| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Luís Amado |
Politician |
17-Sep-1953 |
|
Portuguese Foreign Minister |
| Almazbek Atambayev |
Head of State |
17-Sep-1956 |
|
Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan |
| Anne Bancroft |
Actor |
17-Sep-1931 |
6-Jun-2005 |
Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate |
| Nate Berkus |
Designer |
17-Sep-1971 |
|
Interior decorator, often on Oprah |
| George Blanda |
Football |
17-Sep-1927 |
27-Sep-2010 |
Football hall-of-famer played 340 games |
| Vance Bourjaily |
Novelist |
17-Sep-1922 |
31-Aug-2010 |
The End of My Life |
| John Brady |
Basketball |
17-Sep-1954 |
|
LSU Tigers Head Coach |
| Ulysses L. Bridgeman, Jr. |
Basketball |
17-Sep-1953 |
|
Former Milwaukee Buck, Wendy's franchisee |
| David Buick |
Engineer |
17-Sep-1854 |
6-Mar-1929 |
Designed the first Buick motorcars |
| Warren Burger |
Judge |
17-Sep-1907 |
25-Jun-1995 |
US Chief Justice, 1969-86 |
| Anthony Carter |
Football |
17-Sep-1960 |
|
Former NFL wide receiver |
| Orlando Cepeda |
Baseball |
17-Sep-1937 |
|
MLB first baseman |
| Kyle Chandler |
Actor |
17-Sep-1965 |
|
Friday Night Lights |
| Charles the Simple |
Royalty |
17-Sep-879 AD |
7-Oct-929 AD |
King of France, 898-922 |
| Robert N. Clay |
Business |
17-Sep-1946 |
|
Three Chimneys Farm |
| George Cleveland |
Actor |
17-Sep-1885 |
15-Jul-1957 |
Gramps on Lassie |
| Jerry Colonna |
Radio Personality |
17-Sep-1904 |
21-Nov-1986 |
Sidekick of Bob Hope |
| Marquis de Condorcet |
Philosopher |
17-Sep-1743 |
29-Mar-1794 |
French Enlightenment philosopher |
| Maureen Connolly |
Tennis |
17-Sep-1934 |
21-Jun-1969 |
Little Mo |
| Patricia Crowley |
Actor |
17-Sep-1933 |
|
Please Don't Eat the Daisies |
| Walter J. P. Curley |
Business |
17-Sep-1922 |
|
US Ambassador to France, 1989-93 |
| Elvira |
Actor |
17-Sep-1949 |
|
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark |
| David Emerson |
Politician |
17-Sep-1945 |
|
Canadian Minister of International Trade |
| Paul Feig |
Film Director |
17-Sep-1962 |
|
Unaccompanied Minors |
| Flo Rida |
Rapper |
17-Sep-1979 |
|
Low |
| Doug E. Fresh |
Rapper |
17-Sep-1966 |
|
Rap artist |
| Chuck Grassley |
Politician |
17-Sep-1933 |
|
US Senator from Iowa |
| Charles Griffes |
Composer |
17-Sep-1884 |
8-Apr-1920 |
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan |
| Chaim Herzog |
Head of State |
17-Sep-1918 |
17-Apr-1997 |
President of Israel, 1983-93 |
| Manfred Honeck |
Conductor |
17-Sep-1958 |
|
Music Director, Pittsburgh Symphony |
| Samuel Hopkins |
Religion |
17-Sep-1721 |
20-Dec-1803 |
Hopkinsian, opponent of slavery |
| David Huddleston |
Actor |
17-Sep-1930 |
|
The Big Lebowski |
| Phil Jackson |
Basketball |
17-Sep-1945 |
|
Big Chief Triangle |
| Jimmie Johnson |
Auto Racing |
17-Sep-1975 |
|
NASCAR racer |
| Paula Jones |
Victim |
17-Sep-1966 |
|
Sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment |
| Adriana Karembeu |
Model |
17-Sep-1971 |
|
Leggy Slovak supermodel |
| Ken Kesey |
Novelist |
17-Sep-1935 |
10-Nov-2001 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Thomas G. Labrecque |
Business |
17-Sep-1938 |
16-Oct-2000 |
CEO of Chase Manhattan, 1990-96 |
| Lucius Q. C. Lamar |
Politician |
17-Sep-1825 |
23-Jan-1893 |
Senator, Interior Secretary, Justice |
| Christian Lange |
Activist |
17-Sep-1869 |
11-Dec-1938 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Bobby Lee |
Comic |
17-Sep-1972 |
|
MADtv |
| Scott Linehan |
Football |
17-Sep-1963 |
|
Offensive Coordinator, Detroit Lions |
| Dorothy Loudon |
Actor |
17-Sep-1933 |
15-Nov-2003 |
American stage actress |
| Baz Luhrmann |
Film Director |
17-Sep-1962 |
|
Moulin Rouge |
| Jean-Marie Lustiger |
Religion |
17-Sep-1926 |
5-Aug-2007 |
Archbishop of Paris, 1981-2005 |
| Jeff MacNelly |
Cartoonist |
17-Sep-1948 |
8-Jun-2000 |
Editorial cartoonist, Shoe |
| J. Willard Marriott |
Business |
17-Sep-1900 |
13-Aug-1985 |
Founded the Marriott hotel chain |
| Robert Matsui |
Politician |
17-Sep-1941 |
1-Jan-2005 |
Congressman from California, 1993-2005 |
| Roddy McDowall |
Actor |
17-Sep-1928 |
3-Oct-1998 |
Planet of the Apes |
| Andrew J. McKenna |
Business |
17-Sep-1929 |
|
Owner of Schwarz Paper |
| Little Milton |
Musician |
17-Sep-1934 |
4-Aug-2005 |
Annie Mae's Cafe |
| Raymond D. Mindlin |
Engineer |
17-Sep-1906 |
22-Nov-1987 |
Mindlin's problem |
| Edgar Mitchell |
Astronaut |
17-Sep-1930 |
|
6th to walk on the Moon |
| Carol Molnau |
Politician |
17-Sep-1949 |
|
Lt. Governor of Minnesota |
| Dustin Nguyen |
Actor |
17-Sep-1962 |
|
21 Jump Street |
| Warder Norton |
Business |
17-Sep-1891 |
7-Nov-1945 |
W. W. Norton & Company |
| Frank O'Connor |
Author |
17-Sep-1903 |
10-Mar-1966 |
Guests of the Nation |
| Lupe Ontiveros |
Actor |
17-Sep-1942 |
26-Jul-2012 |
Frequently portrayed maids |
| Alexander Ovechkin |
Hockey |
17-Sep-1985 |
|
Washington Capitals |
| John H. Overton |
Politician |
17-Sep-1875 |
14-May-1948 |
US Senator from Louisiana, 1933-48 |
| Robert B. Parker |
Novelist |
17-Sep-1932 |
18-Jan-2010 |
Spenser |
| Pope Paul V |
Religion |
17-Sep-1552 |
28-Jan-1621 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1605-21 |
| Vail Pittman |
Politician |
17-Sep-1880 |
29-Jan-1964 |
Governor of Nevada, 1945-51 |
| Bernhard Riemann |
Mathematician |
17-Sep-1826 |
20-Jul-1866 |
Topologist, also Riemann Hypothesis |
| John Ritter |
Actor |
17-Sep-1948 |
11-Sep-2003 |
Jack Tripper on Three's Company |
| Win Rockefeller |
Politician |
17-Sep-1948 |
16-Jul-2006 |
Billionaire, Arkansas Lt. Governor |
| Rita Rudner |
Comic |
17-Sep-1953 |
|
Naked Beneath My Clothes |
| Donald Segretti |
Criminal |
17-Sep-1941 |
|
Dirty trickster for Nixon |
| Matthew Settle |
Actor |
17-Sep-1969 |
|
Band of Brothers |
| Dinah Sheridan |
Actor |
17-Sep-1920 |
|
Genevieve |
| William Shockley |
Actor |
17-Sep-1963 |
|
Hank Lawson on Dr. Quinn |
| Scott Simpson |
Golf |
17-Sep-1955 |
|
Winner, 1987 US Open |
| Bryan Singer |
Film Director |
17-Sep-1965 |
|
X-Men |
| Monte Solberg |
Politician |
17-Sep-1958 |
|
Canadian MP, Medicine Hat |
| David Souter |
Judge |
17-Sep-1939 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice, 1990-2009 |
| Bruce Spence |
Actor |
17-Sep-1945 |
|
Mouth of Sauron |
| Thomas P. Stafford |
Astronaut |
17-Sep-1930 |
|
Gemini 6 & 9, Apollo 10, Apollo-Soyuz |
| Gene Taylor |
Politician |
17-Sep-1953 |
|
Congressman from Mississippi, 1989-2011 |
| Charles L. Terry, Jr. |
Politician |
17-Sep-1900 |
6-Feb-1970 |
Governor of Delaware, 1965-69 |
| Shirley M. Tilghman |
Educator |
17-Sep-1946 |
|
President of Princeton University |
| Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky |
Scientist |
17-Sep-1857 |
19-Sep-1935 |
Astronautics and rocket dynamics pioneer |
| Edgar G. Ulmer |
Film Director |
17-Sep-1904 |
30-Sep-1972 |
Detour |
| James Urbaniak |
Actor |
17-Sep-1963 |
|
Dr. Venture on The Venture Bros. |
| Helen Vinson |
Actor |
17-Sep-1907 |
7-Oct-1999 |
The Wedding Night |
| Rasheed Wallace |
Basketball |
17-Sep-1974 |
|
Boston Celtics forward |
| Fee Waybill |
Musician |
17-Sep-1950 |
|
Frontman for The Tubes |
| Edgar Wayburn |
Activist |
17-Sep-1906 |
5-Mar-2010 |
Conservationist, Sierra Club president |
| Theodore S. Weiss |
Politician |
17-Sep-1927 |
14-Sep-1992 |
Congressman from New York, 1977-92 |
| Hank Williams, Sr. |
Country Musician |
17-Sep-1923 |
1-Jan-1953 |
Take These Chains From My Heart |
| William Carlos Williams |
Poet |
17-Sep-1883 |
4-Mar-1963 |
Pictures from Brueghel |
| Richard Wolffe |
Journalist |
17-Sep-1968 |
|
Newsweek Senior White House Correspondent |
| Malik Yoba |
Actor |
17-Sep-1967 |
|
New York Undercover |
| Anthony Zinni |
Military |
17-Sep-1943 |
|
Former C-in-C, U.S. Central Command |
