1917 births

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presidency.

Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984)

President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986

British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)

German writer (1917–1985)

American jazz singer (1917–1996)

Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)

Hungarian-American socialite and actress (1917–2016)

Dean Martin was an American singer, actor, comedian and television host. Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he is regarded as one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century.

Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)

British actress (1917–2013)

British academic historian and Marxist historiographer (1917–2012)

English writer and composer (1917–1993)

American actor (1917–2012)

American actor (1917–1997)

President of Turkey (1917–2015)

American actress (1917–2007)

American chemist

Belgian biochemist, cytologist (1917–2013)

English physiologist and biophysicist (1917–2012)

American jazz trumpeter (1917–1993)

American writer (1917–2007)

American physicist

English biochemist and crystallographer (1917–1997)

American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist (1917–2012)

American actress (1917–2022)

American comic book artist (1917–1994)

former Pakistani president (1917–1980)

fourth archbishop of San Salvador (1917–1980)

American actress (1917–1975)

American analytical chemist (1917–2010)

American jazz pianist and composer (1917–1982)

Mexican writer (1917–1986)

American mathematician (1917–2011)

American chemist (1917–2012)

American singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917–2010)

British singer (1917–2020)

American writer (1917–1967)

President of the Republic of Macedonia (1917–2012)

English biochemist and Nobel laureate (1917–1985)

André Robert Raimbourg (; 27 July 1917 – 23 September 1970), better known as André Bourvil (), and mononymously as Bourvil, was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy films, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in the films Le Corniaud (1965) and La Grande Vadrouille (1966). For his performance in Le Corniaud, he won a Special Diploma at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.

American actress (1917–2006)

Indian chemist (1917–2006)

Japanese association football player and manager (1917–2000)

American actress (1917–2012)

American theoretical physicist

Japanese association football player (1917–1979)

American politician (1917–2010)

Chilean musician and folklorist

Japanese association football player

Japanese association football player (1917-1998)

Paraguayan writer (1917–2005)

Norwegian mathematician (1917–2007)

French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor (1917–2013)

American actor, director and producer (1917–2008)

British-born Mexican artist, painter and novelist (1917–2011)

British historian and poet

American mathematician and meteorologist (1917–2008)

American fiction writer (1917–1994)

South African anti-apartheid activist and politician (1917–1993)