Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : June 17

Check all the award winners born on June 17.
BirthDate
Winner
17-June-1987

Kendrick Lamar (United States of America)

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, known simply as Kendrick Lamar, is an American hip hop recording...
17-June-1984

John Gallagher Jr. (United States of America)

John Howard Gallagher, Jr. is an American actor and musician known for originating the role of...
17-June-1980

Sıla Gençoğlu (Turkey)

Sıla Gençoğlu is a Turkish musician. She usually goes by her first name, 'Sıla'. Sıla was born...
17-June-1978

Ahmed Soultan (Morocco)

Ahmed Soultan is a Moroccan singer artist,considered as one of the leaders of the...
17-June-1978

Kumiko Aso (Japan)

Kumiko Hiramaru, better known by her stage name Kumiko Aso, is a Japanese actress. She is also a...
17-June-1978

Luke Recker (United States of America)

Luke Recker is a 1997 Indiana Mr. Basketball Award winner.
17-June-1974

Matthew Senreich (United States of America)

Matthew Ian "Matt" Senreich is an American screenwriter, television producer and director, best...
17-June-1974

Krayzie Bone (United States of America)

Anthony Henderson, better known as Krayzie Bone, is an American rapper, producer, and...
17-June-1973

Leander Paes (India)

Leander Adrian Paes is an Indian professional tennis player who features in the doubles events...
17-June-1972

Andra Ramadhan (Indonesia)

Andra Ramadhan is a guitarist and musician.
17-June-1969

Geoff Toovey (Australia)

Geoffrey "Geoff" Toovey is an Australian rugby league coach and former professional player of...
17-June-1968

Deanna Raybourn (United States of America)

Deanna Raybourn is an American author of mystery novels set in Victorian era England. Raybourn...
17-June-1967

Mikhail Krichman (Russia, Soviet Union)

Mikhail Krichman is a Russian cinematographer who received a Golden Osella award at the 67th...
17-June-1967

Tori Welles (United States of America)

Tori Welles is an American former pornographic actress. She performed in adult films between...
17-June-1965

Everett Burrell (United States of America)

Everett Burrell is a film visual effects supervisor.
17-June-1964

Ann-Gisel Glass (France)

Ann-Gisel Glass is an actress.
17-June-1963

Greg Kinnear (United States of America)

Gregory Buck "Greg" Kinnear is an American actor and television personality who first rose to...
17-June-1963

John Patterson (Australia)

John Patterson is film score composer, producer, director, cinematographer, editor and screenwriter.
17-June-1962

Christopher Münch (United States of America)

Christopher Münch is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
17-June-1961

Tracie Bennett (United Kingdom)

Tracie Bennett is an English stage and television actress. She trained at the Italia Conti...
17-June-1960

Thomas Haden Church (United States of America)

Thomas Haden Church is an American actor. After co-starring in the 1990s sitcom Wings, Church...
17-June-1959

Xie Yuan (China)

Xie Yuan is an actor.
17-June-1958

Bobby Farrelly (United States of America)

Robert Leo "Bobby" Farrelly, Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter and producer and one...
17-June-1958

Joseph Leo Koerner (United States of America)

Joseph Leo Koerner is an American art historian. He is currently a Victor S. Thomas Professor of...
17-June-1957

Joachim Król (Germany)

Joachim Król is a German actor, known for his appearances in the films Run Lola Run, Maybe,...
17-June-1955

Jeff Imada (United States of America)

Jeff Imada is an American martial artist, stuntman, actor and director. He has performed stunts...
17-June-1954

Elizabeth Diller (United States of America)

Elizabeth Diller is a 2000 JBF Awards winner for the Outstanding Restaurant Design.
17-June-1954

Kerry Greenwood (Australia)

Kerry Greenwood is an author and solicitor from Melbourne, Australia. She has written many plays...
17-June-1952

Daniel Schacter (United States of America)

Daniel Lawrence Schacter is an American psychologist. He is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard...
17-June-1952

Marie-Louise Gay (Canada)

Marie-Louise Gay is a Canadian children’s writer and illustrator.
17-June-1952

Étienne Chatiliez (France)

Étienne Chatiliez is a French film director. He was born in Roubaix, France. After starting out...
17-June-1951

Vinay Apte (India)

Vinay Apte is an actor.
17-June-1950

Lee Tamahori (New Zealand)

Lee Tamahori is a New Zealand filmmaker best known for directing the 1994 film Once Were...
17-June-1949

Graciela Frigerio (Argentina)

Graciela Frigerio is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
17-June-1947

Stephen Quay (United States of America)

Stephen Quay is a film and television director, cinematographer, screenwriter, production...
17-June-1947

Timothy Quay (United States of America)

Timothy Quay is a film and television director, cinematographer, screenwriter, production...
17-June-1947

George S. Clinton (United States of America)

George S. Clinton is an American composer, songwriter, arranger, and session musician. Clinton...
17-June-1946

Richard B. Goddard (United States of America)

Richard B. Goddard was a set decorator.
17-June-1945

Tommy Franks (United States of America)

Tommy Ray Franks is a retired general in the United States Army. His last Army post was as the...
17-June-1944

Xavier Koller (Switzerland)

Xavier Koller is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. His film Journey of Hope won the...
17-June-1943

Alan Weinstein (United States of America)

Alan David Weinstein is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who...
17-June-1943

Ruben Rada (Uruguay)

Rubén Rada is an Afro-Uruguayan percussionist, composer and singer. He is closely associated...
17-June-1943

Barry Manilow (United States of America)

Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter and producer. He is best known for such...
17-June-1942

Ron Padgett (United States of America)

Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New...
17-June-1940

Dan T. Carter (United States of America)

Dan T. Carter is an American historian.
17-June-1940

John G. Sclater (United Kingdom, United States of America)

John G. Sclater is a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-June-1940

George Akerlof (United States of America)

George Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the...
17-June-1939

Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland)

Krzysztof Zanussi, is a Polish producer and film director. He is a professor of European film at...
17-June-1939

Frederick Vine (United Kingdom)

Frederick John Vine FRS is a British marine geologist and geophysicist and was a key contributor...
17-June-1937

Arthur Schmidt (United States of America)

Arthur Schmidt is an American film editor with about 27 film credits between 1977 and 2005...
17-June-1937

Robbie Branscum (United States of America)

Robbie Nell Tilley Branscum was an American writer of children's books and young adult fiction...
17-June-1936

Ken Loach (United Kingdom)

Kenneth "Ken" Loach is an English film and television director. He is known for his...
17-June-1935

Víctor Elías Nahmod (Argentina)

Víctor Elías Nahmod is a 1977 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-June-1933

James Shigeta (United States of America)

James Shigeta is an American film and television actor. He is also a standards singer, musical...
17-June-1933

Jan Vilček

Jan T. Vilček M.D., Ph.D. is a biomedical scientist, educator, inventor and philanthropist. He...
17-June-1933

Maurice Stokes (United States of America)

Maurice Stokes was an American professional basketball player in the 1950s, whose career was cut...
17-June-1932

Larissa Adler de Lomnitz (Chile, Mexico)

Larissa Adler de Lomnitz is a 1978 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
17-June-1932

John Murtha (United States of America)

John Patrick "Jack" Murtha, Jr. was an American politician from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania...
17-June-1931

Dominic Frontiere (United States of America)

Dominic Frontiere is an American composer, arranger, and jazz accordionist. He is known for...
17-June-1931

John Baldessari (United States of America)

John Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found...
17-June-1930

Adile NaÅŸit (Turkey)

Adile Naşit was a Turkish actress, who is best known for being the partner of Münir Özkul in...
17-June-1929

Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr. (United States of America)

Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr. was an American chemist who discovered the Simmons–Smith reaction. In...
17-June-1927

Wally Wood (United States of America)

Wallace Allan Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best...
17-June-1926

Manuel Enríquez (Mexico)

Manuel Enríquez Salazar was a Mexican composer, violinist and pedagogue. He was a fellow member...
17-June-1926

Robert Ménégoz (France)

Robert Ménégoz is a film director and screenwriter.
17-June-1924

David Ross (United States of America)

David Ross is a theater director and producer.
17-June-1924

Narcisse Chamberlain

Narcisse Chamberlain is a 1994 JBF Awards nominee for the Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America.
17-June-1924

Edward Downes (United Kingdom)

Sir Edward Thomas Downes, CBE was an English conductor, specialising in opera. He was associated...
17-June-1922

Jerry Fielding (United States of America)

Jerry Fielding was an American radio, record, film and television composer, conductor, and...
17-June-1922

Rolf M. Steffen

Rolf M. Steffen is a 1972 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-June-1922

Frank X. Barron (United States of America)

Frank X. Barron is a 1967 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
17-June-1921

Gil Parrondo (Spain)

Gil Parrondo is a Spanish art director, set decorator and production designer. He won two...
17-June-1921

Eeva Joenpelto (Finland)

Eeva Joenpelto is an author.
17-June-1921

William Anderson (United States of America)

William Robert Anderson was an officer in the United States Navy, and a U.S. Representative from...
17-June-1920

François Jacob (France)

François Jacob was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that...
17-June-1920

Katherine S. Van Eerde (United States of America)

Katherine S. Van Eerde is a 1971 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
17-June-1919

Beryl Reid (United Kingdom)

Beryl Elizabeth Reid, OBE was a British actress of stage and screen.
17-June-1919

William Kaye Estes (United States of America)

William Kaye Estes was an American psychologist.
17-June-1918

Gene Allen (United States of America)

Gene Allen is a production designer.
17-June-1916

Eric F. Goldman (United States of America)

Eric Frederick Goldman was an American historian, Rollins Professor of History at Princeton...
17-June-1915

Gunther Gerzso (Mexico)

Gunther Gerzso was a Mexican painter, designer and director and screenwriter for film and theatre.
17-June-1915

Elena Fabrizi (Italy, Kingdom of Italy)

Elena Fabrizi was an actress, chef and restaurateur.
17-June-1914

John Hersey (United States of America)

John Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one...
17-June-1913

C. Willet Asling (United States of America)

C. Willet Asling is a 1962 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-June-1913

Hugh F. Rankin (United States of America)

Hugh F. Franklin is a 1962 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
17-June-1909

Ralph E. Winters (Canada)

Ralph E. Winters was a Canadian-born film editor who became one of the leading figures of this...
17-June-1906

Thomas Cowling (United Kingdom)

Thomas George Cowling FRS was an English astronomer. Cowling was born in Hackney, London and...
17-June-1904

Ralph Bellamy (United States of America)

Ralph Bellamy was an American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, screen and...
17-June-1903

W. V. D. Hodge (United Kingdom)

William Vallance Douglas Hodge FRS was a Scottish mathematician, specifically a geometer. His...
17-June-1902

Sammy Fain (United States of America)

Sammy Fain, born Samuel E. Feinberg, was an American composer of popular music.
17-June-1898

Martin Hotine

Martin Hotine is an author.
17-June-1888

Robert Edward Cruickshank (Canada)

Robert Edward Cruickshank VC was an Anglo-Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest...
17-June-1882

Igor Stravinsky (Russia, France, United States of America)

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian, and later French and American, composer, pianist and...
17-June-1838

Edward Robinson (United Kingdom)

Edward Robinson VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
17-June-1832

William Crookes (United Kingdom)

Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College...
17-June-1825

Richard Harte Keatinge (Republic of Ireland)

Lieutenant General Richard Harte Keatinge VC CSI was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross,...
17-June-1802

Hermann Goldschmidt (Germany)

Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt was a German-French astronomer and painter who spent much of...