September 17
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Art and culture
- 1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show.
- 1970 - Fighting breaks out along the Syria-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen.
- 1972 - The first episode of M*A*S*H premieres on CBS.
- 1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA.
- 1978 - The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.
- 1983 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
- 1984 - Baseball: Reggie Jackson becomes the 13th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California.
- 1988 - Opening ceremony of the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul, South Korea.
- 1991 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
- 1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
- 1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland.
- 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average opens for the first time after the September 11 attacks. The stocks plummet throughout the trading session and posts its biggest point drop in its history closing down 684.81 points to 8920.70.
- 2004 - Tamil is declared first classical language in India.
Births
- 64 - Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
- 879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
- 1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
- 1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
- 1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
- 1580 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
- 1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
- 1639 - Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
- 1657 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
- 1677 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
- 1687 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
- 1688 - Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714)
- 1730 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
- 1739 - John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
- 1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
- 1771 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
- 1820 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
- 1826 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
- 1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
- 1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)
- 1868 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
- 1869 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1938)
- 1879 - Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
- 1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
- 1883 - William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)
- 1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
- 1890 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)
- 1897 - Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
- 1900 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
- 1900 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
- 1901 - Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)
- 1903 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
- 1903 - Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)
- 1906 - Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
- 1907 - Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
- 1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian
- 1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
- 1922 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
- 1923 - Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
- 1926 - Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)
- 1926 - Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007)
- 1927 - George Blanda, American football player
- 1928 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
- 1929 - Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver
- 1929 - Pat Crowley, American actress
- 1930 - Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
- 1930 - Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
- 1930 - Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
- 1931 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1933 - Chuck Grassley, American politician
- 1933 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)
- 1934 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
- 1935 - Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
- 1937 - Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
- 1938 - Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
- 1939 - Shelby Flint, American singer
- 1939 - David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- 1941 - Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)
- 1942 - Des Lynam, English television presenter
- 1942 - Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher
- 1944 - Reinhold Messner, Austrian mountain climber
- 1945 - David Emerson, Canadian politician
- 1945 - Phil Jackson, NBA coach
- 1945 - Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
- 1946 - Billy Bonds, English footballer
- 1947 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
- 1948 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1948 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1949 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
- 1950 - Narendra Modi, Indian politician
- 1950 - Chris Heister, Swedish politician
- 1953 - Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
- 1954 - Joël-François Durand, French composer
- 1955 - Charles Martinet, American actor
- 1956 - Rita Rudner, American comedian
- 1959 - Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor
- 1960 - Damon Hill, English race car driver
- 1960 - John Franco, American baseball player
- 1961 - Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
- 1962 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
- 1962 - Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor
- 1963 - Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1963 - Michael Adler, American businessman
- 1963 - Amy Roloff, American reality star
- 1963 - Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator
- 1963 - Andy "Beegs" Biegel, American icon
- 1965 - Bryan Singer, American director
- 1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
- 1966 - Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
- 1967 - Malik Yoba, American actor
- 1968 - Anastacia, American singer
- 1968 - Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
- 1969 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
- 1969 - Keith Flint, Member of the British hard dance/rave band The Prodigy
- 1970 - Mark Brunell, American football player
- 1971 - Adriana Sklenaříková, Slovak supermodel
- 1971 - Mike Catt, English rugby player
- 1971 - Ian Whyte (actor), Welsh actor and basketball player
- 1973 - Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
- 1973 - Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer
- 1974 - Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
- 1974 - Mirah, American musician
- 1974 - Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer
- 1975 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
- 1975 - Austin St. John, American actor
- 1975 - Constantine Maroulis, American singer
- 1976 - Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress
- 1977 - Simone Perrotta, Italian football player
- 1978 - Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 - Akin Ayodele, American football player
- 1979 - Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1980 - Danny Haren, American baseball player
- 1981 - Bakari Koné, Ivory Coast footballer
- 1981 - Casey Janssen, American baseball player
- 1982 - Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 - Jennifer Peña, American singer
- 1984 - Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel
- 1985 - Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
- 1985 - Jon Walker, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)
- 1986 - Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
- 1987 - Paul Huntington, English footballer
- 1991 - Jordan McCoy, American entertainer
- 1994 - Taylor Ware, American yodeler
- 1994 - Ivo Daniel DC Ferreira, Young Star Portuguese, Barreiro
- 1989 - Emil Shamim, Next big thing in Bangladesh, Rising Stars of the Daily Star
Deaths
- 1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
- 1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
- 1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria
- 1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
- 1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)
- 1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
- 1621 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
- 1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
- 1665 - Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
- 1679 - John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
- 1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
- 1762 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)
- 1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
- 1803 - Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)
- 1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
- 1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
- 1863 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
- 1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
- 1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
- 1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
- 1899 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
- 1907 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)
- 1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
- 1936 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
- 1938 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
- 1951 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
- 1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
- 1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
- 1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
- 1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
- 1982 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
- 1984 - Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
- 1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
- 1993 - Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
- 1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
- 1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
- 2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
- 2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)
- 2001 - Louie Dog, Dalmatian for the band Sublime (b. 1989 )
- 2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
- 2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
- 2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
Notes
- Ken Kesey
- Jean Ray
- I, a Woman
- Julian Beck
- William Carlos Williams
- Henri Storck
- Karl Popper
- Johann August Apel
- Gioviano Pontano
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