| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Conrad Aiken |
Poet |
5-Aug-1889 |
17-Aug-1973 |
Earth Triumphant |
| Thea Astley |
Novelist |
25-Aug-1925 |
17-Aug-2004 |
Girl with a Monkey |
| Pearl Bailey |
Singer |
29-Mar-1918 |
17-Aug-1990 |
Appointed by Nixon as Ambassador of Love |
| Richard Barthelmess |
Actor |
9-May-1895 |
17-Aug-1963 |
Tol'able David |
| Umberto Boccioni |
Painter |
19-Oct-1882 |
17-Aug-1916 |
Italian Futurist painter and sculptor |
| Matthew Boulton |
Business |
3-Sep-1728 |
17-Aug-1809 |
Financed the early steam engine |
| Clarence Brown |
Film Director |
10-May-1890 |
17-Aug-1987 |
National Velvet |
| Azaria Chamberlain |
Victim |
11-Jun-1980 |
17-Aug-1980 |
Reportedly eaten by dingoes |
| Delmer Daves |
Film Director |
24-Jul-1904 |
17-Aug-1977 |
Destination Tokyo |
| Jose de San Martin |
Military |
25-Feb-1778 |
17-Aug-1850 |
Knight of the Andes |
| Sir Richard Empson |
Government |
? |
17-Aug-1510 |
Taxman for Henry VII of England |
| Leo Frank |
Victim |
17-Apr-1884 |
17-Aug-1915 |
Innocent man, lynched by mob |
| Frederick the Great |
Royalty |
24-Jan-1712 |
17-Aug-1786 |
King of Prussia 1740-86 |
| Ira Gershwin |
Composer |
6-Dec-1896 |
17-Aug-1983 |
American composer |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Activist |
3-Jul-1860 |
17-Aug-1935 |
Women and Economics |
| Robert R. Gilruth |
Engineer |
18-Oct-1913 |
17-Aug-2000 |
NASA scientist |
| Anne Lefèvre |
Scholar |
1654 |
17-Aug-1720 |
Translator of Homer into French |
| Horace McMahon |
Actor |
17-May-1906 |
17-Aug-1971 |
Lt. Parker on Naked City |
| Lloyd Meeds |
Politician |
11-Dec-1927 |
17-Aug-2005 |
Congressman from Washington, 1965-79 |
| Billy Murray |
Singer |
25-May-1877 |
17-Aug-1954 |
Top recording star of the early 1900's |
| Nikon |
Religion |
7-May-1605 |
17-Aug-1681 |
Reformer Patriarch of Moscow |
| Arthur W. Radford |
Military |
27-Feb-1896 |
17-Aug-1973 |
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1953-57 |
| Arnold L. Raphel |
Diplomat |
16-Mar-1943 |
17-Aug-1988 |
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1987-88 |
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
Architect |
27-Mar-1886 |
17-Aug-1969 |
The Glass Skyscraper |
| Otto Stern |
Physicist |
17-Feb-1888 |
17-Aug-1969 |
Molecular beam experiment |
| Jonathan Trumbull |
Politician |
12-Oct-1710 |
17-Aug-1785 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1769-84 |
| Vivian Vance |
Actor |
26-Jul-1909 |
17-Aug-1979 |
Ethel on I Love Lucy |
| Paul Williams |
Singer |
2-Jul-1939 |
17-Aug-1973 |
The Temptations |
| Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq |
Head of State |
12-Aug-1924 |
17-Aug-1988 |
Ruler of Pakistan, 1977-88 |
