Anniversaries 17 September

Birth

Nadezhda Durova1

Russian Army officer 1783–1866

Bernhard Riemann43

German mathematician 1826–1866

Masaoka Shiki1

Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period … 1867–1902

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy47

Tamil politician and social reformer 1879–1973

William Carlos Williams83

American poet 1883–1963

Hans Freudenthal27

Dutch mathematician 1905–1990

Warren E. Burger9

Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986 1907–1995

David Oistrakh3

Soviet violinist 1908–1974

Elizabeth Enright1

American children's writer and illustrator, short story wri… 1909–1968

Eugene P. Odum3

mathematician, ecologist, natural philosopher, and systems … 1913–2002

Mary Stewart7

English novelist 1916–2014

Hank Williams7

American country music singer 1923–1953

Peter Ladefoged5

British phonetician 1925–2006

Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger2

French Catholic cardinal 1926–2007

Jim Rohn13

American motivational speaker 1930–2009

Anne Bancroft10

American actress 1931–2005

Robert B. Parker2

American crime writer 1932–2010

Chuck Grassley2

American politician 1933

Ken Kesey103

novelist 1935–2001

Howard F. Lyman10

American activist 1938

David Souter2

Judge of the United States of America 1939

Ron Sider1

Canadian theologian 1939–2022

Lupe Ontiveros2

Mexican-American actress 1942–2012

Anthony Zinni5

American Marine Corps general 1943

Reinhold Messner1

Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer 1944

Carol Tavris1

American psychologist 1944

Phil Jackson3

basketball player and coach from the United States 1945

Beryl Korot5

American artist 1945

Gail Carson Levine38

American writer 1947

Jeff MacNelly1

American cartoonist 1947–2000

Aidan Nichols1

British theologian 1948

Jennifer Crusie38

American writer 1949

Narendra Modi120

Prime Minister of India 1950

Anita Harding2

neurologist 1952–1995

Li Chia-wei1

Taiwanese professor 1953

Rita Rudner19

American comedian 1953

Mike Parson2

American politician 1955

Almazbek Atambayev2

President of Kyrgyzstan 1956

Brian Andreas101

American artist 1956

Gebran Tueni7

journalist 1957–2005

Baz Luhrmann6

Australian film director, screenwriter and producer 1962

Sean Covey15

author; business executive 1964

Paula Jones1

American intern 1966

Anastacia65

American singer-songwriter 1968

Richard Wolffe4

American journalist 1968

David Shrigley1

British artist 1968

Cheryl Strayed67

author, memoirist, blogger 1968

Griff Furst2

American actor, director and musician 1981

Alexander Ovechkin27

Russian ice hockey player 1985

Скотт Ричард Хоуинг1

1991

Death

Hildegard of Bingen8

Medieval saint, prophetise, mystic and Doctor of Church 1098–1179

Judah Loew ben Bezalel5

Czech rabbi 1512–1609

Thomas Fuller (writer)420

British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

Richard Owen Cambridge1

British poet 1717–1802

Tobias Smollett11

18th-century poet and author from Scotland 1721–1771

Walter Savage Landor23

British writer 1775–1864

Alfred De Vigny11

French poet, playwright, and novelist 1797–1863

Edmonia Lewis2

American sculptor 1844–1907

Claude Bragdon1

American architect 1866–1946

Bernard Groethuysen20

French literary historian, translator and writer 1880–1946

Emil Ludwig2

German writer 1881–1948

Ruth Benedict4

American anthropologist and folklorologist 1887–1948

Folke Bernadotte1

Swedish diplomat 1895–1948

Otis Hamilton Lee3

American philosopher 1902–1948

Adrienne von Speyr24

Swiss doctor and mystic 1902–1967

Karl Popper82

Austrian-British philosopher of science 1902–1994

Helen Nearing7

American writer 1904–1995

Zita Johann3

actress 1904–1993

Fred Polak13

Dutch futurologist 1907–1985

Paul Twitchell1

American writer 1909–1971

Red Skelton3

American comedian 1913–1997

Spiro Agnew4

39th Vice President of the United States 1918–1996

Theodore Wilbur Anderson3

American statistician 1918–2016

James Crumley1

American writer 1939–2008

Cokie Roberts3

American journalist 1943–2019

Bobby Heenan27

American professional wrestler, professional wrestling comm… 1944–2017