Famous People Born on April 17
Marquis Grissom
1967
American baseball player and coach
(Image Credits)
"Marquis Grissom on June 28, 2009 (cropped)" by Keith Allison on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop) - CC BY-SA 2.0
Originally posted to Flickr as "Willie Harris" Cropped by UCinternational
Gilles Lamontagne
1919
Canadian lieutenant and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2016)
(Image Credits)
"Standard of the Lieutenant Governor of Québec" by Ctjj.stevenson - CC BY-SA 4.0
I updated the shield of the Arms of the Province of Québec with other works found on Wikipedia.Previously published: NA
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
1598
Italian priest and astronomer (d. 1671)
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
Jung Wheein
1995
South Korean singer
(Image Credits)
"Wheein 2023" by THEL1VE - CC BY 3.0
YouTube – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today
James Last
1929
German-American bassist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2015)
Sidney Garfield
1906
American physician, co-founded Kaiser Permanente (d. 1984)
(Image Credits)
"One Kaiser Plaza" by Coolcaesar - CC BY-SA 4.0
Dheeran Chinnamalai
1756
Indian commander (d. 1805)
(Image Credits)
"Dheeran Chinnamalai1" by Invisiblemaniac - CC BY-SA 3.0
Win Maung
1916
3rd President of Union of Myanmar (d. 1989)
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
1794
German botanist and explorer (d. 1868)
Collin McKinney
1766
American surveyor, merchant, and politician (d. 1861)
Billy Fury
1940
English singer-songwriter (d. 1983)
(Image Credits)
"Billy Fury 8 Allan Warren" by Allan warren - CC BY-SA 3.0