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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 17th of August 0986 | EVENT | A Byzantine army is destroyed in the pass of Trajan's Gate by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron. The Byzantine emperor Basil II narrowly escaped. |
| 17th of August 1807 | EVENT | Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. |
| 17th of August 1862 | EVENT | Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. |
| 17th of August 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Major General J.E.B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. |
| 17th of August 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter. |
| 17th of August 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville : Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida. |
| 17th of August 1883 | EVENT | The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional. |
| 17th of August 1907 | EVENT | Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in Seattle. |
| 17th of August 1908 | EVENT | Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, realized by Emile Cohl, is shown in Paris. |
| 17th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: Battle of Stalluponen : The German army of General Hermann von Francois defeats the Russian force commanded by Pavel Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia. |
| 17th of August 1915 | EVENT | Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia. |
| 17th of August 1918 | EVENT | Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. |
| 17th of August 1942 | EVENT | U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari). |
| 17th of August 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force begins regular combat operations in Europe with an attack on the marshalling yards at Rouen-Sotteville. |
| 17th of August 1943 | EVENT | The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission. |
| 17th of August 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. |
| 17th of August 1943 | EVENT | World War II: First Quebec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. |
| 17th of August 1945 | EVENT | Indonesian Declaration of Independence. |
| 17th of August 1947 | EVENT | The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed. |
| 17th of August 1953 | EVENT | Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California. |
| 17th of August 1959 | EVENT | Quake Lake: Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana. |
| 17th of August 1959 | EVENT | Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released. |
| 17th of August 1960 | EVENT | Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France. |
| 17th of August 1962 | EVENT | East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall. |
| 17th of August 1969 | EVENT | Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage. |
| 17th of August 1970 | EVENT | Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus). |
| 17th of August 1978 | EVENT | Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. |
| 17th of August 1979 | EVENT | Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over Ukraine, killing 156 |
| 17th of August 1980 | EVENT | Azaria Chamberlain disappears, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history. |
| 17th of August 1982 | EVENT | The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany. |
| 17th of August 1988 | EVENT | Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash. |
| 17th of August 1998 | EVENT | Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship. |
| 17th of August 1999 | EVENT | A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Izmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000. |
| 17th of August 2004 | EVENT | The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country. |
| 17th of August 2005 | EVENT | The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts. |
| 17th of August 2005 | EVENT | Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh |
| 17th of August 2008 | EVENT | Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games. |
| 17th of August 1473 | BIRTHDAY | Richard, Duke of York |
| 17th of August 1578 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660) |
| 17th of August 1601 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665) |
| 17th of August 1629 | BIRTHDAY | King John III of Poland (d. 1696) |
| 17th of August 1686 | BIRTHDAY | Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (d. 1768) |
| 17th of August 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Dobrovsky, Czech linguist (d. 1828) |
| 17th of August 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800) |
| 17th of August 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836) |
| 17th of August 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria (d. 1861) |
| 17th of August 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst, German priest (d. 1849) |
| 17th of August 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897) |
| 17th of August 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913) |
| 17th of August 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (d. 1924) |
| 17th of August 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911) |
| 17th of August 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Marlowe, English actress (d. 1950) |
| 17th of August 1873 | BIRTHDAY | John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946) |
| 17th of August 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer (d. 1911) |
| 17th of August 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer (d. 1948) |
| 17th of August 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Charles I of Austria (d. 1922) |
| 17th of August 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black rights activist (d. 1940) |
| 17th of August 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Monty Woolley, American actor (d. 1963) |
| 17th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946) |
| 17th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920) |
| 17th of August 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Mae West, American actress (d. 1980) |
| 17th of August 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970) |
| 17th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984) |
| 17th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991) |
| 17th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985) |
| 17th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Sandberger, German military officer (d. 2010) |
| 17th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995) |
| 17th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy York, American baseball player (d. 1970) |
| 17th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | W. Mark Felt, American Watergate informant (d. 2008) |
| 17th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Alfredo Galvez, Argentine racing driver (d. 1989) |
| 17th of August 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1988) |
| 17th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006) |
| 17th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress |
| 17th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, British historian (d. 1994) |
| 17th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Tattersall, England cricketer |
| 17th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician |
| 17th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | George Melly, British singer (d. 2007) |
| 17th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1992) |
| 17th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 pilot (d. 1977) |
| 17th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Donley, American singer (d. 1963) |
| 17th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998) |
| 17th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Corbett, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 17th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | V. S. Naipaul, West Indian writer, Nobel Laureate |
| 17th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986) |
| 17th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene F. Kranz, American NASA executive |
| 17th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor |
| 17th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American musician and actor (d. 2007) |
| 17th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Butler, singer |
| 17th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian Muslim cleric |
| 17th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Theodoros Pangalos, Greek politician |
| 17th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Luther Allison, American musician (d. 1997) |
| 17th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Valentine, British actor |
| 17th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (d. 2006) |
| 17th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Boog Powell, American baseball player |
| 17th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Pierre Lefebvre, French Canadian film director |
| 17th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Robert De Niro, American actor |
| 17th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Dave "Snaker" Ray, American musician (d. 2002) |
| 17th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, billionaire |
| 17th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Coolidge, American film director |
| 17th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Manning, 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago |
| 17th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Talley, American musician (Box Tops) |
| 17th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvia Nasar, German-born American economist and author |
| 17th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Rod MacDonald, American musician |
| 17th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Sib Hashian, American musician (Boston) |
| 17th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Norm Coleman, American politician |
| 17th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Joy, Canadian actor |
| 17th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Minter, British boxer |
| 17th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player |
| 17th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Mario Theissen, German F1 team principal of BMW Sauber |
| 17th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver |
| 17th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Rowland, English musician (Dexys Midnight Runners) |
| 17th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Regan, American book publisher |
| 17th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Malthouse, Premiership winning Australian football coach |
| 17th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Johnson, American guitarist |
| 17th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hilton, American heir |
| 17th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Moulding, English bass player, singer and songwriter (XTC) |
| 17th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Alvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist |
| 17th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Gail Berman, American film executive |
| 17th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Cousins, British figure skater |
| 17th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Belinda Carlisle, American singer |
| 17th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Goodwin British banker |
| 17th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player |
| 17th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Chika Sakamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer |
| 17th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Franzen, American author |
| 17th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993) |
| 17th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Schlosser, American author |
| 17th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Penn, American actor and director |
| 17th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer |
| 17th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Gilby Clarke, American musician (Guns N' Roses) |
| 17th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John Marshall Jones, American actor |
| 17th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy Landel, American professional wrestler |
| 17th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Gruden, American football coach |
| 17th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | S. Shankar, Indian film director |
| 17th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Colin James, Canadian musician |
| 17th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Maria McKee, American singer |
| 17th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder |
| 17th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Maysa Leak, American jazz singer |
| 17th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Max, American singer (dc talk) |
| 17th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ed McCaffrey, American football player |
| 17th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Helen McCrory, English actress |
| 17th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and singer (New Kids On The Block) |
| 17th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Laettner, American basketball player |
| 17th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kelvin Mercer, American rapper (De La Soul) |
| 17th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Courier, American tennis player |
| 17th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | ?yvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer |
| 17th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist |
| 17th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress |
| 17th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Rehn, Australian Rules footballer |
| 17th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 17th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 17th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Ryker, American pornographic actor |
| 17th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Hajjar, Lebanese musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta) |
| 17th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nicola Kraus, American novelist |
| 17th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Giuliana DePandi, Italian-born American television personality |
| 17th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Halberstadt, American actor |
| 17th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Geertjan Lassche, Dutch reporter |
| 17th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | William Gallas, French footballer |
| 17th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Thierry Henry, French footballer |
| 17th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer |
| 17th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker |
| 17th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Oakley, English footballer |
| 17th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Karena Lam, Hong Kong actress |
| 17th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Vibeke Stene, Norwegian singer (Tristania) |
| 17th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Antwaan Randle El, American football player |
| 17th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Patric, British actor |
| 17th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 17th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer |
| 17th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer |
| 17th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kristin Holt, American television personality |
| 17th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Cheerleader Melissa, American professional wrestler |
| 17th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Jagielka, English footballer |
| 17th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Salling, American actor |
| 17th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player |
| 17th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Dee Brown, American basketball player |
| 17th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Garrett Wolfe, American football player |
| 17th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Yu Aoi, Japanese actress |
| 17th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Gay, American basketball player |
| 17th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player |
| 17th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Bryton McClure, American actor & singer |
| 17th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Shultz, American musician, Cage the Elephant |
| 17th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Erika Toda, Japanese actress |
| 17th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Nichole Cordova, Performer (Girlicious) |
| 17th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Brady Corbet, American actor |
| 17th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Lau, German actor |
| 17th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Hight, American snowboarder |
| 17th of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress |
| 17th of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Bates, American actor |
| 17th of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Montana Fishburne, American pornographic actress |
| 17th of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Qory Sandioriva, Indonesian beauty queen, Puteri Indonesia 2009 |
| 17th of August 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Ella Cruz, Filipina actress |
| 17th of August 1153 | DEATH | Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (Born 1130) |
| 17th of August 1304 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (Born 1243) |
| 17th of August 1510 | DEATH | Edmund Dudley, English statesman (Born 1462) |
| 17th of August 1657 | DEATH | Robert Blake, British admiral (Born 1599) |
| 17th of August 1673 | DEATH | Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (Born 1641) |
| 17th of August 1676 | DEATH | Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (Born 1621) |
| 17th of August 1720 | DEATH | Anne Lefevre, French scholar (Born 1654) |
| 17th of August 1723 | DEATH | Joseph Bingham, English scholar (Born 1668) |
| 17th of August 1768 | DEATH | Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (Born 1703) |
| 17th of August 1785 | DEATH | Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut (Born 1710) |
| 17th of August 1786 | DEATH | King Frederick II of Prussia (Born 1712) |
| 17th of August 1834 | DEATH | Husein Gradascevic, Bosnian rebel leader (Born 1802) |
| 17th of August 1838 | DEATH | Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian librettist (Born 1749) |
| 17th of August 1850 | DEATH | Don Jose de San Martin, Argentine general (Born 1778) |
| 17th of August 1861 | DEATH | Alcee Louis la Branche, American Politician (Born 1806) |
| 17th of August 1870 | DEATH | Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician, and freedom fighter of the 19th century (Born 1818) |
| 17th of August 1875 | DEATH | Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (Born 1827) |
| 17th of August 1880 | DEATH | Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (Born 1810) |
| 17th of August 1896 | DEATH | Bridget Driscoll, British automobile fatality |
| 17th of August 1901 | DEATH | Edmond Audran, French composer (Born 1842) |
| 17th of August 1903 | DEATH | Hans Gude, Norwegian landscape painter (Born 1825) |
| 17th of August 1909 | DEATH | Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian Revolutionary (Born 1883) |
| 17th of August 1918 | DEATH | Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (Born 1873) |
| 17th of August 1920 | DEATH | Ray Chapman, American baseball player (Born 1891) |
| 17th of August 1924 | DEATH | Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (Born 1851) |
| 17th of August 1925 | DEATH | Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (Born 1848) |
| 17th of August 1935 | DEATH | Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American feminist and writer (Born 1860) |
| 17th of August 1940 | DEATH | Billy Fiske, American aviator (Born 1911) |
| 17th of August 1945 | DEATH | Reidar Haaland, Norwegian Nazi collaborator (Born 1919) |
| 17th of August 1949 | DEATH | Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist and politician (Born 1891) |
| 17th of August 1954 | DEATH | Billy Murray, American recording artist (Born 1877) |
| 17th of August 1962 | DEATH | Peter Fechter, East German defector (Born 1944) |
| 17th of August 1964 | DEATH | Happy Felsch, American baseball player best known for his involvement in the Black Sox Scandal |
| 17th of August 1969 | DEATH | Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1888) |
| 17th of August 1970 | DEATH | Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (Born 1908) |
| 17th of August 1971 | DEATH | Wilhelm List, German field marshal (Born 1880) |
| 17th of August 1971 | DEATH | Maedayama Eigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (Born 1914) |
| 17th of August 1973 | DEATH | Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (Born 1939) |
| 17th of August 1973 | DEATH | Jean Barraque, French composer (Born 1928) |
| 17th of August 1973 | DEATH | Conrad Aiken, American author (Born 1889) |
| 17th of August 1976 | DEATH | William Redfield, American actor (Born 1927) |
| 17th of August 1979 | DEATH | John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (Born 1907) |
| 17th of August 1979 | DEATH | Vivian Vance, American actress (Born 1909) |
| 17th of August 1983 | DEATH | Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (Born 1896) |
| 17th of August 1987 | DEATH | Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (Born 1894) |
| 17th of August 1987 | DEATH | Gary Chester, Italian studio drummer (Born 1924) |
| 17th of August 1987 | DEATH | Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (Born 1929) |
| 17th of August 1988 | DEATH | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Born 1914) |
| 17th of August 1988 | DEATH | Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani politician, Former Martial Law Administrator and President of Pakistan (Born 1924) |
| 17th of August 1988 | DEATH | Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (Born 1935) |
| 17th of August 1990 | DEATH | Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (Born 1918) |
| 17th of August 1992 | DEATH | Al Parker, American adult film actor (Born 1952) |
| 17th of August 1993 | DEATH | Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (Born 1920) |
| 17th of August 1994 | DEATH | Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and team owner (Born 1901) |
| 17th of August 1994 | DEATH | Jack Sharkey, American boxer (Born 1902) |
| 17th of August 1995 | DEATH | Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (Born 1933) |
| 17th of August 1995 | DEATH | Howard Koch, American screenwriter (Born 1902) |
| 17th of August 1998 | DEATH | Wladyslaw Komar, Polish track and field athlete (Born 1940) |
| 17th of August 1998 | DEATH | Tadeusz Slusarski, Polish track and field athlete (Born 1950) |
| 17th of August 2004 | DEATH | Thea Astley, Australian writer (Born 1925) |
| 17th of August 2004 | DEATH | Gerard Souzay, French baritone (Born 1918) |
| 17th of August 2005 | DEATH | John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (Born 1934) |
| 17th of August 2007 | DEATH | Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (Born 1913) |
| 17th of August 2007 | DEATH | Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (Born 1982) |
| 17th of August 2008 | DEATH | Franco Sensi, Italian businessman and football team owner (Born 1926) |
| 17th of August 2010 | DEATH | Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and eighth President of the Italian Republic (Born 1928) |