17 December Births
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December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 14 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).
Births
1239 – Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
1267 – Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
1554 – Ernest of Bavaria, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1612)
1556 – Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Pakistani-Indian poet (d. 1627)
1616 – Roger L'Estrange, English pamphleteer and author (d. 1704)
1619 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine (d. 1682)
1632 – Anthony Wood, English historian and author (d. 1695)
1685 – Thomas Tickell, English poet (d. 1740)
1699 – Charles-Louis Mion, French composer and educator (d. 1775)
1706 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
1734 – Maria I of Portugal (d. 1816)
1749 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer and educator (d. 1801)
1778 – Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
1796 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1865)
1797 – Joseph Henry, American physicist and engineer (d. 1878)
1807 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and activist (d. 1892)
1812 – Vilhelm Petersen, Danish painter (d. 1880)
1827 – Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (d. 1893)
1830 – Jules de Goncourt, French author and critic (d. 1870)
1835 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Swiss-American ichthyologist and engineer (d. 1910)
1840 – Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (d. 1908)
1842 – Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician and academic (d. 1899)
1847 – Émile Faguet, French author and critic (d. 1916)
1853 – Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician and immunologist, co-founded the Pasteur Institute (d. 1933)
1859 – Paul César Helleu, French painter and illustrator (d. 1927)
1866 – Kazys Grinius, Lithuanian physician and politician, 3rd President of Lithuania (d. 1950)
1873 – Ford Madox Ford, English novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1939)
1874 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
1881 – Aubrey Faulkner, South African-English cricketer and coach (d. 1930)
1887 – Josef Lada, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1957)
1890 – Prince Joachim of Prussia (d. 1920)
1892 – Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (d. 1950)
1893 – Charles C. Banks, English captain and pilot (d. 1971)
1893 – Erwin Piscator, German director and producer (d. 1966)
1894 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
1894 – Patrick Flynn, Irish-American runner and soldier (d. 1969)
1894 – Wim Schermerhorn, Dutch cartographer, engineer, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
1895 – Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis player (d. 1967)
1898 – Loren Murchison, American sprinter (d. 1979)
1900 – Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos (d. 1998)
1900 – Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)
1903 – Erskine Caldwell, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1987)
1903 – Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (d. 1978)
1904 – Paul Cadmus, American painter and illustrator (d. 1999)
1905 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish soldier and sniper (d. 2002)
1905 – Mohammad Hidayatullah, 11th Chief Justice of India, and politician, 6th Vice President of India (d. 1992)
1905 – Erico Verissimo, Brazilian author and translator (d. 1975)
1906 – Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor (d. 1994)
1906 – Russell C. Newhouse, American pilot and engineer (d. 1998)
1908 – Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
1910 – Eknath Easwaran, Indian-American educator and author (d. 1999)
1910 – Sy Oliver, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (d. 1988)
1912 – Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, English captain and politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 2012)
1913 – Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (d. 1967)
1914 – Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (d. 2005)
1914 – Fernando Alonso, Cuban ballet dancer, co-founded the Cuban National Ballet (d. 2013)
1916 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (d. 2000)
1917 – Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author, and academic (d. 1983)
1920 – Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist, developed the APL programming language (d. 2004)
1921 – Lore Berger, German-Swiss author and translator (d. 1943)
1922 – Alan Voorhees, American engineer and academic (d. 2005)
1923 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar (d. 2006)
1926 – Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1926 – John Hans Krebs, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1926 – Stephen Lewis, English actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 2015)
1927 – Richard Long, American actor and director (d. 1974)
1927 – Edward Meneeley, American painter and sculptor (d. 2012)
1928 – Marilyn Beck, American journalist (d. 2014)
1928 – Eli Beeding, American captain and pilot (d. 2013)
1928 – Doyle Conner, American farmer and politician, 7th Florida Commissioner of Agriculture (d. 2012)
1929 – William Safire, American journalist and author (d. 2009)
1930 – Bob Guccione, American photographer and publisher, founded Penthouse (d. 2010)
1930 – Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor and painter
1930 – Dorothy Rowe, Australian psychologist and author
1931 – Gerald Finnerman, American director and cinematographer (d. 2011)
1931 – Dave Madden, Canadian-American actor (d. 2014)
1931 – James McGaugh, American neurobiologist and psychologist
1932 – John Bond, English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1934 – Irving Petlin, American painter and academic
1934 – Ray Wilson, English footballer and manager
1935 – Brian Langford, English cricketer (d. 2013)
1935 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1999)
1936 – Pope Francis
1936 – Tommy Steele, English singer, guitarist, and actor
1937 – Brian Hayes, Australian-English radio host
1937 – Art Neville, American singer and keyboard player
1937 – Kerry Packer, Australian businessman, founded World Series Cricket (d. 2005)
1937 – John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
1937 – Calvin Waller, American general (d. 1996)
1938 – Peter Snell, New Zealand runner
1939 – James Booker, American pianist (d. 1983)
1939 – Eddie Kendricks, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
1940 – Kåre Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist (d. 2013)
1940 – María Elena Velasco, Mexican actress, singer, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1941 – Dave Dee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009)
1941 – Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2012)
1942 – Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian general and politician, 7th Head of State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
1942 – Paul Butterfield, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1987)
1943 – Ron Geesin, Scottish pianist and composer
1944 – Jack L. Chalker, American author and educator (d. 2005)
1944 – Carlo M. Croce, Italian-American oncologist and academic
1944 – Bernard Hill, English actor
1945 – Ernie Hudson, American actor
1945 – David Mallet, British director
1945 – Chris Matthews, American journalist and author
1945 – Jüri Talvet, Estonian poet and critic
1945 – Jacqueline Wilson, English author and academic
1946 – Simon Bates, English radio host
1946 – Eugene Levy, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
1947 – Wes Studi, American actor and producer
1948 – Valery Belousov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
1948 – Jim Bonfanti, American rock drummer
1948 – Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Turkish economist and politician
1949 – Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer
1949 – Paul Rodgers, English singer-songwriter and producer
1950 – Laurence F. Johnson, American educator and author
1950 – Maurice Peoples, American sprinter and coach
1951 – Pat Hill, American football player and coach
1951 – Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1951 – Tatyana Kazankina, Russian runner
1953 – Bill Pullman, American actor
1954 – Sergėjus Jovaiša, Lithuanian basketball player
1955 – Brad Davis, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1956 – Peter Farrelly, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1956 – Dominic Lawson, English journalist and author
1956 – Totka Petrova, Bulgarian runner
1957 – Wendy Hoyte, English sprinter
1957 – Bob Ojeda, American baseball player and coach
1958 – Mike Mills, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
1959 – Bob Stinson, American songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
1961 – Mansoor al-Jamri, Bahraini journalist and author
1962 – Paul Dobson, English footballer
1962 – Galina Malchugina, Russian sprinter
1962 – Rocco Mediate, American golfer and journalist
1964 – Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player and coach
1964 – Joe Wolf, American basketball player and coach
1965 – Craig Berube, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1966 – Tracy Byrd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 – Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician, 23rd Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1967 – Vincent Damphousse, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1967 – Karsten Neitzel, German footballer and manager
1968 – Claudio Suárez, Mexican footballer
1968 – Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver and sportscaster
1969 – Laurie Holden, American actress and model
1969 – Inna Lasovskaya, Russian triple jumper
1969 – Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer
1969 – Mick Quinn, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1971 – Alan Khan, South African radio and TV presenter
1971 – Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
1972 – Iván Pedroso, Cuban long jumper and coach
1973 – Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower
1973 – Rian Johnson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Paula Radcliffe, English runner
1973 – Hasan Vural, German-Turkish footballer
1974 – Charl Langeveldt, South African cricketer
1974 – Sarah Paulson, American actress
1974 – Giovanni Ribisi, American actor
1975 – Nick Dinsmore, American wrestler and trainer
1975 – Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan sprinter
1975 – Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress
1976 – Éric Bédard, Canadian speed skater and coach
1976 – Nir Davidovich, Israeli footballer and manager
1976 – Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer
1976 – Andrew Simpson, English sailor (d. 2013)
1976 – Takeo Spikes, American football player and sportscaster
1977 – Arnaud Clément, French tennis player
1977 – Samuel Påhlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1977 – Katheryn Winnick, Canadian actress
1978 – Alex Cintrón, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and sportscaster
1978 – Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician
1978 – Neil Sanderson, Canadian drummer and songwriter
1978 – Chase Utley, American baseball player
1978 – Riteish Deshmukh, Indian film actor, producer and architect
1979 – Matt Murley, American ice hockey player
1979 – Paul Smith, English footballer
1980 – Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver
1980 – Alexandra Papageorgiou, Greek hammer thrower
1980 – Eli Pariser, American activist and author, co-founded Avaaz.org
1981 – Jerry Hsu, American skateboarder and photographer
1981 – Tim Wiese, German footballer
1982 – Josh Barfield, American baseball player
1982 – Lorenzo Cittadini, Italian rugby player
1982 – Craig Kielburger, Canadian activist and author, co-founded Free the Children and Me to We
1982 – Stéphane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player
1982 – Ryan Moats, American football player
1982 – Onur Özsu, Turkish singer-songwriter
1983 – Erik Christensen, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – Haron Keitany, Kenyan runner
1984 – Luis Maria Alfageme, Argentinian footballer
1984 – Julian Bennett, English footballer
1984 – Andrew Davies, English footballer
1984 – Mikky Ekko, American singer-songwriter and producer
1984 – Shannon Woodward, American actress
1985 – Łukasz Broź, Polish footballer
1985 – Craig Reid, English footballer
1985 – Greg James, English radio presenter and comedian
1986 – Emma Bell, American actress
1986 – Frank Winterstein, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
1987 – Bo Guagua, Chinese businessman
1987 – Chelsea Manning, American soldier and intelligence analyst
1988 – Liisa Ehrberg, Estonian cyclist
1988 – Grethe Grünberg, Estonian ice dancer
1988 – Kris Joseph, Canadian basketball player
1988 – David Rudisha, Kenyan runner
1988 – Craig Sutherland, Scottish footballer
1991 – James Hurst, American football player
1991 – Jordan Rankin, Australian rugby league player
1991 – Atsedu Tsegay, Ethiopian runner
1992 – Joshua Ingram, Canadian drummer and percussionist
1992 – Quinton de Kock, South African cricketer
1993 – Patricia Kú Flores, Peruvian tennis player
1994 – Lloyd Perrett, New Zealand rugby league player
1994 – Nat Wolff, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player and actor
1996 – Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater
1997 – Naiktha Bains, Australian tennis player
1997 – Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater
1998 – Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer
Source: wikipedia