Famous Birthdays In July - 17
Saturday, 27 April 2024
1487 On this day in history birth of esma'il I, shah who converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah
1487 Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524) was born on July - 17.
1674 Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican) was born on July - 17.
1702 On July - 17 birth of johann Schneider, composer
1744 Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering was born on this day in history.
1745 On this day in history birth of petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
1763 Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education was born on this day in history.
1763 On July - 17 birth of john Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader
1775 August Harder, composer was born on July - 17.
1797 Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856) was born on this day in history.
1817 On this day in history birth of ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer
1827 Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet) was born on this day in history.
1830 On this day in history birth of eelco Refer, linguist (Dictionary for the Dutch translator)
1831 On July - 17 birth of xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
1832 On July - 17 birth of johan August Soderman, composer
1839 On this day in history birth of friedrich Gernsheim, composer
1839 Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916) was born on this day in history.
1853 On July - 17 birth of francesco Fanciulli, composer
1859 On July - 17 birth of luis Munoz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party)
1871 On this day in history birth of lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter
1873 On this day in history birth of antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto)
1875 On July - 17 birth of donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer
1876 Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat was born on this day in history.
1876 On July - 17 birth of rosa Jackson Lumpkin, Georgia, lived to be 115 (died in 1991)
1876 On this day in history birth of vittorio Gnecchi, composer
1878 Henri Zagwijn, composer was born on July - 17.
1883 On July - 17 birth of bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist (Acting Peace)
1883 Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Erotikon) was born on July - 17.
1885 Benjamin James Dale, composer was born on July - 17.
1888 On July - 17 birth of shmuel Agnon, Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966)
1889 On this day in history birth of erle Stanley Gardner, US detective writer (Perry Mason)
1894 On July - 17 birth of mary Clare, London England, actress (Evil Mind, Young & Innocent)
1897 On July - 17 birth of elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge
1898 Berenice Abbott, Springfield Oh, photographer (World of Atget) was born on July - 17.