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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Billie Joe Armstrong
Musician
17-Feb-1972   Frontman for Green Day
Red Barber
Sports Journalist
17-Feb-1908 22-Oct-1992 The Voice of the Dodgers
Reginald Bartholomew
Diplomat
17-Feb-1936   US Ambassador to Italy, 1993-97
Alan Bates
Actor
17-Feb-1934 27-Dec-2003 Basil in Zorba the Greek
Michael Bay
Film Director
17-Feb-1964   Armageddon
Mary Frances Berry
Government
17-Feb-1938   Civil Rights Commissioner, 1980-2004
Zina Bethune
Actor
17-Feb-1945 11-Feb-2012 Gail Lucas on The Nurses
Jim Brown
Football
17-Feb-1936   Cleveland Browns RB
Philip W. Buchen
Government
17-Feb-1916 21-May-2001 White House Counsel, 1974-77
Kelly Carlson
Actor
17-Feb-1976   Kimber Henry on Nip/Tuck
Garry Chalk
Actor
17-Feb-1952   Michael Oakes on The Killing
Stanley N. Cohen
Biologist
17-Feb-1935   Recombinant DNA
Leonard S. Coleman, Jr.
Administrator
17-Feb-1949   President of MLB National League, 1994-99
Arcangelo Corelli
Violinist
17-Feb-1653 8-Jan-1713 Concerti Grossi
Don Coscarelli
Film Director
17-Feb-1954   Bubba Ho-tep
Buster Crabbe
Actor
17-Feb-1907 23-Apr-1983 Flash Gordon
Brooke D'Orsay
Actor
17-Feb-1982   Caitlin Cooke on 6Teen
Buddy DeFranco
Jazz Musician
17-Feb-1923   Jazz clarinetist, led The Glenn Miller Orchestra
André Dussollier
Actor
17-Feb-1946   Tais-toi!
Isabelle Eberhardt
Author
17-Feb-1877 21-Oct-1904 Transvestite Muslim author
Vicente Fernandez
Singer
17-Feb-1940   Mexican singing sensation
Marjorie Fielding
Actor
17-Feb-1892 28-Dec-1956 English stage actress
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Author
17-Feb-1879 9-Nov-1958 Understood Betsy
Ronald Fisher
Mathematician
17-Feb-1890 29-Jul-1962 Analysis of variance and covariance
Randy Forbes
Politician
17-Feb-1952   Congressman, Virginia 4th
Kathleen Freeman
Actor
17-Feb-1919 23-Aug-2001 Gen. Burkhalter's sister
Brenda Fricker
Actor
17-Feb-1945   My Left Foot
Rowdy Gaines
Swimmer
17-Feb-1959   Three Olympic gold medals in 1984
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor
17-Feb-1981   Third Rock From the Sun
Jim Grobe
Football
17-Feb-1952   Wake Forest Head Coach
Romano Guardini
Religion
17-Feb-1885 1-Oct-1968 Roman Catholic theologian
Larry The Cable Guy
Comic
17-Feb-1963   Blue Collar comic
Taylor Hawkins
Drummer
17-Feb-1972   The Foo Fighters
Charles A. Hayes
Politician
17-Feb-1918 8-Apr-1997 Congressman from Illinois, 1983-93
Sadeq Hedayat
Author
17-Feb-1903 9-Apr-1951 The Blind Owl
Paris Hilton
Socialite
17-Feb-1981   The Simple Life
Hal Holbrook
Actor
17-Feb-1925   Mark Twain Tonight
Ashton Holmes
Actor
17-Feb-1978   Tyler Barrol on Revenge
David F. Houston
Government
17-Feb-1866 2-Sep-1940 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20
Jen-Hsun Huang
Business
17-Feb-1963   CEO of NVIDIA
Barry Humphries
Actor
17-Feb-1934   Dame Edna
Arthur Hunnicutt
Actor
17-Feb-1910 26-Sep-1979 The Big Sky
H. L. Hunt
Business
17-Feb-1889 29-Nov-1974 Founder of Hunt Oil
Jackson Hurst
Actor
17-Feb-1979   Grayson Kent on Drop Dead Diva
Frederic Eugene Ives
Inventor
17-Feb-1856 27-May-1937 Halftone process
Sir James Ivory
Mathematician
17-Feb-1765 21-Sep-1842 Ivory's Theorem
Tom Jones
Songwriter
17-Feb-1928   The Fantasticks
Jim Jordan
Politician
17-Feb-1964   Congressman, Ohio 4th
Michael Jordan
Basketball
17-Feb-1963   God's gift to basketball, clearly
Richard Karn
Actor
17-Feb-1956   Al Borland on Home Improvement
Arthur Kennedy
Actor
17-Feb-1914 5-Jan-1990 The Man from Laramie
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
Playwright
17-Feb-1752 9-Mar-1831 Sturm under Drang
Hendrik Kramers
Physicist
17-Feb-1894 24-Apr-1952 Kramers dispersion theory
René Laënnec
Doctor
17-Feb-1781 13-Aug-1826 Stethoscope
Marc Lawrence
Actor
17-Feb-1910 28-Nov-2005 Prolific character actor
Rick Majerus
Basketball
17-Feb-1948   Basketball Coach
Ralphie May
Comic
17-Feb-1972   Obese comic
Johann Tobias Mayer
Astronomer
17-Feb-1723 20-Feb-1762 Kosmographische Nachrichten
Valeria Mazza
Model
17-Feb-1972   Argentine supermodel
M. Blane Michael
Judge
17-Feb-1943 25-Mar-2011 4th Circuit Court of Appeals
James Millican
Actor
17-Feb-1910 24-Nov-1955 American character actor
Mary Ann Mobley
Model
17-Feb-1939   Miss America 1959
Lola Montez
Dancer
17-Feb-1821 17-Jan-1861 Mistress of Ludwig I of Bavaria
Lynne Moody
Actor
17-Feb-1950   Patricia Williams on Knots Landing
Wayne Morris
Actor
17-Feb-1914 14-Sep-1959 Paths of Glory
Huey Newton
Activist
17-Feb-1942 22-Aug-1989 Black Panther
Andre Norton
Author
17-Feb-1912 17-Mar-2005 Witch World series
Jerry O'Connell
Actor
17-Feb-1974   Pete Kaczmarek in The Defenders
Chord Overstreet
Actor
17-Feb-1989   Sam Evans on Glee
Charley Pell
Football
17-Feb-1941 29-May-2001 Florida Head Coach, 1979-84
Lou Diamond Phillips
Actor
17-Feb-1962   Young Guns II
Christina Pickles
Actor
17-Feb-1935   Judy Geller on Friends
Sasha Pieterse
Actor
17-Feb-1996   Alison DiLaurentis on Pretty Little Liars
Gene Pitney
Singer/Songwriter
17-Feb-1940 5-Apr-2006 60s teen idol and songwriter
Chaim Potok
Novelist
17-Feb-1929 23-Jul-2002 The Chosen
Dominic Purcell
Actor
17-Feb-1970   Prison Break
Denise Richards
Actor
17-Feb-1971   Starship Troopers
Nicholas Ridley
Politician
17-Feb-1929 4-Mar-1993 Thatcherite MP and Minister
Jason Ritter
Actor
17-Feb-1980   Kevin on Joan of Arcadia
Panna Rittikrai
Film Director
17-Feb-1961   Ong Bak 2
Patricia Routledge
Actor
17-Feb-1929   Hetty Wainthropp
Rene Russo
Actor
17-Feb-1954   Outbreak
Buddy Ryan
Football
17-Feb-1934   Retired NFL Coach
Bill Sali
Politician
17-Feb-1954   Congressman, Idaho 1st
Martha R. Seger
Government
17-Feb-1932   Federal Reserve Governor, 1984-91
Jeremy Slate
Actor
17-Feb-1926 19-Nov-2006 The Mini-Skirt Mob
Otto Stern
Physicist
17-Feb-1888 17-Aug-1969 Molecular beam experiment
Craig Thomas
Politician
17-Feb-1933 4-Jun-2007 US Senator from Wyoming, 1995-2007
John D. Tinder
Judge
17-Feb-1950   7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Margaret Truman
Relative
17-Feb-1924 29-Jan-2008 Harry S. Truman's mystery novelist daughter
Raf Vallone
Actor
17-Feb-1916 31-Oct-2002 The Greek Tycoon
Henri Vieuxtemps
Violinist
17-Feb-1820 6-Jun-1881 Belgian violinist and composer
Aaron Montgomery Ward
Business
17-Feb-1844 7-Dec-1913 Founded Montgomery Ward company
Thomas J. Watson
Business
17-Feb-1874 19-Jun-1956 Led IBM into the computer era
Wellington Webb
Politician
17-Feb-1941   Mayor of Denver, 1991-2003
Bryan White
Country Musician
17-Feb-1974   Someone Else's Star
Bonnie Wright
Actor
17-Feb-1991   Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter
Frank G. Zarb
Business
17-Feb-1935   US Energy Czar, 1974-77


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