Birthday: 17 January
Famous people born on 17 January
35 of the best-known people in our data were born on 17 January, including Benjamin Franklin, Muhammad Ali and David Lloyd George. The longest life among them was Luis Echeverría's, at 100 years.
- Benjamin FranklinAmerican polymath and statesman · 1706–179084 yrs
- Muhammad AliAmerican boxer · 1942–201674 yrs
- David Lloyd GeorgePrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 · 1863–194582 yrs
- Al CaponeAmerican gangster · 1899–194748 yrs
- Pedro Calderón de la BarcaSpanish dramatist · 1600–168181 yrs
- Constantine StanislavskyRussian actor and theatre director · 1863–193875 yrs
- Betty WhiteAmerican actress and comedian · 1922–202199 yrs
- Eartha KittAmerican singer and actress · 1927–200881 yrs
- DalidaEgyptian-French singer and actress · 1933–198754 yrs
- Tabaré VázquezPresident of Uruguay from 2005 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2020 · 1940–202080 yrs
- James Earl Jones ↗American actor · 1931–202493 yrs
- Stanisław August Poniatowski ↗King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania · 1732–179866 yrs
- Françoise Hardy ↗French singer · 1944–202480 yrs
- George Stigler ↗American economist · 1911–199180 yrs
- Douglas Hyde ↗First President of Ireland; historian, poet, and folklorist · 1860–194989 yrs
- Louis Couturat ↗French logician, mathematician, philosopher and linguist · 1868–191446 yrs
- René Préval ↗Ex-President of Haiti · 1943–201774 yrs
- Ryuichi Sakamoto ↗Japanese composer, musician, social activist, and former student activist · 1952–202371 yrs
- Taizo Kawamoto ↗Japanese association football player and manager · 1914–198571 yrs
- August Weismann ↗German evolutionary biologist · 1834–191480 yrs
- Guillermo Stábile ↗Argentine football player and manager · 1905–196661 yrs
- Luis Echeverría ↗57th President of Mexico · 1922–2022100 yrs
- Mack Sennett ↗Canadian-American actor, producer and director · 1880–196080 yrs
- Andy Kaufman ↗American entertainer · 1949–198435 yrs
- Jaime Rodríguez Jiménez ↗Salvadoran footballer · 1959–202566 yrs
- Mircea Snegur ↗Moldovan politician · 1940–202383 yrs
- Nikolay Zhukovsky ↗Russian scientist in mechanics and aerohydrodinamics · 1847–192174 yrs
- Anita Borg ↗American computer scientist · 1949–200354 yrs
- Emperor Norton ↗San Francisco eccentric and self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States · 1811–188068 yrs
- Guarino Guarini ↗Italian mathematician and architect · 1624–168359 yrs
- Coco Lee ↗Hong Kong singer · 1975–202348 yrs
- M. G. Ramachandran ↗Film actor, chief minister of Tamil Nadu · 1917–198770 yrs
- Nevil Shute ↗British writer and engineer · 1899–196060 yrs
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ↗British anthropologist · 1881–195574 yrs
- Vasily Radlov ↗German-born Russian turkologist and ethnographer · 1837–191881 yrs
Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.
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