ON THIS DAY
Born in 1917
917 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Paul Hubschmid
actor, musician
- Louis Auchincloss
lawyer, novelist
- John Fenn
university teacher, chemist
- Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria
horse breeder, dog breeder
- John Cornforth
university teacher, chemist
- Harold Goodwin
television actor, actor
- Dmitry Konstantinovich Belyayev
zoologist, behavior geneticist
- Billy Conn
boxer
- Paul Rogers
stage actor, film actor
- David Easton
political scientist, university teacher
- Barbara Read
actor, film actor
- Lou Harrison
composer, professor
- Bobby Locke
golfer
- Wieland Wagner
director, scenographer
- Morihiro Higashikuni
military personnel, aristocrat
- Augusto Roa Bastos
journalist, poet
- Sharof Rashidov
poet, politician
- Otto Kittel
aircraft pilot, military personnel
- William French Smith
lawyer, military officer
- Algirdas Greimas
university teacher, philosopher
- June Lang
actor, film actor
- Isuzu Yamada
actor, stage actor
- Ed Peck
actor, television actor
- Cleveland Amory
writer, television critic
- Kriangsak Chamanan
politician
- Mohammed al-Ghazali
theologian, Islamic religious leaders
- Beqir Balluku
politician
- Daniel Wildenstein
businessperson, art historian
- Noah Adamia
sniper, military personnel
- John Newland
director, writer
- Džemal Bijedić
jurist, political commissar
- Yun Dong-ju
poet, independence activist
- Nasuhi Ertegün
record producer, composer
- Georgy Vitsin
film actor, actor
- Ahmad Ismail Ali
military personnel
- Maurice Duverger
politician, university teacher
- Zeng Liansong
academic, economist
- Loretta King Hadler
film actor, actor
- Li Rui
politician, functionary
- John Kendrew
crystallographer, chemist
- Stéphane Hessel
poet, French resistance fighter
- O Jin-u
politician, military personnel
- Chung Il-kwon
military personnel, politician
- Roque Máspoli
association football player, association football coach
- Mikhail Devyatayev
military personnel, writer
- Rosaleen Norton
occultist, witch
- Kenkichi Iwasawa
university teacher, mathematician
- David Goodis
screenwriter, novelist
- Florence Knoll
entrepreneur, interior designer
- Vasily Mishin
design engineer, scientist
- Tex Williams
actor, singer
- Bernard Barker
politician
- Titos Vandis
actor, translator
- William Hardy McNeill
university teacher, writer
- Eiji Sawamura
baseball player, professional baseball player
- Ann Richards
film actor, actor
- Dorothy DeLay
music educator, university teacher
- Leslie Fiedler
scholar of English, university teacher
- Hilary Mason
film actor, actor
- Egon Mayer
fighter pilot
- Zainab al-Ghazali
politician, dawah
- Isang Yun
conductor, musicologist
- Arthur Lydiard
track and field coach, coach
- Dik Browne
comics artist, cartoonist
- Humphry Osmond
psychiatrist
- Mamie Phipps Clark
psychologist
- Harry Coover
inventor, chemist
- John Fitch
Formula One driver, racing automobile driver
- Abram Hoffer
psychiatrist
- Peter Leeds
voice actor, actor
- Shanta Gandhi
playwright, theatre director
- Wang Yung-ching
entrepreneur
- Carlos Puebla
composer, singer
- Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema
correspondent, Engelandvaarder
- Ian Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford
politician, journalist
- Ruth Park
writer, children's writer
- Herman Feshbach
nuclear physicist, physicist
- Al Schwimmer
businessperson, military flight engineer
- Suzy Delair
film actor, musician
- Ernesto Alonso
film producer, film actor
- Knut Haugland
military personnel, military officer
- Ramesh Balsekar
philosopher
- Rafael Banquells
film actor, film director
- Edgar Whitcomb
jurist, politician
- Austin Willis
film actor, television presenter
- Ib Melchior
screenwriter, writer
- Otto Glória
association football player, association football coach
- William Standish Knowles
researcher, chemist
- John Alvin
actor, television actor
- Ellis Clarke
politician, lawyer
- Fay Baker
television actor, stage actor
- James Rainwater
physicist, university teacher
- Earl Bellamy
film director, director
- Giuseppe De Santis
director, screenwriter
- Eliane Plewman
SOE agent, French resistance fighter
- Irving Kaplansky
university teacher, mathematician
- Pierre Gaspard-Huit
film director, television writer
- Miklós Gimes
journalist, political activist
- Robert Karnes
television actor, actor
- John Robarts
jurist, politician
- Sydney J. Harris
journalist
- Luis Carniglia
association football coach, association football player
- Leo Abse
writer, sociologist
- Herbert A. Hauptman
chemist, crystallographer
- Peggy Ahern
film actor, stage actor
- Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin
politician, minister
- Georges Arnaud
screenwriter, writer
- Bridget Bate Tichenor
draftsperson, painter
- Kamal Ranadive
scientist, medical researcher
- Tran Duc Thao
writer, philosopher
- Kerim Kerimov
military personnel, engineer
- Walter Munk
physicist, geophysicist
- Henderson Forsythe
actor, stage actor
- Fadwa Tuqan
writer, poet
- Jacqueline Auriol
aircraft pilot
- Zoltán Fábri
visual artist, university teacher
- Melville Shavelson
film director, director
- Doris Davenport
film actor, actor
- Robert Antelme
poet, writer
- Alec Stock
association football player, association football coach
- Musine Kokalari
women's rights activist, writer
- Mouloud Mammeri
poet, linguist
- Leonard Jimmie Savage
statistician, university teacher
- Mak Dizdar
poet, journalist
- Dick Hogan
businessperson, actor
- Eddie Vinson
musician, saxophonist
- Jimmy Kruger
lawyer, minister
- Ezra Stone
stage actor, director
- Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor
university teacher, writer
- Kay Aldridge
film actor, model
- Gloria Fuertes
poet, editing staff
- Siegfried Knappe
autobiographer, soldier
- Paul Frère
Formula One driver, writer
- Bea Wain
jazz musician, radio personality
- William P. Gottlieb
journalist, photographer
- Aurelio Lampredi
engineer
- Barbara Cooney
children's writer, artist
- Ion Rațiu
politician, lawyer
- Yao Yilin
politician
- Mary Ellis
aircraft pilot, autobiographer
- Paul de Metternich-Winneburg
aristocrat, functionary
- Albert De Cleyn
association football player, association football coach