Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : August 17

Check all the award winners born on August 17.
BirthDate
Winner
17-August-1996

Ella Cruz (Philippines)

Gabriela Annjane "Ella" Umali Cruz, is a Filipina teen actress and a model, product endorser,...
17-August-1993

Yoo Seung-ho (South Korea)

Yoo Seung-ho is a South Korean actor.
17-August-1989

Frederick Lau (Germany)

Frederick Lau is a German actor. He grew up and still lives in Berlin-Steglitz. He was awarded...
17-August-1988

Brady Corbet (United States of America)

Brady James Monson Corbet is an American actor. Corbet is known for playing Mason Freeland in...
17-August-1987

Benaf Dadachandji (India)

Benaf Dadachanji is an Indian actress who appears on Hindi television. She played the lead role...
17-August-1986

Bryton James (United States of America)

Bryton Eric James, also credited as Bryton and Bryton McClure, is an American actor and singer...
17-August-1986

Rudy Gay (United States of America)

Rudy Carlton Gay, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the...
17-August-1985

Yû Aoi (Japan)

Yu Aoi is a Japanese actress and model. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's...
17-August-1983

Dustin Pedroia (United States of America)

Dustin Luis Pedroia is an American professional baseball second baseman on the Boston Red Sox of...
17-August-1982

Mark Salling (United States of America)

Mark Wayne Salling is an American actor, singer-songwriter, composer, and musician. He is known...
17-August-1982

Phil Jagielka (United Kingdom)

Philip Nikodem "Phil" Jagielka is an English professional footballer who plays for and captains...
17-August-1982

Ryan Driller (United States of America)

Ryan Driller is a pornographic actor.
17-August-1980

Daniel Güiza (Spain)

Daniel González Güiza is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Cerro Porteño in...
17-August-1980

Cristina Pato

Cristina Pato is a bagpiper, pianist and composer. The first female Galician bagpiper to record...
17-August-1979

Matt Slivinski (United States of America)

Matt Slivinski is a sound editor, re-recording mixer, designer and a supervisor.
17-August-1979

Gábor Homonnay (Hungary, People's Republic of Hungary)

Gábor Homonnay is a costume designer.
17-August-1978

Disha Vakani (India)

Disha Vakhani is an actress.
17-August-1978

Karena Lam (Canada, Taiwan)

Karena Lam is a Hong Kong based award-winning actress and singer, born in Vancouver, British...
17-August-1978

James Boyle (United Kingdom)

James Boyle is a Film Sound Designer and Supervising Sound Editor.
17-August-1977

Thierry Henry (France)

Thierry Daniel Henry is a French footballer who plays as a striker for New York Red Bulls in...
17-August-1976

Damien Jalet (Belgium)

Damien Jalet is a dancer and a choreographer.
17-August-1972

Ken Ryker (United States of America)

Ken Ryker, born August 17, 1972, in Jeonju, South Korea, is the stage name of an American...
17-August-1970

Gianmarco Zignago (Peru)

Gian Marco Javier Zignago Alcóver is a Peruvian singer-songwriter. He has won the Latin Grammy...
17-August-1970

Jim Courier (United States of America)

James Spencer "Jim" Courier, Jr. is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the...
17-August-1969

Uhm Jung-hwa (South Korea)

Uhm Jung-hwa is a South Korean Korean pop singer and actress. Uhm began her career as a chorus...
17-August-1969

Christian Laettner (United States of America)

Christian Donald Laettner is an American former basketball player, entrepreneur, and basketball...
17-August-1968

Helen McCrory (United Kingdom)

Helen Elizabeth McCrory is a British actress. She portrayed Cherie Blair in both the 2006 film...
17-August-1967

Supriya Pilgaonkar (India)

Supriya Pilgaonkar often known by her screen name Supriya, is a Marathi actress. She is the wife...
17-August-1966

Maysa (United States of America)

Maysa Leak is an American jazz singer better known by her mononym Maysa. She is well known by...
17-August-1965

Dottie Pepper (United States of America)

Dottie Pepper is an American professional golfer and television golf broadcaster. From 1988 to...
17-August-1964

Yoo Sang-wook (South Korea)

Yoo Sang-wook is a a PaekSang Arts Award winning screenwriter and film director.
17-August-1964

Colin James (Canada)

Colin James is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, who plays in the...
17-August-1963

Don McKellar (Canada)

Don McKellar is a Canadian actor, writer, and filmmaker.
17-August-1963

Andrzej Jakimowski (Poland)

Andrzej Jakimowski is a Polish film director, writer and producer, best known for directing the...
17-August-1963

Jon Gruden (United States of America)

Jon David Gruden is a former NFL head coach and current NFL analyst for ESPN. He was the head...
17-August-1963

Shankar (India)

Shanmugam Shankar, commonly known as Shankar, is an Indian film director and producer who...
17-August-1962

Daniele Cipri (Italy)

Daniele Cipri is a film and TV director, film and TV editor, cinematographer and screenwriter.
17-August-1961

Kati Outinen (Finland)

Anna Katriina Outinen is a Finnish actress who has often played leading female roles in Aki...
17-August-1961

Lee Gyeong-rae (South Korea)

Lee Gyeong-rae is a PaekSang Arts Award-winning comedian.
17-August-1960

Lisa Coleman (United States of America)

Lisa Coleman is an American Emmy Award winning musician and composer. Coleman plays piano and...
17-August-1960

Stephan Eicher (Switzerland)

Stephan Eicher is a Swiss singer. He is of Alsatian mother and Yeniche father, also a...
17-August-1960

Naomi Wallace (United States of America)

Naomi Wallace is a playwright, screenwriter and poet from Kentucky, United States.
17-August-1960

Sean Penn (United States of America)

Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, screenwriter, film director, activist, and politician. He...
17-August-1959

Eric Schlosser (United States of America)

Eric Matthew Schlosser is an American journalist and author known for investigative journalism,...
17-August-1957

Robin Cousins (United Kingdom)

Robin Cousins is a British former competitive figure skater. He is the 1980 Olympic champion,...
17-August-1956

Dinesh Baboo (India)

Dinesh Baboo, is an Indian film director, cinematographer, producer, actor and screenwriter. He...
17-August-1954

Kirby Larson (United States of America)

Kirby Lane Larson is an American writer of children's books including Oppenheim Platinum...
17-August-1954

Eric Johnson (United States of America)

Eric Johnson is an American guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist from Austin, Texas. Best known...
17-August-1954

Ingrid Daubechies (Belgium)

Ingrid Baroness Daubechies is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. Between 2004 and 2011 she...
17-August-1953

Noni Hazlehurst (Australia)

Noni Hazlehurst AM is an Australian film and television actress.
17-August-1953

James L. Skinner (United States of America)

James L. Skinner is a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-August-1953

Herta Müller (Germany, Romania)

Herta Müller is a German-Romanian novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize...
17-August-1952

William Uricchio (United States of America)

William Charles Uricchio is an American media scholar and Professor of Comparative Media Studies...
17-August-1951

Elba Ramalho (Brazil)

Elba Ramalho, is a Brazilian songwriter, performer, poet and actress. She is sometimes called...
17-August-1951

Joe Harris (United States of America)

Joseph D. Harris is a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-August-1951

Vérénice Rudolph (Germany)

Vérénice Rudolph is an actor.
17-August-1950

Vasudevan Baskaran (India)

Vasudevan Baskaran is a former field hockey player from India. He captained the Indian team,...
17-August-1950

Feng Hsu (Taiwan)

Hsu Feng is a Taiwanese-born actress, producer and business manager. In the 1970s she was one of...
17-August-1949

Isiah Robertson (United States of America)

Isiah "Butch" Robertson is a former professional American football player who played linebacker...
17-August-1949

Bub Asman (United States of America)

Bub Asman is a film editor and sound effects editor. He and his colleagues on Letters from Iwo...
17-August-1949

Julian Fellowes (United Kingdom)

Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford DL, known professionally as...
17-August-1949

Robert Ambrico (United States of America)

17-August-1949

Ian Emes (United Kingdom)

Ian Ronald Emes is a British animator and film director, from Handsworth, Birmingham, England,...
17-August-1947

Sylvia Nasar (United States of America, Germany)

Sylvia Nasar is a German-born American journalist, best known for her biography of John Forbes...
17-August-1946

Martha Coolidge (United States of America)

Martha Coolidge is a film and television director, producer and screenwriter.
17-August-1946

Miguel José Yacamán (Mexico)

Miguel José Yacamán is a Mexican physicist who has made many contributions to the field of...
17-August-1946

Stephen Wright (United States of America)

Stephen Wright is a novelist based in New York City known for his use of surrealistic imagery...
17-August-1945

Jon August Wellner (United States of America)

Jon August Wellner is a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-August-1945

Rachel Pollack (United States of America)

Rachel Pollack is an American science fiction author, comic book writer, and expert on...
17-August-1943

Robert De Niro (United States of America, Italy)

Robert De Niro is an American actor, director, producer, and voice actor. His first major film...
17-August-1942

Shane Porteous (Australia)

John Shane Porteous is an Australian television character actor, TV screenplay scriptwriter,...
17-August-1942

Michael Tomack (United States of America)

Michael Tomack was an actor, a television editor and sound editor.
17-August-1941

Boog Powell (United States of America)

John Wesley "Boog" Powell is a former major league first baseman who played for the Baltimore...
17-August-1941

Fritz Wepper (Germany)

Fritz Wepper is a German television actor.
17-August-1941

Girish Bhargava (India)

Girish Bhargava is a film and television editor.
17-August-1940

Eduardo Mignogna (Argentina)

Eduardo Mignogna was an Argentinian film director and screenwriter.
17-August-1939

Alexander Theroux (United States of America)

Alexander Louis Theroux is an American novelist and poet whose best known novel is perhaps...
17-August-1939

William R. Dolbier Jr. (United States of America)

William R. Dolbier Jr. is a 1973 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-August-1939

Donald Levin (United States of America)

Donald Levin is a 1975 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-August-1939

Ed Sanders (United States of America)

Ed Sanders is an American poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, author, publisher and...
17-August-1939

Françoise Bonnot (France)

Françoise Bonnot is a French film editor with more than 40 feature film credits. Bonnot is the...
17-August-1937

A. A. Long (United States of America, United Kingdom)

Anthony Arthur Long FBA is a British and naturalised American classical scholar and Professor of...
17-August-1937

Toby Olson (United States of America)

Toby Olson is an American novelist.
17-August-1936

Arend Lijphart (United States of America, Netherlands, United Kingdom)

Arend d'Angremond Lijphart is a world renowned political scientist specializing in comparative...
17-August-1934

Inga Clendinnen (Australia)

Inga Vivienne Clendinnen AO is an Australian author and historian, anthropologist and academic.
17-August-1934

João Donato (Brazil)

João Donato de Oliveira Neto is a Brazilian jazz and bossa nova pianist from Brazil, probably...
17-August-1932

V.S. Naipaul (United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago)

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, is a Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning British writer known for...
17-August-1932

Gabriel Kolko (United States of America)

Gabriel Kolko is an American historian and author. His research interests include American...
17-August-1930

Ted Hughes (United Kingdom)

Edward James "Ted" Hughes, OM was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank...
17-August-1930

Harve Bennett (United States of America)

Harve Bennett is a film producer, tv producer and screenwriter.
17-August-1930

Charles L. Campbell (United States of America)

Charles L. Campbell was a supervising sound editor and voice actor.
17-August-1928

T. J. Anderson (United States of America)

Thomas Jefferson "T.J." Anderson is an African-American composer, conductor, orchestrator and...
17-August-1925

Albert Overhauser (United States of America)

Albert W. Overhauser was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences...
17-August-1925

Rémy G. Saisselin (United States of America)

Rémy G. Saisselin is a 1972 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
17-August-1925

John Hawkes (United States of America)

John Hawkes, born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr., was a postmodern American novelist,...
17-August-1924

Evan S. Connell (United States of America)

Evan Shelby Connell, Jr. was an American novelist, poet, and short story-writer. He also...
17-August-1924

Franco Committeri (Italy, Kingdom of Italy)

Franco Committeri was a film producer.
17-August-1923

Mira Stupica (Serbia)

Miroslava "Mira" Stupica is a Serbian actress primarily famous for her illustrious work in the...
17-August-1922

Rudolf Haag (Germany)

Rudolf Haag is a German physicist. He is best known for his contributions to the algebraic...
17-August-1921

Carlos Alberto Menéndez

Carlos Alberto Menéndez is a 1962 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-August-1920

Joe Baum (United States of America)

Joseph Harold Baum was an American restaurateur and innovator responsible for creating the...
17-August-1920

Maureen O'Hara (United States of America, Republic of Ireland)

Maureen O'Hara is an Irish film actress, and singer. She was first educated at the John Street...
17-August-1916

Pancho Córdova (Mexico)

Pancho Córdova was an actor and screenwriter.
17-August-1915

Jane Barnes (United States of America)

Jane Barnes was an actress.
17-August-1907

Walter Tandy Murch (Canada, United States of America)

Walter Tandy Murch was a painter whose still life paintings of machine parts, brick fragments,...
17-August-1906

José Baviera (Spain)

José Baviera was an actor.
17-August-1896

Oliver Waterman Larkin (United States of America)

Oliver Waterman Larkin was an American art historian and educator. He won the 1950 Pulitzer...
17-August-1893

William Davidson Bissett (United Kingdom)

Major William Davidson Bissett VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest...
17-August-1892

Bernard Matthew Cassidy (United Kingdom)

Bernard Matthew Cassidy VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
17-August-1879

Samuel Goldwyn (United States of America)

Samuel Goldwyn, also known as Samuel Goldfish, was an American film producer. He was most well...
17-August-1871

Jesse Lynch Williams (United States of America)

Jesse Lynch Williams was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning author and dramatist. Born in...