ON THIS DAY
Born in 1917
917 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Phil Taylor
cricketer, association football player
- Manuel Solís Palma
politician
- Cahal Daly
archbishop, Catholic bishop
- Buddy Jeannette
basketball player, basketball coach
- Maria Palmer
film actor, writer
- Halim Malkoč
imam
- Géza Losonczy
journalist, politician
- Al Cervi
basketball player, basketball coach
- Yury Lyubimov
opera director, stage actor
- Ruth Dayan
fashion designer, peace activist
- Hans Philipp
aircraft pilot
- Robert Fano
electrical engineer, engineer
- Victor Marijnen
university teacher, trade unionist
- Zuzanna Ginczanka
writer, translator
- Babiker Awadalla
judge, politician
- Dmitry Polyansky
politician
- Vlado Dapčević
political prisoner, politician
- Abel Salazar
actor, screenwriter
- Wim Sonneveld
actor, singer
- Zenna Henderson
teacher, writer
- László Szabó
chess player
- Fyodor Khitruk
drama teacher, painter
- Kenneth Onwuka Dike
archivist, historian
- Valentina Serova
film actor, composer
- Ernst von Glasersfeld
writer, journalist
- Carl Burgos
comics artist
- Charles E. Lindblom
economist, political scientist
- Melvin Kranzberg
historian of technology, historian
- Roshan Ara Begum
singer
- Louis C. Wyman
judge, military officer
- Óscar Mendoza Azurdia
politician
- Vasil Biľak
politician
- Massimo Dallamano
film director, cinematographer
- Mack Reynolds
science fiction writer, Esperantist
- Elmer Gedeon
athletics competitor, American football player
- M. K. Indira
writer
- Anna Marly
singer, singer-songwriter
- Marshall Reed
film actor, actor
- Yvette Chauviré
dancer, choreographer
- David Flusser
university teacher, historian of religion
- Bodil Kjer
voice actor, film actor
- Joan Roberts
television actor, film actor
- Abdel Latif Boghdadi
politician
- Paul Tanner
music journalist, musicologist
- 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche
politician, monk
- Ken Downing
Formula One driver
- Antonio Lauro
composer, guitarist
- Carolyn Parker
physicist, university teacher
- Osman Ahmed Osman
civil engineer, businessperson
- Anna Molka Ahmed
university teacher, artist
- Jothi Venkatachalam
politician
- Elaine Riley
singer, film actor
- Marcel Albert
military officer, aircraft pilot
- Melvin H. Evans
ambassador, diplomat
- Susan Ofori-Atta
physician, midwife
- Frank Robbins
illustrator, writer
- Velma Middleton
jazz singer, jazz musician
- Youssef El Sebai
politician, journalist
- Alex Steinweiss
artist, painter
- Olga Sanfirova
aircraft pilot, military officer
- Dave Lambert
singer, jazz musician
- Erich Leo Lehmann
mathematician, university teacher
- Domenico Bartolucci
conductor, Catholic priest
- Albert L. Lehninger
university teacher, biochemist
- Dennis Bennett
Anglican priest, priest
- Nuridin Mukhitdinov
diplomat, politician
- André Deutsch
publisher
- Edgar Barth
motorcycle racer, Formula One driver
- Mostefa Ben Boulaïd
politician, military personnel
- Luigi Poggi
diplomat, librarian
- Erich Apel
economist, politician
- Abdel Rahman Badawi
university teacher, philosopher
- Curley Russell
musician, jazz musician
- Rodney Robert Porter
chemist, physiologist
- René Laurentin
mariologist, Catholic priest
- Denzil Best
jazz musician, drummer
- Robert Manzon
racing automobile driver, Formula One driver
- Fernanda Pivano
blogger, writer
- Fay Kanin
manufacturer, film screenwriter
- Edmond Amran El Maleh
writer
- Semyon Kurkotkin
military personnel, politician
- Jule Gregory Charney
university teacher, meteorologist
- Roberto Camardiel
director, film actor
- Ilya Lifshitz
theoretical physicist, physicist
- Lillian Bassman
fashion photographer, photographer
- Russell Wade
actor
- Tosio Katō
mathematician, university teacher
- Jazep Sažyč
politician, military personnel
- Baymirza Hayit
historian, politician
- Stanley Rogers Resor
politician, lawyer
- Semyon Tsvigun
writer, screenwriter
- Lev Kerbel
sculptor, artist
- Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola
lawyer, philosopher
- Kartar Singh Duggal
writer, politician
- Johannes Bobrowski
translator, literary editor
- Giulio Petroni
screenwriter, director
- José Luis Sampedro
economist, writer
- Alan Schneider
theatre director, film director
- Doris Duranti
actor
- Ehsan Tabari
poet, writer
- José Perácio
association football player
- Eladio Dieste
architect, civil engineer
- Robert La Caze
engineer, racing automobile driver
- HB Jassin
literary critic, literary scholar
- Honor Frost
archaeologist
- Robert Ward
conductor, university teacher
- Roberto de Oliveira Campos
writer, diplomat
- Matéo Maximoff
writer
- Aníbal Paz
goalkeeper coach, association football coach
- Kishan Lal
field hockey player
- Els Aarne
music educator, pianist
- Mary L. Boas
physicist, mathematician
- Rolf Kauka
illustrator, musician
- Lise Nørgaard
journalist, autobiographer
- Lana Marconi
actor
- Wenche Foss
stage actor, voice actor
- Kim Won-gyun
composer
- William Verity
politician, businessperson
- Franco Lucchini
military officer, aircraft pilot
- Herbert Saffir
civil engineer
- Serge Silberman
film producer
- Mervyn Wood
rower
- Andrew Benson
biologist
- Roekiah
singer, actor
- Ismael Rodríguez
screenwriter, film actor
- Pío Leyva
composer, musician
- Albert Mol
actor, painter
- Phyllis Nicolson
physicist, mathematician
- Hans-Ekkehard Bob
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- C.-H. Hermansson
politician
- Giorgio Colli
university teacher, philosopher
- André Chouraqui
French resistance fighter, translator
- Annapurna Maharana
writer, journalist
- Petro Oros
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Georg Tintner
conductor, composer
- Jack Dunn
figure skater
- Max-Hellmuth Ostermann
fighter pilot
- Durward Knowles
sailor
- André Waterkeyn
engineer, field hockey player
- Wendy Toye
director, film producer
- Barbara Deming
politician, journalist
- Hilde Güden
opera singer, film actor
- Beno Eckmann
mathematician, university teacher
- Carlo Cassola
novelist, screenwriter
- József Asbóth
tennis player, coach