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People who died on January 17, 1993 (the exact day you were born)
* Albert Hourani, English historian
Unusual Deaths in 1993
* Brandon lee, son of bruce lee, was shot and killed by a prop .44 magnum gun while filming the movie the crow. a cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in the pistol prior to the scene brandon was in; this caused a squib load, in which the primer provided enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver, where it became stuck. the malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene, having been re-loaded with blanks. however, the squib load was still lodged in the barrel, and was propelled by the blank cartridge's explosion out of the barrel and into lee's body. although the bullet was traveling much slower than a normally fired bullet would be, the bullet's large size and the nearly point-blank firing distance made it powerful enough to severely wound lee. it was not instantly recognized by the crew or other actors; they believed he was still acting. interestingly, the incident was almost an exact replica of a scene in his father bruce lee's last film "game of death", during the filming of which bruce lee also died. even more bizarrely yet; the plot of game of death revolved around bruce lee's character, a kung-fu actor, faking his own death - by pretending to have been hit by an accidentally fired real bullet while filming a scene where hundreds of blanks were fired at him.
* Garry hoy, a toronto lawyer, fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the toronto-dominion centre in order to prove the glass was "unbreakable."
Natural disasters in 1993
* Great Flood of 1993
* Storm of the Century (1993)
* Virginia Tornado Outbreak
People who died on January 17 (various years)
* 2007 - Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician
* 2007 - Art Buchwald, American humorist
* 2006 - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon
* 2006 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer
* 2005 - Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China
* 2005 - Albert Schatz, American microbiologist
* 2005 - Virginia Mayo, American actress
* 2005 - Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive
* 2004 - Harry Brecheen, American baseball player
* 2004 - Noble Willingham, American actor
* 2004 - Ray Stark, American stage and film producer
* 2004 - Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician
* 2003 - Richard Crenna, American actor
* 2002 - Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
* 2002 - Bishop Karas, First Coptic Bishop of St. Antony Monastery
* 2001 - Gregory Corso, American poet
* 1999 - Robert Eads, American transexual
* 1998 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman
* 1997 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer
* 1996 - Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer
* 1996 - Barbara Jordan, American politician
* 1996 - Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system
* 1994 - Helen Stephens, American runner
* 1991 - King Olav V of Norway
* 1987 - Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director
* 1983 - Doodles Weaver, American actor
* 1977 - Gary Gilmore, American murderer
* 1972 - Betty Smith, American writer and singer
* 1970 - Billy Stewart, American singer
* 1970 - Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist
* 1967 - Evelyn Nesbit, American actress
* 1964 - T.H. White, English author
* 1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
* 1947 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec
* 1947 - Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary
* 1942 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal
* 1933 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer
* 1931 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich
* 1903 - Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist
* 1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States
* 1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer
* 1884 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist
* 1863 - Horace Vernet, French painter
* 1861 - Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer
* 1834 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist
* 1826 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer
* 1751 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer
* 1737 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect
* 1718 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler
* 1705 - John Ray, English naturalist
* 1654 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter
* 1617 - Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor
* 1468 - Skanderbeg, Albanian leader
* 1369 - King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered)
* 1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier
* 395 - Theodosius I, Roman Emperor
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