| 7651 | January 17 | Death | 1834 – Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1762) |
| 7652 | January 17 | Death | 1861 – Lola Montez, Irish-American actress and dancer (b. 1821) |
| 7653 | January 17 | Death | 1863 – Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789) |
| 7654 | January 17 | Death | 1869 – Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813) |
| 7655 | January 17 | Death | 1874 – Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai conjoined twins (b. 1811) |
| 7656 | January 17 | Death | 1878 – Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (b. 1812) |
| 7657 | January 17 | Death | 1884 – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (b. 1804) |
| 7658 | January 17 | Death | 1887 – William Giblin, Australian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840) |
| 7659 | January 17 | Death | 1891 – George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1800) |
| 7660 | January 17 | Death | 1893 – Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822) |
| 7661 | January 17 | Death | 1903 – Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828) |
| 7662 | January 17 | Death | 1908 – Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835) |
| 7663 | January 17 | Death | 1909 – Francis Smith, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819) |
| 7664 | January 17 | Death | 1911 – Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, and geographer (b. 1822) |
| 7665 | January 17 | Death | 1927 – Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860) |
| 7666 | January 17 | Death | 1931 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (b. 1864) |
| 7667 | January 17 | Death | 1932 – Ahmet Derviş, Turkish general (b. 1881) |
| 7668 | January 17 | Death | 1932 – Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1893) |
| 7669 | January 17 | Death | 1933 – Ruurd Leegstra, Dutch rower (b. 1877) |
| 7670 | January 17 | Death | 1933 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848) |
| 7671 | January 17 | Death | 1936 – Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1885) |
| 7672 | January 17 | Death | 1942 – Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884) |
| 7673 | January 17 | Death | 1947 – Pyotr Krasnov, Russian historian and general (b. 1869) |
| 7674 | January 17 | Death | 1947 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (b. 1883) |
| 7675 | January 17 | Death | 1951 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Indian poet, playwright, and director (b. 1903) |
| 7676 | January 17 | Death | 1952 – Walter Briggs, Sr., American businessman (b. 1877) |
| 7677 | January 17 | Death | 1956 – Blind Alfred Reed, American singer-songwriter (b. 1880) |
| 7678 | January 17 | Death | 1960 – Andrew Kennaway Henderson, English-New Zealand illustrator (b. 1879) |
| 7679 | January 17 | Death | 1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925) |
| 7680 | January 17 | Death | 1963 – Henri Masson, French fencer (b. 1872) |