Famous People Born on August 17, August 17 Famous Birthdays
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August 17 Birthdays, Famous People born on August 17th
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2003 | Nastasja Schunk, German tennis player |
| 2000 | Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter |
| 1996 | Jake Virtanen, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1995 | Gracie Gold, American figure skater |
| 1995 | Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, New Zealand rugby league player |
| 1994 | Phoebe Bridgers, American singer/songwriter |
| 1993 | Ederson Moraes, Brazilian footballer |
| 1993 | Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer |
| 1992 | Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (d. 2013) |
| 1992 | Paige, English wrestler |
| 1989 | Rachel Corsie, Scottish footballer |
| 1988 | Natalie Sandtorv, Norwegian singer-songwriter |
| 1988 | Jihadi John, Kuwaiti-British member of ISIS (d. 2015) |
| 1988 | Erika Toda, Japanese actress |
| 1986 | Rudy Gay, American basketball player |
| 1986 | Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player |
| 1985 | Yū Aoi, Japanese actress and model |
| 1984 | Dee Brown, American basketball player |
| 1984 | Oksana Domnina, Russian ice dancer |
| 1984 | Liam Heath, British sprint canoeist |
| 1984 | Garrett Wolfe, American football player |
| 1983 | Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player |
| 1982 | Phil Jagielka, English footballer |
| 1982 | Cheerleader Melissa, American wrestler and manager |
| 1982 | Mark Salling, American actor and musician (d. 2018) |
| 1980 | Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 1980 | Daniel Güiza, Spanish footballer |
| 1980 | Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer |
| 1980 | Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer-songwriter |
| 1979 | Antwaan Randle El, American football player and journalist |
| 1977 | Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker |
| 1977 | William Gallas, French footballer |
| 1977 | Thierry Henry, French footballer |
| 1977 | Mike Lewis, Welsh guitarist |
| 1977 | Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer-songwriter and producer |
| 1976 | Eric Boulton, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1976 | Geertjan Lassche, Dutch journalist and director |
| 1976 | Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2014) |
| 1974 | Johannes Maria Staud, Austrian composer |
| 1972 | Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 1971 | Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress |
| 1971 | Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican-American baseball player |
| 1971 | Shaun Rehn, Australian footballer and coach |
| 1970 | Jim Courier, American tennis player and sportscaster |
| 1970 | Andrus Kivirähk, Estonian author |
| 1970 | Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer and coach |
| 1969 | Christian Laettner, American basketball player and coach |
| 1969 | Donnie Wahlberg, American singer-songwriter, actor and producer |
| 1969 | Kelvin Mercer, American rapper, songwriter and producer |
| 1968 | Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer-songwriter (d. 2015) |
| 1968 | Ed McCaffrey, American football player and sportscaster |
| 1968 | Helen McCrory, English actress (d. 2021) |
| 1967 | Michael Preetz, German footballer and manager |
| 1966 | Jüri Luik, Estonian politician and diplomat, 18th Estonian Minister of Defense |
| 1966 | Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder and stuntman |
| 1966 | Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player and manager |
| 1965 | Steve Gorman, American drummer |
| 1965 | Dottie Pepper, American golfer |
| 1964 | Colin James, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer |
| 1964 | Maria McKee, American singer-songwriter |
| 1964 | Dave Penney, English footballer and manager |
| 1963 | Jon Gruden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster |
| 1963 | Jackie Walorski, American politician (d. 2022) |
| 1962 | Gilby Clarke, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer |
| 1962 | Dan Dakich, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster |
| 1960 | Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer-songwriter |
| 1960 | Sean Penn, American actor, director, and political activist |
| 1959 | Jonathan Franzen, American novelist and essayist |
| 1959 | Jacek Kazimierski, Polish footballer |
| 1959 | Eric Schlosser, American journalist and author |
| 1958 | Belinda Carlisle, American singer-songwriter |
| 1958 | Fred Goodwin, Scottish banker and accountant |
| 1958 | Maurizio Sandro Sala, Brazilian race car driver |
| 1957 | Ken Kwapis, American director and screenwriter |
| 1957 | Laurence Overmire, American poet, author, and actor |
| 1957 | Robin Cousins, British competitive figure skater |
| 1956 | Gail Berman, American businessman, co-founded BermanBraun |
| 1956 | Álvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist |
| 1955 | Colin Moulding, English singer-songwriter and bassist |
| 1954 | Eric Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer |
| 1954 | Andrés Pastrana Arango, Colombian lawyer and politician, 38th President of Colombia |
| 1953 | Mick Malthouse, Australian footballer and coach |
| 1953 | Herta Müller, Romanian-German poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 1953 | Korrie Layun Rampan, Indonesian author, poet, and critic (d. 2015) |
| 1953 | Kevin Rowland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1952 | Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and coach (d. 2012) |
| 1952 | Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver and businessman |
| 1952 | Mario Theissen, German engineer and businessman |
| 1952 | Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player |
| 1951 | Richard Hunt, American Muppet performer (d. 1992) |
| 1949 | Norm Coleman, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Mayor of St. Paul |
| 1949 | Sue Draheim, American fiddler and composer (d. 2013) |
| 1949 | Julian Fellowes, English actor, director, screenwriter, and politician |
| 1949 | Sib Hashian, American rock drummer (d. 2017) |
| 1948 | Alexander Ivashkin, Russian-English cellist and conductor (d. 2014) |
| 1947 | Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (d. 2016) |
| 1947 | Gary Talley, American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and author |
| 1946 | Hugh Baiocchi, South African golfer |
| 1946 | Martha Coolidge, American director, producer, and screenwriter |
| 1946 | Patrick Manning, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2016) |
| 1945 | Rachel Pollack, American author, poet, and educator |
| 1944 | Larry Ellison, American businessman, co-founded the Oracle Corporation |
| 1944 | Jean-Bernard Pommier, French pianist and conductor |
| 1943 | Edward Cowie, English composer, painter, and author |
| 1943 | Robert De Niro, American actor, entrepreneur, director, and producer[20] |
| 1943 | John Humphrys, Welsh journalist and author |
| 1943 | Dave "Snaker" Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002) |
| 1942 | Shane Porteous, Australian actor, animator, and screenwriter |
| 1941 | Lothar Bisky, German businessman and politician (d. 2013) |
| 1941 | Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canadian director and screenwriter |
| 1940 | Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 2006) |
| 1940 | Barry Sheerman, English academic and politician |
| 1939 | Luther Allison, American blues guitarist and singer (d. 1997) |
| 1938 | Theodoros Pangalos, Greek lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece |
| 1936 | Seamus Mallon, Irish educator and politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 2020) |
| 1936 | Margaret Heafield Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. |
| 1934 | João Donato, Brazilian pianist and composer |
| 1934 | Ron Henry, English footballer (d. 2014) |
| 1933 | Mark Dinning, American pop singer (d. 1986) |
| 1932 | V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-English novelist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018) |
| 1932 | Duke Pearson, American pianist and composer (d. 1980) |
| 1932 | Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist (d. 2022) |
| 1931 | Tony Wrigley, English historian, demographer, and academic (d. 2022) |
| 1930 | Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2015) |
| 1930 | Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (d. 1998) |
| 1929 | Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (d. 1977) |
| 1928 | T. J. Anderson, American composer, conductor, and educator |
| 1928 | Willem Duys, Dutch tennis player, sportscaster, and producer (d. 2011) |
| 1927 | Sam Butera, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2009) |
| 1927 | F. Ray Keyser Jr., American lawyer and politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (d. 2015) |
| 1926 | Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman (d. 2012) |
| 1926 | Jiang Zemin, Chinese engineer and politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and 5th President of China (d. 2022) |
| 1924 | Evan S. Connell, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (d. 2013) |
| 1923 | Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan artist (d. 2019) |
| 1923 | Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (d. 2002) |
| 1922 | Roy Tattersall, English cricketer (d. 2011) |
| 1921 | Geoffrey Elton, German-English historian and academic (d. 1994) |
| 1920 | Lida Moser, American photographer and author (d. 2014) |
| 1919 | Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006) |
| 1918 | Evelyn Ankers, British-American actress (d. 1985) |
| 1918 | Ike Quebec, American saxophonist and pianist (d. 1963) |
| 1918 | Michael John Wise, English geographer and academic (d. 2015) |
| 1916 | Moses Majekodunmi, Nigerian physician and politician (d. 2012) |
| 1914 | Bill Downs, American journalist (d. 1978) |
| 1914 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1988) |
| 1913 | Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1989) |
| 1913 | Rudy York, American baseball player and manager (d. 1970) |
| 1911 | Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (d. 1995) |
| 1911 | Martin Sandberger, German colonel and lawyer (d. 2010) |
| 1909 | Larry Clinton, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1985) |
| 1909 | Wilf Copping, English footballer (d. 1980) |
| 1904 | Mary Cain, American journalist and politician (d. 1984) |
| 1904 | Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer and musicologist (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Vivienne de Watteville, British travel writer and adventurer (d. 1957) |
| 1900 | Pauline A. Young, American teacher, historian, aviator and activist (d. 1991) |
| 1896 | Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (d. 1970) |
| 1896 | Tõnis Kint, Estonian lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 1991) |
| 1896 | Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian and author (d. 1970) |
| 1894 | William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes, English businessman, founded Rootes Group (d. 1964) |
| 1893 | John Brahm, German-American director and production manager (d. 1982) |
| 1893 | Mae West, American stage and film actress (d. 1980) |
| 1890 | Stefan Bastyr, Polish soldier and pilot (d. 1920) |
| 1890 | Harry Hopkins, American politician and diplomat, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946) |
| 1888 | Monty Woolley, American actor, raconteur, and pundit (d. 1963) |
| 1887 | Charles I of Austria (d. 1922) |
| 1887 | Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded Black Star Line (d. 1940) |
| 1880 | Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer and tennis player (d. 1948) |
| 1878 | Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer (d. 1911) |
| 1877 | Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (d. 1923) |
| 1873 | John A. Sampson, American gynecologist and academic (d. 1946) |
| 1866 | Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, Indian 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911) |
| 1865 | Julia Marlowe, English-American actress (d. 1950) |
| 1863 | Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and photographer (d. 1924) |
| 1849 | William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland (d. 1919) |
| 1845 | Henry Cadwalader Chapman, American physician and naturalist (d. 1909) |
| 1840 | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist (d. 1922) |
| 1828 | Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist and physician (d. 1897) |
| 1801 | Fredrika Bremer, Swedish writer and feminist (d. 1865) |
| 1786 | Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician (d. 1836) |
| 1786 | Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1861) |
| 1768 | Louis Desaix, French general (d. 1800) |
| 1753 | Josef Dobrovský, Bohemian philologist and historian (d. 1828) |
| 1686 | Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and educator (d. 1768) |
| 1629 | John III Sobieski, Polish–Lithuanian king (d. 1696) |
| 1603 | Lennart Torstensson, Swedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillour and Governor-General (d. 1651) |
| 1586 | Johann Valentin Andrea, German theologian (d. 1654) |
| 1582 | John Matthew Rispoli, Maltese philosopher (d. 1639) |
| 1578 | Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660) |
| 1578 | Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, first prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d. 1638) |
| 1556 | Alexander Briant, English martyr and saint (d. 1581) |
| 1501 | Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1529) |
| 1473 | Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (d. 1483) |
| 1465 | Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1482) |
| 1153 | William IX, Count of Poitiers (d. 1156) |
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