Anniversaries 17 August
Birth
![William Carey (missionary) photo]()
English Baptist missionary and a Particular Baptist minister
1761–1834
![George Croly photo]()
Irish poet, novelist, historian, and divine
1780–1860
![Davy Crockett photo]()
American politician
1786–1836
![Wilfrid Scawen Blunt photo]()
English poet and writer
1840–1922
![Henry Drummond photo]()
Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer
1851–1897
![Charles Cooley photo]()
American sociologist
1864–1929
![Samuel Goldwyn photo]()
American film producer (1879-1974).
1879–1974
![Marcus Garvey photo]()
Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, or…
1887–1940
![Harry Hopkins photo]()
American politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerc…
1890–1946
![Oliverio Girondo photo]()
Argentinian writer
1891–1967
![Michael Chekhov photo]()
Russian actor and director
1891–1955
![Mae West photo]()
American actress and sex symbol
1893–1980
![William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes photo]()
British automobile pioneer
1894–1964
![Mikhail Botvinnik photo]()
Soviet chess player
1911–1995
![W. Mark Felt photo]()
Whistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal
1913–2008
![Bill Downs photo]()
American journalist
1914–1978
![Maureen O'Hara photo]()
Irish-American film actress and singer
1920–2015
![Charles Simmons photo]()
American editor and writer
1924–2017
![Lewis M. Branscomb photo]()
physicist and science policy advisor
1926
![Jiang Zemin photo]()
former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
1926
![Ted Hughes photo]()
English poet and children's writer
1930–1998
![V.S. Naipaul photo]()
Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Nepalese ancestry
1932–2018
![Gene Kranz photo]()
NASA Flight Director and manager
1933
![Robert De Niro photo]()
American actor, director and producer
1943
![John Humphrys photo]()
British broadcaster, journalist and author
1943
![Larry Ellison photo]()
American internet entrepreneur, businessman and philanthrop…
1944
![Julian Fellowes photo]()
English actor, dramatist, director, novelist, producer and …
1949
![Herta Müller photo]()
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist
1953
![Kevin Rowland photo]()
English singer-songwriter
1953
![Anatoly Kudryavitsky photo]()
a Russian/Irish novelist, poet, literary translator and mag…
1954
![Ingrid Daubechies photo]()
Belgian physicist and mathematician
1954
![Colin Moulding photo]()
English bassist, songwriter and vocalist
1955
![Chip Tsao photo]()
columnist, broadcaster, and writer
1958
![Eric Schlosser photo]()
American journalist and author
1959
![Sean Penn photo]()
American actor, screenwriter, and film director
1960
![Benny Wenda photo]()
West Papuan activist
1975
![Thierry Henry photo]()
French association football player
1977
![Jessie Burton photo]()
British author and actress
1982
Death
![Frederick II of Prussia photo]()
king of Prussia
1712–1786
![Matthew Boulton photo]()
English industrialist, business partner of James Watt
1728–1809
![José de San Martín photo]()
Argentine general and independence leader
1778–1850
![Hans Gude photo]()
Norwegian painter
1825–1903
![Mary Abigail Dodge photo]()
American writer
1833–1896
![Charlotte Perkins Gilman photo]()
American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and …
1860–1935
![Umberto Boccioni photo]()
Italian painter and sculptor
1882–1916
![Madan Lal Dhingra photo]()
Indian revolutionary
1883–1909
![Aldo Palazzeschi photo]()
Italian novelist, poet and essayist
1885–1974
![Ludwig Mies van der Rohe photo]()
German architect
1886–1969
![Otto Stern photo]()
German physicist
1888–1969
![Conrad Aiken photo]()
American novelist and poet
1889–1973
![Rudolf Hess photo]()
German Nazi leader
1894–1987
![Ira Gershwin photo]()
American lyricist
1896–1983
![Arthur W. Radford photo]()
United States naval aviator
1896–1973
![Moses Hadas photo]()
American classical philologist
1900–1966
![Howard Koch photo]()
American screenwriter
1901–1995
![Gwen Bristow photo]()
American author and journalist
1903–1980
![Irène Némirovsky photo]()
French novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz
1903–1942
![Pearl Bailey photo]()
American singer
1918–1990
![Edwin Morgan photo]()
Scottish poet and translator
1920–2010
![Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq photo]()
6th President of Pakistan
1924–1988
![Thea Astley photo]()
Australian novelist
1925–2004
![John N. Bahcall photo]()
American physicist
1934–2005
