October 17
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[change] Births
- 1912 - Pope John Paul I
- 1915 - Arthur Miller
- 1962 - Mike Judge
- 1972 - Eminem
[change] Deaths
- 532 - Pope Boniface II
- 1174 - Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
- 1586 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle) (b. 1554)
- 1660 - Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
- 1673 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
- 1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
- 1776 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
- 1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
- 1786 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
- 1806 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader (b. 1758)
- 1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)
- 1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
- 1910 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (b. 1819)
- 1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
- 1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1852)
- 1958 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
- 1967 - Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
- 1970 - Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
- 1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926)
- 1979 - S. J. Perelman, American writer (b. 1904)
- 1984 - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
- 1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (b. 1919)
- 1992 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
- 2001 - Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
- 2002 - Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935)
- 2004 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (b. 1952)
- 2005 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
