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January 8, 2017

January 8, 2017 — a day on which Nicolai Gedda and James Mancham share the historical record. The year's #1 song was "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran.

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2017 (MMXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.

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Nicolai Gedda Swedish operatic tenor (1925–2017)
James Mancham President of Seychelles
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani President of Iran from 1989 to 1997
Peter Sarstedt British singer-songwriter (1941–2017)

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