Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : December 17

Check all the award winners born on December 17.
BirthDate
Winner
17-December-2009

Chandulal Jain (India)

Chandulal Jain is a film producer.
17-December-1994

Nat Wolff (United States of America)

Nathaniel Marvin Wolff is an American actor, singer-songwriter, composer, keyboardist, and...
17-December-1991

Nadech Kugimiya (Thailand, Austria)

Nadech Kugimiya is a Thai model and actor of Thai and Austrian descent.
17-December-1980

Ryan Hunter-Reay (United States of America)

Ryan Hunter-Reay is a professional American race car driver best known as a multiple race winner...
17-December-1978

Marc Lamont Hill (United States of America)

Marc Lamont Hill is an American academic, journalist, author, activist, and television...
17-December-1978

Riteish Deshmukh (India)

Ritesh Deshmukh, or simply Riteish, is an Indian architect, film actor and producer active in...
17-December-1978

Manny Pacquiáo (Philippines)

Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is...
17-December-1974

Sarah Paulson (United States of America)

Sarah Catharine Paulson is an American film, stage, and television actress. She began acting on...
17-December-1974

Giovanni Ribisi (United States of America)

Antonino Giovanni Ribisi, better known professionally as Giovanni Ribisi, is an American actor...
17-December-1973

Paula Radcliffe (United Kingdom)

Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBE is an English long-distance runner. She is the current women's world...
17-December-1973

Rian Johnson (United States of America)

Rian Craig Johnson is an American writer and director, who won the Special Jury Prize for...
17-December-1972

John Abraham (India)

John Abraham is an Indian film actor, producer and former model. After modelling for numerous...
17-December-1970

Sean Patrick Thomas (United States of America)

Sean Patrick Thomas is an American actor. He is known for his co-starring role in the 2001 film...
17-December-1969

Laurie Holden (United States of America, Canada)

Heather Laurie Holden, best known as Laurie Holden, is an American-Canadian actress, producer,...
17-December-1967

Jaime Luis Huenún (Chile)

Jaime Luis Huenún is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
17-December-1966

Juliet Aubrey (United Kingdom)

Juliet Aubrey is an English actress, known for playing the main antagonist Helen Cutter during...
17-December-1964

Michele Tafoya (United States of America)

Michele Tafoya Vandersall, known professionally as Michele Tafoya, is an American sportscaster...
17-December-1962

Ari Folman (Israel)

Ari Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer.
17-December-1961

Rafeeq Ahammed (India)

Rafeeq Ahammed is a noted Malayalam lyricist and poet. He has won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi...
17-December-1958

Jayasudha (India)

Jayasudha Kapoor is an Indian film actress predominantly in Telugu Cinema -turned-MLA for the...
17-December-1956

Michael J. Weithorn (United States of America)

Michael J. Weithorn is an American writer, director, and producer known for his works including...
17-December-1956

Peter Farrelly (United States of America)

Peter John Farrelly is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and novelist. The...
17-December-1955

Yong-woo Kil (South Korea)

Yong-woo Kil is an actor.
17-December-1955

Mario Biagioli (United States of America)

Mario Biagioli is a 1997 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
17-December-1953

Sharon White (United States of America)

Sharon White is an actress and a musician.
17-December-1951

Philip Kan Gotanda (United States of America)

Philip Kan Gotanda is an American playwright and filmmaker. Much of his work deals with Asian...
17-December-1947

Marilyn Hassett (United States of America)

Marilyn Hassett is an American screen and television actress.
17-December-1946

Jayne Eastwood (Canada)

Jayne Eastwood, also credited as Jane Easton or Jane Eastwood, is a Canadian actress who is most...
17-December-1946

Geoffrey Rowland (Canada)

Geoffrey Rowland is a television and film editor and television producer.
17-December-1946

Eugene Levy (Canada)

Eugene Levy, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, singer and writer. He is known for his work in...
17-December-1945

Ernie Hudson (United States of America)

Ernest Lee "Ernie" Hudson Sr. is an American actor known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in...
17-December-1945

Jacqueline Wilson (United Kingdom)

Dame Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, FRSL is an English writer known for her vast and diverse work in...
17-December-1945

Carol Muske-Dukes (United States of America)

Carol Muske-Dukes is an American poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and professor, and the former...
17-December-1945

Lázaro Pérez (Cuba)

Lázaro Pérez is an actor.
17-December-1944

Enrique Porta (Spain)

Enrique Porta is a Spanish former football player.
17-December-1944

Theodore Rosengarten (United States of America)

Theodore Rosengarten is a writer.
17-December-1944

Jack L. Chalker (United States of America)

Jack Laurence Chalker was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City...
17-December-1943

Sara Shelton Mann (United States of America)

Sara Shelton Mann is a 2000 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
17-December-1940

María Elena Velasco (Mexico)

María Elena Velasco Fragoso is a Mexican actress, comedian, singer-songwriter, dancer,...
17-December-1940

Noel A. Clark (United States of America)

Noel A. Clark is a 1985 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-December-1937

Charles Ross (United States of America)

Charles Ross is an American sculptor and earthwork artist. In 2011, he was named a Guggenheim...
17-December-1937

Art Neville (United States of America)

Arthur Lannon "Art" Neville is an American singer and keyboardist from New Orleans.
17-December-1937

John Kennedy Toole (United States of America)

John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously...
17-December-1936

Tommy Banks (Canada)

Thomas Benjamin Banks, OC AOE is a Canadian pianist, conductor, arranger, composer, television...
17-December-1936

Tommy Steele (United Kingdom)

Tommy Steele OBE, is an English entertainer, regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and...
17-December-1934

Irving Petlin (United States of America)

Irving Petlin is an American artist and painter renowned for his mastery of the pastel medium...
17-December-1931

Gerald Perry Finnerman (United States of America)

Gerald Perry Finnerman is a cinematographer.
17-December-1931

David Kherdian (United States of America)

David Kherdian is an award-winning author.
17-December-1930

Armin Mueller-Stahl (Germany, United States of America)

Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German film actor, painter, writer and musician.
17-December-1930

Rosemary Gill (United Kingdom)

Rosemary Gill was a television producer.
17-December-1929

Robert Otto Pohl (Germany, United States of America)

Robert Otto Pohl is a 1973 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-December-1929

William Safire (United States of America)

William Lewis Safire was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential...
17-December-1928

Whitney Lee Savage (United States of America)

Whitney Lee Savage was a painter, film maker and animator.
17-December-1928

George Lindsey (United States of America)

George Smith Lindsey was an American character actor, best known for his role as Goober Pyle on...
17-December-1928

Leonid Bronevoy (Soviet Union, Russia)

Leonid Sergeyevich Bronevoy is a Nika Award-winning Soviet and Russian actor. Though primarily a...
17-December-1928

Harold C. Fritts (United States of America)

Harold C. Fritts is a 1968 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-December-1927

Charles L. Weltner (United States of America)

Charles Longstreet Weltner was a politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. Weltner was born in...
17-December-1925

Rijk de Gooyer (Netherlands)

Rijk de Gooyer was a Dutch Golden Calf- winning actor, writer, comedian and singer. From the...
17-December-1925

Calvin Tomkins (United States of America)

Calvin Tomkins is an author and art critic for The New Yorker magazine.
17-December-1924

Alexander Bickel (United States of America)

Alexander Mordecai Bickel was a law professor and expert on the United States Constitution. One...
17-December-1924

Kamal Ram (United Kingdom)

Sepoy Kamal Ram VC was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
17-December-1920

Kenneth E. Iverson (Canada)

Kenneth Eugene Iverson was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL...
17-December-1919

Charlotte Jay (Australia)

Charlotte Jay was the pseudonym adopted by Australian mystery writer and novelist, Geraldine...
17-December-1918

Art Cruickshank (United States of America)

Art Cruickshank is a special effects supervisor.
17-December-1918

Sven Fagerberg (Sweden)

Sven Fagerberg was a Swedish novelist, essayist, and civil engineer. He made his literary debut...
17-December-1917

Jacob Landau (United States of America)

Jacob Landau was an American artist best known for his evocative works on the human condition...
17-December-1916

Penelope Fitzgerald (United Kingdom)

Penelope Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize–winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer...
17-December-1910

Horace Waring (United Kingdom, Australia)

Horace Waring was an English/Australian zoologist, winner of the Clarke Medal of the Royal...
17-December-1908

Willard Libby (United States of America)

Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development...
17-December-1905

Iosif Kheifits (Russia, Russian Empire, Soviet Union)

Iosif Yefimovich Kheifits was a Soviet film director, winner of two Stalin Prizes, People's...
17-December-1900

Katina Paxinou (Greece)

Katina Paxinou was a Greek film and theatre actress.
17-December-1900

Mary Cartwright (United Kingdom)

Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE FRS was a British mathematician. With J. E. Littlewood she was the...
17-December-1895

Sidney Clayton Woodroffe (United Kingdom)

Sidney Clayton Woodroffe VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
17-December-1895

Robert Edward Ryder (United Kingdom)

Robert Edward Ryder VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
17-December-1894

Hans Henny Jahnn (Germany)

Hans Henny Jahnn was a German playwright, novelist, and organ-builder. As a playwright, he...
17-December-1894

David Butler (United States of America)

David Butler was an American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television...
17-December-1894

Arthur Fiedler (United States of America)

Arthur Fiedler was a long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, a symphony orchestra that...
17-December-1893

Abraham Acton (United Kingdom)

Abraham Acton VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
17-December-1887

Arthur Omre

Arthur Omre was a Norwegian novelist and writer of short stories. Omre hailed from Vestfold...
17-December-1861

Arthur E. Kennelly (United States of America, India)

Arthur Edwin Kennelly, was an Irish-American electrical engineer.
17-December-1853

Pierre Paul Émile Roux (France)

Pierre Paul Émile Roux FRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist who was one...
17-December-1831

William Manley (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland)

Surgeon-General William George Nicholas Manley, VC, E.K. II, CB was a recipient of the Iron...
17-December-1829

William Fraser McDonell (United Kingdom)

William Fraser McDonell VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
17-December-1817

William Allen Miller (United Kingdom)

William Allen Miller FRS was a British scientist. He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and educated...