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| December 17th, 2007 (December 17 2007) | Birth | James Windsor, Viscount Severn, son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex | |
| December 17th, 1987 (December 17 1987) | Death | Linda Wong, American porn star (born in 1951) | |
| December 17th, 1987 (December 17 1987) | Death | Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (born in 1903) | Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes |
| December 17th, 1977 (December 17 1977) | Birth | Arnaud Clement, French tennis player | |
| December 17th, 1967 (December 17 1967) | Event | Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria and was presumed drowned. | |
| December 17th, 1967 (December 17 1967) | Birth | Gigi D Agostino, Italian DJ and musician | |
| December 17th, 1967 (December 17 1967) | Birth | Vincent Damphousse, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 17th, 1967 (December 17 1967) | Death | Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (born in 1908) | |
| December 17th, 1967 (December 17 1967) | Death | Jack Perrin, American actor (born in 1896) | |
| December 17th, 1957 (December 17 1957) | Event | The United States successfully launched the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | |
| December 17th, 1957 (December 17 1957) | Birth | Earl Hudson, American drummer (Bad Brains) | |
| December 17th, 1957 (December 17 1957) | Death | Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer (born in 1893) | |
| December 17th, 1947 (December 17 1947) | Birth | Wes Studi, American actor | |
| December 17th, 1937 (December 17 1937) | Birth | Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (died in 2005) | |
| December 17th, 1937 (December 17 1937) | Birth | John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (died in 1969) | |
| December 17th, 1937 (December 17 1937) | Birth | Calvin Waller, US Army general (died in 1996) | |
| December 17th, 1927 (December 17 1927) | Birth | Richard Long, American actor (died in 1974) | |
| December 17th, 1917 (December 17 1917) | Death | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (born in 1836) | Beth Anderson Quotes |
| December 17th, 1917 (December 17 1917) | Death | Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (born in 1878) | |
| December 17th, 1907 (December 17 1907) | Death | William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (born in 1824) | William Thomson Quotes |
| December 17th, 1887 (December 17 1887) | Birth | Josef Lada, Czech painter (died in 1957) | |
| December 17th, 1887 (December 17 1887) | Birth | Hermine Reuss, Empress of Germany and Duchess of Bohemia (died in 1947) | |
| December 17th, 1847 (December 17 1847) | Birth | Emile Faguet, French writer and critic (died in 1916) | |
| December 17th, 1847 (December 17 1847) | Death | Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (born in 1791) | |
| December 17th, 1807 (December 17 1807) | Event | France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System. | |
| December 17th, 1807 (December 17 1807) | Birth | John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (died in 1892) | John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes |
| December 17th, 1637 (December 17 1637) | Event | Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shiro rise against daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu. | |
| December 17th, 1577 (December 17 1577) | Event | Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for English Queen Elizabeth I. | |
| December 17th, 1267 (December 17 1267) | Birth | Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (died in 1324) | |
| December 17th, 1187 (December 17 1187) | Death | Pope Gregory VIII | |
