17 April: today's birthdays

• Pablo Sebastián Álvarez - Argentine soccer player
• Lindsay Anderson - English director, critic and documentary filmmaker born in India
• Hippolyte Bernheim - French physician and neurologist noted for his studies on hypnosis
• Marcel Boussac - French entrepreneur
• Nikita Chruščёv (Khrushchev) - Russian politician
• Phoebe Dynevor - English actress born Phoebe Harriet Dynevor, best known for her starring Daphne Bridgerton in the 2020 Netflix series, Bridgerton. 
• William Holden - American actor
• Nick Hornby - English author
• Maïwenn Le Besco - French actress, film director and screenwriter, best known as Maïwenn
• Katie Ledecky - American swimmer, born Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky
• Maïwenn - French actress, film director and screenwriter, born Maïwenn Le Besco
• Rooney Mara - American actress, born Patricia Rooney Mara. She starred in the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and in Carol
• George Seaton - American film director, screenwriter and producer
• Henry Vaughan - English poet
• Thornton Wilder - American author and playwright, born Thornton Niven Wilder. He wrote ​The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Eighth Day