October 17th, 1985

Born on October 17th, 1985

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

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... 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, 1985

38

Baran Kosari

Iranian actress

*October 17th, 1985, Tehran

38

Collins John

Dutch footballer

*October 17th, 1985, Zwedru

38

Max Irons

British actor

*October 17th, 1985, London Borough of Camden

38

Tomokazu Nagira

Japanese association football player

*October 17th, 1985, Izumo

38

Marco Grüttner

German footballer

*October 17th, 1985, Ludwigsburg

38

Kiril Akalski

Football player

*October 17th, 1985, Plovdiv

38

Carlos González

Baseball player

*October 17th, 1985, Maracaibo

38

John Parker Wilson

American football quarterback

*October 17th, 1985, Montgomery

38

D Smoke

American hip hop musician

*October 17th, 1985, Inglewood

38

José De La Torre

Puerto Rican professional baseball player

*October 17th, 1985, San Juan

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

51

Eminem

American rapper, record producer and actor (born 1972)

*October 17th, 1972, St. Joseph

37

Mohombi

Congolese-Swedish musician, singer, composer and dancer

*October 17th, 1986, Kinshasa

66

Sandra Reemer

Dutch singer and presenter (1950–2017)

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

40

Felicity Jones

English actress

*October 17th, 1983, Birmingham

54

Wyclef Jean

Haitian rapper

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

39

Jared Tallent

Australian race walker

*October 17th, 1984, Ballarat

56

Venus Terzo

Canadian actress

*October 17th, 1967, Montreal

44

Kimi Räikkönen

Finnish racing driver

*October 17th, 1979, Espoo

49

Matthew Macfadyen

English actor

*October 17th, 1974, Great Yarmouth

57

Mark Gatiss

British actor, screenwriter and novelist

*October 17th, 1966, Sedgefield

39

Luise Amtsberg

German politician

*October 17th, 1984, Greifswald

63

Guy Henry

British actor

*October 17th, 1960, London

51

Tarkan

Turkish singer

*October 17th, 1972, Alzey

39

Luke Rockhold

American mixed martial artist

*October 17th, 1984, Santa Cruz

65

John Paul I

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

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

35

Dami Im

Australian singer

*October 17th, 1988, Seoul

77

Cameron Mackintosh

British theatre and musical producer

*October 17th, 1946, London Borough of Enfield

39

Randall Munroe

American cartoonist, author and engineer

*October 17th, 1984, Easton

43

Tarell Alvin McCraney

American actor and playwright

*October 17th, 1980, Liberty City

31

Barry Keoghan

Irish actor

*October 17th, 1992, Summerhill

Same year
Born in 1985

39

Virgil Soeroredjo

Badminton player

*March 11th, 1985, Paramaribo

33

Nipsey Hussle

American rapper (1985–2019)

*August 15th, 1985, Crenshaw †March 31st, 2019, Los Angeles

38

Maria Kristin Yulianti

Indonesian badminton player

*June 25th, 1985, Tuban

39

Eriko Hirose

Japanese badminton player

*March 16th, 1985, Inagawa

39

Ville Lång

Finnish badminton player

*February 14th, 1985, Lahti

38

Bonez MC

German rapper

*December 23rd, 1985, Hamburg

39

Koen Ridder

Badminton player

*March 14th, 1985, Haarlem

39

Karin Schnaase

German badminton player

*February 14th, 1985, Lüdinghausen

38

Mitchel Wongsodikromo

Badminton player

*August 26th, 1985, Paramaribo

39

Senidah

Slovenian singer-songwriter (born 1985)

*April 9th, 1985, Ljubljana

36

Young Dolph

American rapper (1985–2021)

*March 5th, 1985, Chicago †November 17th, 2021, Memphis

39

Cristiano Ronaldo

Portuguese footballer (born 1985)

*February 5th, 1985, Funchal

38

Salomon Kalou

Ivorian association football player

*August 5th, 1985, Oumé

39

The Quiett

South Korean rapper

*January 29th, 1985, Gwangmyeong

39

Andreas Ottl

German footballer

*March 1st, 1985, Munich

38

Pablo Abián

Spanish badminton player

*June 12th, 1985, Calatayud

39

Willem Viljoen

Badminton player

*March 5th, 1985, Bloemfontein

39

Thilini Jayasinghe

Badminton player

*January 15th, 1985, Peradeniya

38

Simon Santoso

Badminton player

*July 29th, 1985, Tegal City

39

Oxxxymiron

Russian rapper

*January 31st, 1985, Saint Petersburg

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No: With 365 days 1985 is a normal year and no leap year.

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