ON THIS DAY
Born in 1917
917 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Irving Penn
fashion photographer, artist
- Tove Ditlevsen
poet, writer
- John Hart
film actor, actor
- Jânio Quadros
politician, lawyer
- Sameera Moussa
Collaborator, medical physicist
- Petar Brzica
war criminal, military personnel
- Lucille Bremer
actor, dancer
- Pamela Brown
film actor, stage actor
- George H. Gay Jr.
military officer
- Tuulikki Pietilä
painter, graphic artist
- Sid Melton
film actor, actor
- Donald Davidson
university teacher, philosopher
- Reginald Maudling
politician
- Andrew Huxley
neuroscientist, biophysicist
- Kamal Jumblatt
lawyer, politician
- Samael Aun Weor
writer, esotericist
- Manolete
matador, bullfighter
- Sven Hassel
writer, military personnel
- João Saldanha
association football coach, journalist
- Urie Bronfenbrenner
writer, psychologist
- Rufus Thomas
dancer, disc jockey
- Asima Chatterjee
botanist, scientist
- Jan Clayton
musical theatre actor, stage actor
- Robert Burns Woodward
chemist, university teacher
- Jack Lynch
politician, barrister
- Yakov Pavlov
military personnel, politician
- Jan Baalsrud
farmer, military personnel
- Conor Cruise O'Brien
writer, diplomat
- Magda Szabó
writer, short story writer
- Franceska Mann
dancer, ballerina
- Ettore Sottsass
painter, designer
- Leonard Cheshire
politician, soldier
- Virginia Field
actor, film actor
- Farid al-Atrash
film score composer, actor
- Freddie Francis
film director, director
- John Beradino
television actor, baseball player
- Dorian Leigh
model
- John Raitt
television actor, musician
- Kiro Gligorov
political commissar, politician
- Leonardo Cimino
television actor, actor
- Terry Sanford
lawyer, jurist
- Alexander Schmorell
physician, medic
- Robert Taft Jr.
lawyer, politician
- Adam Malik
art collector, politician
- Nick Joaquin
journalist, poet
- Anton Coppola
musician, bandleader
- Herbert Anderson
television actor, actor
- Obdulio Varela
association football coach, association football player
- Adolf Burger
screenwriter, typesetter
- Wilhelm Brasse
photographer
- Laurie Baker
architect, paramedic
- Lou Boudreau
basketball player, baseball player
- Dinu Lipatti
music arranger, musician
- Do Muoi
communist, politician
- Guillermo González Camarena
engineer
- William Marshall
film actor, singer
- Sydney Newman
television producer, director
- Robert Gist
film director, actor
- Don Chaffey
television director, film director
- Raj Narain
politician, minister
- J. L. Mackie
university teacher, philosopher
- Sidney Nolan
painter, visual artist
- Luise Danz
prison officer, female guards in Nazi concentration camps
- Dennis James
film actor, actor
- Phaedon Gizikis
politician, military personnel
- Khan Abdul Wali Khan
politician
- Tony Cliff
journalist, socialist
- W. T. Tutte
cryptologist, university teacher
- Vince Gironda
personal trainer, writer
- Vinoo Mankad
cricketer
- Jane Bowles
playwright, novelist
- Frankie Darro
film actor, actor
- Vernon A. Walters
intelligence officer, interpreter
- William Scranton
lawyer, military officer
- Leonid Hurwicz
economist, university teacher
- Howard Metzenbaum
politician
- Ross Elliott
stage actor, television actor
- Ilse Steppat
film actor, actor
- Armando Trovajoli
film score composer, composer
- I Gusti Ngurah Rai
resistance fighter, military personnel
- Charlotte Salomon
draftsperson, graphic artist
- Clarice Taylor
film actor, stage actor
- Tadeusz Pietrzykowski
resistance fighter, boxer
- Kim Chan
television actor, film actor
- Lash LaRue
actor, film actor
- Maurice Trintignant
Formula One driver, racing automobile driver
- Vasundhara Devi
actor
- Murray MacLehose
diplomat, sinologist
- Glenn Langan
actor, film actor
- Brenda Joyce
film actor, actor
- Pál Maléter
politician, military officer
- Van Tien Dung
military personnel, politician
- Nigel Nicolson
biographer, publisher
- Meg Wyllie
television actor, actor
- David McClelland
university teacher, psychologist
- Earl Cameron
actor, film actor
- Asit Sen
actor
- Bill Everett
writer, comics artist
- Marion Donovan
inventor, entrepreneur
- Abdullah as-Sallal
revolutionary, military officer
- Carl Ballantine
stage actor, actor
- Robert Cornthwaite
film actor, actor
- Christian de Duve
physiologist, biochemist
- Vasily Petrov
military officer, military personnel
- Leopoldo Trieste
screenwriter, film director
- Theodore Hesburgh
theologian, university teacher
- Lou Monte
musician, radio personality
- Lorna Gray
actor, stage actor
- Betty Comden
songwriter, musician
- Helen Forrest
singer
- Robert Merrill
musician, singer
- Betty Holberton
programmer, computer scientist
- Robert A. Lewis
aircraft pilot, military personnel
- Walter Lord
historian, screenwriter
- Mila Parély
actor, film actor
- Jean Rouch
director, ethnographer
- Yahya Petra of Kelantan
politician
- Vera Zorina
musician, diarist
- Diana Athill
writer, editor
- William Tracy
actor, television actor
- Henri Salvador
film actor, composer
- George D. Wallace
actor
- Claudia McNeil
television actor, librarian
- Atle Selberg
university teacher, mathematician
- Heinrich Ehrler
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- Clifton Young
actor, film actor
- Nikolai Ogarkov
military personnel, military commander
- Erich Rudorffer
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- Fidel Sánchez Hernández
politician
- Virginia Dale
beauty pageant contestant, actor
- John Berry
screenwriter, film producer
- Laurindo Almeida
music arranger, guitarist
- Harold Garfinkel
sociologist, pedagogue
- Barry Commoner
biologist, politician
- Robert Anderson
screenwriter, playwright
- Tadd Dameron
musician, bandleader
- Inge Scholl
pedagogue, resistance fighter