17 May: today's birthdays

• Jim Cummins - American hockey player
• Josh Homme - American singer and musician, born Joshua Michael Homme. He is the founder and leader of the rock band Queens of the Stone Age
• Dennis Hopper - American actor and film director, born Dennis Lee Hopper. He directed and starred Easy Rider with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson
• Edward Jenner - English physician and naturalist, born Edward Anthony Jenner. He created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine
• Jordan Knight - American singer-songwriter
• Sugar Ray Leonard - American boxer
• Bill Paxton - American actor, film director and producer
• Tony Roche - Former Australian tennis player
• Bob Saget - American comedian, actor and TV host.
• Erik Satie - French composer and pianist, born Alfred Éric Leslie Satie. He composed The Gymnopédies
• Jacint Verdaguer - One of the most prominent Catalan poets, born Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló. He wrote the poem L'Atlàntida