Notable Births - 1917
Andrew Wyeth, American painter
Anthony Burgess, English author (d. 1993)
Arthur C. Clarke, British author
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian (d. 2007)
Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967)
Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2006)
Cleveland Amory, author (d. 1998)
Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002)
Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
Dean Martin, American actor (d. 1995)
Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, bandleader, and musician (d. 1986)
Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (d. 1993)
Ella Fitzgerald, American jazz singer (d. 1996)
Ernest Borgnine, American actor
Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
Gene Rayburn, American television personality (d. 1999)
Harry Caray, baseball broadcaster (d. 1998)
Helen Gurley Brown, publisher, former editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan
Henry Ford II, former president, Ford Motor Co. (d. 1987)
Herbert Lom, Czech-born actor
Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India (d. 1984, assassinated)
Jerry Wexler, American record producer
Joan Fontaine, British-born actress
John Anderson, Jr., American politician
John Connally, Governor of Texas (d. 1993)
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
John Lee Hooker, American musician (d. 2001)
John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005)
June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)
Katharine Graham, publisher, Washington Post (d. 2001)
Lena Horne, American singer
Papa John Creech, American fiddler (d. 1994)
Phyllis Diller, American comedian
Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (d. 1993)
Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and official (d. 2006)
Robert Byrd, U.S. Senator from West Virginia
Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977)
Robert Mitchum, actor (d. 1997)
Sidney Sheldon, American author
Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-born actress
Notable Deaths – 1917
Andrew Taylor Still, American father of osteopathy (b. 1828)
Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (b. 1838)
George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)
James Dwight, “founding father of American tennis” (b. 1952)
Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (executed) (b. 1876)
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawai'i (b. 1838)
Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b. 1868)
Stephen B. Luce, U.S. admiral, first president of Naval War College (b. 1827)
William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), American frontiersman (b. 1846)