April 17 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 17, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#239 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 17 birthdays
J. P. Morgan · American financier, banker, and art collector1837
Benjamin Tucker · American journalist and anarchist1854
Karen Blixen · Danish writer1885
Thornton Wilder · American playwright and novelist1897
Sirimavo Bandaranaike · Prime Minister of Ceylon1916
William Holden · American actor1918
Chandra Shekhar · Prime Minister of India1927
Olivia Hussey · British actress1951
Joe Alaskey · American actor1952
Afrika Bambaataa · American DJ, record producer, and rapper1957
Sean Bean · British actor1959
Adam McKay · American filmmaker1968
Jennifer Garner · American actress1972
Victoria Beckham · English businesswoman, fashion designer and singer1974
Steven Pruitt · American Wikipedia editor with most edits1984
Rooney Mara · American actress1985
Takuya Honda · Japanese association football player1985
Romain Grosjean · French and Swiss racing driver1986
Medhi Benatia · Moroccan footballer1987
Shkodran Mustafi · German association football player and manager1992
On this day in history
1907Minas Geraes, the first of three Brazilian dreadnought battleships, was laid down, sparking a vastly expensive South American naval arms race with Argentina and Chile.
1973George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment that later formed the basis of Star Wars.
1975The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the capital of the Khmer Republic, ending the Cambodian Civil War and establishing the socialist state of Democratic Kampuchea.
2014NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet with a radius similar to Earth's discovered in the habitable zone of another star.
1861The state of Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States; Virginia later becomes the eighth state to join the Confederate States of America.
1942World War II: Captured French general Henri Giraud escaped from German captivity in the Königstein Castle.
1951The Peak District was designated the first national park in the United Kingdom.
1969Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček was deposed.
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