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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 17th of February 1370 | EVENT | Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. |
| 17th of February 1500 | EVENT | Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt. |
| 17th of February 1600 | EVENT | The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome for heresy. |
| 17th of February 1621 | EVENT | Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony. |
| 17th of February 1753 | EVENT | In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. |
| 17th of February 1801 | EVENT | An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives. |
| 17th of February 1809 | EVENT | Miami University is chartered by the State of Ohio. |
| 17th of February 1814 | EVENT | War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormans. |
| 17th of February 1819 | EVENT | The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time. |
| 17th of February 1838 | EVENT | Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus. |
| 17th of February 1854 | EVENT | The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State. |
| 17th of February 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic. |
| 17th of February 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces. |
| 17th of February 1871 | EVENT | The victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. |
| 17th of February 1904 | EVENT | Madama Butterfly receives its premiere at La Scala in Milan. |
| 17th of February 1913 | EVENT | The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century. |
| 17th of February 1924 | EVENT | In Miami, Florida, Johnny Weissmuller sets a new world record in the 100 meters freestyle swimming competition with a time of 57.4 seconds. |
| 17th of February 1933 | EVENT | The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States. |
| 17th of February 1933 | EVENT | Newsweek magazine is published for the first time. |
| 17th of February 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22. |
| 17th of February 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk (Chuuk), Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion. |
| 17th of February 1959 | EVENT | Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 : The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution. |
| 17th of February 1964 | EVENT | In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population. |
| 17th of February 1964 | EVENT | Gabonese president Leon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place. |
| 17th of February 1965 | EVENT | Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing. |
| 17th of February 1968 | EVENT | In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens. |
| 17th of February 1972 | EVENT | Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model-T. |
| 17th of February 1974 | EVENT | Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter. |
| 17th of February 1978 | EVENT | The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30. |
| 17th of February 1979 | EVENT | The Sino-Vietnamese War begins. |
| 17th of February 1995 | EVENT | The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN. |
| 17th of February 1996 | EVENT | In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match. |
| 17th of February 1996 | EVENT | NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros. |
| 17th of February 1998 | EVENT | Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian troops kill 70 : 90 Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Qaradagl?. |
| 17th of February 2003 | EVENT | The London Congestion Charge scheme begins. |
| 17th of February 2006 | EVENT | A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126. |
| 17th of February 2008 | EVENT | Kosovo declares independence. |
| 17th of February 1490 | BIRTHDAY | Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (d. 1527) |
| 17th of February 1519 | BIRTHDAY | Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563) |
| 17th of February 1524 | BIRTHDAY | Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574) |
| 17th of February 1581 | BIRTHDAY | Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653) |
| 17th of February 1646 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714) |
| 17th of February 1653 | BIRTHDAY | Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (d. 1713) |
| 17th of February 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790) |
| 17th of February 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1762) |
| 17th of February 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Horace-Benedict de Saussure, Swiss physicist and founder of alpinism (d. 1799) |
| 17th of February 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831) |
| 17th of February 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803) |
| 17th of February 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Laennec, French physician (d. 1826) |
| 17th of February 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876) |
| 17th of February 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866) |
| 17th of February 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Haller Nutt, Southern Plantation owner (d. 1864) |
| 17th of February 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (d. 1881) |
| 17th of February 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Elzear-Alexandre Taschereau, Catholic cardinal (d. 1898) |
| 17th of February 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Lola Montez, Irish dancer (d. 1861) |
| 17th of February 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Spanish poet (d. 1870) |
| 17th of February 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder (d. 1913) |
| 17th of February 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920) |
| 17th of February 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner, the last to carry out capital punishment in Sweden (d. 1920) |
| 17th of February 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1902) |
| 17th of February 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (d. 1922) |
| 17th of February 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Mori Ogai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922) |
| 17th of February 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927) |
| 17th of February 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Murgas, Slovak inventor (d. 1929) |
| 17th of February 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941) |
| 17th of February 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas J. Watson, American computer manufacturer (d. 1956) |
| 17th of February 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (d. 1904) |
| 17th of February 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Maginot, French politician (d. 1932) |
| 17th of February 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Isidora Sekulic, Serbian prose writer, novelist and essayist (d. 1958) |
| 17th of February 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Evans, American baseball player (d. 1943) |
| 17th of February 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947) |
| 17th of February 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969) |
| 17th of February 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Ronald Fisher, Statistician and Geneticist (d. 1962) |
| 17th of February 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Fraenkel, German-born Israeli mathematician and recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1965) |
| 17th of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965) |
| 17th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian writer (d. 1951) |
| 17th of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (d. 1980) |
| 17th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Red Barber, American baseball announcer (d. 1992) |
| 17th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (d. 2005) |
| 17th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Lawrence, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 17th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (d. 1979) |
| 17th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born American literary scholar (d. 1984) |
| 17th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Orrin Tucker, American bandleader and composer |
| 17th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Norton, American author (d. 2005) |
| 17th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Morris, American actor (d. 1959) |
| 17th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Kennedy, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 17th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Raf Vallone, Italian actor (d. 2002) |
| 17th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and Rugby Union footballer (d. 1940) |
| 17th of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, Mexican inventor (d. 1965) |
| 17th of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher (d. 2002) |
| 17th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Freeman, American actress (d. 2001) |
| 17th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (d. 2001) |
| 17th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007) |
| 17th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Edwards, American singer (d. 1969) |
| 17th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Valentino Mazzia, American forensic anesthesiologist (d. 1999) |
| 17th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Truman, American novelist (d. 2008) |
| 17th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Holbrook, American actor |
| 17th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003) |
| 17th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Marta Romero, Puerto Rican actress & singer |
| 17th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Routledge, English actress |
| 17th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Meger, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Chaim Potok, American author (d. 2002) |
| 17th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Craig, American baseball player and manager |
| 17th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Rendell, English writer |
| 17th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Craig L. Thomas, American politician (d. 2007) |
| 17th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Lewis, American singer |
| 17th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Bates, English actor (d. 2003) |
| 17th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian |
| 17th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Pickles, UK-born American actress |
| 17th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Brown, American football player |
| 17th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Buck Trent, American banjo player |
| 17th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Henry, American/Canadian actress |
| 17th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | John Leyton, British singer |
| 17th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Ann Mobley, American actress and beauty queen |
| 17th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006) |
| 17th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Julia McKenzie, English actress and theatre director |
| 17th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Huey P. Newton, American political activist (d. 1989) |
| 17th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Costas Azariadis, Greek macroeconomist |
| 17th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer |
| 17th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Zina Bethune, American actress |
| 17th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Brenda Fricker, Irish actress |
| 17th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Dodie Stevens, American singer |
| 17th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Jose, Mexican singer and actor |
| 17th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Don Scardino, American television director and actor |
| 17th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Majerus, American basketball coach |
| 17th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Frith, English musician and composer |
| 17th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Rashid Minhas, Pilot officer in Pakistan Air Force during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (d. 1971) |
| 17th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Karin Janz, East German gymnast |
| 17th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Pace, British actor and comic |
| 17th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Russo, American actress |
| 17th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mo Yan, Chinese novelist |
| 17th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Karn, American actor |
| 17th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician |
| 17th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Aryeh Deri, Israeli rabbi and politician |
| 17th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Lomax, American football player |
| 17th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Rowdy Gaines, American swimmer |
| 17th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Bayer, American music video director |
| 17th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (d. 1999) |
| 17th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor |
| 17th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer (d. 1995) |
| 17th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jen-Hsun Huang, American entrepreneur and businessman |
| 17th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Jordan, American basketball player |
| 17th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian and actor |
| 17th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Syler, American journalist |
| 17th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Buster Olney, American sports columnist |
| 17th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bay, American film director |
| 17th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Luc Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Lepond, American musician (Symphony X) |
| 17th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (d. 2004) |
| 17th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Chante Moore, American singer |
| 17th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Cox, American football player |
| 17th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tuesday Knight, American actress |
| 17th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Willi Kronhardt, German footballer |
| 17th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | David Douillet, French judoka |
| 17th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Moe, American skier |
| 17th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Purcell, English/Australian actor |
| 17th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Martyn Bennett, Canadian composer (d. 2005) |
| 17th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Edwards, British actor |
| 17th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | SaRenna Lee, American pornographic actress |
| 17th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Denise Richards, American actress |
| 17th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Billie Joe Armstrong, American musician (Green Day) |
| 17th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater |
| 17th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Hawkins, American musician (Foo Fighters) |
| 17th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ralphie May, American comedian |
| 17th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | LG Petrov, Swedish singer (Entombed) |
| 17th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Yuki Isoya, Japanese singer (Judy and Mary) |
| 17th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Valeria Mazza, Argentinian model |
| 17th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Raphael Ibanez, French rugby player |
| 17th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Barry, American basketball player |
| 17th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry O'Connell, American actor |
| 17th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kaoru, Japanese musician |
| 17th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan White, American singer |
| 17th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress |
| 17th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Vaclav Prospal, Czech ice hockey player |
| 17th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | William Roussel, French musician (Mutiilation) |
| 17th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Carlson, American actress |
| 17th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Williamson, American baseball player |
| 17th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Wong Choong Hann, Malaysian badminton player |
| 17th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim |
| 17th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Dee, Puerto Rican pornographic actress |
| 17th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Willingham, American baseball player |
| 17th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Ritter, American actor |
| 17th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Al Harrington, American basketball player |
| 17th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Klemi Saban, Israeli footballer |
| 17th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor |
| 17th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Paris Hilton, American actress and heiress |
| 17th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Adriano, Brazilian footballer |
| 17th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Bruney, American baseball player |
| 17th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Merriweather, Australian singer |
| 17th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Cid, French footballer |
| 17th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Marios Kaperonis, Greek boxer |
| 17th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter |
| 17th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Jacobs, American professional wrestler |
| 17th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sadha, Indian film actress |
| 17th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kenta Kamakari, Japanese actor and seiyuu |
| 17th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | AB de Villiers, South African cricketer |
| 17th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Miller, American ice hockey player |
| 17th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper |
| 17th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Curtis, Filipino actress and model |
| 17th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Joey O'Brien, Irish footballer |
| 17th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Rodriguez, American wrestler and ring announcer |
| 17th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Natascha Kampusch, Austrian kidnapping victim |
| 17th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Adlington, English swimmer |
| 17th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Stacey McClean, British singer |
| 17th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Chord Overstreet, American actor |
| 17th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Sheeran, English signer |
| 17th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Bonnie Wright, English actress |
| 17th of February 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Meaghan Jette Martin, American actress and singer |
| 17th of February 1993 | BIRTHDAY | AJ Perez, Filipino actor and model (d. 2011) |
| 17th of February 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Wiegratz, German actor |
| 17th of February 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Sasha Pieterse, South African/American actress |
| 17th of February 0364 | DEATH | Jovian, Roman Emperor (Born 331) |
| 17th of February 0440 | DEATH | Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian monk and linguist (Born 360) |
| 17th of February 1339 | DEATH | Otto, Duke of Austria (Born 1301) |
| 17th of February 1371 | DEATH | Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria |
| 17th of February 1596 | DEATH | Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (Born 1536) |
| 17th of February 1600 | DEATH | Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (Born 1548) |
| 17th of February 1609 | DEATH | Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Born 1549) |
| 17th of February 1624 | DEATH | Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (Born 1536) |
| 17th of February 1659 | DEATH | Abel Servien, French diplomat (Born 1593) |
| 17th of February 1673 | DEATH | Moliere, French playwright (Born 1622) |
| 17th of February 1680 | DEATH | Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (Born 1599) |
| 17th of February 1680 | DEATH | Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist (Born 1637) |
| 17th of February 1715 | DEATH | Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (Born 1646) |
| 17th of February 1732 | DEATH | Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (Born 1669) |
| 17th of February 1768 | DEATH | Arthur Onslow, English politician (Born 1691) |
| 17th of February 1780 | DEATH | Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (Born 1706) |
| 17th of February 1841 | DEATH | Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist (Born 1770) |
| 17th of February 1854 | DEATH | John Martin, English painter (Born 1789) |
| 17th of February 1856 | DEATH | Heinrich Heine, German writer (Born 1797) |
| 17th of February 1874 | DEATH | Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (Born 1796) |
| 17th of February 1883 | DEATH | Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (Born 1806) |
| 17th of February 1883 | DEATH | Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (Born 1845) |
| 17th of February 1890 | DEATH | Christopher Sholes, American inventor (Born 1819) |
| 17th of February 1905 | DEATH | William Bickerton, Mormon prophet (Born 1815) |
| 17th of February 1909 | DEATH | Geronimo, Apache leader (Born 1829) |
| 17th of February 1912 | DEATH | Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer (Born 1876) |
| 17th of February 1919 | DEATH | Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1841) |
| 17th of February 1934 | DEATH | King Albert I of Belgium (Born 1875) |
| 17th of February 1934 | DEATH | Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (Born 1862) |
| 17th of February 1939 | DEATH | Willy Hess, German violinist (Born 1859) |
| 17th of February 1943 | DEATH | Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer (Born 1888) |
| 17th of February 1943 | DEATH | Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (Born 1872) |
| 17th of February 1958 | DEATH | Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (Born 1876) |
| 17th of February 1961 | DEATH | Nita Naldi, American actress (Born 1897) |
| 17th of February 1962 | DEATH | Bruno Walter, German conductor (Born 1876) |
| 17th of February 1970 | DEATH | Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1888) |
| 17th of February 1970 | DEATH | Alfred Newman, American film composer (Born 1900) |
| 17th of February 1977 | DEATH | Janani Luwum, Ugandan Archbishop (Born 1922) |
| 17th of February 1982 | DEATH | Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (Born 1922) |
| 17th of February 1982 | DEATH | Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (Born 1917) |
| 17th of February 1982 | DEATH | Lee Strasberg, Austrian-born actor (Born 1901) |
| 17th of February 1986 | DEATH | Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Born 1895) |
| 17th of February 1989 | DEATH | Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (Born 1908) |
| 17th of February 1990 | DEATH | Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (Born 1901) |
| 17th of February 1990 | DEATH | Erik Rhodes, American actor (Born 1906) |
| 17th of February 1994 | DEATH | Randy Shilts, American author and activist (Born 1951) |
| 17th of February 1996 | DEATH | Herve Bazin, French writer (Born 1911) |
| 17th of February 1997 | DEATH | Zein Isa, Palestinian militant |
| 17th of February 1998 | DEATH | Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (Born 1921) |
| 17th of February 1998 | DEATH | Ernst Junger, German author (Born 1895) |
| 17th of February 2001 | DEATH | Bob Geary, Canadian football player and manager (Born 1933) |
| 17th of February 2001 | DEATH | Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (Born 1948) |
| 17th of February 2001 | DEATH | Barry Burman, English artist (Born 1943) |
| 17th of February 2003 | DEATH | Steve Bechler, American baseball player (Born 1979) |
| 17th of February 2004 | DEATH | Jose Lopez Portillo, President of Mexico (Born 1920) |
| 17th of February 2005 | DEATH | Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (Born 1919) |
| 17th of February 2005 | DEATH | Omar Sivori, Argentine footballer (Born 1935) |
| 17th of February 2006 | DEATH | Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (Born 1948) |
| 17th of February 2006 | DEATH | Ray Barretto, Puerto Rican musician (Born 1929) |
| 17th of February 2007 | DEATH | Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (Born 1965) |
| 17th of February 2007 | DEATH | Jurga Ivanauskaite, Lithuanian writer (Born 1961) |
| 17th of February 2007 | DEATH | Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born musician, producer and songwriter (Born 1943) |
| 17th of February 2007 | DEATH | Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (Born 1910) |
| 17th of February 2008 | DEATH | Brian Harris, English footballer (Born 1935) |
| 17th of February 2009 | DEATH | Conchita Cintron, Chilean bullfighter (Born 1922) |
| 17th of February 2009 | DEATH | Mike Whitmarsh, American volleyball player (Born 1962) |
| 17th of February 2009 | DEATH | Gazanfer Ozcan, Turkish actor (Born 1931) |