| 93451 | August 17 | Death | 1785 – Jonathan Trumbull, American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710) |
| 93452 | August 17 | Death | 1786 – Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712) |
| 93453 | August 17 | Death | 1814 – John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (b. 1732) |
| 93454 | August 17 | Death | 1834 – Husein Gradaščević, Ottoman general (b. 1802) |
| 93455 | August 17 | Death | 1838 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749) |
| 93456 | August 17 | Death | 1850 – José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (b. 1778) |
| 93457 | August 17 | Death | 1861 – Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to Texas (b. 1806) |
| 93458 | August 17 | Death | 1870 – Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (b. 1818) |
| 93459 | August 17 | Death | 1875 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (b. 1827) |
| 93460 | August 17 | Death | 1880 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer (b. 1810) |
| 93461 | August 17 | Death | 1897 – William Jervois, English engineer and diplomat, 10th Governor of South Australia (b. 1821) |
| 93462 | August 17 | Death | 1901 – Edmond Audran, French organist and composer (b. 1842) |
| 93463 | August 17 | Death | 1903 – Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (b. 1825) |
| 93464 | August 17 | Death | 1908 – Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (b. 1873) |
| 93465 | August 17 | Death | 1909 – Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (b. 1883) |
| 93466 | August 17 | Death | 1918 – Moisei Uritsky, Russian activist and politician (b. 1873) |
| 93467 | August 17 | Death | 1920 – Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891) |
| 93468 | August 17 | Death | 1924 – Tom Kendall, English-Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1851) |
| 93469 | August 17 | Death | 1925 – Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1848) |
| 93470 | August 17 | Death | 1935 – Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872) |
| 93471 | August 17 | Death | 1935 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (b. 1860) |
| 93472 | August 17 | Death | 1936 – José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (b. 1880) |
| 93473 | August 17 | Death | 1940 – Billy Fiske, American soldier and pilot (b. 1911) |
| 93474 | August 17 | Death | 1945 – Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919) |
| 93475 | August 17 | Death | 1949 – Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (b. 1891) |
| 93476 | August 17 | Death | 1954 – Billy Murray, American singer (b. 1877) |
| 93477 | August 17 | Death | 1958 – Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (b. 1878) |
| 93478 | August 17 | Death | 1966 – Ken Miles, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1918) |
| 93479 | August 17 | Death | 1969 – Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) |
| 93480 | August 17 | Death | 1970 – Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908) |