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In the year 1917
636 Notable birthdays
Clarice Taylor
Actress (1917-2011).
Born September 20th, 1917 in Buckingham County.
Died May 30th, 2011 at 93 years old in Lillian Booth Actors Home (heart failure). [ref]
William Scranton
Governor of pennsylvania (1917-2013).
Born July 19th, 1917 in Madison.
Died July 28th, 2013 at 96 years old in Montecito (cerebral hemorrhage).
Pamela Brown
British actress.
Born July 8th, 1917 in London. [ref]
Died September 19th, 1975 at 58 years old in Gloucestershire (pancreatic cancer).
Dinu Lipatti
Romanian pianist and composer (1917-1950).
Born March 19th, 1917 in Bucharest. [ref]
Died December 2nd, 1950 at 33 years old in Geneva (Hodgkin lymphoma). [ref]
Yakov Pavlov
Hero of the soviet union (1917-1981).
Born October 17th, 1917 in Valdaysky District.
Died September 29th, 1981 at 63 years old in Veliky Novgorod.
Tuulikki Pietilä
Finnish artist (1917-2009).
Born February 18th, 1917 in Seattle. [ref]
Died February 23rd, 2009 at 92 years old in Helsinki. [ref]
Al Moualem Al shahid Kamal Jumblatt
Lebanese politician (1917-1977).
Born December 6th, 1917 in Moukhtara.
Died March 16th, 1977 at 59 years old in Baakleen (gunshot wound).
Leonid Hurwicz
Polish-american economist and mathematician (1917-2008).
Born August 21st, 1917 in Moscow.
Died June 24th, 2008 at 90 years old in Minneapolis (kidney failure). [ref]
Adolf Burger
Jewish slovak typographer, memoir writer, and holocaust survivor (1917-2016).
Born August 12th, 1917 in Veľká Lomnica. [ref]
Died December 6th, 2016 at 99 years old in Prague. [ref]
Robert Gist
American actor and director (1917-1998).
Born October 1st, 1917 in Miami.
Died May 21st, 1998 at 80 years old in Magalia.
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