| 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 |
