List of Famous people born on August 17th

Auguste Armand Ghislain Marie Joseph Nompar de Caumont de La Force, 12th Duke of La Force, was a French duke and historian. Specialising in the 17th century, his work allowed him to reconstruct events in which his ancestors had taken part. He was elected a member of the Académie française on 19 November 1925.

Kelvin Mercer, known professionally as Posdnuos and occasionally Pos, is an American rapper and producer from East Massapequa, New York best known for his work as one-third of the hip hop trio De La Soul. Through his work with the group, Mercer is considered to be one of the most consistent and underrated MCs of all time. Beginning with the highly acclaimed 3 Feet High and Rising in 1989, Mercer has gone on to release nine albums with De La Soul.

Rupert Joel Degas is a British-Australian actor. He is best known for his voice work in animation and audiobooks. Since the 1980s, he has worked in film and television, theatre, video games, radio productions and podcasts, audiobooks and as a producer.

Bessie Potter Vonnoh was an American sculptor best known for her small bronzes, mostly of domestic scenes, and for her garden fountains. Her stated artistic objective, as she told an interviewer in 1925, was to “look for beauty in the every-day world, to catch the joy and swing of modern American life.”

Jules Bernard Luys was a French neurologist who made important contributions to the fields of neuroanatomy and neuropsychiatry.

Bryton Eric McClure, also credited as Bryton James and mononymously as Bryton, is an American musical theatre, film and television actor. As a child actor, he played Richie Crawford on the ABC/CBS sitcom, Family Matters. He currently plays Devon Hamilton on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless in which he won two Daytime Emmy Awards.