August 17
From the Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can change
[change] Births
- 1473 - Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483?)
- 1601 - Pierre de Fermat, mathematician
- 1629 - John III of Poland (d. 1696)
- 1786 - Davy Crockett, frontiersman, soldier (d. 1836)
- 1866 - Julia Marlowe, nee Sarah Frost, Shakespearean actress (d. 1950)
- 1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
- 1887 - Marcus Garvey, American black leader (d. 1940)
- 1887 - Emperor Karl of Austria (d. 1922)
- 1893 - Mae West, actress, playwright (d. 1980)
- 1904 - Leopold Nowak, musicologist
- 1911 - Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion (d. 1995)
- 1913 - Rudy York, Major League Baseball All-Star (d. 1970)
- 1920 - Maureen O'Hara, actress
- 1929 - Francis Gary Powers, U-2 pilot (d. 1977)
- 1929 - Jiang Zemin, President of the People's Republic of China
- 1930 - Glenn Corbett, actor (d. 1993)
- 1930 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
- 1932 - V. S. Naipaul, writer
- 1939 - Luther Allison, blues musician, guitarist
- 1943 - Robert De Niro, actor
- 1951 - Alan Minter, boxer
- 1958 - Belinda Carlisle, singer, guitarist
- 1958 - Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player
- 1959 - David Koresh, cult leader (d. 1993)
- 1960 - Sean Penn, actor, director
- 1964 - Colin James, blues musician
- 1966 - Rodney Mullen, Skateboarder
- 1968 - Ed McCaffrey, American football player
- 1969 - Donnie Wahlberg, actor, singer
- 1970 - Jim Courier, former tennis champion
- 1971 - Jorge Posada, Major League Baseball All-Star
- 1974 - Tomomi Kahala, Japanese singer
- 1977 - William Gallas, French football star
- 1977 - Thierry Henry, French football star
- 1977 - Tarja Turunen, leadsinger Nightwish
- 1989 - Kevin Leung, honourary member of the Order of Canada
