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| 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, 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, 1985 (August 17 1985) | Birth | Yu Aoi, Japanese actress | |
| 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, 1955 (August 17 1955) | Birth | Richard Hilton, American heir | |
| 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, 1935 (August 17 1935) | Birth | Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor | |
| August 17th, 1925 (August 17 1925) | Death | Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (born in 1848) | |
| 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, 1875 (August 17 1875) | Death | Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (born in 1827) | |
| August 17th, 1785 (August 17 1785) | Death | Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (born in 1710) | |
