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August 17 in History
Famous Birthdays on August 17
1153
William IX, Count of Poitiers
1465
Philibert I, Duke of Savoy
1473
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York
1501
Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
1556
Alexander Briant
1578
Francesco Albani
1578
Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
1582
John Matthew Rispoli
1586
Johann Valentin Andrea
1607
Pierre de Fermat
1603
Lennart Torstensson
1612
Jeremi Wiśniowiecki
1629
John III Sobieski
1686
Nicola Porpora
1753
Josef Dobrovský
1768
Louis Desaix
1786
Davy Crockett
1786
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
1828
Jules Bernard Luys
1840
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
1849
William Kidston
1863
Gene Stratton-Porter
1865
Julia Marlowe
1866
Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI
1873
John A. Sampson
1877
Ralph McKittrick
1878
Reggie Duff
1880
Percy Sherwell
1887
Charles I of Austria
1887
Marcus Garvey
1888
Monty Woolley
1890
Stefan Bastyr
1890
Harry Hopkins
1893
John Brahm
1893
Mae West
1894
William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes
1896
Leslie Groves
1896
Tõnis Kint
1896
Oliver Waterman Larkin
1900
Vivienne de Watteville
1900
Pauline A. Young
1904
Mary Cain (editor)
1904
Leopold Nowak
1909
Larry Clinton
1909
Wilf Copping
1911
Mikhail Botvinnik
1911
Martin Sandberger
1913
Mark Felt
1913
Oscar Alfredo Gálvez
1913
Rudy York
1914
Bill Downs
1914
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.
1916
Moses Majekodunmi
1918
Evelyn Ankers
1918
Ike Quebec
1918
Michael John Wise
1919
Georgia Gibbs
1920
Maureen O'Hara
1920
Lida Moser
1921
Geoffrey Elton
1922
Roy Tattersall
1923
Larry Rivers
1924
Evan S. Connell
1926
Valerie Eliot
1926
Jiang Zemin
1927
Sam Butera
1927
F. Ray Keyser Jr.
1928
T. J. Anderson
1928
Willem Duys
1929
Francis Gary Powers
1930
Harve Bennett
1930
Ted Hughes
1931
Tony Wrigley
1932
V. S. Naipaul
1932
Duke Pearson
1932
Jean-Jacques Sempé
1933
Mark Dinning
1934
João Donato
1934
Ron Henry
1936
Seamus Mallon
1936
Margaret Heafield Hamilton
1938
Theodoros Pangalos (politician)
1939
Luther Allison
1940
Eduardo Mignogna
1940
Barry Sheerman
1941
Lothar Bisky
1941
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
1942
Shane Porteous
1943
Edward Cowie
1943
Robert De Niro
1943
John Humphrys
1943
Dave "Snaker" Ray
1944
Larry Ellison
1944
Jean-Bernard Pommier
1945
Rachel Pollack
1946
Hugh Baiocchi
1946
Martha Coolidge
1946
Patrick Manning
1947
Mohamed Abdelaziz (Sahrawi politician)
1947
Gary Talley
1948
Alexander Ivashkin
1949
Norm Coleman
1949
Sue Draheim
1949
Julian Fellowes
1949
Sib Hashian
1951
Richard Hunt (puppeteer)
1952
Aleksandr Maksimenkov
1952
Nelson Piquet
1952
Mario Theissen
1952
Guillermo Vilas
1953
Mick Malthouse
1953
Herta Müller
1953
Korrie Layun Rampan
1953
Kevin Rowland
1954
Eric Johnson
1954
Andrés Pastrana Arango
1955
Colin Moulding
1956
Gail Berman
1956
Álvaro Pino
1957
Ken Kwapis
1957
Laurence Overmire
1957
Robin Cousins
1958
Belinda Carlisle
1958
Fred Goodwin
1958
Maurizio Sandro Sala
1959
Jonathan Franzen
1959
Jacek Kazimierski
1959
Eric Schlosser
1960
Stephan Eicher
1960
Sean Penn
1962
Gilby Clarke
1962
Dan Dakich
1963
Jon Gruden
1964
Colin James
1964
Maria McKee
1964
Dave Penney
1965
Steve Gorman
1965
Dottie Pepper
1966
Jüri Luik
1966
Rodney Mullen
1966
Don Sweeney
1968
Andriy Kuzmenko
1968
Ed McCaffrey
1968
Helen McCrory
1969
Christian Laettner
1969
Donnie Wahlberg
1969
Kelvin Mercer
1970
Jim Courier
1970
Andrus Kivirähk
1970
Øyvind Leonhardsen
1971
Uhm Jung-hwa
1971
Jorge Posada
1971
Shaun Rehn
1972
Habibul Bashar
1974
Johannes Maria Staud
1976
Eric Boulton
1976
Geertjan Lassche
1976
Serhiy Zakarlyuka
1977
Nathan Deakes
1977
William Gallas
1977
Thierry Henry
1977
Mike Lewis (musician)
1977
Tarja Turunen
1979
Antwaan Randle El
1980
Keith Dabengwa
1980
Daniel Güiza
1980
Jan Kromkamp
1980
Lene Marlin
1982
Phil Jagielka
1982
Cheerleader Melissa
1983
Dustin Pedroia
1984
Dee Brown (basketball, born 1984)
1984
Oksana Domnina
1984
Garrett Wolfe
1985
Yu Aoi
1986
Rudy Gay
1986
Tyrus Thomas
1988
Natalie Sandtorv
1988
Jihadi John
1988
Erika Toda
1992
Alex Elisala
1992
Chanel Mata'utia
1992
Paige (wrestler)
1993
Sarah Sjöström
1995
Gracie Gold
1995
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak
1996
Jake Virtanen
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