January 17

See also: Category: Holidays January 17

Religious

Catholicism

• memory of St. Anthony ;
• memory of Sulpicius the Pious , Bishop of Bourges (VII);
• the memory of St. Mildgita , a nun, or possibly the abbess of a monastery in Istria (676);
• memory of blessed Hamelbert from Michelsbuch, priest (VIII).

Orthodoxy ^[2]

• The Cathedral of 70 Apostles : James , brother of the Lord, Mark and Luke the Evangelists, Cleopas , Simeon , Barnabas (Joseph), Warsaw (Justa, Joseph, Josiah), Thaddeus , Ananias , first martyr Archdeacon Stephen , Philip , Prokhor , Nikor Parmen , Timothy , Titus , Filimon , Onesimus , Epaphras , Archippus , Strength , Siluan , Criscent , Crispus , Epenetus , Andronicus , Stachius , Amplia , Urvana , Narkissa , Apellia , Aristovula , Rodion (Herodion), Agave , Rufa , Anon , Erma , Patrova , Hermia , Lina , Gaius , Philologist , Lucia , Jason , Sosipatra , Olympus (Olympus) , Tertia , Erast , Quart , Evoda , Onisiphor , Clement , Sosthenes , Apollos , Tikhik , Epaphrodite , Carp , Kodrat , Mark , Zina , Aristarchus , Pood , Trofim , Mark , Artem , Aquila , Fortunate and Ahaik , Dionysius Areopagite and Simeon Niger , ( Kifa , Caesar and Alpheus );
• memory of the Monk Theoktist , Abbot Kukum of Sikeli (800);
• memory of St. Eustathius I , Archbishop of Serbia (c. 1285);
• memory of the Holy Martyrs Alexander Skalsky , Stefan Ponomarev and Philip Grigoryev , presbyters (1933);
• memory of the holy martyr Nikolai Maslov , presbyter (1939);
• memory of the holy martyr Pavel Felitsyn , presbyter (1941);
• memory of the Monk Martyr Zosima , the hermit of Cilicia and the martyr Athanasius of commentary (prison keeper) (III — IV);
• memory of the Monk Achilos , deacon of the Caves (XIV).

Name Day

• Catholic: Anton , Gamelbert, Mildgita, Sulpicius.
• Orthodox male ^[3] : Agave, Aquila , Alexander , Allma, Alfei, Amplius, Ananias , Andronic, Apellius, Apollos , Aristarchus , Aristovul, Artem , Archippus , Asyncritus, Athanasius , Ahaik, Achilles, Barnabas , Warsaw, Gaius, Dionysius , Evod, Eustathius , Euphemius , Epaphras, Epaphrodite, Epenet, Erast, Erma, Ermiy, Zina, Zosima, Jason , Joseph , Josiah, Herodion , Justus, Karp , Caesarea , Kifa , Cleopas, Clement , Codratus, Criscent, Crispus, Crispus Lin, Luke , Lucius, Marcus , Narkiss, Nicanor , Nikolai , Olympus, Onesimus , Onesiphorus, Paul , Parma, Patras, Prochorus , Pud, Rodion , Rufus , Silas, Silvanus , Sim , Sosipater, Sosthenes, Stachys, Stepan , Tertii, Timon, Timothy , Titus , Tychicus, Trophim , Uveliky, Urvan, Thaddeus, Theoktistos Philemon, Philip , linguists, Flegont, Fortunatus Khrisanf , Jacob ; female ^[4] : Euphemia.

See also: Category: January 17 events

• 1462 - the Portuguese explorer Diogo Afonso discovered the island of Santo Antao ( Cape Verde ) in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1562 - the Saint-Germain Edict came into force, officially recognizing the rights of the Huguenots in France .
• 1772 - as a result of a coup in the Danish-Norwegian kingdom, a group of aristocrats arrested a German doctor Johann Struenze , who concentrated almost unlimited power in his hands.
• 1773 - The British ship Resolution, under the command of James Cook, became the first ship to cross the Arctic Circle .
• 1912 - British traveler Robert Scott reached the South Pole a month after the expedition of the Norwegian explorer Royal Amundsen visited there.
• 1919 - Polish pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderevsky became Prime Minister of Poland .
• 1920 - The death penalty was officially abolished in Soviet Russia.
• 1929 - Emir of Afghanistan Inayatullah Khan , who ruled for only three days, was forced to abdicate after a coup.
• 1941 - Fight at Koh Chang .
• 1945 - the liberation of Warsaw by units of the 1st Belorussian Front with the assistance of the 1st Army of the Polish Army from the German occupiers.
• 1959 - Senegal and French Sudan signed an agreement to establish the Federation of Mali .
• 1966 - The American strategic bomber B-52 crashed over Spain with a tanker plane. As a result of the disaster, seven people died, one of the thermonuclear bombs aboard the B-52 fell into the Mediterranean Sea and was found only two months later.
• 1991 - Multinational forces deployed in the Persian Gulf zone launched Operation Desert Storm .
• 1995 - More than 6,400 people died as a result of a powerful earthquake in the Japanese city of Kobe .
• 2001 - Jews who survived the Holocaust obtained compensation from the Austrian authorities for property confiscated during the Nazi rule.

See also: Category: Born January 17

XVII century

• 1504 - Pius V (d. 1572 ), 225th pope (1566-1572).
• 1600 - Pedro Calderon (d. 1681 ), Spanish playwright and poet.
• 1624 - Guarino Guarini (d. 1683 ), Italian architect.

18th century

• 1706 - Benjamin Franklin (d. 1790 ), American scientist, journalist, politician.
• 1732 - Stanislav Augustus Poniatowski (d. 1798 ), the last king of Poland and the great prince of Lithuania in 1764-1795.
• 1771 - Ludwig (Leo) Vogel ( Johann Ludwig Andreas Vogel ; d. 1840 ), German and Russian doctor and teacher ^[5] .
• 1799 - Evdokia Istomina (d. 1848 ), Russian ballet dancer .

XIX century

• 1814 - Ludwik Meroslawsky (d. 1878 ), Polish revolutionary.
• 1820 - Anne Bronte (d. 1849 ), an English writer of the Victorian era ("The Stranger from Wildfell Hall ").
• 1827 - Sergey Usov (d. 1886 ), Russian zoologist, archaeologist, art critic.
• 1834 - August Weisman (d. 1914 ), German zoologist, theorist of evolutionism .
• 1835 - Antanas Baranauskas (d. 1902 ), Lithuanian poet and linguist, Catholic bishop.
• 1847 - Nikolai Zhukovsky (d. 1921 ), Russian mechanical scientist, founder of aerodynamics as a science.
• 1849 - Eugene Carrier (d. 1906 ), French artist.
• 1860 - Douglas Hyde (d. 1949 ), the first president of Ireland (1938-1945).
• 1863
  • David Lloyd George (d. 1945 ), British statesman, prime minister in 1916-1922.
  • Konstantin Stanislavsky (d. 1938 ), Russian theater figure, actor, director, teacher, first People's Artist of the USSR .
• 1880 - Mack Sennet (d. 1960 ), American filmmaker and producer.
• 1884 - Sergey Gorodetsky (d. 1967 ), Russian Soviet poet and translator.
• 1890
  • Nikolai Komissarov (d. 1957 ), Soviet theater and film actor, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
  • Yuri Fire (d. 1971 ), ballet conductor, violinist, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1899 - Alphonse Gabriel Capone (d. 1947 ), American mafiosi, by 1925 the head of one of the major Chicago gangs.

XX century

• 1902 - Leonid Trauberg (d. 1990 ), film director and screenwriter, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1911
  • George Stigler (d. 1991 ), American economist, Nobel laureate (1982).
  • Gabriel Kachalin (d. 1995 ), Soviet football player and coach.
• 1917
  • Mateo Maximov (d. 1999 ), gypsy writer, author of one of the translations of the New Testament into the gypsy language .
  • Anton Barkhatkov (d. 2001 ), Belarusian Soviet artist.
  • Tatyana Karpova (d. 2018 ), theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1926 - Hertz Frank (d. 2013 ), Soviet, Latvian and Israeli documentary filmmaker.
• 1933 - Delilah (committed suicide in 1987 ), French singer of Italian descent.
• 1937 - Alain Badiou , French philosopher.
• 1940 - Mircea Snegur , the first president of Moldova (1990-1997).
• 1942 - Mohammed Ali (née Cassius Clay ; d. 2016 ), American boxer, Olympic champion (1960), three-time world champion.
• 1944 - Victor Erin (d. 2018 ), Minister of the Interior of the Russian Federation (1992-1995).
• 1945 - Semyon Altov , Soviet and Russian satirist.
• 1949
  • Andy Kaufman (d. 1984 ), American showman, actor and revue artist.
  • Mick Taylor , English musician, guitarist, member of The Rolling Stones in 1969-1974.
• 1956 - Paul Young , British singer, musician, songwriter.
• 1960 - Igor Nikolaev , Soviet and Russian composer and singer.
• 1961 - Maya Chiburdanidze , Soviet and Georgian chess player, 6th world champion.
• 1962 - Jim Carrey , American film actor.
• 1963 - Kai Hansen , German rock musician, guitarist and vocalist.
• 1964 - Michelle Obama , first lady of the United States in 2009—2017, wife of Barack Obama .
• 1967
  • Konstantin Arsenyev , Russian songwriter.
  • Roman Kachanov , Russian film director.
• 1968 - Svetlana Masterkova , Soviet and Russian athlete, two-time Olympic champion.
• 1969 - Tiesto , a Dutch DJ, musician, composer and music producer.
• 1971
  • Richard Burns (d. 2005 ), English racer, world rally champion (2001).
  • Kid Rock , an American singer, musician, composer and actor.
  • Vadim Kolganov , theater and film actor, Honored Artist of Russia.
  • Sylvie Testu , French actress.
• 1974 - Mitya Fomin , Russian singer.
• 1977 - Dmitry Kirichenko , Russian footballer, Honored Master of Sports.
• 1979 - Oleg Lisogor , Ukrainian swimmer, multiple world and European champion.
• 1980 - Zoe Deschanel , American actress and singer.
• 1982 - Dwayne Wade , American basketball player, Olympic champion (2008).
• 1984 - Calvin Harris , Scottish author, producer, DJ.
• 1985 - Simone Simons , a Dutch singer, lead vocalist for the symphonic metal band Epica .
• 1987 - Alexander Usik , Ukrainian professional boxer, Olympic champion (2012).

See also: Category: Dead on January 17

Until the 19th century

• 395 - Theodosius I the Great (b. 347 ), the last emperor of the united Roman Empire (379–395).
• 1598 - Fedor I Ioannovich (b. 1557 ), the penultimate Russian Tsar (from 1584 ) from the Rurikovich clan.
• 1736 - Matteus Pöppelmann (b. 1662 ), court architect of the Duke of Saxony, author of the baroque architecture of Dresden.
• 1751 - Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (b 1671 ), Italian composer and violinist.

XIX century

• 1861 - Lola Montes (b. 1821 ), Irish dancer and actress, adventurer, favorite of the Bavarian king Ludwig I.
• 1863 - Horace Vernet (b. 1789 ), French battle painter.
• 1869 - Alexander Dargomyzhsky (b. 1813 ), Russian composer.
• 1890 - German Christian Hildebrand (b. 1843 ), Baltic historian of German origin.
• 1891 - George Bancroft (b. 1800 ), American historian and diplomat, "father" of the history of the United States .

XX century

• 1903 - Alexander Aksakov (b. 1832 ), Russian publicist, translator, publisher.
• 1911 - Francis Galton (b. 1822 ) English researcher, creator of the first intelligence tests.
• 1928 - Nagida Ruth Lazarus (b. 1849 ), German writer.
• 1939 - Ivan Mozzhukhin (b. 1889 ), the great Russian film actor.
• 1961 - Patrice Lumumba (b. 1925 ), First Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
• 1964 - Terence White (b. 1906 ), English writer.
• 1969 - Grazhina Batsevich (b. 1913 ), Polish composer, violinist, teacher.
• 1973 - Tarsila do Amaral (b. 1886 ), Brazilian artist.
• 1980 - Alexander Nesmeyanov (b. 1899 ), organic chemist, president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1951-1961).
• 1982
  • Varlam Shalamov (b. 1907 ), Russian writer.
  • Juan O'Gorman (b. 1905 ), Mexican painter and architect.
• 1991 - Olav V (b. 1903 ), king of Norway.
• 1994 - Gyorgy Zifra (b. 1921 ), Hungarian virtuoso pianist.
• 1997 - Clyde William Tombo (b. 1906 ), American astronomer who discovered Pluto .

21st Century

• 2001 - Gregory Corso (b. 1930 ), an American writer and artist, one of the key representatives of hipsters .
• 2002
  • Camilo Jose Sela (b. 1916 ), Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (1989).
  • Yuri Davydov (b. 1924 ), Soviet and Russian writer, master of historical prose.
• 2003 - Richard Krenna (b. 1926 ), American film, television and radio actor, nominee for the Golden Globe .
• 2004 - Cheslav Nemen (b 1939 ), Polish rock musician, singer and composer.
• 2007
  • Art Buchwald (b. 1925 ), American feuilletonist.
  • Evgeny Kushnaryov (b. 1951 ), Ukrainian politician and statesman.
• 2008 - Robert James Fisher (b. 1943 ), 11th world chess champion.
• 2010 - Eric Seagal (b. 1937 ), American writer, screenwriter, professor of ancient literature.

• Christmas time. Theoctist. Feoktistov day .
• The sky is clear on Feoktistov’s day, with a full moon - to a strong flood.
• Last holy fortune-telling: on this day, according to custom, the devil was driven from the village (the villager got dressed in the devil, putting on a fur coat turned outward) ^[6] .
• In the old days they believed that evil spirits returned to their possessions, trying in the end to do as much evil as possible ^[7] .