The Birthday Gazette

Born on September 17

September 17 birthdays & history

If you were born on September 17, you share a birthday with Narendra Modi, Bernhard Riemann and Anastacia. September 17 babies are Virgo, with sapphire as their birthstone and the aster as their birth flower. September 17 is the 261st day of the year in leap years (260th in other years).

Famous people born on September 17

  • 1950Narendra Modi, Indian politician; Chief Minister of Gujarat and 14th Prime Minister of India
  • 1826Bernhard Riemann, German-Italian mathematician and academic
  • 1968Anastacia, American singer-songwriter
  • 1857Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer
  • 1975Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
  • 1931Anne Bancroft, American actress
  • 1743Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and political scientist
  • 1923Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1935Ken Kesey, American novelist, essayist, and poet
  • 1883William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist

What happened on September 17

  • 1859Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the United States, Joshua Norton distributed letters to various newspapers in San Francisco proclaiming himself to be Emperor Norton.
  • 1914Andrew Fisher, who in his previous term as premier oversaw a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s, became Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • 1920The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.
  • 1935The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide.
  • 1950The Republic of India formally recognised the State of Israel.
  • 1958Tintin in Tibet, the twentieth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist HergĂ© and which he regarded as his favourite in the series, began serialisation.
  • 1961The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • 1962NASA announced the Next Nine astronauts selected for the purpose of landing on the moon.
  • 1974Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
  • 1976The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
  • 1978The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
  • 1983Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.

Also observed on September 17

  • Australian Citizenship Day
  • Heroes' Day (Angola)
  • Marathwada Liberation Day (Maharashtra)
  • National Unity Day (Belarus) (since 2021)

Questions, answered

What star sign is September 17?

People born on September 17 are Virgo. Their birthstone is sapphire and their birth flower is the aster.

Which famous people were born on September 17?

Narendra Modi (1950), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Anastacia (1968), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Jimmie Johnson (1975), Anne Bancroft (1931) were all born on September 17.

What happened on September 17 in history?

Among other things: in 1976, The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA; in 1978, The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt; in 1983, Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.

Can I get a newspaper front page from September 17?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any September 17 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “September 17”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.