June 17th, 1979

Born on June 17th, 1979

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 16,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 616 days, exactly on January 1st, 2026, people who were born on June 17th, 1979 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, 1979

44

Tyson Apostol

American television personality

*June 17th, 1979, Provo

44

Sina-Valeska Jung

German actress

*June 17th, 1979, Bad Nauheim

44

Alexander Motylev

Russian chess player

*June 17th, 1979, Yekaterinburg

44

Nick Rimando

American soccer player

*June 17th, 1979, Montclair

44

Young Maylay

American rapper

*June 17th, 1979, Los Angeles

44

Guile Branco

Brazilian actor

*June 17th, 1979, São Paulo

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

45

Isabelle Delobel

French ice dancer

*June 17th, 1978, Clermont-Ferrand

47

Lee Baxter

Swedish association football player

*June 17th, 1976, Stockholm

67

Alan Phillips

Baseball and badminton player

*June 17th, 1956, Cape Town

37

Helen Glover

British rower

*June 17th, 1986, Truro

51

Iztok Čop

Slovenian rower

*June 17th, 1972, Kranj

57

Jason Patric

American actor

*June 17th, 1966, Queens

39

Benedict Wall

Actor

*June 17th, 1984, Auckland City

33

Jordan Henderson

English footballer (born 1990)

*June 17th, 1990, Sunderland

78

Eddy Merckx

Belgian cyclist (born 1945)

*June 17th, 1945, Meensel-Kiezegem

80

Burt Rutan

American aerospace engineer

*June 17th, 1943, Estacada

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

48

Néstor Pitana

Former actor and football referee

*June 17th, 1975, Corpus Christi

31

Elvira Sastre

Spanish poet and translator

*June 17th, 1992, Segovia

45

Travis Roche

Canadian hockey player

*June 17th, 1978, Grande Cache

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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