Anniversaries 17 July

Birth

Richard Carew (antiquary)2

English scholar 1555–1620

Isaac Watts47

English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674–1748

Pierre Louis Maupertuis24

French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters 1698–1759

Elbridge Gerry3

US diplomat and vice president; Massachusetts governor 1744–1814

John Jacob Astor2

German-American businessman 1763–1848

William Cranch1

United States federal judge (1769-1855) 1769–1855

Martin Farquhar Tupper31

English writer and poet 1810–1889

Lyonel Feininger1

German-American painter 1871–1956

Donald Tovey1

British composer 1875–1940

Shmuel Yosef Agnon1

Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature 1888–1970

Erle Stanley Gardner2

Lawyer, novelist, travel writer 1889–1970

Warren Weaver9

American mathematician 1894–1978

Georges Lemaître3

Belgian scientist and priest 1894–1966

Berenice Abbott9

American photographer 1898–1991

James Cagney2

American actor and dancer 1899–1986

Christina Stead4

Twentieth-century expatriate Australian novelist 1902–1983

Michael Gilbert2

Author 1912–2006

Артур Гордон Линклеттер1

1912–2010

Roger Garaudy1

French philosopher 1913–2012

James Grier Miller24

biologist 1916–2002

Kenan Evren5

Turkish general 1917–2015

Phyllis Diller2

American actress and stand-up comedianne 1917–2012

Nils Bohlin2

Swedish inventor 1920–2002

Hannah Senesh3

Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II 1921–1944

Gerrit Blaauw5

Dutch computer scientist 1924–2018

Olive Ann Burns2

American novelist, journalist 1924–1990

Stephen Levine8

American poet and author 1937–2016

Richard Gombrich11

British Indologist 1937

Ali Khamenei35

Iranian Shiite faqih, Marja' and official independent islam… 1939

LaVyrle Spencer2

American writer 1943

Chris Crutcher9

American children's writer 1946

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall11

second wife of Prince Charles 1947

Wolfgang Flür1

former member of Kraftwerk 1947

Stewart Baker1

American lawyer 1947

Geezer Butler2

English musician, bassist and lyricist of Black Sabbath 1949

Friedrich Stadler5

Austrian historian 1951

Robert McCammon4

American novelist 1952

Angela Merkel29

Chancellor of Germany 1954

J. Michael Straczynski20

American writer and television producer 1954

Francesca Marciano1

Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and writer 1955

Mike Bickle3

American writer and priest 1955

Wong Kar-wai8

Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and film director 1958

Susan Silver1

American music manager 1958

António Costa1

Prime Minister of Portugal 1961

Jeremy Hardy18

British comedian 1961–2019

Matti Nykänen1

Finnish ski jumper 1963–2019

Heather Langenkamp2

actress 1964

Elin Hilderbrand3

American writer 1969

Gavin McInnes1

Canadian writer 1970

Cory Doctorow53

Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction a… 1971

Terence Tao1

Australian mathematician 1975

Brian K. Vaughan37

American screenwriter, comic book creator 1976

Jagseer Singh1

Paralympic long jumper 1987

Death

Adam Smith175

Scottish moral philosopher and political economist 1723–1790

Tench Coxe4

American economist 1755–1824

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey32

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and I… 1764–1845

James McNeill Whistler26

American-born, British-based artist 1834–1903

Henri Poincaré49

French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher … 1854–1912

Lovis Corinth3

German painter 1858–1925

Daniel Salamanca19

President of Bolivia (1863-1935) 1863–1935

George William Russell134

Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867–1935

Nicholas II of Russia4

Emperor of All the Russias, Grand Duke of Finland and King … 1868–1918

Nicolae Paulescu3

Romanian academic 1869–1931

Ty Cobb14

American baseball player 1886–1961

Susanne K. Langer16

American philosopher 1895–1985

Джеральд Баррил1

1906–2001

George Rickey2

American artist 1907–2002

Billie Holiday26

American jazz singer and songwriter 1915–1959

Walter Cronkite50

American broadcast journalist 1916–2009

Edward Heath60

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974) 1916–2005

Katharine Graham4

American publisher 1917–2001

Mickey Spillane59

American writer 1918–2006

John Coltrane4

American jazz saxophonist 1926–1967

Leszek Kolakowski45

Philosopher, historian of ideas 1927–2009

Joep Lange1

dutch clinical researcher specializing in HIV therapy 1954–2014

Jules Bianchi2

French motor racing driver 1989–2015