Famous Birthdays on October 17

380 people 503 – 2002

October 17 has seen 380 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 503 – 2002. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

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Sam Concepcion

1992 — Sam Concepcion

Filipino musician and dancer

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in April 2006 Concepcion won the Big Division in the first season of Little Big Star

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His first lead role came in 2012 in the first Filipino musical-film entitled, I Do Bidoo Bidoo: Heto nAPO Sila!

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Concepcion began with 12 theater roles and participated in plays at a young age, including the role of Edmund Pevensie in the local adaptation of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and Mr

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Aside from theater roles, he has acted in movies including Way Back Home and Shake, Rattle & Roll 13

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Samuel Lawrence Lopez Concepcion is a Filipino singer, dancer, actor, VJ and host


Lý Nam Đế
first emperor of Vietnam (died 548)
Lý Nam Đế, personal name Lý Bôn or Lý Bí (李賁), was the founding emperor of the Early Lý dynasty of Vietnam, ruling from 544 to 548. He was originally a magistrate of the Chinese Liang dynasty in Jiaozhou.
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503
Ivo of Kermartin
French priest and saint (died 1303)
Ivo of Kermartin, TOSF, also known as Yvo, Yves, or Ives, was a parish priest among the poor of Louannec, the only one of his station to be canonized in the Middle Ages. He is the patron of Brittany, lawyers, and…
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1253
Bartolommeo Bandinelli
Italian sculptor (died 1560)
Baccio Bandinelli was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, draughtsman, and painter.
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1493
Alonso de Orozco Mena
Spanish Roman Catholic priest (died 1591)
Alonso de Orozco Mena was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest from the Augustinian order. He was well known across Spain for his preaching abilities and for an austere and humble life.
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1500
Irene di Spilimbergo
Italian Renaissance poet and painter (died 1559)
Irene di Spilimbergo was an Italian Renaissance painter and poet.
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1538
Cristofano Allori
Italian painter (died 1621)
Cristofano Allori was an Italian painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school, painting mostly portraits and religious subjects.
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1577
Dmitry Pozharsky
Russian prince (died 1642)
Dmitry Mikhaylovich Pozharsky was a Russian prince known for his military leadership during the Polish–Russian War from 1611 to 1612. Pozharsky formed the Second Volunteer Army with Kuzma Minin in Nizhny Novgorod…
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1577
Johann Gerhard
German theologian and academic (died 1637)
Johannes Gerhard was a Lutheran church leader and Lutheran Scholastic theologian during the period of Orthodoxy.
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1582
Nathan Field
English dramatist and actor (died 1620)
Nathan Field was an English dramatist and actor.
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1587
Francis Turretin
Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (died 1687)
Francis Turretin was a Genevan-Italian Reformed scholastic theologian.
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1623
Balthasar Charles
Prince of Asturias (died 1646)
Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias, Prince of Girona, Prince of Viana, Prince of Portugal, Duke of Montblanc, Count of Cervera, and Lord of Balaguer was heir apparent to all the kingdoms, states and dominions of the…
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1629
Italian missionary and composer (died 1726)
Domenico Zipoli (1688–1726) was an Italian composer from the Baroque period who worked in Córdoba, in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire,. He became a Jesuit in order to work in the Reductions of Paraguay where he…
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1688
Jupiter Hammon
American poet (died 1806)
Jupiter Hammon was an American writer who is known as a founder of African-American literature, as his poem published in 1761 in New York was the first by an African American man in North America. He subsequently…
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1711
Jacques Cazotte
French author and academic (died 1792)
Jacques Cazotte was a French writer and a monarchist. He predicted the Reign of Terror and was guillotined shortly after.
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1719
Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini
Italian harpsichord player and composer (died 1795)
Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini was an Italian composer. Though she was most famous for her compositions, she was also an accomplished harpsichordist and singer, and the majority of her surviving compositions were written…
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1720
John Wilkes
English journalist and politician (died 1797)
John Wilkes was a British radical, journalist, politician, magistrate and writer. He was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of his voters – rather…
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1725
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny
French composer and academic (died 1817)
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny was a French composer and a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts (1813).
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1729
Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger
German Baroque artist (died 1803)
Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (17 October 1735 – 6 January 1803) was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with the Wessobrunner School.
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1735
Andrey Voronikhin
Russian architect and painter (died 1814)
Andrey (Andrei) Nikiforovich Voronikhin was a Russian architect and painter. As a representative of classicism he was also one of the founders of the monumental Russian Empire style. Born a serf of the Stroganov family,…
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1759
Claude Henri de Rouvroy
comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (died 1825)
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, better known as Henri de Saint-Simon, was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on politics,…
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1760
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Who was born on October 17?

Sam Concepcion — Filipino actor and singer

Birth year1992
Known forin April 2006 Concepcion won the Big Division in the first season of Little Big Star
Birthdays on this date380 (503 – 2002)

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