Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 17

Births

• 1900 - Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1902 - Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
• 1918 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
• 1920 - Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966) (pictured)
• 1938 - Evel Knievel, American daredevil (d. 2007)
• 1958 - Alan Jackson, American singer and songwriter
• 1972 - Eminem, American rapper

Deaths

• 1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)
• 1889 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
• 1910 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (b. 1819)
• 1967 - Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
• 1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (b. 1919)