On This Day
Wednesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
April 17 1968
Born on This Day
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Alain Poher🇫🇷
deceasedFrench politician (1909-1996) · 1909–1996
Days lived
32,013
Aleksei Kukhtinov🇷🇺
Russian footballer · b. 1993
Andrei Aramnau🇧🇾
Belarusian weightlifter · b. 1988
Anja Silja🇩🇪
musician · b. 1935
Days alive
12,054
Art Larsen🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican tennis player (1925-2012) · 1925–2012
Days lived
32,011
Bernhard Sprengel🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1899–1985
Days lived
31,326
C. J. Wallace🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1985
Curt Nimuendajú🇧🇷
deceasedGerman anthropologist (1883-1945) · 1883–1945
Days lived
22,882
Daniel Constantin Florea🇷🇴
Romanian footballer · b. 1988
Dustin Bomheuer🇩🇪
German footballer · b. 1991
Eberhard Hopf🇺🇸
deceasedGerman mathematician (1902-1983) · 1902–1983
Days lived
29,683
Ferdinand Piëch🇦🇹
deceasedentrepreneur · 1937–2019
Days lived
30,080
Gebhard Müller🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1900-1990) · 1900–1990
Days lived
32,984
Geoffrey Abbott🇿🇦
Olympic field hockey player · b. 1985
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Georges J. F. Köhler🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1946–1995
Days lived
17,850
Georges Oltramare🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss writer, journalist and fascist politician (1896-1960) · 1896–1960
Days lived
23,496
Gitta Lind🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor and singer (1925-1974) · 1925–1974
Days lived
18,103
Heidi Alexander🇬🇧
Politician · b. 1975
Hilde Schramm🇩🇪
writer · b. 1936
Days alive
11,688
Hilmar Thate🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1931–2016
Days lived
31,197
James Last🇩🇪
deceasedrapper · 1929–2015
Days lived
31,464
Jan Hammer
pianist · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
Joan Lorring🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1926–2014
Days lived
32,185
Karin Székessy🇩🇪
artist · b. 1938
Days alive
10,958
Kevin Porter🇺🇸
American basketball player and coach · b. 1950
Days alive
6,575
Low Tuck Kwong🇮🇩
President Director, PT Bayan Resources Tbk · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
Maël Lebrun🇫🇷
French basketball player · b. 1991
Mark Felix
athlete · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Massimiliano Capuzzoni🇮🇹
deceasedItalian rugby union player (1969-1995) · 1969–1995
Days lived
9,606
Maximilian von Herff🇩🇪
deceasedGerman SS general (1893-1945) · 1893–1945
Days lived
19,134
Michael Forest🇺🇸
deceasedVoice actor · 1929–2026
Days lived
35,609
Moritz Jahn🇩🇪
actor · b. 1995
Nguyen Van Thuan
deceasedVietnamese Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop and venerable (1928–2002) · 1928–2002
Days lived
27,180
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Ofer Hugi🇮🇱
Israeli politician · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Roddy Piper🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian professional wrestler (1954–2015) · 1954–2015
Days lived
22,385
Rooney Mara🇺🇸
American actress (born 1985) · b. 1985
Rudolf Pöch🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian doctor, anthropologist and ethnologist (1870–1921) · 1870–1921
Days lived
18,583
Sherrie Levine🇺🇸
American photographer and conceptual artist (born 1947) · b. 1947
Days alive
7,671
Stefano Fiore🇮🇹
Italian association football player · b. 1975
Victoria Beckham
singer · b. 1974
William Holden
deceasedOscar Winners · 1918–1981
Days lived
23,220
Wolf Gerlach🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and inventor (1928-2012) · 1928–2012
Days lived
30,890
Željko Ražnatović
deceasedNotable Trials · 1952–2000
Days lived
17,439
Died on This Day
Bobby Mathews🇺🇸
deceasedMajor League Baseball player, umpire (1851-1898) · 1851–1898
Days lived
16,949
Eddie Cochran🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1938–1960
Days lived
7,867
Ernst Moro🇩🇪
deceasedAustrian physician (1874–1951) · 1874–1951
Days lived
27,888
Franz Langoth🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian member of the Nazi party (1877-1953) · 1877–1953
Days lived
27,633
Gabriel García Márquez🇨🇴
deceasedColombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014) · 1927–2014
Days lived
31,819
Harry Stiff🇬🇧
deceasedathlete · 1881–1939
Days lived
20,994
Herbert Tobias🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1924–1982
Days lived
20,943
Hermann Friedrich Graebe🇺🇸
deceasedentrepreneur · 1900–1986
Days lived
31,348
Hilde Meisel🇩🇪
deceasedGerman socialist and journalist (1914-1945) · 1914–1945
Days lived
11,218
Iloosh Khoshabe🇮🇷
deceasedathlete · 1932–2012
Days lived
29,327
Johannes Thiele
deceasedchemist · 1865–1918
Days lived
19,331
Julius Neubronner🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1852–1932
Days lived
29,288
Karl Meiler🇩🇪
deceasedWest German tennis player (1949-2014) · 1949–2014
Days lived
23,728
Klaus Junge🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chess player (1924–1945) · 1924–1945
Days lived
7,777
Linda McCartney🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1941–1998
Days lived
20,659
Louis Held🇩🇪
deceasedGerman photographer (1851–1927) · 1851–1927
Days lived
27,530
Louise Nevelson🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1899–1988
Days lived
32,348
Nathalie Baye🇫🇷
deceasedActor · 1948–2026
Days lived
28,409
Nelson Margetts🇺🇸
deceasedathlete · 1879–1932
Days lived
19,318
Vivek🇮🇳
deceasedIndian film actor and television personality (1961-2021) · 1961–2021
Days lived
21,699
William of Ockham
deceasedNotable Trials · 1287–1349
Days lived
22,751
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
42,109
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
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
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
49,780
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
47,953
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,650
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,223
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,665
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,631
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,265
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,709
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,361
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,160
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,674
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,692
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,361
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,713
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,256
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,166
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,143
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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