August 17th, 1723

Born on August 17th, 1723

Age in days, weeks and months
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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on August 17th, 1723?

August 17th, 1723

Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraș and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraș, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioan_Giurgiu_Patachi

What else happened on August 17th?

August 17th, 2009

A hydroelectric turbine at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Russia catastrophically failed, flooding the turbine hall, killing 75 people and causing widespread power outages.

August 17th, 2008

Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal of the Beijing Summer Olympics, the most golds by any person at a single games.

August 17th, 1969

Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi coast of the United States, killing 259 people and causing $1.42 billion in damage..

August 17th, 1959

American musician Miles Davis released Kind of Blue, which became one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed jazz recordings of all time.

August 17th, 1950

Korean War: Forty-two American prisoners of war were massacred by the Korean People's Army on a hill above Waegwan, South Korea.

August 17th, 1945

Animal Farm, George Orwell's satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism, was first published.

August 17th, 1943

Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in a highly secret military conference (pictured) held in Quebec City.

August 17th, 1916

World War I: Romania signed a secret treaty with the Entente Powers, agreeing to enter the war in return for promised territory in Austria-Hungary.

August 17th, 1915

A category 4 hurricane made landfall in Galveston, Texas, leaving at least 275 people dead and causing $50 million in damage.

August 17th, 1914

World War I: Ignoring orders to retreat, Hermann von François led a successful counterattack defending East Prussia at the Battle of Stallupönen and scored the first German victory in the Eastern Front.

August 17th, 1907

Pike Place Market , one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the U.S. and a popular tourist attraction, opened in Seattle, Washington.

August 17th, 1676

Scanian War: Swedish forces defeated Danish troops at the Battle of Halmstad.

August 17th, 1424

Hundred Years' War: Allied English and Burgundian forces gained a strategically important victory at the bloody Battle of Verneuil in Normandy, France.

August 17th, 0986

Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: The Bulgarians defeated Byzantine forces at the Battle of the Gates of Trajan near present-day Ihtiman, with Emperor Basil II barely escaping.

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

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

45

Vibeke Stene

Gothic metal soprano singer, ex female vocals of Tristania

*August 17th, 1978, Sokndal

80

Robert De Niro

American actor (born 1943)

*August 17th, 1943, Greenwich Village

20

The Kid Laroi

Australian rapper and singer (born 2003)

*August 17th, 2003, Waterloo

54

Markus Gisdol

German association football player and manager

*August 17th, 1969, Geislingen an der Steige

89

Jean-Jacques Sempé

French cartoon artist

*August 17th, 1932, Bordeaux †August 11th, 2022, Ampus

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

36

Bendik Brænne

Norwegian musician

*August 17th, 1987, Bærum Municipality

87

Mona Andersson

Swedish actress

*August 17th, 1936, Örgryte församling

37

Marcus Berg

Swedish association football player

*August 17th, 1986, Torsby

76

Robert von Mohl

German legal scholar and politician (1799–1875)

*August 17th, 1799, Stuttgart †November 4th, 1875, Berlin

76

Anders Hatlo

Norwegian actor and film director

*August 17th, 1947, Larvik

63

Pierre de Fermat

French mathematician and lawyer

*August 17th, 1601, Beaumont-de-Lomagne †January 12th, 1665, Castres

46

Natasza Urbańska

Polish actress and singer

*August 17th, 1977, Warsaw

70

Herta Müller

German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist

*August 17th, 1953, Nițchidorf

69

Ingrid Daubechies

Belgian physicist and mathematician

*August 17th, 1954, Houthalen-Helchteren

45

Mehdi Baala

French middle-distance runner

*August 17th, 1978, Strasbourg

96

Jiang Zemin

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002

*August 17th, 1926, Yangzhou †November 30th, 2022, Shanghai

85

Carl Ausfeld

German judge (1814–1900)

*August 17th, 1814, Schnepfenthal †January 22nd, 1900, Siebleben

63

Sean Penn

American actor and filmmaker (born 1960)

*August 17th, 1960, Santa Monica

74

Julian Fellowes

English actor, dramatist, director, novelist, producer and screenwriter

*August 17th, 1949, Cairo

Same year
Born in 1723

67

Adam Smith

Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723-1790)

*June 5th, 1723, Kirkcaldy †July 17th, 1790, Edinburgh

58

Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz

Prussian general during the epoch of Frederick the Great

*March 24th, 1723, Friedersdorf †December 14th, 1781, Berlin

66

Johann Jakob Schalch

Swiss artist (1723–1789)

*January 23rd, 1723, Schaffhausen †August 21st, 1789, Schaffhausen

65

Baron d'Holbach

German-born French philosopher (1723–1789)

*December 8th, 1723, Edesheim †January 21st, 1789, Paris

76

Jean-François Marmontel

French historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement (1723-1799)

*July 11th, 1723, Bort-les-Orgues †December 31st, 1799, Saint-Aubin-sur-Gaillon

56

William Blackstone

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

*July 10th, 1723, City of London †February 14th, 1780, Wallingford

71

John Witherspoon

Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and Founding Father of the United States (1723-1794)

*February 5th, 1723, Gifford †November 15th, 1794, Tusculum

68

Joshua Reynolds

English painter (1723-1792)

*July 16th, 1723, Plympton †February 23rd, 1792, London

39

Tobias Mayer

German astronomer

*February 17th, 1723, Marbach am Neckar †February 20th, 1762, Göttingen

78

Carl Henrich Dreyer

German judge and legal historian

*December 13th, 1723, Waren (Müritz) †February 15th, 1802, Lübeck

38

Friedrich Boerner

Physician

*June 17th, 1723, Leipzig †June 30th, 1761, Leipzig

62

Johann Ludwig Aberli

Swiss painter and etcher (1723-1786)

*November 14th, 1723, Winterthur †October 17th, 1786, Bern

66

William Livingston

American politician (1723-1790)

*November 30th, 1723, Albany †July 25th, 1790, Elizabeth

36

Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini

Italian opera singer

*December 26th, 1723, Milan †June 30th, 1760, Prague

74

Johann Baptist Wendling

German composer

*June 17th, 1723, Ribeauvillé †November 27th, 1797, Munich

63

Carl Friedrich Abel

German composer

*December 22nd, 1723, Köthen †June 20th, 1787, London

50

Susanne von Klettenberg

German abbess and writer

*December 19th, 1723, Frankfurt †December 16th, 1774, Frankfurt

63

Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe

Count of Lippe-Alverdissen and Count of Schaumburg-Lippe

*July 5th, 1723, Rinteln †February 13th, 1787, Bückeburg

72

Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein

German physicist

*January 30th, 1723, Wernigerode †July 6th, 1795, Copenhagen

43

Peter Anich

Cartographer

*February 22nd, 1723, Oberperfuss †September 1st, 1766, Innsbruck

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1723 is a normal year and no leap year.

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