Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 17

Births

 * AD 64 - Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
 * 1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
 * 1901 - Francis Chichester, Engnbmnblish adventurer (d. 1972)
 * 1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
 * 1928 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
 * 1929 - Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver (d. 2020)
 * 1931 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
 * 1939 - David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
 * 1942 - Des Lynam, English television presenter
 * 1947 - Tessa Jowell, British politician (d. 2018)
 * 1969 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
 * 1975 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
 * 1994 - Taylor Ware, American yodeler

Deaths

 * 1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
 * 1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
 * 1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
 * 1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (pictured) (b. 1918)
 * 2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)