Famous People Born on August 17
Famous people born on August 17 include Robert De Niro (1943), Herta Müller (1953) and Mae West (1893).
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Robert De Niro
American actor (born 1943)
Herta Müller
German writer and Nobel Prize recipient (born 1953)
Mae West
American actress and singer (1893–1980)
V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian writer (1932–2018)
Thierry Henry
French footballer (born 1977)
Jiang Zemin
Leader of China from 1989 to 2002
Sean Penn
American actor and filmmaker (born 1960)
John III Sobieski
Ruler of Poland–Lithuania from 1674 to 1696
Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess grandmaster (1911–1995)
Larry Ellison
American businessman (born 1944)
Charles I of Austria
Habsburg monarch from 1916 to 1918
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican activist and orator (1887–1940)
Nelson Piquet
Brazilian racing driver (born 1952)
Maureen O'Hara
Irish and American actress and singer (1920–2015)
Tarja Turunen
Finnish musician (born 1977)
DIED ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
José de San Martín
Argentine general and leader (1778–1850)
Otto Stern
German–American physicist (1888–1969)
Rudolf Hess
German Nazi politician (1894–1987)
Francesco Cossiga
President of Italy from 1985 to 1992
Radoje Domanović
Serbian journalist, writer and teacher (1873–1908)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Italian librettist, professor, and Roman Catholic priest (1749–1838)
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
German novelist (1621/2–1676)
Terence Stamp
English actor (1938–2025)
Matthew Boulton
English industrialist (1728–1809)
Sources
- August 17 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Frederick the Great — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths