December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years). There are 14 days remaining.
- 1914 — Raymond Fernandez is born.
- 1948 — Stephen McCoy is born.
- 1954 — Jerry Spraggins is born.
- 1959 — Frederick Hammer is born.
- 1961 — Joseph Sutherland is born.
- 1967 — Simon Rochford is born.
- 1975 — Yevgeny Petrov is born.
- 1975 — Karl Svensson-Sjögren died.
- 2006 — Lorenzo Montoya died.
- 2020 — Donato Bilancia died.
- 2020 — Gary Rardon is released from federal prison.