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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Tomaso Albinoni
Composer
8-Jun-1671 17-Jan-1751 Adagio in G minor
Dorothy Alison
Actor
4-Apr-1925 17-Jan-1992 See No Evil
Henry Justin Allen
Politician
11-Sep-1868 17-Jan-1950 Governor of Kansas, 1919-23
Aram Avakian
Film Director
23-Apr-1926 17-Jan-1987 End of the Road
George Bancroft
Historian
3-Oct-1800 17-Jan-1891 A History of the United States
Glen Bell
Business
3-Sep-1923 17-Jan-2010 Taco Bell founder
Richard Boleslawsky
Film Director
4-Feb-1889 17-Jan-1937 Les misérables
Barbara Britton
Actor
26-Sep-1919 17-Jan-1980 Mr. and Mrs. North
Art Buchwald
Columnist
20-Oct-1925 17-Jan-2007 Syndicated columnist and humorist
Robert D. Carey
Politician
12-Aug-1878 17-Jan-1937 Governor and Senator from Wyoming
Camilo José Cela
Author
11-May-1916 17-Jan-2002 Spanish novelist and Nobel laureate
Gregory Corso
Poet
26-Mar-1930 17-Jan-2001 Beat poet, Gasoline
F. Elwood Davis
Attorney
15-Dec-1915 17-Jan-2012 Prominent Washington lawyer
Jacques Amand Deslongchamps
Paleontologist
17-Jan-1794 17-Jan-1867 Discovered Teleosaurus
Daniel J. Freed
Educator
12-May-1927 17-Jan-2010 Yale Law professor
Hugo Fregonese
Film Director
8-Apr-1908 17-Jan-1987 Old Shatterhand
Francis Galton
Anthropologist
16-Feb-1822 17-Jan-1911 Word Association Test
Domenico Ghirardelli
Business
21-Feb-1817 17-Jan-1894 Founder of Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Gary Gilmore
Criminal
4-Dec-1940 17-Jan-1977 Executed by firing squad in Utah
Rutherford B. Hayes
Head of State
4-Oct-1822 17-Jan-1893 19th US President, 1877-81
William M. Jardine
Educator
16-Jan-1879 17-Jan-1955 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29
Barbara Jordan
Politician
21-Feb-1936 17-Jan-1996 Gave 1976 Democratic keynote speech
Don Kirshner
Business
17-Apr-1934 17-Jan-2011 Mastermind behind The Monkees
Lawrence Kohlberg
Psychologist
25-Oct-1927 17-Jan-1987 Stages of moral development
Simon Kovar
Musician
22-May-1890 17-Jan-1970 Preeminent Basoon player and teacher
Pyotr Krasnov
Military
22-Sep-1869 17-Jan-1947 Ataman of the Don Cossacks, betrayed by Churchill
Queenie Leonard
Actor
7-Apr-1905 17-Jan-2002 Stage actress, Disney cartoon voice
Patrice Lumumba
Head of State
2-Jul-1925 17-Jan-1961 First Prime Minister of Congo
Virginia Mayo
Actor
30-Nov-1920 17-Jan-2005 South Sea Woman
Allan Melvin
Actor
18-Feb-1923 17-Jan-2008 Archie Bunker's Place
Lola Montez
Dancer
17-Feb-1821 17-Jan-1861 Mistress of Ludwig I of Bavaria
Olav V
Royalty
2-Jul-1903 17-Jan-1991 King of Norway, 1957-91
Johnny Otis
Musician
28-Dec-1921 17-Jan-2012 Harlem Nocturne
Edmund de Rothschild
Business
2-Jan-1916 17-Jan-2009 British banker
Erich Segal
Novelist
16-Jun-1937 17-Jan-2010 Love Story
Betty Smith
Novelist
15-Dec-1896 17-Jan-1972 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Artist
18-Feb-1848 17-Jan-1933 Stained glassmaker, jewelry designer
Clyde W. Tombaugh
Astronomer
4-Feb-1906 17-Jan-1997 Discovered Pluto
Walther von Reichenau
Military
16-Aug-1884 17-Jan-1942 Nazi general, encouraged atrocities
Doodles Weaver
Radio Personality
11-May-1911 17-Jan-1983 Professor Feetlebaum
T. H. White
Author
29-May-1906 17-Jan-1964 The Once and Future King
Noble Willingham
Actor
31-Aug-1931 17-Jan-2004 Hard-working supporting actor




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