December 17th
- 1738 – Colonel Johannes Bowman born.
- 1794 – Campbell County formed.
- 1818 – J. Lawrence Smith born.
- 1821 – Kentucky abolished debtor's prisons.
- 1826 – John Watson Barr born.
- 1846 – William Thompson Price born.
- 1856 – John Telemachus Johnson died, aged 68.
- 1866 – Cap Robert Carden born.
- 1868 – Frederic Moseley Sackett, Jr. born.
- 1890 – Henry Davis McHenry died, aged 64.
- 1952 – Michael Williams born.
