Anniversaries 17 May
Birth
![John Howe photo]()
English Puritan theologian
1630–1705
![Edward Jenner photo]()
English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination
1749–1823
![Ellen Clementine Howarth photo]()
American writer
1827–1899
![Erik Satie photo]()
French composer and pianist
1866–1925
![Henri Barbusse photo]()
French novelist
1873–1935
![Lillian Gilbreth photo]()
American psychologist and industrial engineer
1878–1972
![John Patrick photo]()
American playwright and screenwriter
1905–1995
![Julius Sumner Miller photo]()
American physicist
1909–1987
![Clark Kerr photo]()
American academic
1911–2003
![Sándor Végh photo]()
Hungarian violinist
1912–1997
![Archibald Cox photo]()
American prosecutor
1912–2004
![Hans Ruesch photo]()
Swiss racing driver
1913–2007
![Robin Maugham photo]()
British novelist, playwright and travel writer
1916–1981
![Harriet Van Horne photo]()
American journalist
1920–1998
![Idi Amin photo]()
third president of Uganda
1925–2003
![Michio Kushi photo]()
Japanese educator
1926–2014
![Jill Johnston photo]()
American activist
1929–2010
![Dennis Potter photo]()
English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist
1935–1994
![Leslie Z. Benet photo]()
American pharmaceutical scientist
1937
![Gary Paulsen photo]()
American writer and musher
1939
![Esmeralda Santiago photo]()
Puerto Rican writer and actor
1948
![Janez Drnovšek photo]()
Slovenian politician
1950–2008
![Dave Sim photo]()
Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus
1956
![Bob Saget photo]()
American stand-up comedian, actor and television host
1956
![Enya photo]()
Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
1961
![Craig Ferguson photo]()
Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, …
1962
![Mohamed Nasheed photo]()
Maldivian politician, 4th president of the Maldives
1967
![Grace Lin photo]()
author and illustrator
1974
![Lena Waithe photo]()
American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1984
![Ezinne Akudo photo]()
Nigerian lawyer and pageant titleholder
1990
Death
![John Jay photo]()
American politician and a founding father of the United Sta…
1745–1829
![Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord photo]()
French diplomat
1754–1838
![Eliakim Littell photo]()
United States editor
1797–1870
![Mathabar Singh Thapa photo]()
Last Mukhtiyar and First Prime Minister of Nepal
1798–1845
![William Croswell Doane photo]()
American bishop
1832–1913
![David Bone photo]()
commodore and author (b. 1874, d. 1959)
1874–1959
![Francesco Balilla Pratella photo]()
Italian composer
1880–1955
![Jeannette Piccard photo]()
American balloonist, scientist, teacher and priest
1895–1981
![Gunnar Myrdal photo]()
Swedish economist
1898–1987
![Fritz Roethlisberger photo]()
American business theorist
1898–1974
![Robert Maynard Hutchins photo]()
philosopher and university president
1899–1977
![Nicolás Gómez Dávila photo]()
Colombian writer and philosopher
1913–1994
![Herman Wouk photo]()
Pulitzer Prize-winning American author whose novels include…
1915–2019
![Mario Benedetti photo]()
Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet
1920–2009
![Richard Pipes photo]()
American historian
1923–2018
![Lloyd Alexander photo]()
American children's writer
1924–2007
![Jorge Rafael Videla photo]()
Argentinian President
1925–2013
![Eugen Weber photo]()
American historian
1925–2007
![Bobbejaan Schoepen photo]()
musician, performer
1925–2010
![Ken Venturi photo]()
Professional golfer
1931–2013
![Rhodri Morgan photo]()
British politician
1939–2017
![Billy Graham (wrestler) photo]()
American professional wrestler, american football player, b…
1943–2023
![Донна Саммер photo]()
American singer and songwriter
1948–2012
![Paul William Roberts photo]()
Canadian writer
1950–2019
