June 17th, 1978

Born on June 17th, 1978

Age in days, weeks and months
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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 249 days, exactly on January 1st, 2025, people who were born on June 17th, 1978 will be 17,000 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, 1978

45

Isabelle Delobel

French ice dancer

*June 17th, 1978, Clermont-Ferrand

45

Travis Roche

Canadian hockey player

*June 17th, 1978, Grande Cache

45

Sona Mohapatra

Indian singer

*June 17th, 1978, Cuttack

45

Alex Oliveira

Brazilian association football player

*June 17th, 1978, Campinas

45

Andrea Campagnolo

Italian footballer

*June 17th, 1978, Rosà

45

Vyacheslav Pozdnyakov

Russian fencer

*June 17th, 1978, Yaroslavl

45

Kumiko Asō

Japanese actress

*June 17th, 1978, Sanmu

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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

47

Lee Baxter

Swedish association football player

*June 17th, 1976, Stockholm

41

Arthur Darvill

Actor from England

*June 17th, 1982, Birmingham

67

Alan Phillips

Baseball and badminton player

*June 17th, 1956, Cape Town

51

Iztok Čop

Slovenian rower

*June 17th, 1972, Kranj

57

Jason Patric

American actor

*June 17th, 1966, Queens

37

Helen Glover

British rower

*June 17th, 1986, Truro

39

Benedict Wall

Actor

*June 17th, 1984, Auckland City

48

Néstor Pitana

Former actor and football referee

*June 17th, 1975, Corpus Christi

78

Eddy Merckx

Belgian cyclist (born 1945)

*June 17th, 1945, Meensel-Kiezegem

80

Burt Rutan

American aerospace engineer

*June 17th, 1943, Estacada

33

Jordan Henderson

English footballer (born 1990)

*June 17th, 1990, Sunderland

61

Frank Baranowski

German politician

*June 17th, 1962, Gelsenkirchen

63

Thomas Haden Church

American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1960)

*June 17th, 1960, El Paso

31

Elvira Sastre

Spanish poet and translator

*June 17th, 1992, Segovia

46

Mark Tauscher

American sportsperson and gridiron football player

*June 17th, 1977, Marshfield

57

Cédric Kahn

French film director

*June 17th, 1966, Crest

Same year
Born in 1978

45

Miroslav Klose

German association football player

*June 9th, 1978, Opole

45

Ani Lorak

Ukrainian singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur

*September 27th, 1978, Kitsman

45

Joachim Fischer Nielsen

Danish badminton player

*November 23rd, 1978, Copenhagen

45

Vibeke Stene

Gothic metal soprano singer, ex female vocals of Tristania

*August 17th, 1978, Sokndal

46

Malin Arvidsson

Swedish actress and dancer

*February 19th, 1978, El Salvador

45

Marit Berger Røsland

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*September 21st, 1978, Lørenskog

45

Ella Diehl

Badminton player

*August 5th, 1978, Samara

46

Didier Drogba

Ivorian and French association football player

*March 11th, 1978, Abidjan

46

Jonas Dahl

Danish politician

*February 26th, 1978, Randers

45

Kim Yong-hyun

South Korean badminton player

*May 13th, 1978, Incheon

46

Yim Bang-eun

Badminton player

*April 25th, 1978, Incheon

46

Chris Blair

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1978, Invercargill

45

Konstrakta

Serbian singer-songwriter

*October 12th, 1978, Belgrade

45

Jessica Pilnäs

Swedish singer

*July 5th, 1978, Åryd

45

Poo Bear

American songwriter and singer

*September 4th, 1978, Connecticut

46

Jamie Carragher

English footballer and sportcaster

*January 28th, 1978, Bootle

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

46

Gianluigi Buffon

Former Italian footballer (born 1978)

*January 28th, 1978, Carrara

46

Donna Kellogg

Badminton player

*January 20th, 1978, Derby

45

Rio Ferdinand

English association football player (born 1978)

*November 7th, 1978, Camberwell

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1978 is a normal year and no leap year.

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