{--page_num--}Famous Personalities Born In 1917

Sep 30 Chung Hee Park, general/pres of S Korea (1961-79), assassinated was born in the year 1917.  

Sep 30 In the year 1917 birth of yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, USSR, director (Taganka)  

Oct 01 René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillian poet (Juancho Picaflor) was born on this day in history.  

Oct 02 Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994) was born in the year 1917.  

Oct 02 Francis Jackson, organist & master of Music/York minister was born in the year 1917.  

Oct 02 William Marshall III, Chicago IL, actor (Blacula, Honky) was born in the year 1917.  

Oct 04 On this day in history birth of albert de Klerk, Dutch composer/conductor  

Oct 04 Jan Murray, Bronx NY, comedian (Treasure Hunt, Who Killed Teddy Bear) was born on this day in history.  

Oct 05 Robert Adams, English sculptor was born in the year 1917.  

Oct 06 On this day in history birth of robert Mitchum, actor (2 for the Seesaw, Ryan's Daughter)  

Oct 07 Helmut Dantine, Vienna Austria, actor (Shadow of the Cloak) was born on this day in history.  

Oct 07 In the year 1917 birth of june Allyson, Bronx, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas)  

Oct 08 On this day in history birth of billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993)  

Oct 08 On this day in history birth of danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates)  

Oct 08 In the year 1917 birth of hans Poser, composer  

Oct 08 Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002) was born on this day in history.  

Oct 09 In the year 1917 birth of kusuo Kitamura, Japan, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)  

Oct 10 Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night) was born on this day in history.  

Oct 10 On this day in history birth of thelonious Monk, jazz composer/pianist  

Oct 11 Franz Alphons Wolpert, composer was born on this day in history.  

Oct 11 In the year 1917 birth of thelonious Monk, jazz great, stroke  

Oct 12 On this day in history birth of hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train)  

Oct 13 Burr Tillstrom, Chic Ill, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) was born in the year 1917.  

Oct 13 Laraine Day, Roosevelt Utah, actress (Dr Kildaire, I've Got a Secret) was born in the year 1917.  

Oct 15 Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Ohio, historian (1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson) was born on this day in history.  

Oct 15 In the year 1917 birth of jan Miner, Boston Mass, actress (Crime Photographer)  

Oct 16 In the year 1917 birth of alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)  

Oct 17 On this day in history birth of marsha Hunt, Chicago Ill, actress (Jennifer-Peck's Bad Girl, Jigsaw)  

Oct 17 On this day in history birth of martin Donnelly, cricketer (brilliant lefty bat for NZ post-war)  

Oct 17 In the year 1917 birth of sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (d. 1991)  

Oct 20 In the year 1917 birth of efrain Jonckheer, premier Dutch Antilles  

Oct 20 Jean-Pierre Melville, Paris France, director (A Cop) was born in the year 1917.  

Oct 20 Ken Cranston, cricketer (England all-rounder captained once in 1948) was born on this day in history.  

Oct 21 Dizzy Gillespie, [John B], jazz trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz was born in the year 1917.  

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Jan 02 In the year 1917 edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84  

Jan 06 Hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Neth), dies at 82 in the year 1917.  

Jan 10 Buffalo Bill Cody died in the year 1917.  

Jan 16 George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837) died in the year 1917.  

Jan 17 In the year 1917 hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70  

Jan 25 In the year 1917 edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies  

Jan 29 Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

Feb 05 In the year 1917 paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41