On This Day — August 17
3965 noted people were born and 1891 died on August 17 in our archive, including Ian Blatchford, Adriaan Daniel Fokker and Andreas Hierlemann.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 17
Ian Blatchford
b. 1965
Adriaan Daniel Fokker
1887 – 1972
Andreas Hierlemann
b. 1964
Chen Zhu
b. 1953
Cleve Moler
1939 – 2026
David H. McCormick
b. 1965
David Price
b. 1940
Diethard Tautz
b. 1957
Edward Lazear
1948 – 2020
Edward Walter Eberle
1864 – 1929
Elguja Medzmariashvili
b. 1946
Emrys Jones
1920 – 2006
Enzo Moavero Milanesi
b. 1954
Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth
1876 – 1951
Francis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame
1844 – 1919
Francis Perrin
1901 – 1992
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.
1914 – 1988
František Trávníček
1888 – 1961
Frederick Fuller Russell
1870 – 1960
Fändäs Safiullin
1936 – 2021
Gene Kranz
b. 1933
Hans Vijlbrief
b. 1963
Igor Orlov
b. 1964
Ingrid Daubechies
b. 1954
James L. Skinner
b. 1953
Jan Cieplak
1857 – 1926
Jerrold E. Marsden
1942 – 2010
Jiang Zemin
1926 – 2022
John Anton Blatnik
1911 – 1991
Karel Engliš
1880 – 1961
Karl von Czyhlarz
1833 – 1914
Lei S Qi
b. 1983
Malcolm MacDonald
1901 – 1981
Marcelo Caetano
1906 – 1980
Marcus Garvey
1887 – 1940
Maurice Hauriou
1856 – 1929
Max Essex
b. 1939
Michael Shub
b. 1943
Mikhail Pokrovsky
1868 – 1932
Monty Woolley
1888 – 1963
Nikolai Gubenko
1941 – 2020
Patrick Boylan
1939 – 2024
Philippe Aghion
b. 1956
Rexhep Meidani
b. 1944
Robert von Mohl
1799 – 1875
Rudolf Haag
1922 – 2016
Stefan Bryła
1886 – 1943
Ted Hughes
1930 – 1998
Theodoros Pangalos
1938 – 2023
Tony Wrigley
1931 – 2022
Walter Noddack
1893 – 1960
William Tyrrell, 1st Baron Tyrrell
1866 – 1947
Y. Venugopal Reddy
b. 1941
Alain Veinstein
b. 1942
Albert Overhauser
1925 – 2011
Alexander Borisov
b. 1974
Alexander Sipiagin
1875 – 1941
Alexandr Vondra
b. 1961
Alexandre Lacassagne
1843 – 1924
Amelius Lockwood, 1st Baron Lambourne
1847 – 1928
Andrés Pastrana Arango
b. 1954
Araxie Saryan
1937 – 2013
Arend Lijphart
b. 1936
Auguste-Armand de la Force
1878 – 1961
Barry Sheerman
b. 1940
Bartolomeo Panizza
1785 – 1867
Bill Dally
b. 1960
Carlos Cruz-Diez
1923 – 2019
Caroline Haslett
1895 – 1957
Charles Cooley
1864 – 1929
Charles I of Austria
1887 – 1922
Charles M. Falco
b. 1948
Charles Rogier
1800 – 1885
Christian Ehler
b. 1963
Christian Sophus Klein
1824 – 1900
Christopher Geidt
b. 1961
Cossva Anckarsvärd
1865 – 1953
Cyril Tenison White
1890 – 1950
Dahlan Iskan
b. 1951
Daniel Bliss
1823 – 1916
Daniel Hope
b. 1973
David L. Bernhardt
b. 1969
Donna Lupardo
b. 1954
Donnacha Dennehy
b. 1970
Ed Sanders
b. 1939
Edward Abramowski
1868 – 1918
Elisabeth Pate-Cornell
b. 1948
Elmer E. Kirkpatrick
1905 – 1990
Elsie Locke
1912 – 2001
Erika Toda
b. 1988
Eugène Chevandier de Valdrôme
1810 – 1878
Eva Kollisch
1925 – 2023
Fiona Ritchie
b. 1976
Florence Pat Haseltine
b. 1942
Francis Gary Powers
1929 – 1977
Francis Willis
1718 – 1807
Frank Berrien
1877 – 1951
Frank William Wills
1852 – 1932
František Šmahel
1934 – 2025
George Bell
1867 – 1926
George Scratchley Brown
1918 – 1978
Guido Buffarini Guidi
1895 – 1945
Hajime Ishii
1934 – 2022
Hans Kolfschoten
1903 – 1984
Harry Marshall Erskine Evans
1876 – 1973
Harve Bennett
1930 – 2015
Heather Ann Thompson
b. 1963
Hendrik van Riessen
1911 – 2000
Herta Müller
b. 1953
Hollman Morris
b. 1968
Hugh S. Cumming
1869 – 1948
Hugo Egmont Hørring
1842 – 1909
Ibrahim Babangida
b. 1941
Ihor Smeshko
b. 1955
Ion Hadârcă
b. 1949
Jacek Żakowski
b. 1957
Jacques Mehler
1936 – 2020
Jacques Neirynck
1931 – 2025
Jaime Aparicio
1929 – 2026
Jan Hendrik Scholten
1811 – 1885
Janar Holm
b. 1976
Jean-Paul Besset
b. 1946
Jesse Lynch Williams
1871 – 1929
Joaquín Gorrochategui
b. 1953
Joe Harris
b. 1951
Johannes Valentinus Andreae
1586 – 1654
John C. Wright
1783 – 1861
John H. Lienhard IV
b. 1930
John Hay Whitney
1904 – 1982
John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire
1723 – 1793
John Humphrys
b. 1943
John III Sobieski
1629 – 1696
John Thornton Kirkland
1770 – 1840
Jordan Emanuel
b. 1994
Julia M. Phillips
b. 1954
Julian Fellowes
b. 1949
Julian Horodecki
1907 – 1969
Jüri Kivimäe
b. 1947
Jüri Luik
b. 1966
Kaliisa Jovrine Kyomukama
b. 1975
Katherine Mathieson
b. 1975
Kathryn C. Thornton
b. 1952
Khaled Mohieddin
1922 – 2018
Larry Ellison
b. 1944
Leon Mały
b. 1958
Leslie Martin
1908 – 2000
Lewis M. Branscomb
1926 – 2023
Lothar Bisky
1941 – 2013
Low Yen Ling
b. 1974
Ludwig von Hofmann
1861 – 1945
Lydia Mutsch
b. 1961
Manuel García Barzanallana
1817 – 1892
Margaret Hamilton
b. 1936
Margarita Rivière
1944 – 2015
Mariko Bandō
b. 1946
Martin Sandberger
1911 – 2010
Michael Chekhov
1891 – 1955
Michael Fitzgerald
b. 1937
Michael John Wise
1918 – 2015
Michael Klein
b. 1954
Miguel José Yacamán
b. 1946
Miquel Iceta i Llorens
b. 1960
Mohamed Abdelaziz
1947 – 2016
Norm Coleman
b. 1949
Oleg Tabakov
1935 – 2018
Oliver St John Gogarty
1878 – 1957
Otto Suhr
1894 – 1957
Paul Kammerer
1880 – 1926
Paul Wendland
1864 – 1915
Pavel Prokudin
b. 1966
Pavel Rychetský
b. 1943
Peter Masak
1957 – 2004
Pierre de Fermat
1601 – 1665
Pierre-Émile Martin
1824 – 1915
Raj Jain
b. 1951
Ralph Teetor
1890 – 1982
Ram Nath Chopra
1882 – 1973
Richard Bryant
b. 1960
Richard Lalor Sheil
1791 – 1851
Richard von Volkmann
1830 – 1889
Richmond Pearson Hobson
1870 – 1937
Robert De Niro
b. 1943
Robert Thomas Wilson
1777 – 1849
Roger Peyrefitte
1907 – 2000
Sadatoshi Ozato
1930 – 2016
Sanja Nikčević
b. 1960
Sarah Lewis
b. 1979
Sean Penn
b. 1960
Semen Bogdanov
1894 – 1960
Stanley Jaki
1924 – 2009
Stig Lindberg
1916 – 1982
Sylvia Nasar
b. 1947
Takayuki Ochiai
b. 1979
Tamon Yamaguchi
1892 – 1942
Thierry Henry
b. 1977
Thomas F. Konop
1879 – 1964
Thomas J. Hennen
b. 1952
Tony Hey
b. 1946
Torolv Kandahl
1899 – 1982
Trevor Dawes
b. 1966
… and 3,765 more
Died on August 17
Pierre Cartier
1932 – 2024
Alexander Butlerov
1828 – 1886
Alexandre Lacoste
1842 – 1923
Anatol Codru
1936 – 2010
Andrey Sobolev
1954 – 2026
Carl Zeller
1842 – 1898
Eduard Isabekyan
1914 – 2007
Edwin Morgan
1920 – 2010
Erik Ivar Fredholm
1866 – 1927
Florent Schmitt
1870 – 1958
Francesco Cossiga
1928 – 2010
Francis Oswald Lindley
1872 – 1950
Franco Sensi
1926 – 2008
Frank Kermode
1919 – 2010
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.
1914 – 1988
Gaspare Ambrosini
1886 – 1985
H. J. Round
1881 – 1966
Jacques Diouf
1938 – 2019
John N. Bahcall
1934 – 2005
Katharine Blodgett Gebbie
1932 – 2016
Otto Stern
1888 – 1969
Shizuo Kakutani
1911 – 2004
Stepan Smal-Stotskyi
1859 – 1938
Vardan Bostanjyan
1949 – 2025
Wolfgang Leonhard
1921 – 2014
Alex Karczmar
1917 – 2017
Alexander Friedrich von Bock
1829 – 1895
Alf Ross
1899 – 1979
Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
1837 – 1916
Anatoly Guzhvin
1946 – 2004
André Louis Lefebvre de Laboulaye
1876 – 1966
Arne Somersalo
1891 – 1941
Arthur Hiller
1923 – 2016
Arthur William Radford
1896 – 1973
Augustin-Charles Renouard
1794 – 1878
Barbara Morgan
1900 – 1992
Beata Brookes
1930 – 2015
Bernard Rapp
1945 – 2006
Camille Bulcke
1909 – 1982
Chang Chun-ha
1918 – 1975
David Henderson
1862 – 1921
Erik Bøgh
1822 – 1899
Ernst Jäckh
1875 – 1959
Feng Kang
1920 – 1993
François Piétri
1882 – 1966
Frederick William George White
1905 – 1994
Fritz Schramma
1947 – 2026
George Gair
1926 – 2015
George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie
1630 – 1714
Giovanni Gallina
1852 – 1936
Gwen Bristow
1903 – 1980
Günther Pancke
1899 – 1973
Hans Gude
1825 – 1903
Helen E. Fisher
1945 – 2024
Hellmut Flashar
1929 – 2022
Hermann Schmidt-Göbel
1809 – 1882
Jack Spicer
1925 – 1965
Jean-Joseph Thonissen
1816 – 1891
John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield
1802 – 1879
John C. Black
1839 – 1915
John D. Joannopoulos
1947 – 2025
Jonathan Trumbull
1710 – 1785
Joseph Alfred Ernest Roy
1871 – 1928
José de San Martín
1778 – 1850
Julius von Newald
1824 – 1897
Karol J. Bobko
1937 – 2023
Ken Miles
1918 – 1966
Klaus Törnudd
1931 – 2026
Konstantinos Tsoukalas
1937 – 2026
Leonard Boswell
1934 – 2018
Linton Freeman
1927 – 2018
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1886 – 1969
Luis Valencia Rodríguez
1926 – 2022
László Paskai
1927 – 2015
Maria Piłsudska
1863 – 1921
Maximilian Joseph von Chelius
1794 – 1876
Mihai Ralea
1896 – 1964
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
1924 – 1988
Myrtle E. Johnson
1881 – 1967
Pascal Pierre Duprat
1815 – 1885
Pierre-Chaumont Liadières
1792 – 1858
Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
1865 – 1947
Reiner Klimke
1936 – 1999
Richard Barthelmess
1895 – 1963
Robert Younger, Baron Blanesburgh
1861 – 1946
Rudolf Hess
1894 – 1987
Shinmura Izuru
1876 – 1967
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet
1838 – 1928
Stephan Körner
1913 – 2000
Tadeusz Krwawicz
1910 – 1988
Theodor Rehbock
1864 – 1950
Theodoros Georgios Orphanides
1817 – 1886
Tjilik Riwut
1918 – 1987
Vasyl Dzharty
1958 – 2011
Vera Maretskaya
1906 – 1978
Victor Klee
1925 – 2007
Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie
1933 – 2024
Walter Buser
1926 – 2019
William Havard
1889 – 1956
William Jervois
1821 – 1897
William M. Meredith
1799 – 1873
William Milbourne James
1881 – 1973
William Mitchinson Hicks
1850 – 1934
Wojciech Korfanty
1873 – 1939
Zinaida Botschantzeva
1907 – 1973
Émile Pinet-Laprade
1822 – 1869
Abd al-Karim Khalifa
1924 – 2020
Agapito Aquino
1939 – 2015
Aleksei Sudaev
1912 – 1946
Alexander Alexeyevich Borisov
1866 – 1934
Ali Chaouch
1948 – 2020
Amnon Pazy
1936 – 2006
Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier
1743 – 1824
Antanas Vienuolis
1882 – 1957
Antonio Riva
1896 – 1951
Antti Johannes Rantamaa
1904 – 1987
Arsen Dedić
1938 – 2015
Baltasar Jaime Martínez de Compañón
1737 – 1797
Bertram L. Podell
1925 – 2005
Billy Fiske
1911 – 1940
Boris Vladimirtsov
1884 – 1931
Buell A. Nesbett
1910 – 1993
Carlo II, Duke of Savoy
1486 – 1553
Carloman
710 – 754
Carlos Salzedo
1885 – 1961
Cecil A. Partee
1921 – 1994
Cecilia Krieger
1894 – 1974
Charles Browne
1875 – 1947
Charles L. Robinson
1818 – 1894
Charles Samuel Joelson
1916 – 1999
Charles W. Ryder
1892 – 1960
Charles Wetherell
1770 – 1846
Christopher Polge
1926 – 2006
Clarence Brown
1890 – 1987
Claude R. Porter
1872 – 1946
Conrad Aiken
1889 – 1973
Cyriaque Gillain
1857 – 1931
Cyrus Locher
1878 – 1929
D.D. Wozniak
1922 – 2005
David Crawley
1937 – 2025
David G. Swaim
1834 – 1897
David McReynolds
1929 – 2018
David Russell
1938 – 2014
Dudley de Chair
1864 – 1958
Edmund Dudley
1462 – 1510
Eduardo López Ochoa
1877 – 1936
Edward Alan Knapp
1932 – 2009
Edward Dziewoński
1916 – 2002
Edward Waller Claypole
1835 – 1901
Else Hagen
1914 – 2010
Emil Baensch
1857 – 1939
Ernst Bareuther
1838 – 1905
Eugene McDonnell
1926 – 2010
Eugénio de Castro
1869 – 1944
Evgeny Chernikin
1928 – 2009
Ferdinand Karl Schweikart
1780 – 1857
Franco Donatoni
1927 – 2000
Frank Burke
1876 – 1949
Frank C. Garland
1950 – 2010
Frank O. Horton
1882 – 1948
Frederick Adam
1784 – 1853
Frederick II of Prussia
1712 – 1786
Garnett Adrain
1815 – 1878
Geoff Gibbs
1940 – 2006
Geoffrey Burnand
1912 – 1997
Georg Heim
1865 – 1938
George Atcheson Jr.
1896 – 1947
George Fowlds
1860 – 1934
George Frederick Zook
1885 – 1951
George J. O'Shea
1899 – 1983
Georges Dandelot
1895 – 1975
Georges Dreyer
1873 – 1934
Ger van Elk
1941 – 2014
Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder
1933 – 2015
Gheorghe Dem Theodorescu
1849 – 1900
Gonzalo Bulnes
1851 – 1936
Gregorio Perfecto
1891 – 1949
Guillaume Herincx
1621 – 1678
Guy de Bryan, 1st Baron Bryan
1301 – 1390
H. R. Cox
1907 – 1986
Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen
1913 – 2000
Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean
1870 – 1897
Helen Singer Kaplan
1929 – 1995
Henri Brémond
1865 – 1933
Henry Metcalfe
1847 – 1927
Henry Richardson Procter
1848 – 1927
Herbert S. Walters
1891 – 1973
Ihor Shamo
1925 – 1982
Ira Gershwin
1896 – 1983
Irène Némirovsky
1903 – 1942
István Bata
1910 – 1982
Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño
1890 – 1950
Jack H. McDonald
1932 – 2022
Jack Straus
1930 – 1988
Jakob Klaesi
1883 – 1980
Jakob Savinšek
1922 – 1961
James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley
1679 – 1736
James Laird
1849 – 1889
James R. Bennett
1940 – 2016
Jean Kovalevsky
1929 – 2018
… and 1,691 more