | Event | Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-Shek open fire at communist forces, resuming the Chinese Civil War after World War II. | |
| January 17th, 1941 (January 17 1941) | Birth | Dame Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist | |
| January 17th, 1940 (January 17 1940) | Birth | Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner | |
| January 17th, 1939 (January 17 1939) | Birth | Maury Povich, American talk show host | |
| January 17th, 1935 (January 17 1935) | Birth | Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware | |
| January 17th, 1933 (January 17 1933) | Birth | Dalida, French singer (died in 1987) | |
| January 17th, 1933 (January 17 1933) | Birth | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (died in 2003) | |
| January 17th, 1933 (January 17 1933) | Birth | Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (died in 1998) | |
| January 17th, 1933 (January 17 1933) | Death | Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (born in 1848) | |
| January 17th, 1932 (January 17 1932) | Birth | Sheree North, American actress (died in 2005) | |
| January 17th, 1932 (January 17 1932) | Death | Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (born in 1893) | |
| January 17th, 1931 (January 17 1931) | Birth | James Earl Jones, American actor | |
| January 17th, 1931 (January 17 1931) | Birth | L. Douglas Wilder, 66th Governor of Virginia | |
| January 17th, 1931 (January 17 1931) | Birth | Don Zimmer, American baseball coach | |
| January 17th, 1931 (January 17 1931) | Death | Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (born in 1864) | |
| January 17th, 1930 (January 17 1930) | Birth | Eddie LeBaron, American football player | |
| January 17th, 1929 (January 17 1929) | Event | Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip. | |
| January 17th, 1929 (January 17 1929) | Birth | Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (died in 1986) | |
| January 17th, 1928 (January 17 1928) | Birth | Jean Barraque, French composer (died in 1973) | |
| January 17th, 1928 (January 17 1928) | Birth | Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist | |
| January 17th, 1927 (January 17 1927) | Birth | Dr Tom Dooley, American humanitarian (died in 1961) | |
| January 17th, 1927 (January 17 1927) | Birth | Norman Kaye, Australian actor and musician (died in 2007) | |
| January 17th, 1927 (January 17 1927) | Birth | Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer | |
| January 17th, 1927 (January 17 1927) | Death | Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (born in 1860) | |
| January 17th, 1926 (January 17 1926) | Birth | Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman | Newton N. Minow Quotes |
| January 17th, 1926 (January 17 1926) | Birth | Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (died in 2006) | |
| January 17th, 1925 (January 17 1925) | Birth | Robert Cormier, American author (died in 2000) | |
| January 17th, 1925 (January 17 1925) | Birth | Abdul Kardar, Pakistani cricketer | |
| January 17th, 1925 (January 17 1925) | Birth | Edgar Ray Killen, American convict, former preacher and K.K.K. member | |
| January 17th, 1925 (January 17 1925) | Birth | Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (died in 2000) | |
| January 17th, 1923 (January 17 1923) | Birth | Carol Raye, Australian actress | |
| January 17th, 1922 (January 17 1922) | Birth | Luis Echeverria Alvarez, President of Mexico | Al Alvarez Quotes |
| January 17th, 1922 (January 17 1922) | Birth | Nicholas Katzenbach, American politician | |
| January 17th, 1922 (January 17 1922) | Birth | Betty White, American actress | |
| January 17th, 1921 (January 17 1921) | Birth | Antonio Prohias, Cuban cartoonist (died in 1998) | |
| January 17th, 1918 (January 17 1918) | Birth | Keith Joseph, British politician (died in 1994) | |
| January 17th, 1917 (January 17 1917) | Event | The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands. | |
| January 17th, 1917 (January 17 1917) | Birth | M. G. Ramachandran, Indian politician, actor (died in 1987) | |
| January 17th, 1917 (January 17 1917) | Birth | Ramon Cardemil, Chilean huaso (died in 2007) | |
| January 17th, 1914 (January 17 1914) | Birth | William Stafford, American poet and essayist (died in 1993) | |
| January 17th, 1914 (January 17 1914) | Birth | Anacleto Angelini, Chilean businessman (died in 2007) | |
| January 17th, 1914 (January 17 1914) | Birth | Irving Brecher, American Screenwriter | |
| January 17th, 1913 (January 17 1913) | Event | Raymond Poincare is elected President of France. | |
| January 17th, 1912 (January 17 1912) | Event | Sir Robert Falcon Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. | Robert South Quotes |
| January 17th, 1911 (January 17 1911) | Birth | George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1991) | |
| January 17th, 1911 (January 17 1911) | Death | Sir Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist (born in 1822) | |
| January 17th, 1909 (January 17 1909) | Death | Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (born in 1819 | |
| January 17th, 1908 (January 17 1908) | Birth | Cus D Amato, American boxing manager (died in 1985) | |
| January 17th, 1908 (January 17 1908) | Death | Ferdinand IV Grand Duke of Tuscany (born in 1835) | |
| January 17th, 1907 (January 17 1907) | Birth | Henk Badings, Dutch composer (died in 1987) | |
| January 17th, 1905 (January 17 1905) | Birth | Guillermo Stabile, Argentine footballer (died in 1966) | |
| January 17th, 1905 (January 17 1905) | Birth | Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (died in 2007) | |
| January 17th, 1905 (January 17 1905) | Birth | Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (died in 2005) | |
| January 17th, 1904 (January 17 1904) | Event | Anton Chekhov s The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre. | |
| January 17th, 1903 (January 17 1903) | Birth | Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (died in 1953) | |
| January 17th, 1903 (January 17 1903) | Death | Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (born in 1828) | |
| January 17th, 1901 (January 17 1901) | Birth | Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-born philosopher (died in 1973) | Philo Quotes |
| January 17th, 1899 (January 17 1899) | Event | The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. | |
| January 17th, 1899 (January 17 1899) | Birth | Al Capone, American gangster (died in 1947) | Al Capone Quotes |
| January 17th, 1899 (January 17 1899) | Birth | Nevil Shute, English author (died in 1960) | Nevil Shute Quotes |
| January 17th, 1897 (January 17 1897) | Birth | Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (died in 1946) | |
| January 17th, 1893 (January 17 1893) | Event | The Citizen s Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii. | |
| January 17th, 1893 (January 17 1893) | Death | Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (born in 1822) | Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes |
| January 17th, 1891 (January 17 1891) | Death | George Bancroft, U.S. historian (born in 1800) | |
| January 17th, 1887 (January 17 1887) | Death | William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (born in 1840) | |
| January 17th, 1886 (January 17 1886) | Birth | Ronald Firbank, British novelist (died in 1926) | |
| January 17th, 1886 (January 17 1886) | Birth | Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (died in 1955) | |
| January 17th, 1885 (January 17 1885) | Event | A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan. | |
| January 17th, 1884 (January 17 1884) | Death | Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (born in 1804) | |
| January 17th, 1883 (January 17 1883) | Birth | Sir Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (died in 1972) | |
| January 17th, 1882 (January 17 1882) | Birth | Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (died in 1946) | |
| January 17th, 1881 (January 17 1881) | Birth | Antoni Lomnicki, Polish mathematician (died in 1941) | |
| January 17th, 1880 (January 17 1880) | Birth | Mack Sennett, Canadian film director (died in 1960) | |
| January 17th, 1877 (January 17 1877) | Birth | May Gibbs, Australian children s author (died in 1969) | |
| January 17th, 1876 (January 17 1876) | Birth | Frank Hague, American politician (died in 1956) | Frank Hague Quotes |
| January 17th, 1875 (January 17 1875) | Birth | Florencio Sanchez, Uruguayan dramatist (died in 1910) | |
| January 17th, 1874 (January 17 1874) | Death | Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (born in 1811) | |
| January 17th, 1873 (January 17 1873) | Event | A group of Modoc warriors defeat the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War. | |
| January 17th, 1871 (January 17 1871) | Birth | David Earl Beatty British admiral (died in 1936) | |
| January 17th, 1871 (January 17 1871) | Birth | Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer (died in 1940) | |
| January 17th, 1869 (January 17 1869) | Death | Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (born in 1813) | |
| January 17th, 1867 (January 17 1867) | Birth | Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (died in 1939) | |
| January 17th, 1865 (January 17 1865) | Birth | Gen Sir Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (died in 1951) | |
| January 17th, 1863 (January 17 1863) | Birth | David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died in 1945) | |
| January 17th, 1863 (January 17 1863) | Birth | Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner (died in 1938) | |
| January 17th, 1863 (January 17 1863) | Death | Horace Vernet, French painter (born in 1789) | Horace Quotes |
| January 17th, 1861 (January 17 1861) | Death | Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (born in 1821) | |
| January 17th, 1860 (January 17 1860) | Birth | Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (died in 1949) | |
| January 17th, 1858 (January 17 1858) | Birth | Tomas Carrasquilla, Colombian writer (died in 1940) | |
| January 17th, 1857 (January 17 1857) | Birth | Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (died in 1935) | |
| January 17th, 1857 (January 17 1857) | Birth | Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (died in 1941) | |
| January 17th, 1853 (January 17 1853) | Birth | Alva Belmont, American socialite (died in 1933) | |
| January 17th, 1852 (January 17 1852) | Event | The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal. | |
| January 17th, 1851 (January 17 1851) | Birth | A. B. Frost, American illustrator (died in 1928) | |
| January 17th, 1850 (January 17 1850) | Birth | Aleksandr Taneyev, Russian composer (died in 1918) | |
| January 17th, 1834 (January 17 1834) | Birth | August Weismann, German biologist (died in 1914) | |
| January 17th, 1834 (January 17 1834) | Death | Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (born in 1762) | |
| January 17th, 1832 (January 17 1832) | Birth | Henry Martyn Baird, American educationalist (died in 1906) | |
| January 17th, 1831 (January 17 1831) | Birth | Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (died in 1903) | |
| January 17th, 1828 (January 17 1828) | Birth | Eduard Remenyi, Hungarian violinist (died in 1898) | |
| January 17th, 1828 (January 17 1828) | Birth | Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War general (died in 1918) | |
| January 17th, 1826 (January 17 1826) | Death | Juan Crisostomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (born in 1806) | |
| January 17th, 1820 (January 17 1820) | Birth | Anne Bronte, British author (died in 1849) | Anne Bronte Quotes |
| January 17th, 1814 (January 17 1814) | Birth | Mrs Henry Wood , English novelist (died in 1887) | |
| January 17th, 1799 (January 17 1799) | Event | Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots were executed. | |
| January 17th, 1789 (January 17 1789) | Birth | August Neander, German theologian (died in 1850) | |
| January 17th, 1781 (January 17 1781) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Battle of CowpensContinental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina. | |
| January 17th, 1773 (January 17 1773) | Event | Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle. | |
| January 17th, 1761 (January 17 1761) | Birth | James Hall, Scottish geologist (died in 1832) | |
| January 17th, 1751 (January 17 1751) | Death | Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (born in 1671) | |
| January 17th, 1738 (January 17 1738) | Death | Jean-Francois Dandrieu, French composer (born in 1682) | |
| January 17th, 1737 (January 17 1737) | Death | Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann, German architect (born in 1662) | |
| January 17th, 1734 (January 17 1734) | Birth | Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belgian composer (died in 1829) | |
| January 17th, 1732 (January 17 1732) | Birth | Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, King and Grand Duke of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (died in 1798) | |
| January 17th, 1719 (January 17 1719) | Birth | William Vernon, American merchant (died in 1806) | |
| January 17th, 1718 (January 17 1718) | Death | Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader | |
| January 17th, 1712 (January 17 1712) | Birth | John Stanley, English composer (died in 1786) | |
| January 17th, 1706 (January 17 1706) | Birth | Benjamin Franklin American statesman (died in 1790) | Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| January 17th, 1705 (January 17 1705) | Death | John Ray, English naturalist (born in 1627) | |
| January 17th, 1686 (January 17 1686) | Birth | Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (died in 1766) | |
| January 17th, 1666 (January 17 1666) | Birth | Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (died in 1723) | |
| January 17th, 1654 (January 17 1654) | Death | Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (born in 1625) | |
| January 17th, 1648 (January 17 1648) | Event | England s Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War. | |
| January 17th, 1617 (January 17 1617) | Death | Faust Vrancic, Croatian inventor (born in 1551) | |
| January 17th, 1612 (January 17 1612) | Birth | Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (died in 1671) | |
| January 17th, 1605 (January 17 1605) | Event | First publication of Don Quixote. | |
| January 17th, 1600 (January 17 1600) | Birth | Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (died in 1681) | Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes |
| January 17th, 1598 (January 17 1598) | Death | Fyodor I Tsar of Russia (born in 1557) | |
| January 17th, 1595 (January 17 1595) | Event | Henry IV of France declares war on Spain. | |
| January 17th, 1562 (January 17 1562) | Event | France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain. | |
| January 17th, 1560 (January 17 1560) | Birth | Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (died in 1624) | |
| January 17th, 1524 (January 17 1524) | Event | Beginning of Giovanni da Verrazzano s voyage to find a passage to China. | |
| January 17th, 1504 (January 17 1504) | Birth | Pope Pius V (died in 1572) | |
| January 17th, 1501 (January 17 1501) | Birth | Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (died in 1566) | |
| January 17th, 1484 (January 17 1484) | Birth | George Spalatin, German reformer (died in 1545) | |
| January 17th, 1468 (January 17 1468) | Death | Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (born in 1405) | |
| January 17th, 1463 (January 17 1463) | Birth | Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony (died in 1525) | |
| January 17th, 1377 (January 17 1377) | Event | Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. | |
| January 17th, 1369 (January 17 1369) | Death | King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (born in 1328) | |
| January 17th, 1287 (January 17 1287) | Event | King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca. | |
| January 17th, 1229 (January 17 1229) | Death | Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier | |
| January 17th, 0395 (January 17 0395) | Death | Theodosius I, Roman Emperor | |
