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| April 17th, 2069 (April 17 2069) | Event | After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. | |
| April 17th, 2008 (April 17 2008) | Death | Aime Cesaire, French Martinican poet and politician (born in 1913) | |
| April 17th, 2008 (April 17 2008) | Death | Danny Federici, organ player for E-Street Band (born in 1950) | |
| April 17th, 2007 (April 17 2007) | Death | Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (born in 1910) | |
| April 17th, 2006 (April 17 2006) | Event | Nine people were killed and at least 40 wounded in a suicide bombing near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. Islamic Jihad and Fatah s Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack. | |
| April 17th, 2004 (April 17 2004) | Death | Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (born in 1908) | |
| April 17th, 2004 (April 17 2004) | Death | Soundarya, Indian actress (born in 1971) | |
| April 17th, 2003 (April 17 2003) | Death | Robert Atkins, American dietician (born in 1930) | |
| April 17th, 2003 (April 17 2003) | Death | Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (born in 1932) | |
| April 17th, 2003 (April 17 2003) | Death | Earl King, American musician and songwriter (born in 1934) | |
| April 17th, 2003 (April 17 2003) | Death | Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (born in 1910) | |
| April 17th, 2002 (April 17 2002) | Event | Four Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two United States Air Force F-16s, the first deaths in a combat zone for Canada since the Korean War. | |
| April 17th, 1998 (April 17 1998) | Death | Linda McCartney, American-born wife of Paul McCartney (born in 1941) | Paul McCartney Quotes |
| April 17th, 1997 (April 17 1997) | Death | Allan Francovich, American documentarian | |
| April 17th, 1997 (April 17 1997) | Death | Piet Hein, Danish scientist and poet (born in 1905) | Piet Hein Quotes |
| April 17th, 1996 (April 17 1996) | Birth | Dee Dee Davis, American actress | |
| April 17th, 1995 (April 17 1995) | Death | Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (born in 1928) | |
| April 17th, 1994 (April 17 1994) | Death | Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, Nobel laureate (born in 1913) | |
| April 17th, 1993 (April 17 1993) | Death | Turgut Ozal, 8th president of Turkey (born in 1927) | |
| April 17th, 1991 (April 17 1991) | Event | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever gaining 17.58 to 3,004.46. | |
| April 17th, 1990 (April 17 1990) | Birth | Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer | |
| April 17th, 1990 (April 17 1990) | Death | Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights activist (born in 1936) | |
| April 17th, 1988 (April 17 1988) | Death | Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (born in 1900) | |
| April 17th, 1987 (April 17 1987) | Death | Cecil Harmsworth King, owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (born in 1901) | |
| April 17th, 1986 (April 17 1986) | Event | The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends. | |
| April 17th, 1985 (April 17 1985) | Birth | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player | |
| April 17th, 1984 (April 17 1984) | Event | Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People s Bureau in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are woundedied in The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building. | |
| April 17th, 1984 (April 17 1984) | Death | Claude Provost, French Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1933) | |
| April 17th, 1983 (April 17 1983) | Birth | Stanislav Chistov, Russian hockey player | |
| April 17th, 1983 (April 17 1983) | Birth | Roberto Jimenez, Peruvian football player | |
| April 17th, 1983 (April 17 1983) | Death | Felix Pappalardi, American musician and recording producer (born in 1939) (Mountain) | |
| April 17th, 1982 (April 17 1982) | Event | Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. | |
| April 17th, 1982 (April 17 1982) | Birth | Lee Jun Ki, South Korean actor and model | |
| April 17th, 1982 (April 17 1982) | Birth | Brad Boyes, Canadian hockey player | |
| April 17th, 1981 (April 17 1981) | Birth | Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer | |
| April 17th, 1981 (April 17 1981) | Birth | Ryan Raburn, American baseball player | |
| April 17th, 1980 (April 17 1980) | Birth | Curtis Woodhouse, English footballer/boxer | |
| April 17th, 1980 (April 17 1980) | Birth | Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player | |
| April 17th, 1979 (April 17 1979) | Birth | Siddharth Narayan, Indian actor | |
| April 17th, 1978 (April 17 1978) | Birth | Lindsay Hartley, American actress | |
| April 17th, 1978 (April 17 1978) | Birth | Jason White, Scottish rugby player | |
| April 17th, 1977 (April 17 1977) | Birth | Chad Hedrick, American speed skater | |
| April 17th, 1977 (April 17 1977) | Birth | Sizzla, Jamaican dancehall artist | |
| April 17th, 1977 (April 17 1977) | Birth | Phil Jamieson, Australian singer (Grinspoon) | |
| April 17th, 1977 (April 17 1977) | Death | William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (born in 1913) | |
| April 17th, 1976 (April 17 1976) | Birth | Monet Mazur, American actress and musician | |
| April 17th, 1976 (April 17 1976) | Birth | Alex Nesic, American actor | |
| April 17th, 1976 (April 17 1976) | Death | Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1895) | |
| April 17th, 1975 (April 17 1975) | Event | The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender. | |
| April 17th, 1975 (April 17 1975) | Birth | Gabriel Soto, Mexican actor | |
| April 17th, 1975 (April 17 1975) | Birth | Travis Roy, American hockey player | |
| April 17th, 1975 (April 17 1975) | Death | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher (born in 1888) | Philo Quotes |
| April 17th, 1974 (April 17 1974) | Birth | Victoria Beckham, English singer | |
| April 17th, 1974 (April 17 1974) | Birth | Mikael Akerfeldt, Swedish guitarist and singer (Opeth) | |
| April 17th, 1973 (April 17 1973) | Event | Federal Express delivers its first package. | |
| April 17th, 1973 (April 17 1973) | Birth | Brett Maher, Australian basketballer | |
| April 17th, 1973 (April 17 1973) | Birth | Kaiho Ryoji, Japanese sumo wrestler | |
| April 17th, 1972 (April 17 1972) | Birth | Gary Bennett, American baseball player | |
| April 17th, 1972 (April 17 1972) | Birth | Tony Boselli, American football player | |
| April 17th, 1972 (April 17 1972) | Birth | Jennifer Garner, American actress | |
| April 17th, 1972 (April 17 1972) | Birth | Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer | |
| April 17th, 1972 (April 17 1972) | Birth | Jarkko Wiss, Finnish Footballer | |
| April 17th, 1972 (April 17 1972) | Birth | Terran Sandwith, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| April 17th, 1972 (April 17 1972) | Birth | Claire Sweeney, English actress | |
| April 17th, 1971 (April 17 1971) | Event | The People s Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor. | |
| April 17th, 1971 (April 17 1971) | Event | Sierra Leone becomes a republic. | |
| April 17th, 1970 (April 17 1970) | Event | Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. | |
| April 17th, 1970 (April 17 1970) | Birth | Redman, American rapper | |
| April 17th, 1969 (April 17 1969) | Event | Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. | Robert F. Kennedy Quotes |
| April 17th, 1969 (April 17 1969) | Event | Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek is deposed. | |
| April 17th, 1968 (April 17 1968) | Birth | Prince Maurits of the Netherlands | |
| April 17th, 1967 (April 17 1967) | Birth | Marquis Grissom, American baseball player | |
| April 17th, 1967 (April 17 1967) | Birth | Kimberly Elise, American actress | |
| April 17th, 1967 (April 17 1967) | Birth | Henry Ian Cusick, Peruvian-born Scottish actor | |
| April 17th, 1967 (April 17 1967) | Birth | Liz Phair, American musician/songwriter | |
| April 17th, 1967 (April 17 1967) | Death | Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (born in 1908) | |
| April 17th, 1966 (April 17 1966) | Birth | Vikram, Indian actor | |
| April 17th, 1965 (April 17 1965) | Birth | William Mapother, American actor | |
| April 17th, 1965 (April 17 1965) | Birth | Yoshiki Kuroda, Japanese urban planner | |
| April 17th, 1964 (April 17 1964) | Event | The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World s Fair. | |
| April 17th, 1964 (April 17 1964) | Event | Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air. | |
| April 17th, 1964 (April 17 1964) | Event | Shea Stadium opens. | |
| April 17th, 1964 (April 17 1964) | Birth | Maynard James Keenan, American singer (Tool and A Perfect Circle) | |
| April 17th, 1964 (April 17 1964) | Birth | Ken Daneyko, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| April 17th, 1964 (April 17 1964) | Birth | Lela Rochon, American actress | |
| April 17th, 1963 (April 17 1963) | Birth | Joel Murray, American actor | |
| April 17th, 1961 (April 17 1961) | Event | Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA finances and trains Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| April 17th, 1961 (April 17 1961) | Birth | Boomer Esiason, American football player | |
| April 17th, 1961 (April 17 1961) | Birth | Frank J. Christensen, American labor leader | |
| April 17th, 1960 (April 17 1960) | Death | Eddie Cochran, American musician (born in 1938) | |
| April 17th, 1959 (April 17 1959) | Birth | Sean Bean, English actor | |
| April 17th, 1957 (April 17 1957) | Birth | Nick Hornby, English author | |
| April 17th, 1955 (April 17 1955) | Birth | Pete Shelley, British musician | |
| April 17th, 1954 (April 17 1954) | Birth | Riccardo Patrese, Italian race car driver | |
| April 17th, 1954 (April 17 1954) | Birth | Rowdy Roddy Piper, Canadian professional wrestler | |
| April 17th, 1954 (April 17 1954) | Birth | Michael Sembello, American musician | |
| April 17th, 1954 (April 17 1954) | Death | Lucretiu Patrascanu, Romanian communist activist (born in 1900) | |
| April 17th, 1952 (April 17 1952) | Birth | Zeljko Raznatovic, Serbian warlord (died in 2000) | |
| April 17th, 1951 (April 17 1951) | Birth | Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born actress | |
| April 17th, 1951 (April 17 1951) | Birth | Borje Salming, Swedish ice hockey player | |
| April 17th, 1950 (April 17 1950) | Birth | L. Scott Caldwell, American actress | |
| April 17th, 1950 (April 17 1950) | Birth | Bruce McNall, American former NHL team owner | |
| April 17th, 1948 (April 17 1948) | Birth | Jan Hammer, Czech composer | |
| April 17th, 1947 (April 17 1947) | Birth | Linda Martin, Irish singer | |
| April 17th, 1947 (April 17 1947) | Birth | Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player | |
| April 17th, 1945 (April 17 1945) | Event | In Stassfurt, Germany, United States Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash seizes half a ton of uranium, in an attempt to foil Soviet Union plans to build an atomic bomb. | Tom Ze Quotes |
| April 17th, 1944 (April 17 1944) | Death | J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (born in 1867) | |
| April 17th, 1942 (April 17 1942) | Event | POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Konigstein. | |
| April 17th, 1942 (April 17 1942) | Birth | David Bradley, British actor | |
| April 17th, 1942 (April 17 1942) | Death | Jean Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1870) | |
| April 17th, 1941 (April 17 1941) | Event | World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. | |
| April 17th, 1941 (April 17 1941) | Death | Al Bowlly, British dance band vocalist (born in 1899) | |
| April 17th, 1940 (April 17 1940) | Birth | Billy Fury, British singer (died in 1983) | |
| April 17th, 1940 (April 17 1940) | Birth | John McCririck, English television horse racing pundit | |
| April 17th, 1940 (April 17 1940) | Birth | Anja Silja, German soprano | |
| April 17th, 1938 (April 17 1938) | Birth | Ben Barnes, American politician | |
| April 17th, 1937 (April 17 1937) | Birth | Ferdinand Piech, Austrian-German automotive engineer and executive | |
| April 17th, 1937 (April 17 1937) | Death | Yi Sang, Korean Poet (born in 1910) | |
| April 17th, 1936 (April 17 1936) | Death | Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch prime minister (born in 1873) | |
| April 17th, 1935 (April 17 1935) | Birth | Theo Angelopoulos, Greek film director | |
| April 17th, 1934 (April 17 1934) | Birth | Don Kirshner, American composer | |
| April 17th, 1930 (April 17 1930) | Birth | Chris Barber, British jazz band leader | |
| April 17th, 1930 (April 17 1930) | Death | Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (born in 1863) | |
| April 17th, 1929 (April 17 1929) | Birth | James Last, German band leader | |
| April 17th, 1929 (April 17 1929) | Birth | Peggy McKercher, 11th Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan) | |
| April 17th, 1928 (April 17 1928) | Birth | Cynthia Ozick, American writer | |
| April 17th, 1926 (April 17 1926) | Birth | Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (died in 2004) | |
| April 17th, 1924 (April 17 1924) | Event | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company. | Louis B. Mayer Quotes |
| April 17th, 1923 (April 17 1923) | Birth | Lindsay Anderson, English film director (died in 1994) | |
| April 17th, 1923 (April 17 1923) | Birth | Harry Reasoner, American journalist (died in 1991) | |
| April 17th, 1923 (April 17 1923) | Birth | Solly Hemus, American baseball player | |
| April 17th, 1921 (April 17 1921) | Death | Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (born in 1860) | Philo Quotes |
| April 17th, 1919 (April 17 1919) | Birth | Gilles Lamontagne, French Canadian politician | |
| April 17th, 1919 (April 17 1919) | Birth | Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer | |
| April 17th, 1918 (April 17 1918) | Birth | William Holden, American actor (died in 1981) | |
| April 17th, 1917 (April 17 1917) | Birth | Bill Clements, American politician | |
| April 17th, 1916 (April 17 1916) | Birth | Helenio Herrera, French footballer player and manager (died in 1997) | |
| April 17th, 1915 (April 17 1915) | Birth | Joe Foss, American soldier and politician (died in 2003) | |
| April 17th, 1914 (April 17 1914) | Birth | George W. Davis, American art director (died in 1984) | |
| April 17th, 1910 (April 17 1910) | Birth | Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (died in 1999) | |
| April 17th, 1909 (April 17 1909) | Birth | Alain Poher, French politician (died in 1996) | |
| April 17th, 1907 (April 17 1907) | Event | The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than any other day. | |
| April 17th, 1906 (April 17 1906) | Birth | Sidney R. Garfield, American physician (died in 1984) | |
| April 17th, 1905 (April 17 1905) | Event | The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which held that the "right to free contract" was implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. | |
| April 17th, 1905 (April 17 1905) | Birth | Arthur Lake, American actor (died in 1987) | |
| April 17th, 1903 (April 17 1903) | Birth | Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (died in 1976) | |
| April 17th, 1903 (April 17 1903) | Birth | Morgan Taylor, American athlete (died in 1975) | |
| April 17th, 1902 (April 17 1902) | Birth | Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican politician (died in 1974) | |
| April 17th, 1902 (April 17 1902) | Death | Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (born in 1822) | Francis of Assisi Quotes |
| April 17th, 1897 (April 17 1897) | Birth | Thornton Wilder, American dramatist (died in 1975) | Thornton Wilder Quotes |
| April 17th, 1896 (April 17 1896) | Birth | Senor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (died in 1999) | |
| April 17th, 1895 (April 17 1895) | Event | The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signedied in This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan. | |
| April 17th, 1894 (April 17 1894) | Birth | Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (died in 1971) | Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
| April 17th, 1892 (April 17 1892) | Death | Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (born in 1822) | |
| April 17th, 1890 (April 17 1890) | Birth | Art Acord, American actor and rodeo rider (died in 1931) | |
| April 17th, 1885 (April 17 1885) | Birth | Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Danish author (died in 1962) | |
| April 17th, 1884 (April 17 1884) | Birth | Leo Frank, American convict (died in 1915) | |
| April 17th, 1882 (April 17 1882) | Birth | Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (died in 1951) | Artur Schnabel Quotes |
| April 17th, 1882 (April 17 1882) | Death | George Jennings Sanitary engineer (born in 1810) | |
| April 17th, 1877 (April 17 1877) | Birth | Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (died in 1949) | |
| April 17th, 1873 (April 17 1873) | Death | Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (born in 1783) | |
| April 17th, 1866 (April 17 1866) | Birth | Ernest Starling, British physiologist (died in 1927) | |
| April 17th, 1865 (April 17 1865) | Event | Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| April 17th, 1865 (April 17 1865) | Birth | Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (died in 1939) | |
| April 17th, 1864 (April 17 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Plymouth begins - Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina. | |
| April 17th, 1863 (April 17 1863) | Birth | Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician (died in 1940) | |
| April 17th, 1863 (April 17 1863) | Birth | Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (died in 1933) | Constantine P. Cavafy Quotes |
| April 17th, 1861 (April 17 1861) | Event | American Civil War: Virginia secedes from the United States. | |
| April 17th, 1849 (April 17 1849) | Birth | William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died in 1923) | |
| April 17th, 1843 (April 17 1843) | Death | Samuel Morey, American inventor (born in 1762) | |
| April 17th, 1842 (April 17 1842) | Birth | Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (died in 1911) | |
| April 17th, 1837 (April 17 1837) | Birth | J.P. Morgan, American financier (died in 1913) | |
| April 17th, 1833 (April 17 1833) | Birth | Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (died in 1900) | |
| April 17th, 1816 (April 17 1816) | Birth | Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (died in 1876) | |
| April 17th, 1799 (April 17 1799) | Death | Richard Jupp, English architect (born in 1728) | |
| April 17th, 1798 (April 17 1798) | Birth | Etienne Bobillier, French mathematician (died in 1840) | |
| April 17th, 1797 (April 17 1797) | Event | Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions to Spanish territories in America. | |
| April 17th, 1794 (April 17 1794) | Birth | Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (died in 1868) | |
| April 17th, 1790 (April 17 1790) | Death | Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, diplomat, and printer (born in 1706) | Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| April 17th, 1764 (April 17 1764) | Death | Johann Mattheson, German composer (born in 1681) | |
| April 17th, 1761 (April 17 1761) | Death | Thomas Bayes, English mathematician | |
| April 17th, 1750 (April 17 1750) | Birth | Francois de Neufchateau, French statesman and intellectual figure (died in 1828) | |
| April 17th, 1742 (April 17 1742) | Death | Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (born in 1664) | |
| April 17th, 1741 (April 17 1741) | Birth | Samuel Chase, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died in 1811) | |
| April 17th, 1734 (April 17 1734) | Birth | Taksin, King of Thailand (died in 1782) | |
| April 17th, 1713 (April 17 1713) | Death | David Hollatz, Pomeranian dogmatician (born in 1648) | |
| April 17th, 1711 (April 17 1711) | Death | Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1678) | |
| April 17th, 1710 (April 17 1710) | Birth | Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (died in 1767) | |
| April 17th, 1696 (April 17 1696) | Death | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French writer (born in 1626) | |
| April 17th, 1695 (April 17 1695) | Death | Sor Juana, Mexican writer | |
| April 17th, 1680 (April 17 1680) | Death | Kateri Tekakwitha, first American Indian to receive beatification (born in 1656) | |
| April 17th, 1622 (April 17 1622) | Birth | Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (died in 1695) | Henry Vaughan Quotes |
| April 17th, 1620 (April 17 1620) | Birth | Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame (died in 1700) | |
| April 17th, 1598 (April 17 1598) | Birth | Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (died in 1671) | |
| April 17th, 1586 (April 17 1586) | Birth | John Ford, English dramatist | |
| April 17th, 1574 (April 17 1574) | Death | Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (born in 1500) | |
| April 17th, 1573 (April 17 1573) | Birth | Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (died in 1651) | |
| April 17th, 1555 (April 17 1555) | Event | After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army. The Republic of Siena is incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. | |
| April 17th, 1539 (April 17 1539) | Death | George, Duke of Saxony (born in 1471) | |
| April 17th, 1524 (April 17 1524) | Event | Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor. | |
| April 17th, 1521 (April 17 1521) | Event | Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| April 17th, 1492 (April 17 1492) | Event | Spain and Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to Asia to get spices. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| April 17th, 1427 (April 17 1427) | Death | John IV, Duke of Brabant (born in 1403) | |
| April 17th, 1397 (April 17 1397) | Event | Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as when the book s pilgrimage to Canterbury starts. | Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes |
| April 17th, 1278 (April 17 1278) | Birth | Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor (died in 1320) | |
| April 17th, 1080 (April 17 1080) | Death | King Harald III of Denmark (born in 1041) | |
| April 17th, 0617 (April 17 0617) | Death | Donnan of Eigg, Celtic Christian martyr, patron saint of Eigg | |
| April 17th, 0485 (April 17 0485) | Death | Proclus, Greek philosopher (born in 412) | Philo Quotes |
| April 17th, 0326 (April 17 0326) | Death | Alexander of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria | |
