On This Day — June 17
3910 noted people were born and 1871 died on June 17 in our archive, including François Jacob, Lori Lipman Brown and W. V. D. Hodge.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on June 17
François Jacob
1920 – 2013
Lori Lipman Brown
b. 1958
W. V. D. Hodge
1903 – 1975
William Crookes
1832 – 1919
Agustín Edwards Mac-Clure
1878 – 1941
Alan Weinstein
b. 1943
Alex Szalay
b. 1949
Andrew Evans
1935 – 2023
Antonio Pacinotti
1841 – 1912
Asahel Stearns
1774 – 1839
Ashot Hovhannisyan
1887 – 1972
Aurélie Filippetti
b. 1973
Carl Hermann
1898 – 1961
Charles Baron Clarke
1832 – 1906
Clas Theodor Odhner
1836 – 1904
Dominique Reynié
b. 1960
Georg Wissowa
1859 – 1931
George Akerlof
b. 1940
Hans Mark
1929 – 2021
Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley
1804 – 1884
Irene Lozano
b. 1971
Jacqueline Jones
b. 1948
Joaquín Almunia
b. 1948
Jonathan C. Knight
b. 1964
Judith Macgregor
b. 1952
Julián Marías
1914 – 2005
Kamel Daoud
b. 1970
Kingman Brewster
1919 – 1988
Ludlow Griscom
1890 – 1959
Lyudmila Verbitskaya
1936 – 2019
Matthew Nimetz
b. 1939
Michel Pastoureau
b. 1947
Michel Waldschmidt
b. 1946
Mohamed ElBaradei
b. 1942
Newt Gingrich
b. 1943
Nira Chamberlain
b. 1969
Philippe Daudy
1925 – 1994
Scott E. Denmark
b. 1953
Sergio Marchionne
1952 – 2018
Ted Nelson
b. 1937
Victor André Cornil
1837 – 1908
William Henry Perkin
1860 – 1929
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
1800 – 1867
Yvon Gattaz
1925 – 2024
Zdzisław Bubnicki
1938 – 2006
Aaron Lansky
b. 1955
Adolf Joszt
1889 – 1957
Akira Hasegawa
1934 – 2025
Alan Taylor
b. 1955
Alberto Undurraga
b. 1969
Alex Azar
b. 1967
Alexander Shulgin
1925 – 2014
Alexandra Zakharova
b. 1962
Alice Mary Higgins
b. 1975
Ana Lía Kornblit
1941 – 2025
André Lefèvre
1869 – 1929
Angelo Rinaldi
1940 – 2025
Anna Lo
1950 – 2024
Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck
b. 1944
Arnold S. Relman
1923 – 2014
Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken
1847 – 1932
Arturo Checchi
1886 – 1971
Beatrice Wright
1910 – 2003
Bhagat Singh Koshiyari
b. 1942
Bohdan Stefanowski
1883 – 1976
Bonaventura Cerretti
1872 – 1933
Bridget Carragher
b. 1957
Bud Collins
1929 – 2016
Carol Anderson
b. 1959
Charles E. Lee
1917 – 2008
Charles Eames
1907 – 1978
Charles Gounod
1818 – 1893
César-François Cassini de Thury
1714 – 1784
Dan T. Carter
b. 1940
Dariusz Klimczak
b. 1980
David Crausby
b. 1946
Dufferin Roblin
1917 – 2010
Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera
1873 – 1949
Eino Baskin
1929 – 2015
Elbert D. Thomas
1883 – 1953
Elroy Hirsch
1923 – 2004
Emmanuel Chiva
b. 1969
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
1908 – 1997
Eric F. Goldman
1916 – 1989
Erik Bøgh
1822 – 1899
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
b. 1952
Feisal Tanjung
1939 – 2013
Felipe Herrera
1922 – 1996
George Hees
1910 – 1996
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
1753 – 1813
Gerhard Fels
1939 – 2025
Gregory Fu
b. 1963
Grzegorz Korczyński
1915 – 1971
Gérard Grisey
1946 – 1998
H. Owen Reed
1910 – 2014
Hans van Baalen
1960 – 2021
Hartwig Derenbourg
1844 – 1908
Hermann Matern
1893 – 1971
Hiromi Yoshida
1949 – 2019
Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.
1929 – 1997
Hubert Schardin
1902 – 1965
Isaac Parker
1768 – 1830
Ishrat Hussain
b. 1941
Ivo Bobul
b. 1953
James Weldon Johnson
1871 – 1938
Jan Bystrek
1934 – 2020
Jan Vilcek
b. 1933
Jerry Carl
b. 1958
Johann Veit
1852 – 1917
John Graham Ramsay
1931 – 2021
John Henry Pepper
1821 – 1900
John Hersey
1914 – 1993
John Lowell
1743 – 1802
John Murtha
1932 – 2010
Jon Murphy
b. 1958
Jonathan Yavin
b. 1972
Joseph Koerner
b. 1958
Joseph Lykken
b. 1957
José María Gil-Robles y Gil-Delgado
1935 – 2023
Jón Sigurðsson
1811 – 1879
Kareem Amer
b. 1984
Karel Höger
1909 – 1977
Karel Lidický
1900 – 1976
Karl Moritz Schumann
1851 – 1904
Katherine Wallman
1943 – 2024
Ken Livingstone
b. 1945
Ken Loach
b. 1936
Kerry Greenwood
1954 – 2025
Koichi Kato
1939 – 2016
Krzysztof Zanussi
b. 1939
Lawrence Haddad
b. 1959
Louis Harry Newburgh
1883 – 1956
Louis S. Peterson
1922 – 1998
Luke A. J. O'Neill
b. 1964
Marcel Cadieux
1915 – 1981
Marcy Kaptur
b. 1946
Martin Hotine
1898 – 1968
Masato Uchishiba
b. 1978
Mati Laur
b. 1955
Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley
1939 – 2022
Miguel Ayuso Guixot
1952 – 2024
Morten Østergaard
b. 1976
Muntaser Eltayeb Ibrahim
b. 1957
Oleg Kashin
b. 1980
Paolo Rondelli
b. 1963
Paul Kennedy
b. 1945
Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco
1930 – 2011
Péter G. Szalay
b. 1962
Reiner Pommerin
1943 – 2024
Robert J. Collier
1876 – 1918
Robin Cocks
1938 – 2023
Rod Paige
1933 – 2025
Romuald Twardowski
1930 – 2024
Ron Padgett
b. 1942
Ronan Ryan
b. 1974
Ronnie D. Green
b. 1961
Rosa María Calaf
b. 1945
Ruben Rausing
1895 – 1983
Samuel S. Wilks
1906 – 1964
Sergei Witte
1849 – 1915
Steven Knapp
b. 1951
Sumner Sewall
1897 – 1965
Temir Sariyev
b. 1963
Terence Rabbitts
b. 1946
Theodor Thjøtta
1885 – 1955
Thomas Dyer Seeley
b. 1952
Tom Rapoport
b. 1947
Trevor Mallard
b. 1954
Ulrich Hübner
1872 – 1932
Venugopal Govindaraju
b. 1964
Vernon Coaker
b. 1953
Vico Sotto
b. 1989
Volodymyr Pak
1934 – 2022
Wayne A.I. Frederick
b. 1971
Wilhelm Hausenstein
1882 – 1957
William Anderson
1921 – 2007
William G. Bray
1903 – 1979
William Joseph McDonald
1904 – 1989
Willie Hensley
b. 1941
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
b. 1962
Yakov Rezantsev
1973 – 2022
Zlatko Mateša
b. 1949
Zoghman Mebkhout
b. 1948
Abel P. Upshur
1790 – 1844
Alberto Cairo
b. 1974
Albéric Second
1817 – 1887
Alexander Rives
1806 – 1885
Alexandre Charles Joseph Ghislain d'Aubremé
1776 – 1835
Alexandre Vinet
1797 – 1847
Alexei Volodin
b. 1977
Alfred Cadman
1847 – 1905
Alfred W. Chandler
1890 – 1978
Ali Saibou
1940 – 2011
Alice Albright
b. 1961
Aline Coutrot
1927 – 1987
Alison Russell
b. 1958
Alpo Suhonen
b. 1948
Amir Coffey
b. 1997
Ana García Armada
b. 1970
Anders Ygeman
b. 1970
… and 3,710 more
Died on June 17
Arthur Harden
1865 – 1940
Charles Fitzpatrick
1851 – 1942
Eikō Kaneta
1942 – 2022
Elsie Maud Wakefield
1886 – 1972
Frank Yates
1902 – 1994
Hewitt Crane
1927 – 2008
Jacek Kuroń
1934 – 2004
Lord William Bentinck
1774 – 1839
Mikhail Lapshin
1934 – 2006
Mohamed Morsi
1951 – 2019
Muḥammad Mutawallī al-Shaʻrāwī
1911 – 1998
Paruyr Sevak
1924 – 1971
Ralf Dahrendorf
1929 – 2009
Raoul Aslan
1886 – 1958
Satō Sankichi
1857 – 1947
Stanisław Leszczycki
1907 – 1996
Süleyman Demirel
1924 – 2015
Abdul Muis
1883 – 1959
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
1883 – 1963
Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde
1897 – 1957
Alejandro Galvis Galvis
1891 – 1981
Aleksandr Samokutyayev
1970 – 2026
Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
1743 – 1827
Alphonse Chodron de Courcel
1835 – 1919
Andrew Cohen
1909 – 1968
Angelo Felici
1919 – 2007
Arnold S. Relman
1923 – 2014
Arthur Văitoianu
1864 – 1956
Aruga Nagao
1860 – 1921
Basil Hume
1923 – 1999
Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov
1905 – 1994
Carlo Ginzburg
1939 – 2026
Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning
1812 – 1862
Charles Keightley
1901 – 1974
Claude Louis Hector de Villars
1653 – 1734
Claudio Graziano
1953 – 2024
Cornelius Gurlitt
1820 – 1901
Dobri Dzhurov
1916 – 2002
Duncan U. Fletcher
1859 – 1936
Edmund J. James
1855 – 1925
Emil Wojtaszek
1927 – 2017
Emmanuel Servais
1811 – 1890
F. C. Ricardo
1852 – 1924
Feng Yuanjun
1900 – 1974
Floyd Odlum
1892 – 1976
Georg Franck von Franckenau
1643 – 1704
George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly
1761 – 1853
George Henry Rose
1771 – 1855
Henk van Rossum
1919 – 2017
Henricus Bracq
1804 – 1888
Henry Galway
1859 – 1949
Herman Spöring Sr.
1701 – 1747
Hu Shuhua
1886 – 1968
Ibrahim al-Bājūrī
1783 – 1860
J. Carter Brown
1934 – 2002
James E. Holshouser Jr.
1934 – 2013
James Miller
1812 – 1864
Janet Malcolm
1934 – 2021
Jean Boucher
1870 – 1939
Jean Kennedy Smith
1928 – 2020
Jean-Marie Hullot
1954 – 2019
Jerome Ch'en
1921 – 2019
Johann Graf
1852 – 1918
John III Sobieski
1629 – 1696
John Malcolm
1873 – 1954
John Quick
1852 – 1932
Joseph Addison
1672 – 1719
José Ignacio García Hamilton
1943 – 2009
Karl Söderholm
1859 – 1948
Kenneth Kaunda
1924 – 2021
Kirill Moskalenko
1902 – 1985
Konstantin Makarevich
1922 – 2017
Kwok Chan
1904 – 1967
Leverett Saltonstall
1892 – 1979
Louis Bolk
1866 – 1930
Léon Krier
1946 – 2025
Magoichi Tawara
1869 – 1944
Marie Breen
1902 – 1993
Mark Hopkins
1802 – 1887
Max Farrand
1869 – 1945
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann
1945 – 2022
Nikolay Bobrikov
1839 – 1904
Otto Lehmann
1855 – 1922
Pedro Gómez Labrador, Marquis of Labrador
1764 – 1850
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
1674 – 1762
Raivo Järvi
1954 – 2012
Refik Koraltan
1889 – 1974
Richard Casey, Baron Casey
1890 – 1976
Robert Dreyfus
1873 – 1939
Roberto Marcelo Levingston
1920 – 2015
Ron Clarke
1937 – 2015
Royal S. Copeland
1868 – 1938
S. David Griggs
1939 – 1989
Shaul Yisraeli
1909 – 1995
Sigurd Hofmann
1944 – 2022
Sir Lucas Pepys, 1st Baronet
1742 – 1830
Takeshi Araki
1916 – 1994
Tellef Dahll
1825 – 1893
Tetiana Yablonska
1917 – 2005
Thomas Kuhn
1922 – 1996
Thomas Powys, 4th Baron Lilford
1833 – 1896
Vasily Kanin
1862 – 1927
Vernon Huber
1899 – 1967
Witalis Ludwiczak
1910 – 1988
Xu Yuanchong
1921 – 2021
Yehuda (Leo) Levi
1926 – 2019
Yuri Nagibin
1920 – 1994
Zdeněk Kalista
1900 – 1982
Zhao Nanqi
1927 – 2018
A. C. Benson
1862 – 1925
Abbas Massoudi
1895 – 1974
Abel Rous Dottin
1768 – 1852
Adolf Pilar von Pilchau
1851 – 1925
Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani
1927 – 2022
Alden March
1795 – 1869
Aleksandr Tatischev
1763 – 1833
Alexander III of Antioch
1869 – 1958
Alfred Brendel
1931 – 2025
Alicia Steimberg
1933 – 2012
Allard H. Gasque
1873 – 1938
Alois Riegl
1858 – 1905
André Bollier
1920 – 1944
Antony C. Sutton
1925 – 2002
Ariosto A. Wiley
1848 – 1908
Arkadź Smolič
1891 – 1938
Arnold Meijer
1905 – 1965
Arthur Conolly
1807 – 1842
Arthur Wakefield
1799 – 1843
Arvind
1947 – 2024
Bram Eldering
1865 – 1943
Carl Piutti
1846 – 1902
Carl Rüedi
1848 – 1901
Caroline Ella Heminway Kierstead
1904 – 1985
Cecilia Danieli
1943 – 1999
Chang Ch'ung-ho
1914 – 2015
Charles François de Virot de Sombreuil
1723 – 1794
Charles Wallace Boswell
1886 – 1956
Chilakamarthi Lakshmi Narasimham
1867 – 1946
Clark Gruening
1943 – 2025
Clement Vallandigham
1820 – 1871
Daniel D. Pratt
1813 – 1877
Darwin Hindman
1933 – 2019
David Ennals, Baron Ennals
1922 – 1995
Domenico Carafa della Spina di Traetto
1805 – 1879
Donald J. Cram
1919 – 2001
Duffy Lewis
1888 – 1979
Ebenezer Huntington
1754 – 1834
Edward E. Denison
1873 – 1953
Edward Holden
1885 – 1947
Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel
1809 – 1885
Edwin T. Meredith
1876 – 1928
Eelco van Kleffens
1894 – 1983
Elżbieta Czyżewska
1938 – 2010
Enrico Persico
1900 – 1969
Ernesto Montenegro
1885 – 1967
Federico Gattorno
1836 – 1913
Ferdi Statzer
1906 – 1974
Fermín Caballero
1800 – 1876
Francesco Piccolomini
1582 – 1651
Frank Leaman Baylies
1895 – 1918
Frank M. Clark
1915 – 2003
Gabriel Goodman
1528 – 1601
George A. Scigliano
1874 – 1906
George M. White
1920 – 2011
Giuseppe Montanelli
1813 – 1862
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
1856 – 1895
Gyula László
1910 – 1998
Hannah Atkins
1923 – 2010
Hans Haltermann
1898 – 1981
Hanuš Schwaiger
1854 – 1912
Harry Bober
1915 – 1988
Henry Brunner
1838 – 1916
Henry Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret
1735 – 1826
Henry Persons
1834 – 1910
Hildegard Fässler
1951 – 2026
Hiram R. Burton
1841 – 1927
Hugh McElhenny
1928 – 2022
Hugo W. Koehler
1886 – 1941
Igor Terentiev
1892 – 1937
Isham Warren Garrott
1816 – 1863
Ishrat Hussain Usmani
1917 – 1992
Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin
1827 – 1900
Ivan Orlov
1895 – 1917
Jack Parsons
1914 – 1952
Jacob Beser
1921 – 1992
Jakob A. Lothe
1881 – 1975
James B. Howell
1816 – 1880
James H. Fields
1920 – 1970
James H. Hyslop
1854 – 1920
James Herron Hopkins
1831 – 1904
James R. Beverley
1894 – 1967
James Welldon
1854 – 1937
Jean-Louis Trintignant
1930 – 2022
Jeff Chandler
1918 – 1961
Johan Wagenaar
1862 – 1941
Johannes Stadius
1527 – 1579
John C. Davies II
1920 – 2002
John Carberry
1904 – 1998
John Holmes Jellett
1905 – 1971
John Hughes
1814 – 1889
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