List of Famous people born on August 17th

Columbus Calvin "Duke" Pearson Jr. was an American jazz pianist and composer. Allmusic describes him as having a "big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in the 1960s as a record producer."

Johann Georg Friedrich "Fred" Grim is a Dutch former professional football goalkeeper and the current head coach of RKC Waalwijk. Grim represented Ajax and Cambuur during his playing career.

Artur Śliwiński is the 8th Prime Minister of Poland from 28 June – 7 July 1922. In 1915 he had presided over the National Central Committee, which sought Polish independence from partitioning powers.

Semra Sezer is a school teacher by profession and was the First Lady of Turkey from May 16, 2000 until August 28, 2007 during the presidency of her husband Ahmet Necdet Sezer.

Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky was a Russian Marxist historian, Bolshevik revolutionary and a public and political figure. One of the earliest professionally trained historians to join the Russian revolutionary movement, Pokrovsky is regarded as the most influential Soviet historian of the 1920s and was known as “the head of the Marxist historical school in the USSR”.