Explore 1917 historical events from 2000–2009.
Lennart Villiam Bladh was a Swedish politician who served as member of the Riksdag (MP) from 1974 to 1985.
Lennart Bladh, Swedish politician (born 1920)
Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Hughes was an American actor. His most successful roles came after middle age, and he was often cast as a dithering authority figure or grandfatherly elder…
Barnard Hughes, American actor (born 1915)
Bronwyn Joy Oliver was an Australian sculptor whose work primarily consisted of metalwork. Her sculptures are admired for their tactile nature, aesthetics, and technical skills dem…
Bronwyn Oliver, Australian sculptor (born 1959)
John Spencer was an English professional snooker player. One of the most dominant players of the 1970s, he won the World Snooker Championship three times, in 1969, 1971 and 1977. H…
John Spencer, English snooker player and sportscaster (born 1935)
Red Buttons was an American actor and comedian. He won an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award, and a Laurel Award for his performance as United States Air Force crew chief Joe Kelly in the…
Red Buttons, American actor (born 1919)
Robert Howell Brooks was founder of Naturally Fresh, Inc. in 1966 in Atlanta, Georgia. He helped create the Hooters of America, Inc. restaurant chain that would eventually drive th…
Robert H. Brooks, American businessman, founder of Hooters and Naturally Fresh, Inc. (born 1937)
Winthrop Paul "Win" Rockefeller was an American Republican politician and businessman who served as the 17th lieutenant governor of Arkansas from 1996 until his death in 2006. He w…
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (born 1948)
Samuel Joseph Myers was an American blues musician and songwriter. He was an accompanist on dozens of recordings by blues artists over five decades. He began his career as a drumme…
Sam Myers, American singer-songwriter (born 1936)
Alireza Shapour Shahbazi was a prominent Persian archaeologist, Iranologist and a world expert on Achaemenid archaeology. Shahbazi got a BA degree in and an MA degree in East Asian…
Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist and academic (born 1942)
Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, called the "king of pulp fiction". He was best known for stories featuring his signature d…
Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (born 1918)
Henry Hewes was an American theater writer who worked as the drama critic for the Saturday Review weekly literary magazine from 1955 to 1979. He was the first major critic to regul…
Henry Hewes, American theater writer (born 1917)
Jack Warden was an American actor who worked in film and television. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978).…
Jack Warden, American actor (born 1920)
Edward Grant was a South African Trotskyist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He was a founding member of the group Militant and later Socialist Appeal.
Ted Grant, South African-English theorist and activist (born 1913)
Gérard Oury was a French film director, actor and writer. He is best known for a number of comedies he directed and co-wrote between the 1960s and 1980s, most notably The Sucker (1…
Gérard Oury, French actor, director, and producer (born 1919)
Makoto Iwamatsu was a Japanese-American actor, credited mononymously in almost all of his acting roles as simply Mako . His career in film, on television, and on stage spanned fiv…
Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor and singer (born 1933)
Ta Mok, also known as Nguon Kang, was a Cambodian military chief who was a senior figure in the genocidal Khmer Rouge and the leader of the national army of Democratic Kampuchea. H…
Ta Mok, Cambodian soldier and monk (born 1926)
Dika Newlin was a composer, pianist, professor, musicologist, and punk rock singer. She received a Ph.D. from Columbia University at the age of 22. She was one of the last living s…
Dika Newlin, American composer, singer-songwriter, and pianist (born 1923)
Brother Jean-Paul Desbiens, Frère Pierre-Jérôme, F.M.S., OC was a Quebec writer, journalist, teacher and member of the Catholic institute of Marist Brothers.
Jean-Paul Desbiens, Canadian journalist and academic (born 1927)
Ezra Fleischer was a Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist known for his pioneering research on early Hebrew piyyut and medieval Jewish liturgy. Fleischer received …
Ezra Fleischer, Romanian-Israeli poet and philologist (born 1928)
Maryann Mahaffey was an American politician and activist.
Maryann Mahaffey, American academic and politician (born 1925)
Duygu Asena was a Turkish journalist, best-selling author and activist for women's rights.
Duygu Asena, Turkish journalist and author(born 1946)
José Antonio Delgado Sucre was the first Venezuelan mountaineer to reach the summit of five eight-thousanders and one of the most experienced climbers in Latin America. Known as el…
José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountaineer (born 1965)
David Andrew Gemmell was a British author of heroic fantasy, best known for his debut novel, Legend. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell had his first work of fiction…
David Gemmell, English author (born 1948)
Allan George Balding was a Canadian professional golfer, who won four events on the PGA Tour. In 1955, he became the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event in the United States; Ca…
Al Balding, Canadian golfer (born 1924)