Births on 17 August
2000s
Nastasja Schunk
2003
German tennis player
The Kid Laroi
2003
Australian singer (born 2003)
Lil Pump
2000
American rapper (born 2000)
1900s
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
1998
Japanese baseball player (born 1998)
Jake Virtanen
1996
Canadian ice hockey player
Gracie Gold
1995
American figure skater (b. 1995)
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak
1995
New Zealand international rugby league footballer
Phoebe Bridgers
1994
American musician (born 1994)
Jack Conklin
1994
American football player (born 1994)
Taissa Farmiga
1994
American actress (born 1994)
Ederson (footballer, born 1993)
1993
Brazilian footballer (born 1993)
Sarah Sjöström
1993
Swedish swimmer (born 1993)
Xie Zhenye
1993
Chinese sprinter (born 1993)
Saraya Bevis
1992
British professional wrestler (born 1992)
Alex Elisala
1992
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Chanel Mata'utia
1992
Samoan/Australian rugby league footballer
Maru Teferi
1992
Israeli marathon runner (born 1992)
Austin Butler
1991
American actor (born 1991)
Rachel Hurd-Wood
1990
English actress (born 1990)
Lil B
1989
American rapper (born 1989)
Rachel Corsie
1989
Scottish footballer (born 1989)
Brady Corbet
1988
American filmmaker and actor (born 1988)
Jihadi John
1988
Kuwaiti-British terrorist and ISIS executioner (1988–2015)
Joyner Lucas
1988
American rapper (born 1988)
Natalie Sandtorv
1988
Norwegian jazz musician (born 1988)
Erika Toda
1988
Japanese actress (born 1988)
Rudy Gay
1986
American basketball player (born 1986)
Tyrus Thomas
1986
American basketball player
Yū Aoi
1985
Japanese actress and model (born 1985)
Dee Brown (basketball, born 1984)
1984
American basketball player (born 1984)
Oksana Domnina
1984
Russian ice dancer (born 1984)
Liam Heath
1984
British canoeist (born 1984)
Garrett Wolfe
1984
American gridiron football player (born 1984)
Dustin Pedroia
1983
American baseball player (born 1983)
Phil Jagielka
1982
English footballer (born 1982)
Cheerleader Melissa
1982
American professional wrestler
Mark Salling
1982
American actor and musician (1982–2018)
Keith Dabengwa
1980
Zimbabwean cricketer (born 1980)
Dani Güiza
1980
Spanish footballer (born 1980)
Jan Kromkamp
1980
Dutch football manager (born 1980)
Lene Marlin
1980
Norwegian musician (b. 1980)
Antwaan Randle El
1979
American football player and coach (born 1979)
Nicole Sunitsch
1979
Austrian politician (born 1979)
Nathan Deakes
1977
Australian race walker
William Gallas
1977
French footballer (born 1977)
Thierry Henry
1977
French football manager (born 1977)
Mike Lewis (musician)
1977
Welsh guitarist
Tarja Turunen
1977
Finnish musician (born 1977)
Eric Boulton
1976
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1976)
Geertjan Lassche
1976
Dutch journalist (born 1976)
Serhiy Zakarlyuka
1976
Ukrainian footballer and manager
Giuliana Rancic
1974
Italian-American journalist, television personality and infotainer
Johannes Maria Staud
1974
Austrian composer (born 1974)
Habibul Bashar
1972
Bangladeshi cricketer
Uhm Jung-hwa
1971
South Korean singer and actress (born 1969)
Jorge Posada
1971
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1970)
Shaun Rehn
1971
Australian rules footballer, born 1971
Jim Courier
1970
American tennis player
Andrus Kivirähk
1970
Estonian writer (born 1970)
Øyvind Leonhardsen
1970
Norwegian footballer (born 1970)
Christian Laettner
1969
American basketball player (born 1969)
Kelvin Mercer
1969
American rapper and producer (born 1969)
Donnie Wahlberg
1969
American singer and actor (born 1969)
Andriy Kuzmenko
1968
Ukrainian musical artist (1968–2015)
Ed McCaffrey
1968
American football player and coach (born 1968)
Helen McCrory
1968
British actress (1968–2021)
David Conrad
1967
American actor
Michael Preetz
1967
German footballer
Jüri Luik
1966
Estonian diplomat and politician
Rodney Mullen
1966
American professional skateboarder
Don Sweeney
1966
Canadian ice hockey player
Steve Gorman
1965
American drummer
Dottie Pepper
1965
American golfer and sports broadcaster
Colin James
1964
Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1964)
Maria McKee
1964
American singer-songwriter (born 1964)
Dave Penney
1964
English football player and manager (born 1964)
Jon Gruden
1963
American football coach (born 1963)
Jackie Walorski
1963
American politician (1963–2022)
Gilby Clarke
1962
American guitarist (born 1962)
Dan Dakich
1962
American sports radio host and former basketball player and coach
Stephan Eicher
1960
Swiss singer
Sean Penn
1960
American actor and filmmaker (born 1960)
Jonathan Franzen
1959
American writer (born 1959)
Jacek Kazimierski
1959
Polish footballer (born 1959)
Eric Schlosser
1959
American journalist and author (born 1959)
David Koresh
1959
American religious cult leader (1959–1993)
Belinda Carlisle
1958
American singer (born 1958)
Fred Goodwin
1958
Scottish banker (born 1958)
Maurizio Sandro Sala
1958
Brazilian former racing driver (born 1958)
Ken Kwapis
1957
American director and scriptwriter (born 1957)
Laurence Overmire
1957
American dramatist
Robin Cousins
1957
British former competitive figure skater
Gail Berman
1956
American producer and television executive
Álvaro Pino
1956
Spanish cyclist
Colin Moulding
1955
English musician
Eric Johnson (guitarist)
1954
American guitarist and composer (born 1954)
Andrés Pastrana Arango
1954
President of Colombia from 1998 to 2002
Mick Malthouse
1953
Australian rules footballer, born 1953
Herta Müller
1953
German writer and Nobel Prize recipient (born 1953)
Korrie Layun Rampan
1953
Indonesian writer (1953–2015)
Kevin Rowland
1953
British singer (born 1953)
Aleksandr Maksimenkov
1952
Russian footballer
Nelson Piquet
1952
Brazilian racing driver (born 1952)
Mario Theissen
1952
German motorsport engineer
Guillermo Vilas
1952
Argentine tennis player
Richard Hunt (puppeteer)
1951
American puppeteer (1951–1992)
Robert Joy
1951
Canadian actor (born 1951)
Geraint Jarman
1950
Welsh musician (1950–2025)
Norm Coleman
1949
American lobbyist, attorney, and politician (born 1949)
Sue Draheim
1949
American fiddler (1949–2013)
Julian Fellowes
1949
English actor, writer, and politician (born 1949)
Sib Hashian
1949
American drummer (1949–2017)
Alexander Ivashkin
1948
Russian cellist and academic (1948–2014)
Mohamed Abdelaziz (Sahrawi politician)
1947
Sahrawi President from 1976 to 2016
Gary Talley
1947
American songwriter
Hugh Baiocchi
1946
South African professional golfer
Martha Coolidge
1946
American filmmaker (born 1946)
Patrick Manning
1946
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1991–1995, 2001–2010)
Rachel Pollack
1945
American writer (1945–2023)
Larry Ellison
1944
American businessman (born 1944)
Jean-Bernard Pommier
1944
French pianist and conductor
Edward Cowie
1943
English composer, author, natural scientist, and painter
Robert De Niro
1943
American actor and filmmaker (born 1943)
John Humphrys
1943
Welsh broadcaster, journalist and author (born 1943)
Dave "Snaker" Ray
1943
American blues singer and guitarist (1943–2002)
Shane Porteous
1942
Australian actor (born 1942)
Lothar Bisky
1941
German politician (1941–2013)
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
1941
French Canadian filmmaker (born 1941)
Boog Powell
1941
American baseball player (born 1941)
Eduardo Mignogna
1940
Argentine film director and screenwriter
Barry Sheerman
1940
British Labour Co-op politician
Luther Allison
1939
American blues guitarist (1939–1997)
Theodoros Pangalos (politician)
1938
Greek politician (1938–2023)
Seamus Mallon
1936
Northern Ireland politician (1936–2020)
Margaret Hamilton (software engineer)
1936
United States software engineer (born 1936)
João Donato
1934
Brazilian jazz and bossa nova pianist (1934–2023)
Ron Henry
1934
English footballer
Mark Dinning
1933
American pop singer (1933–1986)
V. S. Naipaul
1932
Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)
Duke Pearson
1932
American jazz pianist and composer (1932–80)
Jean-Jacques Sempé
1932
French cartoonist (1932–2022)
Tony Wrigley
1931
British historical demographer (1931–2022)
Harve Bennett
1930
American screenwriter, producer (1930–2015)
Ted Hughes
1930
English poet and children's writer (1930–1998)
Francis Gary Powers
1929
American pilot (1929–1977)
T. J. Anderson
1928
African American composer, conductor, educator
Willem Duys
1928
Dutch media personality
Sam Butera
1927
American saxophonist (1927–2009)
F. Ray Keyser Jr.
1927
American lawyer and politician (1927–2015)
Valerie Eliot
1926
British editor; widow of T. S. Eliot
Jiang Zemin
1926
Leader of China from 1989 to 2002
Evan S. Connell
1924
American writer
Carlos Cruz-Diez
1923
Venezuelan artist (1923–2019)
Larry Rivers
1923
American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor (1923–2002)
Roy Tattersall
1922
English Test and County cricketer (1922–2011)
Geoffrey Elton
1921
German–British historian (1921–1994)
Maureen O'Hara
1920
Irish and American actress (1920–2015)
Lida Moser
1920
American-born photographer and author
Georgia Gibbs
1919
American jazz and pop singer (1918–2006)
Evelyn Ankers
1918
British-American actress (1918–1985)
Ike Quebec
1918
American jazz saxophonist (1918–1963)
Michael John Wise
1918
British geography professor and military veteran
Moses Majekodunmi
1916
Nigerian obstetrician and gynaecologist
Bill Downs
1914
American broadcast journalist and war correspondent (1914–1978)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
1914
American politician and businessman (1914–1988)
Mark Felt
1913
Deputy FBI Director (1913–2008)
Oscar Alfredo Gálvez
1913
Argentine racing driver (1913–1989)
Rudy York
1913
American baseball player and manager (1913–1970)
Mikhail Botvinnik
1911
Soviet chess grandmaster (1911–1995)
Martin Sandberger
1911
German Nazi SS officer (1911–2010)
Larry Clinton
1909
American musician (1909–1985)
Wilf Copping
1909
English footballer and manager (1909–80)
Mary Cain (editor)
1904
American journalist
Leopold Nowak
1904
Austrian musicologist
Vivienne de Watteville
1900
British travel writer and adventurer (1900–1957)
Pauline A. Young
1900
African-American teacher, librarian, community activist
1800s
Janet Lewis
1899
American novelist, poet
Leslie Groves
1896
American military officer (1896–1970)
Tõnis Kint
1896
Estonian politician
Oliver W. Larkin
1896
American art historian and educator
William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes
1894
British motor manufacturer
John Brahm
1893
German film and television director (1893-1982)
Mae West
1893
American actress (1893–1980)
Stefan Bastyr
1890
Polish aviator and military pilot
Harry Hopkins
1890
American New Deal administrator and WWII diplomat (1890–1946)
Lalla Carlsen
1889
Norwegian singer and actress (1889–1967)
Monty Woolley
1888
American actor (1888–1963)
Pieter van der Hoog
1888
Charles I of Austria
1887
Habsburg monarch from 1916 to 1918
Marcus Garvey
1887
Jamaican activist and orator (1887–1950)
Percy Sherwell
1880
South African cricketer (1880 – 1948)
Reggie Duff
1878
Australian cricketer
Ralph McKittrick
1877
American golfer and tennis player
John A. Sampson
1873
American gynecologist (1873–1946)
Mahboob Ali Khan
1866
Nizam of Hyderabad from 1869 to 1911
Julia Marlowe
1865
American actress (1865–1950)
Gene Stratton-Porter
1863
American writer and naturalist (1863–1924)
William Kidston
1849
Australian bookseller and politician (1849–1919)
Henry Cadwalader Chapman
1845
American physician
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
1840
English poet and essayist (1840–1922)
Jules Bernard Luys
1828
French neurologist (1828–1897)
Fredrika Bremer
1801
Swedish writer and reformer (1801–1865)
Before 1800
Davy Crockett
1786
American politician and frontiersman (1786–1836)
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
1786
German princess (1786–1861)
Louis Desaix
1768
French general (1768–1800)
Josef Dobrovský
1753
Czech historian and philologist (1753–1829)
Nicola Porpora
1686
Italian composer (1686–1768)
John III Sobieski
1629
Ruler of Poland–Lithuania from 1674 to 1696
Lennart Torstensson
1603
Swedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillor and Governor-General (1603–1651)
Johannes Valentinus Andreae
1586
German writer, mathematician and theologian (rosicrucian)
John Matthew Rispoli
1582
Maltese philosopher
Francesco Albani
1578
Italian Baroque painter (1578–1660)
Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
1578
Count (later Prince) of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1606-1638)
Alexander Briant
1556
English Roman Catholic saint
Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
1501
Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1501–1529)
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York
1473
English prince (born 1473)
Philibert I, Duke of Savoy
1465
Duke of Savoy from 1472 to 1482
William IX, Count of Poitiers
1153
English prince (1153–1156)