Award WinnersBirthday : May 17Check all the award winners born on May 17. |
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17-May-1988Nikki Reed (United States of America)Nicole Houston "Nikki" Reed is an American film and television actress, screenwriter,... |
17-May-1985Matt Ryan (United States of America)Matthew Thomas "Matt" Ryan, nicknamed "Matty Ice", is an American football quarterback for the... |
17-May-1985Derek Hough (United States of America)Derek Hough is an American dancer and choreographer. He is known best for his work, since... |
17-May-1984Christine Ohuruogu (United Kingdom)Christine Ijeoma Ohuruogu, MBE is a British athlete, who specialises in the 400 metres; the... |
17-May-1984Passenger (England)Michael David Rosenberg, better known by his stage name Passenger, is an English folk-rock... |
17-May-1983Channing Frye (United States of America)Channing Thomas Frye is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the... |
17-May-1983Harshad Chopra (India)Harshad Chopra is an Indian television soap opera actor. He has done many TV shows include,... |
17-May-1983Deng Jiajia (China)Deng Jiajia is a Chinese actress. Deng is noted for playing Tang Youyou in the romantic comedy... |
17-May-1982Tony Parker (France)William Anthony "Tony" Parker, Jr. is a French professional basketball player who currently... |
17-May-1981Lim Jeong-hee (South Korea)Lim Jeong-Hee is a South Korean R&B and Pop artist that debuted in 2005 under JYP Entertainment... |
17-May-1981Shiri Maimon (Israel)Shiri Maimon is an Israeli pop/R&B singer, TV show host and actress, who rose to fame as the... |
17-May-1976Kandi Burruss (United States of America)Kandi Burruss is an American singer-songwriter, actress, record producer, and television... |
17-May-1974Jehane Noujaim (United States of America, Egypt)Jehane Noujaim is an Egyptian American documentary film director best known for her films... |
17-May-1974Tamara Rojo (Spain)Tamara Rojo is a Spanish ballet dancer. She is the Artistic Director of the English National... |
17-May-1974Grace Lin (United States of America)Grace Lin is an American children's writer and illustrator. Lin's parents were Taiwanese... |
17-May-1973Yekaterina Rednikova (Russia, Soviet Union)Yekaterina Rednikova is a Russian theatre and film actress, best known for her roles in films... |
17-May-1971Jason Eckardt (United States of America)Jason Eckardt is an American composer. He began his musical life playing guitar in heavy metal... |
17-May-1969Anupama Gokhale (India)Anupama Gokhale is a former women's chess champion of India. She was the youngest Padmashree... |
17-May-1969Thom Filicia (United States of America)Thom Filicia is an American interior designer, most famous for his role as an interior design... |
17-May-1968John Paul Tremblay (Canada)John Paul Tremblay is a Canadian actor who stars in the hit Canadian TV show Trailer Park Boys,... |
17-May-1966Danny Manning (United States of America)Daniel Ricardo "Danny" Manning is an American college basketball coach and retired National... |
17-May-1966Hill Harper (United States of America)Frank Eugene Hill Harper, known professionally as Hill Harper, is an American film, television... |
17-May-1965Kelly O'Donnell (United States of America)Kelly O'Donnell is a political reporter for NBC News. O'Donnell graduated from Northwestern... |
17-May-1962Jane Moore (United Kingdom)Jane Moore is a British journalist, author and television presenter, best known as a panellist... |
17-May-1961Enya (Republic of Ireland)Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter who is one of Moya Brennan's younger... |
17-May-1960Simon Fuller (United Kingdom)Simon Fuller is an English entrepreneur, artist manager and television producer. He is best... |
17-May-1959Jim Nantz (United States of America)James William "Jim" Nantz, III is an American sportscaster who has worked on telecasts of the... |
17-May-1959Alik Sakharov (United States of America, Uzbekistan)Alik Sakharov is a film cinematographer. |
17-May-1957Peter Høeg (Denmark)Peter Høeg is a Danish writer of fiction. He received a Master of Arts in Literature from the... |
17-May-1955Antonio Serrano (Mexico)José Antonio Serrano Argüelles is a Mexican film director, actor, playwright and screenwriter... |
17-May-1955Francesco Nuti (Italy)Francesco Nuti is an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. |
17-May-1955Bill Paxton (United States of America)William "Bill" Paxton is an American actor and film director. He gained popularity after... |
17-May-1954David Zippel (United States of America)David Joel Zippel is an American musical theatre lyricist. |
17-May-1954Colin Greenland (United Kingdom)Colin Greenland is a British science fiction writer, whose first story won the second prize in a... |
17-May-1954Francesco Frigeri (Italy)Francesco Frigeri is a production designer, film art director and set decorator. |
17-May-1953YÅko Shimada (Japan)YÅko Shimada is a Japanese actress. She is best known to Western audiences for her portrayal of... |
17-May-1950Howard Ashman (United States of America)Howard Elliott Ashman was an American playwright and lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston... |
17-May-1948Robert Illes (United States of America)Robert Illes is an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, television producer, playwright and... |
17-May-1947Jim BurtJim Burt was the winner of the Academy Achievement Award at the 13th Gemini Awards. |
17-May-1946F. Paul Wilson (United States of America)Francis Paul Wilson is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. |
17-May-1945Paul Chun (China, Hong Kong)Paul Chun Pui is a Hong Kong based actor. He is the brother of actor David Chiang and... |
17-May-1945Renate Krößner (Germany)Renate Krößner is a German actress. She has appeared in such films as Nordkurve, Solo Sunny and... |
17-May-1945B. S. Chandrasekhar (India)Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar is a former Indian cricketer who played as a leg spinner... |
17-May-1942John C. Tully (United States of America)John C. Tully is a theoretical chemist, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. He... |
17-May-1942Taj Mahal (United States of America)Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy... |
17-May-1941Lyn Hejinian (United States of America)Lyn Hejinian is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated... |
17-May-1940Alan Kay (United States of America)Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American... |
17-May-1940Marcel ÅoziÅ„ski (Poland, France)Marcel ÅoziÅ„ski is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He has directed 22 films since 1972... |
17-May-1939Gary Paulsen (United States of America)Gary James Paulsen is an American writer of young adult literature, best known for coming of age... |
17-May-1936Lars Gustafsson (Sweden)Lars Erik Einar Gustafsson is a Swedish poet, novelist and scholar. He was born in Västerås,... |
17-May-1936Dennis Hopper (United States of America)Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist. As a young man,... |
17-May-1936Mark Hall (United Kingdom)Mark Hall was a television producer, film director, animator and screenwriter. |
17-May-1936Ronald Tavel (United States of America)Ronald Tavel was an American screenwriter, director, novelist, poet and actor, best known for... |
17-May-1936Alfred R. Kelman (United States of America)Alfred R. Kelman is an American film and television documentary producer and director best known... |
17-May-1935Sandra Gwyn (Canada)Alexandra Sandra Fraser Gwyn, OC was a Canadian journalist and writer. She was born in St... |
17-May-1934Earl Morrall (United States of America)Earl Edwin Morrall is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League... |
17-May-1933Jean Herman (France)Jean Vautrin, born 17 May 1933 Pagny-sur-Moselle is a French writer, filmmaker, and screenwriter. |
17-May-1931Dewey Redman (United States of America)Walter Dewey Redman was an American jazz saxophonist, known for performing free jazz as a... |
17-May-1930J. B. Schneewind (United States of America)Jerome B. Schneewind is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. |
17-May-1930John Phillip Reid (United States of America)John Phillip Reid is a 1979 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences. |
17-May-1929Eloise Greenfield (United States of America)Eloise Greenfield is an American children's book author and poet famous for her descriptive,... |
17-May-1926Thomas McLernon Greene (United States of America)Thomas McLernon Greene is a 1968 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities. |
17-May-1925Robert Garis (United States of America)Robert Garis is a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts. |
17-May-1924James Learmonth Gowans (United Kingdom)Sir James Learmonth "Jim" Gowans is a British physician and immunologist. Gowans was born in... |
17-May-1924David Vaughan (United States of America)David Vaughan is a 1978 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities. |
17-May-1924Hannes Messemer (Germany)Hannes Messemer was a German actor. Born in Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria, Messemer served on... |
17-May-1921Bob Merrill (United States of America)Bob Merrill was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He was... |
17-May-1920Aldo S. Bernardo (United States of America)Aldo S. Bernardo is a 1964 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities. |
17-May-1919Antonio Aguilar (Mexico)Antonio Aguilar Barraza, nicknamed "El Charro de México", was a Mexican singer-songwriter, film... |
17-May-1919R. V. Cassill (United States of America)Ronald Verlin Cassill, usually called R. V. Cassill, was a prolific writer, reviewer, editor,... |
17-May-1918Darrell C. Richardson (United States of America)Dr. Darrell Coleman Richardson was an American Baptist minister, bibliographer and author of 44... |
17-May-1914Thomas Gray (United Kingdom)Thomas Gray VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious... |
17-May-1912Christopher Furness (United Kingdom)Christopher Furness VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most... |
17-May-1911Maureen O'Sullivan (United States of America, Republic of Ireland)Maureen Paula O'Sullivan was an Irish actress best known for playing Jane in the Tarzan series... |
17-May-1911Ruth Dunning (Wales)Ruth Dunning was a Welsh actress of stage, television, and film. She first came to prominence in... |
17-May-1909Magda Schneider (Germany)Magda Schneider was a German actress and singer; she was the mother of the actress Romy Schneider. |
17-May-1907Philip Burton Moon (United Kingdom)Philip Burton Moon FRS was a British nuclear physicist. He is most remembered for his research... |
17-May-1905John Minor Wisdom (United States of America)John Minor Wisdom, one of the "Fifth Circuit Four", and a Republican from Louisiana, was a judge... |
17-May-1905John Patrick (United States of America)John Patrick was an American playwright and screenwriter. |
17-May-1904Jean Gabin (France)Jean Gabin (17 May 1904 – 15 November 1976) was a French actor. Gabin was born Jean-Alexis... |
17-May-1903Elliot Norton (United States of America)Elliiot Norton was a drama critic for Boston newspapers for forty-eight years and served as the... |
17-May-1902John Vincent (United States of America)John Nathaniel Vincent, Jr was an American composer, conductor, and music educator. He was born... |
17-May-1893Frederick McKinley Jones (United States of America)Frederick McKinley Jones was an African American inventor, entrepreneur, winner of the National... |
17-May-1891John Harold Rhodes (United Kingdom)John Harold Rhodes VC DCM & Bar was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and... |
17-May-1890Robert MacTier (Australia, United Kingdom)Robert Mactier VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most... |
17-May-1873Frederick Hanley Seares (United States of America)Frederick Hanley Seares was an American astronomer. He worked at Mount Wilson Observatory and... |
17-May-1836Norman Lockyer (United Kingdom)Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, FRS, known simply as Norman Lockyer, was an English scientist and... |