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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 17th of July 0180 | EVENT | Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. |
| 17th of July 1203 | EVENT | The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile. |
| 17th of July 1402 | EVENT | Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming Dynasty of China. |
| 17th of July 1453 | EVENT | Hundred Years' War: Battle of Castillon: The French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony. |
| 17th of July 1586 | EVENT | A meeting takes place at Luneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League. |
| 17th of July 1717 | EVENT | King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered. |
| 17th of July 1762 | EVENT | Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia. |
| 17th of July 1771 | EVENT | Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, travelling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit. |
| 17th of July 1791 | EVENT | Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people. |
| 17th of July 1794 | EVENT | The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. |
| 17th of July 1856 | EVENT | The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania kills over 60 people. |
| 17th of July 1867 | EVENT | Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston. It was the first dental school in the U.S. |
| 17th of July 1899 | EVENT | NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital. |
| 17th of July 1917 | EVENT | King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor. |
| 17th of July 1918 | EVENT | On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia. |
| 17th of July 1918 | EVENT | The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost. |
| 17th of July 1933 | EVENT | After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances. |
| 17th of July 1936 | EVENT | Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war. |
| 17th of July 1938 | EVENT | Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. |
| 17th of July 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad commences in modern-day Volgograd. |
| 17th of July 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lo, France. |
| 17th of July 1944 | EVENT | Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320. |
| 17th of July 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Potsdam Conference : at Potsdam, U.S. President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the three main Allied leaders, begin their final summit of the war. The meeting would end on August 2. |
| 17th of July 1948 | EVENT | The South Korean constitution is proclaimed. |
| 17th of July 1955 | EVENT | Disneyland hosts a televised "International Press Preview" the day before the park's official opening in Anaheim, California. |
| 17th of July 1962 | EVENT | Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site. |
| 17th of July 1968 | EVENT | A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President. |
| 17th of July 1973 | EVENT | King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery. |
| 17th of July 1975 | EVENT | Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. |
| 17th of July 1976 | EVENT | History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia. |
| 17th of July 1976 | EVENT | The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team. |
| 17th of July 1979 | EVENT | Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida. |
| 17th of July 1981 | EVENT | A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200. |
| 17th of July 1981 | EVENT | The opening of the Humber Bridge by HM The Queen in England. |
| 17th of July 1989 | EVENT | First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. |
| 17th of July 1996 | EVENT | TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board. |
| 17th of July 1997 | EVENT | The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business. |
| 17th of July 1998 | EVENT | A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crime against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. |
| 17th of July 1998 | EVENT | Papua New Guinea earthquake: A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless. |
| 17th of July 2007 | EVENT | TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aereas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in Sao Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths. |
| 17th of July 2007 | EVENT | Trans-Neptunian Object 2007 OR10 is discovered. |
| 17th of July 2009 | EVENT | Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners. |
| 17th of July 1487 | BIRTHDAY | Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524) |
| 17th of July 1674 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (d. 1748) |
| 17th of July 1698 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759) |
| 17th of July 1744 | BIRTHDAY | Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States (d. 1814) |
| 17th of July 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826) |
| 17th of July 1763 | BIRTHDAY | John Jacob Astor, American businessman (d. 1848) |
| 17th of July 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856) |
| 17th of July 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861) |
| 17th of July 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916) |
| 17th of July 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher (d. 1920) |
| 17th of July 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Nathansen, Danish writer and stage director (d. 1944) |
| 17th of July 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Davidson Dunbar, British military piper (d. 1939) |
| 17th of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Milan Fust, Hungarian writer, (d. 1967) |
| 17th of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970) |
| 17th of July 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (Perry Mason) (d. 1970) |
| 17th of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (d. 1985) |
| 17th of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Berenice Abbott, American photographer (d. 1991) |
| 17th of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999) |
| 17th of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 17th of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Dalio, French actor (d. 1983) |
| 17th of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American racecar driver and NART team owner (d. 1994) |
| 17th of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Jasienski, Polish poet (d. 1938) |
| 17th of July 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Stead, Australian novelist (d. 1983) |
| 17th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979) |
| 17th of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Art Linkletter, Canadian television host (d. 2010) |
| 17th of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Erwin Bauer, German racing driver (d. 1958) |
| 17th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997) |
| 17th of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (d. 2007) |
| 17th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980) |
| 17th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Boudreau, Major League baseball player and manager (d. 2001) |
| 17th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Phyllis Diller, American comedienne |
| 17th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003) |
| 17th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish chairman of the International Olympic Committee (d. 2010) |
| 17th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sports commentator (d. 2002) |
| 17th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005) |
| 17th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Lachenal, French alpinist, one of the first two mountaineers to climb a summit of more than 8,000 meters.(d. 1955) |
| 17th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Frantisek Zvarik, Slovakian actor |
| 17th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | John Cooper, English race car designer (d. 2000) |
| 17th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Scott, American jazz singer |
| 17th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Edouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler |
| 17th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer |
| 17th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976) |
| 17th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician |
| 17th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny "Red" Kerr, American basketball player, coach, and longtime Chicago Bulls color commentator (d. 2009) |
| 17th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Riney, American advertising executive (d. 2008) |
| 17th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Pithey, South African Cricketer (d. 2006) |
| 17th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Diahann Carroll, American actor |
| 17th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Schickele, American author, composer and radio host |
| 17th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor |
| 17th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Andree Champagne, French Canadian actress and politician |
| 17th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran |
| 17th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer Davis, British singer and guitarist (Spencer Davis Group) |
| 17th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian |
| 17th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Daryle Lamonica, American football player |
| 17th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Achim Warmbold, German rally driver |
| 17th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Taylor, English Cricketer |
| 17th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Gale Garnett, Canadian singer |
| 17th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Don Kessinger, American baseball player |
| 17th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Hawkins, American basketball player |
| 17th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Sissons, British newsreader |
| 17th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Schell, Hungarian born British actress |
| 17th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Burgess, New Zealand Cricketer |
| 17th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Alberto, Brazilian football player |
| 17th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia |
| 17th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Alun Armstrong, English actor |
| 17th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Flur, German musician (Kraftwerk) |
| 17th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall |
| 17th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Asheton, American musician and composer (Iggy Pop & The Stooges) (d. 2009) |
| 17th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director |
| 17th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Gangelhoff, American whistleblower (d. 2005) |
| 17th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Steiner, American sports broadcaster |
| 17th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Terence "Geezer" Butler, British musician and lyricist (Black Sabbath) |
| 17th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | P.J. Soles, German-born American actress |
| 17th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Derek de Lint, Dutch actor |
| 17th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Lucie Arnaz, American actress |
| 17th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | David Hasselhoff, American actor and musician |
| 17th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolette Larson, American singer (d. 1997) |
| 17th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | J. Michael Straczynski, American author |
| 17th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany |
| 17th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist |
| 17th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Chappell, Canadian Cricketer |
| 17th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Romanus, American actor |
| 17th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Trottier, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Fern Britton, British television presenter |
| 17th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director |
| 17th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Dawn Upshaw, American soprano |
| 17th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Barnett, English cricketer |
| 17th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Burnett, English-born television producer |
| 17th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor |
| 17th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Giles, American actress |
| 17th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Wouters, Dutch football player and manager |
| 17th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Pienaar, South African cricketer |
| 17th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Potts, Canadian actor |
| 17th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Sage, American actor |
| 17th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Regina Belle, Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter |
| 17th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Letsie III, King of Lesotho |
| 17th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Matti Nykanen, Finnish ski jumper |
| 17th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | John Ventimiglia, American actor |
| 17th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Morgan, American singer |
| 17th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Winter, English film director |
| 17th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Santiago Segura, Spanish film director and actor |
| 17th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician |
| 17th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Guru, American rapper (Gang Starr) (d. 2010) |
| 17th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Barlow, American alternative rock singer and musician (Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh) |
| 17th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Ashton, Christian singer |
| 17th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Bitty Schram, American actress |
| 17th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Royo, American actor |
| 17th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Beth Littleford, American comedian |
| 17th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Johnson (cartoonist), American Cartoonist |
| 17th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | F. Gary Gray, American music video director |
| 17th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mandy Smith, English model and singer |
| 17th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist |
| 17th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist |
| 17th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player |
| 17th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer |
| 17th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Rullo, American drummer (Symphony X, Redemption) |
| 17th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Williams, American basketball player |
| 17th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Donny Marshall, American basketball player |
| 17th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer |
| 17th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Moulds, American football player |
| 17th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian and actor |
| 17th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician |
| 17th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Darude, Finnish trance DJ |
| 17th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Cecile de France, Belgian actress |
| 17th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Anaya, Spanish actress |
| 17th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Konnie Huq, English television presenter |
| 17th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hinojos, American guitarist (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta) |
| 17th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Adams, New Zealand Cricketer |
| 17th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Terence Tao, Australian-Chinese mathematician |
| 17th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Winter, American actor |
| 17th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Holmes, Australian actor |
| 17th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress |
| 17th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Bryan, American musician |
| 17th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Gino D'Acampo, Italian celebrity chef |
| 17th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tiffany Taylor, American model |
| 17th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player |
| 17th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Leif Hoste, Belgian cyclist |
| 17th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer |
| 17th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist |
| 17th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler |
| 17th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Lennox, American musician |
| 17th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Katharine Towne, American actress |
| 17th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Emilie Simon, French singer |
| 17th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Vogel, American actor |
| 17th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Miller, American hockey player |
| 17th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Camunas, Spanish footballer |
| 17th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Elpida Romantzi, Greek archer |
| 17th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Hely Ollarves, Venezuelan track and field athlete |
| 17th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten) |
| 17th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Omari Banks, West Indian Cricketer |
| 17th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Guettler, professional Australian BMX rider |
| 17th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Kinsella, British actress |
| 17th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Lind, American baseball player |
| 17th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Jones, American actress |
| 17th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jessi Cruickshank, Canadian television presenter |
| 17th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer |
| 17th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Asami Kimura, Japanese singer (Country Musume) |
| 17th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer |
| 17th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly) |
| 17th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | DeAngelo Smith, American football player |
| 17th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX) |
| 17th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Darius Boyd, Australian rugby player |
| 17th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremih Felton, R&B singer |
| 17th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Charouz, Czech racing driver |
| 17th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Summer Bishil, American actress |
| 17th of July 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Juan Froilan de Marichalar y de Borbon, Spanish royal |
| 17th of July 0521 | DEATH | Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (Born 474) |
| 17th of July 0656 | DEATH | Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated. |
| 17th of July 0924 | DEATH | King Edward the Elder of England |
| 17th of July 1070 | DEATH | Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (Born 1030) |
| 17th of July 1453 | DEATH | John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader |
| 17th of July 1453 | DEATH | Dmitry Shemyaka, Grand Prince of Moscow 1445, 1446-1447, poisoned in Veliky Novgorod by Vasily Tyomny's agents |
| 17th of July 1531 | DEATH | Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (Born 1484) |
| 17th of July 1566 | DEATH | Bartolome de Las Casas, Spanish priest (Born 1484) |
| 17th of July 1571 | DEATH | Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (Born 1516) |
| 17th of July 1588 | DEATH | Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect (Born 1489) |
| 17th of July 1645 | DEATH | Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician |
| 17th of July 1704 | DEATH | Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer |
| 17th of July 1709 | DEATH | Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (Born 1646) |
| 17th of July 1790 | DEATH | Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (Born 1723) |
| 17th of July 1791 | DEATH | Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (Born 1717) |
| 17th of July 1793 | DEATH | Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (Born 1768) |
| 17th of July 1794 | DEATH | John Roebuck, British inventor (Born 1718) |
| 17th of July 1845 | DEATH | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1764) |
| 17th of July 1878 | DEATH | Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (Born 1812) |
| 17th of July 1879 | DEATH | Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (Born 1856) |
| 17th of July 1881 | DEATH | Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (Born 1804) |
| 17th of July 1885 | DEATH | Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (Born 1811) |
| 17th of July 1887 | DEATH | Dorothea Dix, American social activist (Born 1802) |
| 17th of July 1893 | DEATH | Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (Born 1833) |
| 17th of July 1894 | DEATH | Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (Born 1810) |
| 17th of July 1894 | DEATH | Charles-Marie-Rene Leconte de Lisle, French poet (Born 1818) |
| 17th of July 1907 | DEATH | Hector Malot, French writer (Born 1830) |
| 17th of July 1912 | DEATH | Henri Poincare, French mathematician (Born 1854) |
| 17th of July 1918 | DEATH | Family of Emperor Nicholas II Alexandrovich (Born 1868) |