June 17th, 1957

Born on June 17th, 1957

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 24,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 590 days, exactly on November 27th, 2025, people who were born on June 17th, 1957 will be 25,000 days old!

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What happened on June 17th?

June 17th, 2017

Wildfires erupted across central Portugal, eventually causing the deaths of 66 people.

June 17th, 1963

Riots broke out in Saigon one day after the signing of the Joint Communiqué, an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.

June 17th, 1940

Second World War: RMS Lancastria was sunk by German aircraft near Saint-Nazaire, France, causing thousands of fatalities in Britain's worst maritime disaster.

June 17th, 1919

Hundreds of Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom, England, after one of their comrades was arrested, leading to the death of a British police officer.

June 17th, 1913

In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strike action.

June 17th, 1900

Boxer Rebellion: Allied naval forces captured the Taku Forts from Qing China after a brief but bloody battle.

June 17th, 1861

American Civil War: The Battle of Vienna, Virginia, took place, which involved one of the world's first military movements of troops by train.

June 17th, 1795

French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a Royal Navy squadron commanded by William Cornwallis (pictured) fended off a numerically superior French Navy fleet.

June 17th, 1775

American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston, Massachusetts.

June 17th, 1631

Mumtaz Mahal (pictured), wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died in childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.

June 17th, 1579

Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.

June 17th, 1462

Ottoman–Hungarian wars: Wallachian forces led by Vlad Dracula attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Sultan Mehmed II.

June 17th, 1397

The kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway formed the Kalmar Union, a personal union under Eric of Pomerania.

June 17th, 0653

Pope Martin I was arrested in the Lateran Palace, Rome, and taken to Constantinople.

June 17th, 1929

The town of Murchison, New Zealand is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on June 17th

Born on June 17th, 1957

66

Joachim Król

German actor

*June 17th, 1957, Herne

66

Phyllida Lloyd

British film and theatre director

*June 17th, 1957, Bristol

66

Grace de Capitani

Belgian actress

*June 17th, 1957, Brussels metropolitan area

66

Jon Gries

American actor, writer, director

*June 17th, 1957, Glendale

66

Pedro Romo

Mexican actor and comedian

*June 17th, 1957, Mexico City

66

Uģis Prauliņš

Latvian composer

*June 17th, 1957, Riga

66

Stephen Shellen

Canadian actor

*June 17th, 1957, Victoria

56

Phil Chevron

Irish guitarist

*June 17th, 1957, Dublin †October 8th, 2013, Dublin

66

Jack Wouterse

Dutch actor

*June 17th, 1957, Soest

66

Sam Douglas

British actor

*June 17th, 1957, Banbury

Same Day
Who's birthday is on June 17th?

65

Jello Biafra

American singer

*June 17th, 1958, Boulder

67

Alan Phillips

Baseball and badminton player

*June 17th, 1956, Cape Town

36

Kendrick Lamar

American rapper, singer and record producer (born 1987)

*June 17th, 1987, Compton

43

Jeph Jacques

Comic author and illustrator (1980-)

*June 17th, 1980, Rockville

63

Thomas Haden Church

American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1960)

*June 17th, 1960, El Paso

65

Daniel McVicar

American actor

*June 17th, 1958, Independence

61

Frank Baranowski

German politician

*June 17th, 1962, Gelsenkirchen

78

Eddy Merckx

Belgian cyclist (born 1945)

*June 17th, 1945, Meensel-Kiezegem

57

Jason Patric

American actor

*June 17th, 1966, Queens

80

Burt Rutan

American aerospace engineer

*June 17th, 1943, Estacada

64

Adrie van der Poel

Racing cyclist

*June 17th, 1959, Hoogerheide

43

Venus Williams

American tennis player (born 1980)

*June 17th, 1980, Lynwood

51

Iztok Čop

Slovenian rower

*June 17th, 1972, Kranj

57

Cédric Kahn

French film director

*June 17th, 1966, Crest

41

Arthur Darvill

Actor from England

*June 17th, 1982, Birmingham

47

Lee Baxter

Swedish association football player

*June 17th, 1976, Stockholm

65

Jon Leibowitz

Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission

*June 17th, 1958, Englewood

80

Newt Gingrich

American politician and author (born 1943)

*June 17th, 1943, Harrisburg

67

Lorraine Segato

Canadian singer

*June 17th, 1956, Hamilton

37

Helen Glover

British rower

*June 17th, 1986, Truro

Same year
Born in 1957

66

Julian Cope

Welsh musician, author, antiquarian, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator

*October 21st, 1957, Deri

66

John Kassir

American actor and comedian

*October 24th, 1957, Baltimore

67

Lars Brygmann

Danish actor

*February 17th, 1957, Copenhagen

66

Stephen Morris

British drummer

*October 28th, 1957, Macclesfield

66

Kristin Clemet

Norwegian politician

*April 20th, 1957, Harstad Municipality

54

Osama bin Laden

Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)

*March 10th, 1957, Riyadh †May 2nd, 2011, Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad

66

Dagfinn Høybråten

Norwegian politician

*December 2nd, 1957, Oslo

67

Peter Aude

Danish actor

*January 19th, 1957, Copenhagen

66

Klaus Augenthaler

German association football player and manager

*September 26th, 1957, Fürstenzell

66

Frances McDormand

American actress

*June 23rd, 1957, Gibson City

41

Adrian Borland

English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer (1957–1999)

*December 6th, 1957, London †April 26th, 1999, Wimbledon

66

Stephen Fry

British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

*August 24th, 1957, Hampstead

67

Henning Krautmacher

German singer and actor

*March 5th, 1957, Leverkusen

60

Alain Defossé

French writer and translator (1957-2017)

*February 11th, 1957, Nantes †May 14th, 2017, 19th arrondissement of Paris

66

Nick Hornby

English novelist

*April 17th, 1957, Redhill

67

Mari Maurstad

Norwegian actress

*March 17th, 1957, Oslo

67

Timothy Spall

English actor

*February 27th, 1957, London

66

Matthias Klinghardt

German Protestant theologian

*August 24th, 1957, Waldshut-Tiengen

66

Christian Michelides

Austrian psychotherapist

*July 19th, 1957, Graz

66

Daniel Day-Lewis

British-Irish actor

*April 29th, 1957, Kensington

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1957 is a normal year and no leap year.

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