June 17th, 1343

Born on June 17th, 1343

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 248,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 302 days, exactly on March 13th, 2025, people who were born on June 17th, 1343 will be 249,000 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, after one of their comrades was arrested, 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

Ottoman–Hungarian 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?

36

Kendrick Lamar

American rapper, singer and record producer (born 1987)

*June 17th, 1987, Compton

43

Jeph Jacques

Comic author and illustrator (1980-)

*June 17th, 1980, Rockville

65

Jello Biafra

American singer

*June 17th, 1958, Boulder

61

Frank Baranowski

German politician

*June 17th, 1962, Gelsenkirchen

67

Alan Phillips

Baseball and badminton player

*June 17th, 1956, Cape Town

68

Edward I of England

King of England

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

80

Burt Rutan

American aerospace engineer

*June 17th, 1943, Estacada

78

Eddy Merckx

Belgian cyclist (born 1945)

*June 17th, 1945, Meensel-Kiezegem

57

Jason Patric

American actor

*June 17th, 1966, Queens

43

Venus Williams

American tennis player (born 1980)

*June 17th, 1980, Lynwood

41

Arthur Darvill

Actor from England

*June 17th, 1982, Birmingham

67

James Weldon Johnson

American writer and activist

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

63

Thomas Haden Church

American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1960)

*June 17th, 1960, El Paso

47

Lee Baxter

Swedish association football player

*June 17th, 1976, Stockholm

37

Helen Glover

British rower

*June 17th, 1986, Truro

81

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

51

Iztok Čop

Slovenian rower

*June 17th, 1972, Kranj

77

Beryl Reid

British actress

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

66

Joachim Król

German actor

*June 17th, 1957, Herne

33

Jordan Henderson

English footballer (born 1990)

*June 17th, 1990, Sunderland

31

Elvira Sastre

Spanish poet and translator

*June 17th, 1992, Segovia

98

Yvon Gattaz

French businessman

*June 17th, 1925, Bourgoin-Jallieu

80

Newt Gingrich

American politician and author (born 1943)

*June 17th, 1943, Harrisburg

57

Cédric Kahn

French film director

*June 17th, 1966, Crest

87

John Wesley

Founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)

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

88

Ron Carter

New Zealand businessman and engineer

*June 17th, 1935, Auckland

75

Charles Gounod

French composer

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

86

William Crookes

British chemist and physicist (1832-1919)

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

44

Martin Bormann

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

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

39

Benedict Wall

Actor

*June 17th, 1984, Auckland City

84

Walter Froneberg

German politician (1932-2017)

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

33

Alan Dzagoev

Russian association football player

*June 17th, 1990, Beslan

73

M. C. Escher

Dutch graphic artist (1898–1972)

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

45

Isabelle Delobel

French ice dancer

*June 17th, 1978, Clermont-Ferrand

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

65

Daniel McVicar

American actor

*June 17th, 1958, Independence

55

Tigran Petrosian

Soviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion

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

87

Ken Loach

English film director and screenwriter

*June 17th, 1936, Nuneaton

83

George Akerlof

American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics

*June 17th, 1940, New Haven

65

Heinz Guderian

German general (1888-1954)

*June 17th, 1888, Chełmno †May 14th, 1954, Schwangau

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on June 17th

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

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1343 is a normal year and no leap year.

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