Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : October 17

Check all the award winners born on October 17.
BirthDate
Winner
17-October-1989

Sophie Luck (Australia)

Sophie Kathrin Luck is an Australian actress best known for her roles on the television shows...
17-October-1984

Chris Lowell (United States of America)

Christopher "Chris" Lowell is an American television actor. He played the role of Stosh "Piz"...
17-October-1984

Randall Munroe (United States of America)

Randall Patrick Munroe is an American webcomic author, former NASA roboticist, and the creator...
17-October-1983

Felicity Jones (United Kingdom, England)

Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress, best known to television audiences for her...
17-October-1982

Nick Riewoldt (Australia)

Nick Riewoldt is an Australian rules footballer who is the current captain of the St Kilda...
17-October-1980

Tarell 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-1978

Erin Karpluk (Canada)

Erin Karpluk is a Canadian actress. She is best known for portraying Erica Strange on Being...
17-October-1974

Matthew Macfadyen (United Kingdom)

David Matthew Macfadyen is a BAFTA award-winning English actor, known for his roles as MI5...
17-October-1972

Tarkan (Turkey, Germany)

Tarkan TevetoÄŸlu, simply known as Tarkan, is a World Music award winning Turkish pop singer. He...
17-October-1972

Eminem (United States of America)

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, better known by his stage name Eminem and by his alter ego Slim...
17-October-1971

Patrick 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-1970

Anil Kumble (India)

Anil Radhakrishna Kumble is a former international cricketer and captain of the Indian cricket...
17-October-1969

Wyclef Jean (United States of America, Haiti)

Wyclef Jeanelle Jean is a three-time Grammy Award-winning Haitian-American rapper,...
17-October-1969

Rick Mercer (Canada)

Rick Mercer is a film producer.
17-October-1969

Cecilia Dazzi (Italy)

Cecilia Dazzi is an actress.
17-October-1969

Ernesto Contreras (Mexico)

Ernesto Contreras is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Graduate from the Centro...
17-October-1968

Napoleon D'umo (United States of America)

Napoleon D'umo is a choreographer.
17-October-1968

Katarzyna Dzida-Hamela (Poland)

Katarzyna Dzida-Hamela works in the film Sound department.
17-October-1966

Mark Gatiss (United Kingdom, England)

Mark Gatiss is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and novelist. He is known as a member of...
17-October-1965

Michael Schorr (Germany)

Michael Schorr is a film director and screenwriter.
17-October-1965

Keith Fulton (United States of America)

Keith Fulton is an actor, film director, film editor, screenwriter and film producer.
17-October-1964

David Cromer (United States of America)

David Cromer is an American theatre director and stage actor. He has received recognition for...
17-October-1963

Bill Boes (United States of America)

Bill Boes is a production designer.
17-October-1962

Mike Judge (United States of America)

Michael Craig "Mike" Judge is an American actor, animator, screenwriter, film director,...
17-October-1961

David Means (United States of America)

David Means is an American writer based in Nyack, New York. His short stories have appeared in...
17-October-1960

Guy Henry (United Kingdom)

Guy Henry is an English stage and screen actor, with roles in Rome and John Adams. He appeared...
17-October-1960

Bernadette Nolan (Republic of Ireland)

Bernadette Therese "Bernie" Nolan was an Irish actress, singer and television personality,...
17-October-1960

Rob Marshall (United States of America)

Rob Marshall is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time...
17-October-1958

Alan Jackson (United States of America)

Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky...
17-October-1957

Lawrence Bender (United States of America)

Lawrence Bender is an American film producer. He rose to fame by producing Reservoir Dogs in...
17-October-1955

Smita Patil (India)

Smita Patil was an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. Regarded among the finest...
17-October-1954

Susan Stroman (United States of America)

Susan Stroman is an American theatre director, choreographer, film director, and performer. She...
17-October-1954

Stephen Mellor (United States of America)

Stephen Mellor, also known as Steve Mellor, is an American actor who appeared in Sleepless in...
17-October-1952

Jahnu Barua (India)

Jahnu Barua is a multiple national and international award-winning Indian film director from...
17-October-1952

Masako Motai (Japan)

Masako Motai is an actress.
17-October-1952

Kwang-rim Kim (South Korea)

Kwang-rim Kim is a screenwriter.
17-October-1951

Shari Ulrich (Canada)

Sharon Ulrich, is a Canadian musician-songwriter. She has won a Juno Award for "Most Promising...
17-October-1950

Stuart 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-1950

Emily Grosholz (United States of America)

Emily Rolfe Grosholz is an American poet and philosopher. She is Liberal Arts Research Professor...
17-October-1950

David Adams Richards (Canada)

David Adams Richards, CM, ONB is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet. Born in...
17-October-1950

Mike Synar (United States of America)

Michael Lynn "Mike" Synar was an American Democratic politician who represented Oklahoma's 2nd...
17-October-1950

Richard Nelson (United States of America)

Richard Nelson is a screenwriter.
17-October-1950

Michael Tolkin (United States of America)

Michael L. Tolkin is an American filmmaker and novelist. He has written numerous screenplays,...
17-October-1949

Maurice Wright

Maurice Wright is a 1977 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
17-October-1948

Margot Kidder (Canada, United States of America)

Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder is a Canadian-American actress. She appeared in a wide range of...
17-October-1947

Michael McKean (United States of America)

Michael John McKean is an American actor, comedian, writer, composer and musician well known for...
17-October-1947

Robert 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-1947

Margo Jefferson (United States of America)

Margo Lillian Jefferson is a former theatre critic at The New York Times and a professor at...
17-October-1947

Simi Garewal (India)

Simi Garewal is an Indian actress. She is known for her work in the films Do Badan, Saathi, Mera...
17-October-1947

Manuel Pérez Barriopedro (Spain)

Manuel Pérez Barriopedro is a 1981 World Press Photo of the Year Award winner.
17-October-1946

Adam Michnik (Poland)

Adam Michnik is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, and the...
17-October-1946

Cameron Mackintosh (United Kingdom)

Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh is a British theatrical producer notable for his association with...
17-October-1945

Choi In-ho (South Korea)

Choi In-ho was a South Korean writer.
17-October-1944

Steve Maslow (United States of America)

Steve Maslow is a film sound mixer.
17-October-1944

Ann Pilling (England)

Ann Pilling is an English author and poet best known for young-adult fiction. She has also...
17-October-1942

B. H. Fairchild (United States of America)

B.H. Fairchild is an award-winning American poet and former college professor. His most recent...
17-October-1942

Gary Zukav (United States of America)

Gary Zukav is an American spiritual teacher and the author of four consecutive New York Times...
17-October-1941

Sarita Joshi (India)

Sarita Joshi nee Bhosle is an Indian stage, television and film actress, and is a veteran...
17-October-1941

Howard Alper (Canada)

Howard Alper, OC FRSC is a Canadian chemist. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of...
17-October-1940

Little Joe (United States of America)

José María De León Hernández, known professionally as Little Joe is an American tejano...
17-October-1940

Robert Griffith (United States of America)

Robert W. Griffith was an American historian.
17-October-1939

Reiner Goldberg (Germany)

Reiner Goldberg is a German opera singer. After his vocal studies at the conservatory of music...
17-October-1938

Les Murray (Australia)

Leslie Allan Murray, AO, known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist, and critic...
17-October-1937

Paxton Whitehead (United Kingdom)

Paxton Whitehead is a British actor who made his professional debut in 1956. He played Professor...
17-October-1937

Philip Brett (United States of America, United Kingdom)

Philip Brett was a British-born American musicologist, musician and conductor. He was...
17-October-1937

Alan Rudge

Alan Walter Rudge CBE, FREng, FRS is a British electrical engineer, and Chairman of the ERA...
17-October-1935

Michael Eavis (United Kingdom)

Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis, CBE, is an English dairy farmer and the founder of the...
17-October-1935

Gretchen Cryer (United States of America)

Gretchen Cryer is an American playwright, lyricist, and actress.
17-October-1934

Jörg Schlaich (Germany)

Jörg Schlaich is a German structural engineer and is known internationally for his...
17-October-1934

Alan Garner (England)

Alan Garner OBE is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his...
17-October-1933

Trevor Howard-Hill (New Zealand)

Trevor Howard-Hill is a 1989 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
17-October-1933

SÅ“ur Sourire

Jeanine Deckers, better known as SÅ“ur Sourire, was a Belgian singer-songwriter and initially a...
17-October-1932

Allan Richard Robinson (United States of America)

Allan Richard Robinson is a 1971 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
17-October-1931

Juan José Hernández (Argentina)

Juan José Hernández is a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
17-October-1930

Jimmy Breslin (United States of America)

Jimmy Breslin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author. He currently writes a...
17-October-1930

Héctor Azar (Mexico)

Héctor Azar was a 1967 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
17-October-1928

Lerone Bennett, Jr. (United States of America)

Lerone Bennett, Jr. is an African-American scholar, author and social historian, known for his...
17-October-1927

Friedrich Hirzebruch (Germany)

Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology,...
17-October-1927

Wolf Koenig (Canada, Germany)

Wolf Koenig is a Canadian film director, producer, animator, cinematographer, and a pioneer in...
17-October-1926

George Earl Ortman (United States of America)

George Earl Ortman is an American painter, printmaker, constructionist and sculptor. His work...
17-October-1924

Don Coryell (United States of America)

Donald David Coryell was an American football coach, who coached in the NFL first with the St...
17-October-1923

Arturo 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-1922

Pierre Juneau (Canada)

Pierre Juneau, PC OC MSRC, was a Canadian film and broadcast executive, a one-time member of the...
17-October-1921

Tom Poston (United States of America)

Thomas Gordon "Tom" Poston was an American television and film actor. He starred on television...
17-October-1920

Miguel Delibes (Spain)

Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with...
17-October-1920

Elie Abel (Canada, United States of America)

Elie Abel was a Canadian-American journalist, author and academic. He lived in Palo Alto,...
17-October-1919

Valter Schytt (Sweden)

17-October-1918

Thomas Frank Durrant (United Kingdom)

Thomas Frank Durrant VC was a soldier in the British Army during the Second World War and a...
17-October-1915

Arthur Miller (United States of America)

Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in...
17-October-1914

Jerry Siegel (United States of America)

Jerome "Jerry" Siegel, who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter, Jerry Ess, and Herbert S...
17-October-1911
17-October-1910

Ester Wier (United States of America)

Ester Wier was an American writer.
17-October-1908

Mary Jean Bowman (United States of America)

Mary Jean Bowman was a 1973 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
17-October-1902

Charles Roberts Anderson (United States of America)

17-October-1902

Irene Ryan (United States of America)

Irene Ryan was an American actress, one of the few entertainers who found success in vaudeville,...
17-October-1900

Yvor Winters (United States of America)

Arthur Yvor Winters was an American poet and literary critic.
17-October-1877

Eduardo Arozamena (Mexico)

Eduardo Arozamena is a film actor and director.
17-October-1850

Fernand Foureau (France)

17-October-1817

Alfred Des Cloizeaux

Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux was a French mineralogist. Des Cloizeaux was born at...