December 17th, 1723

On this page

Born on December 17th, 1723 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on December 17th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on December 17th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (December 1723)

Born on December 17th, 1723

Weekday

Friday

December 17th, 1723 was a Friday.

Age

300

People born on December 17th, 1723 will turn 301 this year (2024), in exactly 233 days .

Zodiac

♐

Sagittarius (The Centaur/Archer)

November 23rd, 1723 - December 21st, 1723

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 109,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 294 days, exactly on February 16th, 2025, people who were born on December 17th, 1723 will be 110,000 days old!

109,706 Days

15,672 Weeks

3,604 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on December 17th?

December 17th, 2010

Arab Spring: Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire in protest against police harassment, triggering the Tunisian Revolution.

December 17th, 1990

American gay rights activist William E. Woods brought three same-sex couples to fill out marriage licenses in Honolulu, leading to the eventual legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States.

December 17th, 1989

The Simpsons, the longest running American prime-time entertainment series, made its debut on the Fox television network with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".

December 17th, 1983

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a car bomb outside Harrods in London, killing six people and injuring about 90 others.

December 17th, 1970

Polish soldiers fired at workers (memorial pictured) emerging from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass anti-communist protests across the country.

December 17th, 1967

Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming near Portsea, Victoria; his body was never recovered.

December 17th, 1948

The Finnish Security Police was established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.

December 17th, 1945

The modern flag of Kurdistan was raised for the first time in Mahabad, Iran.

December 17th, 1944

Nazi troops under Joachim Peiper killed unarmed prisoners of war, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, with machine guns near Malmedy, Belgium.

December 17th, 1939

World War II: After sustaining moderate damage in the Battle of the River Plate two days earlier, the German cruiser Graf Spee was scuttled by its commander, Hans Langsdorff, to avoid its internment by Uruguay.

December 17th, 1926

A coup d'état by the Lithuanian military replaced the democratically elected President Kazys Grinius with Antanas Smetona.

December 17th, 1918

About 1,000 demonstrators marched (pictured) on Government House in Darwin, Australia, where they burned an effigy of Administrator John Gilruth and demanded his resignation.

December 17th, 1903

Aboard the Wright Flyer (pictured) in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright conducted the first successful flights of a powered fixed-wing aircraft.

December 17th, 1862

American Civil War: Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

December 17th, 1790

The Aztec sun stone, now a modern symbol of Mexican culture, was excavated in the Zócalo, the main square of Mexico City.

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

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

Kungs

French DJ, record producer and musician

*December 17th, 1996, Aix-en-Provence

Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae

German geologist (1724-1793)

*December 17th, 1724, Hanover †May 1st, 1793, Hanover

Armin Mueller-Stahl

German actor

*December 17th, 1930, Sovetsk

Humphry Davy

British chemist

*December 17th, 1778, Penzance †May 29th, 1829, Geneva

Johann Paul Reinhard

*December 17th, 1722, Hildburghausen †January 1st, 1779

Milla Jovovich

Ukrainian-American actress and model

*December 17th, 1975, Kyiv

Émilie du Châtelet

French mathematician, physicist, and author (1706-1749)

*December 17th, 1706, Paris †September 10th, 1749, Lunéville

Holly Humberstone

British singer-songwriter

*December 17th, 1999, Grantham

Fernando Silva

Badminton player

*December 17th, 1972, Peniche

Pope Francis

266th pope of the Catholic Church

*December 17th, 1936, Flores

Carl Meyer

German architect (1855-1936)

*December 17th, 1855, Estorf †November 30th, 1935, Hanover

Joel Berti

American actor

*December 17th, 1971, Avon

Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre

Spanish noble and politician (1810-1885)

*December 17th, 1810, Isla de León †November 26th, 1885, Madrid

Alexander Emanuel Agassiz

Swiss-American zoologist and engineer (1835-1910)

*December 17th, 1835, Neuchâtel †March 27th, 1910, RMS Adriatic

Domenico Cimarosa

Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school

*December 17th, 1749, Aversa †January 11th, 1801, Venice

Muhammadu Buhari

Former President of Nigeria

*December 17th, 1942, Daura

Josef Lada

Czech illustrator, painter, caricaturist, scenographer and writer (1887-1957)

*December 17th, 1887, Hrusice †December 14th, 1957, Prague

Joseph Henry

American scientist and the 1st Secretary of the Smithsonian (1797-1878)

*December 17th, 1797, Albany †May 13th, 1878, Washington, D.C.

Peter Snell

New Zealand athlete

*December 17th, 1938, Ōpunake †December 12th, 2019, Dallas

Manny Pacquiao

Filipino boxer, basketball player, singer, actor and politician and a philantropist

*December 17th, 1978, Kibawe

Same year
Born in 1723

Adam Smith

Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723-1790)

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

Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz

Prussian general during the epoch of Frederick the Great

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

Johann Jakob Schalch

Swiss artist (1723–1789)

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

Baron d'Holbach

German-born French philosopher (1723–1789)

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

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

William Blackstone

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

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

John Witherspoon

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

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

Joshua Reynolds

English painter (1723-1792)

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

Tobias Mayer

German astronomer

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

Carl Henrich Dreyer

German judge and legal historian

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

Friedrich Boerner

Physician

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

Johann Ludwig Aberli

Swiss painter and etcher (1723-1786)

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

William Livingston

American politician (1723-1790)

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

Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini

Italian opera singer

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

Johann Baptist Wendling

German composer

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

Carl Friedrich Abel

German composer

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

Susanne von Klettenberg

German abbess and writer

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

Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe

Count of Lippe-Alverdissen and Count of Schaumburg-Lippe

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

Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein

German physicist

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

Peter Anich

Cartographer

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

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on December 17th

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

Wright Brothers Day, a United States federal observance by Presidential proclamation

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Brothers_Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XVII.XII.MDCCXXIII

17.12.1723

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

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

Calendar
December 1723

December 1723

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
48			1	2	3	4	5
49	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
50	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
51	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
52	27	28	29	30	31

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
48			1	2	3	4	5
49	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
50	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
51	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
52	27	28	29	30	31

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
48			1	2	3	4	5
49	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
50	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
51	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
52	27	28	29	30	31

December 17th, 1723

Born on December 17th, 1723

Weekday

Friday

Age

Zodiac

♐

Sagittarius (The Centaur/Archer)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 109,000 days old!

109,706 Days

15,672 Weeks

3,604 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on December 17th?

Arab Spring: Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire in protest against police harassment, triggering the Tunisian Revolution.

American gay rights activist William E. Woods brought three same-sex couples to fill out marriage licenses in Honolulu, leading to the eventual legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States.

The Simpsons, the longest running American prime-time entertainment series, made its debut on the Fox television network with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a car bomb outside Harrods in London, killing six people and injuring about 90 others.

Polish soldiers fired at workers (memorial pictured) emerging from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass anti-communist protests across the country.

Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming near Portsea, Victoria; his body was never recovered.

The Finnish Security Police was established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.

The modern flag of Kurdistan was raised for the first time in Mahabad, Iran.

Nazi troops under Joachim Peiper killed unarmed prisoners of war, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, with machine guns near Malmedy, Belgium.

World War II: After sustaining moderate damage in the Battle of the River Plate two days earlier, the German cruiser Graf Spee was scuttled by its commander, Hans Langsdorff, to avoid its internment by Uruguay.

A coup d'état by the Lithuanian military replaced the democratically elected President Kazys Grinius with Antanas Smetona.

About 1,000 demonstrators marched (pictured) on Government House in Darwin, Australia, where they burned an effigy of Administrator John Gilruth and demanded his resignation.

Aboard the Wright Flyer (pictured) in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright conducted the first successful flights of a powered fixed-wing aircraft.

American Civil War: Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

The Aztec sun stone, now a modern symbol of Mexican culture, was excavated in the Zócalo, the main square of Mexico City.

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

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

Same year Born in 1723

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on December 17th

Daniel the Prophet

Josep Manyanet i Vives

Lazarus of Bethany (local commemoration in Cuba)

O Sapientia

Olympias the Deaconess

Wivina

Sturm

December 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Accession Day (Bahrain)

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Kurdish Flag Day (Global Kurdish population)

National Day (Bhutan)

Pan American Aviation Day (United States)