June 17 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 17, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#196 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 17 birthdays
Charles Gounod · French composer1818
William Crookes · British chemist and physicist1832
Carl Van Vechten · American writer and photographer1880
Heinz Guderian · German general1888
M. C. Escher · Dutch graphic artist1898
François Jacob · French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 19651920
Tigran Petrosian · Soviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion1929
Ken Loach · English film director and screenwriter1936
George Akerlof · American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics1940
Mohamed ElBaradei · Egyptian law scholar and diplomat1942
Newt Gingrich · American politician and former speaker of the United States House1943
Barry Manilow · American singer1943
Eddy Merckx · Belgian cyclist1945
Jello Biafra · American singer and activist1958
Thomas Haden Church · American actor1960
Greg Kinnear · American actor1963
Venus Williams · American tennis player1980
Kendrick Lamar · American rapper and songwriter1987
Jordan Henderson · English association football player1990
Alan Dzagoev · Russian association football player1990
On this day in history
1775American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
1861American Civil War: The Battle of Vienna, Virginia, took place, which involved one of the world's first military movements of troops by train.
1913In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strike action.
1952Guatemalan Revolution: The Guatemalan Congress passed Decree 900, redistributing unused land greater than 224 acres (0.91 km2) in area to local peasants.
1579Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.
1992A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. president George Bush and Russian president Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
2009Following a petition, the liberal progressive Czech Pirate Party was officially registered as a political party.
2021Juneteenth National Independence Day is signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.
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