Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 17

Births

• 1706 - Benjamin Franklin, American statesman (d. 1790) (pictured)
• 1763 - John Jacob Astor, American entrepreneur (d. 1848)
• 1820 - Anne Brontë, British author (d. 1849)
• 1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
• 1922 - Betty White, American actress (d. 2021)
• 1931 - James Earl Jones, American actor
• 1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer (d. 2016)
• 1949 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984)
• 1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian

Deaths

• 1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
• 1964 - T.H. White, English author (b. 1906)
• 1967 - Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884)
• 2005 - Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)