17 December
Notable Births
Castello Lukeba
b. 2002
French footballer (born 2002)
Wesley Fofana (footballer)
b. 2000
French footballer (born 2000)
Holly Humberstone
b. 1999
British musician (born 1999)
Mirei Sasaki
b. 1999
Japanese actress, reporter, and model
Jasmine Armfield
b. 1998
English actress
Martin Ødegaard
b. 1998
Norwegian footballer (born 1998)
Naiktha Bains
b. 1997
Australian-British tennis player (born 1997)
Shoma Uno
b. 1997
Japanese figure skater (born 1997)
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
b. 1996
Russian figure skater (born 1996)
Guerschon Yabusele
b. 1995
French basketball player (born 1995)
Lloyd Perrett
b. 1994
NZ rugby league footballer
Nat Wolff
b. 1994
American actor, musician, and singer-songwriter
Kiersey Clemons
b. 1993
American actress
Quinton de Kock
b. 1992
South African cricketer (born 1992)
Buddy Hield
b. 1992
Bahamian basketball player (born 1992)
Jordan Rankin
b. 1991
Australian rugby league footballer
André Ayew
b. 1989
Footballer (born 1989)
Taylor York
b. 1989
American guitarist (born 1989)
Liisa Ehrberg
b. 1988
Estonian cyclist
Grethe Grünberg
b. 1988
Estonian ice dancer
Notable Deaths
Igor Kirillov (general)
d. 2024
Russian general (1970–2024)
Marisa Paredes
d. 2024
Spanish film actress (1946–2024)
Ronaldo Valdez
d. 2023
Filipino actor (1947–2023)
James McCaffrey (actor)
d. 2023
American actor (1958–2023)
Jeremy Bulloch
d. 2020
English actor (1945–2020)
Benjamin Gilman
d. 2016
American politician (1922–2016)
Gordon Hunt (director)
d. 2016
American filmmaker (1929–2016)
Hal Brown
d. 2015
American baseball player (1924–2015)
Osamu Hayaishi
d. 2015
Japanese biochemist
Michael Wyschogrod
d. 2015
German-American philosopher of religion and Jewish theologian (1928-2015)
Dieter Grau
d. 2014
American aerospace engineer
Oleh Lysheha
d. 2014
Ukrainian poet, playwright, translator and intellectual (1949 – 2014)
Lowell Steward
d. 2014
Tuskegee Airmen (1919–2014)
Ivan Vekić (politician)
d. 2014
Croatian politician and lawyer
Fred Bruemmer
d. 2013
Latvian Canadian artist (1929-2013)
Ricardo María Carles Gordó
d. 2013
Janet Rowley
d. 2013
American human geneticist (1925–2013)
Conny van Rietschoten
d. 2013
Dutch yacht racer
Daniel Inouye
d. 2012
American politician (1924–2012)
Laurier LaPierre
d. 2012
Canadian politician (1929–2012)