List of Famous people born on April 17th

Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg was a princess of Saxe-Altenburg by birth and Duchess of Anhalt by marriage.

Sancho VII called the Strong was King of Navarre from 1194 until his death in 1234. He was the son and heir of Sancho VI, whom he followed as the second king to hold the title of King of Navarre. Sancho VII was the first to use the chains of Navarre as his blazon, a symbol that later would become the main one of Navarre, and the last member of the Jiménez dynasty, which had ruled since the 9th century.

Monet H. Mazur is an American film and television actress.

Margarita Esther Henríquez Rodríguez is the winner of the third season of Latin American Idol, which she won on October 9, 2008.

Carlo Dante Rota is a British-Canadian-American actor, best known to Canadian audiences for his role on Little Mosque on the Prairie and to international audiences as systems analyst Morris O'Brian on the FOX series 24. He also co-starred as Emilio Solano in Jane the Virgin.

Kiyonori Imamura , better known by his stage name Norio Imamura , is a Japanese stage actor and voice actor from Gifu. He is a graduate of the Fine Arts department of Nihon University. Imamura began his career in the musical troupe Musical Company It's Follies and was coached by Nachi Nozawa.

María Ana de Jesús Guerrero Torija, better known as María Guerrero, was a prominent Spanish theatre actor, producer and director.

İpek Özkök is a Turkish actress and model.

Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek was an Austrian-Bohemian, by other accounts a Czech composer and music teacher. He was known as the Musical Pope of Prague. In the words of Kenneth Delong, “Highly opinionated, often sarcastic and projecting a sense of his own importance, Tomášek's memoirs also reveal him to be deeply concerned about all things artistic and intellectual: a man of courage and idealism, unflinching in his pursuit of truth in music and in life.”

Étienne Marcel Bally was a French sprinter and a European champion over 100 metres. He was born in Vénissieux.