June 17th, 1980

Born on June 17th, 1980

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

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 983 days, exactly on January 2nd, 2027, people who were born on June 17th, 1980 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, 1980

43

Jeph Jacques

Comic author and illustrator (1980-)

*June 17th, 1980, Rockville

43

Venus Williams

American tennis player (born 1980)

*June 17th, 1980, Lynwood

43

Elisa Rigaudo

Italian racewalker

*June 17th, 1980, Cuneo

43

Adam Novák

Czech actor

*June 17th, 1980, Prague

43

Carlos Alberto de Almeida

Brazilian footballer and manager

*June 17th, 1980, Rio de Janeiro

43

Bojan Zajić

Serbian footballer

*June 17th, 1980, Kruševac

43

Branko Tomović

Serbian actor

*June 17th, 1980, Münster

43

Sıla Gençoğlu

Turkish pop singer

*June 17th, 1980, Acıpayam

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Who's birthday is on June 17th?

36

Kendrick Lamar

American rapper, singer and record producer (born 1987)

*June 17th, 1987, Compton

65

Jello Biafra

American singer

*June 17th, 1958, Boulder

41

Arthur Darvill

Actor from England

*June 17th, 1982, Birmingham

47

Lee Baxter

Swedish association football player

*June 17th, 1976, Stockholm

45

Isabelle Delobel

French ice dancer

*June 17th, 1978, Clermont-Ferrand

37

Helen Glover

British rower

*June 17th, 1986, Truro

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

39

Benedict Wall

Actor

*June 17th, 1984, Auckland City

33

Jordan Henderson

English footballer (born 1990)

*June 17th, 1990, Sunderland

42

Rebekah Staton

English actor

*June 17th, 1981, Stoke-on-Trent

78

Eddy Merckx

Belgian cyclist (born 1945)

*June 17th, 1945, Meensel-Kiezegem

80

Burt Rutan

American aerospace engineer

*June 17th, 1943, Estacada

31

Elvira Sastre

Spanish poet and translator

*June 17th, 1992, Segovia

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

42

Kyle Boller

American football quarterback

*June 17th, 1981, Burbank

48

Néstor Pitana

Former actor and football referee

*June 17th, 1975, Corpus Christi

33

Alan Dzagoev

Russian association football player

*June 17th, 1990, Beslan

Same year
Born in 1980

43

Kristen Bell

American actress (born 1980)

*July 18th, 1980, Huntington Woods

44

Cai Yun

Chinese badminton player

*January 19th, 1980, Suzhou

44

Volker Bruch

German actor

*March 9th, 1980, Munich

44

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

44

Henriett Koósz

Paralympic tennis and badminton player

*February 14th, 1980, Kőszeg

43

Dag Inge Ulstein

Norwegian politician

*December 4th, 1980, Sula

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

43

Mathias Boe

Danish badminton player

*July 11th, 1980, Frederikssund

43

Sudheer Babu

Indian film actor and former professional badminton player

*May 11th, 1980, Vijayawada

38

Vibeke Skofterud

Norwegian cross country skier

*April 20th, 1980, Askim Municipality †July 29th, 2018, Hove

43

Maya Diab

Lebanese singer, entertainer, actress and television personality

*November 12th, 1980, Beirut

43

Mustafa Ceceli

Turkish singer

*November 2nd, 1980, Ankara

43

Matias Varela

Swedish actor

*November 1st, 1980, Stockholm

43

Roman Weidenfeller

German association football player

*August 6th, 1980, Diez

44

Dani Kind

Canadian actress

*January 10th, 1980, Toronto

43

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

Emir of Qatar

*June 3rd, 1980, Doha

44

Lee Kyung-won

South Korean badminton player

*January 21st, 1980, Changwon

43

Wolke Hegenbarth

Actress

*May 6th, 1980, Meerbusch

44

Kennevic Asuncion

Badminton player

*March 21st, 1980, Barbaza

43

Rishi Sunak

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2022

*May 12th, 1980, Southampton

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Public holidays on June 17th

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Born on June 17th, 1980
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Leap year

Yes: 1980 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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