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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 17th of September 1111 | EVENT | Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Froilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmirez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia". |
| 17th of September 1176 | EVENT | The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought. |
| 17th of September 1462 | EVENT | The Battle of Swiecino (also known as the Battle of Zarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War. |
| 17th of September 1577 | EVENT | The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots. |
| 17th of September 1630 | EVENT | The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded. |
| 17th of September 1631 | EVENT | Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War. |
| 17th of September 1683 | EVENT | Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa. |
| 17th of September 1776 | EVENT | The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain. |
| 17th of September 1778 | EVENT | The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians). |
| 17th of September 1787 | EVENT | The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 17th of September 1809 | EVENT | Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn. |
| 17th of September 1814 | EVENT | Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner". |
| 17th of September 1859 | EVENT | Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Emperor Norton I" of the United States. |
| 17th of September 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war. |
| 17th of September 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history. |
| 17th of September 1894 | EVENT | The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War. |
| 17th of September 1900 | EVENT | Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac. |
| 17th of September 1908 | EVENT | The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality. |
| 17th of September 1914 | EVENT | Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. |
| 17th of September 1916 | EVENT | World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkrafte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France. |
| 17th of September 1920 | EVENT | The National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States. |
| 17th of September 1924 | EVENT | The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits. |
| 17th of September 1928 | EVENT | The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. |
| 17th of September 1939 | EVENT | World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939. |
| 17th of September 1939 | EVENT | World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous. |
| 17th of September 1939 | EVENT | Taisto Maki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6 |
| 17th of September 1941 | EVENT | World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued |
| 17th of September 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis. |
| 17th of September 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden. |
| 17th of September 1947 | EVENT | James V. Forrestal is sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States. |
| 17th of September 1948 | EVENT | The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel. |
| 17th of September 1948 | EVENT | The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union. |
| 17th of September 1949 | EVENT | The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives. |
| 17th of September 1956 | EVENT | Television is first broadcast in Australia. |
| 17th of September 1957 | EVENT | Malaysia joins the United Nations. |
| 17th of September 1961 | EVENT | The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh. |
| 17th of September 1974 | EVENT | Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations. |
| 17th of September 1976 | EVENT | The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA. |
| 17th of September 1978 | EVENT | The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt. |
| 17th of September 1980 | EVENT | After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established. |
| 17th of September 1980 | EVENT | Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asuncion, Paraguay. |
| 17th of September 1983 | EVENT | Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America. |
| 17th of September 1991 | EVENT | Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations. |
| 17th of September 1991 | EVENT | The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. |
| 17th of September 1992 | EVENT | An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany. |
| 17th of September 1993 | EVENT | Last Russian troops leave Poland. |
| 17th of September 2001 | EVENT | The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 Attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression. |
| 17th of September 2006 | EVENT | Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years. |
| 17th of September 2007 | EVENT | AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York. |
| 17th of September 0879 | BIRTHDAY | King Charles III of France (d. 929) |
| 17th of September 1192 | BIRTHDAY | Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219) |
| 17th of September 1271 | BIRTHDAY | Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305) |
| 17th of September 1550 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Paul V (d. 1621) |
| 17th of September 1630 | BIRTHDAY | Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694) |
| 17th of September 1639 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725) |
| 17th of September 1657 | BIRTHDAY | Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704) |
| 17th of September 1677 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761) |
| 17th of September 1687 | BIRTHDAY | Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772) |
| 17th of September 1688 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714) |
| 17th of September 1730 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794) |
| 17th of September 1739 | BIRTHDAY | John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800) |
| 17th of September 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794) |
| 17th of September 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816) |
| 17th of September 1773 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Alder, American settler (d. 1849) |
| 17th of September 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889) |
| 17th of September 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866) |
| 17th of September 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Ira Davenport, American magician (d. 1911) |
| 17th of September 1854 | BIRTHDAY | David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d. 1929) |
| 17th of September 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935) |
| 17th of September 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Dawson Adams, Canadian geologist (d.1942) |
| 17th of September 1868 | BIRTHDAY | James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956) |
| 17th of September 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1938) |
| 17th of September 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930) |
| 17th of September 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian Social Reformer (d. 1973) |
| 17th of September 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955) |
| 17th of September 1883 | BIRTHDAY | William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963) |
| 17th of September 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920) |
| 17th of September 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972) |
| 17th of September 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965) |
| 17th of September 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980) |
| 17th of September 1900 | BIRTHDAY | John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985) |
| 17th of September 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972) |
| 17th of September 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966) |
| 17th of September 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984) |
| 17th of September 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Minanogawa Tozo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (d. 1971) |
| 17th of September 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar G. Ulmer, Austrian-American film director (d. 1972) |
| 17th of September 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist (d. 2010) |
| 17th of September 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995) |
| 17th of September 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian |
| 17th of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas J. Bata, Canadian shoemaker (Bata Shoes) (d. 2008) |
| 17th of September 1915 | BIRTHDAY | M. F. Husain, Indian painter |
| 17th of September 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Stewart, English novelist |
| 17th of September 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997) |
| 17th of September 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Dinah Sheridan, English actress |
| 17th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979) |
| 17th of September 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953) |
| 17th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | John List, American murderer (d. 2008) |
| 17th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007) |
| 17th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965) |
| 17th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | George Blanda, American football player |
| 17th of September 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998) |
| 17th of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver |
| 17th of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Crowley, American actress |
| 17th of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | David Huddleston, American actor |
| 17th of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist |
| 17th of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut |
| 17th of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Rohn, American business philosopher (d. 2009) |
| 17th of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Stafford, American astronaut |
| 17th of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Claude Carriere, French writer, screenwriter and actor |
| 17th of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005) |
| 17th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003) |
| 17th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Grassley, American politician |
| 17th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984) |
| 17th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969) |
| 17th of September 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001) |
| 17th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player |
| 17th of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player |
| 17th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
| 17th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Shelby Flint, American singer |
| 17th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat |
| 17th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (d. 2007) |
| 17th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (d. 2001) |
| 17th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005) |
| 17th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher |
| 17th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Des Lynam, English television presenter |
| 17th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Reinhold Messner, Italian mountaineer |
| 17th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | David Emerson, Canadian politician |
| 17th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bhakti Caru Swami, Indian spiritual leader |
| 17th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Jackson, American basketball player and NBA head coach |
| 17th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor |
| 17th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Bonds, English footballer |
| 17th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tessa Jowell, British politician |
| 17th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000) |
| 17th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 17th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Heister, Swedish politician |
| 17th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Fee Waybill, American musician (The Tubes) |
| 17th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Narendra Modi, Indian politician |
| 17th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Cassandra Peterson, American actress |
| 17th of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM |
| 17th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Joel-Francois Durand, French composer |
| 17th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Koralia Karanti, Greek actress |
| 17th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Martinet, American actor |
| 17th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Simpson, American golfer |
| 17th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher |
| 17th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Thad Bosley. American major league baseball player |
| 17th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Rita Rudner, American comedian |
| 17th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Richie Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) |
| 17th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Waddell, Scottish former Major League Baseball player |
| 17th of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor |
| 17th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Damon Hill, English race car driver and 1996 F1 world champion |
| 17th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Clash, American actor and puppeteer |
| 17th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | John Franco, American baseball player |
| 17th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Nives Meroi, Italian mountaineer |
| 17th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Cornette, American professional wrestling manager |
| 17th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X) |
| 17th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director |
| 17th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor |
| 17th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator |
| 17th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 17th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Dye, English musician (Scarlet Party), (The Alan Parsons Project) |
| 17th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Roloff, American reality star |
| 17th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards |
| 17th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | James Urbaniak, American actor |
| 17th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi) |
| 17th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer |
| 17th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Singer, American director |
| 17th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Chandler, American actor Early Edition |
| 17th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer |
| 17th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Stephane Rousseau, Canadian humorist and actor |
| 17th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Malik Yoba, American actor |
| 17th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece |
| 17th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Anastacia, American singer |
| 17th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Flint, British musician (The Prodigy) |
| 17th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player |
| 17th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Settle, American actor |
| 17th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Brunell, American football player |
| 17th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Catt, English rugby player |
| 17th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mauro Milanese, Italian footballer |
| 17th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Adriana Sklenarikova, Slovak supermodel |
| 17th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Whyte (actor), Welsh actor and basketball player |
| 17th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Henry, American poet |
| 17th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Lee, American comedian |
| 17th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress |
| 17th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer |
| 17th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player |
| 17th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mirah, American musician |
| 17th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer |
| 17th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Austin St. John, American actor |
| 17th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Constantine Maroulis, American singer |
| 17th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver |
| 17th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress |
| 17th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Perrotta, Italian football player |
| 17th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Akin Ayodele, American football player |
| 17th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Miller, American actor |
| 17th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Steffen Algreen, Danish footballer |
| 17th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Flo Rida, American rapper |
| 17th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan) |
| 17th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Haren, American baseball player |
| 17th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Janssen, American baseball player |
| 17th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Manioru, Solomon Islander sprinter |
| 17th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Bakari Kone, Ivorian footballer |
| 17th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Hope Larson, American illustrator and cartoonist |
| 17th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Wade Robson, Australian choreographer |
| 17th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Pena, American singer |
| 17th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Domenico Citro, Italian footballer |
| 17th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Eugenia Volodina, Russian model |
| 17th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | John Kucera, Canadian alpine ski racer |
| 17th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Descenza, American swimmer |
| 17th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Berdych, Czech tennis player |
| 17th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Clarke, Irish footballer |
| 17th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player |
| 17th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mason Raymond, Canadian hockey player |
| 17th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Goncalves, Portuguese football player |
| 17th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Sanaya Irani, Indian actress |
| 17th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Huntington, English footballer |
| 17th of September 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Scannell, Irish footballer |
| 17th of September 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer |
| 17th of September 2008 | BIRTHDAY | Mia Talerico, American child actress |
| 17th of September 0456 | DEATH | Remistus, Roman general of Visigothic origin |
| 17th of September 1179 | DEATH | Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (Born 1098) |
| 17th of September 1322 | DEATH | Robert III of Flanders (Born 1249) |
| 17th of September 1422 | DEATH | Constantine II of Bulgaria |
| 17th of September 1563 | DEATH | Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (Born 1526) |
| 17th of September 1574 | DEATH | Pedro Menendez de Aviles, first Spanish Governor of Florida (Born 1519) |
| 17th of September 1575 | DEATH | Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (Born 1504) |
| 17th of September 1621 | DEATH | Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (Born 1542) |
| 17th of September 1630 | DEATH | Thomas Lake, English statesman (Born 1567) |
| 17th of September 1665 | DEATH | Philip IV of Spain (Born 1605) |
| 17th of September 1676 | DEATH | Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (Born 1626) |
| 17th of September 1679 | DEATH | John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (Born 1629) |
| 17th of September 1727 | DEATH | Gluckel of Hameln, German businesswoman (Born 1647) |
| 17th of September 1762 | DEATH | Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (Born 1687) |
| 17th of September 1771 | DEATH | Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (Born 1721) |
| 17th of September 1803 | DEATH | Franz Xaver Sussmayr, Austrian composer (Born 1766) |
| 17th of September 1808 | DEATH | Benjamin Bourne, American politician (Born 1755) |
| 17th of September 1836 | DEATH | Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (Born 1748) |
| 17th of September 1863 | DEATH | Alfred de Vigny, French author (Born 1797) |
| 17th of September 1873 | DEATH | Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (Born 1781) |
| 17th of September 1879 | DEATH | Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (Born 1814) |
| 17th of September 1894 | DEATH | Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (Born 1849) |
| 17th of September 1899 | DEATH | Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (Born 1842) |
| 17th of September 1904 | DEATH | Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (Born 1879) |
| 17th of September 1907 | DEATH | Ignaz Brull, Austrian pianist (Born 1846) |
| 17th of September 1908 | DEATH | Henri Julien, Canadian cartoonist (Born 1852) |
| 17th of September 1908 | DEATH | Thomas Selfridge, First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army (Born 1882) |
| 17th of September 1933 | DEATH | Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (Born 1877) |
| 17th of September 1936 | DEATH | Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (Born 1877) |
| 17th of September 1938 | DEATH | Bruno Jasienski, Polish poet (Born 1901) |
| 17th of September 1946 | DEATH | Frank Burke, American baseball player (Born 1880) |
| 17th of September 1948 | DEATH | Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (Born 1887) |
| 17th of September 1948 | DEATH | Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (Born 1895) |
| 17th of September 1951 | DEATH | Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (Born 1898) |
| 17th of September 1966 | DEATH | Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Born 1930) |
| 17th of September 1971 | DEATH | Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader (Born 1937) |
| 17th of September 1972 | DEATH | Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (Born 1899) |
| 17th of September 1973 | DEATH | Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (Born 1909) |
| 17th of September 1980 | DEATH | Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (Born 1925) |
| 17th of September 1982 | DEATH | Manos Loizos, Greek composer (Born 1937) |
| 17th of September 1984 | DEATH | Richard Basehart, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 17th of September 1985 | DEATH | Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (Born 1925) |
| 17th of September 1987 | DEATH | Harry Locke, British character actor (Born 1913) |
| 17th of September 1991 | DEATH | Zino Francescatti, French violinist (Born 1902) |
| 17th of September 1993 | DEATH | Christian Nyby, American film and television director (Born 1913) |
| 17th of September 1994 | DEATH | Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (Born 1902) |
| 17th of September 1995 | DEATH | Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (Born 1931) |
| 17th of September 1996 | DEATH | Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (Born 1918) |
| 17th of September 1997 | DEATH | Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (Born 1913) |
| 17th of September 1998 | DEATH | Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (Born 1907) |
| 17th of September 1998 | DEATH | Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (Born 1943) |
| 17th of September 1999 | DEATH | Frankie Vaughan, British singer (Born 1928) |
| 17th of September 2000 | DEATH | Paula Yates, British TV personality (Born 1959) |
| 17th of September 2001 | DEATH | Lou Dog, Sublime Mascot(Born UNK) |
| 17th of September 2003 | DEATH | Erich Hallhuber, German actor (Born 1951) |
| 17th of September 2005 | DEATH | Jacques Lacarriere, French writer (Born 1925) |
| 17th of September 2005 | DEATH | Alfred Reed, American composer (Born 1921) |
| 17th of September 2006 | DEATH | Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (Born 1924) |
| 17th of September 2009 | DEATH | Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (Born 1968) |