The 351st day of the year, the 352nd in a leap year
Born on 17 December
Every 17 December birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Sagittarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- SagittariusFire, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
- Birthstone
- Turquoise, Zircon, TanzaniteThe 1912 list gave Turquoise and Lapis lazuli.
- Birth flower
- Narcissus, HollyUsually taken today to mean good wishes and defence.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 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 December in any year.
Which weekday 17 December falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 17 December falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 17 December is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,835 babies were born on 17 December in each year of the twenty, making it the 112th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 17 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Pope Francis | 1936–2025 | 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 |
| Humphry Davy | 1778–1829 | British chemist |
| Milla Jovovich | 1975– | American actress |
| Muhammadu Buhari | 1942–2025 | Nigerian general and politician, military head of state from 1983 to 1985 and President of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023 |
| Manny Pacquiao | 1978– | Filipino boxer, basketball player, singer, actor, politician and philanthropist |
| Willard Libby | 1908–1980 | American physical chemist |
| Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu | 1948– | Turkish politician |
| Chelsea Manning | 1987– | American activist and whistleblower |
| Joseph Henry | 1797–1878 | American scientist and the 1st Secretary of the Smithsonian |
| Giovanni Ribisi | 1974– | American actor |
| Martin Ødegaard | 1998– | Norwegian footballer |
| Émilie du Châtelet | 1706–1749 | French mathematician, physicist and author |
| Simo Häyhä | 1905–2002 | Finnish military sniper |
| André Ayew | 1989– | Ghanaian footballer |
| Maria I of Portugal | 1734–1816 | Portuguese monarch from 1777 to 1816 |
| Laurie Holden | 1969– | American-Canadian actress |
| Sarah Paulson | 1974– | American actress |
| Yann Sommer | 1988– | Swiss association football player |
Died on 17 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Simón Bolívar | 1783–1830 | Venezuelan statesman and military officer |
| Rumi | 1207–1273 | Persian poet and Sufi mystic |
| Kim Jong Il | 1941–2011 | Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011 |
| Lord Kelvin | 1824–1907 | British physicist and engineer |
| Leopold II of Belgium | 1835–1909 | King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 |
| Marguerite Yourcenar | 1903–1987 | French novelist and essayist |
| Victor Hess | 1883–1964 | Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate |
| Pope Gregory VIII | died 1187 | Pope of the Roman Catholic Church in 1187 |
| Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma | 1791–1847 | Empress of the French from 1810 to 1814 and Duchess of Parma from 1814 to 1847 |
| Jennifer Jones | 1919–2009 | American actress |
| 13th Dalai Lama | 1876–1933 | Tibetan Buddhist leader, born Thubten Gyatso |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | 1893–1957 | English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer |
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