Discover what happened on 17 February 2006 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!
Births
- Sena Nakajima (Japanese child actress)
- Matthew Corcoran (American soccer player)
- Giulia Scarano (Italian actress, influencer, television personality and model)
- Metas Opas-iamkajorn (Thai actor)
- Kim Ott (German handball player)
- Nazarena Filpo (Uruguayan athletics competitor)
- Ihojan Pérez (Uruguayan footballer (born 2006))
- Puja Mahato (Nepalese cricketeer)
- Zoe Poulis (Australian synchronized swimmer)
- Q128840734 (Japanese idol singer and model)
- Abdoul Harouna (Ivorian association football player)
- Anderson Legüizamón (Paraguayan footballer)
- Amaan Iqbal (snooker player)
Deaths
- Sybille Bedford (writer (1911–2006))
- Paul Carr (American actor (1934–2006))
- Yevgeny Samoylov (Soviet and Russian actor (1912–2006))
- Ray Barretto (American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican ancestry (1929–2006))
- Jacques Baumel (French resistance fighter (1918-2006))
- Jorge Mendonça (Brazilian footballer (1954-2006))
- Harold Hunter (American skateboarder and actor (1974-2006))
- Noriko Ibaragi (Japanese poet and writer)
- Józef Gierowski (Polish historian, professor and rector of the Jagiellonian University (1922-2006))
- Pierre Jallaud (French filmmaker (1922–2006))
- Émile Dubuis (French politician (1911-2006))
- Bella Dizhur (American poet, children’s writer (1903–2006))
- Yury Longo (Russian writer)
- Gertrude Ganote (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player)
- Walter Espiga (Uruguayan journalist)
- Olav Wernersen (Swedish musician)
- John Leonora (American academic)
- Philip Bagwell (British writer (1914-2006))
- Robert B. Lewis (American businessman (1924–2006))
- Thor Rhodin (American physicist (1920-2006))
- Frederik Rreshpja
- John Andrew Watson, Jr. (American tennis player)
- Knut Moe (Norwegian writer (1909-2006))
- Ari Setya Ardhi (Indonesian writer)
- Djanu Arianto (actor (1961-2006))
- Elena Urbaitis (Lithuanian sculptor)
- Francesc Ferrer i Gironès (Spanish writer and politician (1935-2006))
- Wolf Ackermann
- FX Sutopo
- Ana de Skalon (Argentinian film director)
- Karl Kaarli (Estonian agricultural scientist (1923–2006))
- Luis Kemnitzer (American anthropologist)
- Mary Anderson (obstetrician and gynaecologist)
- Else Lose Andersen
- Pearl Palmason
- Valentin Koerner
- Jacques Larmat (French geologist)
- Horst Wardemann
- Yvan Bresson (French politician)
- Edward Charles Douglas-Home ((1920-2006))
- Sergey Isakov ((1919-2006))
- Bertrand Baumann
- Abdullah ibn Hamad al-Gar’awi (Saudi Arabian journalist and poet)
- Karel Malát
- Manuel García Gil de Bernabé
- Hilda Pechowicz (Austrian dramaturge and philosopher)
- Hans Schäffer
- Freddy Davis Jr. (African American person killed due to interaction with a California Law Enforcement Agency)
- Michel Dresto