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)