List of Famous people born on April 17th

Afrika Bambaataa is an American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer from the South Bronx, New York. He is notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenced the development of hip hop culture. Afrika Bambaataa is one of the originators of breakbeat DJing and is respectfully known as "The Godfather" and "Amen Ra of Hip Hop Kulture", as well as the father of electro-funk. Through his co-opting of the street gang the Black Spades into the music and culture-oriented Universal Zulu Nation, he has helped spread hip hop culture throughout the world. On May 6, 2016, Bambaataa left his position as head of The Zulu Nation due to multiple child sexual abuse allegations dating as far back as the 1970s.

Hèctor Parra i Esteve is a Spanish composer.

Joachim Georg Kroll was a German serial killer, necrophiliac and cannibal who operated in the Ruhr metropolitan region from 1955 until his capture in 1976. He was convicted of eight murders and one attempted murder, but confessed to a total of 14. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1982.

Ashna Sarkar is a British-Bangladeshi journalist and left-wing political activist. She is a senior editor at Novara Media and teaches at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. In 2017, she taught global politics at Anglia Ruskin University as an associate lecturer. Sarkar is a contributor to The Guardian and The Independent.

Chandra Shekhar Singh was an Indian politician who served as the eighth Prime Minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian National Congress. He is the first Indian Prime Minister who has never held any Government office. His government was largely seen as a "puppet" and "lame duck" and the government was formed with the fewest party MPs in the Lok Sabha. His government could not pass the budget at a crucial time when Moody had downgraded India and it further went down after the budget was not passed and global credit-rating agencies further downgraded India from investment grade making it impossible to even get short-term loans and in no position to give any commitment to reform, the World Bank and IMF stopped their assistance. Chandrasekhar had to authorise mortgaging of gold to avoid default of payment and this action came in for particular criticism as it was done secretly in the midst of the election. The Indian economic crisis, 1991, and the Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi plunged his government into crisis.

Said Tarabeek was an Egyptian film, television and stage actor. He was hospitalised after suffering from heart related problems, ultimately leading to a heart attack and his death.

Kristof Wilke is a German rower. He was part of the team that won the gold medal in the men's eight at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Henry Ian Cusick is a Scottish-Peruvian actor of television, film, and theatre and a television director.

Alfredo de Jesús Gutiérrez Vital is a Colombian accordion player and singer famous for winning the "Vallenato Legend Festival" three times.

Georges Loustaunau-Lacau was a French army officer, anti-communist conspirator, resistant, and politician.