Famous people born on August 17

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Gracie Gold 9

American Athlete

Taissa Farmiga 6

American Actress

Austin Butler 9

American Actor

Rachel Hurd-Wood 7

English Actress

Brady Corbet 5

American Actor

Alex Honnold 34

American Athlete

Cristhiam Lagos 1

Mark Salling 10

American Actor

Jaani Peuhu 7

Finnish Musician

Thierry Henry 54

French Athlete

Tarja Turunen 1

Finnish Singer

Benny Wenda 2

Jessi Klein 7

American Writer

Giuliana Rancic 27

American Journalist

David Bromstad 4

American Designer

Jim Courier 14

American Athlete

Jorge Posada 9

Puerto Rican Athlete

Donnie Wahlberg 37

American Actor

Helen McCrory 32

British Actress

Steve Hockensmith 2

American Author

Rodney Mullen 5

American Athlete

Jackie Walorski 4

American Politician

Jon Gruden 1

American Coach

Sean Penn 60

American Actor

Jonathan Franzen 70

American Novelist

Eric Schlosser 14

American Journalist

Belinda Carlisle 8

American Musician

To Kit 2

Colin Moulding 14

English Bassist

Anatoly Kudryavitsky 13

Irish Novelist

Herta Müller 44

German Novelist

Kevin Rowland 5

British Singer

Columba Bush 12

American Celebrity

Nelson Piquet 8

Brazilian Celebrity

Julian Fellowes 53

English Actor

Norm Coleman 12

American Politician

Takeshi Uchiyamada 3

Japanese Businessman

Tony Hey 1

British Physicist

Larry Ellison 37

American Businessman

Millard Drexler 16

American Businessman

Robert De Niro 49

American Actor

John Humphrys 1

British Broadcaster

Ibrahim Babangida 28

Nigerian Statesman

David Price 12

American Politician

Luther Allison 30

American Musician

Josh McDowell 72

American Writer

Alexander Theroux 6

American Novelist

Mark Mobius 3

American Businessman

Eugene F. Kranz 1

Gene Kranz 8

American Public Servant

V. S. Naipaul 121

Trinidadian Novelist

Ted Hughes 61

English Poet

Jiang Zemin 19

Chinese Leader

Lewis M. Branscomb 13

Physicist

John C. Hawkes 5

American Novelist

Larry Rivers 3

American Musician

Geoffrey Elton 8

British Historian

Maureen O'Hara 48

Irish Actress

Bill Downs 21

American Journalist

W. Mark Felt 15

American Public Servant

Mikhail Botvinnik 1

John Hay Whitney 2

American Publisher

Mae West 158

American Actress

Michael Chekhov 1

Russian Actor

Harry Hopkins 3

American Politician

Marcus Garvey 65

African Publisher

Samuel Goldwyn 80

Polish-American Producer

Charles Cooley 75

American Sociologist

Henry Drummond 11

Scottish Writer

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 4

British Poet

Isaac Taylor 1

British Writer

Davy Crockett 45

American Explorer

George Croly 2

Irish Poet

William Carey (missionary) 7

English Clergyman

Pierre de Fermat 11

French Mathematician

See also: Famous people died on August 17