June 17th, 1976

Born on June 17th, 1976

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1976

47

Lee Baxter

Swedish association football player

*June 17th, 1976, Stockholm

47

Sven Nys

Belgian cyclo-crosser

*June 17th, 1976, Bonheiden

47

Scott Adkins

English actor and Martial Artist

*June 17th, 1976, Sutton Coldfield

47

Peter Svidler

Russian chess player

*June 17th, 1976, Saint Petersburg

47

Ricardo Guillén

Spanish basketball player

*June 17th, 1976, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

47

Núria Puigcercós

Spanish association football player

*June 17th, 1976, Vilanova i la Geltrú

47

Carolina Pascual

Gymnast

*June 17th, 1976, Orihuela

47

Laurențiu Tudor

Manager

*June 17th, 1976, Bucharest

45

Pedro Miguel Arce

Nicaraguan actor (1976–2022)

*June 17th, 1976, Managua †November 30th, 2021

47

Nonso Diobi

Nigerian actor

*June 17th, 1976, Enugu State

47

Heather Mazur

Actress

*June 17th, 1976, Pittsburgh

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

43

Jeph Jacques

Comic author and illustrator (1980-)

*June 17th, 1980, Rockville

36

Kendrick Lamar

American rapper, singer and record producer (born 1987)

*June 17th, 1987, Compton

65

Jello Biafra

American singer

*June 17th, 1958, Boulder

43

Venus Williams

American tennis player (born 1980)

*June 17th, 1980, Lynwood

41

Arthur Darvill

Actor from England

*June 17th, 1982, Birmingham

51

Iztok Čop

Slovenian rower

*June 17th, 1972, Kranj

48

Néstor Pitana

Former actor and football referee

*June 17th, 1975, Corpus Christi

67

Alan Phillips

Baseball and badminton player

*June 17th, 1956, Cape Town

45

Isabelle Delobel

French ice dancer

*June 17th, 1978, Clermont-Ferrand

57

Jason Patric

American actor

*June 17th, 1966, Queens

48

Juan Carlos Valerón

Spanish footballer

*June 17th, 1975, Arguineguín

37

Helen Glover

British rower

*June 17th, 1986, Truro

78

Eddy Merckx

Belgian cyclist (born 1945)

*June 17th, 1945, Meensel-Kiezegem

61

Frank Baranowski

German politician

*June 17th, 1962, Gelsenkirchen

48

Joshua Leonard

American actor

*June 17th, 1975, Houston

80

Burt Rutan

American aerospace engineer

*June 17th, 1943, Estacada

39

Benedict Wall

Actor

*June 17th, 1984, Auckland City

57

Cédric Kahn

French film director

*June 17th, 1966, Crest

33

Jordan Henderson

English footballer (born 1990)

*June 17th, 1990, Sunderland

46

Mark Tauscher

American sportsperson and gridiron football player

*June 17th, 1977, Marshfield

Same year
Born in 1976

47

Abiy Ahmed Ali

Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018

*August 15th, 1976, Beshasha

47

Anna Friel

British actress

*July 12th, 1976, Rochdale

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

48

Robert Mateusiak

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1976, Wołomin

47

Gülşen

Turkish singer

*May 29th, 1976, Çapa, Fatih

47

Regina Halmich

German boxer

*November 22nd, 1976, Karlsruhe

40

Ueli Steck

Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (1976-2017)

*October 4th, 1976, Langnau im Emmental †April 30th, 2017, Nuptse

47

Halim Haryanto

Badminton player

*September 23rd, 1976, Bandung City

47

Ellen Angelina

Indonesian badminton player

*June 30th, 1976, Salatiga City

48

Chantal Botts

Badminton player

*March 30th, 1976, Witbank

48

Takae Masumo

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1976, Hokkaido

48

Pál Dárdai

Hungarian association football player and manager

*March 16th, 1976, Pécs

48

Daniel Ernemann

German association football player and manager

*February 18th, 1976, Amberg

47

Inga Marte Thorkildsen

Norwegian politician

*July 2nd, 1976, Oslo

47

Benedict Cumberbatch

English actor (born 1976)

*July 19th, 1976, Hammersmith

47

Lars Ricken

German footballer

*July 10th, 1976, Dortmund

47

Francesco Totti

Italian association football player

*September 27th, 1976, Rome

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

47

Colin Farrell

Irish actor (born 1976)

*May 31st, 1976, Dublin

47

Wang Chen

Hong Kong badminton player

*June 21st, 1976, Shanghai

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Leap year

Yes: 1976 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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