Famous People Born on October 17
Famous people born on October 17 include Eminem (1972), Pope John Paul I (1912) and Arthur Miller (1915).
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Pope John Paul I
Head of the Catholic Church in 1978
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
Rita Hayworth
American actress and dancer (1918–1987)
Kimi Räikkönen
Finnish racing driver (born 1979)
Georg Büchner
German dramatist (1813–1837)
Montgomery Clift
American actor (1920–1966)
Mae Jemison
American astronaut, doctor and engineer (born 1956)
Felicity Jones
British actress (born 1983)
Tarkan
Turkish singer-songwriter (born 1972)
Zhao Ziyang
Chinese politician (1919–2005)
Marsha Hunt
American actress (1917–2022)
George Wendt
American actor (1948–2025)
Syed Ahmad Khan
Indian reformer and social activist (1817–1898)
Margot Kidder
Canadian and American actress and activist (1948–2018)
Richard Mentor Johnson
Vice President of the United States from 1837 to 1841
DIED ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist and mathematician (1824–1887)
Puyi
Emperor of China (1908–1912) and of Manchukuo (1934–1945)
Pope Boniface II
Head of the Catholic Church from 530 to 532
Patrice de MacMahon
President of France from 1873 to 1879
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Russian writer and philosopher (1828–1889)
Karl Kautsky
Austro-German Marxist theorist (1854–1938)
Raymond Aron
French philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientist (1905–1983)
Philip Sidney
English poet, courtier, and diplomat (1554–1586)
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Haitian revolutionary and first ruler (1758–1806)
Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian poet and author (1926–1973)
Sources
- October 17 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Eminem — Wikipedia
- Frédéric Chopin — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths