Curated category
1917 births
- John F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy entered the world on the 29th of May 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
- Ella FitzgeraldElla Jane Fitzgerald was born on the 25th of April 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. Her mother Temperance Fitzgerald and father William Ashland Fitzgerald…
- Ferdinand MarcosFerdinand Marcos entered the world on the 11th of September 1917 in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte. His father Mariano was a lawyer and congressman who later died as a…
- Indira GandhiIndira Gandhi was born on the 19th of November 1917 in Allahabad, British India. Her father Jawaharlal Nehru led the independence movement while her mother…
- Nur Muhammad TarakiNur Muhammad Taraki was born on the 14th of July 1917 in Nawa, a district within Ghazni Province. He grew up as part of a Ghilji Pashtun peasant family that…
- Jack KirbyJacob Kurtzberg arrived at 147 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on the 28th of August 1917. His parents Rose and Benjamin were…
- Arthur C. ClarkeArthur Charles Clarke was born on the 16th of December 1917 in Minehead, Somerset. He grew up nearby at Bishops Lydeard where he lived on a farm.
- Caspar WeinbergerCaspar Willard Weinberger was born on the 18th of August 1917, in San Francisco. His father Herman worked as an attorney while his mother Cerise taught music.
- Al CerviAlfred Nicholas Cervi was born on the 12th of February 1917 in Buffalo, New York. He attended East High School where he captained both the baseball and…
- Jean MassinJean Massin stood at the seminary in Rome during his early studies. He remained a Catholic priest until 1952 despite questions about tradition.
- Jean-Pierre MelvilleJean-Pierre Grumbach was born on the 20th of October 1917 in Paris. His parents were Alsatian Jewish immigrants named Berthe and Jules Grumbach.
- Eric HobsbawmEric Hobsbawm entered the world on the 9th of June 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt. His father Leopold Percy Hobsbaum was a Jewish merchant from London's East End…
- Elliot ForbesElliot Forbes entered the world on the 20th of August 1917, into a family that defined Boston's cultural elite. His father Edward Forbes directed Harvard's…
- Karl SteinbuchKarl Steinbuch was born on the 15th of June 1917 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. He studied physics at the University of Stuttgart during a time when Germany was…
- Larry O'BrienLawrence Francis O'Brien Jr. was born on the 7th of July 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts to Irish immigrant parents. He learned about politics at a very…
- Red AuerbachArnold Jacob Auerbach arrived in the world on the 20th of September 1917. He grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of four children born to Marie and…