September 17 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 17, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#10 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 17 birthdays
Bernhard Riemann · German mathematician1826
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky · Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic1857
William Carlos Williams · American poet1883
Agostinho Neto · President of Angola1922
Hank Williams · American singer-songwriter1923
Edgar Mitchell · American astronaut1930
Thomas P. Stafford · American astronaut1930
Anne Bancroft · American actress1931
Ken Kesey · American novelist1935
Reinhold Messner · Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer1944
Phil Jackson · American basketball player, coach and executive1945
Narendra Modi · Prime Minister of India since 20141950
Almazbek Atambayev · 4th President of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan1956
Janez Janša · Slovenian politician1958
Damon Hill · British racing driver1960
Bryan Singer · American film director and producer1965
Kyle Chandler · American actor1965
Anastacia · American singer1968
Rasheed Wallace · American basketball player1974
Jimmie Johnson · American racing driver1975
On this day in history
1862American Civil War: Almost 23,000 total casualties were suffered at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where Confederate and Union troops fought to a tactical stalemate.
1962NASA announced the Next Nine astronauts selected for the purpose of landing on the moon.
1985Four years after AIDS was first identified in the United States, Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged AIDS (video featured) for the first time.
2011Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, organized a protest against corporate influence on democracy at Zuccotti Park in New York City that became known as Occupy Wall Street.
1775American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army under Richard Montgomery began the Siege of Fort St. Jean in the British province of Quebec.
1849Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in the U.S. state of Maryland, and later orchestrated the rescues of other slaves via the Underground Railroad.
1859Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the United States, Joshua Norton distributed letters to various newspapers in San Francisco proclaiming himself to be Emperor Norton.
2018The Israeli Air Force conducted missile strikes that hit multiple targets in western Syria; Syrian air defences responding to the strikes accidentally downed a Russian plane.
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