Births on 17 January
2000s
Peio Canales
2005
Spanish footballer (born 2005)
Robin Roefs
2003
Dutch footballer (born 2003)
Samuel (singer)
2002
American singer (born 2002)
Enzo Fernández
2001
Argentine footballer (born 2001)
Kang Chan-hee
2000
South Korean singer and actor (born 2000)
Devlin DeFrancesco
2000
Canadian racing driver
Ayo Dosunmu
2000
American basketball player (born 2000)
1900s
Isa Briones
1999
British and American actor and singer (born 1999)
Sophie Molineux
1998
Australian cricketer (born 1998)
Jeff Reine-Adélaïde
1998
French footballer (born 1998)
Jake Paul
1997
American influencer and professional boxer (born 1997)
Kyle Tucker
1997
American baseball player (born 1997)
Allonzo Trier
1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Indya Moore
1995
American actor and model (born 1995)
Lucy Boynton
1994
British actress (born 1994)
Mark Steketee
1994
Australian cricketer
Stanislav Galiev
1992
Russian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Trevor Bauer
1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Willa Fitzgerald
1991
American actress (born 1991)
Esapekka Lappi
1991
Finnish rally driver (born 1991)
Alise Willoughby
1991
American cyclist (born 1991)
Santiago Tréllez
1990
Colombian footballer (born 1990)
Tyler Zeller
1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Taylor Jordan
1989
American baseball player
Kelly Marie Tran
1989
American actress (born 1989)
Andrea Antonelli
1988
Italian motorcycle racer
Earl Clark
1988
American basketball player (born 1988)
Will Genia
1988
Australian rugby union player (born 1988)
Jonathan Keltz
1988
American actor (born 1988)
Héctor Moreno
1988
Mexican footballer (born 1988)
Cody Decker
1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Oleksandr Usyk
1987
Ukrainian boxer (born 1987)
Viktor Stålberg
1986
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1986)
Pablo Barrientos
1985
Argentine footballer
Simone Simons
1985
Dutch singer (born 1985)
Calvin Harris
1984
Scottish DJ (born 1984)
Dexter Lumis
1984
American professional wrestler (born 1984)
Álvaro Arbeloa
1983
Spanish football manager and player (born 1983)
Ryan Gage
1983
English actor (born 1983)
Johannes Herber
1983
German basketball player (born 1983)
Rick Kelly
1983
Australian racing driver
Marcelo Garcia (grappler)
1983
Brazilian martial artist
Dwyane Wade
1982
American basketball player (born 1982)
Andrew Webster (rugby league)
1982
Australian RL coach and former rugby league footballer
Amanda Wilkinson
1982
Canadian musician
Warren Feeney
1981
Northern Irish footballer and manager
Ray J
1981
American singer (born 1981)
Michael Zigomanis
1981
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1981)
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
1980
Ukrainian-American dancer (born 1980)
Zooey Deschanel
1980
American actress and singer (born 1980)
Modestas Stonys
1980
Lithuanian footballer and coach
Lisa Llorens
1978
Australian Paralympic athlete
Ricky Wilson (singer)
1978
British musician (born 1978)
Leigh Whannell
1977
Australian filmmaker and actor (born 1977)
Freddy Rodriguez (actor)
1975
American actor (born 1975)
Yang Chen (footballer, born 1974)
1974
Chinese footballer and coach
Vesko Kountchev
1974
Musical artist
Derrick Mason
1974
American football player (born 1974)
Cuauhtémoc Blanco
1973
Mexican footballer and politician (born 1973)
Chris Bowen
1973
Australian politician (born 1973)
Liz Ellis
1973
Australian netball player
Aaron Ward (ice hockey)
1973
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1973)
Georgios Balogiannis
1971
Greek basketball player
Richard Burns
1971
British rally driver (1971–2005)
Kid Rock
1971
American musician (born 1971)
Sylvie Testud
1971
French actress (born 1971)
Cássio Barros
1970
Brazilian footballer (born 1970)
Jeremy Roenick
1970
American ice hockey player (born 1970)
Genndy Tartakovsky
1970
Russian and American animator (born 1970)
Naveen Andrews
1969
British actor (born 1969)
Lukas Moodysson
1969
Swedish writer and film director
Tiësto
1969
Dutch DJ and record producer (born 1969)
Rowan Pelling
1968
British journalist
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
1968
Dutch poet and writer
Richard Hawley
1967
English musician (born 1967)
Trish Johnson
1966
English professional golfer (born 1966)
Joshua Malina
1966
American actor (born 1966)
Shabba Ranks
1966
Jamaican dancehall musician
Sylvain Turgeon
1965
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1965)
Michelle Obama
1964
First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017
John Schuster
1964
Former (Western) Samoa & All Blacks dual-code rugby international footballer
Colin Gordon (footballer)
1963
English footballer
Kai Hansen
1963
German guitarist and singer
Jun Azumi
1962
Japanese politician (born 1962)
Jim Carrey
1962
Canadian and American actor (born 1962)
Sebastian Junger
1962
American author, journalist and filmmaker (born 1962)
Denis O'Hare
1962
American actor
Brian Helgeland
1961
American screenwriter (born 1961)
John Crawford (musician)
1960
American singer-songwriter
Chili Davis
1960
Jamaican-American baseball player (born 1960)
Susanna Hoffs
1959
American musician (born 1959)
Tony Kouzarides
1958
Steve Harvey
1957
American comedian and television host (born 1957)
Ann Nocenti
1957
American journalist, comic book writer and editor
Damian Green
1956
British politician (born 1956)
Paul Young
1956
English musician (born 1956)
Steve Earle
1955
American country, rock, and folk singer-songwriter (born 1955)
Pietro Parolin
1955
Italian Catholic cardinal (born 1955)
Steve Javie
1955
American basketball referee (born 1955)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
1954
American politician (born 1954)
Jeff Berlin
1953
American jazz fusion bassist (born 1953)
Carlos Johnson (blues musician)
1953
American blues guitarist and singer (born 1948)
Tom Deitz
1952
American writer (1952–2009)
Darrell Porter
1952
American baseball player (1952–2002)
Ryuichi Sakamoto
1952
Japanese composer (1952–2023)
Luis López Nieves
1950
Puerto Rican writer
Anita Borg
1949
American computer scientist
Gyude Bryant
1949
Head of state of Liberia from 2003 to 2006
Augustin Dumay
1949
French violinist and conductor
Andy Kaufman
1949
American entertainer (1949–1984)
Mick Taylor
1949
British guitarist, former member of the Rolling Stones (born 1949)
Davíð Oddsson
1948
Icelandic politician (1948–2026)
Joanna David
1947
British actress (born 1947)
Jane Elliot
1947
American actress (born 1947)
Javed Akhtar
1945
Indian poet and lyricist (born 1945)
Anne Cutler
1945
Australian psycholinguist and educator (1945–2022)
Ann Oakley
1944
British sociologist, feminist, and writer
Chris Montez
1943
American guitarist and vocalist (born 1943)
René Préval
1943
President of Haiti (1996–2001, 2006–2011)
Muhammad Ali
1942
American boxer and activist (1942–2016)
Ita Buttrose
1942
Australian television and radio personality (born 1942)
Ulf Hoelscher
1942
German violinist
Nigel McCulloch
1942
Anglican bishop
István Horthy Jr.
1941
Hungarian physicist and architect (born 1941)
Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni
1940
Head of the Armenian Catholic Church from 1999 to 2015
Kipchoge Keino
1940
Kenyan athlete
Tabaré Vázquez
1940
President of Uruguay (2005–2010; 2015–2020)
Christodoulos of Athens
1939
Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (1939–2008)
Maury Povich
1939
American television personality (born 1939)
John Bellairs
1938
American fantasy novelist (1938–1991)
Toini Gustafsson
1938
Swedish cross-country skier
Alain Badiou
1937
French philosopher (born 1937)
John Boyd (diplomat)
1936
British ambassador and academic administrator (1936–2019)
A. Thangathurai
1936
20th-century Sri Lankan Tamil politician and lawyer
Ruth Ann Minner
1935
American politician and businesswoman (1935–2021)
Donald Cammell
1934
British film director (1934–1996)
Dalida
1933
Italian-French singer and actress (1933–1987)
Sadruddin Aga Khan
1933
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1933–2003)
Shari Lewis
1933
American ventriloquist and puppeteer (1933–1998)
John Cater
1932
English actor (1932–2009)
Sheree North
1932
American actress, dancer, and singer (1932–2005)
James Earl Jones
1931
American actor (1931–2024)
Douglas Wilder
1931
American politician (born 1931)
Don Zimmer
1931
American baseball player and manager (1931–2014)
Philip Latham
1929
English actor (1929–2020)
Jacques Plante
1929
Canadian ice hockey player (1929–1986)
Tan Boon Teik
1929
Singaporean judge (1929–2012)
Jean Barraqué
1928
French composer, musicologist, and lecturer (1928–1973)
Vidal Sassoon
1928
British hairstylist (1928–2012)
Thomas Anthony Dooley III
1927
American physician (1927–1961)
Eartha Kitt
1927
American singer and actress (1927–2008)
Harlan Mathews
1927
American politician
E. W. Swackhamer
1927
American film director (1927–1994)
Newton N. Minow
1926
American attorney (1926–2023)
Moira Shearer
1926
Scottish ballerina and actress (1926–2006)
Clyde Walcott
1926
West Indian Test cricketer
Gunnar Birkerts
1925
American architect
Robert Cormier
1925
American writer and journalist (1925–2000)
Abdul Hafeez Kardar
1925
Pakistani cricketer and politician
Rik De Saedeleer
1924
Belgian footballer, columnist, and television sports commentator
Jewel Plummer Cobb
1924
American university president (1924–2017)
Rangeya Raghav
1923
Luis Echeverría
1922
President of Mexico from 1970 to 1976
Nicholas Katzenbach
1922
American lawyer (1922–2012)
Betty White
1922
American actress and comedian (1922–2021)
Jackie Henderson
1921
Scottish footballer
Asghar Khan
1921
First native Pakistani Air Chief (1921-2018)
Charlie Mitten
1921
English footballer (1921–2002)
Antonio Prohías
1921
Cuban cartoonist
Georges Pichard
1920
French comics artist
Keith Joseph
1918
British Conservative politician (1918–1994)
George M. Leader
1918
American politician
M. G. Ramachandran
1917
Indian actor and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1917–1987)
Peter Frelinghuysen Jr.
1916
American politician and attorney (1916–2011)
Anacleto Angelini
1914
Irving Brecher
1914
American film director (1914–2008)
Howard Marion-Crawford
1914
English actor (1914–1969)
Paul Royle
1914
Australian airman
William Stafford (poet)
1914
American poet
Busher Jackson
1911
Canadian ice hockey player (1911-1966)
John S. McCain Jr.
1911
United States Navy admiral (1911–1981)
George Stigler
1911
American economist and Nobel Laureate (1911–1991)
Cus D'Amato
1908
American boxing trainer (1908–1985)
Henk Badings
1907
Dutch composer
Alfred Wainwright
1907
English walker and writer (1907–1991)
Ray Cunningham
1905
American baseball player (1905–2005)
Peggy Gilbert
1905
American jazz musician and bandleader (1905–2007)
Eduard Oja
1905
Estonian composer and conductor
Guillermo Stábile
1905
Argentine footballer (1905–1966)
Jan Zahradníček
1905
Moravian (Czech) poet, journalist and translator
Hem Vejakorn
1904
Thai artist and writer (1904–1969)
Aron Gurwitsch
1901
Lithuanian American phenomenologist (1901–1973)
1800s
Al Capone
1899
American gangster and businessman (1899–1947)
Robert Maynard Hutchins
1899
American philosopher (1899–1977)
Nevil Shute
1899
English novelist (1899–1960)
Lela Mevorah
1898
Serbian librarian (1898–1972)
Marcel Petiot
1897
French serial killer (1897-1946)
Babu Gulabrai
1888
Indian writer (1888–1963)
Ola Raknes
1887
Norwegian psychologist
Glenn L. Martin
1886
American aviation pioneer (1886–1955)
Compton Mackenzie
1883
Scottish writer (1883–1972)
Noah Beery
1882
American actor (1882–1946)
Antoni Łomnicki
1881
Polish mathematician
Harry Price
1881
English psychic researcher (1881–1948)
Mack Sennett
1880
Canadian-American film producer (1880–1960)
Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková
1877
Czech botanist and zoologist (1877-1937)
May Gibbs
1877
Australian artist, writer (1877–1969)
Frank Hague
1876
Mayor of Jersey City from 1917 to 1947
Florencio Sánchez
1875
Uruguayan playwright, journalist and political figure (1875–1910)
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
1871
Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (1871–1936)
Nicolae Iorga
1871
Romanian politician (1871–1940)
Carl Laemmle
1867
German-American film producer (1867–1939)
Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet
1867
British intelligence officer and sportsman
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet
1865
British Army general and Governor General of New Zealand
David Lloyd George
1863
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922
Konstantin Stanislavski
1863
Russian actor and theatre director (1863–1938)
Douglas Hyde
1860
President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945
Tomás Carrasquilla
1858
Colombian writer (1858–1940)
Wilhelm Kienzl
1857
Austrian composer (1857–1941)
Eugene Augustin Lauste
1857
French inventor
Alva Belmont
1853
American suffragist (1853–1933)
T. Alexander Harrison
1853
American painter (1853–1930)
A. B. Frost
1851
American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer
Joaquim Cavalcanti
1850
Brazilian Catholic cardinal
Alexander Taneyev
1850
Russian composer (1850–1918)
August Weismann
1834
German evolutionary biologist (1834–1914)
Henry Martyn Baird
1832
American historian and educator
Lewis A. Grant
1828
American soldier (1828–1918)
Ede Reményi
1828
Hungarian violinist and composer
Anne Brontë
1820
English novelist and poet (1820–1849)
Ellen Wood (author)
1814
English novelist (1814–1887)
Before 1800
Antonio José Martínez
1793
New Mexican priest, educator, publisher, rancher, farmer, community leader, and politician
August Neander
1789
German theologian and church historian (1789–1850)
Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet
1761
Scottish geologist and geophysicist
François-Joseph Gossec
1734
French composer and conductor (1734–1829)
Stanisław August Poniatowski
1732
Ruler of Poland–Lithuania from 1764 to 1795
Johann Gottfried Müthel
1728
German composer, organist and harpsichordist (1728 - 1788)
William Vernon
1719
18th century American slave trader & merchant (1719-1806)
John Stanley (composer)
1712
English composer and organist (1712–1786)
Benjamin Franklin
1706
American Founding Father and polymath (1706–1790)
Melchor de Navarrete
1693
Spanish soldier and administrator
Archibald Bower
1686
Scottish historian
Antonio Maria Valsalva
1666
Italian anatomist
Antonio Veracini
1659
Italian composer
Jonathan Singletary Dunham
1640
American settler (1640–1724)
Thomas Fairfax
1612
English army officer and politician (1612–1671)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
1600
Spanish playwright, poet, and writer (1600-1681)
William Backhouse
1593
English philosopher
Robert Fludd
1574
English mathematician and astrologer (1574–1637)
Gaspard Bauhin
1560
Swiss botanist (1560–1624)
Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk
1517
English nobleman
Pope Pius V
1504
Head of the Catholic Church from 1566 to 1572
Leonhart Fuchs
1501
German physician and botanist (1501–1566)
George Spalatin
1484
German humanist and theologian
Guidobaldo da Montefeltro
1472
Italian condottiero
Frederick III, Elector of Saxony
1463
Elector of Saxony from 1486 to 1525
Antoine Duprat
1463
Catholic cardinal
Antonio del Pollaiuolo
1429
Italian painter, sculptor, and engraver (d. 1498)
Philip the Bold
1342
Duke of Burgundy from 1363 to 1404