On This Day — September 17
4242 noted people were born and 1867 died on September 17 in our archive, including Sergey Petrovich Botkin, Trofim Lysenko and Aftab Seth.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on September 17
Sergey Petrovich Botkin
1832 – 1889
Trofim Lysenko
1898 – 1976
Aftab Seth
b. 1943
Alan B. Krueger
1960 – 2019
Anton Alikhanov
b. 1986
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
1947 – 2022
Bernice Donald
b. 1951
Bruno Messerli
1931 – 2019
Catherine O’Regan
b. 1957
Chuck Grassley
b. 1933
David Neo
b. 1977
Donald Acheson
1926 – 2010
Donald Currie
1825 – 1909
Frank Dawson Adams
1859 – 1942
Gerald Guralnik
1936 – 2014
Gilbert Kaenel
1949 – 2020
Hans Freudenthal
1905 – 1990
Hans Reese
1891 – 1973
Jan Eliasson
b. 1940
Jean Taylor
b. 1944
John Garland
1862 – 1921
John W. Fitzpatrick
b. 1951
John von Doussa
b. 1940
Jorge Illueca
1918 – 2012
Jürgen Kuczynski
1904 – 1997
K. S. Manilal
1938 – 2025
Klaus Schütz
1926 – 2012
Konstantin Kosachev
b. 1962
Lale Akgün
b. 1953
Lars Findsen
b. 1964
Laurence Engel
b. 1966
Luís Amado
b. 1953
Marshall Hall
1910 – 1990
Neil Wigan
b. 1970
Peter Christian Frølich
b. 1987
Peter Ladefoged
1925 – 2006
Predrag Keros
1933 – 2018
Rob Wainwright
b. 1967
Serge Klarsfeld
b. 1935
Shirley M. Tilghman
b. 1946
Thomas P. Stafford
1930 – 2024
Trevor Wooley
b. 1964
Valentin Stepankov
b. 1951
William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart
1755 – 1843
William Elliot Griffis
1843 – 1928
William Penn Cresson
1873 – 1932
Yasodara Córdova
b. 1980
Yoko Komiyama
b. 1948
Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez
1915 – 2011
Agostinho Neto
1922 – 1979
Alec Broers, Baron Broers
b. 1938
Alexey Vikhlinin
b. 1970
Alfonso Sánchez-Tabernero
b. 1961
Almazbek Atambaev
b. 1956
Andrej Ivaniec
b. 1984
Andrew Page
b. 1965
Andris Piebalgs
b. 1957
Andy Reed
b. 1964
Angelo Comastri
b. 1943
Anthony Zinni
b. 1943
Ariel Armony
b. 1961
Asyljan Mamytbekov
b. 1968
Avshalom Kor
b. 1950
Azatbek Omurbekov
b. 1983
Beatriz Álvarez Sanna
b. 1968
Benjamin Abbot
1762 – 1849
Bernard Revel
1885 – 1940
Bernhard Petri
1884 – 1937
Bernhard Riemann
1826 – 1866
Carl Brockelmann
1868 – 1956
Chaim Herzog
1918 – 1997
Charles J. Krebs
b. 1936
Charles Reid Barnes
1858 – 1910
Colville Adrian de Rune Barclay
1869 – 1929
Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger
1803 – 1863
D. J. Wimalasurendra
1874 – 1953
Dan J. Stein
1962 – 2025
David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley
b. 1929
David Oistrakh
1908 – 1974
David Souter
1939 – 2025
Deena Metzger
b. 1936
Dimo Kazasov
1886 – 1980
Ed Chau
b. 1961
Edgar Mitchell
1930 – 2016
Edmond Buat
1868 – 1923
Edward George Smith
1961 – 2023
Edward Parmelee Morris
1853 – 1938
Eleonora Meleti
b. 1978
Ellie Lust
b. 1966
Feng Zhi
1905 – 1993
Flavio Delbono
b. 1959
Florentin Crihălmeanu
1959 – 2021
Francesco Merloni
1925 – 2024
František Hrubín
1910 – 1971
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
1730 – 1794
Friedrich von Müller
1858 – 1941
Fátima Bernardes
b. 1962
Gabriella Coleman
b. 1973
Georg Christian Knapp
1753 – 1825
George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle
1773 – 1848
Georges Weill
1882 – 1970
Gerd Tellenbach
1903 – 1999
Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida
1859 – 1920
Grete Mostny
1914 – 1991
Guerra Junqueiro
1850 – 1923
Guillaume Côté
b. 1981
Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne
1806 – 1875
Günther Fielmann
1939 – 2024
Hendrik Andriessen
1892 – 1981
Hermann Bausinger
1926 – 2021
Héctor Gros Espiell
1926 – 2009
Indarjit Singh
b. 1932
Ingrid Simler
b. 1963
Isang Yun
1917 – 1995
Ishimoto Mishio
1893 – 1940
Israel Hwasser
1790 – 1860
Ivan Zabelin
1820 – 1908
Jaan Luik
b. 1953
Jack Stewart-Clark
1929 – 2026
Jalal Allakhverdiyev
1929 – 2017
James Alexander Calder
1868 – 1956
James B. Rhoads
1928 – 2015
James Bracey
b. 1984
James Timpson
b. 1971
Jan Hron
b. 1941
Janez Janša
b. 1958
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
1743 – 1794
Jean-Marie Lustiger
1926 – 2007
Jiřina Šejbalová
1905 – 1981
John Finch, 1st Baron Finch
1584 – 1660
John Hawkins Hagarty
1816 – 1900
John McMillan
b. 1949
Joseph D. Pistone
b. 1939
Joseph-Albert Deport
1846 – 1926
Juan Pablo Colmenarejo
1967 – 2022
János Kis
b. 1943
Jānis Kalnbērziņš
1893 – 1986
Kamil Zvelebil
1927 – 2009
Kari Häkämies
b. 1956
Karl Stoerk
1832 – 1899
Karl von Abel
1788 – 1859
Kim Han-gil
b. 1953
Koken Nosaka
1924 – 2004
Kuno Lorenz
b. 1932
Kálmán Faluba
b. 1941
Larry McCarthy
b. 1954
Leo Stanton Rowe
1871 – 1946
Liu Yudi
1923 – 2015
Loizza Aquino
b. 1999
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
1825 – 1893
Luke Gosling
b. 1971
M. F. Husain
1915 – 2011
Mandawuy Yunupingu
1956 – 2013
Marion Guillou
b. 1954
Mark Osborne
b. 1970
Mary Burnett Talbert
1866 – 1923
Mary Helen Johnston
b. 1945
María López Sández
b. 1973
Michael Jack
b. 1946
Michael Sipser
b. 1954
Michiyo Tsujimura
1888 – 1969
Milan Šášik
1952 – 2020
Miroslav Tyrš
1832 – 1884
Moses Gaster
1856 – 1939
Muhammad Alhamid
b. 1971
Nadezhda Grigoryevna Grekova
1910 – 2001
Nadia Fettah Alaoui
b. 1971
Naguib Gohar
1944 – 2015
Nancy Reid
b. 1952
Naomi Datta
1922 – 2008
Nuru Bayramov
b. 1963
Ottokar Lorenz
1832 – 1904
Pamela Melroy
b. 1961
Pedro Morenés
b. 1948
Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort
1814 – 1892
Praski Vitti
1936 – 2026
R. Jay GaBany
b. 1954
Ramdas Pai
b. 1935
Richard Wiseman
b. 1966
Robert B. Parker
1932 – 2010
Roger H. Zion
1921 – 2019
Sean B. Carroll
b. 1960
Siarhiej Dubaviec
b. 1959
Sitakant Mahapatra
b. 1937
Soledad Alvear
b. 1950
Steve Scully
b. 1960
Tamsin Ford
b. 1966
Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska
b. 1942
Tessa Jowell
1947 – 2018
Timothy Torlot
b. 1957
Uzeyir Hajibeyov
1885 – 1948
Vail M. Pittman
1883 – 1964
Vatche Hovsepian
1925 – 1978
Victoria Donda
b. 1979
Viktor Savchenko
b. 1952
Virgilio Barco Vargas
1921 – 1997
Vladimir Gudev
1940 – 2022
Vladimir Menshov
1939 – 2021
Waldemar Andzel
b. 1971
Warren E. Burger
1907 – 1995
… and 4,042 more
Died on September 17
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
1748 – 1836
Henry Louis Le Châtelier
1850 – 1936
Henryk Łubieński
1793 – 1883
Roger Jean Heim
1900 – 1979
Anatoly Koni
1844 – 1927
Charles Bayet
1849 – 1918
Cokie Roberts
1943 – 2019
Giorgi Ghonghadze
1969 – 2000
Hugo Kaho
1885 – 1964
Joseph-Ernest Grégoire
1886 – 1980
Luboš Perek
1919 – 2020
Maarten Schmidt
1929 – 2022
Martí de Riquer i Morera
1914 – 2013
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
1968 – 2024
Motono Ichirō
1862 – 1918
Nikolai Kondratiev
1892 – 1938
Oskar Halecki
1891 – 1973
Otto Ruff
1871 – 1939
Robert Truax
1917 – 2010
Roman Ivanychuk
1929 – 2016
Russell E. Train
1920 – 2012
Theodore Wilbur Anderson
1918 – 2016
Vadim Kuzmin
1937 – 2015
Viktor Vesnin
1882 – 1950
William Henry Perkin
1860 – 1929
Yūshi Uchimura
1897 – 1980
A. F. Garvie
1934 – 2024
Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa
1937 – 2021
Adnan Menderes
1899 – 1961
Akim Tamiroff
1899 – 1972
Alexander Cools
1941 – 2013
Alfred de Vigny
1797 – 1863
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
1925 – 1980
Antoine Léonard Thomas
1732 – 1785
August Sauer
1855 – 1926
Baruch Placzek
1834 – 1922
Bonnie Angelo
1924 – 2017
Brayton H. Ransom
1879 – 1925
Camillo Rondani
1808 – 1879
Cecilia Beaux
1855 – 1942
Charles Davies
1798 – 1876
Charles H. Fahy
1892 – 1979
Charles Robert Cockerell
1788 – 1863
Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke
1799 – 1873
China Zorrilla
1922 – 2014
Clorinda Málaga de Prado
1905 – 1993
Cruz Martínez Esteruelas
1932 – 2000
Daniel N. Robinson
1937 – 2018
Dorothy C. Stratton
1899 – 2006
Eduard Spranger
1882 – 1963
Eiji Toyoda
1913 – 2013
Eraclio Zepeda
1937 – 2015
Eugenio Garza Sada
1892 – 1973
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
1814 – 1879
Felipe Herrera
1922 – 1996
Ferenc Polikárp Zakar
1930 – 2012
Fred Polak
1907 – 1985
Fridtjov Søiland Birkeli
1906 – 1983
Gerard J. Foschini
1940 – 2023
Giovanni Faber
1574 – 1629
Gottfried Christoph Beireis
1730 – 1809
Hans-Christoph Seebohm
1903 – 1967
Harry L. Hollingworth
1880 – 1956
Henrik Ameln
1879 – 1961
Henry Angus
1891 – 1991
Hidejirō Nagata
1876 – 1943
Humberto Sousa Medeiros
1915 – 1983
Igor Maslennikov
1931 – 2022
Jaime Eyzaguirre
1908 – 1968
Jean-Bernard Tarbé de Vauxclairs
1767 – 1842
Jean-Robert Chouet
1642 – 1731
Jim Watt
1914 – 1988
Johann Georg Liebknecht
1679 – 1749
John Searle
1932 – 2025
Jon Skeie
1871 – 1951
Karl Popper
1902 – 1994
Leendert Ginjaar
1928 – 2003
Ludwig Schwarz
1822 – 1894
Marcel Héraud
1883 – 1960
Martin Schenck
1848 – 1918
Maud Slye
1869 – 1954
Merab Berdzenishvili
1929 – 2016
Miloslav Kabelac
1908 – 1979
Nunzio Nasi
1850 – 1935
Otto Donner
1835 – 1909
Philip, Prince of Eulenburg
1847 – 1921
Rathvon M. Tompkins
1912 – 1999
René Drucker Colín
1937 – 2017
Richard Hull
1907 – 1989
Richard Montgomery Field
1885 – 1961
Robert Bellarmine
1542 – 1621
Robert Hall, Baron Roberthall
1901 – 1988
Roger Wagner
1914 – 1992
Ruth Benedict
1887 – 1948
Spiro Agnew
1918 – 1996
Stepan Vasilyevich Voyevodsky
1805 – 1884
Tarzie Vittachi
1921 – 1993
Thanu Padmanabhan
1957 – 2021
Theobald Fischer
1846 – 1910
Vladimir Basov
1923 – 1987
Wataru Takeshita
1946 – 2021
Willard Fiske
1831 – 1904
William Henry Fox Talbot
1800 – 1877
Yitzhak Artzi
1920 – 2003
Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński
1822 – 1895
Édouard Mignan
1884 – 1969
Adolphe Joseph Hennebains
1862 – 1914
Alejandro Casona
1903 – 1965
Alexander Rives
1806 – 1885
Alexander Yuzhin
1857 – 1927
Alexandru Ioanițiu
1890 – 1941
Alfonso Sastre
1926 – 2021
Alfred Clarke Turnbull
1881 – 1962
Alfred Ernst
1875 – 1968
Alfred Reed
1921 – 2005
Alois Delug
1859 – 1930
Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth
1865 – 1955
Andriy Husin
1972 – 2014
André Sérot
1896 – 1948
Annette Michelson
1922 – 2018
Augustus Stephen Vogt
1861 – 1926
Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1579 – 1666
Axel Gyllenkrok
1664 – 1730
Barry Seal
1937 – 2025
Benjamin Bourne
1755 – 1808
Bernard Groethuysen
1880 – 1946
Bernie McGann
1937 – 2013
Charles Alfred Pillsbury
1842 – 1899
Charles Cecil Wyche
1885 – 1966
Charles Duncan McIver
1860 – 1906
Charles H. Percy
1919 – 2011
Charles Spearman
1863 – 1945
Charmian Carr
1942 – 2016
Christopher Steel
1903 – 1973
Cleveland A. Newton
1873 – 1945
Daniel Ermentrout
1837 – 1899
David Dubinsky
1892 – 1982
David Kipiani
1951 – 2001
David Willcocks
1919 – 2015
Dick Meagher
1866 – 1931
Dick O'Neal
1935 – 2013
Dwight Loomis
1821 – 1903
Edith Villiers
1841 – 1936
Eduard Sachau
1845 – 1930
Edward D. Re
1920 – 2006
Edward Ellice
1783 – 1863
Edward James Patten
1905 – 1994
Edward Telfair
1735 – 1807
Emil Ermatinger
1873 – 1953
Emile Pin
1921 – 2006
Ethel Cuff Black
1890 – 1977
Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps
1835 – 1857
Evgeny Shulepov
1958 – 2025
Feliciano Chiclana
1761 – 1826
Folke Bernadotte
1895 – 1948
Francelia Butler
1913 – 1998
Francis Blackburne
1782 – 1867
Francis E. Dorn
1911 – 1987
Frank H. Buck
1887 – 1942
Frankie Vaughan
1928 – 1999
František Nušl
1867 – 1951
Franz Spina
1868 – 1938
Fred M. Ahern
1884 – 1950
Fred Moore
1920 – 2017
Fred T. Sai
1924 – 2019
Frederick A. Tallmadge
1792 – 1869
Geoffrey Keyes
1888 – 1967
Georg Matthias Bose
1710 – 1761
George Alexander Hamilton
1802 – 1871
George Colley
1925 – 1983
George Cromwell
1860 – 1934
George Frederick Cameron
1854 – 1885
George Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield
1718 – 1772
George W. Robertson
1838 – 1906
Georges Pitoëff
1884 – 1939
Gustav Nezval
1907 – 1998
Hans Enoksen
1956 – 2025
Heinrich Hoeftmann
1851 – 1917
Henri de Schomberg
1575 – 1632
Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland
1526 – 1563
Herman Valentiner
1850 – 1913
Hester Burton
1913 – 2000
Hilde Güden
1917 – 1988
Hildegard of Bingen
1098 – 1179
Hugh Quincy Alexander
1911 – 1989
Ignaz Brüll
1846 – 1907
Inga Fischer-Hjalmars
1918 – 2008
Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu
1919 – 1989
Israel Guri
1893 – 1965
Jacob Thoomkuzhy
1930 – 2025
James DeLong Williamson
1849 – 1935
James Mercer
1916 – 1985
Jan P. Syse
1930 – 1997
Jarosław of Bogoria and Skotnik
1280 – 1376
Jatindranath Sengupta
1887 – 1954
Jean Badré
1913 – 2001
Jean-Marcel Jeanneney
1910 – 2010
Johann Euler
1734 – 1800
John A. Dramesi
1933 – 2017
John Croumbie Brown
1808 – 1895
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