History Births on April 17

Neville McNamara, Australian air marshal (d. 2014)

#Neville_McNamara

Yuichi Nishimura, Japanese footballer and referee

#Yuichi_Nishimura

Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian-German engineer and businessman

#Ferdinand_Piëch

Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model

#Luke_Mitchell

Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer (d. 1983)

#Edouard_Wyss-Dunant

Margot Honecker, East German politician and First Lady (d. 2016)

#Margot_Honecker

Pekka Vasala, Finnish runner

#Pekka_Vasala

Don Kirshner, American songwriter and producer (d. 2011)

#Don_Kirshner

Rooney Mara, American actress

#Rooney_Mara

Morgan Taylor, American hurdler and coach (d. 1975)

#Morgan_Taylor

Samuel Chase, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1811)

#Samuel_Chase

Sean Bean, English actor

#Sean_Bean

Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)

#Frederick_I_of_Sweden

Solly Hemus, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2017)

#Solly_Hemus

Buster Williams, American jazz bassist

#Buster_Williams

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player

#Jo-Wilfried_Tsonga

Heidi Alexander, English politician

#Heidi_Alexander

Ken Daneyko, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

#Ken_Daneyko

Liz Phair, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

#Liz_Phair

Lela Rochon, American actress

#Lela_Rochon

Thomas Hazlehurst, English architect and philanthropist (d. 1876)

#Thomas_Hazlehurst_(chapel_builder)

Jed Lowrie, American baseball player

#Jed_Lowrie

Hervé Bazin, French author and poet (d. 1996)

#Hervé_Bazin

Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (d. 1927)

#Ernest_Starling

Clare Francis, English sailor and author

#Clare_Francis

Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1900)

#Jean-Baptiste_Accolay

Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (d. 1975)

#Thornton_Wilder

Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion designer

#Victoria_Beckham

Marta Eggerth, Jewish-Hungarian-American actress and singer (d. 2013)

#Marta_Eggerth

Maurice Wignall, Jamaican hurdler and long jumper

#Maurice_Wignall

Jenny Meadows, English runner

#Jenny_Meadows

Eric Lamaze, Canadian jockey

#Eric_Lamaze

Señor Wences, Spanish-American ventriloquist (d. 1999)

#Señor_Wences

Frederik Magle, Danish composer, organist, and pianist

#Frederik_Magle

Edward Stillingfleet, British theologian and scholar (d. 1699)

#Edward_Stillingfleet

Jason White, Scottish rugby player

#Jason_White_(rugby_union)

Agostino Vallini, Italian cardinal and vicar general of Rome

#Agostino_Vallini

Maynard James Keenan, American singer-songwriter and producer

#Maynard_James_Keenan

Chris Barber, English trombonist and bandleader

#Chris_Barber

Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador, conquered northern Chile (d. 1553)

#Pedro_de_Valdivia

William R. Day, American jurist and politician, 36th United States Secretary of State (d. 1923)

#William_R._Day

Barnaby Joyce, Australian politician, 17th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

#Barnaby_Joyce

Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, Scottish politician (d. 1767)

#Henry_Erskine,_10th_Earl_of_Buchan

Joe Foss, American general and politician, 20th Governor of South Dakota (d. 2003)

#Joe_Foss

Marquis Grissom, American baseball player and coach

#Marquis_Grissom

Gregor Piatigorsky, Ukrainian-American cellist and educator (d. 1976)

#Gregor_Piatigorsky

Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian commander (d. 1805)

#Dheeran_Chinnamalai

Josif Pan?i?, Serbian botanist and academic (d. 1888)

#Josif_Pan?i?

Billy Fury, English singer-songwriter (d. 1983)

#Billy_Fury

Stanislav Chistov, Russian ice hockey player

#Stanislav_Chistov

Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2012)

#Chavela_Vargas

Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach (d. 1958)

#Aleksander_Klumberg

Phil Jamieson, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

#Phil_Jamieson

Ian Jones, New Zealand rugby player

#Ian_Jones_(rugby_union)

Redman, American rapper, producer, and actor

#Redman_(rapper)

Edmonde Charles-Roux, French journalist and author (d. 2016)

#Edmonde_Charles-Roux

Nick Hornby, English novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter

#Nick_Hornby

Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress

#Lorna_Fitzgerald

Harry Reasoner, American soldier and journalist (d. 1991)

#Harry_Reasoner

Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter and inventor of baseball (d. 1892)

#Alexander_Cartwright

Joan Lorring, British actress (d. 2014)

#Joan_Lorring

John Ford, English poet and playwright (d. 1639)

#John_Ford_(dramatist)

Vikram, Indian actor and singer

#Vikram_(actor)

Paul Nicholls, English jockey and trainer

#Paul_Nicholls_(horse_racing)

Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian priest and astronomer (d. 1671)

#Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli

Martin Clemens, Scottish soldier (d. 2009)

#Martin_Clemens

Lester Rodney, American soldier and journalist (d. 2009)

#Lester_Rodney

Claire Sweeney, English actress

#Claire_Sweeney

James Last, German-American bassist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2015)

#James_Last

Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player

#Andrea_Marcato

Ryan Raburn, American baseball player

#Ryan_Raburn

Raffaele Palladino, Italian footballer

#Raffaele_Palladino

Rachel Notley, Canadian politician

#Rachel_Notley

Boomer Esiason, American football player and sportscaster

#Boomer_Esiason

Jan Hammer, Czech pianist, composer, and producer

#Jan_Hammer

Afrika Bambaataa, American disc jockey

#Afrika_Bambaataa

Kimberly Elise, American actress

#Kimberly_Elise

Chad Hedrick, American speed skater

#Chad_Hedrick

Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940)

#Augustus_Edward_Hough_Love

Ben Barnes, American businessman and politician, 36th Lieutenant Governor of Texas

#Ben_Barnes_(politician)

Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian philosopher and educator (d. 1981)

#Nisargadatta_Maharaj

Donald Richie, American-Japanese author and critic (d. 2013)

#Donald_Richie

Taksin, King of Thailand (d. 1782)

#Taksin

Helenio Herrera, French footballer and manager (d. 1997)

#Helenio_Herrera

Johann David Heinichen, German composer and theorist (d. 1729)

#Johann_David_Heinichen

Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper

#Paraskevi_Papachristou

Artur Schnabel, Jewish-Polish pianist and composer (d. 1951)

#Artur_Schnabel

Louis Jean Heydt, American journalist and actor (d. 1960)

#Louis_Jean_Heydt

Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer, German skier

#Monika_Bergmann-Schmuderer

Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter

#Takahiro_Moriuchi

Malcolm Browne, American journalist and photographer (d. 2012)

#Malcolm_Browne

Maurice Rouvier, French businessman and politician, 53rd Prime Minister of France (d. 1911)

#Maurice_Rouvier

Win Maung, 3rd President of Union of Myanmar (d. 1989)

#Win_Maung

Michael IX Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1320)

#Michael_IX_Palaiologos

Chuck Kobasew, Canadian ice hockey player

#Chuck_Kobasew

J. P. Morgan, American banker and financier, founded J.P. Morgan & Co. (d. 1913)

#J._P._Morgan

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer (d. 1868)

#Carl_Friedrich_Philipp_von_Martius

John McCririck, English journalist

#John_McCririck

Marija Šestak, Serbian-Slovenian triple jumper

#Marija_Šestak

Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

#Mikael_Åkerfeldt

Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer-songwriter

#Hanna_Pakarinen

Pete Shelley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018)

#Pete_Shelley

Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer

#Lachlan_Maranta

Arthur Lake, American actor (d. 1987)

#Arthur_Lake_(actor)

Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter

#Avi_Kaplan

Theo Ratliff, American basketball player

#Theo_Ratliff

Jennifer Garner, American actress

#Jennifer_Garner

Riccardo Patrese, Italian race car driver

#Riccardo_Patrese

Börje Salming, Swedish ice hockey player and businessman

#Börje_Salming

Romain Grosjean, French race car driver

#Romain_Grosjean

Travis Roy, American ice hockey player

#Travis_Roy

Lagle Parek, Estonian architect and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior

#Lagle_Parek

Sirimavo Bandaranaike , Prime Minister of Sri Lanka , world's first female prime minister (d.2000)

#Sirimavo_Bandaranaike

Alain Poher, French politician, President of France (d. 1996)

#Alain_Poher

Gary Bennett, American baseball player

#Gary_Bennett_(baseball)

Olivia Hussey, Argentinian-English actress

#Olivia_Hussey

A. Thiagarajah, Sri Lankan educator and politician (d. 1981)

#A._Thiagarajah

Fabián Vargas, Colombian footballer

#Fabián_Vargas

Ursula Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (d. 1939)

#Ursula_Ledóchowska

Guido Panciroli (d. 1599), Italian historian and jurist

#Guido_Panciroli

Eric Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player

#Eric_Brewer

Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1651)

#Maximilian_I,_Elector_of_Bavaria

François de Neufchâteau, French academic and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 1828)

#François_de_Neufchâteau

Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer

#Muttiah_Muralitharan

Brad Boyes, Canadian ice hockey player

#Brad_Boyes

Sherrie Levine, American photographer

#Sherrie_Levine

Marguerite Bourgeoys, French-Canadian nun and saint, founded the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal (d. 1700)

#Marguerite_Bourgeoys

Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (d. 1941)

#Aleksander_Tõnisson

Cap Anson, American baseball player and manager (d. 1922)

#Cap_Anson

Anja Silja, German soprano and actress

#Anja_Silja

Ronald H. Miller, American theologian, author, and academic (d. 2011)

#Ronald_H._Miller

Sidney Garfield, American physician, co-founded Kaiser Permanente (d. 1984)

#Sidney_Garfield

William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)

#William_Holden

Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice (d. 1538)

#Andrea_Gritti

Roddy Piper, Canadian professional wrestler and actor (d. 2015)

#Roddy_Piper

Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer

Pablo Sebastián Álvarez, Argentinian footballer

Roberto Jiménez, Peruvian footballer

Zhang Yaokun, Chinese footballer

Chris Thompson, English runner

Curtis Woodhouse, English footballer, boxer, and manager

Lindsay Hartley, American actress

Brett Maher, Australian basketball player and sportscaster

Katrin Koov, Estonian architect

Terran Sandwith, Canadian ice hockey player

Tony Boselli, American football player and sportscaster

Richie Woodhall, English boxer and trainer

Roger Twose, New Zealand cricketer

Phil Henderson, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)

Julie Fagerholt, Danish fashion designer

Bella Freud, English fashion designer

Norman Cowans, Jamaican-English cricketer

Frank J. Christensen, American labor union leader

Vladimir Polyakov, Russian pole vaulter

Li Meisu, Chinese shot putter

Jimmy Mann, Canadian ice hockey player

Laslo Babits, Canadian javelin thrower (d. 2013)

Frank McDonough, British historian

Julia Macur, English lawyer and judge

Teri Austin, Canadian actress

Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre, Scottish lawyer and judge

Mike Stroud, English physician and explorer

Todd Lickliter, American basketball player and coach

Michael Sembello, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

John Robertson, Scottish businessman and politician

Željko Ražnatovi?, Serbian commander (d. 2000)

John McColl, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey

Pierre Guité, Canadian ice hockey player

Joe Alaskey, American voice actor (d. 2016)

Alice Harden, American educator and politician (d. 2012)

Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player, coach, and manager

Richard Field, English lawyer and judge

Nigel Emslie, Lord Emslie, Scottish lawyer and judge

Richard Allen Epstein, American lawyer, author, and academic

Chuck Menville, American animator and screenwriter (d. 1992)

Eric Dancer, English businessman and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Devon

Robert Miller, American art dealer (d. 2011)

Kerry Wendell Thornley, American theorist and author (d. 1988)

Doug Lewis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 41st Canadian Minister of Justice

Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian and academic (d. 2012)

Bud Paxson, American broadcaster, founded Home Shopping Network and Pax TV (d. 2015)

Peter Morris, Australian-English surgeon and academic

John Barrett, English tennis player and sportscaster

Fabien Roy, Canadian accountant and politician

Heinz Putzl, Austrian fencer

Cynthia Ozick, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist

Victor Lownes, American businessman (d. 2017)

Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2004)

René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (d. 1989)

Kenneth Norman Jones, Australian public servant

Gianni Raimondi, Italian lyric tenor (d. 2008)

Lindsay Anderson, English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994)

Gilles Lamontagne, Canadian lieutenant and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2016)

Regina Ghazaryan, Armenian painter (d. 1999)

Mac Raboy, American illustrator (d. 1967)

George Davis, American art director (d. 1984)

Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter and producer (d. 1999)

Evangelos Averoff, Greek historian and politician, Greek Minister of Defence (d. 1990)

Nicolas Nabokov, Russian-American composer and educator (d. 1978)

Robert Dean Frisbie, American soldier and author (d. 1948)

George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (d. 1965)

Herms Niel, German soldier, trombonist, and composer (d. 1954)

Henri Tauzin, French hurdler (d. 1918)

Demetrios Petrokokkinos, Greek tennis player (d. 1942)

Emil Fuchs, German-American lawyer and businessman (d. 1961)

Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (d. 1949)

Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (d. 1840)

Collin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant, and politician (d. 1861)

Pope Evaristus (d. 107)