On This Day
Saturday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
February 17 1968
Born on This Day
Andrei Chemerkin🇷🇺
deceasedRussian weightlifter · 1972–2025
Days lived
19,566
Andrey Korotayev🇷🇺
Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, and sociologist · b. 1961
Days alive
2,556
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria🇦🇹
deceasedAustro-Tuscan imperial and royal (1893-1918) · 1893–1918
Days lived
9,426
Chord Overstreet🇺🇸
singer · b. 1989
Curt Swan🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican artist (1920-1996) · 1920–1996
Days lived
27,880
David Goggins🇺🇸
Retired Navy SEAL, Ultra-endurance Athlete, Author · b. 1975
Denez Prigent🇫🇷
singer · b. 1966
Days alive
730
Dennis Green🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football coach (1949–2016) · 1949–2016
Days lived
24,626
Dieter Laser🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1942–2020) · 1942–2020
Days lived
28,501
Ed Sheeran
Music · b. 1991
Edsel Albert Ammons
deceasedAmerican Bishop of the United Methodist Church (1924-2010) · 1924–2010
Days lived
31,722
Emerson Spartz🇺🇸
American businessman · b. 1987
Ernst Troeltsch🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1865–1923
Days lived
21,167
Frances A. Genter🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican racehorse owner (1898-1992) · 1898–1992
Days lived
34,613
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Friedrich Alfred Krupp🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1854–1902
Days lived
17,809
Gene Pitney🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1941–2006
Days lived
23,788
Gerhard Pfanzelter🇦🇹
Austrian politician and diplomat · b. 1943
Days alive
9,131
Gertrude Abercrombie🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1909–1977
Days lived
24,973
Hans Blüher
deceasedYouTube personality · 1888–1955
Days lived
24,458
Hans Lange🇺🇸
deceasedmusician · 1884–1960
Days lived
27,936
Hans Morgenthau🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican political scientist (1904–1980) · 1904–1980
Days lived
27,912
Hung Liu🇺🇸
deceasedPainter · 1948–2021
Days lived
26,835
Iolu Abil
politician · b. 1942
Days alive
9,496
Jan Halle🇳🇱
deceasedDutch football player (1903-1986) · 1903–1986
Days lived
30,274
Jason Ritter🇺🇸
Film actor · b. 1980
Jensen Huang
CEO of NVIDIA · b. 1963
Days alive
1,826
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Jim Grobe🇺🇸
American college football player and coach · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
actor · b. 1981
Josh Willingham🇺🇸
American baseball player · b. 1979
Jozef Murgaš🇺🇸
deceasedSlovak entomologist, painter, inventor and roman catholic priest (1864-1929) · 1864–1929
Days lived
23,824
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Justin Fairfax🇺🇸
deceasedPolitician · 1979–2026
Days lived
17,225
Karin Büttner-Janz🇩🇪
East German gymnast · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Kenneth Moore🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian ice hockey player · 1910–1981
Days lived
26,227
Kevin Rudolf🇺🇸
actor · b. 1983
Larry the Cable Guy🇺🇸
American stand-up comedian (born 1963) · b. 1963
Days alive
1,826
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Lucy Davis🌍
Actor · b. 1973
Marek Švec🇨🇿
Czech Olympian, coach and wrestler · b. 1973
Marvin Sordell🇬🇧
football player · b. 1991
Michael Bay🇺🇸
American film director and producer (born 1965) · b. 1965
Days alive
1,095
Michael Jordan
basketball player · b. 1963
Days alive
1,826
Mo Yan🇨🇳
writer · b. 1955
Days alive
4,748
Özgür Özata
Turkish-German actor (born 1977) · b. 1977
Paris Hilton
Notable Trials · b. 1981
Paul Reiche III🇺🇸
American game designer · b. 1961
Days alive
2,556
Pedro Beltrán🇵🇪
deceasedjournalist · 1897–1979
Days lived
29,948
Peter Dybwad🇳🇴
deceasedNorwegian-born German architect (1859-1921) · 1859–1921
Days lived
22,883
Rod Dedeaux🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player and coach (1914-2006) · 1914–2006
Days lived
33,560
Romano Guardini🇩🇪
deceasedphilosopher · 1885–1968
Days lived
30,541
Ronald Knox🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish priest and theologian (1888–1957) · 1888–1957
Days lived
25,390
Rózsa Péter🇭🇺
deceasedscientist · 1905–1977
Days lived
26,297
Serge Brammertz🇧🇪
prosecutor · b. 1962
Days alive
2,191
Sogdiana Fedorinskaya🇷🇺
singer · b. 1984
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Stump Weidman🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1861–1905) · 1861–1905
Days lived
16,083
Tito Warnholtz🇩🇪
deceasedfield hockey player (1906–1993) · 1906–1993
Days lived
31,741
Vicente Fernández🇲🇽
deceasedMexican actor and ranchera singer (1940–2021) · 1940–2021
Days lived
29,884
Yevgeniy Abalakov
deceasedathlete · 1907–1948
Days lived
15,011
Died on This Day
Alex Hannig🇩🇪
deceasedGerman athletics competitor (1897–1987) · 1897–1987
Days lived
32,625
Andrew Weatherall🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish DJ, record producer, and remixer (1963-2020) · 1963–2020
Days lived
20,771
Avni Engüllü🇲🇰
deceasedTurkish journalist · 1947–2024
Days lived
27,922
David Lelei🇰🇪
deceasedKenyan distance runner (1971-2010) · 1971–2010
Days lived
14,163
Ferenc Olgyay🇭🇺
deceasedpainter (1872–1939) · 1872–1939
Days lived
24,284
Giordano Bruno
deceasedNotable Trials · 1548–1600
Days lived
19,040
Giuseppe Ros🇮🇹
deceasedItalian boxer (1942–2022) · 1942–2022
Days lived
29,003
Guy Laroche🇫🇷
deceasedFrench fashion designer (1921-1989) · 1921–1989
Days lived
24,688
Hans Baur🇩🇪
deceasedGerman military aviator (1897–1993) · 1897–1993
Days lived
34,941
Hans Scherbart🇩🇪
deceasedGerman field hockey player · 1905–1993
Days lived
31,840
Hans Thimig🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1900–1991
Days lived
33,081
Heinz Schillinger🇩🇪
deceasedGerman artist and graphic designer (1929-2008) · 1929–2008
Days lived
28,694
Jens Emil Mungard
deceasedwriter · 1885–1940
Days lived
20,134
Jesse Jackson🇺🇸
deceasedPolitician · 1941–2026
Days lived
30,813
Johan Galtung
deceasedNotable Trials · 1930–2024
Days lived
34,084
Juhani Salakka🇫🇮
deceasedFinnish weightlifter (1950-2015) · 1950–2015
Days lived
23,533
Konrad Helbig🇩🇪
deceasedGerman photographer (1917–1986) · 1917–1986
Days lived
25,082
Lee Strasberg
deceasedActor · 1901–1982
Days lived
29,312
Lefty Gomez🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1908–1989
Days lived
29,303
Léon Savary🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss writer (1895-1968) · 1895–1968
Days lived
26,591
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Levan Tediashvili
deceasedathlete · 1948–2024
Days lived
27,732
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Marcel Bezençon🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss broadcasting executive (1907-1981) · 1907–1981
Days lived
26,956
Otto Sackur🇵🇱
deceasedchemist · 1880–1914
Days lived
12,194
Peter Skellern🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish singer, songwriter and pianist (1947–2017) · 1947–2017
Days lived
25,543
Purushottam Shivaram Rege🇮🇳
deceasedMarathi writer from Maharashtra, India · 1910–1978
Days lived
24,671
Red Ruffing🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player and coach (1905–1986) · 1905–1986
Days lived
29,510
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Siegbert Tarrasch🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician (1862–1934) · 1862–1934
Days lived
26,281
Sonja Ziemann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1926–2020) · 1926–2020
Days lived
34,342
Tala Birell🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1907–1958
Days lived
18,423
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Thelonious Monk🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican jazz pianist and composer (1917–1982) · 1917–1982
Days lived
23,506
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,049
Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,720
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,893
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,590
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,163
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,605
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,571
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,205
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,649
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,301
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,100
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,614
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,632
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,301
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,653
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,196
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,106
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,083
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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