Famous People Born on April 17
Cap Anson
1852
American baseball player and manager (d. 1922)
Margot Honecker
1927
East German politician and First Lady (d. 2016)
(Image Credits)
" Portrait Margot Honecker " by Eva Brueggmann - CC BY-SA 3.0 de
This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive.
Ferdinand Piëch
1937
Austrian-German engineer and businessman (d. 2019)
John McColl
1952
English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey
(Image Credits)
"Royal Visit 2012 0043 (McColl cropped)" by Dan Marsh - CC BY-SA 2.0
Flickr: Royal Visit 2012 0043
Clare Francis
1946
English sailor and author
(Image Credits)
"Clare Francis" by Phil Guest from Bournemouth, UK - CC BY-SA 2.0
Cropped from this image Clare Francis
Chavela Vargas
1919
Costa Rican-Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2012)
(Image Credits)
"Chavela Vargas (2009)" by Raúl Serrano - CC BY-SA 2.0
Flickr: Chavela Vargas y La Banda de Tlayacapan.
Edmonde Charles-Roux
1920
French journalist and author (d. 2016)
(Image Credits)
"Edmonde Charles-Roux, présidente de l'Académie Goncourt" by Marcantonio del Drago - CC BY 3.0
Marcantonio del Drago
Artur Schnabel
1882
Polish pianist and composer (d. 1951)
(Image Credits)
"ArturSchnabel" by - CC BY-SA 3.0
Scan from Spemanns goldenes Buch der Musik. Stuttgart: W. Spemann , 1906.
Frederik Magle
1977
Danish composer, organist, and pianist
(Image Credits)
"Frederik Magle conducting 2011 (cropped)" by Baltazar Hertel/Suspekt - CC BY 3.0 Original Source
Barnaby Joyce
1967
Australian politician, 17th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
(Image Credits)
"Barnaby Joyce portrait" by Australian Government - CC BY 3.0 au
https://minister.infrastructure.gov.au/ (copyright information: https://minister.infrastructure.gov.au/copyright)
Curtis Woodhouse
1980
English footballer, boxer, and manager
(Image Credits)
"Curtis Woodhouse 2021-05-23 1" by Anything Goes With James English - CC BY 3.0
YouTube: Premier league Footballer Curtis Woodhouse tells his story (Time: 31m54s) – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today
Neville McNamara
1923
Australian air marshal (d. 2014)