Who was born on February 17?

Who was born on February 17?

– 1653 – Corelli Arcangelo (1713) – Italian violinist, composer, conductor, teacher.
– 1723 – Tobias Mayer (1762) – German cartographer and astronomer.
– 1807 – Longfellow Henry Wadsworth (1882) – American poet, translator.
– 1836 – Gustavo Adolfo Becker (1870) – famous Spanish romantic writer.
– 1854 – Najafbek Vazirov (1926) – Azerbaijani playwright, publicist, public figure. One of the founders of modern Azerbaijani theater.
– 1867 – Peter Schmidt (1906) – Russian naval officer, revolutionary.
– 1888 – Otto Stern (1969) – German physicist, the first in the world to measure the speed of gas molecules (1920), Nobel Prize winner (1943).
– 1906 – Agnia Barto (1981) – Russian writer, author of poems for children.
– 1924 – Gevorg Vartanyan – Soviet and Armenian intelligence officer, Hero of the Soviet Union.
– 1928 – Anvar Azamkhodjayev (1994) – jurist, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1978).
– 1954 – Ravshan Mirtojiyev (2015) – People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (2003), Honored Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1955 – Mo Yan – Chinese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (2012).
– 1963 – Michael Jordan – American basketball player.
– 1967 – Yevgeny Grishkovets – Russian writer, actor, musician, director.
– 1991 – Bonnie Wright – British actress.