On this day | July 17th

On this day: July 17th

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180 Scillitan Martyrs of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.

1048 Pope Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later.

1203 The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.

1402 Zhu Di, better known by his Regnal name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China.

1429 Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is coronation of the French monarch the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc.

1453 Battle of Castillon: The last battle of the Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.

1717 King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's ''Water Music (Handel)'' is premiered.

1762 Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.

1771 Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.

1791 Members of the National Guard (France) under the command of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Champ de Mars Massacre on a crowd of radical Jacobin (politics) at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.

1794 The 16 Carmelites Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.

1821 The Kingdom of Spain cedes the territory of History of Florida # End of Spanish control to the United States.

1850 Vega became the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed.

1867 Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.

1899 NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.

1901 Liner sets east to west transatlantic record of five days, eleven hours and five minutes.

1902 Willis Carrier creates the first Air conditioning in Buffalo, New York.

1917 King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname House of Windsor.

1918 Nicholas II of Russia of Russian Empire and his immediate family and retainers Execution of the Romanov family by Bolshevik Cheka at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

1918 The , the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the , is sunk off Ireland by the German ; five lives are lost.

1919 The form of government in the Republic of Finland is officially confirmed. For this reason, July 17 is known as the ''Day of Democracy'' (''Kansanvallan päivä'') in Finland.

1932 Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the Schutzstaffel and Sturmabteilung, and the Communist Party of Germany ensues.

1936 Spanish Civil War: An Spanish coup of July 1936 against the recently elected leftist Popular Front (Spain) government of Spain starts the civil war.

1938 Douglas Corrigan takes off from Floyd Bennett Field to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.

1944 Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.

1944 World War II: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.

1945 World War II: The main three leaders of the Allies of World War II nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, Potsdam Conference in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

1953 The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an USMC R4Q NROTC crash in Florida, killing 44.

1954 First Indochina War: Viet Minh troops successfully ambush the armoured French column 'G.M. 42' in the Battle of Chu Dreh Pass in the Central Highlands (Vietnam). It is the last battle of the war.

1955 Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.

1962 Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller (nuclear tests) becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.

1968 Abdul Rahman Arif is 17 July Revolution and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.

1973 King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan, while having surgery in Italy, is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan.

1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo program and a Soviet Soyuz (spacecraft) dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.

1976 East Timor is Indonesian invasion of East Timor and becomes the 27th Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia.

1976 The opening of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.

1979 Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States.

1981 A structural failure leads to the collapse of Hyatt Regency walkway collapse in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.

1984 The national drinking age in the United States was National Minimum Drinking Age Act from 18 to 21.

1985 Founding of the Eureka (organization) by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).

1989 First flight of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.

1989 Holy See–Poland relations are restored.

1996 TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.

1997 After takeoff from Husein Sastranegara International Airport, Sempati Air Flight 304 crashes into a residential neighborhood in Bandung, killing 28 people.

1998 The 7.0 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.

1998 A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

2000 During approach to Jay Prakash Narayan Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, India, killing 60 people.

2001 Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the Air France Flight 4590 crash.

2006 The 7.7 2006 Pangandaran earthquake and tsunami severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.

2007 TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320 family, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.

2014 A French Transport express régional on the Pau-Bayonne line Denguin rail crash into a TGV near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.

2014 Eric Garner is killing of Eric Garner by police officer Daniel Pantaleo in New York City, after the latter put him in a prohibited chokehold while arresting him.

2015 At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a 2015 Khan Bani Saad bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.

2018 Scott S. Sheppard announces that his team has discovered a dozen irregular moons of Jupiter.

1487 Ismail I of Iran (d. 1524)

1499 Maria Salviati, Italian noblewoman (d. 1543)

1531 Antoine de Créqui Canaples, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1574)

1674 Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter and theologian (d. 1748)

1695 Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim (d. 1766)

1698 Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1759)

1708 Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (d. 1769)

1714 Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher and academic (d. 1762)

1744 Elbridge Gerry, American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States (d. 1814)

1763 John Jacob Astor, German-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1848)

1774 John Wilbur (Quaker minister), American minister and theologian (d. 1856)

1797 Paul Delaroche, French painter and academic (d. 1856)

1823 Leander Clark, American businessman, judge, and politician (d. 1910)

1831 Xianfeng Emperor of China (d. 1861)

1831 - Naser al-Din Shah of Qajar Iran (a. 1896)

1837 Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 7th Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1886)

1839 Ephraim Shay, American engineer, invented the Shay locomotive (d. 1916)

1853 Alexius Meinong, Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and academic (d. 1920)

1868 Henri Nathansen, Danish director and playwright (d. 1944)

1870 Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (d. 1939)

1871 Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1956)

1873 Many Benner, French painter (d. 1965)

1879 Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 1960)

1882 James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (d. 1949)

1888 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1970)

1889 Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (d. 1970)

1894 Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (d. 1966)

1896 Rupert Atkinson (RAF officer), English RAF officer (d. 1919)

1898 Berenice Abbott, American photographer (d. 1991)

1898 Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer (d. 1999)

1899 James Cagney, American actor and dancer (d. 1986)

1901 Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1994)

1901 Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet and author (d. 1938)

1901 Patrick Smith (politician), Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (d. 1982)

1902 Christina Stead, Australian author and academic (d. 1983)

1905 William Gargan, American actor (d. 1979)

1910 James Elliott Coyne, Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (d. 2012)

1910 Frank Olson, American chemist and microbiologist (d. 1953)

1911 Lionel Ferbos, American trumpet player (d. 2014)

1911 Heinz Lehmann, German-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (d. 1999)

1912 Erwin Bauer, German race car driver (d. 1958)

1912 Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television host (d. 2010)

1913 Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City (d. 1997)

1914 Eleanor Steber, American soprano and educator (d. 1990)

1915 Bijon Bhattacharya, Indian actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1978)

1915 Arthur Rothstein, American photographer and educator (d. 1985)

1916 Eleanor Hadley, American economist and policymaker (d. 2007)

1917 Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (d. 2001)

1917 Phyllis Diller, American actress, comedian, and voice artist (d. 2012)

1917 Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (d. 2015)

1917 Christiane Rochefort, French author (d. 1998)

1918 Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan soldier and politician, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)

1919 Albert Stubbins, English footballer (d. 2002)

1920 Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser (d. 2005)

1920 Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish businessman, 7th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 2010)

1921 George Barnes (musician), American guitarist, producer, and songwriter (d. 1977)

1921 Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer (d. 1955)

1921 Mary Osborne, American guitarist (d. 1992)

1921 Toni Stone, American baseball player (d. 1996)

1921 František Zvarík, Slovak actor (d. 2008)

1923 Jeanne Block, American psychologist (d. 1981)

1923 John Cooper (car maker), English car designer, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (d. 2000)

1924 Garde Gardom, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (d. 2013)

1925 Jimmy Scott, American singer and actor (d. 2014)

1925 Mohammad Hasan Sharq, Afghan politician

1926 Édouard Carpentier, French-Canadian wrestler (d. 2010)

1926 Willis Carto, American activist and theorist (d. 2015)

1928 Vince Guaraldi, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1976)

1929 Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2023)

1932 Niccolò Castiglioni, Italian composer (d. 1996)

1932 Red Kerr, American basketball player and coach (d. 2009)

1932 Wojciech Kilar, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2013)

1932 Karla Kuskin, American author and illustrator (d. 2009)

1932 Slick Leonard, American basketball player and coach (d. 2021)

1932 Ian Moir, Australian rugby league player (d. 1990)

1932 Quino, Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist (d. 2020)

1932 Hal Riney, American businessman, founded Publicis & Hal Riney (d. 2008)

1933 Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (d. 2014)

1933 Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Maltese politician, 9th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2022)

1933 Tony Pithey, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (d. 2006)

1934 Lucio Tan, Chinese-Filipino billionaire businessman and educator

1935 Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (d. 2019)

1935 Peter Schickele, American composer and educator (d. 2024)

1935 Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor and producer (d. 2024)

1938 Hermann Huppen, Belgian author and illustrator

1939 Andrée Champagne, Canadian actress and politician (d. 2020)

1939 Spencer Davis, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020)

1940 Tim Brooke-Taylor, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2020)

1941 Daryle Lamonica, American football player (d. 2022)

1941 Bob Taylor (cricketer), English cricketer

1941 Achim Warmbold, German race car driver and manager

1942 Gale Garnett, New Zealand–born Canadian singer

1942 Connie Hawkins, American basketball player (d. 2017)

1942 Don Kessinger, American baseball player and manager

1942 Zoot Money, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player

1943 LaVyrle Spencer, American author and educator

1944 Mark Burgess (cricketer), New Zealand cricketer and footballer

1944 Catherine Schell, Hungarian-English actress

1944 Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2016)

1945 Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia

1945 John Patten, Baron Patten, English politician, Secretary of State for Education

1946 Chris Crutcher, American novelist and short story writer

1946 Ted Sampley, American POW/MIA activist (d. 2009)

1947 Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St John's, English educator and politician

1947 Robert Begerau, German footballer and manager

1947 Queen Camilla

1947 Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)

1947 Mick Tucker, English rock drummer (The Sweet) (d. 2002)

1948 Ron Asheton, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)

1948 Luc Bondy, Swiss director and producer (d. 2015)

1949 Geezer Butler, English bass player and songwriter

1949 Charley Steiner, American journalist and sportscaster

1950 Sadhan Chandra Majumder, Bangladeshi politician

1950 Tengku Sulaiman Shah, Malaysian corporate figure

1950 Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)

1951 Lucie Arnaz, American actress and singer

1951 Mark Bowden, American journalist and author

1951 Andrew Robathan, English soldier and politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces

1952 David Hasselhoff, American actor, singer, and producer

1952 Nicolette Larson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1997)

1952 Thé Lau, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)

1952 Robert R. McCammon, American author

1954 Angela Merkel, German chemist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) from 2005 to 2021.

1954 Edward Natapei, Vanuatuan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (d. 2015)

1954 J. Michael Straczynski, American author, screenwriter, and producer

1955 Sylvie Léonard, Canadian actress and screenwriter

1955 Paul Stamets, American mycologist and author

1956 Julie Bishop, Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia)

1956 Bryan Trottier, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach

1957 Bruce Crump, American drummer and songwriter (d. 2015)

1957 Wendy Freedman, Canadian-American cosmologist and astronomer

1958 Wong Kar-wai, Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter

1958 Suzanne Moore, English journalist

1958 Thérèse Rein, Australian businesswoman, founded Ingeus

1958 Susan Silver, American music manager

1959 Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin, Bangladeshi-English politician

1960 Kim Barnett, English cricketer and coach

1960 Mark Burnett, English-American screenwriter and producer

1960 Nancy Giles, American journalist and actress

1960 Robin Shou, Hong Kong martial artist and actor

1960 Dawn Upshaw, American soprano

1960 Jan Wouters, Dutch footballer and manager

1961 António Costa, Portuguese politician, 119th Prime Minister of Portugal

1961 Jeremy Hardy, English comedian and actor (d. 2019)

1963 Regina Belle, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

1963 Letsie III of Lesotho

1963 Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper and singer (d. 2019)

1964 Heather Langenkamp, American actress and producer

1965 Craig Morgan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1965 Alex Winter, English-American actor, film director and screenwriter

1966 Lou Barlow, American guitarist and songwriter

1966 Sten Tolgfors, Swedish lawyer and politician, 30th Minister for Defence (Sweden)

1969 Jason Clarke, Australian actor

1969 Scott Johnson (cartoonist), American cartoonist

1969 Jaan Kirsipuu, Estonian cyclist

1971 Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player and coach

1971 Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist

1971 Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist

1972 Elizabeth Cook, American singer and guitarist

1972 Donny Marshall, American basketball player and sportscaster

1972 Jason Rullo, American drummer

1972 Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer and manager

1972 Eric Williams (basketball, born 1972), American basketball player

1973 Eric Moulds, American football player

1974 Claudio López (footballer), Argentine footballer

1975 Andre Adams, New Zealand cricketer

1975 Elena Anaya, Spanish actress

1975 Darude, Finnish DJ and producer

1975 Loretta Harrop, Australian triathlete

1975 Konnie Huq, English television presenter

1975 Terence Tao, Australian-American mathematician

1976 Luke Bryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1976 Gino D'Acampo, Italian chef and author

1976 Dagmara Domińczyk, Polish-American actress

1976 Marcos Senna, Brazilian-Spanish footballer

1976 Anders Svensson (footballer, born 1976), Swedish footballer and sportscaster

1976 Eric Winter, American actor

1977 Andrew Downton, Australian cricketer

1977 Leif Hoste, Belgian cyclist

1977 Marc Savard, Canadian ice hockey player

1978 Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist

1978 Panda Bear (musician), American musician and songwriter

1978 Jason Jennings, American baseball player

1978 Justine Triet, French film director and screenwriter

1979 Mike Vogel, American actor

1980 Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer

1980 Brett Goldstein, British actor, comedian and writer

1980 Ryan Miller, American ice hockey player

1981 Hely Ollarves, Venezuelan runner

1982 Omari Banks, Anguillan cricketer

1983 Adam Lind, American baseball player

1985 Loui Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player

1985 Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer

1986 DeAngelo Smith, American football player

1987 Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player

1987 Jeremih, American singer, songwriter, and record producer

1991 Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Swedish ice hockey player

1992 Billie Lourd, American actress

1992 Tatu Sinisalo, Finnish actor

1994 Kali Uchis, American singer-songwriter

1997 OG Anunoby, British basketball player

1998 Rosana Serrano, Cuban rower

2002 Jordan Lawlar, American baseball player

2005 Connor Bedard, Canadian ice hockey player

521 Magnus Felix Ennodius, Gallo-Roman bishop

855 Pope Leo IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 790)

952 Wu Hanyue, Chinese noblewoman (b. 913)

961 Empress Dowager Du, empress dowager of the Song dynasty

1070 Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders, count of County of Flanders (b. 1030)

1085 Robert Guiscard, Norman adventurer

1119 Baldwin VII, Count of Flanders, count of Flanders (b. 1093)

1210 Sverker II of Sweden, king of Sweden (b. 1210)

1304 Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer (b. 1251)

1399 Jadwiga of Poland, queen of Poland (b. 1374)

1453 Dmitry Shemyaka, Grand Prince of Moscow

1453 John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English commander and politician (b. 1387)

1531 Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese commander (b. 1484)

1571 Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)

1588 Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque (Azapkapı) and Süleymaniye Mosque (b. 1489)

1603 Mózes Székely, Hungarian noble (b. 1553)

1642 William, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count, field marshal of the Dutch State Army (b. 1592)

1645 Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, English-Scottish politician, Lord Chamberlain (b. 1587)

1704 Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (b. 1657)

1709 Robert Bolling, English planter and merchant (b. 1646)

1725 Thomas King (died 1725), English and British soldier, MP for Queenborough, lieutenant-governor of Sheerness (b. before 1660?).

1762 Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)

1790 Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)

1791 Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian missionary and author (b. 1717)

1793 Charlotte Corday, French murderer (b. 1768)

1794 John Roebuck, English chemist and businessman (b. 1718)

1845 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)

1871 Karl Tausig, Polish virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer (b. 1841)

1878 Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet and politician (b. 1812)

1879 Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian-Polish painter (b. 1856)

1881 Jim Bridger, American scout and explorer (b. 1804)

1883 Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1829)

1885 Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Minister of Agriculture (Canada) (b. 1811)

1893 Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)

1894 Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818)

1894 Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)

1900 Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)

1907 Hector Malot, French author and critic (b. 1830)

1912 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854)

1918 Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family:

- Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868)

- Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) (b. 1872)

- Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1895)

- Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1897)

- Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899–1918) (b. 1899)

- Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1901)

- Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (b. 1904)

- Anna Demidova (b. 1878)

- Ivan Kharitonov (b. 1872)

- Alexei Trupp (b. 1858)

- Yevgeny Botkin (b. 1865)

1925 Lovis Corinth, German painter (b. 1858)

1928 Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1842)

1928 Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico (b. 1880)

1932 Rasmus Rasmussen (actor), Norwegian actor, singer, and director (b. 1862)

1935 George William Russell, Irish poet and painter (b. 1867)

1942 Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (b. 1861)

1944 William James Sidis, American mathematician and anthropologist (b. 1898)

1945 Ernst Busch (field marshal), German field marshal (b. 1885)

1946 Florence Fuller, South African-born Australian artist (b. 1867)

1946 Draža Mihailović, Serbian general (b. 1893)

1950 Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)

1950 Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (b. 1885)

1959 Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)

1959 Eugene Meyer (financier), American businessman and publisher (b. 1875)

1960 Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist (b. 1879)

1961 Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)

1961 Emin Halid Onat, Turkish architect and academic (b. 1908)

1967 John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1926)

1974 Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)

1975 Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (b. 1893)

1980 Don "Red" Barry, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1912)

1980 Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890)

1988 Bruiser Brody, American football player and wrestler (b. 1946)

1989 Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)

1991 John Patrick Spiegel, American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1911)

1994 Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898)

1995 Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)

1996 Victims of TWA Flight 800:

- Michel Breistroff, French ice hockey player (b. 1971)

- Marcel Dadi, Tunisian-French guitarist (b. 1951)

- David Hogan (composer), American composer (b. 1949)

- Jed Johnson (designer), American interior designer and director (b. 1948)

1996 Chas Chandler, English bass player and producer (b. 1938)

1998 Lillian Hoban, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)

2001 Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)

2002 Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands) (b. 1911)

2003 David Kelly (weapons expert), Welsh weapons inspector (b. 1944)

2003 Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichord player (b. 1914)

2003 Walter Zapp, Latvian-Swiss inventor, invented the Minox (b. 1905)

2005 Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913)

2005 Edward Heath, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)

2005 Joe Vialls, Australian journalist and theorist (b. 1944)

2006 Sam Myers, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)

2006 Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (b. 1918)

2007 Grant Forsberg, American actor and businessman (b. 1959)

2007 Júlio Redecker, Brazilian politician (b. 1956)

2007 Paulo Rogério Amoretty Souza, Brazilian lawyer and businessman (b. 1945)

2009 Walter Cronkite, American journalist and actor (b. 1916)

2009 Leszek Kołakowski, Polish historian and philosopher (b. 1927)

2010 Larry Keith, American actor (b. 1931)

2011 David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)

2012 Richard Evatt, English boxer (b. 1973)

2012 Forrest S. McCartney, American general (b. 1931)

2012 İlhan Mimaroğlu, Turkish-American composer and producer (b. 1926)

2012 William Raspberry, American journalist and academic (b. 1935)

2012 Marsha Singh, Indian-English politician (b. 1954)

2013 Henri Alleg, English-French journalist and author (b. 1921)

2013 Peter Appleyard, English-Canadian vibraphone player and composer (b. 1928)

2013 Vincenzo Cerami, Italian screenwriter and producer (b. 1940)

2013 Don Flye, American tennis player (b. 1933)

2013 Ian Gourlay, English general (b. 1920)

2013 David White (Scottish footballer), Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1933)

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 victims:

- Liam Davison, Australian author and critic (b. 1957)

- Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (b. 1976)

- Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (b. 1954)

- Willem Witteveen, Dutch scholar and politician (b. 1952)

2014 Henry Hartsfield, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1933)

2014 Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (b. 1928)

2014 Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (b. 1925)

2015 Bill Arnsparger, American football player and coach (b. 1926)

2015 Jules Bianchi, French race car driver (b. 1989)

2015 Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic (b. 1916)

2015 Van Miller, American sportscaster (b. 1927)

2015 John Taylor (jazz), English pianist and educator (b. 1942)

2019 Marie Sophie Hingst, German historian and blogger who falsely claimed to be descended from Holocaust survivors

2020 John Lewis, American Politician and Civil Rights Leader. (b. 1940)

2020 Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Russian-Australian pair skater (b. 2000)

2024 Cheng Pei-pei, Chinese actress (b. 1946)

2024 Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer, songwriter and scholar (b. 1942)

2024 Pat Williams (basketball), American basketball player (b. 1940)

Christian Calendar of saints:

- Alexius of Rome (Latin Church)

- Andrew Zorard

- Saint Kenelm

- Cynllo

- Inácio de Azevedo

- Jadwiga of Poland

- Magnus Felix Ennodius

- Saint Marcellina

- Martyrs of Compiègne

- Blessed Pavel Peter Gojdič (Greek Catholic Church)

- Pope Leo IV

- Canonization of the Romanovs (Russian Orthodox Church)

- Scillitan Martyrs

- William White (bishop of Pennsylvania) (Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church))

- July 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Constitution Day (South Korea)

Gion Matsuri (Yasaka Shrine, Kyoto)

Independence Day (Slovakia)

International Firgun Day (International observance)

King's Birthday (Lesotho)

Tirot Sing (Meghalaya, India)

World Day for International Justice (International observance)

World Emoji Day (International observance)