On This Day
February 17
| Event | Source | Birth | Death | Name | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| born | bornToday | 1981 | Paris Hilton | US heiress |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1974 | Jerry O'Connell | US Actor |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1954 | Rene Russo | US actor |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1963 | Michael Jordan | US basketball player |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1962 | Lou Diamond Phillips | Filipino actor |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1971 | Denise Richards | US actor |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1972 | Billie Joe Armstrong | US singer, guitarist, songwriter (Green Day) |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1985 | Ahna O'Reilly | US Actress |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1982 | Brooke D'Orsay | Canadian Actress |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1803 | 1875 | Edgar Quinet | French Historian |  |
| born | bornToday | 1877 | 1904 | Isabelle Eberhardt | English Explorer |  |
| born | bornToday | 1963 | Larry the Cable Guy | US Comedian |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1902 | 1993 | Marian Anderson | US Musician |  |
| born | bornToday | 1955 | Mo Yan | Chinese Novelist |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1956 | Richard Karn | US Actor |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1948 | 2012 | Rick Majerus | US Coach |  |
| born | bornToday | 1929 | 202 | Chaim Potok | Literature & Fiction edit data American author and rabbi. |  |
| born | bornToday | 1879 | 1958 | Dorothy Canfield Fisher | US writer |  |
| born | bornToday | 1888 | 1957 | Ronald Knox | English writer, theologian |  |
| born | bornToday | 1934 | 2003 | Sir Alan Bates | English actor |  |
| born | bornToday | 1934 | Barry Humphries | Australian writer, actor |  |