The 107th day of the year, the 108th in a leap year
Born on 17 April
Every 17 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aries, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AriesFire, cardinal, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Sunday and Friday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 17 April in any year.
Which weekday 17 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 17 April falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.
Showing 17 April in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 17 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,785 babies were born on 17 April in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 258th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
Office for National Statistics, How popular is your birthday? Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What a ranking like this can and cannot say →
Born on 17 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Victoria Beckham | 1974– | English businesswoman, fashion designer and singer |
| Karen Blixen | 1885–1962 | Danish writer |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | 1916–2000 | Prime Minister of Ceylon and Sri Lanka three times between 1960 and 2000 |
| Jennifer Garner | 1972– | American actress |
| J. P. Morgan | 1837–1913 | American financier, banker, and art collector |
| William Holden | 1918–1981 | American actor |
| Sean Bean | 1959– | British actor |
| Thornton Wilder | 1897–1975 | American playwright and novelist |
| Rooney Mara | 1985– | American actress |
| Joe Alaskey | 1952–2016 | American actor |
| Olivia Hussey | 1951–2024 | British actress |
| Romain Grosjean | 1986– | French and Swiss racing driver |
| Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | 1985– | French tennis player |
| Alain Poher | 1909–1996 | French politician |
| Pedro de Valdivia | 1497–1553 | Spanish conquistador, first royal governor of Chile |
| Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria | 1573–1651 | Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and prince-elector (Kurfürst) of the Holy Roman Empire |
| Nick Hornby | 1957– | English novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and film producer |
| Michael IX Palaiologos | 1277–1320 | Byzantine co-emperor |
Died on 17 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Franklin | 1706–1790 | American polymath and statesman |
| Gabriel García Márquez | 1927–2014 | Colombian writer and Nobel laureate |
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 1888–1975 | Indian philosopher, President of India from 1962 to 1967 |
| Jean Perrin | 1870–1942 | French physicist |
| Turgut Özal | 1927–1993 | 8th President of the Republic of Turkey |
| Barbara Bush | 1925–2018 | First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993 |
| Pope Benedict III | 810–858 | pope |
| Juana Inés de la Cruz | 1648–1695 | Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet |
| Alan García | 1949–2019 | President of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011) |
| Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | 1678–1711 | Holy Roman Emperor from 1705 to 1711 |
| Henrik Dam | 1895–1976 | Danish biochemist and physiologist |
| Proclus | 412–485 | 5th-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher |
Names are the titles of the English Wikipedia articles; years and the short descriptions are from Wikidata, which publishes under CC0, checked and corrected by hand where they needed it, and nothing is said about anybody beyond that. Ask for a removal.