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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Harold Adamson
Songwriter
10-Dec-1906 17-Aug-1980 Time on My Hands
Conrad Aiken
Poet
5-Aug-1889 17-Aug-1973 Earth Triumphant
Sig Arno
Actor
27-Dec-1895 17-Aug-1975 The Palm Beach Story
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
Constantin Brunner
Philosopher
27-Aug-1862 17-Aug-1937 German Jewish philosopher
Azaria Chamberlain
Victim
11-Jun-1980 17-Aug-1980 Reportedly eaten by dingoes
Ray Chapman
Baseball
15-Jan-1891 17-Aug-1920 Fatally hit by pitch
Violet Kemble Cooper
Actor
12-Dec-1886 17-Aug-1961 Our Betters
Francesco Cossiga
Head of State
26-Jul-1928 17-Aug-2010 President of Italy, 1985-92
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
Don Dubbins
Actor
28-Jun-1928 17-Aug-1991 The D.I.
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
Songwriter
6-Dec-1896 17-Aug-1983 They Can't Take That Away from Me
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
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Novelist
c. 1621 17-Aug-1676 Simplicius Simplicissimus
Frank Kermode
Critic
29-Nov-1919 17-Aug-2010 The Sense of an Ending
John W. Kern
Politician
20-Dec-1849 17-Aug-1917 US Senator from Indiana, 1911-17
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
William M. Meredith
Government
8-Jun-1799 17-Aug-1873 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1849-50
Eve Miller
Actor
8-Aug-1923 17-Aug-1973 The Big Trees
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
Barney Phillips
Actor
20-Oct-1913 17-Aug-1982 Character actor
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
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
Politician
17-Aug-1914 17-Aug-1988 Congressman from New York, 1949-55
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
Murvyn Vye
Actor
15-Jul-1913 17-Aug-1976 Pickup on South Street
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


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