Births on 17 April
2000s
Antonio Nusa
2005
Norwegian footballer (born 2005)
Ryujin (rapper)
2001
South Korean rapper and singer (born 2001)
Violette Dorange
2001
French offshore sailor
1900s
Anna Odine Strøm
1998
Norwegian ski jumper (born 1998)
Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana
1998
Thai actor, producer and host (born 1998)
Lorna Fitzgerald
1996
British actress
Caitlin Parker
1996
Australian boxer (born 1996)
Helene Spilling Ødegaard
1996
Norwegian dancer (born 1996)
Wheein
1995
South Korean singer
Alanna Goldie
1994
Canadian fencer (born 1994)
Hongseok
1994
South Korean singer and actor
Lachlan Maranta
1992
Australian professional rugby player
Jinho
1992
South Korean singer (born 1992)
Jonathan Brown (Welsh footballer)
1990
Welsh footballer
Paraskevi Papachristou
1989
Greek athlete (born 1989)
Avi Kaplan
1989
American singer-songwriter (born 1989)
Takahiro Moriuchi
1988
Japanese singer-songwriter (born 1988)
Romain Grosjean
1986
French and Swiss racing driver (born 1986)
Rooney Mara
1985
American actress (born 1985)
Luke Mitchell
1985
Australian actor (born 1985)
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
1985
French tennis player (born 1985)
Pablo Álvarez (Argentine footballer)
1984
Argentine footballer
Jed Lowrie
1984
American baseball player (born 1984)
Raffaele Palladino
1984
Italian football manager (born 1984)
Stanislav Chistov
1983
Russian ice hockey player (born 1983)
Roberto Jiménez (footballer, born 1983)
1983
Peruvian footballer
Andrea Marcato
1983
Italy international rugby union player
Brad Boyes
1982
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1982)
Chuck Kobasew
1982
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1982)
Tyron Woodley
1982
American mixed martial artist (born 1982)
Jenny Meadows
1981
British athlete (born 1981)
Hanna Pakarinen
1981
Finnish singer (born 1981)
Ryan Raburn
1981
American baseball player (born 1981)
Chris Thompson (runner)
1981
British long-distance runner
Zhang Yaokun
1981
Chinese footballer (born 1981)
Fabián Vargas
1980
Colombian footballer (born 1980)
Curtis Woodhouse
1980
English footballer and boxer (born 1980)
Eric Brewer (ice hockey)
1979
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1979)
Marija Šestak
1979
Slovenian triple jumper
Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer
1978
German alpine skier (born 1978)
Lindsay Hartley
1978
American actress
Daniel Hensel
1978
German composer, musicologist, and music theorist (b.1978)
Jason White (rugby union)
1978
British Lions & Scotland international rugby union player
Chad Hedrick
1977
American speed skater
Frederik Magle
1977
Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist (born 1977)
Maurice Wignall
1976
Jamaican athletics competitor
Heidi Alexander
1975
British politician (born 1975)
Travis Roy
1975
American ice hockey player (1975–2020)
Mikael Åkerfeldt
1974
Swedish musician (born 1974)
Victoria Beckham
1974
English fashion designer and singer (born 1974)
Katrin Koov
1973
Estonian architect
Brett Maher (basketball)
1973
Australian basketball player (born 1973)
Theo Ratliff
1973
American basketball player (born 1973)
Gary Bennett (baseball)
1972
American baseball player (born 1972)
Tony Boselli
1972
American football player and executive (born 1972)
Jennifer Garner
1972
American actress (born 1972)
Muttiah Muralitharan
1972
Sri Lankan cricketer (born 1972)
Yuichi Nishimura
1972
Japanese football referee (born 1972)
Terran Sandwith
1972
Canadian ice hockey player
Claire Sweeney
1971
English actress, singer and television personality (born 1971)
Redman (rapper)
1970
American rapper (born 1970)
Julie Fagerholt
1968
Danish fashion designer
Phil Henderson (basketball)
1968
American basketball player and coach (1968–2013)
Eric Lamaze
1968
Canadian equestrian (born 1968)
Roger Twose
1968
New Zealand cricketer
Richie Woodhall
1968
English boxer (born 1968)
Henry Ian Cusick
1967
Scottish actor (born 1967)
Kimberly Elise
1967
American actress (born 1967)
Marquis Grissom
1967
American baseball player (born 1967)
Ian Jones (rugby union, born 1967)
1967
Rugby player
Barnaby Joyce
1967
Australian politician (born 1967)
Liz Phair
1967
American singer-songwriter (born 1967)
Vikram (actor)
1966
Indian actor (born 1966)
Ken Daneyko
1964
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1964)
Maynard James Keenan
1964
American singer (born 1964)
Rachel Notley
1964
Premier of Alberta from 2015 to 2019
Lela Rochon
1964
American actress (born 1964)
Paul Nicholls (horse racing)
1962
English horse trainer
Norman Cowans
1961
English cricketer
Boomer Esiason
1961
American football player and commentator (born 1961)
Bella Freud
1961
British fashion designer (born 1961)
Vladimir Polyakov (pole vaulter)
1960
Sean Bean
1959
British actor (born 1959)
Jimmy Mann (ice hockey)
1959
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1959)
Li Meisu
1959
Chinese shot putter (born 1959)
Laslo Babits
1958
Canadian javelin thrower (1958–2013)
Teri Austin
1957
Canadian actress, animal care activist (b. 1957)
Afrika Bambaataa
1957
American DJ, rapper, and producer
Dwane Casey
1957
American professional basketball coach (born 1957)
Nick Hornby
1957
English writer (born 1957)
Julia Macur
1957
British judge
Frank McDonough
1957
English historian (born 1957)
Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre
1956
Scottish lawyer and judge
Todd Lickliter
1955
American basketball player-coach
Pete Shelley
1955
English singer-songwriter (1955–2018)
Mike Stroud (physician)
1955
British gastroenterologist
Riccardo Patrese
1954
Italian racing driver (born 1954)
Roddy Piper
1954
Canadian professional wrestler and actor (1954–2015)
Michael Sembello
1954
American musician
Joe Alaskey
1952
American actor (1952–2016)
Pierre Guité
1952
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1952)
John McColl (British Army officer)
1952
Arkan
1952
Serbian paramilitary commander and mobster (1952–2000)
John Robertson (Glasgow MP)
1952
British politician
Olivia Hussey
1951
British actress (1951–2024)
Börje Salming
1951
Swedish ice hockey player (1951–2022)
Jan Hammer
1948
Czech-American musician (born 1948)
Alice Harden
1948
American politician
Pekka Vasala
1948
Finnish middle and long-distance runner
Nigel Emslie, Lord Emslie
1947
Scottish judge (born 1947)
Richard Field (judge)
1947
British judge (born 1947)
Sherrie Levine
1947
American photographer and conceptual artist (born 1947)
Tsutomu Wakamatsu
1947
Japanese baseball player, coach, and manager
Clare Francis
1946
British sailor and novelist (born 1946)
Richard Epstein
1943
American legal scholar (born 1943)
Buster Williams
1942
American jazz bassist
Dnyaneshwar Agashe
1942
Indian businessman and cricketer (1942–2009)
Lagle Parek
1941
Estonian politician
Eric Dancer
1940
British businessman (born 1940)
Billy Fury
1940
British rock and roll musician (1940–1983)
John McCririck
1940
English horse racing pundit (1940–2019)
Chuck Menville
1940
American screenwriter (1940–1992)
Anja Silja
1940
German soprano (born 1940)
Agostino Vallini
1940
Italian prelate of the Catholic Church (born 1940)
Robert Miller (art dealer)
1939
American art dealer
Ben Barnes (Texas politician)
1938
American politician (born 1938)
Doug Lewis (politician)
1938
Canadian politician
Ronald H. Miller
1938
Kerry Wendell Thornley
1938
American author (1938–1998)
Ronald Hamowy
1937
Canadian historian (1937–2012)
Ferdinand Piëch
1937
Austrian industrialist (1937–2019), head of Volkswagen
Urs Wild
1936
Swiss chemist (1936–2022)
Bud Paxson
1935
American businessman (1935–2015)
Don Kirshner
1934
American songwriter, publisher, music producer, manager (1934–2011)
Peter Morris (surgeon)
1934
Australian surgeon (1934–2022)
John Barrett (tennis)
1931
Former tennis player, TV commentator and author
Malcolm Browne
1931
American photographer and journalist (1931–2012)
Chris Barber
1930
English bandleader and trombonist (1930–2021)
James Last
1929
German composer and big band leader (1929–2015)
Victor Lownes
1928
American film producer (1928–2017)
Cynthia Ozick
1928
American writer (born 1928)
Heinz Putzl
1928
Austrian fencer
Fabien Roy
1928
Canadian politician (1928–2023)
Margot Honecker
1927
East German politician (1927–2016)
Joan Lorring
1926
American actress
Gerry McNeil
1926
Canadian ice hockey player
René Moawad
1925
9th president of Lebanon (5–22 November 1989)
Kenneth Norman Jones
1924
Australian public servant (1924–2022)
Donald Richie
1924
American writer and film historian (1924–2013)
Lindsay Anderson
1923
English filmmaker, theatre director, and film critic (1923–1994)
Solly Hemus
1923
American baseball player and manager (1923–2017)
Neville McNamara
1923
Royal Australian Air Force and Australian Defence Force chief
Gianni Raimondi
1923
Italian opera singer (1923–2008)
Harry Reasoner
1923
American journalist (1923–1991)
Melvin Storer
1921
U.S. Navy shipfitter (1921–2003)
Edmonde Charles-Roux
1920
French writer (1920–2016)
Gilles Lamontagne
1919
Canadian politician (1919–2016)
Chavela Vargas
1919
Mexican singer (1919–2012)
William Holden
1918
American actor (1918–1981)
Win Maung
1916
3rd president of Myanmar
A. Thiagarajah
1916
Sri Lankan politician (1916–1981)
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
1916
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1916–2000)
Martin Clemens
1915
British-Australian colonial administrator and military officer
Joe Foss
1915
United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient and American politician
Regina Ghazaryan
1915
Armenian painter (1915–1999)
George Davis (art director)
1914
American art director (1914–1998)
Mac Raboy
1914
American cartoonist, 1914-1967
Marta Eggerth
1912
Hungary-born American actress and singer (1912–2013)
Hervé Bazin
1911
French writer (1911-1996)
Lester Rodney
1911
American journalist
Evangelos Averoff
1910
Greek politician and author
Ivan Goff
1910
Australian screenwriter (1910–1999)
Helenio Herrera
1910
Argentine-French footballer and manager (1910–1997)
Alain Poher
1909
French politician (1909–1996)
Sidney Garfield
1906
American physician
Louis Jean Heydt
1905
American actor (1903–1960)
Arthur Lake (actor)
1905
American actor (1905–87)
Nicolas Nabokov
1903
Russian-American composer
Gregor Piatigorsky
1903
Russian-born American cellist
Morgan Taylor
1903
American hurdler (1903–1975)
1800s
Aleksander Klumberg
1899
Estonian decathlete
Nisargadatta Maharaj
1897
Indian guru (1897–1981)
Thornton Wilder
1897
American playwright and novelist (1897–1975)
Edouard Wyss-Dunant
1897
Swiss physician and alpinist
Señor Wences
1896
Spanish ventriloquist (1896–1999)
Robert Dean Frisbie
1895
American novelist
George Adamski
1891
Polish-American ufologist (1891–1965)
Herms Niel
1888
German composer (1888–1954)
Artur Schnabel
1882
Austrian pianist (1882–1951)
Henri Tauzin
1879
French hurdler
Emil Fuchs (baseball)
1878
American baseball executive (1878–1961)
Demetrios Petrokokkinos
1878
Greek tennis player (1878–1942)
Tsuneo Matsudaira
1877
Japanese diplomat and politician (1877–1949)
Aleksander Tõnisson
1875
Estonian military commander
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková
1868
Czech teacher and suffragist
Ernest Starling
1866
British physiologist (1866–1927)
Ursula Ledóchowska
1865
Polish Roman Catholic nun and saint (1865–1939)
Augustus Edward Hough Love
1863
English mathematician (1863–1940)
Cap Anson
1852
American baseball player (1852–1922)
William R. Day
1849
US Supreme Court justice from 1903 to 1922
Maurice Rouvier
1842
French statesman (1842–1911)
J. P. Morgan
1837
American financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913)
Jean-Baptiste Accolay
1833
Violinist, conductor and composer
Alexander Cartwright
1820
Baseball club founding member (1820–1892)
Thomas Hazlehurst (chapel builder)
1816
Josif Pančić
1814
Serbian botanist and academic (1814–1888)
Before 1800
Eliza Acton
1799
English food writer and poet
Étienne Bobillier
1798
French mathematician (1798–1840)
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
1794
German botanist (1794–1868)
Collin McKinney
1766
Texan historical figure
Dheeran Chinnamalai
1756
Indian freedom fighter
Nicolas François de Neufchâteau
1750
French statesman (1750–1828)
Samuel Chase
1741
Founding Father of the United States (1741–1811)
Taksin
1734
King of Siam from 1767 to 1782
Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan
1710
Scottish peer (1710–1767)
Johann David Heinichen
1683
German composer and music theorist
Edward Stillingfleet
1635
British Christian theologian and scholar (1635–1699)
Marguerite Bourgeoys
1620
French religious sister and saint
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
1598
Italian astronomer and priest (1598–1671)
John Ford (dramatist)
1586
English poet and playwright (1586 – c. 1639)
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria
1573
Duke/Elector of Bavaria from 1597 to 1651
Pedro de Valdivia
1497
Spanish conquistador (1497–1553)
Andrea Gritti
1455
Doge of Venice from 1523 to 1538
Michael IX Palaiologos
1277
Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans