January 17th Deaths |
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| 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) | 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) | 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) | 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) | Death | Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (born in 1930) | |
| 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) | 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, 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) | Death | King Olav V of Norway (born in 1903) | |
| January 17th, 1987 (January 17 1987) | Death | Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (born in 1908) | |
| January 17th, 1983 (January 17 1983) | Death | Doodles Weaver, American actor (born in 1911) | |
| January 17th, 1981 (January 17 1981) | Death | Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (born in 1899) | |
| January 17th, 1977 (January 17 1977) | Death | Gary Gilmore, American murderer (born in 1940) | |
| January 17th, 1972 (January 17 1972) | Death | Betty Smith, American writer and singer (born in 1896) | |
| 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, 1967 (January 17 1967) | Death | Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (born in 1884) | |
| January 17th, 1964 (January 17 1964) | Death | T.H. White, English author (born in 1906) | |
| January 17th, 1961 (January 17 1961) | Death | Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born in 1925) | |
| 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, 1942 (January 17 1942) | Death | Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (born in 1884) | |
| January 17th, 1933 (January 17 1933) | Death | Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (born in 1848) | |
| January 17th, 1932 (January 17 1932) | Death | Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (born in 1893) | |
| January 17th, 1931 (January 17 1931) | Death | Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (born in 1864) | |
| January 17th, 1927 (January 17 1927) | Death | Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (born in 1860) | |
| 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) | Death | Ferdinand IV Grand Duke of Tuscany (born in 1835) | |
| January 17th, 1903 (January 17 1903) | Death | Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (born in 1828) | |
| 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, 1884 (January 17 1884) | Death | Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (born in 1804) | |
| January 17th, 1874 (January 17 1874) | Death | Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (born in 1811) | |
| January 17th, 1869 (January 17 1869) | Death | Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (born in 1813) | |
| 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, 1834 (January 17 1834) | Death | Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (born in 1762) | |
| January 17th, 1826 (January 17 1826) | Death | Juan Crisostomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (born in 1806) | |
| 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, 1718 (January 17 1718) | Death | Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader | |
| January 17th, 1705 (January 17 1705) | Death | John Ray, English naturalist (born in 1627) | |
| January 17th, 1654 (January 17 1654) | Death | Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (born in 1625) | |
| January 17th, 1617 (January 17 1617) | Death | Faust Vrancic, Croatian inventor (born in 1551) | |
| January 17th, 1598 (January 17 1598) | Death | Fyodor I Tsar of Russia (born in 1557) | |
| January 17th, 1468 (January 17 1468) | Death | Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (born in 1405) | |
| January 17th, 1369 (January 17 1369) | Death | King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (born in 1328) | |
| January 17th, 1229 (January 17 1229) | Death | Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier | |
| January 17th, 0395 (January 17 0395) | Death | Theodosius I, Roman Emperor | |
