December 17
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Art and culture
- 1989 - Premiere of hit animated television series The Simpsons.
Births
- 1770 - (Baptism) - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
- 1830 - Jules de Goncourt, French publisher (d. 1870)
- 1873 - Ford Madox Ford, English writer (d. 1939)
- 1903 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987)
- 1937 - John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
- 1939 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
Deaths
- 1830 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan-born libertator, six nations (b. 1783)
- 1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (b. 1812)
- 1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
- 1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
Notes
- 1999 - Waldo Peirce (December 17, 1884 - March 8, 1970) was an American painter,
- 1999 - Tom Wesselmann (February 23 1931 - December 17 2004) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and was an American pop artist w
- 1999 - Grover Washington, Jr.
- 1999 - Alexandr Hackenschmied Alexandr Hackenschmied (17 December 1907, Linz - 26 July 2004, New York City) was an Austrian photographer and filmmaker
- 1999 - Hellzapoppin'
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