Quote Authors Born in 1917

Desi Arnaz

American Actor

Mar 2, 1917 - Dec 2, 1986

Dizzy Gillespie

American Musician

Oct 21, 1917 - Jan 6, 1993

Eileen Caddy

English Celebrity

Aug 26, 1917 - Dec 13, 2006

Ella Fitzgerald

American Musician

Apr 25, 1917 - Jun 15, 1996

Eric Hobsbawm

British Historian

Jun 8, 1917

Ernest Borgnine

American Actor

Jan 24, 1917 - Jul 8, 2012

Fannie Lou Hamer

American Activist

Oct 6, 1917 - Mar 14, 1977

Ferdinand Marcos

Filipino Statesman

Sep 11, 1917 - Sep 28, 1989

Francis Parker Yockey

American Writer

Sep 18, 1917 - Jun 16, 1960

George Gaynes

American Musician

May 3, 1917 - Feb 15, 2016

Gwendolyn Brooks

American Poet

Jun 7, 1917 - Dec 3, 2000

Han Suyin

Chinese Writer

Sep 12, 1917 - Nov 2, 2012

Hank Sauer

American Athlete

Mar 17, 1917 - Aug 24, 2001

Heinrich Boll

German Writer

Dec 21, 1917 - Jul 16, 1985

Helen Suzman

South African Politician

Nov 7, 1917 - Jan 1, 2009

Herbert Lom

Czechoslovakian Actor

Sep 11, 1917

Hilary Mason

English Actress

Sep 4, 1917 - Sep 5, 2006

Howard Gossage

American Businessman

1917 - 1969

I. M. Pei

American Architect

Apr 26, 1917

Indira Gandhi

Indian Statesman

Nov 19, 1917 - Oct 31, 1984

Irving Penn

American Photographer

Jun 16, 1917 - Oct 7, 2009

Isabel Sanford

American Actress

Aug 29, 1917 - Jul 9, 2004

J. F. Powers

American Novelist

Jul 8, 1917 - Jun 12, 1999

Jack Kirby

American Cartoonist

Aug 28, 1917 - Feb 6, 1994

Jack Lynch

Irish Statesman

Aug 15, 1917 - Oct 20, 1999

James Donald

Scottish Actor

May 18, 1917 - Aug 3, 1993