Today in History
17 August
218 births · 98 deaths · 71 events recorded
Notable Births
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Nastasja Schunk
b. 2003
German tennis player
The Kid Laroi
b. 2003
Australian singer (born 2003)
Lil Pump
b. 2000
American rapper (born 2000)
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
b. 1998
Japanese baseball player (born 1998)
Jake Virtanen
b. 1996
Canadian ice hockey player
Gracie Gold
b. 1995
American figure skater (b. 1995)
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak
b. 1995
New Zealand international rugby league footballer
Stefan Bastyr
b. 1890
Polish aviator and military pilot
Notable Deaths
All 98 ›
Terence Stamp
d. 2025
English actor (1938–2025)
Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie
d. 2024
British countess (1933–2024)
Silvio Santos
d. 2024
Brazilian television host and media mogul (1930–2024)
Arthur Hiller
d. 2016
Canadian film and television director (1923–2016)
Yvonne Craig
d. 2015
American actress (1937–2015)
Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder
d. 2015
László Paskai
d. 2015
Hungarian cardinal
Børre Knudsen
d. 2014
On This Day in History
All 71 ›2019
A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured.
17 August 2019 Kabul bombing
2017
Barcelona attacks: A van is driven into pedestrians in La Rambla, killing 14 and injuring at least 100.
2017 Barcelona attacks
2015
A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others.
2015 Bangkok bombing
2009
An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.
Sayano-Shushenskaya power station accident
2008
American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
Michael Phelps
2005
The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israeli disengagement from Gaza, starts.
Israeli settlement
2005
Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh.
2005 Bangladesh bombings
2004
The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
National Assembly (Serbia)