June 17th, 1945

Born on June 17th, 1945

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 28,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 197 days, exactly on November 9th, 2024, people who were born on June 17th, 1945 will be 29,000 days old!

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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

Born on June 17th, 1945

78

Eddy Merckx

Belgian cyclist (born 1945)

*June 17th, 1945, Meensel-Kiezegem

78

Ken Livingstone

English politician (born 1945); Mayor of London from 2000 until 2008

*June 17th, 1945, Lambeth

78

Tommy Franks

United States Army general

*June 17th, 1945, Wynnewood

72

Art Bell

American broadcaster (1945-2018)

*June 17th, 1945, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune †April 13th, 2018, Pahrump

78

Rosa María Calaf

Catalan journalist

*June 17th, 1945, Barcelona

78

Arthur Verocai

Brazilian composer and conductor, singer and pianist as well as music producer

*June 17th, 1945, Rio de Janeiro

78

Frank Ashmore

American actor

*June 17th, 1945, El Paso

78

Paul Kennedy

British historian

*June 17th, 1945, Wallsend

63

Malevo Ferreyra

Argentine police chief

*June 17th, 1945, Cruz Alta Department †November 21st, 2008

78

Patrick Hickey

Irish judoka and sports administrator

*June 17th, 1945, Dublin

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

65

Jello Biafra

American singer

*June 17th, 1958, Boulder

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

80

Burt Rutan

American aerospace engineer

*June 17th, 1943, Estacada

67

Alan Phillips

Baseball and badminton player

*June 17th, 1956, Cape Town

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

80

Newt Gingrich

American politician and author (born 1943)

*June 17th, 1943, Harrisburg

57

Jason Patric

American actor

*June 17th, 1966, Queens

80

Chantal Mouffe

Belgian post-marxist political theorist

*June 17th, 1943, Charleroi

63

Thomas Haden Church

American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1960)

*June 17th, 1960, El Paso

66

Joachim Król

German actor

*June 17th, 1957, Herne

79

Chris Spedding

English rock and roll and jazz guitarist

*June 17th, 1944, Staveley

61

Frank Baranowski

German politician

*June 17th, 1962, Gelsenkirchen

83

George Akerlof

American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics

*June 17th, 1940, New Haven

77

Gérard Miquel

French politician

*June 17th, 1946, Nuzéjouls

43

Venus Williams

American tennis player (born 1980)

*June 17th, 1980, Lynwood

88

Ron Carter

New Zealand businessman and engineer

*June 17th, 1935, Auckland

41

Arthur Darvill

Actor from England

*June 17th, 1982, Birmingham

51

Iztok Čop

Slovenian rower

*June 17th, 1972, Kranj

47

Lee Baxter

Swedish association football player

*June 17th, 1976, Stockholm

Same year
Born in 1945

78

Vernon Wells

Australian actor

*December 31st, 1945, Rushworth

79

Manuel Neuer

German association football player

*March 27th, 1945, Gelsenkirchen

78

Franz Beckenbauer

German footballer (1945–2024)

*September 11th, 1945, Richard-Wagner-Straße 19 (München) †January 7th, 2024, Salzburg

75

Gerd Müller

German footballer (1945–2021)

*November 3rd, 1945, Nördlingen †August 15th, 2021, Wolfratshausen

79

Thilo Sarrazin

German economist and politician

*February 12th, 1945, Gera

72

Christine Kaufmann

German actress and businesswoman (1945-2017)

*January 11th, 1945, Lengdorf †March 28th, 2017, Munich

78

Victoria Bond

American composer

*May 6th, 1945, Los Angeles

78

Andreas Schmidt-Schaller

German actor

*October 30th, 1945, Arnstadt

78

Lasse Berghagen

Swedish singer, musician, songwriter, writer and television presenter

*May 13th, 1945, Enskede-Årsta-Vantör city district †October 19th, 2023, Stockholms Sankt Johannes

79

Rodrigo Duterte

President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022

*March 28th, 1945, Maasin

78

Helen Mirren

English actor (born 1945)

*July 26th, 1945, Hammersmith

36

Bob Marley

Jamaican reggae musician (1945–1981)

*February 6th, 1945, Nine Mile †May 11th, 1981, Jackson Memorial Hospital

78

Manfred Clauss

German historian of classical antiquity

*August 16th, 1945, Cologne

78

Aung San Suu Kyi

Former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

*June 19th, 1945, Yangon

78

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

President of Brazil (2003–2010, 2023–present)

*October 27th, 1945, Caetés

78

Radovan Karadžić

Bosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist and poet convicted of genocide

*June 19th, 1945, Petnjica

78

John Lithgow

American actor

*October 19th, 1945, Rochester

76

Peter Patzak

Austrian film director and Screenwriter (1945-2021)

*January 2nd, 1945, Vienna †March 11th, 2021, Krems

71

Claus Ryskjær

Danish actor (1945-2016)

*June 26th, 1945, Frederiksberg †December 12th, 2016

72

Barkley L. Hendricks

African American painter

*April 16th, 1945, Nicetown-Tioga †April 18th, 2017, New London

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No: With 365 days 1945 is a normal year and no leap year.

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