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Celebrity Half
Birthdays for August 17

Discover all
the world-renowned actors, singers, athletes,
political leaders, and other celebrities who
share a half birthday on this day. (Source:
Wikipedia) And
hey, don't forget to calculate half birthdays of family &
friends and mark your calendar with alerts at
least a week before so you can plan!
- 624 – Wu Zetian,
Chinese empress (d. 705)
- 1490 – Charles
III, Duke of Bourbon (d.
1527)
- 1519 – Francis,
Duke of Guise (d.
1563)
- 1524 – Charles,
Cardinal of Lorraine (d.
1574)
- 1581 – Fausto Poli,
Italian cardinal (d. 1653)
- 1646 – Pierre Le
Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French
economist (d. 1714)
- 1653 – Arcangelo
Corelli, Italian violinist and composer (d.
1713)
- 1718 – Matthew
Tilghman, American politician (d. 1790)
- 1723 – Tobias
Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1762)
- 1740 – Horace-Bénédict
de Saussure, Swiss physicist (d. 1799)
- 1752 – Friedrich
Maximilian Klinger, German author and
playwright (d. 1831)
- 1754 – Nicolas
Baudin, French cartographer and explorer (d.
1803)
- 1781 – René
Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (d.
1826)
- 1796 – Philipp
Franz von Siebold, German physician (d.
1866)
- 1816 – Haller Nutt,
American planter (d. 1864)
- 1817 – Édouard
Thilges, Luxembourgian politician, 7th Prime
Minister of Luxembourg (d.
1904)
- 1820 – Elzéar-Alexandre
Taschereau, Canadian cardinal (d. 1898)
- 1820 – Henri
Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer
(d. 1881)
- 1821 – Lola Montez,
Irish actress and dancer (d. 1861)
- 1836 – Gustavo
Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (d. 1870)
- 1844 – Aaron
Montgomery Ward, American businessman,
founded Montgomery
Ward (d.
1913)
- 1848 – Albert
Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (d.
1920)
- 1848 – Louisa
Lawson, Australian poet and publisher (d.
1920)
- 1854 – Friedrich
Alfred Krupp, German businessman, founded Krupp (d.
1902)
- 1860 – Tom Seeberg,
Norwegian target shooter (d. 1938)
- 1861 – Princess
Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (d.
1922)
- 1862 – Mori Ōgai,
Japanese author and poet (d. 1922)
- 1862 – Eugen
Schmidt, Danish tug of war competitor
(d. 1931)
- 1863 – Fyodor
Sologub, Russian author and poet (d. 1927)
- 1864 – Jozef
Murgaš, Slovak priest and inventor (d. 1929)
- 1864 – Banjo
Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941)
- 1874 – Thomas J.
Watson, American businessman (d. 1956)
- 1877 – Isabelle
Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and author (d.
1904)
- 1877 – André
Maginot, French sergeant and politician (d.
1932)
- 1877 – Isidora
Sekulić, Serbian author (d. 1958)
- 1880 – Ernest
Linton, Scottish-Canadian soccer player (d.
1957)
- 1883 – George
Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (d.
1969)
- 1885 – Steve Evans,
American baseball player (d. 1943)
- 1887 – Leevi
Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947)
- 1887 – Joseph Bech,
Luxembourgish politician, 15th Prime
Minister of Luxembourg (d.
1975)
- 1888 – Otto Stern,
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1969)
- 1890 – Ronald
Fisher, English statistician, biologist, and
geneticist (d. 1962)
- 1891 – Abraham
Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician (d.
1965)
- 1892 – Marjorie
Fielding, British stage and film actress (d.
1956)
- 1893 – Wally Pipp,
American baseball player (d. 1965)
- 1900 – Ruth
Clifford, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1903 – Sadegh
Hedayat, Iranian author (d. 1951)
- 1904 – Hans
Morgenthau, German philosopher (d. 1980)
- 1905 – Osvald Käpp,
Estonian wrestler (d. 1995)
- 1907 – Yevgeniy
Abalakov, Soviet mountaineer (d. 1948)
- 1908 – Red Barber,
American sportscaster (d. 1992)
- 1908 – Ants Eskola,
Estonian actor and singer (d. 1989)
- 1908 – Bo Yibo,
Chinese politician, Vice
Premier of the People's Republic of China (d.
2007)
- 1910 – Arthur
Hunnicutt, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1911 – Oskar
Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and
scholar (d. 1984)
- 1911 – Orrin
Tucker, American saxophonist and bandleader
(d. 2011)
- 1912 – Andre
Norton, American author (d. 2005)
- 1912 – Virginia
Sorensen, American author (d. 1991)
- 1913 – Jean Le
Moyne, Canadian journalist and politician
(d. 1996)
- 1913 – Russel B.
Nye, American author (d. 1993)
- 1914 – Arthur
Kennedy, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1914 – Wayne
Morris, American actor (d. 1959)
- 1916 – Alexander
Obolensky, Russian rugby player (d. 1940)
- 1916 – Raf Vallone,
Italian footballer and actor (d. 2002)
- 1917 – Abdel
Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher and poet
(d. 2002)
- 1917 – Guillermo
González Camarena, Mexican engineer (d.
1965)
- 1918 – William
Bronk, American poet (d. 1999)
- 1918 – Volodymyr
Shcherbytsky, Ukrainian politician (d. 1990)
- 1919 – J. M. S.
Careless, Canadian historian (d. 2009)
- 1919 – Kathleen
Freeman, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1920 – Ivo Caprino,
Norwegian director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
- 1920 – Curt Swan,
American illustrator (d. 1996)
- 1921 – Duane Gish,
American biochemist (d. 2013)
- 1922 – Enrico
Banducci, American businessman (d. 2007)
- 1922 – Tommy
Edwards, American singer-songwriter (d.
1969)
- 1922 – Valentino
Mazzia, American physician (d. 1999)
- 1923 – John M.
Allegro, English archaeologist and scholar
(d. 1988)
- 1923 – Alden W.
Clausen, American banker (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Margaret
Truman, American author (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Ron Goodwin,
English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
- 1925 – Hal
Holbrook, American actor
- 1928 – Marta
Romero, Puerto Rican actress and singer
- 1929 – Paul Meger,
Canadian ice hockey player
- 1929 – Chaim Potok,
American author (d. 2002)
- 1929 – Nicholas
Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, English
politician (d. 1993)
- 1929 – Patricia
Routledge, English actress and singer
- 1930 – Roger Craig,
American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1930 – Benjamin
Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Ruth
Rendell, English author
- 1933 – Bobby Lewis,
American singer
- 1931 – Jiřina
Jirásková, Czech actress (d. 2013)
- 1933 – Larry
Jennings, American magician and author (d.
1997)
- 1933 – Craig L.
Thomas, American politician (d. 2007)
- 1934 – Alan Bates,
English actor (d. 2003)
- 1934 – Barry
Humphries, Australian comedian, actor, and
author
- 1935 – Christina
Pickles, English-American actress
- 1936 – Jim Brown,
American football player and actor
- 1938 – Buck Trent,
American banjo player
- 1938 – Martha
Henry, American-Canadian actress
- 1938 – Yvonne
Romain, English actress
- 1939 – John Leyton,
English actor and singer
- 1939 – Mary Ann
Mobley, American actress, Miss
America 1959
- 1939 – Clément
Richard, Canadian businessman and politician
- 1940 – Gene Pitney,
American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
- 1941 – Julia
McKenzie, English actress, singer, and
director
- 1942 – Huey P.
Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black
Panther Party (d.
1989)
- 1943 – Costas
Azariadis, Greek economist
- 1943 – Claire
Malis, American actress (d. 2012)
- 1944 – Karl
Jenkins, Welsh saxophonist, keyboard player,
and composer (Soft
Machine)
- 1945 – Zina
Bethune, American actress, dancer, and
choreographer (d. 2012)
- 1945 – Brenda
Fricker, Irish actress
- 1946 – Dodie
Stevens, American singer
- 1946 – Shahrnush
Parsipur, Iranian author
- 1948 – José José,
Mexican singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1948 – Rick
Majerus, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2012)
- 1948 – Don
Scardino, American actor and director
- 1949 – Fred Frith,
English guitarist and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton
Crew)
- 1950 – Rickey
Medlocke, American musician (Blackfoot and Lynyrd
Skynyrd)
- 1951 – Rashid
Minhas, Pakistani pilot (d. 1971)
- 1952 – Karin Janz,
German gymnast
- 1952 – Vladimír
Padrůněk, Czech bass player (Energit and Etc...)
(d. 1991)
- 1953 – Norman Pace,
English actor
- 1954 – Rene Russo,
American actress
- 1954 – Miki
Berkovich, Israeli basketball player
- 1955 – Mo Yan,
Chinese author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1956 – Richard
Karn, American actor
- 1957 – Loreena
McKennitt, Canadian singer-songwriter and
accordion player
- 1958 – Steve Fox,
English footballer (d. 2012)
- 1958 – Alan
Wiggins, American baseball player (d. 1991)
- 1959 – Aryeh Deri,
Moroccan-Israeli rabbi and politician
- 1959 – Rowdy
Gaines, American swimmer
- 1959 – Neil Lomax,
American football player
- 1960 – Shunji
Kosugi, Japanese wrestler
- 1961 – Christopher
Ashford-Smith, American wrestler
- 1962 – David
McComb, Australian singer-songwriter and
guitarist (The
Triffids and The
Blackeyed Susans) (d. 1999)
- 1962 – Lou Diamond
Phillips, American actor and director
- 1963 – Larry the
Cable Guy, American comedian and actor
- 1963 – Alison
Hargreaves, English mountaineer (d. 1995)
- 1963 – Jen-Hsun
Huang, Taiwanese-American businessman,
co-founded Nvidia
- 1963 – Michael
Jordan, American basketball player and actor
- 1963 – Rene Syler,
American journalist
- 1964 – Buster
Olney, American journalist
- 1965 – Michael Bay,
American director and producer
- 1965 – Samuel
Bayer, American director and cinematographer
- 1966 – Quorthon,
Swedish guitarist and songwriter (Bathory)
(d. 2004)
- 1966 – Michael
Lepond, American bass player (Symphony X and Seven
Witches)
- 1966 – Robert Reid,
Scottish rally co-driver
- 1966 – Luc
Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 – Chanté
Moore, American singer-songwriter
- 1968 – Wu'er Kaixi,
Chinese Dissident, Tienanmen Student Leader
- 1968 – Bryan Cox,
American football player
- 1969 – David
Douillet, French martial artist and
politician
- 1969 – Tuesday
Knight, American actress and singer
- 1969 – Willi
Kronhardt, German footballer
- 1970 – Tommy Moe,
American skier
- 1970 – Dominic
Purcell, English-Australian actor
- 1971 – Martyn
Bennett, Canadian-Scottish composer (d.
2005)
- 1971 – Jeremy
Edwards, English actor
- 1971 – SaRenna Lee,
American porn actress
- 1971 – Denise
Richards, American model and actress
- 1971 – Cynthia
Caylor, English actress
- 1972 – Yuki,
Japanese singer-songwriter (Mean
Machine, Judy and
Mary, and NiNa)
- 1972 – Billie Joe
Armstrong, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, actor, and producer (Green Day, Pinhead
Gunpowder, The Network,
and Foxboro Hot
Tubs)
- 1972 – Philippe
Candeloro, French figure skater
- 1972 – Taylor
Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and
drummer (Foo
Fighters and Taylor
Hawkins and the Coattail Riders)
- 1972 – Ralphie May,
American comedian and actor
- 1972 – Valeria
Mazza, Argentinian model
- 1972 – Lars Göran
Petrov, Swedish singer and drummer (Entombed and Morbid)
- 1973 – Drew Barry,
American basketball player
- 1973 – Raphaël
Ibañez, French rugby player
- 1974 – Kaoru,
Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Dir en grey)
- 1974 – Jerry
O'Connell, American actor
- 1974 – Bryan White,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1975 – Harisu,
South Korean singer and actress
- 1975 – Kaspars
Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (d.
2012)
- 1975 – Todd Harvey,
Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 – Vaclav
Prospal, Czech ice hockey player
- 1976 – Kelly
Carlson, American actress
- 1976 – Lefteris
Fafalis, Greek skier
- 1976 – William
Roussel, French singer-songwriter and
guitarist (Mütiilation)
- 1976 – Scott
Williamson, American baseball player
- 1977 – Wong Choong
Hann, Malaysian badminton player
- 1978 – Jacob
Wetterling, American kidnapping victim
- 1979 – Josh
Willingham, American baseball player
- 1980 – Aya Endō,
Japanese voice actress
- 1980 – Al
Harrington, American basketball player
- 1980 – Jason
Ritter, American actor
- 1980 – Klemi Saban,
Israeli footballer
- 1981 – Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, American actor, director, and
producer
- 1981 – Paris
Hilton, American model, actress, singer
- 1982 – Brian
Bruney, American baseball player
- 1982 – Daniel
Merriweather, Australian singer-songwriter
and producer
- 1982 – Deyvid
Oprja, Estonian alpine skier
- 1982 – Adriano
Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 – Gérald Cid,
French footballer
- 1983 – Marios
Kaperonis, Greek boxer
- 1983 – Nguyen Tien
Minh, Vietnamese badminton player
- 1983 – Kevin
Rudolf, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer
- 1984 – Sadha,
Indian actress
- 1984 – AB de
Villiers, South African cricketer
- 1984 – Jimmy
Jacobs, American wrestler
- 1984 – Stefan
Jarosch, German footballer
- 1984 – Kenta
Kamakari, Japanese actor and singer
- 1984 – Drew Miller,
American ice hockey player
- 1985 – Sivakarthikeyan,Tamil
Film Actor
- 1985 – Anne Curtis,
Australian-Filipino actress and singer
- 1985 – Anders
Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper
- 1986 – Joey
O'Brien, Irish footballer
- 1986 – Ricardo
Rodriguez, American wrestler and ring
announcer
- 1987 – Thomas
Ayasse, French footballer
- 1987 – Aseem
Trivedi, Indian cartoonist and activist
- 1987 – Danny
Farquhar, American baseball player
- 1987 – Tiquan
Underwood, American football player
- 1988 – Natascha
Kampusch, Austrian kidnapping victim
- 1989 – Rebecca
Adlington, English swimmer
- 1989 – Ina
Demireva, Bulgarian ice dancer
- 1989 – Stacey
McClean, English singer and actress (S Club 8)
- 1989 – Chord
Overstreet, American actor and singer
- 1990 – Marianne
St-Gelais, Canadian speed skater
- 1991 – Ed Sheeran,
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1991 – Bonnie
Wright, English actress
- 1992 – Meaghan
Jette Martin, American actress and singer
- 1993 – Nicola
Leali, Italian footballer
- 1993 – Marc
Márquez, Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1993 – AJ Perez,
Filipino actor (d. 2011)
- 1993 – Philip
Wiegratz, German actor
- 1994 – Angie
Miller, American singer
- 1996 – Sasha
Pieterse, South African-American actress
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