On This Day: July 17

Updated July 16, 2012, 2:28 pm

On July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind.

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On July 17, 1899, James Cagney, the Academy-Award winning American film actor, was born. Following his death on March 30, 1986, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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Historic Birthdays

James Cagney 7/17/1899 – 3/30/1986 American motion-picture actor.Go to obituary »

73	William Gargan 7/17/1905 – 2/16/1979 American motion-picture and television actor
71	Georges Lemaitre 7/17/1894 – 6/20/1966 Belgian astronomer and cosmologist
80	Erle Stanley Gardner 7/17/1889 – 3/11/1970 American mystery novelist and lawyer
81	S. Y. Agnon 7/17/1888 – 2/17/1970 Israeli novelist and short-story writer
86	Ernest Rhys 7/17/1859 – 5/25/1946 English editor
90	Sir Erskine Holland 7/17/1835 – 5/24/1926 English legal scholar
84	John Jacob Astor 7/17/1763 – 3/29/1848 German-born American founder of the Astor dynasty
70	Elbridge Gerry 7/17/1744 – 11/23/1814 American Revolutionary leader and U.S. vice president (1813-14)
47	Alexander Baumgarten 7/17/1714 – 5/26/1762 German philosopher and educator