100 people born today: October 17
John von Sonntag de Havilland, FSA was an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London... more » | |
Jacques Cazotte was a French author. more » | |
Baran Kosari is a Crystal Simorgh winning Iranian actress. She is the daughter of director... more » | |
Virgil Hamlin Goode, Jr. is an American politician who served as a member of the United States... more » | |
Rita Hayworth was an American dancer and film actress who achieved fame during the 1940s as one... more » | |
Alexander Sutherland Neill was a Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill... more » | |
Randall Patrick Munroe is an American webcomic author, former NASA roboticist, and the creator... more » | |
Mark Gatiss is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and novelist. He is known as a member of... more » | |
Owen Seymour Arthur, MP is a Barbadian politician who was Prime Minister of Barbados from 1994... more » | |
Rosemary Thompson is the Director of Communications for Canada's National Arts Centre, located... more » | |
Wyclef Jeanelle Jean is a three-time Grammy Award-winning Haitian-American rapper,... more » | |
Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis, CBE, is an English dairy farmer and the founder of the... more » | |
Javad ud-Daula, Arif Jang Sir Syed Ahmad Khan KCSI, born Syed Ahmad Taqvi, commonly known as Sir... more » | |
Ben Rothwell is an American mixed martial artist who competes as a Heavyweight in the Ultimate... more » | |
Theodore Ernest "Ernie" Els is a South African professional golfer. A former World No. 1, he is... more » | |
Ivan Ivanovich Saenko is a retired Russian footballer who played as a winger. more » | |
Mae Carol Jemison is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African... more » | |
Charles Columbus "Count" Campau was an American professional baseball player whose career... more » | |
David Nesta "Ziggy" Marley is a Jamaican musician and leader of the band, Ziggy Marley and the... more » | |
Anne-Lie Rydé is a Swedish pop and rock singer. Rydé grew up on Lidingö, but moved to Gothenburg... more » | |
Martin Trevor Heinrich is the junior United States Senator for New Mexico, in office since 2013... more » | |
Soejima Taneomi was a diplomat and statesman during early Meiji period Japan. more » | |
Jeanine Deckers was a Belgian singer-songwriter and initially a member of the Dominican Order in... more » | |
Michael Craig "Mike" Judge is an American actor, animator, screenwriter, film director,... more » | |
Sir John Bowring, KCB was an English political economist, traveller, miscellaneous writer,... more » | |
Richard E. Roeper is an American columnist and film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and now a... more » | |
George Robert Wendt III is an American actor, best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the... more » | |
Augustus III was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1734 until 1763, as well as... more » | |
René Dif is a Danish singer and actor, best known as the male vocalist in the Danish pop-dance... more » | |
Brian Gerald Snitker is the current manager of the Gwinnett Braves. From 2006 to 2013, Snitker... more » | |
Paul Haenlein was a German engineer and flight pioneer. He flew in a semi-rigid-frame dirigible... more » | |
James "Jim" Thomas Tague was a witness to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in... more » | |
Harold George Schrier was a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. He served... more » | |
Norman Gene "Norm" Macdonald is a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, producer and actor. He is... more » | |
Anil Kumble is a former international cricketer and captain of the Indian cricket team. A... more » | |
Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists... more » | |
Johann Gerhard was a Lutheran church leader and Lutheran Scholastic theologian during the period... more » | |
Alejandro Zaera Polo is a contemporary architect and founder of London and New York-based... more » | |
Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux was a French mineralogist. Des Cloizeaux was born at... more » | |
Michael Joseph Hossack was a drummer for the band The Doobie Brothers. more » | |
James Floyd Smith was a test pilot and instructor for Glenn Martin and was a manufacturer of... more » | |
Zhao Ziyang was a high-ranking politician in the People's Republic of China. He was the third... more » | |
Akira Kushida, is a Japanese vocalist who is well known for his work in the soundtracks for... more » | |
John Wilkes was an English radical, journalist, and politician. He was first elected Member of... more » | |
Chris Henry is an Irish rugby union footballer. He plays for Ulster and Ballymena Rugby Club. He... more » | |
Edward Montgomery Clift was an American film and stage actor. The New York Times’ obituary noted... more » | |
Saint Ivo of Kermartin, T.O.S.F., also known Yvo or Ives, as Erwann and as Yves Hélory, was a... more » | |
George Richards Elkington was a manufacturer from Birmingham, England. He patented the first... more » | |
Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi is a Pakistani Sufi Sheikh, the patriarch of the Azeemia,... more » | |
Johann Friedrich Meckel, often referred to as Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger, was a German... more » | |
Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez is an ex president of El Salvador. He led the country from June... more » | |
Kimi-Matias Räikkönen is a Finnish racing driver. After nine seasons racing in Formula One, in... more » | |
Pino Palladino is a Welsh bassist who gained fame playing primarily rock and roll, blues rock,... more » | |
Marshall Bruce Mathers III, better known by his stage name Eminem and by his alter ego Slim... more » | |
Fabri Fibra is an Italian rapper. more » | |
Barbara Alexandra "Sandra" Reemer is a Dutch Indo singer of Dutch, Chinese extraction. She has... more » | |
John Parker Wilson is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. Wilson... more » | |
John Jopson is a film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. more » | |
Willian Rainey Marshall was an American politician. He was the fifth Governor of Minnesota from... more » | |
Foday Saybana Sankoh was the leader and founder of the Sierra Leone rebel group Revolutionary... more » | |
Cecilia Karin Maria Wikström, née Sundström, originally Nodbjörk is a Swedish Liberal People's... more » | |
Earl Thomas Conley is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he... more » | |
Jean Arthur was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. James Harvey... more » | |
Borat is president of the Bulgarian football club PFC Levski Sofia. Since June 1990, Batkov has... more » | |
Der Scutt was the architect and designer of major buildings throughout New York City and the... more » | |
Roberto Salvatore Cani is an Italian violinist. Roberto Cani was a prizewinner in the Paganini,... more » | |
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne KG, GCMG, PC, styled Viscount Wolmer between... more » | |
Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was also a... more » | |
François-Edouard Picot was a French painter during the July Monarchy, painting mythological,... more » | |
Gunatitanand Swami was one of the most prominent of the 500 paramhansas of the Swaminarayan... more » | |
Sir Hugh Hoyles was a politician and lawyer who served as the third premier of the Newfoundland... more » | |
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon, was a... more » | |
Albert Falco was a French scuba diving veteran and champion of underwater conservation. He was... more » | |
Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky... more » | |
Bartolommeo Bandinelli, actually Bartolommeo Brandini, was a Renaissance Italian sculptor,... more » | |
Fran Cosmo, is an American musician best known as a former lead singer of the band Boston. more » | |
Yvon Duhamel is a French-Canadian professional motorcycle racer and father to current AMA... more » | |
James Cowan was a Scottish footballer and manager. Born in Jamestown, Dunbartonshire, Cowan was... more » | |
John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, was a duke of Saxe-Eisenach. He was the third son of... more » | |
Ferenc Deák de Kehida was a Hungarian statesman and Minister of Justice. He was known as "The... more » | |
Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, KG was a German sovereign who ruled over the state... more » | |
Cristofano Allori was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school... more » | |
Nkeirouka Khilarievna "Kira" Ezekh is a Russian curler of Nigerian-Russian descent. At the 2006... more » | |
Theodor Eicke was a SS-Obergruppenführer, commander of the SS-Division Totenkopf of the... more » | |
Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin was a British novelist of the early twentieth century. He was best... more » | |
Adam Michnik is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, and the... more » | |
Jupiter Hammon was a black poet who in 1761 became the first African-American writer to be... more » | |
Josep Puig i Cadafalch was a Catalan Spanish Modernista architect who designed many significant... more » | |
Rob Marshall is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time... more » | |
Mladen Vojičić, widely known by the nickname/stagename Tifa is a Bosnian rock vocalist. He... more » | |
Konstantinos "Kostas" Tsartsaris, is a retired Greek professional basketball player who played... more » | |
Barney Kessel was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Noted in particular for... more » | |
Mark Gillespie is a cricketer. more » | |
Aleksei Pavlovich Bibik was one of the first working-class novelists in Russia. more » | |
Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa was an important German chess master, chess historian... more » | |
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia was a daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Empress... more » | |
Kim Ljung is a musician from Tønsberg, Norway. He is best known as the bassist in Norwegian... more » | |
Rico Rodriguez MBE, also known as simply Rico, as well as Reco or El Reco, is a ska and reggae... more » | |
Rick Mercer is a film producer. more » | |
Marcela Alejandra Bovio García is a Mexican soprano singer, songwriter and violinist. She was... more » |
