17 September

Notable Births

Elina Avanesyan

b. 2002

Russian-born Armenian tennis player (born 2002)

Jaimee Fourlis

b. 1999

Australian tennis player (born 1999)

Kim Dong-hyun (singer, born 1998)

b. 1998

South Korean singer and actor (born 1998)

Auston Matthews

b. 1997

American ice hockey player (born 1997)

Duje Ćaleta-Car

b. 1996

Croatian footballer (born 1996)

Esteban Ocon

b. 1996

French racing driver (born 1996)

Slayyyter

b. 1996

American singer and songwriter (born 1996)

Choi Young-jae

b. 1996

South Korean singer (born 1996)

Michael Bunting

b. 1995

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1995)

Patrick Mahomes

b. 1995

American football player (born 1995)

YooA

b. 1995

South Korean singer and actress (born 1995)

Na In-woo

b. 1994

South Korean actor (born 1994)

Sofiane Boufal

b. 1993

Footballer (born 1993)

Sophie Howard (footballer)

b. 1993

Scottish footballer

Alfonzo McKinnie

b. 1992

American basketball player (born 1992)

José Ramírez (third baseman)

b. 1992

Dominican baseball player (born 1992)

Ryo Ishikawa

b. 1991

Japanese golfer (born 1991)

Mena Massoud

b. 1991

Egyptian-born Canadian actor (born 1991)

Egor Yakovlev

b. 1991

Russian ice hockey player (born 1991)

Bernhard Riemann

b. 1826

German mathematician (1826–1866)

Notable Deaths

Roger Climpson

d. 2025

Australian journalist (1931–2025)

Nelson DeMille

d. 2024

American author (1943–2024)

Neil King Jr.

d. 2024

American journalist and author (1959–2024)

JD Souther

d. 2024

American singer, songwriter and actor (1945–2024)

Maarten Schmidt

d. 2022

Dutch-American astronomer (1929–2022)

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

d. 2021

President of Algeria from 1999 to 2019

Robert W. Gore

d. 2020

American scientist and businessman (1937–2020)

Cokie Roberts

d. 2019

American journalist and author (1943–2019)

Bobby Heenan

d. 2017

American wrestling commentator and manager (1944–2017)

Bahman Golbarnezhad

d. 2016

Iranian Paralympic athlete

Sigge Parling

d. 2016

Swedish footballer (1930–2016)

Dettmar Cramer

d. 2015

German football manager (1925–2015)

Vadim Kuzmin (physicist)

d. 2015

David Willcocks

d. 2015

British choral conductor (1919–2015)

George Hamilton IV

d. 2014

American country musician (1937–2014)

Andriy Husin

d. 2014

Ukrainian footballer and coach (1972–2014)

Wakachichibu Komei

d. 2014

Japanese sumo wrestler (1939–2014)

Charles Read (RAAF officer)

d. 2014

Royal Australian Air Force senior commander

Peter von Bagh

d. 2014

Finnish film historian

China Zorrilla

d. 2014

Uruguayan actress (1922–2014)

On This Day in History

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2025

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement.

Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement

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2018

A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea.

Syria missile strikes (September 2018)

2016

Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.

2016 New York and New Jersey bombings

2013

Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.

Grand Theft Auto V

2011

Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.

Occupy Wall Street

2006

Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.

Fourpeaked Mountain

2006

An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.

Őszöd speech

2001

The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.

New York Stock Exchange

2001

George W. Bush, president of the United States, delivers remarks at the Islamic Center of Washington praising Muslim Americans and condemning Islamophobia in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

George W. Bush