On This Day — April 17
4200 noted people were born and 1912 died on April 17 in our archive, including Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, Augustus Edward Hough Love and Ferdinand Piëch.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on April 17
Arthur Moritz Schoenflies
1853 – 1928
Augustus Edward Hough Love
1863 – 1940
Ferdinand Piëch
1937 – 2019
Vincent Wigglesworth
1899 – 1994
Adam Gierek
b. 1938
Alfred Bosch i Pascual
b. 1961
André Azoulay
b. 1941
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
1794 – 1868
Daniel Friedmann
b. 1936
Douglas Maclagan
1812 – 1900
Eberhard Hopf
1902 – 1983
Eddy van Hijum
b. 1972
Ernest Starling
1866 – 1927
Francisco Javier Vallejo Domingo
b. 1969
Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne
1782 – 1853
Gennady Yagubov
b. 1968
Georges J. F. Köhler
1946 – 1995
Irene Manton
1904 – 1988
Iván Szelényi
1938 – 2026
Jan Zaanen
1957 – 2024
John Duncan
b. 1958
Josh Bongard
b. 1974
Józef Retinger
1888 – 1960
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar
1908 – 1999
Marcin Święcicki
b. 1947
Mochmad Issajewitsch Achmadow
b. 1972
Mochtar Kusumaatmadja
1929 – 2021
Myrna M. Weissman
b. 1935
Paul R. Mendes-Flohr
1941 – 2024
Paweł Śpiewak
1951 – 2023
Peter Jenni
b. 1948
Richard H. Brodhead
b. 1947
Robert H. Crabtree
b. 1948
Rudolf Eitelberger
1817 – 1885
Sergei Gukov
b. 1977
Taron Margaryan
b. 1978
Thornton Wilder
1897 – 1975
Toshio Hirano
b. 1947
Valeriya
b. 1968
William Molyneux
1656 – 1698
Yves Jégo
b. 1961
Adam František Kollár
1718 – 1783
Aharon Yadlin
1926 – 2022
Aja Brown
b. 1982
Akaki Khorava
1895 – 1972
Alain Poher
1909 – 1996
Aleksander Tõnisson
1875 – 1941
Algirdas Saudargas
b. 1948
Andrew Burrows
b. 1957
Andrey Borisenko
b. 1964
Andrii Kostin
b. 1973
André Steur
b. 1970
Apoloniusz Tajner
b. 1954
Archibald Alexander
1772 – 1851
August Grisebach
1814 – 1879
Aurore Lalucq
b. 1979
Barsegh Kanachyan
1885 – 1967
Bernard A. Wood
b. 1945
Bernard Roizman
1929 – 2026
Brad Knott
b. 1986
Bruce McNall
b. 1950
Carl Wilhelm Oseen
1879 – 1944
Chandra Shekhar
1927 – 2007
Charles Blagden
1748 – 1820
Charles Van Hulthem
1764 – 1832
Chris Sumner
b. 1943
Claire Bretécher
1940 – 2020
Claudia Orange
b. 1938
Craig Roberts Stapleton
b. 1945
Dan Freed
b. 1959
Daniel Rapant
1897 – 1988
David J. Farber
1934 – 2026
Dennis G. Peters
1937 – 2020
Didier Burkhalter
b. 1960
Diederik Aerts
b. 1953
Don Kirshner
1934 – 2011
Dovey Johnson Roundtree
1914 – 2018
Edmonde Charles-Roux
1920 – 2016
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
b. 1938
Ernest Taylor
1876 – 1971
Fadillah Yusof
b. 1962
Frank Popper
1918 – 2020
Friedrich Wilhelm Hensing
1719 – 1745
Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro
b. 1952
Gebhard Müller
1900 – 1990
Gene Makowsky
b. 1973
George Holding
b. 1968
Georges Loustaunau-Lacau
1894 – 1955
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
1598 – 1671
Giuseppe Sirtori
1813 – 1874
Gordon F. Henderson
1912 – 1993
Greg Gianforte
b. 1961
Gyrithe Lemche
1866 – 1945
Haaken Hasberg Gran
1870 – 1955
Hartvig Nissen
1815 – 1874
Hervé Bazin
1911 – 1996
Hilde Schramm
b. 1936
Hippolyte Bernheim
1840 – 1919
Horst Hrubesch
b. 1951
Hugh Lett
1876 – 1964
Hugo Rossi
b. 1935
Jacques Noyer
1927 – 2020
Jacques de Reinach
1840 – 1892
Jaime Torres Bodet
1902 – 1974
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
1791 – 1868
James William Toumey
1865 – 1932
Jan G. Waldenström
1906 – 1996
Jari Vilén
b. 1964
Jens Adolf Jerichau
1816 – 1883
Jian Li
b. 1965
Jillian Tamaki
b. 1980
Joe Foss
1915 – 2003
Johann Martin Chladenius
1710 – 1759
Johanna Mestorf
1828 – 1909
John Blair Jr.
1732 – 1800
John Dyneley Prince
1868 – 1945
John Eldon Bankes
1854 – 1946
John M. Farquhar
1832 – 1918
John McColl
b. 1952
John N. Gray
b. 1948
José Enrique Varela
1891 – 1951
Julia Macur
b. 1957
Julie Won
b. 1990
Józef Pińkowski
1929 – 2000
Karen Demirchyan
1932 – 1999
Lagle Parek
b. 1941
Lars Israel Wahlman
1870 – 1952
Leonard Woolley
1880 – 1960
Lionel Tarassenko
b. 1957
Lone Simonsen
b. 1959
Lubomyr Romankiw
1931 – 2024
Margot Honecker
1927 – 2016
Marsha S. Berzon
b. 1945
María Cristina Vilanova
1915 – 2009
Monika Henzinger
b. 1966
Montserrat Torrent
b. 1926
Nancy Duff Campbell
b. 1943
Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan
1900 – 1995
Nicolas Nabokov
1903 – 1978
Nikola Milošević
1929 – 2007
Nikolay Kradin
b. 1962
Olexander Kuzmuk
b. 1954
Omer Bartov
b. 1954
Osvaldo Dorticós
1919 – 1983
Patricia Barbizet
b. 1955
Peter Doig
b. 1959
Peter Henry Rolfs
1865 – 1944
Peter John Morris
1934 – 2022
Petr Borkovec
b. 1970
Philip R. Lee
1924 – 2020
Pierre Assouline
b. 1953
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
b. 1977
Ralf Friberg
1936 – 2026
Ralph Wise Zwicker
1903 – 1991
Ramiz Mehdiyev
b. 1938
Raymond H. A. Carter
b. 1955
Raúl Prebisch
1901 – 1986
Richard Allen Epstein
b. 1943
Richard McNally
b. 1954
Riho Terras
b. 1967
Risto Siilasmaa
b. 1966
Robert Gliński
b. 1952
Robert Kuttner
b. 1943
Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage
1832 – 1901
Robert Thomson Leiper
1881 – 1969
Roberto de Oliveira Campos
1917 – 2001
Roddy Piper
1954 – 2015
Roger S. Goody
b. 1944
Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg
b. 1943
Ryszard Grobelny
b. 1963
Sem Sæland
1874 – 1940
Sergey Nikolsky
1905 – 2012
Serhiy Rakhmanin
b. 1969
Seán Ó Fearghaíl
b. 1960
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
b. 1949
Stephen Verney
1919 – 2009
Theodore Slaman
b. 1954
Tsuneo Matsudaira
1877 – 1949
Vladimir Alpatov
b. 1945
Willis Van Devanter
1859 – 1941
Win Maung
1916 – 1989
Yelena Gagarina
b. 1959
Adam McKay
b. 1968
Adika Peter-McNeilly
b. 1993
Adnan Ibrahimbegovic
b. 1958
Agostino Vallini
b. 1940
Akio Fukuda
b. 1948
Alain Paquet
b. 1961
Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland
1880 – 1930
Alasdair Houston
b. 1952
Albert Dess
b. 1947
Albert W. Johnson
1906 – 1998
Albertus Klijn
1923 – 2012
Alexander II of Russia
1818 – 1881
Alfred William Howitt
1830 – 1908
Amalie Iuel
b. 1994
Ambrose Ranney
1821 – 1899
Ana Paula Martins
b. 1965
Anders Tegnell
b. 1956
Andrea Marcato
b. 1983
… and 4,000 more
Died on April 17
Wilhelm Jordan
1842 – 1899
Aimé Césaire
1913 – 2008
Attia Ashour
1924 – 2017
Benjamin Franklin
1706 – 1790
Christian Friedrich Deutsch
1768 – 1843
Franco Restivo
1911 – 1976
Frederick Marshman Bailey
1882 – 1967
Gyula Kornis
1885 – 1958
H. Schachter
1933 – 2024
Harriet Brooks
1876 – 1933
Hena Rodríguez
1915 – 1997
Jaak Panksepp
1943 – 2017
Jean Bernard
1907 – 2006
Jean-Baptiste Perrin
1870 – 1942
Jean-François Bazin
1942 – 2020
Johannes Thiele
1865 – 1918
John T. Noonan
1926 – 2017
José Luis López-Aranguren
1909 – 1996
Mariano Gago
1948 – 2015
Patrick Geddes
1854 – 1932
Richard Brauer
1901 – 1977
Roger Sperry
1913 – 1994
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1888 – 1975
Ursula Bellugi
1931 – 2022
Vladimir Shcherbakov
1909 – 1985
Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten
1732 – 1787
Al Young
1939 – 2021
Alan García
1949 – 2019
Albert Messiah
1921 – 2013
Alexy I of Moscow
1877 – 1970
Aminu Kano
1920 – 1983
Armando Angelini
1891 – 1968
Barbara Bush
1925 – 2018
Bartolomeo Panizza
1785 – 1867
Bennie G. Adkins
1934 – 2020
Bernard Pares
1867 – 1949
Bernhard Sigmund Schultze
1827 – 1919
Biju Patnaik
1916 – 1997
Carl Kasell
1934 – 2018
Chaim Herzog
1918 – 1997
Charles King-Harman
1851 – 1939
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck
1873 – 1936
Charles Trick Currelly
1876 – 1957
Clifford Sifton
1861 – 1929
Cyrus J. Colter
1910 – 2002
D. I. Suchianu
1895 – 1985
Daniel Rapant
1897 – 1988
Daniel Sylvester Tuttle
1837 – 1923
Dariush Safvat
1928 – 2013
David Cobb
1748 – 1830
Dmitry Ushakov
1873 – 1942
Emilio Arenales Catalán
1922 – 1969
France Ellegaard
1913 – 1999
Francis George
1937 – 2015
Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz
1822 – 1902
Francois-Joseph Servois
1767 – 1847
Frank Judd, Baron Judd
1935 – 2021
George, Duke of Saxony
1471 – 1539
Giovanni Malagodi
1904 – 1991
Hannie Schaft
1920 – 1945
Hans Purrmann
1880 – 1966
Henrik Dam
1895 – 1976
James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline
1776 – 1858
James S. Albus
1935 – 2011
James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger
1769 – 1844
Jaromír Štětina
1943 – 2025
Jesús Vaquero
1950 – 2020
John A. Hull
1874 – 1944
John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton
1778 – 1863
John Paul Getty Jr.
1932 – 2003
Jozef Schell
1935 – 2003
Kalle Viljakainen
1853 – 1913
Kantarō Suzuki
1868 – 1948
Kazuo Koike
1936 – 2019
Louis Gustave Vapereau
1819 – 1906
Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu
1900 – 1954
Marcel Dassault
1892 – 1986
Oleh Barna
1967 – 2023
Ormond Wilson
1907 – 1988
Otto Pächt
1902 – 1988
Raymond Thouvenot
1896 – 1981
Robert P. Griffin
1923 – 2015
Samuel Calvin
1840 – 1911
Sergey Manukhin
1856 – 1922
Stanisław Bóbr-Tylingo
1919 – 2001
Stanley Rogers Resor
1917 – 2012
Steven Derounian
1918 – 2007
Theodor Leber
1840 – 1917
Turgut Özal
1927 – 1993
Ulla Ehrensvärd
1927 – 2015
Vel Phillips
1924 – 2018
Viktor Korshunov
1929 – 2015
Virgilio Tosi
1925 – 2023
Wincenty Lutosławski
1863 – 1954
Wojciech Lesnikowski
1938 – 2014
Włodzimierz Jasiński
1873 – 1965
Ülo Kaasik
1926 – 2017
A. W. Norblad
1881 – 1960
Aart van der Leeuw
1876 – 1931
Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi
1947 – 2004
Abraham Dirk Loman
1823 – 1897
Addison S. McClure
1839 – 1903
Agnes McLaren
1837 – 1913
Aleksandr Golovin
1863 – 1930
Alexander von Petrino
1824 – 1899
Allardyce Nicoll
1894 – 1976
Andrés Uriel Gallego
1950 – 2014
Anna Dengel
1892 – 1980
Anna Moore Shaw
1898 – 1975
Antonino Di Giorgio
1867 – 1932
Antonio Bertoloni
1775 – 1868
Arshak Vramian
1871 – 1915
Arthur Hertzberg
1921 – 2006
Arthur Roe
1878 – 1942
Benjamin Hoadly
1676 – 1761
Benjamin Taylor Simmons
1871 – 1933
Bernard Cathelin
1919 – 2004
Bill Dillon
1933 – 1994
Bridget Monckton, 11th Lady Ruthven of Freeland
1896 – 1982
Carl Macek
1951 – 2010
Caspar Ziegler
1621 – 1690
Cecil Harmsworth King
1901 – 1987
Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield
1872 – 1952
Cheo Feliciano
1935 – 2014
Chiharu Saiguchi
1938 – 2024
Chyna
1969 – 2016
Clive Rose
1921 – 2019
Cor Blok
1934 – 2021
Cornelius van Til
1895 – 1987
Daniel Featley
1582 – 1645
Daniel Smith Donelson
1801 – 1863
David Hollatz
1648 – 1713
David McKinley
1947 – 2026
David Pitcairn
1749 – 1809
Dawson Mathis
1940 – 2017
Dede Allen
1923 – 2010
Dimitrie D. Stancu
1927 – 2014
Dmitry Senyavin
1763 – 1831
Doris Roberts
1925 – 2016
Eben S. Draper Jr.
1893 – 1959
Eddie Cochran
1938 – 1960
Einar Rosenqvist
1817 – 1885
Elda Emma Anderson
1899 – 1961
Elford Albin Cederberg
1918 – 2006
Ellen Ash Peters
1930 – 2024
Felicity Lane-Fox
1918 – 1988
Filip Padniewski
1510 – 1572
Francis Annesley
1734 – 1812
Francis Floud
1875 – 1965
Franciszek Ksawery Wierzchleyski
1803 – 1884
Frank McGee
1921 – 1974
Gabriel García Márquez
1927 – 2014
Gaurishankar Hirachand Ojha
1863 – 1947
Gennady Nevelskoy
1813 – 1876
George Broadbridge, 1st Baron Broadbridge
1869 – 1952
George F. Hussey, Jr.
1894 – 1983
George W. Faris
1854 – 1914
Geraint Howells
1925 – 2004
Giovanni Passerini
1816 – 1893
Giulio Alary
1814 – 1891
Giuseppe Guarino
1922 – 2020
Giusto Fontanini
1666 – 1736
Guillaume Van Volxem
1791 – 1868
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
1834 – 1913
Gwyneth Dunwoody
1930 – 2008
Hans Gruijters
1931 – 2005
Haquin Spegel
1645 – 1714
Harold Buckley Willis
1890 – 1962
Heinrich Greinacher
1880 – 1974
Helmut Pfeiffer
1907 – 1945
Henry Adams Bullard
1788 – 1851
Henry Campion
1680 – 1761
Henry George Lang
1919 – 1997
Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel
1608 – 1652
Herbert E. Wolff
1925 – 2009
Herbert Elwell
1898 – 1974
Heriberto Jara Corona
1879 – 1968
Herménégilde Duchaussoy
1854 – 1934
Hikmet Cevdetzade
1893 – 1945
Hisham Bastawisy
1951 – 2021
Hugh Alexander Webster
1849 – 1926
Ignacio Mariscal
1829 – 1910
Irma Jaunzem
1897 – 1975
Ivan Lukov
1871 – 1926
Ivan Vasilievich Dubovoy
1900 – 1981
Jacques Natteau
1920 – 2007
James Alexander Young
1875 – 1956
James Fenner
1771 – 1846
James Garesche Ord
1886 – 1960
James M. Matarazzo
1941 – 2018
James Wyld
1812 – 1887
Jan Kotěra
1871 – 1923
Jan Krukowiecki
1770 – 1850
Janez Matičič
1926 – 2022
Joachim Camerarius
1500 – 1574
Joaquín Jovellar y Soler
1819 – 1892
Joe McCorquodale
1920 – 2017
Johann Jacob Ferber
1743 – 1790
John Ambrose Watterson
1844 – 1899
John Tremayne
1825 – 1901
… and 1,712 more