| Year |
Month & Date |
Day |
Name |
|---|
| 1192 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Minamoto no Sanetomo |
Japanese shogun (d. 1219) |
| 1550 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Pope Paul V |
(d. 1621) |
| 1630 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Ranuccio II Farnese |
Duke of Parma (d. 1694) |
| 1639 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
Hans Herr |
Mennonite bishop (d. 1725) |
| 1657 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Sophia Alekseyevna |
regent of Russia (d. 1704) |
| 1677 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Stephen Hales |
English physiologist‚ chemist‚ and inventor (d. 1761) |
| 1687 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Durastante Natalucci |
Italian historian (d. 1772) |
| 1688 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Maria Luisa of Savoy |
first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714) |
| 1730 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben |
Prussian army officer (d. 1794) |
| 1739 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
John Rutledge |
2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800) |
| 1743 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Marquis de Condorcet |
French mathematician (d. 1794) |
| 1771 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Johann August Apel |
German jurist and writer (d. 1816) |
| 1773 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Jonathan Alder |
American settler (d. 1849) |
| 1820 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
emile Augier |
French dramatist (d. 1889) |
| 1826 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Bernhard Riemann |
German mathematician (d. 1866) |
| 1839 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Ira Davenport |
American magician (d. 1911) |
| 1854 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
David Dunbar Buick |
American automobile pioneer (d. 1929) |
| 1857 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky |
Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935) |
| 1868 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
James Alexander Calder |
Canadian politician (d. 1956) |
| 1869 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Christian Lous Lange |
Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1938) |
| 1879 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Rube Foster |
American baseball player‚ manager and executive (d. 1930) |
| 1879 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy |
Indian Social Reformer (d. 1973) |
| 1881 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter |
English soldier (d. 1955) |
| 1883 |
September 17 |
Monday |
William Carlos Williams |
American writer (d. 1963) |
| 1884 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Charles Tomlinson Griffes |
American composer (d. 1920) |
| 1890 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Gabriel Heatter |
American radio commentator (d. 1972) |
| 1897 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Earl Webb |
baseball player (d. 1965) |
| 1900 |
September 17 |
Monday |
John Willard Marriott |
American hotelier (d. 1985) |
| 1900 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Hughie Critz |
baseball player (d. 1980) |
| 1901 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Francis Chichester |
English adventurer (d. 1972) |
| 1903 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Karel Miljon |
Dutch boxer (d. 1984) |
| 1903 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Frank O'Connor |
Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966) |
| 1903 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Minanogawa T?z? |
Japanese sumo wrestler‚ the 34th Yokozuna (d. 1971) |
| 1904 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
Edgar G. Ulmer |
Austrian-American film director (d. 1972) |
| 1906 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Edgar Wayburn |
American environmentalist (d. 2010) |
| 1907 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Warren Burger |
15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995) |
| 1912 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Irena Kwiatkowska |
Polish actress and comedian |
| 1916 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Mary Stewart |
English novelist |
| 1918 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Chaim Herzog |
President of Israel (d. 1997) |
| 1922 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Agostinho Neto |
Angolan politician (d. 1979) |
| 1923 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Hank Williams |
American musician (d. 1953) |
| 1926 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Bill Black |
American musician (d. 1965) |
| 1926 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Curtis Harrington |
American film director (d. 2007) |
| 1927 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
George Blanda |
American football player |
| 1928 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Roddy McDowall |
English actor (d. 1998) |
| 1929 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Sir Stirling Moss |
English race car driver |
| 1929 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Pat Crowley |
American actress |
| 1930 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Edgar Mitchell |
American astronaut |
| 1930 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Jim Rohn |
American business philosopher |
| 1930 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Thomas Stafford |
American astronaut |
| 1930 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Lalgudi Jayaraman |
Indian violinist |
| 1930 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
David Huddleston |
American actor |
| 1931 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Anne Bancroft |
American actress (d. 2005) |
| 1933 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Chuck Grassley |
American politician |
| 1933 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Dorothy Loudon |
American actress (d. 2003) |
| 1933 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Claude Provost |
National Hockey League player (d. 1984) |
| 1934 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Maureen Connolly |
American tennis player (d. 1969) |
| 1935 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Ken Kesey |
American author (d. 2001) |
| 1937 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Orlando Cepeda |
Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player |
| 1938 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
Bobby Wine |
American Major League Baseball player |
| 1939 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Shelby Flint |
American singer |
| 1939 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
David Souter |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
| 1940 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Jan Eliasson |
Swedish diplomat |
| 1940 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Sotiris Moustakas |
Greek actor (d. 2007) |
| 1941 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Stavros Damianides |
Greek musician (d. 2001) |
| 1941 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Bob Matsui |
U.S. Congressman (d. 2005) |
| 1942 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Des Lynam |
English television presenter |
| 1942 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Robert Graysmith |
Zodiac killer researcher |
| 1944 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Reinhold Messner |
Italian mountain climber |
| 1945 |
September 17 |
Monday |
David Emerson |
Canadian politician |
| 1945 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Bhakti Caru Swami |
Indian spiritual leader |
| 1945 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Phil Jackson |
American basketball player and NBA head coach |
| 1945 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Bruce Spence |
New Zealand actor |
| 1946 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Billy Bonds |
English footballer |
| 1947 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Tessa Jowell |
British politician |
| 1948 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Jeff MacNelly |
American political cartoonist (d. 2000) |
| 1948 |
September 17 |
Friday |
John Ritter |
American actor (d. 2003) |
| 1950 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Narendra Modi |
Indian politician |
| 1950 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Chris Heister |
Swedish politician |
| 1950 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Fee Waybill |
American musician (The Tubes) |
| 1951 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Cassandra Peterson |
American actress |
| 1953 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Altaf Hussain |
Pakistani politician and founder of MQM |
| 1954 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Joel-Francois Durand |
French composer |
| 1955 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
Koralia Karanti |
Greek actress |
| 1955 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
Charles Martinet |
American actor |
| 1956 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Thad Bosley |
American major league baseball player |
| 1956 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Rita Rudner |
American comedian |
| 1956 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Brian Andreas |
American writer‚ sculptor‚ painter and publisher |
| 1958 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Tom Waddell |
Scottish former Major League Baseball player |
| 1959 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Charles Lawson |
Northern Irish actor |
| 1960 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
Damon Hill |
English race car driver and 1996 F1 world champion |
| 1960 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
Kevin Clash |
American actor and puppeteer |
| 1960 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
John Franco |
American baseball player |
| 1961 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Ty Tabor |
American guitarist and singer (King's X) |
| 1961 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Jim Cornette |
American professional wrestling manager |
| 1962 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Baz Luhrmann |
Australian film director |
| 1962 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Dustin Nguyen |
Vietnamese American actor |
| 1963 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Masahiro Chono |
Japanese professional wrestler |
| 1963 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Steven Dye |
English musician (Scarlet Party)‚ (The Alan Parsons Project) |
| 1963 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Wendy Northcutt |
Author of the Darwin Awards |
| 1963 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Amy Roloff |
American reality star |
| 1963 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Rami Saari |
Israeli poet and translator |
| 1963 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
James Urbaniak |
American actor |
| 1965 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Yuji Naka |
Japanese video game programmer |
| 1965 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Guy Picciotto |
American musician |
| 1965 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Bryan Singer |
American director |
| 1966 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
Doug E. Fresh |
American rapper‚ record producer‚ and beatboxer |
| 1967 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Malik Yoba |
American actor |
| 1968 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Anastacia |
American singer |
| 1968 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Marie-Chantal |
Crown Princess of Greece |
| 1969 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Ken Doherty |
Irish snooker player |
| 1969 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Keith Flint |
Member of the British band The Prodigy |
| 1969 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Matthew Settle |
American actor |
| 1970 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Mark Brunell |
American football player |
| 1971 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Mike Catt |
English rugby player |
| 1971 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Mauro Milanese |
Italian footballer |
| 1971 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Adriana Sklena?ikova |
Slovak supermodel |
| 1971 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Ian Whyte |
Welsh actor and basketball player |
| 1972 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Brian Henry |
American poet |
| 1972 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Bobby Lee |
American comedian |
| 1973 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Ada Choi |
Hong Kong actress |
| 1973 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Demis Nikolaidis |
Greek footballer |
| 1974 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Rasheed Wallace |
American basketball player |
| 1974 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Mirah |
American musician |
| 1974 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Tormod Granheim |
Norwegian adventurer |
| 1975 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Jimmie Johnson |
American race car driver |
| 1975 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Austin St. John |
American actor |
| 1975 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Constantine Maroulis |
American singer |
| 1976 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Daniella Rush |
Czech pornographic actress |
| 1977 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
Simone Perrotta |
Italian football player |
| 1978 |
September 17 |
Sunday |
Shawn Horcoff |
Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1979 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Akin Ayodele |
American football player |
| 1979 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Chuck Comeau |
Canadian musician (Simple Plan) |
| 1979 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Steffen Algreen |
Danish footballer |
| 1979 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Flo Rida |
American rapper |
| 1980 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Danny Haren |
American baseball player |
| 1981 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Casey Janssen |
American baseball player |
| 1981 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Bakari Kone |
Ivorian footballer |
| 1981 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Francis Manioru |
Solomon Islander sprinter |
| 1982 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Hope Larson |
American illustrator and cartoonist |
| 1982 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Garth Murray |
Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1982 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Wade Robson |
Australian choreographer |
| 1983 |
September 17 |
Saturday |
Jennifer Pena |
American singer |
| 1984 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Mary Descenza |
American swimmer |
| 1984 |
September 17 |
Monday |
Eugenia Volodina |
Russian model |
| 1985 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Tomas Berdych |
Czech tennis player |
| 1985 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Brendan Clarke |
Irish footballer |
| 1985 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Alexander Ovechkin |
Russian hockey player |
| 1985 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Mason Raymond |
Canadian hockey player |
| 1985 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Jose Goncalves |
Portuguese football player |
| 1986 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Landry Mulemo |
Belgian footballer |
| 1986 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Dimitrios Regas |
Greek sprinter |
| 1987 |
September 17 |
Thursday |
Paul Huntington |
English footballer |
| 1991 |
September 17 |
Tuesday |
Ryo Ishikawa |
Japanese golfer |
| 2004 |
September 17 |
Friday |
Prince Odysseas |
Kimon of Greece and Denmark |
| 2008 |
September 17 |
Wednesday |
Mia Talerico |
American child actress |
