List of Famous people born on April 17th
Vahida Maglajlić
Vahida Maglajlić was a Yugoslav Partisan recognized as a People's Hero of Yugoslavia for her part in the struggle against the Axis powers during World War II. She was the only Bosnian Muslim woman to receive the order.
Nic Claxton
Nicolas Devir Claxton is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Georgia Bulldogs.
Dinesh Mongia
Dinesh Mongia
pronunciation (help·info) is a former Indian cricketer who has appeared in limited over internationals for India.
Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Dovey Johnson Roundtree was an African-American civil rights activist, ordained minister, and attorney. Her 1955 victory before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the first bus desegregation case to be brought before the ICC resulted in the only explicit repudiation of the "separate but equal" doctrine in the field of interstate bus transportation by a court or federal administrative body. That case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, which Dovey Roundtree brought before the ICC with her law partner and mentor Julius Winfield Robertson, was invoked by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy during the 1961 Freedom Riders' campaign in his successful battle to compel the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce its rulings and end Jim Crow laws in public transportation.
Natalia Annenko
Natalia Valeryevna Annenko is a Russian former ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union. She won the 1982 World Junior Figure Skating Championships with partner Vadim Karkachev. She later went on to compete with Genrikh Sretenski. With Sretenski, she is the 1988 European silver medalist and three-time European bronze medalist. They placed fourth at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Rui Kumae
Rui Kumae is a Chinese Japanese model, tarento, and gravure idol.
Monika Henzinger
Monika Henzinger is a German computer scientist, and is a former director of research at Google. She is currently a professor at the University of Vienna. Her expertise is mainly on algorithms with a focus on data structures, algorithmic game theory, information retrieval, search algorithms and Web data mining. She is married to Thomas Henzinger and has three children.
Moritz Jahn
Moritz Jahn is a German actor and musician. He is best known to international audiences for his role in the Netflix show Dark.
Josh Greenberg
Josh Greenberg was an American entrepreneur and one of the co-founders of music streaming service Grooveshark.
Ron W. Miller
Ronald William Miller was an American businessman and professional American football player. He was president and CEO of The Walt Disney Company from 1980 to 1984 and was president of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Family Museum. Miller was the son-in-law of Walt Disney.