Also on This Day in History June 17
Discover what happened on June 17 with HISTORY's summaries of major events, anniversaries,
famous births and notable deaths.
Births on This Day, June 17
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1919
William K. Estes
William Kaye Estes was an American psychologist who was a leader in bringing mathematical methods into psychological research.
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1800
William Parsons
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse was an Irish astronomer who built the largest reflecting telescope of the 19th century.
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1821
E. G. Squier
Ephraim George Squier was an American newspaper editor, diplomat and archaeologist was a newspaper editor, diplomat, and archaeologist who, with the physician and archaeologist Edwin H.
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1832
William Crookes
English physicist and chemist who discovered the element thallium and showed that cathode-rays were fast-moving, negatively-charged particles.
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1876
Edward Anthony Spitzka
American anatomist and brain morphologist who assisted at the autopsy (29 Oct 1901) of the brain of Leon Franz Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. president William McKinley.
Deaths on This Day, June 17
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1996
Thomas S. Kuhn
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American science historian and science philosopher was a MIT professor, noted for his highly influential The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).
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1881
James Starley
British inventor and manufacturer, known as the father of the bicycle industry.
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1930
Louis Bolk
He was a Dutch anatomist who created the fetalization theory about the human body.
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2001
Donald J. Cram
Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his creation of molecules that mimic the chemical behaviour of molecules found in living systems.
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1940
Arthur Harden
English biochemist who shared (with Hans von Euler-Chelpin) the 1929 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on the fermentation of sugar and the enzyme action involved.