| 81301 | July 17 | Death | 1878 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet and politician (b. 1812) |
| 81302 | July 17 | Death | 1879 – Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian-Polish painter (b. 1856) |
| 81303 | July 17 | Death | 1881 – Jim Bridger, American scout and explorer (b. 1804) |
| 81304 | July 17 | Death | 1883 – Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1892) |
| 81305 | July 17 | Death | 1885 – Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811) |
| 81306 | July 17 | Death | 1887 – Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (b. 1802) |
| 81307 | July 17 | Death | 1893 – Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833) |
| 81308 | July 17 | Death | 1894 – Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818) |
| 81309 | July 17 | Death | 1894 – Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810) |
| 81310 | July 17 | Death | 1907 – Hector Malot, French author and critic (b. 1830) |
| 81311 | July 17 | Death | 1912 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854) |
| 81312 | July 17 | Death | 1918 – People of the Shooting of the Romanov familyGrand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1901)Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1899)Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1895)Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1897 |
| 81313 | July 17 | Death | 1928 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1842) |
| 81314 | July 17 | Death | 1928 – Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico (b. 1880) |
| 81315 | July 17 | Death | 1932 – Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor, singer, and director (b. 1862) |
| 81316 | July 17 | Death | 1935 – Nie Er, Chinese violinist and composer (b. 1912) |
| 81317 | July 17 | Death | 1935 – George William Russell, Irish poet and painter (b. 1867) |
| 81318 | July 17 | Death | 1944 – William James Sidis, American mathematician and anthropologist (b. 1898) |
| 81319 | July 17 | Death | 1945 – Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885) |
| 81320 | July 17 | Death | 1946 – Draža Mihailović, Serbian general (b. 1893) |
| 81321 | July 17 | Death | 1950 – Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865) |
| 81322 | July 17 | Death | 1950 – Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (b. 1885) |
| 81323 | July 17 | Death | 1959 – Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1915) |
| 81324 | July 17 | Death | 1959 – Eugene Meyer, American businessman and publisher (b. 1875) |
| 81325 | July 17 | Death | 1961 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886) |
| 81326 | July 17 | Death | 1961 – Emin Halid Onat, Turkish architect and academic (b. 1908) |
| 81327 | July 17 | Death | 1967 – John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (Miles Davis Quintet) (b. 1926) |
| 81328 | July 17 | Death | 1974 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910) |
| 81329 | July 17 | Death | 1975 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (b. 1893) |
| 81330 | July 17 | Death | 1980 – Don "Red" Barry, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1912) |