List of Famous people born on July 17th
He Weifang
He Weifang was a professor at Peking University of China and an activist striving to reform the Chinese judicial system, who has argued that the Communist Party of China is an unregistered and therefore an illegal organization in China.
Terence Tao
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian-American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His research includes topics in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing and analytic number theory.
Sanitiar Burhanuddin
Sanitiar Burhanuddin is the present Attorney General of Indonesia, serving since October 2019 in the cabinet of President Joko Widodo. He was previously deputy attorney general for civil and state administrative cases.
Kotringo
Rieko Miyoshi, better known by her stage name Kotringo (コトリンゴ), is a Japanese J-pop singer-songwriter and pianist. In 2005, she sent in a demo tape to Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Radio Sakamoto" Audition Corner and caught Sakamoto's interest. She released her first single in November 2006.
Minoru Kihara
Minoru Kihara is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and weather forecaster (637th)–disaster prevention officer, who is the Director of Disaster Education Promotion Association of General Foundation, and a representative of the yūgen gaisha, Minoru Kihara Jimusho. Born in Tokyo and raised in Kanagawa Prefecture, he currently lives in Nakano-ku, Tokyo.
Javier Sodero
Javier Osvaldo Sodero is a former Argentine footballer who played for clubs of Argentina and Chile. He played as a goal keeper.
Jonathan Guzman
Yonatan Guzmán Pena, best known as Jonathan Guzmán, is a Dominican professional boxer who held the IBF junior featherweight title in 2016.
James Lloydovich Patterson
James Lloydovich Patterson is a Russian writer, naval officer and child actor of African American and Ukrainian descent.
Ovidiu Hațegan
Ovidiu Alin Hațegan is a Romanian professional football referee who officiates primarily in the Liga I and for FIFA as a FIFA international referee.
Afric Simone
Afric Simone is a Mozambican vocalist, musician, performance artist, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and entertainer. He entered the European charts with his first hit "Ramaya" in 1975, which was followed by another well-known song, "Hafanana", which was released later the same year.