Famous People Born on February 17
Famous people born on February 17 include Michael Jordan (1963), Paris Hilton (1981) and Mo Yan (1955).
BORN ON THIS DAY
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Paris Hilton
American media personality (born 1981)
Mo Yan
Chinese author (born 1955)
Ed Sheeran
English singer-songwriter (born 1991)
Hal Holbrook
American actor (1925–2021)
Otto Stern
German–American physicist (1888–1969)
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Spanish poet and writer (1836–1870)
Wu Zetian
Empress of China from 690 to 705
Billie Joe Armstrong
American rock musician and songwriter (born 1972)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
American actor (born 1981)
Arcangelo Corelli
Italian violinist and composer (1653–1713)
Ronald Fisher
British polymath (1890–1962)
Michael Bay
American filmmaker (born 1965)
Bonnie Wright
English actress and filmmaker (born 1991)
Denise Richards
American actress and model (born 1971)
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chilean and French filmmaker (born 1929)
DIED ON THIS DAY
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Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual speaker and writer (1895–1986)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Israeli writer and Nobel laureate
Geronimo
Leader of the Bedonkohe Apache (1829–1909)
Albert I of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934
Ernst Jünger
German soldier and author (1895–1998)
Jesse Jackson
American minister, activist and politician (1941–2026)
Mesrop Mashtots
Armenian theologian and linguist (362–440)
Al-Tabari
Muslim scholar, historian, and Quranic exegete (839–923)
Jovian
Roman emperor from 363 to 364
Sources
- February 17 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Michael Jordan — Wikipedia
- Molière — Wikipedia
- Heinrich Heine — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths