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In 1988, he relocated to Los Angeles, California, to pursue a career in interior design and set construction for film and television.
Famous Birthdays on April 17
1964 — Maynard James Keenan
American singer-songwriter and producer
April 17 has 227 recorded notable births across history, from 1277 to 2005. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on April 17
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- 1895 The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtian province, Taiwan and the Penghu to Japan. Source
- 2014 NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star. Source
- 2003 Anneli Jäätteenmäki takes office as the first female prime minister of Finland. Source
- 1998 Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-90, the final Spacelab mission. Source
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Claire Sweeney was a panellist on ITV's Loose Women between 2003 and 2005, and presented 60 Minute Makeover from 2004 to 2006.
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Muttiah Muralitharan is the only bowler to take 800 Test wickets and more than 530 One Day International (ODI) wickets.
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In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Hornby was named the 29th most influential person in British culture.
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike was the first woman in the world to be elected prime minister in 1960.
More major people born on April 17
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1971
Claire Sweeney
English actress
Claire Jayne Sweeney is an English actress, singer, and television personality.
1972
Muttiah Muralitharan
Sri Lankan cricketer
Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, businessman and former professional cricketer.
1957
Nick Hornby
English novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter
Nicholas Peter John Hornby is an English writer. He is best known for his memoir Fever Pitch (1992) and novels High Fidelity (1995) and About a Boy (1998), all of which were adapted into feature films.
1916
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, world's first female prime minister (died 2000)
Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan stateswoman, who thrice served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1960 to 1965, from 1970 to 1977, and from 1994 to 2000.
1852
Cap Anson
American baseball player and manager (died 1922)
Adrian Constantine Anson, nicknamed "Cap", "Pop", and "Baby" was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman. Including his time in the National Association (NA), he played a record 27 consecutive seasons.
1952
Joe Alaskey
American voice actor (died 2016)
Joseph Francis Alaskey III was an American actor and comedian. He was one of Mel Blanc's successors at the Warner Bros. Animation studio until his death.
1930
Chris Barber
English trombonist and bandleader (died 2021)
Donald Christopher Barber was an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist. He helped many musicians with their careers and had a UK top twenty trad jazz hit with "Petite Fleur" in 1959.
1868
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková
Moravian educator (died 1915)
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková was a Moravian teacher, journal editor, and women's rights activist. Born into a family of progressive educators, she studied to become a teacher, graduating in 1886.
1455
Andrea Gritti
Doge of Venice (died 1538)
Andrea Gritti was the Doge of the Venetian Republic from 1523 to 1538, following a distinguished diplomatic and military career.
1967
Ian Jones
New Zealand rugby player
Ian Donald Jones is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He played 79 tests for the All Blacks.
1863
Augustus Edward Hough Love
English mathematician and theorist (died 1940)
Augustus Edward Hough Love FRS, often known as A. E. H. Love, was an English mathematical physicist famous for research on elasticity. He also studied wave propagation.
1915
Martin Clemens
Scottish soldier (died 2009)
Major Warren Frederick Martin Clemens was a British-Australian colonial administrator and military officer.
1799
Eliza Acton
English food writer and poet (died 1859)
Eliza Acton was an English food writer and poet who produced one of Britain's first cookery books aimed at the domestic reader, Modern Cookery for Private Families.
1931
Bill Ramsey
American jazz and pop singer, journalist and actor (died 2021)
William McCreery Ramsey was an American-German jazz and pop singer, journalist and actor famous for his German-language hits. He returned to Germany a year after he had served compulsory military service with the U.S.
1943
Richard Allen Epstein
American lawyer, author, and academic
Richard Allen Epstein is an American legal scholar known for his writings on torts, contracts, property rights, law and economics, classical liberalism, and libertarianism. He is the Laurence A.
1938
Ronald H. Miller
American theologian, author, and academic (died 2011)
Ronald H. Miller was professor of the Religion Department at Lake Forest College in Illinois. Miller earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Religions from Northwestern University, and a B.S and M.A from St. Louis University.
1598
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
Italian priest and astronomer (died 1671)
Giovanni Battista Riccioli was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order.
1981
Jenny Meadows
English runner
Jennifer Brenda "Jenny" Meadows is a retired British athlete. Her main event was the 800 metres although earlier in her career she also competed over the 400 metres.
1989
Paraskevi Papachristou
Greek triple jumper
Paraskevi "Voula" Papachristou is a Greek triple jumper and long jumper. She won two gold medals at the European Athletics U23 Championships and took the third place at the 2016 World indoor Championships.