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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Luther Allison
Musician
17-Aug-1939 12-Aug-1997 Electric blues player
Evelyn Ankers
Actor
17-Aug-1918 29-Aug-1985 Captive Wild Woman
Abu Bakar Bashir
Terrorist
17-Aug-1938   Spiritual Leader of Jemaah Islamiah
John Blatnik
Politician
17-Aug-1911 17-Dec-1991 Congressman from Minnesota, 1947-75
John Brahm
Film Director
17-Aug-1893 12-Oct-1982 The Lodger
George S. Brown
Military
17-Aug-1918 5-Dec-1978 Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1974-78
Austin Butler
Actor
17-Aug-1991   Zippy Brewster on Ned's Declassified
William Carey
Religion
17-Aug-1761 9-Jun-1834 English Baptist Missionary Society
Belinda Carlisle
Singer
17-Aug-1958   Lead vocalist for The Go-Go's
Norm Coleman
Politician
17-Aug-1949   US Senator from Minnesota, 2003-09
David Conrad
Actor
17-Aug-1967   Jim Clancy on Ghost Whisperer
Charles Cooley
Educator
17-Aug-1864 8-May-1929 Looking-glass self
Martha Coolidge
Film Director
17-Aug-1946   Valley Girl
Brady Corbet
Actor
17-Aug-1988   Thunderbirds
Glenn Corbett
Actor
17-Aug-1930 16-Jan-1993 Lincoln Case on Route 66
Jim Courier
Tennis
17-Aug-1970   Winner of 4 Grand Slam titles
Davy Crockett
Military
17-Aug-1786 6-Mar-1836 King of the Wild Frontier
Justin Dart
Business
17-Aug-1907 26-Jan-1984 Drug store magnate
Robert De Niro
Actor
17-Aug-1943   The Godfather: Part II
Frederick B. Dent
Government
17-Aug-1922   US Commerce Secretary, 1973-75
William L. Eagleton, Jr.
Diplomat
17-Aug-1926 27-Jan-2011 US Ambassador to Syria, 1984-88
Larry Ellison
Business
17-Aug-1944   CEO of Oracle
Wesley Eure
Actor
17-Aug-1951   Land of the Lost
Julian Fellowes
Actor
17-Aug-1949   Shadowlands
W. Mark Felt
Government
17-Aug-1913 18-Dec-2008 Watergate's Deep Throat
Pierre de Fermat
Mathematician
17-Aug-1601 12-Jan-1665 Fermat's Last Theorem
Jonathan Franzen
Author
17-Aug-1959   The Corrections
Marcus Garvey
Activist
17-Aug-1887 10-Jun-1940 Pan-African black nationalist
Samuel Goldwyn
Film/TV Producer
17-Aug-1882 31-Jan-1974 Put the G in MGM
Leslie R. Groves
Military
17-Aug-1896 13-Jul-1970 Director of the Manhattan Project
Jon Gruden
Football
17-Aug-1963   Head Coach, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 2002-08
Leroy R. Hassell, Sr.
Judge
17-Aug-1955 9-Feb-2011 Virginia Chief Justice, 2003-11
John Hawkes
Novelist
17-Aug-1925 15-May-1998 The Blood Oranges
Thierry Henry
Soccer
17-Aug-1977   Barcelona FC
Rick Hilton
Business
17-Aug-1955   Father of Paris and Nicky Hilton
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Military
17-Aug-1870 16-Mar-1937 Spanish-American War hero
Harry Lloyd Hopkins
Government
17-Aug-1890 29-Jan-1946 US Secretary of Commerce, 1938-40
Rachel Hurd-Wood
Actor
17-Aug-1990   Wendy Darling
Eric Johnson
Guitarist
17-Aug-1954   Ah Via Musicom
Robert Joy
Actor
17-Aug-1951   Dr. Sid Hammerback on CSI: NY
Paul Kammerer
Biologist
17-Aug-1880 23-Oct-1926 Proponent of Lamarckian inheritance
F. Ray Keyser, Jr.
Politician
17-Aug-1927   Governor of Vermont, 1961-63
Andrew Koenig
Actor
17-Aug-1968 14-Feb-2010 Growing Pains
David Koresh
Religion
17-Aug-1959 19-Apr-1993 Branch Davidian cult leader
Winston Lord
Diplomat
17-Aug-1937   President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-85
Bryton McClure
Actor
17-Aug-1986   The Young and the Restless
Josh McDowell
Religion
17-Aug-1939   Evidence That Demands A Verdict
Don McKellar
Actor
17-Aug-1963   Last Night
Alan B. Miller
Business
17-Aug-1937   Founder of Universal Health Services
Alan Minter
Boxing
17-Aug-1951   English boxing champ
Harlan E. Mitchell
Politician
17-Aug-1924 13-Sep-2011 Congressman from Georgia, 1958-61
Herta Müller
Author
17-Aug-1953   German writer
V. S. Naipaul
Author
17-Aug-1932   A House for Mr. Biswas
Maureen O'Hara
Actor
17-Aug-1920   Miracle on 34th Street
George O'Leary
Football
17-Aug-1946   Head Coach, U. of Central Florida
Elizabeth Paté-Cornell
Educator
17-Aug-1948   Risk analysis expert, Stanford professor
Dustin Pedroia
Baseball
17-Aug-1983   Boston Red Sox
Sean Penn
Actor
17-Aug-1960   Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Jorge Posada
Baseball
17-Aug-1971   New York Yankees catcher
Boog Powell
Baseball
17-Aug-1941   Baltimore Orioles
Francis Gary Powers
Military
17-Aug-1929 1-Aug-1977 U2 shot down over the Soviet Union
David Price
Politician
17-Aug-1940   Congressman, North Carolina 4th
Giuliana Rancic
TV Personality
17-Aug-1975   E! News Anchor
Larry Rivers
Painter
17-Aug-1923 14-Aug-2002 American pop artist
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
Politician
17-Aug-1914 17-Aug-1988 Congressman from New York, 1949-55
Mark Salling
Actor
17-Aug-1982   Noah Puckerman on Glee
Eric Schlosser
Author
17-Aug-1959   Fast Food Nation
John III Sobieski
Royalty
17-Aug-1629 17-Jun-1696 King of Poland, 1674-96
Thomas Stothard
Painter
17-Aug-1755 27-Apr-1834 English subject painter
Gene Stratton Porter
Novelist
17-Aug-1863 7-Dec-1924 A Girl of the Limberlost
Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Religion
17-Aug-1887 27-May-1958 Archbishop of Chicago, 1939-58
Guillermo Vilas
Tennis
17-Aug-1952   Winner of 4 Grand Slam titles
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
Sculptor
17-Aug-1872 8-Mar-1955 American sculptor in bronze
Donnie Wahlberg
Singer
17-Aug-1969   New Kids on the Block
Mae West
Actor
17-Aug-1893 22-Nov-1980 Go up and see her sometime
John Hay Whitney
Business
17-Aug-1904 8-Feb-1982 New York Herald Tribune
Monty Woolley
Actor
17-Aug-1888 6-May-1963 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Jiang Zemin
Head of State
17-Aug-1926   President of China, 1993-2003


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