Award WinnersBirthday : October 17Check all the award winners born on October 17. |
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17-October-1989Sophie Luck (Australia)Sophie Kathrin Luck is an Australian actress best known for her roles on the television shows... |
17-October-1984Chris Lowell (United States of America)Christopher "Chris" Lowell is an American television actor. He played the role of Stosh "Piz"... |
17-October-1984Randall Munroe (United States of America)Randall Patrick Munroe is an American webcomic author, former NASA roboticist, and the creator... |
17-October-1983Felicity Jones (United Kingdom, England)Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress, best known to television audiences for her... |
17-October-1982Nick Riewoldt (Australia)Nick Riewoldt is an Australian rules footballer who is the current captain of the St Kilda... |
17-October-1980Tarell Alvin McCraney (United States of America)Tarell Alvin McCraney is an award-winning American playwright and actor. He is a member of Teo... |
17-October-1978Erin Karpluk (Canada)Erin Karpluk is a Canadian actress. She is best known for portraying Erica Strange on Being... |
17-October-1974Matthew Macfadyen (United Kingdom)David Matthew Macfadyen is a BAFTA award-winning English actor, known for his roles as MI5... |
17-October-1972Tarkan (Turkey, Germany)Tarkan TevetoÄŸlu, simply known as Tarkan, is a World Music award winning Turkish pop singer. He... |
17-October-1972Eminem (United States of America)Marshall Bruce Mathers III, better known by his stage name Eminem and by his alter ego Slim... |
17-October-1971Patrick Ness (United Kingdom, United States of America)Patrick Ness is an American-born British author, journalist and lecturer who lives in London and... |
17-October-1970Anil Kumble (India)Anil Radhakrishna Kumble is a former international cricketer and captain of the Indian cricket... |
17-October-1969Wyclef Jean (United States of America, Haiti)Wyclef Jeanelle Jean is a three-time Grammy Award-winning Haitian-American rapper,... |
17-October-1969Ernesto Contreras (Mexico)Ernesto Contreras is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Graduate from the Centro... |
17-October-1968Katarzyna Dzida-Hamela (Poland)Katarzyna Dzida-Hamela works in the film Sound department. |
17-October-1966Mark Gatiss (United Kingdom, England)Mark Gatiss is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and novelist. He is known as a member of... |
17-October-1965Keith Fulton (United States of America)Keith Fulton is an actor, film director, film editor, screenwriter and film producer. |
17-October-1964David Cromer (United States of America)David Cromer is an American theatre director and stage actor. He has received recognition for... |
17-October-1962Mike Judge (United States of America)Michael Craig "Mike" Judge is an American actor, animator, screenwriter, film director,... |
17-October-1961David Means (United States of America)David Means is an American writer based in Nyack, New York. His short stories have appeared in... |
17-October-1960Guy Henry (United Kingdom)Guy Henry is an English stage and screen actor, with roles in Rome and John Adams. He appeared... |
17-October-1960Bernadette Nolan (Republic of Ireland)Bernadette Therese "Bernie" Nolan was an Irish actress, singer and television personality,... |
17-October-1960Rob Marshall (United States of America)Rob Marshall is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time... |
17-October-1958Alan Jackson (United States of America)Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky... |
17-October-1957Lawrence Bender (United States of America)Lawrence Bender is an American film producer. He rose to fame by producing Reservoir Dogs in... |
17-October-1955Smita Patil (India)Smita Patil was an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. Regarded among the finest... |
17-October-1954Susan Stroman (United States of America)Susan Stroman is an American theatre director, choreographer, film director, and performer. She... |
17-October-1954Stephen Mellor (United States of America)Stephen Mellor, also known as Steve Mellor, is an American actor who appeared in Sleepless in... |
17-October-1952Jahnu Barua (India)Jahnu Barua is a multiple national and international award-winning Indian film director from... |
17-October-1951Shari Ulrich (Canada)Sharon Ulrich, is a Canadian musician-songwriter. She has won a Juno Award for "Most Promising... |
17-October-1950Stuart Klawans (United States of America)Stuart Klawans has been the film critic for The Nation since 1988. He also writes a column on... |
17-October-1950Emily Grosholz (United States of America)Emily Rolfe Grosholz is an American poet and philosopher. She is Liberal Arts Research Professor... |
17-October-1950David Adams Richards (Canada)David Adams Richards, CM, ONB is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet. Born in... |
17-October-1950Mike Synar (United States of America)Michael Lynn "Mike" Synar was an American Democratic politician who represented Oklahoma's 2nd... |
17-October-1950Michael Tolkin (United States of America)Michael L. Tolkin is an American filmmaker and novelist. He has written numerous screenplays,... |
17-October-1948Margot Kidder (Canada, United States of America)Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder is a Canadian-American actress. She appeared in a wide range of... |
17-October-1947Michael McKean (United States of America)Michael John McKean is an American actor, comedian, writer, composer and musician well known for... |
17-October-1947Robert Post (United States of America)Robert Charles Post is dean and a professor of law at Yale Law School. Post received his A.B... |
17-October-1947Margo Jefferson (United States of America)Margo Lillian Jefferson is a former theatre critic at The New York Times and a professor at... |
17-October-1947Simi Garewal (India)Simi Garewal is an Indian actress. She is known for her work in the films Do Badan, Saathi, Mera... |
17-October-1947Manuel Pérez Barriopedro (Spain)Manuel Pérez Barriopedro is a 1981 World Press Photo of the Year Award winner. |
17-October-1946Adam Michnik (Poland)Adam Michnik is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, and the... |
17-October-1946Cameron Mackintosh (United Kingdom)Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh is a British theatrical producer notable for his association with... |
17-October-1944Ann Pilling (England)Ann Pilling is an English author and poet best known for young-adult fiction. She has also... |
17-October-1942B. H. Fairchild (United States of America)B.H. Fairchild is an award-winning American poet and former college professor. His most recent... |
17-October-1942Gary Zukav (United States of America)Gary Zukav is an American spiritual teacher and the author of four consecutive New York Times... |
17-October-1941Sarita Joshi (India)Sarita Joshi nee Bhosle is an Indian stage, television and film actress, and is a veteran... |
17-October-1941Howard Alper (Canada)Howard Alper, OC FRSC is a Canadian chemist. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of... |
17-October-1940Little Joe (United States of America)José MarÃa De León Hernández, known professionally as Little Joe is an American tejano... |
17-October-1940Robert Griffith (United States of America)Robert W. Griffith was an American historian. |
17-October-1939Reiner Goldberg (Germany)Reiner Goldberg is a German opera singer. After his vocal studies at the conservatory of music... |
17-October-1938Les Murray (Australia)Leslie Allan Murray, AO, known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist, and critic... |
17-October-1937Paxton Whitehead (United Kingdom)Paxton Whitehead is a British actor who made his professional debut in 1956. He played Professor... |
17-October-1937Philip Brett (United States of America, United Kingdom)Philip Brett was a British-born American musicologist, musician and conductor. He was... |
17-October-1937Alan RudgeAlan Walter Rudge CBE, FREng, FRS is a British electrical engineer, and Chairman of the ERA... |
17-October-1935Michael Eavis (United Kingdom)Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis, CBE, is an English dairy farmer and the founder of the... |
17-October-1935Gretchen Cryer (United States of America)Gretchen Cryer is an American playwright, lyricist, and actress. |
17-October-1934Jörg Schlaich (Germany)Jörg Schlaich is a German structural engineer and is known internationally for his... |
17-October-1934Alan Garner (England)Alan Garner OBE is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his... |
17-October-1933Trevor Howard-Hill (New Zealand)Trevor Howard-Hill is a 1989 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities. |
17-October-1933SÅ“ur SourireJeanine Deckers, better known as SÅ“ur Sourire, was a Belgian singer-songwriter and initially a... |
17-October-1932Allan Richard Robinson (United States of America)Allan Richard Robinson is a 1971 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences. |
17-October-1931Juan José Hernández (Argentina)Juan José Hernández is a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts. |
17-October-1930Jimmy Breslin (United States of America)Jimmy Breslin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author. He currently writes a... |
17-October-1928Lerone Bennett, Jr. (United States of America)Lerone Bennett, Jr. is an African-American scholar, author and social historian, known for his... |
17-October-1927Friedrich Hirzebruch (Germany)Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology,... |
17-October-1927Wolf Koenig (Canada, Germany)Wolf Koenig is a Canadian film director, producer, animator, cinematographer, and a pioneer in... |
17-October-1926George Earl Ortman (United States of America)George Earl Ortman is an American painter, printmaker, constructionist and sculptor. His work... |
17-October-1924Don Coryell (United States of America)Donald David Coryell was an American football coach, who coached in the NFL first with the St... |
17-October-1923Arturo Vivante (Italy, United States of America)Arturo Vivante was an Italian American fiction writer. He was the son of Elena, a painter, and... |
17-October-1922Pierre Juneau (Canada)Pierre Juneau, PC OC MSRC, was a Canadian film and broadcast executive, a one-time member of the... |
17-October-1921Tom Poston (United States of America)Thomas Gordon "Tom" Poston was an American television and film actor. He starred on television... |
17-October-1920Miguel Delibes (Spain)Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with... |
17-October-1920Elie Abel (Canada, United States of America)Elie Abel was a Canadian-American journalist, author and academic. He lived in Palo Alto,... |
17-October-1918Thomas Frank Durrant (United Kingdom)Thomas Frank Durrant VC was a soldier in the British Army during the Second World War and a... |
17-October-1915Arthur Miller (United States of America)Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in... |
17-October-1914Jerry Siegel (United States of America)Jerome "Jerry" Siegel, who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter, Jerry Ess, and Herbert S... |
17-October-1908Mary Jean Bowman (United States of America)Mary Jean Bowman was a 1973 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences. |
17-October-1902Irene Ryan (United States of America)Irene Ryan was an American actress, one of the few entertainers who found success in vaudeville,... |
17-October-1900Yvor Winters (United States of America)Arthur Yvor Winters was an American poet and literary critic. |
17-October-1817Alfred Des CloizeauxAlfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux was a French mineralogist. Des Cloizeaux was born at... |