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| 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, 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, 1987 (January 17 1987) | Death | Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (born in 1908) | |
| 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1907 (January 17 1907) | Birth | Henk Badings, Dutch composer (died in 1987) | |
| January 17th, 1897 (January 17 1897) | Birth | Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (died in 1946) | |
| January 17th, 1887 (January 17 1887) | Death | William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (born in 1840) | |
| January 17th, 1877 (January 17 1877) | Birth | May Gibbs, Australian children s author (died in 1969) | |
| January 17th, 1867 (January 17 1867) | Birth | Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (died in 1939) | |
| 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, 1737 (January 17 1737) | Death | Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann, German architect (born in 1662) | |
| January 17th, 1617 (January 17 1617) | Death | Faust Vrancic, Croatian inventor (born in 1551) | |
| January 17th, 1377 (January 17 1377) | Event | Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. | |
| January 17th, 1287 (January 17 1287) | Event | King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca. | |
