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Hawkins found refuge with the Pittsburgh Rens of the American Basketball League, where he won the 1961 league MVP before the league folded.
Famous Birthdays on July 17
1942 — Connie Hawkins
American basketball player (died 2017)
July 17 has 209 recorded notable births across history, from 1487 to 2005. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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1487 – 2005
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Major events on July 17
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- 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. Source
- 1936 Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war. Source
- 1867 Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university. Source
- 1998 A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing the permanent international court in The Hague, to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. Source
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The most notable of these was the first in the series, the 1959 album Time Out, which contained the hit songs "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo à la Turk".
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Ron Asheton formed the band along with Iggy Pop and his brother, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander in 1967.
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In 2010, he won the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender.
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Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche was a French painter known for his depiction of scenes from English and French history.
More major people born on July 17
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1928
Joe Morello
American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Blue Rondo à la Turk") (died 2011)
Joseph Albert Morello was an American jazz drummer best known for serving as the drummer for pianist Dave Brubeck, as part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, from 1957 to 1972, including during the quartet's "classic lineup"…
1948
Ron Asheton
American guitarist and songwriter (died 2009)
Ronald Franklin Asheton was an American musician, best known as the guitarist, bassist, and co-songwriter for the rock band the Stooges.
1980
Ryan Miller
American ice hockey player
Ryan Dean Miller is an American former professional ice hockey player. He played as a goaltender for 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Buffalo Sabres, St.
1797
Paul Delaroche
French painter and academic (died 1856)
Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche was a French painter known for his depiction of scenes from English and French history.
1921
Toni Stone
American baseball player (died 1996)
Toni Stone, born as Marcenia Lyle Stone, was an American female professional baseball player who played in predominantly male leagues.
1941
Bob Taylor
English cricketer
Robert William Taylor MBE is an English former cricketer who played as wicket-keeper for Derbyshire between 1961 and 1984 and for England between 1971 and 1984.
1871
Lyonel Feininger
German-American painter and illustrator (died 1956)
Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City.
1946
Ted Sampley
American POW/MIA activist (died 2009)
Theodore Lane Sampley was an American Vietnam War veteran and activist. He primarily advocated for those servicemen still considered missing in action or prisoners of war (POW-MIA) as of the end of hostilities in 1975.
1969
Jason Clarke
Australian actor
Jason Clarke is an Australian actor. He has appeared in many TV series, and is known for playing Tommy Caffee on the television series Brotherhood. He has also appeared in many films, often as an antagonist.
1910
Frank Olson
American chemist and microbiologist (died 1953)
Frank Rudolph Emmanuel Olson was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and an employee of the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) who worked at Camp Detrick in Maryland.
1917
Christiane Rochefort
French author (died 1998)
Christiane Rochefort was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
1963
Regina Belle
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Regina Belle is an American singer-songwriter who started her career in the mid-1980s.
1921
George Barnes
American guitarist, producer, and songwriter (died 1977)
George Warren Barnes was an American jazz guitarist. He was also a conductor, composer, arranger, producer, author, and educator.
1975
Darude
Finnish DJ and producer
Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen, better known by his stage name Darude, is a Finnish DJ and record producer from Eura, Satakunta. His music is characterised by its progressive/uplifting style.
1928
Vince Guaraldi
American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1976)
Vincent Anthony Guaraldi was an American jazz pianist who composed music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip.
1905
William Gargan
American actor (died 1979)
William Dennis Gargan was an American film, television and radio actor.
1950
Phoebe Snow
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)
Phoebe Snow was an American roots music singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for her hit 1974 and 1975 songs "Poetry Man" and "Harpo's Blues", and her credited guest vocals on Paul Simon’s "Gone at Last".
1882
James Somerville
English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (died 1949)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Fownes Somerville, was a Royal Navy admiral.
1991
Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Swedish ice hockey player
Oliver Oscar Emanuel Ekman-Larsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL).