September 17 - a day that shall live in infamy!
* 64 - Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
* 879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
* 1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
* 1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
* 1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
* 1580 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
* 1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
* 1639 - Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
* 1657 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
* 1677 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
* 1687 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
* 1730 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
* 1739 - John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
* 1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
* 1820 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
* 1826 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
* 1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)
* 1869 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1938)
* 1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
* 1883 - William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)
* 1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
* 1890 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator
* 1897 - Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
* 1900 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
* 1900 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
* 1903 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
* 1906 - Edgar Wayburn, American Environmentalist
* 1907 - Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
* 1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress, comiedienne
* 1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
* 1922 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
* 1923 - Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
* 1927 - George Blanda, American football player
* 1928 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
* 1929 - Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver
* 1930 - Edgar Mitchell, astronaut
* 1931 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
* 1933 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
* 1934 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
* 1935 - Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
* 1937 - Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
* 1938 - Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
* 1939 - David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
* 1941 - Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)
* 1942 - Des Lynam, English television presenter
* 1944 - Reinhold Messner, Austrian mountain climber
* 1946 - Billy Bonds, English footballer
* 1947 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
* 1948 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)
* 1948 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
* 1950 - Narendra Modi, Indian politician
* 1951 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
* 1954 - Joël-François Durand, French composer
* 1955 - Charles Martinet, American actor
* 1956 - Rita Rudner, American comedian
* 1959 - Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor
*1959 - AZsteelman - WHO?!?!?:stretchgr :bouncetau :bouncetau
* 1960 - Damon Hill, English race car driver
* 1960 - John Franco, American baseball player
* 1961 - Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
* 1962 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
* 1965 - Bryan Singer, American director
* 1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
* 1966 - Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
* 1968 - Anastacia, American singer
* 1969 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
* 1971 - Adriana Sklenaříková, Slovak supermodel
* 1974 - Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
* 1974 - Mirah, American musician
* 1975 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
* 1975 - Austin St. John, American actor
* 1975 - Constantine Maroulis, American Idol Finalist
* 1976 - Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress
* 1977 - Simone Perrotta, Italian football player
* 1978 - Shawn Horcoff, Canadian Ice Hockey player
* 1979 - Akin Ayodele, American football player
* 1979 - Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
* 1980 - Danny Haren, baseball player
* 1981 - Bakari Koné, Ivory Coast Footballer
* 1983 - Jennifer Peña, American singer
* 1984 - Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel
* 1985 - Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
* 1991 - Jordan McCoy, American Juniors Finalist
* 1974 - VillageIdiot - cigar smoker
*1986 -- Halon!
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