Discover what happened on 17 February 2014 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!
Deaths
- Tibor Perecsi (Hungarian association football player)
- Hanns Egon Wörlen (German architect (1915–2014))
- Wolfgang Schulhoff (German politician (1939-2014))
- Otto Hess (Swiss politician (1935-2014))
- Jean-Marie Caro (French politician (1929–2014))
- Marco Perrin (French actor of Serbian descent (1927-2014))
- Wayne Smith (Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician (1965-2014))
- Amar Kant (Indian writer (1925-2014))
- Toni Ucci (Italian actor (1922-2014))
- Vladislav Kazenin (Soviet and Russian composer (1937—2014))
- Frankie Kao (Taiwanese singer (1950-2014))
- Per Källberg (Swedish cinematographer (1947–2014))
- Ian Kagedan (Canadian activist)
- James McNaughton (Irish hurler)
- Joe Bell (Canadian ice hockey player)
- José J. Fripiat (professor, scientist)
- Elchanan Meir (full professor from the Department of Psychological at the Tel Aviv University)
- Yosef Geva (Israeli military person)
- R. K. Srikantan (Indian classical singer)
- Richard N. Cabela (entrepreneur (1936-2014))
- Kokichi Shimoinaba (Japanese politician)
- Richard Hes (Czech choreographer, actor and dancer (1963–2014))
- Tom Zajíček (Czech member of Czech Parliament (1998–2010) and sociologist)
- Vasyl Deineka (Ukrainian academic)
- Gáspár Bíró (Hungarian jurist, politologist (1958-2014))
- Hwang Jeong-sun (South Korean actress)
- Danutė Krištopaitė
- Howard Brenner (American chemical engineering professor)
- Margret Tönnesmann (German writer (1924-2014))
- Bob Casale (American musician (1952–2014))
- Nikolay Olegovich Milanov (Russian scientist)
- Mirza Ahmad Jamil (Pakistani calligrapher)
- Karol Butkiewicz (Polish pharmacist)
- Thomas Albert Lathrop (American translator)
- Reza Berati (Kurdish Iranian asylum seeker murdered in Australia’s Manus Regional Processing Centre)
- Frank Farmer (American writer)
- Dick Reynolds (politician (1927-2014))
- Don Safran (Film/television screenwriter, producer, marketing executive, journalist (1930-2014))
- Frank Wappat (English radio personality)
- James C. Dowdle (American television executive (1934-2014))
- Eevi Pruel (Estonian volleyball coach)
- Nin Tomas (first Māori person to earn a PhD in law, law academic, died 2014)
- Q134101780 (French sinologist)