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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 17th of January 1287 | EVENT | King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca. |
| 17th of January 1377 | EVENT | Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. |
| 17th of January 1524 | EVENT | Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean. |
| 17th of January 1562 | EVENT | France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain. |
| 17th of January 1595 | EVENT | Henry IV of France declares war on Spain. |
| 17th of January 1608 | EVENT | Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men. |
| 17th of January 1648 | EVENT | England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War. |
| 17th of January 1773 | EVENT | Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle. |
| 17th of January 1781 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens : Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina. |
| 17th of January 1799 | EVENT | Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed. |
| 17th of January 1811 | EVENT | Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderon Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionists. |
| 17th of January 1852 | EVENT | The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal. |
| 17th of January 1873 | EVENT | A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War. |
| 17th of January 1885 | EVENT | A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan. |
| 17th of January 1893 | EVENT | The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii. |
| 17th of January 1899 | EVENT | The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. |
| 17th of January 1903 | EVENT | El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve. |
| 17th of January 1904 | EVENT | Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre. |
| 17th of January 1912 | EVENT | Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. |
| 17th of January 1913 | EVENT | Raymond Poincare is elected President of France. |
| 17th of January 1917 | EVENT | The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands. |
| 17th of January 1918 | EVENT | Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard. |
| 17th of January 1929 | EVENT | Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip. |
| 17th of January 1929 | EVENT | Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days into his reign. |
| 17th of January 1941 | EVENT | Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive victory over the Royal Thai Navy. |
| 17th of January 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties. |
| 17th of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw. |
| 17th of January 1945 | EVENT | The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in. |
| 17th of January 1945 | EVENT | Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again. |
| 17th of January 1946 | EVENT | The UN Security Council holds its first session. |
| 17th of January 1949 | EVENT | The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs. |
| 17th of January 1950 | EVENT | The Great Brinks Robbery : 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 17th of January 1961 | EVENT | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex". |
| 17th of January 1961 | EVENT | Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States. |
| 17th of January 1966 | EVENT | A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident. |
| 17th of January 1969 | EVENT | Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA. |
| 17th of January 1977 | EVENT | Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States. |
| 17th of January 1981 | EVENT | President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it. |
| 17th of January 1982 | EVENT | "Cold Sunday" - in the United States temperatures fell to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities. |
| 17th of January 1983 | EVENT | The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's, flagship store in downtown Detroit closes due to high cost of operating. |
| 17th of January 1989 | EVENT | Cleveland School massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life. |
| 17th of January 1991 | EVENT | Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V. |
| 17th of January 1991 | EVENT | Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation. |
| 17th of January 1992 | EVENT | During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II. |
| 17th of January 1994 | EVENT | 1994 Northridge Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California. |
| 17th of January 1995 | EVENT | The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people. |
| 17th of January 1996 | EVENT | The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union. |
| 17th of January 1997 | EVENT | A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad. |
| 17th of January 1998 | EVENT | Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report. |
| 17th of January 2001 | EVENT | U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis' rank from Lieutenant to Captain. |
| 17th of January 2002 | EVENT | Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. |
| 17th of January 2007 | EVENT | The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing. |
| 17th of January 2008 | EVENT | British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777. |
| 17th of January 2010 | EVENT | Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths. |
| 17th of January 1463 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick III of Saxony, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525) |
| 17th of January 1484 | BIRTHDAY | George Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545) |
| 17th of January 1501 | BIRTHDAY | Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566) |
| 17th of January 1504 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Pius V (d. 1572) |
| 17th of January 1560 | BIRTHDAY | Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624) |
| 17th of January 1600 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681) |
| 17th of January 1612 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (d. 1671) |
| 17th of January 1666 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723) |
| 17th of January 1686 | BIRTHDAY | Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (d. 1766) |
| 17th of January 1706 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and inventor (d. 1790) |
| 17th of January 1712 | BIRTHDAY | John Stanley, English composer (d. 1786) |
| 17th of January 1719 | BIRTHDAY | William Vernon, American merchant (d. 1806) |
| 17th of January 1732 | BIRTHDAY | King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski of Poland (d. 1798) |
| 17th of January 1734 | BIRTHDAY | Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belgian composer (d. 1829) |
| 17th of January 1761 | BIRTHDAY | James Hall, Scottish geologist (d. 1832) |
| 17th of January 1789 | BIRTHDAY | August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850) |
| 17th of January 1798 | BIRTHDAY | Auguste Comte, French sociologist (d. 1857) |
| 17th of January 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Mrs. Henry Wood, English novelist (d. 1887) |
| 17th of January 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Bronte, British author (d. 1849) |
| 17th of January 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Remenyi, Hungarian violinist (d. 1898) |
| 17th of January 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War general (d. 1918) |
| 17th of January 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903) |
| 17th of January 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Martyn Baird, American educationalist (d. 1906) |
| 17th of January 1834 | BIRTHDAY | August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914) |
| 17th of January 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandr Taneyev, Russian composer (d. 1918) |
| 17th of January 1851 | BIRTHDAY | A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928) |
| 17th of January 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Alva Belmont, American socialite (d. 1933) |
| 17th of January 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (d. 1935) |
| 17th of January 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941) |
| 17th of January 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Carrasquilla, Colombian writer (d. 1940) |
| 17th of January 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Hyde, Irish President of Ireland (d. 1949) |
| 17th of January 1863 | BIRTHDAY | David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister (d. 1945) |
| 17th of January 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner (d. 1938) |
| 17th of January 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951) |
| 17th of January 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939) |
| 17th of January 1871 | BIRTHDAY | David Earl Beatty British admiral (d. 1936) |
| 17th of January 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer (d. 1940) |
| 17th of January 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Florencio Sanchez, Uruguayan dramatist (d. 1910) |
| 17th of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Hague, American politician (d. 1956) |
| 17th of January 1877 | BIRTHDAY | May Gibbs, Australian children's author (d. 1969) |
| 17th of January 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Mack Sennett, Canadian film director (d. 1960) |
| 17th of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Antoni ?omnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941) |
| 17th of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Price, English psychic researcher and writer (d. 1948) |
| 17th of January 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946) |
| 17th of January 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (d. 1972) |
| 17th of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (d. 1955) |
| 17th of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Firbank, British novelist (d. 1926) |
| 17th of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975) |
| 17th of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (d. 1946) |
| 17th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of University of Chicago (d. 1977) |
| 17th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960) |
| 17th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947) |
| 17th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-born philosopher (d. 1973) |
| 17th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (d. 1953) |
| 17th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974) |
| 17th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Guillermo Stabile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966) |
| 17th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Zahradnicek, Czech poet (d. 1960) |
| 17th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007) |
| 17th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 17th of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Henk Badings, Dutch composer (d. 1987) |
| 17th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager (d. 1985) |
| 17th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) |
| 17th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Anacleto Angelini, Chilean businessman (d. 2007) |
| 17th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | William Stafford, American poet and essayist (d. 1993) |
| 17th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Brecher, American Screenwriter (d. 2008) |
| 17th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Frelinghuysen, American politician |
| 17th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | M. G. Ramachandran, Indian politician, actor (d. 1987) |
| 17th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Cardemil, Chilean huaso (d. 2007) |
| 17th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Joseph, British politician (d. 1994) |
| 17th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | George M. Leader, American politician and 36th Governor of Pennsylvania |
| 17th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Prohias, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998) |
| 17th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Echeverria Alvarez, Mexican President of Mexico |
| 17th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Robert De Niro, Sr., American painter (d. 1993) |
| 17th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Katzenbach, American jurist and 65th United States Attorney General |
| 17th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Betty White, American actress |
| 17th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Raye, Australian actress |
| 17th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Cormier, American author, columnist and reporter (d. 2000) |
| 17th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Abdul Kardar, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1996) |
| 17th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (d. 2000) |
| 17th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Ray Killen, American convict, former preacher and K.K.K. member |
| 17th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman |
| 17th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (d. 2006) |
| 17th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Kaye, Australian actor and musician (d. 2007) |
| 17th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Dooley, American humanitarian (d. 1961) |
| 17th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | E.W. Swackhamer, American television & film director (d. 1994) |
| 17th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008) |
| 17th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Barraque, French composer (d. 1973) |
| 17th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist |
| 17th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986) |
| 17th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie LeBaron, American football player |
| 17th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | James Earl Jones, American actor |
| 17th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Don Zimmer, American baseball coach |
| 17th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | L. Douglas Wilder, American 66th Governor of Virginia |
| 17th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Sheree North, American actress (d. 2005) |
| 17th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Dalida, French singer (d. 1987) |
| 17th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (d. 1998) |
| 17th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-born Pakistani diplomat (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) (d. 2003) |
| 17th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Cammell, Scottish film director (d. 1996) |
| 17th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Ann Minner, American politician, businesswoman and 72nd Governor of Delaware |
| 17th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Badiou, French philosopher |
| 17th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | John Bellairs, American mystery author (d. 1991) |
| 17th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece (d. 2008) |
| 17th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Maury Povich, American talk show host |
| 17th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner |
| 17th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Tabare Vazquez, President of Uruguay |
| 17th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist |
| 17th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Muhammad Ali, American boxer |
| 17th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist |
| 17th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and businesswoman |
| 17th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001) |
| 17th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Montez, American singer |
| 17th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Preval, President of Haiti |
| 17th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey Deuel, American actor |
| 17th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Francoise Hardy, French singer |
| 17th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter |
| 17th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Deslauriers, Quebec actress |
| 17th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Davi? Oddsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland |
| 17th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Ladd, American freeform (radio format) Disc Jockey |
| 17th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Queffelec, French pianist |
| 17th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984) |
| 17th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Taylor, British musician (The Rolling Stones) |
| 17th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Lopez Nieves, Latin American writer |
| 17th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Darrell Porter, American baseball player (d. 2002) |
| 17th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Fortensky, American former husband of Elizabeth Taylor |
| 17th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician |
| 17th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Johnson, American blues musician |
| 17th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Berlin, American musician |
| 17th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and environmental activist, son of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy |
| 17th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Kiefel, Australian lawyer and judge |
| 17th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Earle, American musician |
| 17th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Javie, American professional basketball referee |
| 17th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Young, English musician |
| 17th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Chegwin, English television presenter |
| 17th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian and radio personality |
| 17th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Vaarten, Belgian cyclist |
| 17th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Nocenti, American comic book writer |
| 17th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Valdas Kasparavicius, Lithuanian footballer |
| 17th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Susanna Hoffs, American musician |
| 17th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress |
| 17th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Chili Davis, Jamaican-born American baseball player |
| 17th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Chatchai Plengpanich, Thai actor |
| 17th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | John Crawford, American musician |
| 17th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Helgeland, American writer and film director |
| 17th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian women's Chess grandmaster |
| 17th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian |
| 17th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author |
| 17th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kai Hansen, German singer and guitarist (Gamma Ray) |
| 17th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States |
| 17th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Rourke, English bass guitarist (The Smiths) |
| 17th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Nioplias, Greek footballer |
| 17th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer |
| 17th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Stephin Merritt, American singer and songwriter (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies) |
| 17th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Malina, American actor |
| 17th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hawley, English singer, guitarist, and songwriter (Pulp, The Longpigs) |
| 17th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007) |
| 17th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor |
| 17th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer |
| 17th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Strong, American actor & voice actor |
| 17th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete |
| 17th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film writer and director |
| 17th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Naveen Andrews, British actor |
| 17th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tijs Verwest, (DJ Tiesto) Dutch DJ |
| 17th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born animator |
| 17th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | James Wattana, Thai snooker player |
| 17th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Roenick, American ice hockey player |
| 17th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kid Rock, American singer |
| 17th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress |
| 17th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Paolo Vaccari, Italian rugby player |
| 17th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Burns, English rally driver (d. 2005) |
| 17th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvie Testud, French actress |
| 17th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Wolfe, female boxer |
| 17th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter |
| 17th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Benno Furmann, German actor |
| 17th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Mexican footballer |
| 17th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Liz Ellis, Australian netball captain |
| 17th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 17th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Bhoy, Scottish comedian |
| 17th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Derrick Mason, American football player |
| 17th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian musician |
| 17th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Yang Chen, Chinese footballer |
| 17th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Jenkinson, English musician (Squarepusher) |
| 17th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican-American actor |
| 17th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Rami Yacoub, Swedish songwriter/producer |
| 17th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Fertig, American professional wrestler |
| 17th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Leigh Whannell, Australian screenwriter/actor |
| 17th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Pater Sparrow, Hungarian director/production designer |
| 17th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Oleg Lisogor, Ukranian swimmer |
| 17th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Zooey Deschanel, American actress |
| 17th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian ballroom dancer |
| 17th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberly Spicer, American model |
| 17th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Gareth McLearnon, Northern Irish flautist |
| 17th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer |
| 17th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ray J, American R&B singer |
| 17th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Mechlowicz, American actor |
| 17th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer |
| 17th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dwyane Wade, American basketball player |
| 17th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Hwanhee, South Korean singer and actor |
| 17th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Herber, German basketball player |
| 17th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Alvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer |
| 17th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Kelly, Australian racing driver |
| 17th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Harris, Scottish music producer and vocalist |
| 17th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Dee, Welsh pornographic actress |
| 17th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kang-in, South Korean singer, dancer, actor, MC, and DJ (Super Junior) |
| 17th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer (BeForU) |
| 17th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Simons, Dutch singer (Epica) |
| 17th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Hale Appleman, American actor |
| 17th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Hollie-Jay Bowes, English actress |
| 17th of January 0395 | DEATH | Theodosius I, Roman Emperor (Born 347) |
| 17th of January 1229 | DEATH | Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier |
| 17th of January 1369 | DEATH | King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (Born 1328) |
| 17th of January 1468 | DEATH | Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (Born 1405) |
| 17th of January 1598 | DEATH | Fyodor I Tsar of Russia (Born 1557) |
| 17th of January 1617 | DEATH | Faust Vrancic, Croatian inventor (Born 1551) |
| 17th of January 1654 | DEATH | Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (Born 1625) |
| 17th of January 1705 | DEATH | John Ray, English naturalist (Born 1627) |
| 17th of January 1718 | DEATH | Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader |
| 17th of January 1737 | DEATH | Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann, German architect (Born 1662) |
| 17th of January 1738 | DEATH | Jean-Francois Dandrieu, French composer (Born 1682) |
| 17th of January 1751 | DEATH | Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Born 1671) |
| 17th of January 1826 | DEATH | Juan Crisostomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (Born 1806) |
| 17th of January 1834 | DEATH | Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (Born 1762) |
| 17th of January 1861 | DEATH | Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (Born 1821) |
| 17th of January 1863 | DEATH | Horace Vernet, French painter (Born 1789) |
| 17th of January 1869 | DEATH | Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (Born 1813) |
| 17th of January 1874 | DEATH | Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (Born 1811) |
| 17th of January 1884 | DEATH | Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (Born 1804) |
| 17th of January 1887 | DEATH | William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (Born 1840) |
| 17th of January 1891 | DEATH | George Bancroft, U.S. historian (Born 1800) |
| 17th of January 1893 | DEATH | Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (Born 1822) |
| 17th of January 1903 | DEATH | Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (Born 1828) |
| 17th of January 1908 | DEATH | Ferdinand IV Grand Duke of Tuscany (Born 1835) |
| 17th of January 1909 | DEATH | Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (Born 1819) |
| 17th of January 1911 | DEATH | Sir Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist (Born 1822) |
| 17th of January 1927 | DEATH | Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (Born 1860) |
| 17th of January 1931 | DEATH | Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (Born 1864) |
| 17th of January 1932 | DEATH | Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (Born 1893) |
| 17th of January 1933 | DEATH | Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (Born 1848) |
| 17th of January 1936 | DEATH | Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (Born 1885) |
| 17th of January 1942 | DEATH | Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (Born 1884) |
| 17th of January 1947 | DEATH | Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (Born 1869) |
| 17th of January 1947 | DEATH | Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (Born 1883) |
| 17th of January 1952 | DEATH | Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (Born 1877) |
| 17th of January 1956 | DEATH | Blind Alfred Reed, American folk, country, and old-time musician (Born 1880) |
| 17th of January 1961 | DEATH | Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Born 1925) |
| 17th of January 1964 | DEATH | T.H. White, English author (Born 1906) |
| 17th of January 1967 | DEATH | Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (Born 1884) |
| 17th of January 1970 | DEATH | Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (Born 1890) |
| 17th of January 1970 | DEATH | Billy Stewart, American singer (Born 1937) |
| 17th of January 1972 | DEATH | Betty Smith, American writer and singer (Born 1896) |
| 17th of January 1977 | DEATH | Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (Born 1940) |
| 17th of January 1977 | DEATH | Gary Gilmore, American murderer (Born 1940) |
| 17th of January 1981 | DEATH | Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (Born 1899) |
| 17th of January 1983 | DEATH | Doodles Weaver, American actor (Born 1911) |
| 17th of January 1987 | DEATH | Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (Born 1908) |
| 17th of January 1991 | DEATH | King Olav V of Norway (Born 1903) |
| 17th of January 1992 | DEATH | Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (Born 1915) |
| 17th of January 1993 | DEATH | Albert Hourani, English historian (Born 1915) |
| 17th of January 1994 | DEATH | Helen Stephens, American runner (Born 1918) |
| 17th of January 1994 | DEATH | Yevgeni Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (Born 1926) |
| 17th of January 1996 | DEATH | Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (Born 1986) |
| 17th of January 1996 | DEATH | Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (Born 1953) |
| 17th of January 1996 | DEATH | Barbara Jordan, American politician (Born 1936) |
| 17th of January 1997 | DEATH | Bert Kelly, Australian politician (Born 1912) |
| 17th of January 1997 | DEATH | Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (Born 1906) |
| 17th of January 1998 | DEATH | Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (Born 1930) |
| 17th of January 1999 | DEATH | Robert Eads, American transsexual (Born 1945) |
| 17th of January 1999 | DEATH | Samantha Reid, American girl killed by GHB overdose (Born 1984) |
| 17th of January 2000 | DEATH | Philip Jones, British trumpeter (Born 1928) |
| 17th of January 2001 | DEATH | Gregory Corso, American poet (Born 1930) |
| 17th of January 2002 | DEATH | Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (Born 1955) |
| 17th of January 2002 | DEATH | Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1916) |
| 17th of January 2002 | DEATH | Queenie Leonard, American actress (Born 1905) |
| 17th of January 2003 | DEATH | Richard Crenna, American actor (Born 1926) |
| 17th of January 2003 | DEATH | Balint Vazsonyi, Hungarian pianist (Born 1936) |
| 17th of January 2004 | DEATH | Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (Born 1914) |
| 17th of January 2004 | DEATH | Czes?aw Niemen, Polish musician (Born 1939) |
| 17th of January 2004 | DEATH | Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (Born 1915) |
| 17th of January 2004 | DEATH | Noble Willingham, American actor (Born 1931) |
| 17th of January 2005 | DEATH | Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (Born 1960) |
| 17th of January 2005 | DEATH | Virginia Mayo, American actress (Born 1920) |
| 17th of January 2005 | DEATH | Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (Born 1920) |
| 17th of January 2005 | DEATH | Zhao Ziyang, Former Premier of the People's Republic of China (Born 1919) |
| 17th of January 2006 | DEATH | Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (Born 1930) |
| 17th of January 2006 | DEATH | Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (Born 1925) |
| 17th of January 2007 | DEATH | Art Buchwald, American humorist (Born 1925) |
| 17th of January 2007 | DEATH | Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (Born 1951) |
| 17th of January 2008 | DEATH | Bobby Fischer, American chess player (Born 1943) |
| 17th of January 2008 | DEATH | Ernie Holmes, American football player (Born 1948) |
| 17th of January 2008 | DEATH | Allan Melvin, American actor (Born 1923) |
| 17th of January 2009 | DEATH | Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (Born 1943) |
| 17th of January 2010 | DEATH | Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (Born 1914) |
| 17th of January 2010 | DEATH | Daisuke Gouri, Japanese seiyu (Born 1952) |
| 17th of January 2010 | DEATH | Michalis Papakonstantinou, Greek politician and author (Born 1919) |
| 17th of January 2010 | DEATH | Gaines Adams, American football player (Born 1983) |
| 17th of January 2011 | DEATH | Don Kirshner, American composer (Born 1934) |