The 290th day of the year, the 291st in a leap year
Born on 17 October
Every 17 October birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Libra, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LibraAir, cardinal, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- Opal, TourmalineThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Marigold, CosmosUsually taken today to mean warmth and order.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 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 October in any year.
Which weekday 17 October falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 17 October falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
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How common a birthday 17 October is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,819 babies were born on 17 October in each year of the twenty, making it the 153rd 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 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Eminem | 1972– | American rapper, record producer and actor |
| Pope John Paul I | 1912–1978 | pope of the Catholic Church in 1978 |
| Arthur Miller | 1915–2005 | American playwright and essayist |
| Rita Hayworth | 1918–1987 | American actress |
| Kimi Räikkönen | 1979– | Finnish racing driver |
| Henri de Saint-Simon | 1760–1825 | French early socialist theorist |
| Georg Büchner | 1813–1837 | German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose |
| Montgomery Clift | 1920–1966 | American actor |
| Mae Jemison | 1956– | American doctor and NASA astronaut |
| Tarkan | 1972– | Turkish singer |
| Felicity Jones | 1983– | British actress |
| Zhao Ziyang | 1919–2005 | General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1987 to 1989 |
| Marsha Hunt | 1917–2022 | American actress |
| George Wendt | 1948–2025 | American actor |
| Syed Ahmad Khan | 1817–1898 | Indian Muslim reformer and social activist |
| Margot Kidder | 1948–2018 | Canadian and American actress and activist |
| Richard Mentor Johnson | 1780–1850 | vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841 |
| William Anders | 1933–2024 | American astronaut and lunar explorer |
Died on 17 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Frédéric Chopin | 1810–1849 | Polish composer and pianist |
| Gustav Kirchhoff | 1824–1887 | German physicist |
| Puyi | 1906–1967 | Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo |
| Pope Boniface II | died 532 | pope and bishop of Rome from 530 to 532 |
| Patrice de MacMahon | 1808–1893 | President of France from 1873 to 1879 |
| Nikolay Chernyshevsky | 1828–1889 | Russian writer and nihilist philosopher; died 17 October in the Julian calendar, which is 29 October in the Gregorian |
| Karl Kautsky | 1854–1938 | Czech-Austrian Marxist theorist |
| Raymond Aron | 1905–1983 | French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist |
| Philip Sidney | 1554–1586 | English poet, courtier, diplomat |
| Jean-Jacques Dessalines | 1758–1806 | Leader of Haitian Revolution and first ruler of independent Haiti |
| Ingeborg Bachmann | 1926–1973 | Austrian poet and author |
| Andrew Schally | 1926–2024 | Polish-American endocrinologist |
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