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August 17 Birthdays

Year Month & Date Day Name
1473 August 17 Monday Richard Duke of York
1578 August 17 Friday Francesco Albani Italian painter (d. 1660)
1601 August 17 Friday Pierre de Fermat French mathematician (d. 1665)
1686 August 17 Saturday Nicola Porpora Italian composer (d. 1768)
1753 August 17 Friday Josef Dobrovsky Czech linguist (d. 1828)
1768 August 17 Wednesday Louis Charles Antoine Desaix French general (d. 1800)
1786 August 17 Thursday Davy Crockett American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
1786 August 17 Thursday Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld mother of Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
1794 August 17 Sunday Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfrst German priest (d. 1849)
1828 August 17 Sunday Jules Bernard Luys French neurologist (d. 1897)
1844 August 17 Saturday Menelek II of Ethiopia
1863 August 17 Monday Gene Stratton-Porter American author and naturalist (d. 1924)
1866 August 17 Friday Mir Mahboob Ali Khan 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
1866 August 17 Friday Julia Marlowe English actress (d. 1950)
1873 August 17 Sunday John A. Sampson American gynecologist (d. 1946)
1878 August 17 Saturday Reggie Duff Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
1880 August 17 Tuesday Percy Sherwell South African cricketer (d. 1948)
1887 August 17 Wednesday Marcus Garvey Jamaican-born Black rights activist (d. 1940)
1887 August 17 Wednesday Charles I of Austria
1888 August 17 Friday Monty Woolley American actor (d. 1963)
1890 August 17 Sunday Harry Hopkins 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946)
1890 August 17 Sunday Stefan Bastyr Polish aviator (d. 1920)
1893 August 17 Thursday Mae West American actress (d. 1980)
1896 August 17 Monday Leslie Groves American military engineer (d. 1970)
1904 August 17 Wednesday Leopold Nowak Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
1904 August 17 Wednesday Mary Cain American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
1909 August 17 Tuesday Larry Clinton American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
1911 August 17 Thursday Mikhail Botvinnik Russian chess player (d. 1995)
1911 August 17 Thursday Martin Sandberger German military officer (d. 2010)
1913 August 17 Sunday W. Mark Felt American Watergate informant (d. 2008)
1913 August 17 Sunday Rudy York American baseball player (d. 1970)
1913 August 17 Sunday scar Alfredo Galvez Argentine racing driver (d. 1989)
1914 August 17 Monday Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1988)
1919 August 17 Sunday Georgia Gibbs American singer (d. 2006)
1920 August 17 Tuesday Maureen O'Hara Irish actress
1921 August 17 Wednesday Geoffrey Rudolph Elton British historian (d. 1994)
1922 August 17 Thursday Roy Tattersall England cricketer
1926 August 17 Tuesday Jiang Zemin Chinese politician
1926 August 17 Tuesday George Melly British singer (d. 2007)
1926 August 17 Tuesday Jean Poiret French actor‚ director and screenwriter (d. 1992)
1929 August 17 Saturday Francis Gary Powers American U-2 pilot (d. 1977)
1930 August 17 Sunday Glenn Corbett American actor (d. 1993)
1930 August 17 Sunday Ted Hughes English poet (d. 1998)
1932 August 17 Wednesday V. S. Naipaul West Indian writer‚ Nobel Laureate
1933 August 17 Thursday Eugene F. Kranz American NASA executive
1933 August 17 Thursday Mark Dinning American singer (d. 1986)
1935 August 17 Saturday Oleg Tabakov Russian actor
1936 August 17 Monday Floyd Red Crow Westerman Native American musician and actor (d. 2007)
1938 August 17 Wednesday Abu Bakar Bashir Indonesian Muslim cleric
1938 August 17 Wednesday Theodoros Pangalos Greek politician
1939 August 17 Thursday Luther Allison American musician (d. 1997)
1939 August 17 Thursday Anthony Valentine British actor
1940 August 17 Saturday Eduardo Mignogna Argentinian film director (d. 2006)
1941 August 17 Sunday Jean Pierre Lefebvre French Canadian film director
1941 August 17 Sunday Boog Powell American baseball player
1943 August 17 Tuesday Robert De Niro American actor
1943 August 17 Tuesday "Dave ""Snaker"" Ray" American musician (d. 2002)
1944 August 17 Thursday Larry Ellison CEO of Oracle Corporation‚ billionaire
1946 August 17 Saturday Martha Coolidge American film director
1946 August 17 Saturday Patrick Manning 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago
1947 August 17 Sunday Gary Talley American musician (Box Tops)
1947 August 17 Sunday Sylvia Nasar German-born American economist and author
1948 August 17 Tuesday Rod MacDonald American musician
1949 August 17 Wednesday Sib Hashian American musician (Boston)
1949 August 17 Wednesday Norm Coleman American politician
1951 August 17 Friday Robert Joy Canadian actor
1951 August 17 Friday Alan Minter British boxer
1952 August 17 Sunday Nelson Piquet Brazilian race car driver
1952 August 17 Sunday Dr. Mario Theissen German F1 team principal of BMW Sauber
1952 August 17 Sunday Guillermo Vilas Argentinian tennis player
1953 August 17 Monday Judith Regan American book publisher
1953 August 17 Monday Kevin Rowland English musician (Dexys Midnight Runners)
1953 August 17 Monday Michael Malthouse Premiership winning Australian football coach
1954 August 17 Tuesday Eric Johnson American guitarist
1955 August 17 Wednesday Richard Hilton American heir
1956 August 17 Friday Gail Berman American film executive
1956 August 17 Friday alvaro Pino Spanish cyclist
1957 August 17 Saturday Robin Cousins British figure skater
1958 August 17 Sunday Belinda Carlisle American singer
1958 August 17 Sunday Fred Goodwin British banker
1958 August 17 Sunday Kirk Stevens Canadian snooker player
1959 August 17 Monday Chika Sakamoto Japanese voice actress and singer
1959 August 17 Monday Jonathan Franzen American author
1959 August 17 Monday David Koresh American cult leader (d. 1993)
1959 August 17 Monday Eric Schlosser American author
1960 August 17 Wednesday Stephan Eicher Swiss singer
1960 August 17 Wednesday Sean Penn American actor and director
1962 August 17 Friday Gilby Clarke American musician (Guns N' Roses)
1962 August 17 Friday John Marshall Jones American actor
1962 August 17 Friday Buddy Landel American professional wrestler
1963 August 17 Saturday Jon Gruden American football coach
1963 August 17 Saturday S. Shankar Indian film director
1964 August 17 Monday Colin James Canadian musician
1964 August 17 Monday Maria McKee American singer
1966 August 17 Wednesday Maysa Leak American jazz singer
1966 August 17 Wednesday Rodney Mullen American skateboarder
1966 August 17 Wednesday Don Sweeney Canadian ice hockey player
1967 August 17 Thursday Kevin Max American singer (dc talk)
1968 August 17 Saturday Ed McCaffrey American football player
1968 August 17 Saturday Helen McCrory English actress
1969 August 17 Sunday Christian Laettner American basketball player
1969 August 17 Sunday Donnie Wahlberg American actor and singer (New Kids On The Block)
1969 August 17 Sunday Kelvin Mercer American rapper (De La Soul)
1970 August 17 Monday Jim Courier American tennis player
1970 August 17 Monday Rupert Degas English actor and voice artist
1970 August 17 Monday oyvind Leonhardsen Norwegian footballer
1971 August 17 Tuesday Uhm Jung-hwa South Korean singer and actress
1971 August 17 Tuesday Jorge Posada Puerto Rican baseball player
1971 August 17 Tuesday Shaun Rehn Australian Rules footballer
1972 August 17 Thursday Habibul Bashar Bangladeshi cricketer
1972 August 17 Thursday Ken Ryker American pornographic actor
1974 August 17 Saturday Tony Hajjar Lebanese musician (At the Drive-In‚ Sparta)
1974 August 17 Saturday Nicola Kraus American novelist
1975 August 17 Sunday Giuliana DePandi Italian-born American television personality
1976 August 17 Tuesday Scott Halberstadt American actor
1976 August 17 Tuesday Geertjan Lassche Dutch reporter
1977 August 17 Wednesday Nathan Deakes Australian race walker
1977 August 17 Wednesday William Gallas French footballer
1977 August 17 Wednesday Thierry Henry French footballer
1977 August 17 Wednesday Tarja Turunen Finnish singer
1977 August 17 Wednesday Matthew Oakley English footballer
1978 August 17 Thursday Karena Lam Hong Kong actress
1978 August 17 Thursday Vibeke Stene Norwegian singer (Tristania)
1979 August 17 Friday Antwaan Randle El American football player
1979 August 17 Friday Marcus Patric British actor
1980 August 17 Sunday Keith Dabengwa Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 August 17 Sunday Jan Kromkamp Dutch footballer
1980 August 17 Sunday Lene Marlin Norwegian singer
1981 August 17 Monday Kristin Holt American television personality
1982 August 17 Tuesday Cheerleader Melissa American professional wrestler
1982 August 17 Tuesday Phil Jagielka English footballer
1982 August 17 Tuesday Mark Salling American actor
1983 August 17 Wednesday Dustin Pedroia American baseball player
1984 August 17 Friday Dee Brown American basketball player
1984 August 17 Friday Garrett Wolfe American football player
1985 August 17 Saturday Y? Aoi Japanese actress
1986 August 17 Sunday Rudy Gay American basketball player
1986 August 17 Sunday Tyrus Thomas American basketball player
1986 August 17 Sunday Bryton McClure American actor & singer
1988 August 17 Wednesday Brady Corbet American actor
1988 August 17 Wednesday Erika Toda Japanese actress
1988 August 17 Wednesday Nichole Cordova Performer (Girlicious)
1990 August 17 Friday Colin Bates American actor
1990 August 17 Friday Rachel Hurd-Wood British actress
1994 August 17 Wednesday Riley McRae unreal swag
1996 August 17 Saturday Ella Cruz Filipina actress


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