On this day | January 17th

On this day: January 17th

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38 BC Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia (wife of Augustus) and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.

1362 Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea.

1377 Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.

1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.

1562 France grants religious toleration to the Huguenots in the Edict of Saint-Germain.

1595 During the French Wars of Religion, Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.

1608 Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo people army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.

1641 Reapers' War: The Junta de Braços (parliamentary assembly) of the Principality of Catalonia accepts the proposal of establishment of the Catalan Republic (1640–1641) under French protection.

1648 England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with Charles I of England and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.

1649 The Second Ormonde Peace creates an alliance between the Cavaliers and Irish Confederates during the War of the Three Kingdoms. The coalition was then decisively defeated during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

1773 Captain James Cook leads the Second voyage of James Cook to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.

1781 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens: Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.

1799 Malta patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.

1811 Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered History of Spain (1810–73) force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.

1852 The United Kingdom signs the Sand River Convention with the South African Republic.

1873 A group of Modoc people warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.

1885 A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.

1893 Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Committee of Safety (Hawaii), led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Liliuokalani.

1899 The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.

1903 El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.

1904 Anton Chekhov's ''The Cherry Orchard'' receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.

1912 British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott Terra Nova Expedition, one month after Roald Amundsen.

1915 Russia defeats Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.

1917 The United States pays Denmark 25 million for the United States Virgin Islands.

1918 Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards (Finland) and the White Guard (Finland).

1920 Prohibition in the United States begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.

1941 Franco-Thai War: Vichy France forces Battle of Ko Chang over the Royal Thai Navy.

1943 World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Y-2) captures the 200-ton sailing vessel ''Agios Stefanos'' and mans her with part of her crew.

1944 World War II: Allies of World War II forces launch the first of Battle of Monte Cassino on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.

1945 World War II: The Vistula–Oder Offensive forces German troops out of Warsaw.

1945 The ''SS-Totenkopfverbände'' begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as the Red Army closes in.

1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet Union custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.

1946 The UN Security Council holds its first session.

1948 The Renville Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia is ratified.

1950 The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston.

1950 United Nations Security Council Resolution 79 relating to arms control is adopted.

1961 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised Eisenhower's farewell address three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.

1961 Former Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.

1966 1966 Palomares B-52 crash: A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton B28 nuclear bomb near the town of Palomares, Almería and another one into the sea.

1969 Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.

1977 Capital punishment in the United States resumes after a ten-year hiatus, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is execution by firing squad in Utah.

1981 President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts Martial law in the Philippines eight years and five months after declaring it.

1991 Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning as aircraft strike positions across Iraq, it is also the first major combat sortie for the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk. Scott Speicher McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet from VFA-81 is shot down by a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 and is the first American casualty of the War. Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.

1991 Crown Prince Harald of Norway becomes Harald V of Norway, following the death of his father, Olav V of Norway.

1992 During a visit to South Korea, Prime Minister of Japan Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into Comfort women during World War II.

1994 The 6.7 1994 Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale of IX (''Violent''), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.

1995 The 6.9 Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.

1996 The Czech Republic applies for membership in the European Union.

1997 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.

1998 Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his ''Drudge Report'' website.

2002 Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.

2007 The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing.

2008 British Airways Flight 38 crashes short of the runway at Heathrow Airport, injuring 47.

2010 2010 Jos riots begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, results in at least 200 deaths.

2013 Former cyclist Lance Armstrong confesses to Lance Armstrong doping case in an airing of ''Oprah's Next Chapter''.

2013 Shahzad Luqman is Murder of Shahzad Luqman by members of Golden Dawn (Greece) in Petralona, Athens, leading the creation of new measures to combat race-based attacks in Greece.

2016 President Barack Obama announces the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

2017 Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is announced to be suspended.

2023 2023 Nyingchi avalanche, killing 28 people.

1342 Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)

1429 Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Italian artist (d.c. 1498)

1463 Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)

1463 Antoine Duprat, French cardinal (d. 1535)

1472 Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Italian captain (d. 1508)

1484 George Spalatin, German priest and reformer (d. 1545)

1501 Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)

1504 Pope Pius V (d. 1572)

1517 Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English Duke (d. 1554)

1560 Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist, physician, and academic (d. 1624)

1574 Robert Fludd, English physician, astrologer, and mathematician (d. 1637)

1593 William Backhouse, English alchemist and astrologer (d. 1662)

1600 Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright and poet (d. 1681)

1612 Thomas Fairfax, English general and politician (d. 1671)

1640 Jonathan Singletary Dunham, American settler (d. 1724)

1659 Antonio Veracini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1745)

1666 Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1723)

1686 Archibald Bower, Scottish historian and author (d. 1766)

1693 Melchor de Navarrete, Spanish colonial governor of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia, 1739 – 1742); of Spanish Florida (1749 – 1752); and of Yucatán (Mexico, 1754 – 1758) (d. 1761)

1706 Benjamin Franklin, American publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th List of Governors of Pennsylvania (d. 1790)

1712 John Stanley (composer), English organist and composer (d. 1786)

1719 William Vernon, American businessman (d. 1806)

1728 Johann Gottfried Müthel, German pianist and composer (d. 1788)

1732 Stanisław August Poniatowski, Polish-Lithuanian king (d. 1798)

1734 François-Joseph Gossec, French composer and conductor (d. 1829)

1761 Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist (d. 1832)

1789 August Neander, German historian and theologian (d. 1850)

1793 Antonio José Martínez, Spanish-American priest, rancher and politician (d. 1867)

1814 Ellen Wood (author), English author (d. 1887)

1820 Anne Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1849)

1828 Lewis A. Grant, American lawyer and general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1918)

1828 Ede Reményi, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1898)

1832 Henry Martyn Baird, American historian and academic (d. 1906)

1834 August Weismann, German biologist, zoologist, and geneticist (d. 1914)

1850 Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, Brazilian cardinal (d. 1930)

1850 Alexander Taneyev, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1918)

1851 A. B. Frost, American author and illustrator (d. 1928)

1853 Alva Belmont, American suffragist (d. 1933)

1853 T. Alexander Harrison, American painter and academic (d. 1930)

1857 Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1941)

1857 Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American engineer (d. 1935)

1858 Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian author (d. 1940)

1860 Douglas Hyde, Irish academic and politician, 1st President of Ireland (d. 1949)

1863 David Lloyd George, Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)

1863 Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (d. 1938)

1865 Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951)

1867 Carl Laemmle, German-born American film producer, co-founded Universal Pictures (d. 1939)

1867 Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel, pilot, and polo player (d. 1934)

1871 David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, English admiral (d. 1936)

1871 Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1940)

1875 Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan journalist and playwright (d. 1910)

1876 Frank Hague, American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Jersey City (d. 1956)

1877 Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková, Czech botanist and zoologist (d. 1937)

1877 May Gibbs, English-Australian author and illustrator (d. 1969)

1880 Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1960)

1881 Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1941)

1881 Harry Price, English psychologist and author (d. 1948)

1882 Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946)

1883 Compton Mackenzie, English-Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1972)

1886 Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (d. 1955)

1887 Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)

1888 Babu Gulabrai, Indian philosopher and author (d. 1963)

1897 Marcel Petiot, French physician and serial killer (d. 1946)

1898 Lela Mevorah, Serbian librarian (d. 1972)

1899 Al Capone, American mob boss (d. 1947)

1899 Robert Maynard Hutchins, American philosopher and academic (d. 1977)

1899 Nevil Shute, English engineer and author (d. 1960)

1901 Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-American philosopher and author (d. 1973)

1904 Hem Vejakorn, Thai painter and illustrator (d. 1969)

1905 Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)

1905 Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007)

1905 Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, educator, and critic (d. 1950)

1905 Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1966)

1905 Jan Zahradníček, Czech poet and translator (d. 1960)

1907 Henk Badings, Indonesian-Dutch composer and engineer (d. 1987)

1907 Alfred Wainwright, British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator (d. 1991)

1908 Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager and trainer (d. 1985)

1911 Busher Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1966)

1911 John S. McCain Jr., American admiral (d. 1981)

1911 George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate (d. 1991)

1914 Anacleto Angelini, Italian-Chilean businessman (d. 2007)

1914 Irving Brecher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)

1914 Howard Marion-Crawford, English actor (d. 1969)

1914 Paul Royle, Australian lieutenant and pilot (d. 2015)

1914 William Stafford (poet), American poet and author (d. 1993)

1916 Peter Frelinghuysen Jr., American lieutenant and politician (d. 2011)

1917 M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor, director, and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1987)

1918 Keith Joseph, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Education (d. 1994)

1918 George M. Leader, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2013)

1920 Georges Pichard, French author and illustrator (d. 2003)

1921 Jackie Henderson, Scottish footballer (d. 2005)

1921 Asghar Khan, Pakistani general and politician (d. 2018)

1921 Charlie Mitten, English footballer and manager (d. 2002)

1921 Antonio Prohías, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)

1922 Luis Echeverría, Mexican academic and politician, 50th President of Mexico (d. 2022)

1922 Nicholas Katzenbach, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 65th United States Attorney General (d. 2012)

1922 Betty White, American actress, game show panelist, television personality, and animal rights activist (d. 2021)

1923 Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (d. 1962)

1924 Rik De Saedeleer, Belgian footballer and journalist (d. 2013)

1924 Jewel Plummer Cobb, American biologist, cancer researcher, and academic (d. 2017)

1925 Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-American architect (d. 2017)

1925 Robert Cormier, American author and journalist (d. 2000)

1925 Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer and author (d. 1996)

1926 Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and politician (d. 2023)

1926 Moira Shearer, Scottish-English ballerina and actress (d. 2006)

1926 Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer (d. 2006)

1927 Thomas Anthony Dooley III, American physician and humanitarian (d. 1961)

1927 Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)

1927 Harlan Mathews, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)

1927 E. W. Swackhamer, American director and producer (d. 1994)

1928 Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)

1928 Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and businessman (d. 2012)

1929 Philip Latham, British actor (d. 2020)

1929 Jacques Plante, Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1986)

1929 Tan Boon Teik, Malaysian-Singaporean lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Singapore (d. 2012)

1931 James Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2024)

1931 Douglas Wilder, American sergeant and politician, 66th Governor of Virginia

1931 Don Zimmer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)

1932 John Cater, English actor (d. 2009)

1932 Sheree North, American actress and dancer (d. 2005)

1933 Dalida, Egyptian-French singer and actress (d. 1987)

1933 Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-Pakistani diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003)

1933 Shari Lewis, American actress, puppeteer/ventriloquist, and television host (d. 1998)

1934 Donald Cammell, Scottish-American director and screenwriter (d. 1996)

1935 Ruth Ann Minner, American businesswoman and politician, 72nd Governor of Delaware (d. 2021)

1936 John Boyd (diplomat), English academic and diplomat, List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Japan (d. 2019)

1936 A. Thangathurai, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1997)

1937 Alain Badiou, French philosopher and academic

1938 John Bellairs, American author and academic (d. 1991)

1938 Toini Gustafsson, Swedish cross country skier

1939 Christodoulos of Athens, Greek archbishop (d. 2008)

1939 Maury Povich, American talk show host and producer

1940 Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (d. 2015)

1940 Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan athlete

1940 Tabaré Vázquez, Uruguayan physician and politician, 39th President of Uruguay (d. 2020)

1941 István Horthy, Jr., Hungarian physicist and architect

1942 Muhammad Ali, American boxer and activist (d. 2016)

1942 Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and author

1942 Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist and educator

1942 Nigel McCulloch, English bishop

1943 Chris Montez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1943 René Préval, Haitian agronomist and politician, 52nd President of Haiti (d. 2017)

1944 Ann Oakley, English sociologist, author, and academic

1945 Javed Akhtar, Indian poet, playwright, and composer

1945 Anne Cutler, Australian psychologist and academic (d. 2022)

1947 Joanna David, English actress

1947 Jane Elliot, American actress

1948 Davíð Oddsson, Icelandic politician, 21st Prime Minister of Iceland

1949 Anita Borg, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2003)

1949 Gyude Bryant, Liberian businessman and politician (d. 2014)

1949 Augustin Dumay, French violinist and conductor

1949 Andy Kaufman, American actor and comedian (d. 1984)

1949 Mick Taylor, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1950 Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican-American author and academic

1952 Tom Deitz, American author (d. 2009)

1952 Darrell Porter, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2002)

1952 Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese pianist, composer, and producer (d. 2023)

1953 Jeff Berlin, American bass player and educator

1953 Carlos Johnson (blues musician), American singer and guitarist

1954 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American environmental lawyer, writer, and conspiracy theorist

1955 Steve Earle, American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, author and actor

1955 Pietro Parolin, Italian cardinal

1955 Steve Javie, American basketball player and referee

1956 Damian Green, English journalist and politician

1956 Paul Young, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1957 Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian, television personality and game show host

1957 Ann Nocenti, American journalist and author

1958 Tony Kouzarides, English biologist, cancer researcher

1959 Susanna Hoffs, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress

1960 John Crawford (musician), American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1960 Chili Davis, Jamaican-American baseball player and coach

1961 Brian Helgeland, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1962 Jun Azumi, Japanese broadcaster and politician, 46th Minister of Finance (Japan)

1962 Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer

1962 Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author

1962 Denis O'Hare, American actor and singer

1963 Colin Gordon (footballer), English footballer, agent, manager and chief executive

1963 Kai Hansen, German singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1964 Michelle Obama, American lawyer and activist, 44th List of First Ladies of the United States

1964 John Schuster, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player

1965 Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player

1966 Trish Johnson, English golfer

1966 Joshua Malina, American actor

1966 Shabba Ranks, Jamaican rapper, musician, and songwriter

1967 Richard Hawley, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1968 Rowan Pelling, English journalist and author

1968 Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch author, poet, and scholar

1969 Naveen Andrews, English actor

1969 Lukas Moodysson, Swedish director, screenwriter, and author

1969 Tiësto, Dutch DJ and producer

1970 Cássio Alves de Barros, Brazilian footballer

1970 Jeremy Roenick, American ice hockey player and actor

1970 Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-American animator, director, and producer

1971 Giorgos Balogiannis, Greek basketball player

1971 Richard Burns, English race car driver (d. 2005)

1971 Lil Jon, American rapper and producer

1971 Kid Rock, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

1971 Sylvie Testud, French actress, director, and screenwriter

1973 Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer and actor

1973 Chris Bowen, Australian politician, 37th Treasurer of Australia

1973 Liz Ellis, Australian netball player and sportscaster

1973 Aaron Ward (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

1974 Yang Chen (footballer, born 1974), Chinese footballer and manager

1974 Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian viola player, composer, and producer

1974 Derrick Mason, American football player

1975 Freddy Rodriguez (actor), American actor

1977 Leigh Whannell, Australian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer

1978 Lisa Llorens, Australian Paralympic athletics

1978 Ricky Wilson (English singer), English singer-songwriter

1980 Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American dancer and choreographer

1980 Zooey Deschanel, American singer-songwriter and actress

1980 Modestas Stonys, Lithuanian footballer

1981 Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer and manager

1981 Ray J, American singer, actor, and television personality

1981 Michael Zigomanis, Canadian ice hockey player

1982 Dwyane Wade, American basketball player

1982 Andrew Webster (rugby league), Australian rugby league player and coach

1982 Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer

1983 Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer

1983 Ryan Gage, English actor

1983 Johannes Herber, German basketball player

1983 Rick Kelly, Australian race car driver

1983 Marcelo Garcia (grappler), Brazilian martial artist

1984 Calvin Harris, Scottish singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer

1984 Dexter Lumis, American wrestler

1985 Pablo Barrientos, Argentinian footballer

1985 Simone Simons, Dutch singer-songwriter

1986 Viktor Stålberg, Swedish ice hockey player

1987 Cody Decker, American baseball player

1987 Oleksandr Usyk, Ukrainian boxer

1988 Andrea Antonelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2013)

1988 Earl Clark, American basketball player

1988 Will Genia, Australian rugby player

1988 Jonathan Keltz, American actor

1988 Héctor Moreno (footballer), Mexican footballer

1989 Taylor Jordan, American baseball player

1989 Kelly Marie Tran, American actress

1990 Santiago Tréllez, Colombian footballer

1990 Tyler Zeller, American basketball player

1991 Trevor Bauer, American baseball player

1991 Willa Fitzgerald, American actress

1991 Esapekka Lappi, Finnish rally driver

1991 Alise Willoughby, American BMX rider

1992 Stanislav Galiev, Russian ice hockey player

1994 Lucy Boynton, American-English actress

1994 Mark Steketee, Australian cricketer

1995 Indya Moore, American actor and model

1996 Allonzo Trier, American basketball player

1997 Jake Paul, American boxer, actor, rapper, and social media personality

1997 Kyle Tucker, American baseball player

1998 Sophie Molineux, Australian cricketer

1998 Jeff Reine-Adelaide, French footballer

1999 Isa Briones, American actor and singer

2000 Kang Chan-hee, South Korean singer and actor

2000 Devlin DeFrancesco, Canadian race car driver

2000 Ayo Dosunmu, American basketball player

2001 Enzo Fernández, Argentinian footballer

395 Theodosius I, Roman emperor (b. 347)

644 Sulpitius the Pious, French bishop and saint

764 Joseph of Freising, German bishop

1040 Mas'ud I of Ghazni, Sultan of the Ghaznavids (b. 998)

1156 André de Montbard, fifth Grand Masters of the Knights Templar

1168 Thierry, Count of Flanders (b. 1099)

1229 Albert of Riga, German bishop (b. 1165)

1329 Saint Roseline, Carthusian nun (b. 1263)

1334 John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (b. 1266)

1345 Henry of Asti, Greek patriarch

1345 Martino Zaccaria, Genoese Lord of Chios

1369 Peter I of Cyprus (b. 1328)

1456 Elisabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont, French translator (b. 1395)

1468 Skanderbeg, Albanian soldier and politician (b. 1405)

1523 Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg, German landgravine (b. 1466)

1588 Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)

1598 Feodor I of Russia (b. 1557)

1617 Fausto Veranzio, Croatian bishop and lexicographer (b. 1551)

1705 John Ray, English botanist and historian (b. 1627)

1718 Benjamin Church (ranger), American colonel (b. 1639)

1737 Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)

1738 Jean-François Dandrieu, French organist and composer (b. 1682)

1751 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1671)

1826 Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish-French composer (b. 1806)

1834 Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1762)

1850 Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author (b. 1762)

1861 Lola Montez, Irish actress and dancer (b. 1821)

1863 Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)

1869 Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)

1878 Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (b. 1812)

1884 Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (b. 1804)

1887 William Giblin, Australian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)

1888 Big Bear, Canadian tribal chief (b. 1825)

1891 George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1800)

1893 Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)

1896 Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, Welsh writer and patron of the arts (b. 1802)

1903 Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)

1908 Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)

1909 Agathon Meurman, Finnish politician and journalist (b. 1826)

1909 Francis Smith (Australian politician), Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819)

1911 Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, and geographer (b. 1822)

1927 Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)

1930 Gauhar Jaan, One of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in India. (b. 1873)

1931 Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (b. 1864)

1932 Ahmet Derviş, Turkish general (b. 1881)

1932 Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1893)

1933 Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848)

1936 Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1885)

1942 Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)

1947 Pyotr Krasnov, Russian historian and general (b. 1869)

1947 Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (b. 1883)

1951 Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Indian poet, playwright, and director (b. 1903)

1952 Walter Briggs Sr., American businessman (b. 1877)

1961 Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)

1970 Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoon player and educator (b. 1890)

1970 Billy Stewart, American rhythm and blues singer and pianist (b. 1937)

1972 Betty Smith, American author and playwright (b. 1896)

1977 Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940)

1977 Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)

1981 Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer and lawyer (b. 1899)

1984 Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1903)

1987 Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1908)

1987 Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist and author (b. 1927)

1988 Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and author (b. 1938)

1991 Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)

1992 Frank Pullen, English soldier and businessman (b. 1915)

1993 Albert Hourani, English-Lebanese historian and academic (b. 1915)

1994 Yevgeny Ivanov (spy), Russian spy (b. 1926)

1994 Helen Stephens, American runner, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1918)

1996 Barbara Jordan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)

1996 Sylvia Lawler, English geneticist (b. 1922)

1997 Bert Kelly, Australian farmer and politician, 20th Minister for Defence (Australia) (b. 1912)

1997 Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (b. 1906)

2000 Philip Jones (musician), English trumpet player and educator (b. 1928)

2000 Ion Rațiu, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1917)

2002 Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1916)

2002 Roman Personov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1932)

2003 Richard Crenna, American actor and director (b. 1926)

2004 Raymond Bonham Carter, English banker (b. 1929)

2004 Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (b. 1914)

2004 Ray Stark, American film producer (b. 1915)

2004 Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)

2005 Charlie Bell (businessman), Australian businessman (b. 1960)

2005 Virginia Mayo, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1920)

2005 Albert Schatz (scientist), American microbiologist and academic (b. 1920)

2005 Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician, 3rd Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)

2006 Pierre Grondin, Canadian surgeon (b. 1925)

2007 Art Buchwald, American journalist and author (b. 1925)

2007 Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian engineer and politician (b. 1951)

2007 Uwe Nettelbeck, German record producer, journalist and film critic (b. 1940)

2008 Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (b. 1943)

2008 Ernie Holmes, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1948)

2009 Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (b. 1943)

2010 Gaines Adams, American football player (b. 1983)

2010 Jyoti Basu, Indian politician and 9th Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1914)

2010 Michalis Papakonstantinou, Greek journalist and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Greece) (b. 1919)

2010 Erich Segal, American author and screenwriter (b. 1937)

2011 Don Kirshner, American songwriter and producer (b. 1934)

2012 Julius Meimberg, German soldier and pilot (b. 1917)

2012 Johnny Otis, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1921)

2012 Marty Springstead, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1937)

2013 Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1941)

2013 Jakob Arjouni, German author (b. 1964)

2013 Yves Debay, Belgian journalist (b. 1954)

2013 John Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (b. 1934)

2013 Lizbeth Webb, English soprano and actress (b. 1926)

2014 Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (b. 1915)

2014 Francine Lalonde, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1940)

2014 Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green, English businessman and politician (b. 1942)

2014 John J. McGinty III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1940)

2014 Sunanda Pushkar, Indian-Canadian businesswoman (b. 1962)

2014 Suchitra Sen, Indian film actress (b. 1931)

2015 Ken Furphy, English footballer and manager (b. 1931)

2015 Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress and producer (b. 1931)

2015 Don Harron, Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1924)

2016 Blowfly (musician), American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1939)

2016 Melvin Day, New Zealand painter and historian (b. 1923)

2016 V. Rama Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th Governor of Sikkim (b. 1935)

2016 Sudhindra Tirtha (Kashi Math), Indian religious leader (b. 1926)

2017 Tirrel Burton, American football player and coach (b. 1929)

2017 Colo (gorilla), American western lowland gorilla, first gorilla born in captivity and oldest recorded (b. 1956)

2019 S. Balakrishnan (composer), Malayalam movie composer (b. 1948)

2020 Derek Fowlds, British actor (b.1937)

2021 Rasheed Naz, Pakistani film and television actor (b. 1948)

2022 Birju Maharaj, Indian dancer (b. 1937)

2023 Lucile Randon, French supercentenarian (b. 1904)

Christian feast day:

- Anthony the Great

- Beatification Angelo Paoli

- Blessed Gamelbert of Michaelsbuch

- Charles Gore (Calendar of saints (Church of England))

- Jenaro Sánchez Delgadillo (one of Saints of the Cristero War)

- Mildgyth

- Our Lady of Pontmain

- Sulpitius the Pious

- January 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

National Day (Menorca, Spain)

The opening ceremony of Patras Carnival, celebrated until Clean Monday. (Patras, Greece)

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/17 BBC: On This Day]

[https://www.onthisday.com/events/january/17 Historical Events on January 17]