About the day » Monday July 17, 1905Calender converter

• Angenes van der Horst, Rotterdam
• Alphonse Robert Edouard Billoot, Veurne
• Anna WINTEROTT, Wólka Załęska, Masovian Voivodeship, Polski
• Abraham Nicolaas van Vliet, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aant De Jong, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands († 1905)
• Aaltje Reurink, Avereest († 1990)
• Agnes Katherine de Windt, Kalamazoo Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Alida Maria Krab, Velsen († 1947)
• Aagje Alberdina Bijl, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Walthera Catharina Dielissen, Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1959)

• Anne (Marie) Vanderschrick (70), Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
• Allison Defrance (74), MC DONALD, PA
• Andries Bos (43), Emmen
• - Jutte (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Vermulst (47), Helmond
• Arij de Bloois (60), Maasland
• Aaltje van Raalten (65), Hattem
• Aaltje Heins van der Vliet (29), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltjen van Raalten (65), Hattem
• Adrianus Johannes Rombouts (0)

• 1899 » James Cagney, American actor and dancer († 1986)
• 1900 » Marcel Dalio, French actor († 1983)
• 1901 » Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet and author († 1938)
• 1901 » Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver († 1994)
• 1901 » Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine († 1982)
• 1902 » Christina Stead, Australian author and academic († 1983)
• 1905 » William Gargan, American actor († 1979)
• 1910 » Frank Olson, American chemist and microbiologist († 1953)
• 1910 » James Coyne, Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada († 2012)
• 1911 » Lionel Ferbos, American trumpet player († 2014)

• 1885 » Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 » Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1894 » Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
• 1907 » Hector Malot, French author and critic (b. 1830)
• 1912 » Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854)
• 1918 » Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family
• 1925 » Lovis Corinth, German painter (b. 1858)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
• June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
• August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
• November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
• November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
• December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.

The temperature on July 17, 1905 was between 9.1 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.