Famous Personalities Born In July - 17
Friday, 18 July 2025
1487 On this day in history birth of esma'il I, shah who converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah
1487 On this day in history birth of ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
1674 On this day in history birth of isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)
1702 On July - 17 birth of johann Schneider, composer
1744 On this day in history birth of elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering
1745 On this day in history birth of petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
1763 On July - 17 birth of johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education
1763 On this day in history birth of john Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader
1775 August Harder, composer was born on July - 17.
1797 On July - 17 birth of hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
1817 On this day in history birth of ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer
1827 Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet) was born on July - 17.
1830 On this day in history birth of eelco Refer, linguist (Dictionary for the Dutch translator)
1831 Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861) was born on July - 17.
1832 On July - 17 birth of johan August Soderman, composer
1839 On July - 17 birth of friedrich Gernsheim, composer
1839 On this day in history birth of ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
1853 Francesco Fanciulli, composer was born on July - 17.
1859 On this day in history birth of luis Munoz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party)
1871 On July - 17 birth of lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter
1873 Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto) was born on July - 17.
1875 On this day in history birth of donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer
1876 On this day in history birth of maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat
1876 On July - 17 birth of rosa Jackson Lumpkin, Georgia, lived to be 115 (died in 1991)
1876 On July - 17 birth of vittorio Gnecchi, composer
1878 Henri Zagwijn, composer was born on July - 17.
1883 Bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist (Acting Peace) was born on this day in history.
1883 On this day in history birth of mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Erotikon)
1885 On July - 17 birth of benjamin James Dale, composer
1888 Shmuel Agnon, Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966) was born on this day in history.
1889 Erle Stanley Gardner, US detective writer (Perry Mason) was born on this day in history.
1894 Mary Clare, London England, actress (Evil Mind, Young & Innocent) was born on this day in history.
1897 Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge was born on this day in history.
1898 Berenice Abbott, Springfield Oh, photographer (World of Atget) was born on this day in history.