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Celebrity Birth Charts for August 17

Browse the birth charts of celebrities born on August 17, with interactive wheels, Sun and Ascendant signs, and planetary dominants, sorted by decreasing popularity.

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212 celebrities or events were found for August, 17.

Author: San Francisco Giants / Dennis Desprois
Credits: San Francisco Giants via tradingcarddb.com
Licence: Public domain
Born:Monday, August 17, 1959
In:Lodi (CA) (United States)
Sun: 23°59' LeoAS: 22°54' Virgo
Moon:12°47' Aquarius MC: 21°58' Gemini
Dominants: Virgo, Leo, Aquarius
Mars, Mercury, Sun
Houses 11, 12, 5 / Earth, Fire / Fixed
Chinese Astrology: Earth Pig
Numerology: Birth Path 4
Height: Brad Wellman is 6' (1m83) tall
Pageviews: 1,003
Biography of Brad Wellman (excerpt)

Brad Eugene Wellman (born August 17, 1959) is a former Major League Baseball infielder. Prior to the majors he played at Castro Valley High School. Signed by the Kansas City Royals as an amateur free agent in 1978, Wellman made his Major League debut with the San Francisco Giants on September 4, 1982, and appeared in his final game, with the Royals, on October 1, 1989.

Author: Benjamin Turner Photography
Credits: Own work
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
Born:Tuesday, August 17, 1982
In:London (United Kingdom)
Sun: 23°59' LeoAS: 0°13' Virgo
Moon:28°03' Cancer MC: 20°03' Taurus
Dominants: Leo, Virgo, Scorpio
Sun, Mercury, Moon
Houses 12, 3, 11 / Fire, Earth / Fixed
Chinese Astrology: Water Dog
Numerology: Birth Path 9
Pageviews: 954
Biography of Jessie Burton (excerpt)

Jessica Kathryn Burton, born on 17 August 1982, is an English author. As of 2022, she has published four adult novels — The Miniaturist, The Muse, The Confession, The House of Fortune — and two children’s books, The Restless Girls and Medusa.

Author: Author unknown
Credits: Schriften der Kurt Hiller Gesellschaft, Hf. 3
Licence: Public domain
Born:Monday, August 17, 1885
In:Berlin (Germany)
Sun: 24°17' LeoAS: 3°16' Leo
Moon:18°38' Scorpio MC: 8°57' Aries
Dominants: Leo, Virgo, Cancer
Sun, Uranus, Mercury
Houses 3, 2, 12 / Fire, Earth / Fixed
Numerology: Birth Path 11
Pageviews: 951
Biography of Kurt Hiller (excerpt)

Kurt Hiller (born August 17, 1885, Berlin – died October 1, 1972, Hamburg) was a German essayist, lawyer, expressionist poet, and pacifist journalist. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he was a communist inspired by Kant and Schopenhauer, though he rejected Hegel, which alienated him from Marxists.

Author: Baba79
Credits: Own work
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
Born:Tuesday, August 17, 1993
In:Paris 14e (France)
Sun: 24°49' LeoAS: 25°19' Capricorn
Moon:23°46' Leo MC: 25°45' Scorpio
Dominants: Capricorn, Leo, Scorpio
Pluto, Neptune, Sun
Houses 7, 12, 9 / Water, Earth / Fixed
Chinese Astrology: Water Rooster
Numerology: Birth Path 11
Pageviews: 794
Biography of Lea Desandre (excerpt)

Lea Desandre, a Franco Italian mezzo soprano, was born on 17 August 1993 in Paris 14th. First passionate about dance, she joined the Paris Opera children’s chorus at 12 and looked up to Natalie Dessay. She studied at the Boulogne Billancourt conservatoire with Esthel Durand and in Venice with Sara Mingardo.

Author: Matthew Chamberlain
Credits: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Born:Tuesday, August 17, 1982
In:Tucson (AZ) (United States)
Sun: 24°16' LeoAS: 19°26' Leo
Moon:2°22' Leo MC: 14°36' Taurus
Dominants: Leo, Scorpio, Libra
Sun, Venus, Mars
Houses 3, 1, 12 / Fire, Water / Fixed
Chinese Astrology: Water Dog
Numerology: Birth Path 9
Pageviews: 774
Biography of Amelia Gray (excerpt)

Amelia Gray (born August 17, 1982) is an American writer known for her darkly surreal and psychologically charged fiction. She has published the short story collections AM/PM, Museum of the Weird, and Gutshot, as well as the novels THREATS and Isadora, all with Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Born:Monday, August 17, 1970
In:Lima (Peru)
Sun: 24°34' LeoAS: 9°06' Aquarius
Moon:5°38' Pisces MC: 9°58' Scorpio
Dominants: Leo, Libra, Scorpio
Uranus, Sun, Venus
Houses 8, 7, 9 / Air, Water / Fixed
Chinese Astrology: Metal Dog
Numerology: Birth Path 6
Height: Gian Marco (musician) is 5' 11" (1m80) tall
Pageviews: 710
Biography of Gian Marco (musician) (excerpt)

Gian Marco Javier Zignago Alcóver, born August 17, 1970, in Lima, is a Peruvian musician and actor. He has won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Album three times, for Resucitar (2005), Días Nuevos (2011), and 20 Ańos (2012). He was also appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Peru.

Born:Monday, August 17, 1964
In:Salvador, Bahia (Brazil)
Sun: 24°51' LeoAS: 26°52' Capricorn
Moon:23°30' Sagittarius MC: 25°46' Libra
Dominants: Virgo, Cancer, Leo
Sun, Saturn, Venus
Houses 8, 6, 11 / Earth, Water / Cardinal
Chinese Astrology: Wood Dragon
Numerology: Birth Path 9
Pageviews: 623
Biography of Arthur Oliveira Maia (excerpt)

Arthur Maia, born August 17, 1964 in Salvador, is a lawyer with a master’s degree in economic law from the Federal University of Bahia.He began his career at Edvaldo Brito’s law firm and entered politics in the late 1980s. Elected state deputy four times, he is now serving his fifth term as a federal deputy.

Born:Tuesday, August 17, 1954
In:Croydon, Surrey (United Kingdom)
Sun: 24°00' Leo  
Moon:3°50' Aries   
Dominants: Leo, Libra, Aries
Sun, Venus, Moon
Fire, Water / Cardinal
Chinese Astrology: Wood Horse
Numerology: Birth Path 8
Pageviews: 598
Biography of Allan Cubitt (excerpt)

Allan Cubitt, born August 17, 1954 in Croydon, Surrey, is a British screenwriter, director, producer, and former teacher, best known for Prime Suspect II and The Fall.He began in 1988 as a playwright with Winter Darkness, winning a Thames Television bursary that led to a writer-in-residence role at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Born:Thursday, August 17, 1944
In:Richmond (IN) (United States)
Sun: 24°27' LeoAS: 14°31' Virgo
Moon:9°51' Leo MC: 12°08' Gemini
Dominants: Virgo, Leo, Gemini
Mercury, Uranus, Venus
Houses 1, 12, 10 / Earth, Fire / Mutable
Chinese Astrology: Wood Monkey
Numerology: Birth Path 7
Pageviews: 429
Biography of Baby Huey (singer) (excerpt)

James Thomas Ramey, born August 17, 1944, and died October 28, 1970, was an American singer best known as Baby Huey. As frontman of Baby Huey & the Babysitters, he helped shape music history through the band’s sole 1971 album, which later became influential in the emergence of hip-hop.

Born:Thursday, August 17, 1989
In:Kazan, Tatarstan (Russia)
Sun: 24°24' Leo  
Moon:27°08' Aquarius   
Dominants: Virgo, Capricorn, Leo
Saturn, Jupiter, Sun
Earth, Water / Fixed
Chinese Astrology: Earth Snake
Numerology: Birth Path 7
Pageviews: 418
Biography of Karina Ambartsumova (excerpt)

Karina Ambartsumova, born on August 17, 1989, is a Russian chess player holding the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She began playing chess at the age of four and quickly achieved success in youth competitions across Europe and Russia.

Born:Monday, August 17, 1936
In:Milan (Italy)
Sun: 24°20' Leo  
Moon:28°03' Leo   
Dominants: Leo, Virgo, Sagittarius
Mercury, Sun, Jupiter
Fire, Earth / Fixed
Chinese Astrology: Fire Rat
Numerology: Birth Path 8
Pageviews: 213
Biography of Mogol (lyricist) (excerpt)

Mogol, born Giulio Rapetti on August 17, 1936 in Milan, is an Italian lyricist and producer. He is best known for his collaborations with leading figures of Italian popular music, including Lucio Battisti, Adriano Celentano, Gianni Bella, Bobby Solo, and Mango.

Born:Monday, August 17, 1908
In:Williamsport (PA) (United States)
Sun: 24°03' LeoAS: 13°40' Leo
Moon:5°30' Taurus MC: 3°05' Taurus
Dominants: Leo, Taurus, Cancer
Sun, Moon, Mercury
Houses 1, 10, 11 / Fire, Earth / Fixed
Chinese Astrology: Earth Monkey
Numerology: Birth Path 7
Pageviews: 155
Biography of Jimmy Sherman (excerpt)

James Benjamin Sherman (August 17, 1908 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania – October 11, 1975 in Philadelphia) was an American jazz pianist and arranger. Sherman played in dance bands in the late 1920s and intermittently collaborated with Jimmy Gorham in the metropolitan Philadelphia area.

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