On This Day
Monday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
June 17 1968
Born on This Day

Adolf Hoch🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect (1910-1992) · 1910–1992
Days lived
29,927

Agustín Edwards Mac-Clure🇨🇱
deceasedentrepreneur · 1878–1941
Days lived
23,011
Alan Phillips🇿🇦
baseball and badminton player · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
Albert Dohmen🇩🇪
musician · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383

Alexandre Alphonse🇫🇷
Guadeloupean footballer · b. 1982
Alfred Keller🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian painter and architect (1875-1945) · 1875–1945
Days lived
25,466
Alton Kelley🇺🇸
deceasedartist (1940–2008) · 1940–2008
Days lived
24,821

Aoi Morikawa🇯🇵
Actress, Model · b. 1995
Cassidy Haley🇺🇸
American musician and fashion designer · b. 1980

Chantal Mouffe🇧🇪
Belgian post-marxist political theorist (born 1943) · b. 1943
Days alive
9,132
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Charles Eames🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican designer (1907-1978) · 1907–1978
Days lived
25,998
Cliff Gallup🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican guitarist (1930–1988) · 1930–1988
Days lived
21,299
Dermontti Dawson🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096

Dorothea Röschmann🇩🇪
musician · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Duško Nanevski
deceasedYouTube personality · 1929–1994
Days lived
23,574

Elena Rybakina
tennis player · b. 1999

Elroy Hirsch🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1923–2004
Days lived
29,445
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Greg Kinnear
Actor · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827

Hansle Parchment🇫🇷
Jamaican track and field athlete · b. 1990

Heinz Guderian🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general · 1888–1954
Days lived
24,071

Hubert Jedin🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1900–1980
Days lived
29,249

Hubert Schardin🇩🇪
deceasedGerman photographer and cinematographer (1902–1965) · 1902–1965
Days lived
23,113
Jean Delorme🇫🇷
deceasedFrench Bible scholar (1920-2005) · 1920–2005
Days lived
31,120
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Joachim Król🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018

Johann Durand🇫🇷
French football player · b. 1981

John Murtha🇺🇸
deceasedPolitician · 1932–2010
Days lived
28,360

Juan María Bordaberry🇺🇾
deceasedNotable Trials · 1928–2011
Days lived
30,345

Ken Loach🇬🇧
English film director and screenwriter (born 1936) · b. 1936
Days alive
11,688
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Kendrick Lamar🇺🇸
American rapper (born 1987) · b. 1987
Konrad Helbig🇩🇪
deceasedGerman photographer (1917–1986) · 1917–1986
Days lived
25,082
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Krayzie Bone🇺🇸
American rapper · b. 1973

Krzysztof Zanussi🇵🇱
Polish producer and film director · b. 1939
Days alive
10,593
Lee Baxter🇸🇪
Swedish association football player · b. 1976

Lee Ryan🇬🇧
British singer · b. 1983

Luis Manuel Rodríguez🇨🇺
deceasedCuban boxer · 1937–1996
Days lived
21,571

Lyonel Feininger🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1871–1956
Days lived
30,890

M. C. Escher🇳🇱
deceasedDutch graphic artist (1898–1972) · 1898–1972
Days lived
26,946
Maike Schrader🇩🇪
deceasedGerman field hockey player (1971-2004) · 1971–2004
Days lived
12,088

Mark Tauscher🇺🇸
American sportsperson and gridiron football player · b. 1977

Martin Bormann
deceasedNotable Trials · 1900–1945
Days lived
16,390

Martin Senff🇩🇪
German chess player · b. 1980
Michel de Fabiani🇫🇷
French chief executive officer · b. 1945
Days alive
8,401
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Monica Barbaro🇺🇸
Actor · b. 1990

Odessa A'zion🇺🇸
Actor · b. 2000
Paul Oppenheim🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1885–1977
Days lived
33,607

Rimsky Yuen🇨🇳
former Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Roider Jackl🇩🇪
deceasedsinger · 1906–1975
Days lived
25,162
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Scott Adkins🇬🇧
actor · b. 1976
Stella Márquez🇨🇴
Colombian pageant director and beauty pageant contestant · b. 1937
Days alive
11,323

Thomas Haden Church🇺🇸
American actor · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922

Tigran Petrosian🇬🇪
deceasedathlete · 1929–1984
Days lived
20,146

Tramell Tillman🇺🇸
Actor · b. 1985

Ukshin Hoti🇷🇸
deceasedphilosopher · 1943–1999
Days lived
20,287
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Venus Williams🇺🇸
entrepreneur · b. 1980

Víctor Mata🇩🇴
film director · b. 1961
Days alive
2,557

Will Forte
Actor · b. 1970

Wolfgang Weber🇩🇪
deceasedGerman journalist (1902–1985) · 1902–1985
Days lived
30,211
Died on This Day
Adolfo Winternitz🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian painter and sculptor (1906-1993) · 1906–1993
Days lived
31,652

Alfred Brendel🇦🇹
deceasedmusician · 1931–2025
Days lived
34,497
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Arnold Meijer🇳🇱
deceasedDutch fascist politician (1905–1965) · 1905–1965
Days lived
21,958
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Bernard Lacombe🇫🇷
deceasedfootball player · 1952–2025
Days lived
26,604
Curt Swan🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican artist (1920-1996) · 1920–1996
Days lived
27,880
David Willoughby
deceasedAnglican Archdeacon · 1913–1998
Days lived
31,175
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Fritz Reinhardt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1895-1969) · 1895–1969
Days lived
27,103
Gervais Gindre🇫🇷
deceasedFrench cross-country skier · 1927–1990
Days lived
22,964
Gianfranco Ferré🇮🇹
deceasedItalian fashion designer (1944-2007) · 1944–2007
Days lived
22,951

Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
deceasedsocial reformer, educationist, thinker from Maharashtra, India during the British rule (1856-1895) · 1856–1895
Days lived
14,217
Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman landscape architect (1891–1973) · 1891–1973
Days lived
30,036

Hugh McElhenny🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1928–2022) · 1928–2022
Days lived
34,136
Lars-Ivar Ericson🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish politician · 1948–2025
Days lived
28,088

Mohamed Morsi🇪🇬
deceasedpolitician · 1951–2019
Days lived
24,785

Richard Meinertzhagen🇬🇧
deceasedwriter · 1878–1967
Days lived
32,612
Zbigniew Horbowy🇵🇱
deceasedartist · 1935–2019
Days lived
30,848
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
42,170

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

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
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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

Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413

Rudolf Pannwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and philosopher (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,076
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
49,841
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
48,014
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,711
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,284
HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,726
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,692
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,326
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,770
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,422
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,221
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,735
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,753
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,422
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,774
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,317
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,227
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,204
Already Released
Films already out by this date.