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17th of September 1111 EVENT Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Froilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmirez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".
17th of September 1176 EVENT The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
17th of September 1462 EVENT The Battle of Swiecino (also known as the Battle of Zarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
17th of September 1577 EVENT The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
17th of September 1630 EVENT The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
17th of September 1631 EVENT Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.
17th of September 1683 EVENT Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.
17th of September 1776 EVENT The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
17th of September 1778 EVENT The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).
17th of September 1787 EVENT The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
17th of September 1809 EVENT Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
17th of September 1814 EVENT Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
17th of September 1859 EVENT Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Emperor Norton I" of the United States.
17th of September 1862 EVENT American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
17th of September 1862 EVENT American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.
17th of September 1894 EVENT The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
17th of September 1900 EVENT Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
17th of September 1908 EVENT The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
17th of September 1914 EVENT Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
17th of September 1916 EVENT World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkrafte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
17th of September 1920 EVENT The National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
17th of September 1924 EVENT The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
17th of September 1928 EVENT The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
17th of September 1939 EVENT World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
17th of September 1939 EVENT World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
17th of September 1939 EVENT Taisto Maki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6
17th of September 1941 EVENT World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued
17th of September 1943 EVENT World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis.
17th of September 1944 EVENT World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
17th of September 1947 EVENT James V. Forrestal is sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.
17th of September 1948 EVENT The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
17th of September 1948 EVENT The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
17th of September 1949 EVENT The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
17th of September 1956 EVENT Television is first broadcast in Australia.
17th of September 1957 EVENT Malaysia joins the United Nations.
17th of September 1961 EVENT The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh.
17th of September 1974 EVENT Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
17th of September 1976 EVENT The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
17th of September 1978 EVENT The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
17th of September 1980 EVENT After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
17th of September 1980 EVENT Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asuncion, Paraguay.
17th of September 1983 EVENT Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
17th of September 1991 EVENT Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
17th of September 1991 EVENT The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
17th of September 1992 EVENT An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
17th of September 1993 EVENT Last Russian troops leave Poland.
17th of September 2001 EVENT The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 Attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
17th of September 2006 EVENT Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.
17th of September 2007 EVENT AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.
17th of September 0879 BIRTHDAY King Charles III of France (d. 929)
17th of September 1192 BIRTHDAY Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
17th of September 1271 BIRTHDAY Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
17th of September 1550 BIRTHDAY Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
17th of September 1630 BIRTHDAY Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
17th of September 1639 BIRTHDAY Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
17th of September 1657 BIRTHDAY Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
17th of September 1677 BIRTHDAY Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
17th of September 1687 BIRTHDAY Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
17th of September 1688 BIRTHDAY Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714)
17th of September 1730 BIRTHDAY Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
17th of September 1739 BIRTHDAY John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
17th of September 1743 BIRTHDAY Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
17th of September 1771 BIRTHDAY Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
17th of September 1773 BIRTHDAY Jonathan Alder, American settler (d. 1849)
17th of September 1820 BIRTHDAY Emile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
17th of September 1826 BIRTHDAY Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
17th of September 1839 BIRTHDAY Ira Davenport, American magician (d. 1911)
17th of September 1854 BIRTHDAY David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d. 1929)
17th of September 1857 BIRTHDAY Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)
17th of September 1859 BIRTHDAY Frank Dawson Adams, Canadian geologist (d.1942)
17th of September 1868 BIRTHDAY James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
17th of September 1869 BIRTHDAY Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1938)
17th of September 1879 BIRTHDAY Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
17th of September 1879 BIRTHDAY Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian Social Reformer (d. 1973)
17th of September 1881 BIRTHDAY Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
17th of September 1883 BIRTHDAY William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)
17th of September 1884 BIRTHDAY Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
17th of September 1890 BIRTHDAY Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)
17th of September 1897 BIRTHDAY Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
17th of September 1900 BIRTHDAY Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
17th of September 1900 BIRTHDAY John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
17th of September 1901 BIRTHDAY Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)
17th of September 1903 BIRTHDAY Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)
17th of September 1903 BIRTHDAY Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
17th of September 1903 BIRTHDAY Minanogawa Tozo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (d. 1971)
17th of September 1904 BIRTHDAY Edgar G. Ulmer, Austrian-American film director (d. 1972)
17th of September 1906 BIRTHDAY Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist (d. 2010)
17th of September 1907 BIRTHDAY Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
17th of September 1912 BIRTHDAY Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian
17th of September 1914 BIRTHDAY Thomas J. Bata, Canadian shoemaker (Bata Shoes) (d. 2008)
17th of September 1915 BIRTHDAY M. F. Husain, Indian painter
17th of September 1916 BIRTHDAY Mary Stewart, English novelist
17th of September 1918 BIRTHDAY Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
17th of September 1920 BIRTHDAY Dinah Sheridan, English actress
17th of September 1922 BIRTHDAY Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
17th of September 1923 BIRTHDAY Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
17th of September 1925 BIRTHDAY John List, American murderer (d. 2008)
17th of September 1926 BIRTHDAY Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007)
17th of September 1926 BIRTHDAY Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)
17th of September 1927 BIRTHDAY George Blanda, American football player
17th of September 1928 BIRTHDAY Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
17th of September 1929 BIRTHDAY Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver
17th of September 1929 BIRTHDAY Pat Crowley, American actress
17th of September 1930 BIRTHDAY David Huddleston, American actor
17th of September 1930 BIRTHDAY Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
17th of September 1930 BIRTHDAY Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
17th of September 1930 BIRTHDAY Jim Rohn, American business philosopher (d. 2009)
17th of September 1930 BIRTHDAY Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
17th of September 1931 BIRTHDAY Jean-Claude Carriere, French writer, screenwriter and actor
17th of September 1931 BIRTHDAY Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
17th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
17th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Chuck Grassley, American politician
17th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)
17th of September 1934 BIRTHDAY Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
17th of September 1935 BIRTHDAY Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
17th of September 1937 BIRTHDAY Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
17th of September 1938 BIRTHDAY Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
17th of September 1939 BIRTHDAY David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
17th of September 1939 BIRTHDAY Shelby Flint, American singer
17th of September 1940 BIRTHDAY Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat
17th of September 1940 BIRTHDAY Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (d. 2007)
17th of September 1941 BIRTHDAY Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (d. 2001)
17th of September 1941 BIRTHDAY Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)
17th of September 1942 BIRTHDAY Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher
17th of September 1942 BIRTHDAY Des Lynam, English television presenter
17th of September 1944 BIRTHDAY Reinhold Messner, Italian mountaineer
17th of September 1945 BIRTHDAY David Emerson, Canadian politician
17th of September 1945 BIRTHDAY Bhakti Caru Swami, Indian spiritual leader
17th of September 1945 BIRTHDAY Phil Jackson, American basketball player and NBA head coach
17th of September 1945 BIRTHDAY Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
17th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Billy Bonds, English footballer
17th of September 1947 BIRTHDAY Tessa Jowell, British politician
17th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)
17th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
17th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Chris Heister, Swedish politician
17th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Fee Waybill, American musician (The Tubes)
17th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Narendra Modi, Indian politician
17th of September 1951 BIRTHDAY Cassandra Peterson, American actress
17th of September 1953 BIRTHDAY Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
17th of September 1954 BIRTHDAY Joel-Francois Durand, French composer
17th of September 1955 BIRTHDAY Koralia Karanti, Greek actress
17th of September 1955 BIRTHDAY Charles Martinet, American actor
17th of September 1955 BIRTHDAY Scott Simpson, American golfer
17th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher
17th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Thad Bosley. American major league baseball player
17th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Rita Rudner, American comedian
17th of September 1957 BIRTHDAY Richie Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
17th of September 1958 BIRTHDAY Tom Waddell, Scottish former Major League Baseball player
17th of September 1959 BIRTHDAY Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor
17th of September 1960 BIRTHDAY Damon Hill, English race car driver and 1996 F1 world champion
17th of September 1960 BIRTHDAY Kevin Clash, American actor and puppeteer
17th of September 1960 BIRTHDAY John Franco, American baseball player
17th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY Nives Meroi, Italian mountaineer
17th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY Jim Cornette, American professional wrestling manager
17th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
17th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
17th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor
17th of September 1963 BIRTHDAY Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator
17th of September 1963 BIRTHDAY Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler
17th of September 1963 BIRTHDAY Steven Dye, English musician (Scarlet Party), (The Alan Parsons Project)
17th of September 1963 BIRTHDAY Amy Roloff, American reality star
17th of September 1963 BIRTHDAY Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards
17th of September 1963 BIRTHDAY James Urbaniak, American actor
17th of September 1965 BIRTHDAY Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi)
17th of September 1965 BIRTHDAY Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
17th of September 1965 BIRTHDAY Bryan Singer, American director
17th of September 1965 BIRTHDAY Kyle Chandler, American actor Early Edition
17th of September 1966 BIRTHDAY Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
17th of September 1966 BIRTHDAY Stephane Rousseau, Canadian humorist and actor
17th of September 1967 BIRTHDAY Malik Yoba, American actor
17th of September 1968 BIRTHDAY Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
17th of September 1968 BIRTHDAY Anastacia, American singer
17th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Keith Flint, British musician (The Prodigy)
17th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
17th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Matthew Settle, American actor
17th of September 1970 BIRTHDAY Mark Brunell, American football player
17th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Mike Catt, English rugby player
17th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Mauro Milanese, Italian footballer
17th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Adriana Sklenarikova, Slovak supermodel
17th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Ian Whyte (actor), Welsh actor and basketball player
17th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY Brian Henry, American poet
17th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY Bobby Lee, American comedian
17th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
17th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer
17th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
17th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Mirah, American musician
17th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer
17th of September 1975 BIRTHDAY Austin St. John, American actor
17th of September 1975 BIRTHDAY Constantine Maroulis, American singer
17th of September 1975 BIRTHDAY Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
17th of September 1976 BIRTHDAY Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress
17th of September 1977 BIRTHDAY Simone Perrotta, Italian football player
17th of September 1978 BIRTHDAY Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
17th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Akin Ayodele, American football player
17th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Billy Miller, American actor
17th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Steffen Algreen, Danish footballer
17th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Flo Rida, American rapper
17th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
17th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY Danny Haren, American baseball player
17th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Casey Janssen, American baseball player
17th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Francis Manioru, Solomon Islander sprinter
17th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Bakari Kone, Ivorian footballer
17th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Hope Larson, American illustrator and cartoonist
17th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Wade Robson, Australian choreographer
17th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
17th of September 1983 BIRTHDAY Jennifer Pena, American singer
17th of September 1984 BIRTHDAY Domenico Citro, Italian footballer
17th of September 1984 BIRTHDAY Eugenia Volodina, Russian model
17th of September 1984 BIRTHDAY John Kucera, Canadian alpine ski racer
17th of September 1984 BIRTHDAY Mary Descenza, American swimmer
17th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Tomas Berdych, Czech tennis player
17th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Brendan Clarke, Irish footballer
17th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
17th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Mason Raymond, Canadian hockey player
17th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Jose Goncalves, Portuguese football player
17th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Sanaya Irani, Indian actress
17th of September 1987 BIRTHDAY Paul Huntington, English footballer
17th of September 1990 BIRTHDAY Sean Scannell, Irish footballer
17th of September 1991 BIRTHDAY Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer
17th of September 2008 BIRTHDAY Mia Talerico, American child actress
17th of September 0456 DEATH Remistus, Roman general of Visigothic origin
17th of September 1179 DEATH Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (Born 1098)
17th of September 1322 DEATH Robert III of Flanders (Born 1249)
17th of September 1422 DEATH Constantine II of Bulgaria
17th of September 1563 DEATH Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (Born 1526)
17th of September 1574 DEATH Pedro Menendez de Aviles, first Spanish Governor of Florida (Born 1519)
17th of September 1575 DEATH Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (Born 1504)
17th of September 1621 DEATH Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (Born 1542)
17th of September 1630 DEATH Thomas Lake, English statesman (Born 1567)
17th of September 1665 DEATH Philip IV of Spain (Born 1605)
17th of September 1676 DEATH Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (Born 1626)
17th of September 1679 DEATH John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (Born 1629)
17th of September 1727 DEATH Gluckel of Hameln, German businesswoman (Born 1647)
17th of September 1762 DEATH Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (Born 1687)
17th of September 1771 DEATH Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (Born 1721)
17th of September 1803 DEATH Franz Xaver Sussmayr, Austrian composer (Born 1766)
17th of September 1808 DEATH Benjamin Bourne, American politician (Born 1755)
17th of September 1836 DEATH Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (Born 1748)
17th of September 1863 DEATH Alfred de Vigny, French author (Born 1797)
17th of September 1873 DEATH Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (Born 1781)
17th of September 1879 DEATH Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (Born 1814)
17th of September 1894 DEATH Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (Born 1849)
17th of September 1899 DEATH Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (Born 1842)
17th of September 1904 DEATH Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (Born 1879)
17th of September 1907 DEATH Ignaz Brull, Austrian pianist (Born 1846)
17th of September 1908 DEATH Henri Julien, Canadian cartoonist (Born 1852)
17th of September 1908 DEATH Thomas Selfridge, First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army (Born 1882)
17th of September 1933 DEATH Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (Born 1877)
17th of September 1936 DEATH Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (Born 1877)
17th of September 1938 DEATH Bruno Jasienski, Polish poet (Born 1901)
17th of September 1946 DEATH Frank Burke, American baseball player (Born 1880)
17th of September 1948 DEATH Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (Born 1887)
17th of September 1948 DEATH Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (Born 1895)
17th of September 1951 DEATH Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (Born 1898)
17th of September 1966 DEATH Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Born 1930)
17th of September 1971 DEATH Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader (Born 1937)
17th of September 1972 DEATH Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (Born 1899)
17th of September 1973 DEATH Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (Born 1909)
17th of September 1980 DEATH Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (Born 1925)
17th of September 1982 DEATH Manos Loizos, Greek composer (Born 1937)
17th of September 1984 DEATH Richard Basehart, American actor (Born 1914)
17th of September 1985 DEATH Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (Born 1925)
17th of September 1987 DEATH Harry Locke, British character actor (Born 1913)
17th of September 1991 DEATH Zino Francescatti, French violinist (Born 1902)
17th of September 1993 DEATH Christian Nyby, American film and television director (Born 1913)
17th of September 1994 DEATH Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (Born 1902)
17th of September 1995 DEATH Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (Born 1931)
17th of September 1996 DEATH Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (Born 1918)
17th of September 1997 DEATH Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (Born 1913)
17th of September 1998 DEATH Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (Born 1907)
17th of September 1998 DEATH Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (Born 1943)
17th of September 1999 DEATH Frankie Vaughan, British singer (Born 1928)
17th of September 2000 DEATH Paula Yates, British TV personality (Born 1959)
17th of September 2001 DEATH Lou Dog, Sublime Mascot(Born UNK)
17th of September 2003 DEATH Erich Hallhuber, German actor (Born 1951)
17th of September 2005 DEATH Jacques Lacarriere, French writer (Born 1925)
17th of September 2005 DEATH Alfred Reed, American composer (Born 1921)
17th of September 2006 DEATH Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (Born 1924)
17th of September 2009 DEATH Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (Born 1968)