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| May 17th, 2006 (May 17 2006) | Event | The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef | |
| May 17th, 2006 (May 17 2006) | Death | Cy Feuer, American playwright (born in 1911) | |
| May 17th, 2006 (May 17 2006) | Death | Eric Forth, British Member of Parliament (born in 1944) | |
| May 17th, 2006 (May 17 2006) | Death | Captain Nichola Goddard, Canadian soldier (born in 1980) | |
| May 17th, 1996 (May 17 1996) | Death | Kevin Gilbert, American singer, composer and instrumentalist (born in 1966) | |
| May 17th, 1996 (May 17 1996) | Death | Scott Brayton, American race car driver (born in 1959) | |
| May 17th, 1986 (May 17 1986) | Birth | Tahj Mowry, American actor | |
| May 17th, 1976 (May 17 1976) | Birth | Jose Guillen, Dominican baseball player | |
| May 17th, 1976 (May 17 1976) | Birth | Lee-Hom Wang, American-born Taiwanese musician and composer | Ang Lee Quotes |
| May 17th, 1966 (May 17 1966) | Birth | Hill Harper, American actor | |
| May 17th, 1966 (May 17 1966) | Birth | Mark Kratzmann, Australian tennis player | |
| May 17th, 1956 (May 17 1956) | Birth | Sugar Ray Leonard, American boxer | |
| May 17th, 1956 (May 17 1956) | Birth | Bob Saget, American actor | |
| May 17th, 1956 (May 17 1956) | Birth | Dave Sim, Canadian cartoonist | |
| May 17th, 1946 (May 17 1946) | Birth | Udo Lindenberg, German musician | |
| May 17th, 1946 (May 17 1946) | Birth | F. Paul Wilson, American novelist | |
| May 17th, 1936 (May 17 1936) | Birth | Dennis Hopper, American actor and director | |
| May 17th, 1936 (May 17 1936) | Death | Panagis Tsaldaris, twice Greek prime minister (born in 1868) | |
| May 17th, 1916 (May 17 1916) | Death | Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (born in 1862) | |
| May 17th, 1906 (May 17 1906) | Birth | Zinka Milanov, Croatian soprano (died in 1989) | |
| May 17th, 1886 (May 17 1886) | Birth | Alfonso XIII of Spain (died in 1941) | |
| May 17th, 1886 (May 17 1886) | Death | John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer (born in 1804) | |
| May 17th, 1866 (May 17 1866) | Birth | Erik Satie, French composer (died in 1925) | |
| May 17th, 1836 (May 17 1836) | Birth | Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (died in 1900) | |
| May 17th, 1836 (May 17 1836) | Birth | Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (died in 1923) | |
| May 17th, 1706 (May 17 1706) | Birth | Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (died in 1780) | |
| May 17th, 1626 (May 17 1626) | Death | Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (born in 1570) | |
| May 17th, 1536 (May 17 1536) | Death | George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, English diplomat | |
| May 17th, 1336 (May 17 1336) | Death | Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (born in 1288) | |
