June 17th, 1079

Born on June 17th, 1079

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 345,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 833 days, exactly on October 10th, 2026, people who were born on June 17th, 1079 will be 346,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on June 17th?

June 17th, 2017

Wildfires erupted across central Portugal, eventually causing the deaths of 66 people.

June 17th, 1963

Riots broke out in Saigon one day after the signing of the Joint Communiqué, an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.

June 17th, 1940

Second World War: RMS Lancastria was sunk by German aircraft near Saint-Nazaire, France, causing thousands of fatalities in Britain's worst maritime disaster.

June 17th, 1919

Hundreds of Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom, England, leading to the death of a British police officer.

June 17th, 1913

In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strike action.

June 17th, 1900

Boxer Rebellion: Allied naval forces captured the Taku Forts from Qing China after a brief but bloody battle.

June 17th, 1861

American Civil War: The Battle of Vienna, Virginia, took place, which involved one of the world's first military movements of troops by train.

June 17th, 1795

French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a Royal Navy squadron commanded by William Cornwallis (pictured) fended off a numerically superior French Navy fleet.

June 17th, 1775

American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston, Massachusetts.

June 17th, 1631

Mumtaz Mahal (pictured), wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died in childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.

June 17th, 1579

Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.

June 17th, 1462

Hungarian–Ottoman Wars: Wallachian forces led by Vlad Dracula attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Sultan Mehmed II.

June 17th, 1397

The kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway formed the Kalmar Union, a personal union under Eric of Pomerania.

June 17th, 0653

Pope Martin I was arrested in the Lateran Palace, Rome, and taken to Constantinople.

June 17th, 1929

The town of Murchison, New Zealand is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on June 17th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on June 17th?

37

Kendrick Lamar

American rapper and songwriter (born 1987)

*June 17th, 1987, Compton

44

Jeph Jacques

Comic author and illustrator (1980-)

*June 17th, 1980, Rockville

66

Jello Biafra

American singer

*June 17th, 1958, Boulder

62

Frank Baranowski

German politician

*June 17th, 1962, Gelsenkirchen

68

Alan Phillips

Baseball and badminton player

*June 17th, 1956, Cape Town

79

Eddy Merckx

Belgian cyclist (born 1945)

*June 17th, 1945, Meensel-Kiezegem

68

Edward I of England

King of England

*June 17th, 1239, Westminster †July 7th, 1307, Burgh by Sands

58

Jason Patric

American actor

*June 17th, 1966, Queens

44

Venus Williams

American tennis player (born 1980)

*June 17th, 1980, Lynwood

81

Burt Rutan

American aerospace engineer

*June 17th, 1943, Estacada

42

Arthur Darvill

Actor from England

*June 17th, 1982, Birmingham

64

Thomas Haden Church

American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1960)

*June 17th, 1960, Woodland

48

Lee Baxter

Swedish association football player

*June 17th, 1976, Stockholm

38

Helen Glover

British rower

*June 17th, 1986, Truro

82

Mohamed ElBaradei

Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

*June 17th, 1942, Cairo

52

Iztok Čop

Slovenian rower

*June 17th, 1972, Kranj

77

Beryl Reid

British actress

*June 17th, 1919, Hereford †October 13th, 1996, Thames Valley Hospital

67

James Weldon Johnson

American writer and activist

*June 17th, 1871, Jacksonville †June 26th, 1938, Wiscasset

67

Joachim Król

German actor

*June 17th, 1957, Herne

34

Jordan Henderson

English association football player (born 1990)

*June 17th, 1990, Sunderland

32

Elvira Sastre

Spanish poet and translator

*June 17th, 1992, Segovia

81

Newt Gingrich

American politician and author (born 1943)

*June 17th, 1943, Harrisburg

27

Harm Vanhoucke

Belgian cyclist

*June 17th, 1997, Kortrijk

99

Yvon Gattaz

French businessman

*June 17th, 1925, Bourgoin-Jallieu

58

Cédric Kahn

French film director

*June 17th, 1966, Crest

89

Ron Carter

New Zealand businessman and engineer

*June 17th, 1935, Auckland

40

Benedict Wall

Actor

*June 17th, 1984, Auckland City

75

Charles Gounod

French composer

*June 17th, 1818, Paris †October 18th, 1893, Saint-Cloud

84

Walter Froneberg

German politician (1932-2017)

*June 17th, 1932, Hattingen †March 9th, 2017, Wetzlar

87

John Wesley

Founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)

*June 17th, 1703, Epworth †March 2nd, 1791, St Luke's

34

Alan Dzagoev

Russian association football player

*June 17th, 1990, Beslan

46

Isabelle Delobel

French ice dancer

*June 17th, 1978, Clermont-Ferrand

73

M. C. Escher

Dutch graphic artist (1898–1972)

*June 17th, 1898, Leeuwarden †March 27th, 1972, Laren

92

François Jacob

French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965

*June 17th, 1920, Nancy †April 19th, 2013, 14th arrondissement of Paris

66

Daniel McVicar

American actor

*June 17th, 1958, Independence

44

Martin Bormann

German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900–1945)

*June 17th, 1900, Halberstadt †May 2nd, 1945, Berlin

55

Tigran Petrosian

Soviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion

*June 17th, 1929, Tbilisi †August 13th, 1984, Moscow

86

William Crookes

British chemist and physicist (1832-1919)

*June 17th, 1832, London †April 4th, 1919, London

88

Ken Loach

English film director and screenwriter

*June 17th, 1936, Nuneaton

87

Ralph Bellamy

American actor (1904–1991)

*June 17th, 1904, Chicago †November 29th, 1991, Santa Monica

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Public holidays on June 17th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on June 17th.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1079 is a normal year and no leap year.

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