Famous People Born on January 17, January 17 Famous Birthdays
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January 17 Birthdays, Famous People born on January 17th
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2000 | Devlin DeFrancesco, Canadian race car driver |
| 2000 | Kang Chan-hee, South Korean singer and actor |
| 1998 | Jeff Reine-Adelaide, French footballer |
| 1998 | Sophie Molineux, Australian cricketer |
| 1997 | Jake Paul, American YouTube personality, actor, rapper, and professional boxer |
| 1995 | Terutsuyoshi Shoki, Japanese sumo wrestler |
| 1995 | Indya Moore, American actor and model |
| 1994 | Mark Steketee, Australian cricketer |
| 1993 | Frankie Cocozza, British singer |
| 1991 | Trevor Bauer, American baseball player |
| 1991 | Esapekka Lappi, Finnish Rally Driver |
| 1991 | Slade Griffin, Australian rugby league player |
| 1991 | Alise Post, American BMX rider |
| 1990 | Santiago Tréllez, Colombian footballer |
| 1989 | Taylor Jordan, American baseball player |
| 1989 | Kelly Marie Tran, American actress |
| 1988 | Andrea Antonelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2013) |
| 1988 | Will Genia, Australian rugby player |
| 1988 | Héctor Moreno, Mexican footballer |
| 1987 | Cody Decker, American baseball player |
| 1985 | Pablo Barrientos, Argentinian footballer |
| 1985 | Betsy Ruth, American wrestler and manager |
| 1985 | Simone Simons, Dutch singer-songwriter |
| 1984 | Calvin Harris, Scottish singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer |
| 1983 | Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer |
| 1983 | Johannes Herber, German basketball player |
| 1983 | Rick Kelly, Australian race car driver |
| 1983 | Marcelo Garcia, Brazilian martial artist |
| 1982 | Dwyane Wade, American basketball player |
| 1982 | Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer |
| 1981 | Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer and manager |
| 1980 | Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American dancer and choreographer |
| 1980 | Zooey Deschanel, American singer-songwriter and actress |
| 1980 | Modestas Stonys, Lithuanian footballer |
| 1978 | Lisa Llorens, Australian Paralympian |
| 1978 | Ricky Wilson, English singer-songwriter |
| 1975 | Freddy Rodriguez, American actor |
| 1974 | Yang Chen, Chinese footballer and manager |
| 1974 | Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian viola player, composer, and producer |
| 1974 | Derrick Mason, American football player |
| 1973 | Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer and actor |
| 1973 | Chris Bowen, Australian politician, 37th Treasurer of Australia |
| 1973 | Liz Ellis, Australian netball player and sportscaster |
| 1973 | Aaron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster |
| 1971 | Giorgos Balogiannis, Greek basketball player |
| 1971 | Richard Burns, English race car driver (d. 2005) |
| 1971 | Kid Rock, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor |
| 1971 | Sylvie Testud, French actress, director, and screenwriter |
| 1970 | Cássio Alves de Barros, Brazilian footballer |
| 1970 | Jeremy Roenick, American ice hockey player and actor |
| 1970 | Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-American animator, director, and producer |
| 1969 | Naveen Andrews, English actor |
| 1969 | Lukas Moodysson, Swedish director, screenwriter, and author |
| 1969 | Tiësto, Dutch DJ and producer |
| 1968 | Rowan Pelling, English journalist and author |
| 1968 | Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch author, poet, and scholar |
| 1967 | Richard Hawley, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer |
| 1966 | Trish Johnson, English golfer |
| 1966 | Joshua Malina, American actor |
| 1965 | Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1964 | Michelle Obama, American lawyer and activist, 46th First Lady of the United States |
| 1964 | John Schuster, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player |
| 1963 | Kai Hansen, German singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer |
| 1963 | Colin Gordon, English footballer, agent, manager and chief executive |
| 1962 | Jun Azumi, Japanese broadcaster and politician, 46th Japanese Minister of Finance |
| 1962 | Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor and producer |
| 1962 | Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author |
| 1961 | Brian Helgeland, American director, producer, and screenwriter |
| 1960 | John Crawford, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1960 | Chili Davis, Jamaican-American baseball player and coach |
| 1959 | Susanna Hoffs, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress |
| 1958 | Tony Kouzarides, English biologist, cancer researcher |
| 1957 | Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian, television personality and game show host |
| 1957 | Ann Nocenti, American journalist and author |
| 1956 | Damian Green, English journalist and politician |
| 1956 | Paul Young, English singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1955 | Steve Earle, American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, author and actor |
| 1955 | Pietro Parolin, Italian cardinal |
| 1955 | Steve Javie, American basketball player and referee |
| 1954 | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer, radio host, activist, and environmentalist |
| 1953 | Jeff Berlin, American bass player and educator |
| 1953 | Carlos Johnson, American singer and guitarist |
| 1952 | Tom Deitz, American author (d. 2009) |
| 1952 | Darrell Porter, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2002) |
| 1952 | Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese pianist, composer, and producer |
| 1950 | Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican-American author and academic |
| 1949 | Anita Borg, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2003) |
| 1949 | Gyude Bryant, Liberian businessman and politician (d. 2014) |
| 1949 | Augustin Dumay, French violinist and conductor |
| 1949 | Andy Kaufman, American actor and comedian (d. 1984) |
| 1949 | Mick Taylor, English singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1948 | Davíð Oddsson, Icelandic politician, 21st Prime Minister of Iceland |
| 1945 | Javed Akhtar, Indian poet, playwright, and composer |
| 1945 | Anne Cutler, Australian psychologist and academic |
| 1944 | Ann Oakley, English sociologist, author, and academic |
| 1943 | Chris Montez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1943 | René Préval, Haitian agronomist and politician, 52nd President of Haiti (d. 2017) |
| 1942 | Muhammad Ali, American boxer and activist (d. 2016) |
| 1942 | Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and author |
| 1942 | Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist and educator |
| 1942 | Nigel McCulloch, English bishop |
| 1941 | István Horthy, Jr., Hungarian physicist and architect |
| 1940 | Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (d. 2015) |
| 1940 | Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan athlete |
| 1940 | Tabaré Vázquez, Uruguayan physician and politician, 39th President of Uruguay (d. 2020) |
| 1939 | Christodoulos of Athens, Greek archbishop (d. 2008) |
| 1939 | Maury Povich, American talk show host and producer |
| 1938 | John Bellairs, American author and academic (d. 1991) |
| 1938 | Toini Gustafsson, Swedish cross country skier |
| 1937 | Alain Badiou, French philosopher and academic |
| 1936 | John Boyd, English academic and diplomat, British ambassador to Japan (d. 2019) |
| 1936 | A. Thangathurai, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1997) |
| 1935 | Ruth Ann Minner, American businesswoman and politician, 72nd Governor of Delaware |
| 1934 | Donald Cammell, Scottish-American director and screenwriter (d. 1996) |
| 1933 | Dalida, Egyptian-French singer and actress (d. 1987) |
| 1933 | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-Pakistani diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003) |
| 1933 | Shari Lewis, American actress, puppeteer/ventriloquist, and television host (d. 1998) |
| 1932 | Sheree North, American actress and dancer (d. 2005) |
| 1931 | James Earl Jones, American actor |
| 1931 | Douglas Wilder, American sergeant and politician, 66th Governor of Virginia |
| 1931 | Don Zimmer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014) |
| 1929 | Jacques Plante, Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1986) |
| 1929 | Tan Boon Teik, Malaysian-Singaporean lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Singapore (d. 2012) |
| 1928 | Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973) |
| 1928 | Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and businessman (d. 2012) |
| 1927 | Thomas Anthony Dooley III, American physician and humanitarian (d. 1961) |
| 1927 | Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008) |
| 1927 | Harlan Mathews, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014) |
| 1927 | E. W. Swackhamer, American director and producer (d. 1994) |
| 1926 | Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and politician |
| 1926 | Moira Shearer, Scottish-English ballerina and actress (d. 2006) |
| 1926 | Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer (d. 2006) |
| 1925 | Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-American architect (d. 2017) |
| 1925 | Robert Cormier, American author and journalist (d. 2000) |
| 1925 | Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer and author (d. 1996) |
| 1924 | Rik De Saedeleer, Belgian footballer and journalist (d. 2013) |
| 1924 | Jewel Plummer Cobb, American biologist, cancer researcher, and academic (d. 2017) |
| 1923 | Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (d. 1962) |
| 1922 | Luis Echeverría, Mexican academic and politician, 50th President of Mexico (d. 2022) |
| 1922 | Nicholas Katzenbach, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 65th United States Attorney General (d. 2012) |
| 1922 | Betty White, American actress, game show panelist, television personality, and animal rights activist (d. 2021) |
| 1921 | Asghar Khan, Pakistani general and politician (d. 2018) |
| 1921 | Jackie Henderson, Scottish footballer (d. 2005) |
| 1921 | Charlie Mitten, English footballer and manager (d. 2002) |
| 1921 | Antonio Prohías, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998) |
| 1920 | Georges Pichard, French author and illustrator (d. 2003) |
| 1918 | Keith Joseph, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Education (d. 1994) |
| 1918 | George M. Leader, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2013) |
| 1917 | M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor, director, and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1987) |
| 1916 | Peter Frelinghuysen Jr., American lieutenant and politician (d. 2011) |
| 1914 | Anacleto Angelini, Italian-Chilean businessman (d. 2007) |
| 1914 | Irving Brecher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008) |
| 1914 | Paul Royle, Australian lieutenant and pilot (d. 2015) |
| 1914 | William Stafford, American poet and author (d. 1993) |
| 1911 | Busher Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1966) |
| 1911 | John S. McCain Jr., American admiral (d. 1981) |
| 1911 | George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) |
| 1907 | Henk Badings, Indonesian-Dutch composer and engineer (d. 1987) |
| 1907 | Alfred Wainwright, British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator (d. 1991) |
| 1905 | Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 1905 | Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007) |
| 1905 | Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, educator, and critic (d. 1950) |
| 1905 | Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1966) |
| 1905 | Jan Zahradníček, Czech poet and translator (d. 1960) |
| 1904 | Hem Vejakorn, Thai painter and illustrator (d. 1969) |
| 1901 | Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-American philosopher and author (d. 1973) |
| 1899 | Al Capone, American mob boss (d. 1947) |
| 1899 | Robert Maynard Hutchins, American philosopher and academic (d. 1977) |
| 1899 | Nevil Shute, English engineer and author (d. 1960) |
| 1898 | Lela Mevorah, Serbian librarian (d. 1972) |
| 1897 | Marcel Petiot, French physician and serial killer (d. 1946) |
| 1888 | Babu Gulabrai, Indian philosopher and author (d. 1963) |
| 1887 | Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975) |
| 1886 | Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (d. 1955) |
| 1883 | Compton Mackenzie, English-Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1972) |
| 1882 | Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946) |
| 1881 | Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1941) |
| 1881 | Harry Price, English psychologist and author (d. 1948) |
| 1880 | Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1960) |
| 1877 | Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková, Czech botanist and zoologist (d. 1937) |
| 1877 | May Gibbs, English-Australian author and illustrator (d. 1969) |
| 1876 | Frank Hague, American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Jersey City (d. 1956) |
| 1875 | Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan journalist and playwright (d. 1910) |
| 1871 | David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, English admiral (d. 1936) |
| 1871 | Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1940) |
| 1867 | Carl Laemmle, German-born American film producer, co-founded Universal Studios (d. 1939) |
| 1867 | Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel, pilot, and polo player (d. 1934) |
| 1865 | Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951) |
| 1863 | David Lloyd George, Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945) |
| 1863 | Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (d. 1938) |
| 1860 | Douglas Hyde, Irish academic and politician, 1st President of Ireland (d. 1949) |
| 1858 | Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian author (d. 1940) |
| 1857 | Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1941) |
| 1857 | Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American engineer (d. 1935) |
| 1853 | Alva Belmont, American suffragist (d. 1933) |
| 1853 | T. Alexander Harrison, American painter and academic (d. 1930) |
| 1851 | A. B. Frost, American author and illustrator (d. 1928) |
| 1850 | Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, Brazilian cardinal (d. 1930) |
| 1850 | Alexander Taneyev, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1918) |
| 1834 | August Weismann, German biologist, zoologist, and geneticist (d. 1914) |
| 1832 | Henry Martyn Baird, American historian and academic (d. 1906) |
| 1828 | Lewis A. Grant, American lawyer and general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1918) |
| 1828 | Ede Reményi, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1898) |
| 1820 | Anne Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1849) |
| 1814 | Ellen Wood, English author (d. 1887) |
| 1793 | Antonio José Martínez, Spanish-American priest, rancher and politician (d. 1867) |
| 1789 | August Neander, German historian and theologian (d. 1850) |
| 1761 | Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist (d. 1832) |
| 1734 | François-Joseph Gossec, French composer and conductor (d. 1829) |
| 1732 | Stanisław August Poniatowski, Polish-Lithuanian king (d. 1798) |
| 1728 | Johann Gottfried Müthel, German pianist and composer (d. 1788) |
| 1719 | William Vernon, American businessman (d. 1806) |
| 1712 | John Stanley, English organist and composer (d. 1786) |
| 1706 | Benjamin Franklin, American publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (d. 1790) |
| 1686 | Archibald Bower, Scottish historian and author (d. 1766) |
| 1666 | Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1723) |
| 1659 | Antonio Veracini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1745) |
| 1640 | Jonathan Singletary Dunham, American settler (d. 1724) |
| 1612 | Thomas Fairfax, English general and politician (d. 1671) |
| 1600 | Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright and poet (d. 1681) |
| 1593 | William Backhouse, English alchemist and astrologer (d. 1662) |
| 1574 | Robert Fludd, English physician, astrologer, and mathematician (d. 1637) |
| 1560 | Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist, physician, and academic (d. 1624) |
| 1517 | Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English Duke (d. 1554) |
| 1504 | Pope Pius V (d. 1572) |
| 1501 | Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566) |
| 1484 | George Spalatin, German priest and reformer (d. 1545) |
| 1472 | Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Italian captain (d. 1508) |
| 1463 | Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525) |
| 1463 | Antoine Duprat, French cardinal (d. 1535) |
| 1429 | Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Italian artist (d.c. 1498) |
| 1342 | Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404) |
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