October 17th, 1983

Born on October 17th, 1983

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 14,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 208 days, exactly on November 10th, 2024, people who were born on October 17th, 1983 will be 15,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on October 17th?

October 17th, 2001

Rehavam Ze'evi, the Israeli minister of tourism, was assassinated in revenge for the killing of PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa.

October 17th, 2000

A fatal rail accident at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, led to the introduction of widespread speed limit reductions throughout the British rail network and eventually caused the collapse of the railway management group Railtrack.

October 17th, 1992

Having gone to the wrong house in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for a Halloween party, Japanese exchange student Yoshihito Hattori was shot and killed by the homeowner.

October 17th, 1973

Yom Kippur War: Egyptian forces retreated from the Battle of the Chinese Farm, allowing Israeli forces to build their first bridge across the Suez Canal.

October 17th, 1969

The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence was stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo, Italy.

October 17th, 1964

Prime Minister Robert Menzies inaugurated the artificial Lake Burley Griffin (pictured) in the centre of the Australian capital Canberra.

October 17th, 1952

Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace, demanding that President Sukarno disband the Provisional People's Representative Council.

October 17th, 1931

American gangster Al Capone was convicted on five counts of income-tax evasion.

October 17th, 1860

The Open Championship, the oldest of the four major championships in men's golf, was first played at Prestwick Golf Club in Prestwick, Scotland.

October 17th, 1814

A wooden beer-fermenting vat in London burst, destroying a second vat and causing a large flood of at least 128,000 imperial gallons (580,000 l; 154,000 US gal) of porter that killed eight people.

October 17th, 1777

American Revolutionary War: British general John Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign ended with his surrender to the Americans, later convincing France to enter the war in alliance with the United States.

October 17th, 1660

A series of executions of the commissioners who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England concluded; six were hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.

October 17th, 1604

German astronomer Johannes Kepler began observations of an exceptionally bright object, now known as Kepler's Supernova, that had appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus.

October 17th, 1346

Hundred Years' War: King David II of Scotland (pictured) was captured at the Battle of Neville's Cross following his invasion of England under the terms of Scotland's Auld Alliance with France.

October 17th, 2019

The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 17th

Born on October 17th, 1983

40

Felicity Jones

English actress

*October 17th, 1983, Birmingham

40

Daniel Kajmakoski

Macedonian singer

*October 17th, 1983, Struga

40

Candice Boucher

South African model

*October 17th, 1983, Durban

40

Vitali Teleš

Estonian footballer

*October 17th, 1983, Tallinn

40

Mitch Talbot

American baseball player

*October 17th, 1983, Cedar City

40

Riki Miura

Japanese actor

*October 17th, 1983, Hiroshima Prefecture

40

Milica Brozović

Slovakian and Russian figure skater born in Yugoslavia

*October 17th, 1983, Belgrade

40

Junichi Miyashita

Japanese swimmer, tarento

*October 17th, 1983, Kagoshima

40

Toshihiro Matsushita

Japanese association football player

*October 17th, 1983, Kagoshima

40

Vahe Tadevosyan

Armenian footballer

*October 17th, 1983, Yerevan

40

Ivan Saenko

Russian footballer

*October 17th, 1983, Maslovka

40

Isabelle Barth

Film and stage actor

*October 17th, 1983, Herrliberg

40

Ben Akkaya

German actor

*October 17th, 1983, Lorch

40

Michelle Ang

New Zealand actress

*October 17th, 1983, Christchurch

40

Cosima Coppola

Italian ballet dancer and actor

*October 17th, 1983, Taranto

40

Rolan Bell

British actor

*October 17th, 1983, London

40

Daniel Booko

American actor

*October 17th, 1983, Three Rivers

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Who's birthday is on October 17th?

51

Eminem

American rapper, record producer and actor (born 1972)

*October 17th, 1972, St. Joseph

66

Sandra Reemer

Dutch singer and presenter (1950–2017)

*October 17th, 1950, Bandung City †June 6th, 2017, Amsterdam

37

Mohombi

Congolese-Swedish musician, singer, composer and dancer

*October 17th, 1986, Kinshasa

44

Kimi Räikkönen

Finnish racing driver

*October 17th, 1979, Espoo

54

Wyclef Jean

Haitian rapper

*October 17th, 1969, Croix-des-Bouquets

56

Venus Terzo

Canadian actress

*October 17th, 1967, Montreal

49

Matthew Macfadyen

English actor

*October 17th, 1974, Great Yarmouth

39

Jared Tallent

Australian race walker

*October 17th, 1984, Ballarat

57

Mark Gatiss

British actor, screenwriter and novelist

*October 17th, 1966, Sedgefield

39

Luise Amtsberg

German politician

*October 17th, 1984, Greifswald

51

Tarkan

Turkish singer

*October 17th, 1972, Alzey

63

Guy Henry

British actor

*October 17th, 1960, London

43

Tarell Alvin McCraney

American actor and playwright

*October 17th, 1980, Liberty City

65

John Paul I

Pope of the Catholic Church in 1978 (1912-1978)

*October 17th, 1912, Canale d'Agordo †September 28th, 1978, Vatican City

39

Luke Rockhold

American mixed martial artist

*October 17th, 1984, Santa Cruz

77

Cameron Mackintosh

British theatre and musical producer

*October 17th, 1946, London Borough of Enfield

38

Baran Kosari

Iranian actress

*October 17th, 1985, Tehran

39

Randall Munroe

American cartoonist, author and engineer

*October 17th, 1984, Easton

46

Walter Calderón

Ecuadorian footballer

*October 17th, 1977, Valle del Chota

85

Paxton Whitehead

British actor (1937–2023)

*October 17th, 1937, East Malling and Larkfield †June 16th, 2023, Arlington County

Same year
Born in 1983

40

Kamilla Rytter Juhl

Danish badminton player

*November 23rd, 1983, Skagen

40

Loreen

Moroccan and Swedish singer and songwriter

*October 16th, 1983, Danderyd

40

Katrina Kaif

British-Indian actress (born 1983)

*July 16th, 1983, Hong Kong

41

John Lundvik

Swedish singer, songwriter, and former sprinter

*January 27th, 1983, London

41

Kaisa Mäkäräinen

Finnish biathlete

*January 11th, 1983, Ristijärvi

40

Carsten Mogensen

Danish badminton player

*July 24th, 1983, Roskilde

41

Lee Jae-jin

South Korean badminton player

*January 26th, 1983, Miryang

41

Bao Chunlai

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1983, Changsha

41

Summer Cem

German rapper

*April 11th, 1983, Mönchengladbach

40

Liisi Koikson

Estonian singer

*June 4th, 1983, Kilingi-Nõmme

40

Philipp Lahm

German association football player

*November 11th, 1983, Munich

41

Laura de Boer

Dutch actress

*February 26th, 1983, Amsterdam

40

Lin Dan

Chinese badminton player

*October 14th, 1983, Longyan

40

Petya Nedelcheva

Bulgarian badminton player

*July 30th, 1983, Stara Zagora

41

Vitaa

French singer-songwriter

*March 14th, 1983, Mulhouse

41

Michelle Butler-Emmett

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1983, Durban

40

Shama Aboobakar

Mauritian badminton player

*June 7th, 1983, Beau Bassin-Rose Hill

40

Mila Kunis

Ukrainian-American actress

*August 14th, 1983, Chernivtsi

40

Chris Dednam

Badminton player

*August 8th, 1983, Bloemfontein

40

Anastasia Russkikh

Russian badminton player

*May 20th, 1983, Gatchina

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1983 is a normal year and no leap year.

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