August 17
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Births
- 1887 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black rights activist (d. 1940)
- 1893 - Mae West, American actress (d. 1980)
- 1932 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian writer
- 1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
- 1959 - Jonathan Franzen, American author
- 1960 - Sean Penn, American actor and director
Deaths
- 1153 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)
- 1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
- 1510 - Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462)
- 1657 - Robert Blake, British admiral (b. 1599)
- 1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
- 1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621)
- 1720 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
- 1723 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
- 1768 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
- 1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
- 1786 - King Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712)
- 1834 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
- 1850 - Don José de San Martín, Argentine general (b. 1778)
- 1861 - Alcée Louis la Branche, American Politician (b. 1806)
- 1875 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827)
- 1880 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
- 1896 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality
- 1901 - Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842)
- 1918 - Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873)
- 1920 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
- 1925 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848)
- 1940 - Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
- 1954 - Billy Murray, American recording artist (b. 1877)
- 1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (b. 1944)
- 1969 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
- 1970 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (b. 1908)
- 1971 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
- 1973 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
- 1973 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
- 1973 - Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889)
- 1979 - Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909)
- 1983 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
- 1987 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (b. 1894)
- 1988 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
- 1988 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1914)
- 1988 - Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (b. 1935)
- 1990 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
- 1992 - Al Parker, American adult film actor (b. 1952)
- 1993 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
- 1994 - Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
- 1995 - Howard Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
- 1995 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (b. 1933)
- 2004 - Thea Astley, Australian writer (b. 1925)
- 2004 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
- 2005 - John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
- 2007 - Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (b. 1913)
- 2007 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
Notes
- Mae West
- Christian Heinrich Spiess
- John Hawkes
- Michèle Bernstein
- Fernand Léger
- Johannes Theodor Baargeld
- Barbara Rosenthal
- Marcus Garvey
- Conrad Aiken
- Yves Tanguy
- Émile Cohl
- Fantasmagorie
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
- Anthony Earnshaw
- Sean Penn
- Jean-Jacques Sempé
- Jonathan Franzen
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