On This Day — January 17
6456 noted people were born and 3986 died on January 17 in our archive, including August Weismann, Barnabas Nawangwe and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 17
August Weismann
1834 – 1914
Barnabas Nawangwe
b. 1956
Jürgen Schmidhuber
b. 1963
Ahto Buldas
b. 1967
Alan Finkel
b. 1953
Albert Bernhard Frank
1839 – 1900
Albert Trueman
1902 – 1988
Alexei Arbatov
b. 1951
André Piganiol
1883 – 1968
Anita Bernstein
b. 1961
Bascha Mika
b. 1954
Benjamin Franklin
1706 – 1790
Boris Ponomarev
1905 – 1995
Bruce McEwen
1938 – 2020
Charles Lillicrap
1887 – 1966
Christopher R. Johnson
b. 1960
Daniel Brandenstein
b. 1943
Danielle Posthuma
b. 1972
David Shepherd Nivison
1923 – 2014
Edward Collingwood
1900 – 1970
François Ledrappier
b. 1946
Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs
1858 – 1931
Geir Lundestad
1945 – 2023
George Cook
1772 – 1845
Igor Sutyagin
b. 1965
Ihor Kozhan
b. 1953
István Szőnyi
1894 – 1960
Ivan Vidav
1918 – 2015
Jane Harding
b. 1955
John Dewrance
1858 – 1937
Joseph W. Barr
1918 – 1996
Józef Sebastian Pelczar
1842 – 1924
Karel Van Miert
1942 – 2009
Leonard Horner
1785 – 1864
Leslie Witts
1898 – 1982
Librada Avelino
1873 – 1934
Lucien Herr
1864 – 1926
Maciej Szymanowski
b. 1966
Martin Gosselin
1847 – 1905
Michelle Obama
b. 1964
Newton N. Minow
1926 – 2023
Nicholas Katzenbach
1922 – 2012
Nicolae Iorga
1871 – 1940
Nísia Trindade Lima
b. 1958
O. J. Tuulio
1878 – 1941
Oscar Fraas
1824 – 1897
Paul Meyer
1840 – 1917
Pauls Stradiņš
1896 – 1958
Pierre Adolphe Chéruel
1809 – 1891
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
1933 – 2003
Rafał Trzaskowski
b. 1972
Reinhart Langer
1921 – 2018
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
b. 1954
Robert Maynard Hutchins
1899 – 1977
Tabaré Vázquez
1940 – 2020
Thomas Crawford
1812 – 1875
Vilho Annala
1888 – 1960
Abdelwahab Meddeb
1946 – 2014
Alan McIntosh
1942 – 2016
Alexander Betts
b. 1980
Alexandra Chalmers Watson
1872 – 1936
Alfred Benzon
1855 – 1932
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
1881 – 1955
Alicia Dickenstein
b. 1955
Anatoly Zhabotinsky
1938 – 2008
Andrew Dalzel
1742 – 1806
Angela Pery
1897 – 1981
Anne Cutler
1945 – 2022
Anne Queffélec
b. 1948
Anson Chan
b. 1940
Antanas Baranauskas
1835 – 1902
Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio
1810 – 1871
Antoine-Aimé Dorion
1818 – 1891
Antoine-Jean Saint-Martin
1791 – 1832
Antonio Franco Estadella
1947 – 2021
Antonio Maria Valsalva
1666 – 1723
Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens
1939 – 2008
Arkady Morkov
1747 – 1827
Audronius Ažubalis
b. 1958
Bernd Mutzelburg
b. 1944
Bert Broer
1916 – 1991
Bertil Vallien
b. 1938
Bob Jones
1955 – 2014
Bob Persichetti
b. 1973
Bohumil Doležal
b. 1940
Caleb Cushing
1800 – 1879
Carlos A. Giménez
b. 1954
Charles Monnard
1790 – 1865
Christian Chemnitz
1615 – 1666
Claude Guéant
b. 1945
Clyde D. Eddleman
1902 – 1992
Coquese Washington
b. 1971
Corrado Böhm
1923 – 2017
Cyrille Vaillancourt
1892 – 1969
Dale McCormick
b. 1947
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
1871 – 1936
David Ebershoff
b. 1969
David Lloyd George
1863 – 1945
David Webb
b. 1953
David Witzthum
b. 1948
Davíð Oddsson
1948 – 2026
Deirdre Curtin
b. 1960
Denis Tunnicliffe, Baron Tunnicliffe
b. 1943
Douglas Hyde
1860 – 1949
Douglas Wilder
b. 1931
Edmund Haythorne
1818 – 1888
Elena Pisonero Ruiz
b. 1963
Fabio Luisi
b. 1959
Forges
1942 – 2018
Frances Hermia Durham
1873 – 1948
Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry
1896 – 1954
Frank Heath
1863 – 1946
Frank Twyman
1876 – 1959
François Joseph Gossec
1734 – 1829
Gaspard Bauhin
1560 – 1624
Georges Dallemagne
b. 1958
Geraldine L. Richmond
b. 1953
Gerd Hirzinger
b. 1945
Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.
1936 – 2022
Giuseppe Beltrami
1889 – 1973
Gloria Bonilla Santiago
b. 1954
Guarino Guarini
1624 – 1683
Gunnar Birkerts
1925 – 2017
Harry Rainy
1792 – 1876
Hector P. Garcia
1914 – 1996
Hennadiy Trukhanov
b. 1965
Howard Carmichael
b. 1950
Howie Carr
b. 1952
Hugo Huntzinger
1934 – 1993
Ian McGregor
1922 – 2007
Ian Young
b. 1957
Ida A. Bengtson
1881 – 1952
Ilmar Talve
1919 – 2007
Ingeborg Hochmair
b. 1953
Inna Sergeevna Sjtsjerbina-Samoylova
1922 – 2003
István Bajkai
1964 – 2023
Ivan Karabyts
1945 – 2002
J. Warren Madden
1890 – 1972
Jack Acland
1904 – 1981
Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford
1860 – 1943
Jacob Christiaan Koningsberger
1867 – 1951
Jacob Pins
1917 – 2005
James Cantlie
1851 – 1926
James Chance
1814 – 1902
James Petras
1937 – 2026
James Ramsay, 17th Earl of Dalhousie
b. 1948
James W. Borcoman
1926 – 2019
Jamy Gourmaud
b. 1964
Jan Kapras
1880 – 1947
Jane Green
b. 1943
Javed Akhtar
b. 1945
Jean Kickx
1803 – 1864
Jeanette Fitzsimons
1945 – 2020
Jens Bratlie
1856 – 1939
Jerzy Lefeld
1898 – 1980
Jessica Benjamin
b. 1946
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
1739 – 1810
John Clifton
1930 – 2023
John Flournoy Henry
1793 – 1873
John Hunter
1745 – 1837
John James Grant
b. 1936
Jorge Godoy
b. 1946
Jorge Mautner
b. 1941
Juho Aukusti Hollo
1885 – 1967
Jun Azumi
b. 1962
Katalin Karikó
b. 1955
Kenneth Rush
1910 – 1994
Knyaz Hasanov
b. 1945
Kurt Freund
1914 – 1996
Kōjirō Matsukata
1865 – 1950
Lee Spetner
1927 – 2024
Leonhart Fuchs
1501 – 1566
Leonila Vázquez-García
1914 – 1995
Levan Varshalomidze
b. 1972
Louis Armand
1905 – 1971
Louis Couturat
1868 – 1914
Ludovine de La Rochère
b. 1971
Ludwig Barth zu Barthenau
1839 – 1890
Luis Echeverría
1922 – 2022
Luther Halsey Gulick
1892 – 1993
M. G. Ramachandran
1917 – 1987
Manasseh Sogavare
b. 1955
Mao Xinyu
b. 1970
Marius Romme
b. 1934
Mart Paama
1938 – 2006
Maurizio Cornalba
b. 1947
Maxine Horner
1933 – 2021
Mechai Viravaidya
b. 1941
Michael Freeman
1931 – 2017
Mingote
1919 – 2012
Mircea Snegur
1940 – 2023
Mohammad Shtayyeh
b. 1958
Nandala Mafabi
b. 1966
Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni
1940 – 2015
Nigar Arpadarai
b. 1982
Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev
1832 – 1908
Nimai Mukhopadhyay
1944 – 2000
Norman Walker
1862 – 1942
Olav Bolland
b. 1962
Pascal Engel
b. 1954
… and 6,256 more
Died on January 17
Friedrich Kohlrausch
1840 – 1910
Humphrey Lloyd
1800 – 1881
Tomi Kōra
1896 – 1993
Alexander Nesmeyanov
1899 – 1980
Arthur Felix
1887 – 1956
Barbara Jordan
1936 – 1996
Camilo José Cela
1916 – 2002
Carl Robert
1850 – 1922
Charles Lillicrap
1887 – 1966
Clyde Tombaugh
1906 – 1997
Eduard Zintl
1898 – 1941
Fernand Choquette
1895 – 1975
George Cook
1772 – 1845
Gerard Moll
1785 – 1838
Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias
1946 – 2019
Gladys West
1930 – 2026
Hansjoachim Walther
1939 – 2005
Harald Pedersen
1888 – 1945
Henry Stommel
1920 – 1992
John Dewrance
1858 – 1937
Kipras Petrauskas
1885 – 1968
Leslie Witts
1898 – 1982
Louis Comfort Tiffany
1848 – 1933
Martin Gosselin
1847 – 1905
Stanisław Stefanek
1936 – 2020
Thomas Crawford
1812 – 1875
Tokio Kanō
1935 – 2017
Tony Lloyd
1950 – 2024
Édouard Descamps
1847 – 1933
Agenor, duc de Gramont
1819 – 1880
Agnès Spycket
1921 – 2022
Agustín Yáñez
1904 – 1980
Alden Partridge
1785 – 1854
Alexander Souter
1873 – 1949
Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green
1942 – 2014
Amha Selassie
1916 – 1997
Andrew Dalzel
1742 – 1806
Andriy Livytskyi
1879 – 1954
Angela Pery
1897 – 1981
Antoine Frédéric Spring
1814 – 1872
Antonio Cippico
1877 – 1935
Arichi Shinanojo
1843 – 1919
Arthur Headlam
1862 – 1947
Bert Kelly
1912 – 1997
Bo Westin
1913 – 2009
Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 1st Marquis of Casa Irujo
1765 – 1824
Charles Hernu
1923 – 1990
Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough
1760 – 1838
Chiyomatsu Ishikawa
1860 – 1935
Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
1803 – 1890
Chung Il-kwon
1917 – 1994
Claude Prouvoyeur
1927 – 2018
Daniel Christian Friedrich Krueger
1819 – 1896
Danylo Apostol
1654 – 1734
David L. Mills
1938 – 2024
Don Kirshner
1934 – 2011
Edmund Haythorne
1818 – 1888
Eduard Oscar Schmidt
1823 – 1886
Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
1785 – 1848
Edward Shepherd Creasy
1812 – 1878
Emanuele Severino
1929 – 2020
Erich Segal
1937 – 2010
Ernest Benn
1875 – 1954
Fernand Foureau
1850 – 1914
France Križanič
1928 – 2002
Frances Hermia Durham
1873 – 1948
Francis Galton
1822 – 1911
Francis Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough
1860 – 1947
Francis Ley
1846 – 1916
Frank Heath
1863 – 1946
Frank Twyman
1876 – 1959
Fumiko Yonezawa
1938 – 2019
George Bancroft
1800 – 1891
George Horne
1730 – 1792
Georgi Stranski
1847 – 1904
Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.
1936 – 2022
Giovanni Aldini
1762 – 1834
Giovanni Battista Monteggia
1762 – 1815
Gottfried Honegger
1917 – 2016
Grażyna Bacewicz
1909 – 1969
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
1900 – 1975
Hale F. Trotter
1931 – 2022
Harry Rainy
1792 – 1876
Heinrich Frey
1822 – 1890
Horace Vernet
1789 – 1863
Ian McGregor
1922 – 2007
Jaakko Valtanen
1925 – 2024
Jabez Hogg
1817 – 1899
Jacob Georg Agardh
1813 – 1901
James Chance
1814 – 1902
James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton
1724 – 1758
James Petras
1937 – 2026
Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve
1883 – 1947
Jerome R. Cox, Jr.
1925 – 2023
Joaquim Nabuco
1849 – 1910
John B. Hayes
1924 – 2001
John Hunter
1745 – 1837
John Ray
1627 – 1705
John Russell Young
1840 – 1899
Jonathan Raban
1942 – 2023
Joseph Tassé
1848 – 1895
Juan Carlos Pugliese
1915 – 1994
Juliette Gordon Low
1860 – 1927
Kamil Zvelebil
1927 – 2009
Karol Hutten-Czapski
1860 – 1904
Katherine Wallman
1943 – 2024
Lawrence M. Langer
1913 – 2000
Manfred Abelein
1930 – 2008
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted
1853 – 1927
Mary Jane Osborn
1927 – 2019
Mary Lundby
1948 – 2009
Nakashōji Ren
1866 – 1924
Nikolay Antoshkin
1942 – 2021
Norman Walker
1862 – 1942
Olav V of Norway
1903 – 1991
Ormond Stone
1847 – 1933
Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou
1845 – 1929
Paul Chernoff
1942 – 2017
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
1942 – 2025
Ralph Ambrose Kekwick
1908 – 2000
Ram Chandra Datta
1851 – 1899
Ramon d'Abadal i de Vinyals
1888 – 1970
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli
1900 – 1975
Reginald Clarry
1882 – 1945
René de Marees van Swinderen
1860 – 1955
Richard E. Blackwelder
1909 – 2001
Richard Lower
1631 – 1691
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
1776 – 1839
Robert Wallace
1853 – 1939
Roland Vaughan Williams
1838 – 1916
Schomberg Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian
1833 – 1900
Shinichiro Sakurai
1929 – 2011
Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Whitehaven
1642 – 1706
Skanderbeg
1405 – 1468
Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
1790 – 1851
Stephen Chapman
1776 – 1851
Thomas Graham Balfour
1813 – 1891
Thomas Jaggar
1871 – 1953
Vicente Álvarez Areces
1943 – 2019
Vincenzo Riccati
1707 – 1775
Virginia Mayo
1920 – 2005
Vladimir Shchuko
1878 – 1939
Walter M. W. Splawn
1883 – 1963
Walter Moxon
1836 – 1886
Wilhelm Haferkamp
1923 – 1995
Willard Bartlett
1846 – 1925
William Finlay
1875 – 1945
William Henry Pickering
1858 – 1938
William Marion Jardine
1879 – 1955
William Muir
1787 – 1869
William Rutherford Sanders
1828 – 1881
William Shortt
1881 – 1971
Y. C. James Yen
1890 – 1990
Yevhen Kushnaryov
1951 – 2007
Zofia Praussowa
1878 – 1945
Agathon Meurman
1826 – 1909
Alan Sanches
1968 – 2026
Albert Jacka
1893 – 1932
Aldo Tessio
1909 – 2000
Alexander Bullock
1816 – 1882
Alexander George Montgomery Moore
1833 – 1919
Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell
1773 – 1828
Alfred Coit
1835 – 1879
Alfred James Elliott
1895 – 1973
Alphonse Nudant
1861 – 1952
Anatoly Kukoba
1948 – 2011
Andreas Aulie
1897 – 1990
Andrei Shkuro
1887 – 1947
Andrej Hieng
1925 – 2000
André Morice
1900 – 1990
Angelo de Mojana di Cologna
1905 – 1988
Anna Arnold Hedgeman
1899 – 1990
Anna Hinderer
1827 – 1870
Anthony White
1781 – 1849
Antoine Claude Ponthus-Cinier
1812 – 1885
Antonia Elisabeth Korvezee
1899 – 1978
Antonije Hadžić
1831 – 1916
Archibald Matthias Dunn
1832 – 1917
Art Buchwald
1925 – 2007
Arthur Augustus Allen
1885 – 1964
Arthur Bourinot
1893 – 1969
Arthur Hugh Lister
1830 – 1908
Atanas Dalchev
1904 – 1978
Auguste, comte de La Ferronays
1777 – 1842
Augusto Hughes
1931 – 1993
Babiker Awadalla
1917 – 2019
Barbara Britton
1919 – 1980
Barbara McNamara
1942 – 2026
Bartholomew Parr
1750 – 1810
Benedetto Sestini
1816 – 1890
Benjamin Browne
1839 – 1917
Betty Smith
1896 – 1972
Big Bear
1825 – 1888
Bill Sykes
1939 – 2015
Blanche Clough
1861 – 1960
Bobby Fischer
1943 – 2008
Brian Brett
1950 – 2024
Béla Köpeczi
1921 – 2010
Camille Everardi
1825 – 1899
Carl Baermann
1839 – 1913
… and 3,786 more