Births on 17 February
1900s
Devin White
1998
American football player (born 1998)
Gaetano Castrovilli
1997
Italian footballer (born 1997)
Sebastian Aho (ice hockey, born 1996)
1996
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1996)
Sasha Pieterse
1996
American actress (born 1996)
Madison Keys
1995
American tennis player (born 1995)
Mason Jobst
1994
American ice hockey player (born 1994)
Marc Márquez
1993
Spanish motorcycle racer (born 1993)
Meaghan Martin
1992
American actress and singer (born 1992)
Phil Pressey
1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Ed Sheeran
1991
English singer-songwriter (born 1991)
Jeremy Allen White
1991
American actor (born 1991)
Bonnie Wright
1991
English actress and filmmaker (born 1991)
Marianne St-Gelais
1990
Canadian short-track speed skater
Edin Višća
1990
Bosnian footballer (born 1990)
Rebecca Adlington
1989
English swimmer (born 1990)
Chord Overstreet
1989
American actor, singer and musician (born 1989)
Michael Frolík
1988
Czech ice hockey player (born 1988)
Case Keenum
1988
American football player (born 1988)
Vasiliy Lomachenko
1988
Ukrainian boxer (born 1988)
Ísis Valverde
1987
Brazilian actress (born 1987)
Brett Kern
1986
American football player (born 1986)
Anders Jacobsen (ski jumper)
1985
Norwegian ski jumper
AB de Villiers
1984
South African cricketer (born 1984)
Marcin Gortat
1984
Polish basketball player (born 1984)
Katie Hill (basketball)
1984
Australian wheelchair basketball player
Adriano (footballer, born February 1982)
1982
Brazilian footballer
Brian Bruney
1982
American baseball player (born 1982)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
1981
American actor (born 1981)
Paris Hilton
1981
American media personality (born 1981)
Pontus Segerström
1981
Swedish footballer
Al Harrington
1980
American basketball player (born 1980)
Jason Ritter
1980
American actor (born 1980)
Klemi Saban
1980
Israeli footballer
Conrad Ricamora
1979
American actor (born 1979)
Josh Willingham
1979
American baseball player (born 1979)
Rory Kinnear
1978
English actor (born 1978)
Kelly Carlson
1976
American actress and model
Kaspars Astašenko
1975
Latvian ice hockey player (1975–2012)
Václav Prospal
1975
Czech ice hockey player
Dir En Grey
1974
Japanese heavy metal band
Jerry O'Connell
1974
American actor and TV show host (born 1974)
Drew Barry
1973
American basketball player (born 1973)
Goran Bunjevčević
1973
Serbian footballer
Raphaël Ibañez
1973
France international rugby union player
Billie Joe Armstrong
1972
American rock musician (born 1972)
Philippe Candeloro
1972
French figure skater (born 1972)
Taylor Hawkins
1972
American drummer (1972–2022)
Valeria Mazza
1972
Argentine model and businesswoman (born 1972)
Denise Richards
1971
American actress and model (born 1971)
Dominic Purcell
1970
Australian actor (born 1970)
David Douillet
1969
French judoka and politician
Vasily Kudinov
1969
Russian handball player
Giuseppe Signori
1968
Italian footballer (born 1968)
Wu'er Kaixi
1968
Chinese political commentator (born 1968)
Luc Robitaille
1966
Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1966)
Michael Bay
1965
American filmmaker (born 1965)
Sherry Hawco
1964
Canadian artistic gymnast
Larry the Cable Guy
1963
American stand-up comedian (born 1963)
Alison Hargreaves
1963
20th-century British mountain climber (1962–1995)
Jensen Huang
1963
Taiwanese and American businessman (born 1963)
Michael Jordan
1963
American basketball player and businessman (born 1963)
Lou Diamond Phillips
1962
American actor (born 1962)
Angela Eagle
1961
British politician (born 1961)
Maria Eagle
1961
British Labour politician (born 1961)
Andrey Korotayev
1961
Russian anthropologist (born 1961)
Lindy Ruff
1960
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Aryeh Deri
1959
Israeli politician (born 1959)
Rowdy Gaines
1959
American swimmer (born 1959)
Loreena McKennitt
1957
Canadian musician (born 1957)
Richard Karn
1956
American actor (born 1956)
Mo Yan
1955
Chinese author (born 1955)
Lou Ann Barton
1954
American blues singer (born 1954)
Miki Berkovich
1954
Israeli basketball player
Rene Russo
1954
American actress and model (born 1954)
Becky Ann Baker
1953
American actress (born 1953)
Karin Büttner-Janz
1952
German gymnast
Vladimír Padrůněk
1952
Czech musician (1952–1991)
Rashid Minhas
1951
Pakistani Pilot
Fred Frith
1949
English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser (born 1949)
Dennis Green
1949
American gridiron football player, coach (1949–2016)
José José
1948
Mexican singer (1948–2019)
Shahrnush Parsipur
1946
Iranian writer and translator (born 1946)
Zina Bethune
1945
American actress, dancer, and choreographer (1945–2012)
Brenda Fricker
1945
Irish actress (born 1945)
Karl Jenkins
1944
Welsh musician and composer (born 1944)
Huey P. Newton
1942
Founder of the Black Panther Party (1942–1989)
Julia McKenzie
1941
English actress (born 1941)
Vicente Fernández
1940
Mexican actor and ranchera singer (1940–2021)
Gene Pitney
1940
American singer and songwriter (1940–2006)
Mary Ann Mobley
1937
American actress (1937–2014)
Jim Brown
1936
American football player and actor (1936–2023)
Christina Pickles
1935
British actress (born 1935)
Alan Bates
1934
English actor (1934–2003)
Barry Humphries
1934
Australian comedian (1934–2023)
Craig L. Thomas
1933
American politician (1933–2007)
Jiřina Jirásková
1931
Czech actress (1931–2013)
Buddy Ryan
1931
American football player, coach, and executive (1931–2016)
Roger Craig (baseball)
1930
American baseball player (1930–2023)
Benjamin Fain
1930
Israeli physicist (1930–2013)
Ruth Rendell
1930
English writer (1930–2015)
Alejandro Jodorowsky
1929
Chilean and French filmmaker (born 1929)
Chaim Potok
1929
American author and rabbi (1929–2002)
Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale
1929
British politician and minister (1929–1993)
Patricia Routledge
1929
English actress and singer (1929–2025)
Marta Romero
1928
Puerto Rican actress (1928–2013)
Michiaki Takahashi
1928
Japanese virologist (1928–2013)
Ron Goodwin
1925
English composer and conductor (1925–2003)
Hal Holbrook
1925
American actor (1925–2021)
Margaret Truman
1924
American writer and daughter of President Harry S. Truman (1924–2008)
Buddy DeFranco
1923
American jazz clarinetist (1923–2014)
Tommy Edwards
1922
American singer-songwriter (1922–1969)
Duane Gish
1921
American creationist (1921–2013)
Ivo Caprino
1920
Norwegian film director (1920–2001)
Annie Glenn
1920
American advocate (1920–2020)
Curt Swan
1920
American comics artist (1920–1996)
J. M. S. Careless
1919
Canadian historian (1919–2009)
Kathleen Freeman
1919
American actress (1919–2001)
Joe Hunt
1919
American tennis player (1919–1945)
William Bronk
1918
American poet (1918–1999)
Jacqueline Ferrand
1918
French mathematician (1918–2014)
Alexander Obolensky
1916
England international rugby union player
Don Tallon
1916
Australian cricketer (1916–1984)
Raf Vallone
1916
Italian actor and footballer (1916–2002)
Arthur Kennedy
1914
American actor (1914–1990)
Andre Norton
1912
American science fiction and fantasy writer (1912–2005)
Oskar Seidlin
1911
German-American academic (1911 – 1984)
Marc Lawrence
1910
American actor (1910–2005)
Bo Yibo
1908
Chinese politician (1908–2007)
Mary Brian
1906
American actress (1906–2002)
Rózsa Péter
1905
Hungarian mathematician
Hans Morgenthau
1904
American political scientist (1904–1980)
Sadegh Hedayat
1903
Iranian writer (1903–1951)
Joaquín Rodríguez Ortega
1903
Spanish bullfighter (1903–1984)
Ruth Clifford
1900
American actress (1900–1998)
1800s
Jibanananda Das
1899
Bengali poet (1899–1954)
Wally Pipp
1893
American baseball player (1893–1965)
Abraham Fraenkel
1891
German-Israeli mathematician and Zionist (1891–1965)
Ronald Fisher
1890
British polymath (1890–1962)
Ronald Knox
1888
English Catholic priest and author (1888–1957)
Otto Stern
1888
German-American experimental physicist (1888–1969)
Joseph Bech
1887
Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1926-1937, 1953-1958)
Leevi Madetoja
1887
Finnish composer (1887–1947)
Mary Carson Breckinridge
1881
Founder of the American FNS (1881–1965)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
1879
American author and social activist (1879–1958)
Isabelle Eberhardt
1877
Swiss explorer and writer
André Maginot
1877
French civil servant, soldier and member of parliament
Thomas J. Watson
1874
American businessman (1874–1956)
Jozef Murgaš
1864
Slovak inventor, architect, botanist, painter and Catholic priest
Banjo Paterson
1864
Australian journalist, author, and poet (1864–1941)
Mori Ōgai
1862
Japanese writer (1862–1922)
Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont
1861
Duchess of Albany (1861–1922)
Friedrich Alfred Krupp
1854
German steel manufacturer (1854–1902)
Joseph Favre
1849
Swiss chef and socialist (1849–1903)
Louisa Lawson
1848
Australian writer and suffragist (1848–1920)
Aaron Montgomery Ward
1843
American businessman (1843–1913)
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
1836
Spanish poet and writer (1836–1870)
Richard Henry Park
1832
American sculptor
Lola Montez
1821
Irish dancer and actress
Henri Vieuxtemps
1820
Belgian composer and violinist
Édouard Thilges
1817
Before 1800
Carl Julian (von) Graba
1799
German lawyer and ornithologist (1799–1874)
Philipp Franz von Siebold
1796
German biologist and traveler
René Laennec
1781
French physician (1781–1826)
John Cooke (Royal Navy officer)
1762
Royal Navy Captain (1762–1805)
John Pinkerton
1758
Scottish antiquarian
Nicolas Baudin
1754
French explorer (1754–1803)
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
1752
German dramatist and novelist (1752–1831)
Horace Bénédict de Saussure
1740
Genevan scientist and mountaineer (1740–1799)
Tobias Mayer
1723
18th-century German astronomer (1723–1762)
Arcangelo Corelli
1653
Italian violinist and composer (1653–1713)
Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert
1646
French law-maker and Jansenist
Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine
1524
French cardinal (1524–1574)
François, Duke of Guise
1519
French soldier and politician (1519–1563)
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
1490
French general and nobleman (1490–1527)
Al-Juwayni
1028
Muslim scholar and theologian (1028–1085)
Wu Zetian
624
Empress of China from 690 to 705