| Date | Text | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 17 Aug 1924 | Evan S Connell: United States -- Writer | |||
| 17 Aug 1924 | Helen Wallis: Cartographer / librarian | |||
| 17 Aug 1924 | John A Emmens: Art historian / poet (Kunst & Vliegwerk) | |||
| 17 Aug 1924 | Laurence Richard Deniz: Jazz guitarist | |||
| 17 Aug 1924 | Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn: Russian mathematician, drowns at 26 | |||
| 17 Aug 1924 | French-German trade agreement signed | |||
| 17 Aug 1924 | Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (b. 1851) | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 17 Aug 1949 | Sib Hashian: Boston, Massachusetts -- Rock drummer (Boston) | |||
| 17 Aug 1949 | Norm Coleman, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Mayor of St. Paul | |||
| 17 Aug 1949 | Sue Draheim, American fiddler | |||
| 17 Aug 1949 | Julian Fellowes, Egyptian-English actor, director, screenwriter, and politician | |||
| 17 Aug 1949 | Sib Hashian, American drummer (Boston and Ernie and the Automatics) | |||
| 17 Aug 1949 | Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist and politician (b. 1891) | |||
| 17 Aug 1949 | birth Sib Hashian, drums, Boston, (1977 UK No.22 single 'More Than A Feeling', 1986 US No.1 single 'Amanda'). | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 17 Aug 1974 | Aldo Palazzeschi [Giurlani]: Italian writer, dies at 89 | |||
| 17 Aug 1974 | Edgar Dearing: Actor (Free & Easy, Abraham Lincoln), dies at 81 | |||
| 17 Aug 1974 | Tony Hajjar, Lebanese-American drummer (At the Drive-In and Sparta) | |||
| 17 Aug 1974 | Nicola Kraus, American author | |||
| 17 Aug 1974 | Eric Clapton started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with '461 Ocean Boulevard', a No.3 hit in the UK. The house featured on the album cover is 461 Ocean Boulevard in the town of Golden Beach, Florida near Miami where Clapton lived while making the album. | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 17 Aug 1999 | Former Bay City Rollers drummer Derek Longmuir appeared at the Edinburgh Sheriff Court accused of child porn and drugs offences. Longmuir, 48, denied the charges. He was later sentenced to 300 hours community service. | |||
| 17 Aug 1999 | Led Zeppelin topped a chart of Britain's most bootlegged musicians, compiled by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), after identifying 384 bootleg titles featuring Led Zeppelin performances. The bootleg chart was complied from the BPI's archive of some 10,000 recordings seized over the past 25 years. The Beatles, came in second with 320 entries, other acts listed included The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd. | |||
17 Aug 1999
Turkey |
Turkey (geology) A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes northwestern Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000. |
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| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 17 Aug 2004 | Thea Astley, Australian author (b. 1925) | |||
| 17 Aug 2004 | Gérard Souzay, French singer (b. 1918) | |||
| 17 Aug 2004 | A report showed how touts were now using eBay to sell tickets for sold-out concerts. It said the touts were not breaking the law by using auction sites on the internet, it showed tickets for Madonna's Wembley gig worth £150 were for sale at £350 and a pair of tickets to see The White Stripes worth £90 were currently on eBay for £130. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 17 Aug 2009 | An arrest warrant was issued for singer Bobby Brown after he failed to appear at a court hearing involving child maintenance payments. Judge Christina Harms ordered Mr Brown, to be arrested next time he was in the state of Massachusetts. The singer had allegedly fallen $45,000 (£27,500) behind in payments for two teenage children he had with former girlfriend Kim Ward. | |||
| 17 Aug 2009 | A thief in New Zealand took the unusual step of leaving his contact details at the site of his crime. The man reserved a copy of Pink Floyd's The Wall at a record shop in Christchurch, leaving his name and phone number, before robbing the till. He was a regular customer at the shop and already had several records on order. | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 17 Aug 2014 | Børre Knudsen, Norwegian minister and activist (b. 1937) | |||
| 17 Aug 2014 | Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (b. 1921) | |||
| 17 Aug 2014 | Sophie Masloff, American politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1917) | |||
| 17 Aug 2014 | Miodrag Pavlović, Serbian poet and critic (b. 1928) | |||
| 17 Aug 2014 | Joanie Spina, American magician, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1953) | |||
| 17 Aug 2014 | Pierre Vassiliu, French singer-songwriter (b. 1937) | |||
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