Famous People Born on April 17
Famous people born on April 17 include Victoria Beckham (1974), Karen Blixen (1885) and Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916).
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Victoria Beckham
English fashion designer and singer (born 1974)
Karen Blixen
Danish writer (1885–1962)
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1916–2000)
Jennifer Garner
American actress (born 1972)
J. P. Morgan
American financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913)
William Holden
American actor (1918–1981)
Sean Bean
British actor (born 1959)
Thornton Wilder
American playwright and novelist (1897–1975)
Rooney Mara
American actress (born 1985)
Joe Alaskey
American actor (1952–2016)
Olivia Hussey
British actress (1951–2024)
Romain Grosjean
French and Swiss racing driver (born 1986)
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
French tennis player (born 1985)
Alain Poher
French politician (1909–1996)
Pedro de Valdivia
Spanish conquistador (1497–1553)
DIED ON THIS DAY
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father, electricity experiments
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
President of India from 1962 to 1967
Turgut Özal
President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993
Barbara Bush
First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993
Alan García
President of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011)
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican Catholic nun, philosopher, composer and poet (1648–1695)
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1705 to 1711
Henrik Dam
Danish biochemist and physiologist (1895–1976)
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné
French aristocrat (1626–1696)
Proclus
5th-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
Chaim Herzog
President of Israel from 1983 to 1993
Sources
- April 17 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Benjamin Franklin — Wikipedia
- Gabriel García Márquez — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths