Famous People Born on April 17

♈ Aries

• Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková (1868) — Czech teacher and suffragist
• Ronald H. Miller (1938)
• Cap Anson (1852) — American baseball player (1852–1922)
• Joe Alaskey (1952) — American actor (1952–2016)
• Claire Sweeney (1971) — English actress, singer and television personality (born 1971)
• Chris Barber (1930) — English bandleader and trombonist (1930–2021)
• Andrea Gritti (1455) — Doge of Venice from 1523 to 1538
• Martin Clemens (1915) — British-Australian colonial administrator and military officer
• Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863) — English mathematical physicist (1863–1940)
• Nick Hornby (1957) — English writer (born 1957)
• Eliza Acton (1799) — English food writer and poet
• Muttiah Muralitharan (1972) — Sri Lankan cricketer (born 1972)
• Ian Jones (rugby union, born 1967) (1967) — Rugby player
• Frederik Magle (1977) — Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist (born 1977)
• Bill Ramsey (singer) (1931) — American-German jazz singer (1931–2021)
• Richard Epstein (1943) — American legal scholar (born 1943)
• Curtis Woodhouse (1980) — English footballer and boxer (born 1980)
• Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598) — Italian astronomer and priest (1598–1671)
• Samuel Chase (1741) — Founding Father of the United States (1741–1811)
• Vikram (actor) (1966) — Indian actor (born 1966)
• Ken Daneyko (1964) — Canadian ice hockey player (born 1964)
• Kerry Wendell Thornley (1938) — American author (1938–1998)
• Jenny Meadows (1981) — British athlete (born 1981)
• Paraskevi Papachristou (1989) — Greek athlete (born 1989)
• Joe Foss (1915) — United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient and American politician
• Paul Nicholls (horse racing) (1962) — English horse trainer
• Thomas Hazlehurst (chapel builder) (1816)
• Aleksander Klumberg (1899) — Estonian decathlete
• Victoria Beckham (1974) — English fashion designer and singer (born 1974)
• Dwane Casey (1957) — American professional basketball coach (born 1957)