ON THIS DAY
Born in 1917
917 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- John F. Kennedy
naval officer, politician
- Indira Gandhi
writer, politician
- Dean Martin
singer, comedian
- Robert Mitchum
television actor, actor
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
television actor, socialite
- Ferdinand Marcos
military personnel, entrepreneur
- Arthur C. Clarke
physicist, non-fiction writer
- Ernest Borgnine
character actor, military officer
- M. G. Ramachandran
film actor, film director
- Ella Fitzgerald
jazz singer, musician
- Jane Wyman
television actor, singer
- Desi Arnaz
record producer, television producer
- Joan Fontaine
actor, television actor
- Jack Kirby
storyboard artist, artist
- Park Chung-hee
politician, army officer
- Lena Horne
model, actor
- Raymond Burr
stage actor, film actor
- Phyllis Diller
television actor, film actor
- Susan Hayward
film actor, television actor
- Robert Byrd
fiddler, politician
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
writer, philosopher
- Thelonious Monk
recording artist, composer
- Mel Ferrer
journalist, actor
- Yahya Khan
diplomat, military personnel
- Anthony Burgess
novelist, children's writer
- Dizzy Gillespie
singer, conductor
- Buddy Rich
bandleader, drummer
- Louis Zamperini
motivational speaker, athlete
- I. M. Pei
architect
- Henry Ford II
industrialist, entrepreneur
- June Allyson
actor, dancer
- Ossie Davis
playwright, screenwriter
- Óscar Romero
Catholic bishop, Latin Catholic priest
- Richard Boone
television actor, film actor
- John Lee Hooker
singer-songwriter, recording artist
- Leonora Carrington
scenographer, writer
- Katharine Graham
art collector, journalist
- John Connally
minister, politician
- Joan Clarke
computer scientist, numismatist
- Robert Bloch
television writer, science fiction writer
- Vera Lynn
film actor, actor
- Eric Hobsbawm
historian, economic historian
- Frederica of Hanover
queen
- David Tomlinson
stage actor, actor
- Celeste Holm
musician, film actor
- Jessica Mitford
journalist, human rights defender
- Sidney Sheldon
playwright, prose writer
- Andrew Wyeth
painter, artist
- Red Auerbach
basketball player, coach
- June Foray
actor, voice actor
- Edith Bouvier Beale
actor, socialite
- Herbert Lom
television actor, film actor
- John Franzese
gangster, film producer
- Carson McCullers
playwright, prose writer
- Aimo Koivunen
military personnel
- Allen Ludden
actor, film actor
- James Jesus Angleton
soldier, autobiographer
- George Gaynes
stage actor, musical theatre actor
- Dabbs Greer
film actor, actor
- Kirk Kerkorian
boxer, entrepreneur
- Cyrus Vance
ice hockey player, foreign minister
- Fannie Lou Hamer
autobiographer, politician
- David Bohm
philosopher, nuclear physicist
- Rochus Misch
writer, military personnel
- Isabel Sanford
actor, voice actor
- Otto Günsche
military personnel, soldier
- Nur Muhammad Taraki
journalist, poet
- Alice Pearce
singer, stage actor
- Pedro Infante
television actor, aircraft pilot
- Oliver Tambo
lawyer, politician
- Denis Healey
engineer, writer
- Marsha Hunt
actor, film actor
- Caspar Weinberger
politician, lawyer
- Valerie Hobson
film actor
- Dondinho
association football player
- Jean-Pierre Melville
film director, screenwriter
- Heinrich Böll
writer, Nobel Prize winner
- Whang-od
tattoo artist
- Elyse Knox
film actor, actor
- El Santo
athlete, television actor
- Arthur M. Schlesinger
university teacher, historian
- Ramanand Sagar
writer, film director
- R. G. Armstrong
film actor, stage actor
- Larry O'Brien
politician, lawyer
- Byron White
lawyer, military officer
- Kenan Evren
military personnel, politician
- Hans Conried
musician, dub actor
- Brad Dexter
actor, film producer
- Arnold Spielberg
electrical engineer
- Ann Rutherford
actor, television actor
- Kim Jong-suk
politician, partisan
- Will Eisner
writer, comics artist
- Virginia Grey
screenwriter, television actor
- Francis Parker Yockey
philosopher, politician
- Steve Cochran
television actor, actor
- Barry Nelson
television actor, actor
- Gwendolyn Brooks
teacher, poet
- Margo
television actor, actor
- Robert Lowell
peace activist, writer
- Frankie Howerd
comedian, television actor
- Fernando Rey
film actor, actor
- John Merivale
film actor, stage actor
- Maya Deren
director, writer
- Phil Rizzuto
sailor, baseball player
- Ilya Prigogine
university teacher, physicist
- Juan Rulfo
novelist, writer
- Jerry Wexler
record producer, lyricist
- Robert Conquest
writer, editor
- Jo Stafford
musician, actor
- Kenneth Erwin Hagin
preacher, writer
- William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
military personnel
- Audrey Totter
actor, film actor
- Danielle Darrieux
stage actor, singer
- Marjorie Reynolds
actor, film actor
- Bruce Shand
writer, military officer
- Kenneth Tobey
stage actor, television actor
- Merle Travis
singer-songwriter, songwriter
- Max Showalter
stage actor, musician
- Tom Bradley
police officer, lawyer
- Joshua Nkomo
minister, nationalist
- Violeta Parra
sculptor, recording artist
- Googie Withers
actor, stage actor
- Leo Gorcey
actor, film actor
- James Donald
stage actor, television actor
- John B. Calhoun
psychologist, ethologist
- Leonard Chess
record producer, music executive
- Murry Wilson
songwriter, talent manager
- Robert Sterling
stage actor, television actor
- Hurd Hatfield
stage actor, television actor
- Masahiko Kimura
judoka, professional wrestler
- Bourvil
writer, singer
- Miguel Serrano
novelist, journalist
- Song Ping
politician
- Bill Clements
governor, businessperson
- Joan McCracken
comedian, television actor
- Charles Drake
stage actor, television actor
- Jacob Lawrence
painter, printmaker
- Edward Norton Lorenz
mathematician, university teacher
- Jesse White
actor, film actor
- Helen Suzman
anti-apartheid activist, politician
- Arthur Laurents
librettist, writer
- Soemitro Djojohadikoesoemo
economist
- Anne Bowes-Lyon
art collector, aristocrat
- Zhang Chunqiao
political scientist, politician
- Herta Ware
stage actor, television actor
- Paul Brinegar
actor, television actor
- Alparslan Türkeş
politician, military personnel
- Faye Emerson
film actor, actor
