List of Famous people born on June 17th

John Peter Cleaver Shanks was a U.S. Representative from Indiana and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Andrea Aiuti was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and in the Roman Curia. He was made a cardinal in 1903.

Peter Friedrich Röding was a German malacologist who lived in Hamburg. Very little is known about this naturalist.

Martin Krause was a German concert pianist, piano teacher, music critic, and writer.

Léonie Gilmour was an American educator, editor and journalist. She was the lover and editor of the writer Yone Noguchi and the mother of sculptor Isamu Noguchi and dancer Ailes Gilmour. She is the subject of the feature film Leonie (2010) and the book Leonie Gilmour: When East Weds West (2013).

Ignacy Hryniewiecki or Ignaty Ioakhimovich Grinevitsky was a Polish member of the Russian revolutionary society Narodnaya Volya. He gained notoriety for participating in the bombing attack to which Tsar Alexander II of Russia succumbed. Hryniewiecki threw the bomb that fatally wounded the Tsar and himself. Having outlived his victim by a few hours, he died the same day.