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| September 17th, 2064 (September 17 2064) | Birth | Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian. | |
| September 17th, 2007 (September 17 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. | |
| September 17th, 2006 (September 17 2006) | Death | Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (born in 1924) | |
| September 17th, 2005 (September 17 2005) | Death | Alfred Reed, American composer (born in 1921) | |
| September 17th, 2004 (September 17 2004) | Event | Tamil is declared the first classical language in India. | |
| September 17th, 2003 (September 17 2003) | Death | Erich Hallhuber, German actor (born in 1951) | |
| September 17th, 2001 (September 17 2001) | Event | The New York Stock Exchange opened for the first time since the September 11 attacks; the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its biggest point drop in its history, closing down 684.81 points to 8920.70. | |
| September 17th, 2000 (September 17 2000) | Death | Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (born in 1976) | |
| September 17th, 2000 (September 17 2000) | Death | Paula Yates, English TV personality (born in 1960) | |
| September 17th, 1998 (September 17 1998) | Death | Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (born in 1943) | |
| September 17th, 1997 (September 17 1997) | Death | Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (born in 1913) | |
| September 17th, 1996 (September 17 1996) | Death | Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (born in 1918) | Spiro Agnew Quotes |
| September 17th, 1994 (September 17 1994) | Birth | Taylor Ware, American yodeler | |
| September 17th, 1994 (September 17 1994) | Death | Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (born in 1902) | Karl Popper Quotes |
| September 17th, 1993 (September 17 1993) | Event | Last Russian troops leave Poland. | |
| September 17th, 1993 (September 17 1993) | Death | Christian Nyby, American film and television director (born in 1913) | |
| September 17th, 1991 (September 17 1991) | Event | North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations. | |
| September 17th, 1991 (September 17 1991) | Event | The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. | |
| September 17th, 1991 (September 17 1991) | Birth | Jordan McCoy, American entertainer | |
| September 17th, 1991 (September 17 1991) | Death | Zino Francescatti, French violinist (born in 1902) | |
| September 17th, 1987 (September 17 1987) | Birth | Paul Huntington, English footballer | |
| September 17th, 1987 (September 17 1987) | Death | Harry Locke, British character actor (born in 1913) | |
| September 17th, 1986 (September 17 1986) | Birth | Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter | |
| September 17th, 1985 (September 17 1985) | Birth | Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player | |
| September 17th, 1985 (September 17 1985) | Birth | Mason Raymond, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| September 17th, 1985 (September 17 1985) | Birth | Brendan Clarke, Irish Soccer Player with St. Patrick s Athletic | |
| September 17th, 1985 (September 17 1985) | Birth | Jon Walker, American musician (Panic at the Disco) | |
| September 17th, 1985 (September 17 1985) | Birth | Tomas Berdych, Czech tennis player | Tom Ze Quotes |
| September 17th, 1985 (September 17 1985) | Death | Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (born in 1925) | |
| September 17th, 1984 (September 17 1984) | Birth | Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel | |
| September 17th, 1984 (September 17 1984) | Death | Richard Basehart, American actor (born in 1914) | |
| September 17th, 1983 (September 17 1983) | Event | Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America. | |
| September 17th, 1983 (September 17 1983) | Birth | Jennifer Pena, American singer | |
| September 17th, 1982 (September 17 1982) | Birth | Hope Larson, American illustrator and cartoonist | |
| September 17th, 1982 (September 17 1982) | Birth | Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| September 17th, 1982 (September 17 1982) | Death | Manos Loizos, Greek composer (born in 1937) | |
| September 17th, 1981 (September 17 1981) | Birth | Bakari Kone, Ivory Coast footballer | |
| September 17th, 1981 (September 17 1981) | Birth | Casey Janssen, American baseball player | |
| September 17th, 1981 (September 17 1981) | Birth | Jonathan Radtke, American musician (Kill Hannah) | |
| September 17th, 1980 (September 17 1980) | Event | After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established. | |
| September 17th, 1980 (September 17 1980) | Event | Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asuncion, Paraguay. | |
| September 17th, 1980 (September 17 1980) | Birth | Danny Haren, American baseball player | |
| September 17th, 1980 (September 17 1980) | Death | Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (born in 1925) | |
| September 17th, 1979 (September 17 1979) | Birth | Akin Ayodele, American football player | |
| September 17th, 1979 (September 17 1979) | Birth | Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan) | Chuck D Quotes |
| September 17th, 1979 (September 17 1979) | Birth | Steffen Algreen, Danish footballer | |
| September 17th, 1978 (September 17 1978) | Event | The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt. | |
| September 17th, 1978 (September 17 1978) | Birth | Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| September 17th, 1977 (September 17 1977) | Birth | Simone Perrotta, Italian football player | |
| September 17th, 1976 (September 17 1976) | Event | The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA. | |
| September 17th, 1976 (September 17 1976) | Birth | Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress | |
| September 17th, 1975 (September 17 1975) | Birth | Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver | |
| September 17th, 1975 (September 17 1975) | Birth | Austin St. John, American actor | |
| September 17th, 1975 (September 17 1975) | Birth | Constantine Maroulis, American singer | Constantine Maroulis Quotes |
| September 17th, 1974 (September 17 1974) | Birth | Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player | |
| September 17th, 1974 (September 17 1974) | Birth | Mirah, American musician | |
| September 17th, 1974 (September 17 1974) | Birth | Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer | |
| September 17th, 1973 (September 17 1973) | Birth | Anastacia, American singer | |
| September 17th, 1973 (September 17 1973) | Birth | Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress | |
| September 17th, 1973 (September 17 1973) | Birth | Anastacia, American singer | |
| September 17th, 1973 (September 17 1973) | Birth | Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer | |
| September 17th, 1973 (September 17 1973) | Death | Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (born in 1909) | |
| September 17th, 1972 (September 17 1972) | Birth | Bobby Lee, American comedian | |
| September 17th, 1972 (September 17 1972) | Death | Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (born in 1899) | |
| September 17th, 1971 (September 17 1971) | Birth | Adriana Sklenarikova, Slovak supermodel | |
| September 17th, 1971 (September 17 1971) | Birth | Mike Catt, English rugby player | |
| September 17th, 1971 (September 17 1971) | Birth | Ian Whyte (actor), Welsh actor and basketball player | |
| September 17th, 1970 (September 17 1970) | Event | Fighting breaks out along the Syria-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen. | |
| September 17th, 1970 (September 17 1970) | Birth | Mark Brunell, American football player | |
| September 17th, 1969 (September 17 1969) | Birth | Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player | |
| September 17th, 1969 (September 17 1969) | Birth | Keith Flint, Member of the British band The Prodigy | |
| September 17th, 1969 (September 17 1969) | Birth | Matthew Settle, American actor | |
| September 17th, 1968 (September 17 1968) | Birth | Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece | |
| September 17th, 1968 (September 17 1968) | Death | Anastacia, Singer/Songwriter, Fashion Designer | |
| September 17th, 1967 (September 17 1967) | Event | Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show. | Van Morrison Quotes |
| September 17th, 1967 (September 17 1967) | Birth | Malik Yoba, American actor | |
| September 17th, 1966 (September 17 1966) | Birth | Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer | |
| September 17th, 1966 (September 17 1966) | Death | Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (born in 1930) | |
| September 17th, 1965 (September 17 1965) | Birth | Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer | |
| September 17th, 1965 (September 17 1965) | Birth | Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi) | |
| September 17th, 1965 (September 17 1965) | Birth | Bryan Singer, American director | |
| September 17th, 1963 (September 17 1963) | Birth | Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler | |
| September 17th, 1963 (September 17 1963) | Birth | Amy Roloff, American reality star | |
| September 17th, 1963 (September 17 1963) | Birth | Michael Adler, American businessman | |
| September 17th, 1963 (September 17 1963) | Birth | Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator | |
| September 17th, 1963 (September 17 1963) | Birth | Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards | |
| September 17th, 1962 (September 17 1962) | Birth | Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director | |
| September 17th, 1962 (September 17 1962) | Birth | Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor | |
| September 17th, 1961 (September 17 1961) | Birth | Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King s X) | |
| September 17th, 1960 (September 17 1960) | Birth | Damon Hill, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion | |
| September 17th, 1960 (September 17 1960) | Birth | John Franco, American baseball player | |
| September 17th, 1959 (September 17 1959) | Birth | Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor | |
| September 17th, 1957 (September 17 1957) | Event | The North East Humanists group was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne. | |
| September 17th, 1956 (September 17 1956) | Event | Television was first broadcast in Australia. | |
| September 17th, 1956 (September 17 1956) | Birth | Thad Bosley. American major league baseball player | |
| September 17th, 1956 (September 17 1956) | Birth | Rita Rudner, American comedian | Rita Rudner Quotes |
| September 17th, 1956 (September 17 1956) | Birth | Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher | |
| September 17th, 1955 (September 17 1955) | Birth | Koralia Karanti, Greek actress | |
| September 17th, 1955 (September 17 1955) | Birth | Charles Martinet, American actor | |
| September 17th, 1954 (September 17 1954) | Birth | Joel-Francois Durand, French composer | |
| September 17th, 1953 (September 17 1953) | Birth | Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM | |
| September 17th, 1951 (September 17 1951) | Birth | Cassandra Peterson, American actress | |
| September 17th, 1951 (September 17 1951) | Death | Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (born in 1898) | |
| September 17th, 1950 (September 17 1950) | Birth | Narendra Modi, Indian politician | |
| September 17th, 1950 (September 17 1950) | Birth | Chris Heister, Swedish politician | |
| September 17th, 1950 (September 17 1950) | Birth | Fee Waybill, American musician (The Tubes) | |
| September 17th, 1949 (September 17 1949) | Event | The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives. | |
| September 17th, 1948 (September 17 1948) | Event | Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arabs and Jews. | |
| September 17th, 1948 (September 17 1948) | Birth | Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (died in 2000) | |
| September 17th, 1948 (September 17 1948) | Birth | John Ritter, American actor (died in 2003) | |
| September 17th, 1947 (September 17 1947) | Event | James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States. | |
| September 17th, 1947 (September 17 1947) | Birth | Tessa Jowell, British politician | |
| September 17th, 1946 (September 17 1946) | Birth | Billy Bonds, English footballer | |
| September 17th, 1946 (September 17 1946) | Death | Frank Burke, American baseball player (born in 1880) | |
| September 17th, 1945 (September 17 1945) | Birth | David Emerson, Canadian politician | |
| September 17th, 1945 (September 17 1945) | Birth | Phil Jackson, American basketball player and NBA head coach | |
| September 17th, 1945 (September 17 1945) | Birth | Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor | |
| September 17th, 1944 (September 17 1944) | Event | Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden. | |
| September 17th, 1944 (September 17 1944) | Birth | Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber | |
| September 17th, 1943 (September 17 1943) | Event | Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis. | |
| September 17th, 1942 (September 17 1942) | Birth | Des Lynam, English television presenter | |
| September 17th, 1942 (September 17 1942) | Birth | Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher | |
| September 17th, 1941 (September 17 1941) | Event | A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, was issued | |
| September 17th, 1941 (September 17 1941) | Birth | Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (died in 2005) | |
| September 17th, 1940 (September 17 1940) | Birth | Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat | |
| September 17th, 1940 (September 17 1940) | Birth | Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (died in 2007) | |
| September 17th, 1939 (September 17 1939) | Event | The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany s invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939. | |
| September 17th, 1939 (September 17 1939) | Event | World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous. | |
| September 17th, 1939 (September 17 1939) | Birth | Shelby Flint, American singer | |
| September 17th, 1939 (September 17 1939) | Birth | David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice | |
| September 17th, 1938 (September 17 1938) | Birth | Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player | |
| September 17th, 1938 (September 17 1938) | Death | Bruno Jasienski, Polish poet (born in 1901) | |
| September 17th, 1937 (September 17 1937) | Birth | Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player | |
| September 17th, 1936 (September 17 1936) | Death | Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (born in 1877) | |
| September 17th, 1935 (September 17 1935) | Birth | Ken Kesey, American author (died in 2001) | Ken Kesey Quotes |
| September 17th, 1934 (September 17 1934) | Birth | Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (died in 1969) | |
| September 17th, 1933 (September 17 1933) | Birth | Chuck Grassley, American politician | |
| September 17th, 1933 (September 17 1933) | Birth | Dorothy Loudon, American actress (died in 2003) | |
| September 17th, 1933 (September 17 1933) | Birth | Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (died in 1984) | |
| September 17th, 1933 (September 17 1933) | Death | Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (born in 1877) | |
| September 17th, 1931 (September 17 1931) | Birth | Anne Bancroft, American actress (died in 2005) | Anne Bancroft Quotes |
| September 17th, 1930 (September 17 1930) | Birth | Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut | |
| September 17th, 1930 (September 17 1930) | Birth | Jim Rohn, American business philosopher | Philo Quotes |
| September 17th, 1930 (September 17 1930) | Birth | Thomas Stafford, American astronaut | |
| September 17th, 1930 (September 17 1930) | Birth | Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist | |
| September 17th, 1929 (September 17 1929) | Birth | Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver | |
| September 17th, 1929 (September 17 1929) | Birth | Pat Crowley, American actress | |
| September 17th, 1928 (September 17 1928) | Event | The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in US history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. | |
| September 17th, 1928 (September 17 1928) | Birth | Roddy McDowall, English actor (died in 1998) | |
| September 17th, 1927 (September 17 1927) | Birth | George Blanda, American football player | |
| September 17th, 1926 (September 17 1926) | Birth | Bill Black, American musician (died in 1965) | |
| September 17th, 1926 (September 17 1926) | Birth | Curtis Harrington, American film director (died in 2007) | |
| September 17th, 1924 (September 17 1924) | Event | The Border Defence Corps was established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits. | |
| September 17th, 1923 (September 17 1923) | Birth | Hank Williams, American musician (died in 1953) | |
| September 17th, 1922 (September 17 1922) | Birth | Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (died in 1979) | |
| September 17th, 1920 (September 17 1920) | Event | National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States. | |
| September 17th, 1918 (September 17 1918) | Birth | Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (died in 1997) | |
| September 17th, 1916 (September 17 1916) | Event | World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkrafte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France. | |
| September 17th, 1914 (September 17 1914) | Event | Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. | |
| September 17th, 1912 (September 17 1912) | Birth | Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian | |
| September 17th, 1908 (September 17 1908) | Event | The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality. | |
| September 17th, 1907 (September 17 1907) | Birth | Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (died in 1995) | |
| September 17th, 1907 (September 17 1907) | Death | Ignaz Brull, Austrian pianist (born in 1846) | |
| September 17th, 1906 (September 17 1906) | Birth | Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist | |
| September 17th, 1903 (September 17 1903) | Birth | Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (died in 1984) | |
| September 17th, 1903 (September 17 1903) | Birth | Frank O Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (died in 1966) | |
| September 17th, 1901 (September 17 1901) | Birth | Francis Chichester, English adventurer (died in 1972) | |
| September 17th, 1900 (September 17 1900) | Event | Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac. | |
| September 17th, 1900 (September 17 1900) | Birth | John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (died in 1985) | |
| September 17th, 1900 (September 17 1900) | Birth | Hughie Critz, baseball player (died in 1980) | |
| September 17th, 1899 (September 17 1899) | Death | Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (born in 1842) | |
| September 17th, 1897 (September 17 1897) | Birth | Earl Webb, baseball player (died in 1965) | |
| September 17th, 1894 (September 17 1894) | Event | Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War. | |
| September 17th, 1894 (September 17 1894) | Death | Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (born in 1849) | |
| September 17th, 1890 (September 17 1890) | Birth | Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (died in 1972) | |
| September 17th, 1884 (September 17 1884) | Birth | Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (died in 1920) | |
| September 17th, 1883 (September 17 1883) | Birth | William Carlos Williams, American writer (died in 1963) | William Carlos Williams Quotes |
| September 17th, 1881 (September 17 1881) | Birth | Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (died in 1955) | |
| September 17th, 1879 (September 17 1879) | Birth | Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (died in 1930) | |
| September 17th, 1879 (September 17 1879) | Death | Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (born in 1814) | |
| September 17th, 1873 (September 17 1873) | Death | Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (born in 1781) | |
| September 17th, 1869 (September 17 1869) | Birth | Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (died in 1938) | |
| September 17th, 1868 (September 17 1868) | Birth | James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (died in 1956) | |
| September 17th, 1863 (September 17 1863) | Death | Alfred de Vigny, French author (born in 1797) | |
| September 17th, 1862 (September 17 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. | |
| September 17th, 1862 (September 17 1862) | Event | American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion resulted in the single largest civilian disaster during the war | |
| September 17th, 1859 (September 17 1859) | Event | Joshua A. Norton declares himself Emperor Norton I of the United States. | |
| September 17th, 1857 (September 17 1857) | Birth | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (died in 1935) | |
| September 17th, 1854 (September 17 1854) | Birth | David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929) | |
| September 17th, 1836 (September 17 1836) | Death | Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (born in 1748) | |
| September 17th, 1826 (September 17 1826) | Birth | Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (died in 1866) | |
| September 17th, 1820 (September 17 1820) | Birth | Emile Augier, French dramatist (died in 1889) | |
| September 17th, 1814 (September 17 1814) | Event | Francis Scott Key finishes his The Star-Spangled Banner poem. | Francis Scott Key Quotes |
| September 17th, 1809 (September 17 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. | |
| September 17th, 1808 (September 17 1808) | Death | Benjamin Bourne, American politician (born in 1755) | |
| September 17th, 1803 (September 17 1803) | Death | Franz Xaver Sussmayr, Austrian composer (born in 1766) | |
| September 17th, 1787 (September 17 1787) | Event | The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
| September 17th, 1778 (September 17 1778) | Event | Treaty of Fort Pitt signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware). | |
| September 17th, 1776 (September 17 1776) | Event | The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain. | |
| September 17th, 1771 (September 17 1771) | Birth | Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (died in 1816) | |
| September 17th, 1771 (September 17 1771) | Death | Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (born in 1721) | Tobias Smollett Quotes |
| September 17th, 1762 (September 17 1762) | Death | Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (born in 1687) | |
| September 17th, 1743 (September 17 1743) | Birth | Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (died in 1794) | |
| September 17th, 1739 (September 17 1739) | Birth | John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (died in 1800) | |
| September 17th, 1730 (September 17 1730) | Birth | Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (died in 1794) | |
| September 17th, 1727 (September 17 1727) | Death | Gluckel of Hameln, German businesswoman (born in 1647) | |
| September 17th, 1688 (September 17 1688) | Birth | Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (died in 1714) | |
| September 17th, 1687 (September 17 1687) | Birth | Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (died in 1772) | |
| September 17th, 1679 (September 17 1679) | Death | John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (born in 1629) | |
| September 17th, 1677 (September 17 1677) | Birth | Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (died in 1761) | |
| September 17th, 1665 (September 17 1665) | Death | Philip IV of Spain (born in 1605) | |
| September 17th, 1657 (September 17 1657) | Birth | Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (died in 1704) | |
| September 17th, 1639 (September 17 1639) | Birth | Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (died in 1725) | |
| September 17th, 1631 (September 17 1631) | Event | Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War. | |
| September 17th, 1630 (September 17 1630) | Event | The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded. | |
| September 17th, 1630 (September 17 1630) | Birth | Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (died in 1694) | |
| September 17th, 1630 (September 17 1630) | Death | Thomas Lake, English statesman (born in 1567) | |
| September 17th, 1621 (September 17 1621) | Death | Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (born in 1542) | |
| September 17th, 1580 (September 17 1580) | Birth | Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (died in 1645) | |
| September 17th, 1577 (September 17 1577) | Event | Peace of Bergerac signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots. | |
| September 17th, 1575 (September 17 1575) | Death | Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (born in 1504) | |
| September 17th, 1574 (September 17 1574) | Death | Pedro Menendez de Aviles, first Spanish Governor of Florida (born in 1519) | |
| September 17th, 1563 (September 17 1563) | Death | Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier | |
| September 17th, 1550 (September 17 1550) | Birth | Pope Paul V (died in 1621) | |
| September 17th, 1462 (September 17 1462) | Event | The Battle of Swiecino (or Battle of Zarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years War. | |
| September 17th, 1422 (September 17 1422) | Death | Constantine II of Bulgaria | |
| September 17th, 1322 (September 17 1322) | Death | Robert III of Flanders (born in 1249) | |
| September 17th, 1271 (September 17 1271) | Birth | Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (died in 1305) | |
| September 17th, 1192 (September 17 1192) | Birth | Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (died in 1219) | |
| September 17th, 1179 (September 17 1179) | Death | Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (born in 1098) | |
| September 17th, 1176 (September 17 1176) | Event | The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought. | |
| September 17th, 0879 (September 17 0879) | Birth | King Charles III of France (died in 929) | |
