Famous People Born on July 17
Famous people born on July 17 include Angela Merkel (1954), Donald Sutherland (1935) and Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888).
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Donald Sutherland
Canadian actor (1935–2024)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Israeli writer and Nobel laureate
James Cagney
American actor and dancer (1899–1986)
Queen Camilla
Queen of the United Kingdom since 2022
Ismail I
Shah of Safavid Iran from 1501 to 1524
Georges Lemaître
Belgian scientist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
António Costa
President of the European Council since 2024
Kenan Evren
7th President of Turkey from 1982 to 1989
Letsie III
King of Lesotho (1990–1995; since 1996)
Juan Antonio Samaranch
President of the IOC from 1980 to 2001
Phyllis Diller
American comedian and actress (1917–2012)
David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer, and television personality (born 1952)
Elbridge Gerry
Founding Father, U.S. vice president (1813–1814)
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters (1698–1759)
Wong Kar-wai
Hong Kong filmmaker (born 1958)
DIED ON THIS DAY
Adam Smith
Economist, author of The Wealth of Nations
Billie Holiday
Strange Fruit, jazz vocal legend
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Mimar Sinan
16th-century Ottoman chief architect and civil engineer
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
Peter III of Russia
Emperor of Russia in 1762
Edward Heath
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974
Juan Manuel Fangio
Argentine racing driver (1911–1995)
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist (1926–1967)
Felix Baumgartner
Austrian skydiver and extreme sportsman (1969–2025)
Leconte de Lisle
French poet (1818–1894)
Walter Cronkite
American broadcast journalist (1916–2009)
Charlotte Corday
French assassin (1768–1793)
Sources
- July 17 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Angela Merkel — Wikipedia
- Adam Smith — Wikipedia
- Billie Holiday — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths