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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 17th of October 1091 | EVENT | London Tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. |
| 17th of October 1346 | EVENT | Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years. |
| 17th of October 1448 | EVENT | Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II. |
| 17th of October 1456 | EVENT | The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia) |
| 17th of October 1604 | EVENT | Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus. |
| 17th of October 1610 | EVENT | French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims. |
| 17th of October 1660 | EVENT | Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered. |
| 17th of October 1662 | EVENT | Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds. |
| 17th of October 1771 | EVENT | Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15. |
| 17th of October 1777 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga. |
| 17th of October 1781 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: General Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Battle of Yorktown. |
| 17th of October 1797 | EVENT | Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria |
| 17th of October 1800 | EVENT | Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curacao. |
| 17th of October 1806 | EVENT | Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule. |
| 17th of October 1814 | EVENT | London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine. |
| 17th of October 1860 | EVENT | First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open). |
| 17th of October 1888 | EVENT | Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). |
| 17th of October 1907 | EVENT | Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland. |
| 17th of October 1912 | EVENT | Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War. |
| 17th of October 1917 | EVENT | First British bombing of Germany in World War I. |
| 17th of October 1931 | EVENT | Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion. |
| 17th of October 1933 | EVENT | Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. |
| 17th of October 1941 | EVENT | For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship. |
| 17th of October 1941 | EVENT | German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece. |
| 17th of October 1943 | EVENT | Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed. |
| 17th of October 1945 | EVENT | A massive number of people, headed by CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron's release. |
| 17th of October 1956 | EVENT | The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England. |
| 17th of October 1961 | EVENT | Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police. |
| 17th of October 1964 | EVENT | Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra. |
| 17th of October 1965 | EVENT | The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event. |
| 17th of October 1966 | EVENT | A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters, the New York City Fire Department's deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks. |
| 17th of October 1966 | EVENT | Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations. |
| 17th of October 1968 | EVENT | Black American athletes make a silent protest against racism at the Olympics |
| 17th of October 1970 | EVENT | Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group. |
| 17th of October 1973 | EVENT | OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria. |
| 17th of October 1977 | EVENT | German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board. |
| 17th of October 1979 | EVENT | Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 17th of October 1979 | EVENT | The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services. |
| 17th of October 1980 | EVENT | As part of the Holy See : United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican |
| 17th of October 1989 | EVENT | 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly). |
| 17th of October 1998 | EVENT | At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline. |
| 17th of October 2000 | EVENT | Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack. |
| 17th of October 2003 | EVENT | The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 56 metres (184 ft) and become the World's tallest highrise. |
| 17th of October 1253 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Ivo of Kermartin (d. 1303) |
| 17th of October 1563 | BIRTHDAY | Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer (d. 1611) |
| 17th of October 1577 | BIRTHDAY | Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621) |
| 17th of October 1582 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637) |
| 17th of October 1623 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687) |
| 17th of October 1688 | BIRTHDAY | Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (d. 1726) |
| 17th of October 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Jupiter Hammon, American writer (d. 1806) |
| 17th of October 1719 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792) |
| 17th of October 1760 | BIRTHDAY | Henri de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (d. 1825) |
| 17th of October 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-born American religious figure (d. 1876) |
| 17th of October 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Buchner, German playwright (d. 1837) |
| 17th of October 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian writer and professor (d. 1888) |
| 17th of October 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Hindustani intellectual (d. 1898) |
| 17th of October 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920) |
| 17th of October 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Elinor Glyn, British writer (d. 1943) |
| 17th of October 1865 | BIRTHDAY | James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950) |
| 17th of October 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971) |
| 17th of October 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928) |
| 17th of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Howells, English composer (d. 1983) |
| 17th of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Theodor Eicke, German Nazi official (d. 1943) |
| 17th of October 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer (d. 1971) |
| 17th of October 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violin teacher (d. 1998) |
| 17th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 17th of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973) |
| 17th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Nathanael West, American writer (d. 1940) |
| 17th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987) |
| 17th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Red Rolfe, American baseball player (d. 1969) |
| 17th of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Pope John Paul I (d. 1978) |
| 17th of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Owens, American singer/songwriter (d. 1982) |
| 17th of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Marier, KCSG, American composer, founder of the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (d. 2001) |
| 17th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (d. 1996) |
| 17th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005) |
| 17th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (d. 1991) |
| 17th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Marsha Hunt, American actress |
| 17th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987) |
| 17th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Wilson, American pro football team owner |
| 17th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist |
| 17th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (d. 2010) |
| 17th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966) |
| 17th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001) |
| 17th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007) |
| 17th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | George Mackay Brown, Scottish Poet (d.1996) |
| 17th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive |
| 17th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Luiz Bonfa, Brazilian composer (d. 2001) |
| 17th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004) |
| 17th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Charles McClendon, American football coach (d. 2001) |
| 17th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Don Coryell, American football head coach (d. 2010) |
| 17th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Carpenter, English sports commentator (d. 2010) |
| 17th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008) |
| 17th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Adams, American film actress |
| 17th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Breslin, American newspaper columnist and author |
| 17th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003) |
| 17th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer |
| 17th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (d. 1985) |
| 17th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Anders, American astronaut |
| 17th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Haynes, English footballer (d. 2005) |
| 17th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Sydney Chapman, English politician and architect |
| 17th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist |
| 17th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Paxton Whitehead, English actor |
| 17th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Les Murray, Australian poet |
| 17th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (d. 2007) |
| 17th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Smith, English footballer and manager |
| 17th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Stringfellow, British nightclub owner |
| 17th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Thomas Conley, American singer |
| 17th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Puckett, American musician |
| 17th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Jones, American basketball player |
| 17th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ronni Chasen, American film publicist (d. 2010) |
| 17th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Hossack, American musician (The Doobie Brothers) |
| 17th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Michnik, Polish activist |
| 17th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Drusilla Modjeska, Australian writer and editor |
| 17th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Cameron Mackintosh, British stage producer |
| 17th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Seagren, American athlete |
| 17th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Simi Garewal, Indian actress |
| 17th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Green, American politician |
| 17th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Michael McKean, American actor |
| 17th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007) |
| 17th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Margot Kidder, Canadian actress |
| 17th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | George Wendt, American actor |
| 17th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal |
| 17th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996) |
| 17th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Pontare, Swedish singer |
| 17th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Buhler, American high altitude mountaineer |
| 17th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek politician |
| 17th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick McCrory, American politician |
| 17th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mae Jemison, American astronaut and physician |
| 17th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Bender, American film producer |
| 17th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Steve McMichael, American football player |
| 17th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Jackson, American singer and songwriter |
| 17th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Drummond, American writer |
| 17th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic |
| 17th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian |
| 17th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Roeper, American film critic |
| 17th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Henry, English actor |
| 17th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Marshall, American director |
| 17th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Judge, American cartoonist, filmmaker and voice actor |
| 17th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor |
| 17th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer |
| 17th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 17th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Gatiss, English actor and writer |
| 17th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Ferry, American basketball player |
| 17th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and television personality |
| 17th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Dif, Danish musician (Aqua) |
| 17th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ziggy Marley, Jamaican musician |
| 17th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Els, South African golfer |
| 17th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Wyclef Jean, Haitian singer |
| 17th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Wood Harris, American actor |
| 17th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian |
| 17th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | John Mabry, American baseball player |
| 17th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer |
| 17th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Blues Saraceno, American guitarist |
| 17th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Shauna O'Brien, American model and actress |
| 17th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer ('N Sync) |
| 17th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Eminem, American rapper |
| 17th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Leal, American actress |
| 17th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Joe McEwing, American baseball player |
| 17th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tarkan, Turkish singer |
| 17th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer |
| 17th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ariel Levy, American feminist writer |
| 17th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Macfadyen, British actor |
| 17th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboardist (HIM) |
| 17th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | John Rocker, American baseball player |
| 17th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Bouillon, American hockey player |
| 17th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Abreu, Uruguayan footballer |
| 17th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer |
| 17th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Bertino, American film director and screenwriter |
| 17th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Erin Karpluk, Canadian television actress |
| 17th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer and violinist (Stream of Passion) |
| 17th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kimi Raikkonen, Finnish race car driver |
| 17th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player |
| 17th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Piccolo, Italian racing driver |
| 17th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player |
| 17th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Riewoldt, Australian football player |
| 17th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Saenko, Russian football player |
| 17th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Booko, American actor |
| 17th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Talbot, American baseball player |
| 17th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player |
| 17th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Randall Munroe, American cartoonist |
| 17th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Lowell, American actor |
| 17th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Gonzalez, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 17th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Baran Kosari, Iranian actress |
| 17th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jaros?aw Fojut, Polish footballer |
| 17th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Bea Alonzo, Filipina actress |
| 17th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Crawford, American professional wrestler |
| 17th of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer |
| 17th of October 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Concepcion, Filipino performer and actor |
| 17th of October 0532 | DEATH | Pope Boniface II |
| 17th of October 1174 | DEATH | Queen Petronila of Aragon (Born 1135) |
| 17th of October 1586 | DEATH | Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle) (Born 1554) |
| 17th of October 1616 | DEATH | John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (Born 1560) |
| 17th of October 1660 | DEATH | Adrian Scrope, English regicide (Born 1601) |
| 17th of October 1673 | DEATH | Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (Born 1630) |
| 17th of October 1757 | DEATH | Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, French scientist (Born 1683) |
| 17th of October 1776 | DEATH | Pierre Francois le Courayer, French theologian (Born 1681) |
| 17th of October 1780 | DEATH | William Cookworthy, English chemist (Born 1705) |
| 17th of October 1786 | DEATH | Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (Born 1723) |
| 17th of October 1806 | DEATH | Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader (Born 1758) |
| 17th of October 1836 | DEATH | Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (Born 1782) |
| 17th of October 1837 | DEATH | Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer (Born 1778) |
| 17th of October 1849 | DEATH | Frederic Chopin, Polish musician and composer (Born 1810) |
| 17th of October 1868 | DEATH | Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (Born 1775) |
| 17th of October 1887 | DEATH | Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (Born 1824) |
| 17th of October 1889 | DEATH | Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (Born 1828) |
| 17th of October 1910 | DEATH | Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (Born 1819) |
| 17th of October 1931 | DEATH | Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (Born 1884) |
| 17th of October 1934 | DEATH | Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1852) |
| 17th of October 1937 | DEATH | Joseph Bruce Ismay, Titanic survivor and managing director of the White Star Line (Born 1862) |
| 17th of October 1938 | DEATH | Karl Kautsky, Czech-German Marxist theoretician (Born 1854) |
| 17th of October 1943 | DEATH | Stefan Starzynski, Polish politician (Born 1893) |
| 17th of October 1956 | DEATH | Anne Crawford, British film actor (Born 1920) |
| 17th of October 1958 | DEATH | Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (Born 1876) |
| 17th of October 1958 | DEATH | Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (Born 1896) |
| 17th of October 1962 | DEATH | Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (Born 1882) |
| 17th of October 1963 | DEATH | Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Born 1865) |
| 17th of October 1965 | DEATH | John Barton King, Philadelphian cricketer (Born 1873) |
| 17th of October 1966 | DEATH | Wieland Wagner, German stage director (Born 1917) |
| 17th of October 1967 | DEATH | Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (Born 1906) |
| 17th of October 1970 | DEATH | Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (Born 1921) |
| 17th of October 1970 | DEATH | Vola Vale, American actress (Born 1897) |
| 17th of October 1972 | DEATH | George, Crown Prince of Serbia (Born 1887) |
| 17th of October 1972 | DEATH | Billy Williams, American singer (Born 1910) |
| 17th of October 1972 | DEATH | Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1914) |
| 17th of October 1973 | DEATH | Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (Born 1926) |
| 17th of October 1978 | DEATH | Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (Born 1887) |
| 17th of October 1979 | DEATH | John Stuart, Scottish actor (Born 1898) |
| 17th of October 1979 | DEATH | S. J. Perelman, American writer (Born 1904) |
| 17th of October 1981 | DEATH | Albert Cohen, Swiss author (Born 1895) |
| 17th of October 1983 | DEATH | Raymond Aron, French philosopher (Born 1905) |
| 17th of October 1987 | DEATH | Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi politician (Born 1925) |
| 17th of October 1991 | DEATH | Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (Born 1919) |
| 17th of October 1992 | DEATH | Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (Born 1912) |
| 17th of October 1992 | DEATH | Orestis Laskos, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor (Born 1908) |
| 17th of October 1993 | DEATH | Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage) (Born 1963) |
| 17th of October 1996 | DEATH | Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (Born 1966) |
| 17th of October 1998 | DEATH | Joan Hickson, British actress (Born 1906) |
| 17th of October 1998 | DEATH | Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (Born 1920) |
| 17th of October 1999 | DEATH | Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (Born 1915) |
| 17th of October 2000 | DEATH | Leo Nomellini, football player and wrestler (Born 1924) |
| 17th of October 2000 | DEATH | Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian rock musician and poet (Born 1964) |
| 17th of October 2001 | DEATH | Jay Livingston, American songwriter (Born 1915) |
| 17th of October 2001 | DEATH | Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (Born 1926) |
| 17th of October 2002 | DEATH | Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftains) (Born 1935) |
| 17th of October 2002 | DEATH | Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (Born 1906) |
| 17th of October 2004 | DEATH | Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (Born 1952) |
| 17th of October 2005 | DEATH | Ba Jin, Chinese writer (Born 1904) |
| 17th of October 2005 | DEATH | Franky Gee, European techno artist (Born 1962) |
| 17th of October 2006 | DEATH | Daniel Emilfork, French actor (Born 1924) |
| 17th of October 2006 | DEATH | Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (Born 1938) |
| 17th of October 2007 | DEATH | Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (Born 1918) |
| 17th of October 2007 | DEATH | Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (Born 1931) |
| 17th of October 2008 | DEATH | Levi Stubbs, American baritone singer (Four Tops) (Born 1936) |
| 17th of October 2009 | DEATH | Vic Mizzy, American composer (themes to Green Acres and The Addams Family) (Born 1916) |