17 October
Notable Births
Matthew Knies
b. 2002
American ice hockey player (born 2002)
Thomas Strudwick
b. 2001
British motorcycle racer
Robert Williams III
b. 1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Jake DeBrusk
b. 1996
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1996)
Jamal Adams
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Ha-seong Kim
b. 1995
South Korean baseball player (born 1995)
Kenneth Omeruo
b. 1993
Nigerian footballer
Vincent Poirier
b. 1993
French basketball player (born 1993)
Jacob Artist
b. 1992
American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1992)
Sam Concepcion
b. 1992
Filipino actor and singer
Anthony Gill (basketball)
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Keerthy Suresh
b. 1992
Indian actress (born 1992)
Brenda Asnicar
b. 1991
Argentine actress (born 1991)
Maica García Godoy
b. 1990
Spanish water polo player (born 1990)
Saki Kumagai
b. 1990
Japanese footballer (born 1990)
Patrick Lambie
b. 1990
South Africa international rugby union player
Débora García
b. 1989
Spanish footballer (born 1989)
Sophie Luck
b. 1989
Australian actress
Charles Oliveira
b. 1989
Brazilian mixed martial artist (born 1989)
David Timor
b. 1989
Spanish footballer
Notable Deaths
Mitzi Gaynor
d. 2024
American actress (1931–2024)
Toshiyuki Nishida
d. 2024
Japanese actor (1947–2024)
Andrew Schally
d. 2024
American endocrinologist (1926–2024)
Elijah Cummings
d. 2019
American politician (1951–2019)
Gord Downie
d. 2017
Canadian musician and writer (1964–2017)
Danièle Delorme
d. 2015
French actress and producer (1926–2015)
Howard Kendall
d. 2015
English footballer and manager
Anne-Marie Lizin
d. 2015
Belgian politician (1949–2015)
Tom Smith (Pennsylvania politician)
d. 2015
American politician and businessman
Masaru Emoto
d. 2014
Japanese pseudoscientist (1943–2014)
Tom Shaw (bishop)
d. 2014
20th and 21st-century American Episcopal bishop
Berndt von Staden
d. 2014
German diplomat
Antonia Brenner
d. 2013
American nun (1926–2013)
Lou Scheimer
d. 2013
American animator and voice actor (1928-2013)
Émile Allais
d. 2012
French alpine skier (1912–2012)
Stanford R. Ovshinsky
d. 2012
American engineer, scientist and inventor
Kōji Wakamatsu
d. 2012
Japanese film director (1936–2012)
Carl Lindner Jr.
d. 2011
American businessman
Vic Mizzy
d. 2009
American composer (1916–2009)
Urmas Ott
d. 2008
Estonian journalist