Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/August/August 17
- 1868 - Edward Abramowski (pictured) born (d. 1918).
- 1875 - Georges Gillet born (d. 1951).
- 1883 - Jeanne Morand (also called Jane) born (d. 1969).
- 1885 - Clara Meijer-Wichmann born (d. 1922).
- 1895 - Nicholas Lazarevitch born (d. 1975), near Liège, Belgium.
- 1913 - Maynard Shipley debates with the renowned anarchist Emma Goldman, in Everett, Washington.
- 1939 - Toma Ŝik born (d. 2004).
- 1944 - Francisco Ponzán Vidal (b. 1911) dies.
- 1963 - Francisco Franco wrongly executes the anarchists Francisco Granados & Joaquín Delgado in the Carabanchel prison, for crimes they did not commit.