On This Day — July 17
4056 noted people were born and 1984 died on July 17 in our archive, including Amédée Mannheim, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and Alexander Studniew.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on July 17
Amédée Mannheim
1831 – 1906
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
1698 – 1759
Alexander Studniew
b. 1974
Alexei Russkikh
b. 1968
Angela Merkel
b. 1954
Anna Bikont
b. 1954
Björn Vikström
b. 1963
Chandler Robbins
1918 – 2017
Desmond G. Higgins
b. 1959
Edgar Snow
1905 – 1972
Frederick Abel
1827 – 1902
Georges Lemaître
1894 – 1966
Gordon Gould
1920 – 2005
Herbert William Richmond
1863 – 1948
Ida Halpern
1910 – 1987
James Cagney
1899 – 1986
Johannes van der Palm
1763 – 1840
José Miñones Conde
b. 1972
Krystyna Kuperberg
b. 1944
Luciano Marraffini
b. 1974
Olanike Adeyemo
b. 1970
Paul Schnabel
b. 1948
Ronald W. Davis
b. 1941
Shlomo Ben-Ami
b. 1943
Thomas Erskine Holland
1835 – 1926
Toril Marie Øie
b. 1960
Valery Vasilyev
b. 1965
Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston
1840 – 1913
Warren Weaver
1894 – 1978
William Everett Potter
1905 – 1988
Adriaan Reland
1676 – 1718
Alan Cottrell
1919 – 2012
Aleksander Gieysztor
1916 – 1999
Aleksandr Petrov
b. 1957
Alexander Herdman
1869 – 1953
Alexandra Pascalidou
b. 1970
Alexey Krivoruchko
b. 1975
Alexey Rybnikov
b. 1945
Alfonso López-Chau
b. 1950
Alfred Rawlinson
1884 – 1960
Alison McInnes
b. 1957
Amand Félix Marie Jobbé-Duval
1821 – 1889
Andreas von Bülow
b. 1937
Andrei Fursenko
b. 1949
Andrew Oshiotse Okwilagwe
b. 1951
Andrey Ryabinskiy
b. 1973
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
b. 1925
Arthur Mensch
b. 1992
Athalya Brenner
b. 1943
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
b. 1955
Ben Harris
b. 1977
Berenice Abbott
1898 – 1991
Britta Böhler
b. 1960
Calvin Zippin
b. 1926
Cecilia Noguez
b. 1966
Charles Richard-Hamelin
b. 1989
Chiau Wen-Yan
b. 1953
Corrado Clini
b. 1947
Cory Doctorow
b. 1971
Count Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen
1806 – 1899
Dorothy Runk Mennen
1915 – 2011
Elbert Tuttle
1897 – 1996
Elbridge Gerry
1744 – 1814
Eleanor Hadley
1916 – 2007
Elmira Süleymanova
1937 – 2024
Enikő Győri
b. 1968
Frans Oort
b. 1935
François Hartog
b. 1946
Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann
1883 – 1973
Friedrich Christian Baumeister
1709 – 1785
Friedrich Stadler
b. 1951
Gerrit Blaauw
1924 – 2018
Giannalberto Bendazzi
1946 – 2021
Giuseppe Mifsud Bonnici
1930 – 2019
Gladys Reichard
1893 – 1955
Hakan Fidan
b. 1968
Halina Wawzyniak
b. 1973
Hartmut Bagger
1938 – 2024
Henk Bos
1940 – 2024
Hermann Sasse
1895 – 1976
Hubert Rance
1898 – 1974
Hélène Esnault
b. 1953
Ilmari Salomies
1893 – 1973
Ilya Mashkov
1881 – 1944
Ivan Aivazovsky
1817 – 1900
Jack Beale
1917 – 2006
James Coyne
1910 – 2012
James L. Powell
b. 1936
James Purdy
1914 – 2009
Janne Jaakkola
b. 1967
Jerrier A. Haddad
1922 – 2017
Johann Georg von Lori
1723 – 1787
John McKim
1852 – 1936
John Muellbauer
b. 1944
John R. Quinn
1889 – 1979
John Salmond
1881 – 1968
Johnny Briceño
b. 1960
Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns
b. 1947
Julian Zachariewicz
1837 – 1898
Julie Bishop
b. 1956
Kamil Krofta
1876 – 1945
Kenan Evren
1917 – 2015
Knut Fægri
1909 – 2001
Konstantinos Tasoulas
b. 1959
Leila Djansi
b. 1981
Leopoldo Cintra Frías
b. 1941
Linda Eastman
1867 – 1963
Lucio Tan
b. 1934
Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský
1870 – 1931
Marie Luise Neunecker
b. 1955
Marko Liias
b. 1981
Mary Lightbody
b. 1952
Mati Õun
1942 – 2024
Maxim Litvinov
1876 – 1951
Michio Takeyama
1903 – 1984
Milán Füst
1888 – 1967
Mohammad Natsir
1908 – 1993
Nargiz Absalamova
b. 1998
Paul Delaroche
1797 – 1856
Paul Stamets
b. 1955
Pavlo Muravskyi
1914 – 2014
Pavlo Petrenko
b. 1979
Queen Camilla
b. 1947
Rafael Jordana
b. 1941
Ragna Nielsen
1845 – 1924
Riad Salameh
b. 1950
Robert Nixon
b. 1928
Robert V. Remini
1921 – 2013
Roger Goldsworthy
1929 – 2025
Rosa Gumataotao Rios
b. 1965
Ruth Kellerhals
b. 1957
Satoshi Ōie
b. 1967
Scott Decker
b. 1950
Sergei Godunov
1929 – 2023
Serhiy Lyovochkin
b. 1972
Shabtai Shavit
1939 – 2023
Shigeo Yamada
b. 1964
Sten Tolgfors
b. 1966
Stephen Jackson
b. 1962
Sunil Lanba
b. 1957
Suzanne Moore
b. 1958
Takashi Shinohara
b. 1948
Tamara Hundorova
b. 1955
Terence Tao
b. 1975
Tetsurō Tamba
1922 – 2006
Timothy Pickering
1745 – 1829
Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes
1927 – 2024
Varvara Massalitinova
1878 – 1945
Vince Guaraldi
1928 – 1976
Vincent Browne
b. 1944
Volodymyr Makeienko
b. 1965
Walter von Keudell
1884 – 1973
Wendy Freedman
b. 1957
Wilhelm Gottlob Tilesius von Tilenau
1769 – 1857
William T. Williams
b. 1942
Wojciech Kilar
1932 – 2013
Wong Kar-wai
b. 1958
Yang Gui-ja
b. 1955
Yang Jiang
1911 – 2016
Yukio Aoshima
1932 – 2006
Zbigniew Zamachowski
b. 1961
Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan
b. 1953
Şemsettin Günaltay
1883 – 1961
Aarne Ruben
b. 1971
Ababiku Jesca
b. 1975
Abdel Hafiz Nofal
b. 1951
Abraham Laboriel
b. 1947
Ajahn Khemadhammo
b. 1944
Akbar Ayub Khan
b. 1971
Albert Béguin
1901 – 1957
Albert E. Schwab
1920 – 1945
Albrecht Schöne
1925 – 2025
Alejo Santos
1911 – 1984
Alexander Crombie
1762 – 1840
Alexander Macdonell
1762 – 1840
Alexander Savinov
1881 – 1942
Alexander, Crown Prince of Serbia
b. 1945
Alexandre de Gusmão
1695 – 1753
Alexius Meinong
1853 – 1920
Alfonso Gatto
1909 – 1976
Alfred Barnes
1887 – 1974
Alfred D. Barksdale
1892 – 1972
Alfred Gautier
1793 – 1881
Alfredo Mantica
b. 1943
Ama Tutu Muna
b. 1960
Ana Lucía Reis
b. 1970
Ana Lya Uriarte
b. 1962
Ana Oramas
b. 1959
Anacleto Cordeiro Gonçalves de Oliveira
1946 – 2020
Andrea Gmür-Schönenberger
b. 1964
Andrei Belyakov
b. 1976
Andrew Robathan
b. 1951
Angelika Overath
b. 1957
Anjolie Ela Menon
b. 1940
Anna Górska
b. 1980
Anthony Blackwall
1672 – 1730
Anthony McGill
b. 1979
Antoine de Créqui Canaples
1531 – 1574
Antonieta de Barros
1901 – 1952
Antonin Theodor Hrabe Colloredo-Waldsee
1729 – 1811
… and 3,856 more
Died on July 17
Henri Poincaré
1854 – 1912
Adolf Yushkevich
1906 – 1993
Boris Delaunay
1890 – 1980
Charles Graves
1812 – 1899
Claudine Hermann
1945 – 2021
Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri
1932 – 2020
Edward Janczewski
1846 – 1918
Eleonora Vinogradova
1931 – 2003
George Low
1926 – 1984
Gina Lagorio
1922 – 2005
Herbert S. Eleuterio
1927 – 2022
Hideki Sakurai
1931 – 2024
I. G. Patel
1924 – 2005
Indulal Yagnik
1892 – 1972
Meir Amit
1921 – 2009
Nonce Paolini
1949 – 2024
Peter Ulrik Magnus Hount
1769 – 1815
Richard Lynn
1930 – 2023
Robert C. Weaver
1907 – 1997
Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset
1587 – 1645
Ron Tauranac
1925 – 2020
Thomas Oldham
1816 – 1878
William Erskine
1871 – 1952
Władysław Leopold Jaworski
1865 – 1930
Zenon Grocholewski
1939 – 2020
Alan Mansfield
1902 – 1980
Albert Eide Parr
1900 – 1991
Alex Steinweiss
1917 – 2011
Alexander Muddiman
1875 – 1928
Alfred Rawlinson
1884 – 1960
Andrzej Strzelecki
1952 – 2020
Antoine-Jean Saint-Martin
1791 – 1832
Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar
1887 – 1976
Avraham Trahtman
1944 – 2024
Bill Birch
1934 – 2026
Bratko Kreft
1905 – 1996
Charles Gonthier
1928 – 2009
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
1764 – 1845
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle
1818 – 1894
Daniel Juslenius
1676 – 1752
Dirk Donker Curtius
1792 – 1864
Draža Mihailović
1893 – 1946
Edith Standen
1905 – 1998
Edward Heath
1916 – 2005
Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset
1591 – 1652
Emajuddin Ahamed
1933 – 2020
Eugene Botkin
1865 – 1918
Eugène Fichot
1867 – 1939
Federico Halbherr
1857 – 1930
Fedor Samokhin
1918 – 1992
Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham
1797 – 1876
Frank B. Wynn
1859 – 1922
Frederick Booth-Tucker
1853 – 1929
Fyodor Kulakov
1918 – 1978
Georg Prochaska
1749 – 1820
Georg Wenker
1852 – 1911
George E. Leach
1876 – 1955
George Rickey
1907 – 2002
Georges Henein
1914 – 1973
Georgs Andrejevs
1932 – 2022
Geraldine Fitzgerald
1913 – 2005
Gerhard Bigalk
1908 – 1942
Giovanni Giolitti
1842 – 1928
Gisle Johnson
1822 – 1894
Giuseppe Veronese
1854 – 1917
Graham Vick
1953 – 2021
Greer Twiss
1937 – 2025
Heinrich Rubens
1865 – 1922
Henry Hartsfield
1933 – 2014
Henry Maier
1918 – 1994
Izabella Bashmakova
1921 – 2005
Jakob Karl Ernst Halm
1866 – 1944
James Lighthill
1924 – 1998
Jane Haining
1897 – 1944
Javier Moscoso
1934 – 2025
Jean Borotra
1898 – 1994
Jean-François Mertens
1946 – 2012
Johann II Bernoulli
1710 – 1790
John Coltrane
1926 – 1967
John H. Gibbons
1929 – 2015
John Lewis
1940 – 2020
John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor
1606 – 1685
John Strathearn Hendrie
1857 – 1923
Josef Hyrtl
1810 – 1894
Joseph Luns
1911 – 2002
Leszek Kołakowski
1927 – 2009
Lincoln Pierson Brower
1931 – 2018
Louis Harry Newburgh
1883 – 1956
Lovis Corinth
1858 – 1925
Mikhail Yanshin
1902 – 1976
Morris
1923 – 2001
Nicolae Paulescu
1869 – 1932
Nikaidō Tokuyo
1880 – 1941
Otto Piene
1928 – 2014
Owen W. Siler
1922 – 2007
Patrick Duncan
1870 – 1943
Patrick Whitehouse
1922 – 1993
Raimund Hagelberg
1927 – 2012
Raoul Wallenberg
1912 – 1947
Reg Turnbull
1908 – 2006
René de La Croix de Castries
1908 – 1986
Robert E. Smylie
1914 – 2004
Rosa Regàs
1933 – 2024
Sara Ashurbeyli
1906 – 2001
Shūōshi Mizuhara
1892 – 1981
Stefan Pasławski
1885 – 1956
Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana
1908 – 1994
Thomas McIlwraith
1835 – 1900
Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius
1882 – 1954
Vladimir Barmin
1909 – 1993
Willem Frederik Rochussen
1832 – 1912
Willem Witteveen
1952 – 2014
William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan
1675 – 1726
William Fraser
1840 – 1923
William Paton Ker
1855 – 1923
William Raspberry
1935 – 2012
William Turner
1510 – 1568
Adjutor Rivard
1868 – 1945
Agnes Geijer
1898 – 1989
Agostino Lo Piano Pomar
1871 – 1927
Alan Bergman
1925 – 2025
Alan Parkes
1900 – 1990
Aleardo Aleardi
1812 – 1878
Aleksandr Milchakov
1903 – 1973
Aleksandr Starovoitov
1940 – 2021
Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
1872 – 1918
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
1904 – 1918
Andrea Camilleri
1925 – 2019
Andreas Thiel
1826 – 1908
Annie Furuhjelm
1859 – 1937
Antenor Orrego
1892 – 1960
Anthony Follett Pugsley
1901 – 1990
Anton Hykisch
1932 – 2024
Archibald Day
1899 – 1970
Arthur Raymond Brooks
1895 – 1991
Arvi Altmäe
1942 – 2026
Bart Burns
1918 – 2007
Bartolomé de las Casas
1474 – 1566
Belisario Salinas
1833 – 1893
Bernard Giraudeau
1947 – 2010
Betty Clements
1918 – 1965
Billie D. Harris
1922 – 1944
Birgitte Price
1934 – 1997
Boris Babochkin
1904 – 1975
Branislav Belić
1932 – 2016
Bruiser Brody
1946 – 1988
C. T. Vivian
1924 – 2020
Camillo Corsi
1860 – 1921
Carl Gehrts
1853 – 1898
Carl Sherman
1891 – 1956
Carlos Pellegrini
1846 – 1906
Charles Cochon de Lapparent
1750 – 1825
Charles E. Courtney
1849 – 1920
Charles F. Pendleton
1931 – 1953
Charles Herbert Garvin
1890 – 1968
Charles Plisnier
1896 – 1952
Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin
1691 – 1744
Chester W. Taylor
1883 – 1931
Cihangir Berker
1894 – 1958
Clare Fell
1912 – 2002
Clarence Bicknell
1842 – 1918
Clément Schertzinger
1936 – 2026
Cornelius Roosevelt
1794 – 1871
Daniel Butterfield
1831 – 1901
Daniel Renoult
1880 – 1958
David Malyan
1904 – 1976
Dominick V. Daniels
1908 – 1987
Dorinda Neligan
1833 – 1914
Dragomir Jovanović
1902 – 1946
Duncan Lawrence Groner
1873 – 1957
Edgar Gott
1887 – 1947
Edgar S. Furniss
1890 – 1972
Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke
1828 – 1897
Edward Eugene Willey, Sr.
1910 – 1986
Edward Harris
1808 – 1888
Elaine Stritch
1925 – 2014
Emilio Aguirre
1914 – 1995
Emilios Riadis
1880 – 1935
Emin Onat
1908 – 1961
Engelbert Mühlbacher
1843 – 1903
Ephraim Evron
1920 – 1995
Eugene Meyer
1875 – 1959
Evangeline Booth
1865 – 1950
François Bruhat
1929 – 2007
Fred L. Warner
1877 – 1942
Fyodor Nikitin
1900 – 1988
Gabriel Antonio Camilo González
1938 – 2026
Gabriel Pierné
1863 – 1937
Geoff Chinchen
1915 – 2005
Geoffrey Jellicoe
1900 – 1996
Georg Fabricius
1516 – 1571
George Barclay
1920 – 1942
George Corbin Washington
1789 – 1854
George Darvel Hill
1938 – 2017
George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton
1761 – 1827
George M. O'Brien
1917 – 1986
Georges Condominas
1921 – 2011
Georgiy Shevel
1919 – 1989
Gerald Smyth
1885 – 1920
Gilbert Bettman
1881 – 1942
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