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| August 17th, 2007 (August 17 2007) | Death | Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (born in 1913) | |
| August 17th, 2007 (August 17 2007) | Death | Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (born in 1982) | |
| August 17th, 2005 (August 17 2005) | Event | The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts. | |
| August 17th, 2005 (August 17 2005) | Death | John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (born in 1934) | |
| August 17th, 2004 (August 17 2004) | Event | MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers. | |
| August 17th, 2004 (August 17 2004) | Event | The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country. | |
| August 17th, 2004 (August 17 2004) | Death | Thea Astley, Australian writer (born in 1925) | |
| August 17th, 2004 (August 17 2004) | Death | Gerard Souzay, French baritone (born in 1918) | |
| August 17th, 1999 (August 17 1999) | Event | A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Izmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000. | |
| August 17th, 1998 (August 17 1998) | Event | Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship. | Bill Clinton Quotes |
| August 17th, 1996 (August 17 1996) | Birth | Ella Cruz, Filipina actress | |
| August 17th, 1995 (August 17 1995) | Death | Howard Koch, American screenwriter (born in 1902) | |
| August 17th, 1995 (August 17 1995) | Death | Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (born in 1933) | |
| August 17th, 1994 (August 17 1994) | Death | Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and team owner (NART; born in 1901) | |
| August 17th, 1994 (August 17 1994) | Death | Jack Sharkey, American boxer (born in 1902) | |
| August 17th, 1993 (August 17 1993) | Death | Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (born in 1920) | |
| August 17th, 1992 (August 17 1992) | Death | Al Parker, American adult film actor (born in 1952) | |
| August 17th, 1990 (August 17 1990) | Birth | Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress | |
| August 17th, 1990 (August 17 1990) | Birth | Colin Bates, American actor | |
| August 17th, 1990 (August 17 1990) | Death | Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (born in 1918) | |
| August 17th, 1988 (August 17 1988) | Event | Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash. | |
| August 17th, 1988 (August 17 1988) | Birth | Erika Toda, Japanese actress | |
| August 17th, 1988 (August 17 1988) | Death | Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan (born in 1924) | |
| August 17th, 1988 (August 17 1988) | Death | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (born in 1914) | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes |
| August 17th, 1988 (August 17 1988) | Death | Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (born in 1935) | |
| August 17th, 1987 (August 17 1987) | Death | Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (born in 1894) | Rudolf Hess Quotes |
| August 17th, 1987 (August 17 1987) | Death | Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (born in 1929) | |
| August 17th, 1986 (August 17 1986) | Birth | Rudy Gay, American basketball player | |
| August 17th, 1986 (August 17 1986) | Birth | Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player | |
| August 17th, 1985 (August 17 1985) | Birth | Yu Aoi, Japanese actress | |
| August 17th, 1984 (August 17 1984) | Birth | Dee Brown, American basketball player | |
| August 17th, 1983 (August 17 1983) | Birth | Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player | |
| August 17th, 1983 (August 17 1983) | Death | Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (born in 1896) | Ira Gershwin Quotes |
| August 17th, 1982 (August 17 1982) | Event | The first Compact Discs (CD s) were released to the public in Germany. | |
| August 17th, 1982 (August 17 1982) | Birth | Melissa Anderson, American professional wrestler | |
| August 17th, 1982 (August 17 1982) | Birth | Phil Jagielka, English footballer | |
| August 17th, 1981 (August 17 1981) | Birth | Kristin Holt, American television personality | |
| August 17th, 1980 (August 17 1980) | Event | Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history. | |
| August 17th, 1980 (August 17 1980) | Birth | Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer | |
| August 17th, 1980 (August 17 1980) | Birth | Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer | |
| August 17th, 1980 (August 17 1980) | Birth | Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer | |
| August 17th, 1979 (August 17 1979) | Event | Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over Ukraine, killing 156 | |
| August 17th, 1979 (August 17 1979) | Birth | Antwaan Randle El, American football player | |
| August 17th, 1979 (August 17 1979) | Birth | Marcus Patric, British actor | |
| August 17th, 1979 (August 17 1979) | Death | Vivian Vance, American actress (born in 1909) | |
| August 17th, 1978 (August 17 1978) | Event | Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. | |
| August 17th, 1978 (August 17 1978) | Birth | Vibeke Stene, Norwegian singer (Tristania) | |
| August 17th, 1978 (August 17 1978) | Birth | Karena Lam, Hong Kong actress | |
| August 17th, 1977 (August 17 1977) | Birth | Thierry Henry, French footballer | |
| August 17th, 1977 (August 17 1977) | Birth | Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer | |
| August 17th, 1977 (August 17 1977) | Birth | William Gallas, French footballer | |
| August 17th, 1976 (August 17 1976) | Birth | Scott Halberstadt, American actor | |
| August 17th, 1975 (August 17 1975) | Birth | Giuliana DePandi, Italian-born American television personality | |
| August 17th, 1975 (August 17 1975) | Birth | Ilhan Mans?z, Turkish footballer | |
| August 17th, 1974 (August 17 1974) | Birth | Tony Hajjar, Lebanese drummer (At the Drive-In, Sparta) | |
| August 17th, 1974 (August 17 1974) | Birth | Nicola Kraus, American novelist | |
| August 17th, 1973 (August 17 1973) | Death | Jean Barraque, French composer (born in 1928) | |
| August 17th, 1973 (August 17 1973) | Death | Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (born in 1939) | |
| August 17th, 1973 (August 17 1973) | Death | Conrad Aiken, American author (born in 1889) | Conrad Aiken Quotes |
| August 17th, 1972 (August 17 1972) | Birth | Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer | |
| August 17th, 1972 (August 17 1972) | Birth | Ken Ryker, American pornographic actor | |
| August 17th, 1971 (August 17 1971) | Birth | Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player | |
| August 17th, 1971 (August 17 1971) | Birth | Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress | |
| August 17th, 1971 (August 17 1971) | Death | Wilhelm List, German field marshal (born in 1880) | |
| August 17th, 1970 (August 17 1970) | Event | Venera Program: Venera 7 launchedied in It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus). | |
| August 17th, 1970 (August 17 1970) | Birth | Jim Courier, American tennis player | |
| August 17th, 1970 (August 17 1970) | Birth | Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist | |
| August 17th, 1970 (August 17 1970) | Birth | Oyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer | |
| August 17th, 1970 (August 17 1970) | Death | Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (born in 1908) | |
| August 17th, 1969 (August 17 1969) | Event | Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage. | |
| August 17th, 1969 (August 17 1969) | Birth | Christian Laettner, American basketball player | |
| August 17th, 1969 (August 17 1969) | Birth | Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and singer | |
| August 17th, 1969 (August 17 1969) | Death | Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1888) | |
| August 17th, 1968 (August 17 1968) | Birth | Ed McCaffrey, American football player | |
| August 17th, 1968 (August 17 1968) | Birth | Helen McCrory, English actress | |
| August 17th, 1967 (August 17 1967) | Birth | Kevin Max, American singer (dc_talk) | |
| August 17th, 1966 (August 17 1966) | Birth | Maysa Leak, American Jazz Singer | |
| August 17th, 1966 (August 17 1966) | Birth | Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder | |
| August 17th, 1966 (August 17 1966) | Birth | Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 17th, 1964 (August 17 1964) | Birth | Colin James, Canadian musician | |
| August 17th, 1963 (August 17 1963) | Birth | S. Shankar, Indian film director. | |
| August 17th, 1962 (August 17 1962) | Event | East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall. | |
| August 17th, 1962 (August 17 1962) | Birth | Gilby Clarke, American musician (Guns N Roses) | |
| August 17th, 1962 (August 17 1962) | Death | Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (born in 1944) | |
| August 17th, 1960 (August 17 1960) | Event | Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France. | |
| August 17th, 1960 (August 17 1960) | Birth | Sean Penn, American actor and director | |
| August 17th, 1960 (August 17 1960) | Birth | James Daly, American journalist | |
| August 17th, 1960 (August 17 1960) | Birth | Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer | |
| August 17th, 1959 (August 17 1959) | Event | Quake Lake: Quake Lake was formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana. | |
| August 17th, 1959 (August 17 1959) | Birth | David Koresh, American cult leader (died in 1993) | |
| August 17th, 1959 (August 17 1959) | Birth | Jonathan Franzen, American author | Jonathan Franzen Quotes |
| August 17th, 1958 (August 17 1958) | Birth | Belinda Carlisle, American singer | |
| August 17th, 1958 (August 17 1958) | Birth | Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player | |
| August 17th, 1957 (August 17 1957) | Birth | Robin Cousins, British figure skater | |
| August 17th, 1956 (August 17 1956) | Birth | Gail Berman, American film executive | |
| August 17th, 1956 (August 17 1956) | Birth | Alvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist | |
| August 17th, 1955 (August 17 1955) | Birth | Richard Hilton, American heir | |
| August 17th, 1954 (August 17 1954) | Birth | Eric Johnson, American guitarist | |
| August 17th, 1954 (August 17 1954) | Death | Billy Murray, American recording artist (born in 1877) | |
| August 17th, 1953 (August 17 1953) | Event | Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California. | |
| August 17th, 1953 (August 17 1953) | Birth | Judith Regan, American book publisher | |
| August 17th, 1953 (August 17 1953) | Birth | Kevin Rowland, English musician (Dexys Midnight Runners) | |
| August 17th, 1952 (August 17 1952) | Birth | Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver | |
| August 17th, 1952 (August 17 1952) | Birth | Dr. Mario Theissen, German F1 team principal (BMW Sauber) | |
| August 17th, 1952 (August 17 1952) | Birth | Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player | |
| August 17th, 1951 (August 17 1951) | Birth | Robert Joy, Canadian actor | |
| August 17th, 1951 (August 17 1951) | Birth | Alan Minter, British boxer | |
| August 17th, 1949 (August 17 1949) | Birth | Sib Hashian, American drummer (Boston) | |
| August 17th, 1949 (August 17 1949) | Birth | Norm Coleman, American politician | |
| August 17th, 1949 (August 17 1949) | Death | Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (born in 1891) | |
| August 17th, 1948 (August 17 1948) | Birth | Rod MacDonald, American musician | |
| August 17th, 1947 (August 17 1947) | Event | The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed. | |
| August 17th, 1947 (August 17 1947) | Birth | Gary Talley, American guitarist (Box Tops) | |
| August 17th, 1947 (August 17 1947) | Birth | Sylvia Nasar, German-born American economist and author | |
| August 17th, 1946 (August 17 1946) | Birth | Martha Coolidge, American film director | |
| August 17th, 1945 (August 17 1945) | Event | Indonesian Declaration of Independence. | |
| August 17th, 1945 (August 17 1945) | Event | Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published by Fredric Warburg | George Orwell Quotes |
| August 17th, 1944 (August 17 1944) | Birth | Lawrence Joseph Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, Billionaire | |
| August 17th, 1943 (August 17 1943) | Event | World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission. | |
| August 17th, 1943 (August 17 1943) | Event | World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrive in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. | George S. Patton Quotes |
| August 17th, 1943 (August 17 1943) | Event | World War II: First Quebec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| August 17th, 1943 (August 17 1943) | Birth | Robert De Niro, American actor | |
| August 17th, 1943 (August 17 1943) | Birth | Dave "Snaker" Ray, American musician (died in 2002) | |
| August 17th, 1942 (August 17 1942) | Event | U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari). | |
| August 17th, 1941 (August 17 1941) | Birth | Jean Pierre Lefebvre, French Canadian film director | |
| August 17th, 1941 (August 17 1941) | Birth | Boog Powell, American baseball player | |
| August 17th, 1940 (August 17 1940) | Birth | Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (died in 2006) | |
| August 17th, 1940 (August 17 1940) | Death | Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete (born in 1911) | |
| August 17th, 1939 (August 17 1939) | Birth | Luther Allison, American musician | |
| August 17th, 1939 (August 17 1939) | Birth | Anthony Valentine, British actor | |
| August 17th, 1938 (August 17 1938) | Birth | Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian Muslim cleric | |
| August 17th, 1938 (August 17 1938) | Birth | Theodoros Pangalos, Greek politician | |
| August 17th, 1936 (August 17 1936) | Birth | Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American musician-actor (died in 2007) | |
| August 17th, 1935 (August 17 1935) | Birth | Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor | |
| August 17th, 1933 (August 17 1933) | Birth | Eugene F. Kranz, American NASA executive | |
| August 17th, 1933 (August 17 1933) | Birth | Mark Dinning, American singer (died in 1986) | |
| August 17th, 1932 (August 17 1932) | Birth | V. S. Naipaul, West Indian writer, Nobel Laureate | |
| August 17th, 1930 (August 17 1930) | Birth | Glenn Corbett, American actor (died in 1993) | |
| August 17th, 1930 (August 17 1930) | Birth | Ted Hughes, English poet (died in 1998) | Ted Hughes Quotes |
| August 17th, 1929 (August 17 1929) | Birth | Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 pilot (died in 1977) | |
| August 17th, 1926 (August 17 1926) | Birth | Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician | |
| August 17th, 1926 (August 17 1926) | Birth | George Melly, British singer (died in 2007) | |
| August 17th, 1926 (August 17 1926) | Birth | Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (died in 1992) | |
| August 17th, 1925 (August 17 1925) | Death | Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (born in 1848) | |
| August 17th, 1921 (August 17 1921) | Birth | Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, British historian (died in 1994) | |
| August 17th, 1920 (August 17 1920) | Birth | Maureen O Hara, Irish actress | |
| August 17th, 1920 (August 17 1920) | Death | Ray Chapman, American baseball player (born in 1891) | |
| August 17th, 1919 (August 17 1919) | Birth | Georgia Gibbs, American singer (died in 2006) | |
| August 17th, 1918 (August 17 1918) | Event | Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. | |
| August 17th, 1918 (August 17 1918) | Death | Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (born in 1873) | |
| August 17th, 1915 (August 17 1915) | Event | Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia. | |
| August 17th, 1914 (August 17 1914) | Event | World War I: Battle of StalluponenThe German army of General Hermann von Francois defeats the Russian force commanded by Pavel Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia. | |
| August 17th, 1914 (August 17 1914) | Birth | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (died in 1988) | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes |
| August 17th, 1913 (August 17 1913) | Birth | W. Mark Felt, American Watergate informant | |
| August 17th, 1913 (August 17 1913) | Birth | Rudy York, American baseball player (died in 1970) | |
| August 17th, 1913 (August 17 1913) | Birth | Oscar Alfredo Galvez, Argentine racing driver (died in 1989) | |
| August 17th, 1911 (August 17 1911) | Birth | Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (died in 1995) | |
| August 17th, 1909 (August 17 1909) | Birth | Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (died in 1985) | |
| August 17th, 1908 (August 17 1908) | Event | Projection in Paris of the very first cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by Emile Cohl. | |
| August 17th, 1907 (August 17 1907) | Event | Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in Seattle. | |
| August 17th, 1904 (August 17 1904) | Birth | Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (died in 1991) | |
| August 17th, 1904 (August 17 1904) | Birth | Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (died in 1984) | |
| August 17th, 1903 (August 17 1903) | Death | Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (born in 1825) | |
| August 17th, 1901 (August 17 1901) | Death | Edmond Audran, French composer (born in 1842) | |
| August 17th, 1896 (August 17 1896) | Birth | Leslie Groves, American military engineer (died in 1970) | |
| August 17th, 1896 (August 17 1896) | Death | Bridget Driscoll, world s first automobile fatality | |
| August 17th, 1893 (August 17 1893) | Birth | Mae West, American actress (died in 1980) | Mae West Quotes |
| August 17th, 1890 (August 17 1890) | Birth | Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (died in 1946) | |
| August 17th, 1890 (August 17 1890) | Birth | Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (died in 1920) | |
| August 17th, 1888 (August 17 1888) | Birth | Monty Woolley, American actor (died in 1963) | |
| August 17th, 1887 (August 17 1887) | Birth | Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black rights activist (died in 1940) | |
| August 17th, 1887 (August 17 1887) | Birth | Charles I of Austria (died in 1922) | |
| August 17th, 1883 (August 17 1883) | Event | The first public performance of the Dominican Republic s national anthem, Himno Nacional. | |
| August 17th, 1882 (August 17 1882) | Birth | Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (died in 1974) | Samuel Goldwyn Quotes |
| August 17th, 1880 (August 17 1880) | Death | Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (born in 1810) | |
| August 17th, 1875 (August 17 1875) | Death | Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (born in 1827) | |
| August 17th, 1873 (August 17 1873) | Birth | John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (died in 1946) | |
| August 17th, 1866 (August 17 1866) | Birth | Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (died in 1911) | |
| August 17th, 1866 (August 17 1866) | Birth | Julia Marlowe, English actress (died in 1950) | |
| August 17th, 1864 (August 17 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of GainesvilleConfederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida. | |
| August 17th, 1863 (August 17 1863) | Event | American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter. | Charles Fort Quotes |
| August 17th, 1863 (August 17 1863) | Birth | Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (died in 1924) | |
| August 17th, 1862 (August 17 1862) | Event | Indian Wars: The Lakota (Sioux) Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. | |
| August 17th, 1862 (August 17 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Major General JEB Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. | |
| August 17th, 1861 (August 17 1861) | Death | Alcee Louis la Branche, American Politician (born in 1806) | |
| August 17th, 1850 (August 17 1850) | Death | Don Jose de San Martin, Argentine general (born in 1778) | Jose de San Martin Quotes |
| August 17th, 1844 (August 17 1844) | Birth | Menelek II of Ethiopia (died in 1913) | |
| August 17th, 1834 (August 17 1834) | Death | Husein Gradascevic, Bosnian rebel leader (born in 1802) | |
| August 17th, 1828 (August 17 1828) | Birth | Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (died in 1897) | |
| August 17th, 1807 (August 17 1807) | Event | Robert Fulton s first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. | |
| August 17th, 1794 (August 17 1794) | Birth | Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst, German priest (died in 1849) | |
| August 17th, 1786 (August 17 1786) | Birth | Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (died in 1836) | Davy Crockett Quotes |
| August 17th, 1786 (August 17 1786) | Birth | Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria (died in 1861) | |
| August 17th, 1786 (August 17 1786) | Death | King Frederick II of Prussia (born in 1712) | Frederick II of Prussia Quotes |
| August 17th, 1785 (August 17 1785) | Death | Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (born in 1710) | |
| August 17th, 1768 (August 17 1768) | Birth | Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (died in 1800) | |
| August 17th, 1753 (August 17 1753) | Birth | Josef Dobrovsky, Czech linguist (died in 1828) | |
| August 17th, 1723 (August 17 1723) | Death | Joseph Bingham, English scholar (born in 1668) | |
| August 17th, 1720 (August 17 1720) | Death | Anne Lefevre, French scholar (born in 1654) | |
| August 17th, 1676 (August 17 1676) | Death | Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (born in 1621) | |
| August 17th, 1673 (August 17 1673) | Death | Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (born in 1641) | |
| August 17th, 1657 (August 17 1657) | Death | Robert Blake, British admiral (born in 1599) | |
| August 17th, 1629 (August 17 1629) | Birth | King John III of Poland (died in 1696) | |
| August 17th, 1601 (August 17 1601) | Birth | Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (died in 1665) | |
| August 17th, 1578 (August 17 1578) | Birth | Francesco Albani, Italian painter (died in 1660) | |
| August 17th, 1562 (August 17 1562) | Birth | Hans Leo Hassler (baptized), German composer (died in 1612) | |
| August 17th, 1510 (August 17 1510) | Death | Edmund Dudley, English statesman (born in 1462) | |
| August 17th, 1473 (August 17 1473) | Birth | Richard, Duke of York (died in 1483?) | |
| August 17th, 1304 (August 17 1304) | Death | Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (born in 1243) | |
| August 17th, 1153 (August 17 1153) | Death | Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (born in 1130) | |
