August 17
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Art and culture
Births
- 1887 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black rights activist (d. 1940)
- 1893 - Mae West, American actress (d. 1980)
- 1932 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian writer
- 1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
- 1959 - Jonathan Franzen, American author
- 1960 - Sean Penn, American actor and director
Deaths
- 1676 - Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621)
- 1973 - Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889)
Notes
- 1799 - Christian Heinrich Spiess (April 4, 1755 – August 17, 1799), German writer of Schauerromanen, the German equivalent of the gothic novel.
- 1925 - John Hawkes (August 17 1925 – May 15, 1998), was a postmodern American novelist,
- 1954 - Michèle Bernstein marries Guy Debord
- 1955 - Fernand Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.
- 1927 - Johannes Theodor Baargeld (October 9 1892 - August 16 or 17, 1927), was a German painter and poet who, together with Max Ernst, founded the Cologne Dada group.
- 1887 - Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955) was a surrealist painter.
- 1887 - Fantasmagorie (January 4, 1857 – January 20, 1938), born Émile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet, was a French caricaturist of the largely-forgotten Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator,
- 1887 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886 in Aachen; August 17, 1969 in Chicago) was a German architect.
- 1887 - Anthony Earnshaw (October 9, 1924 – August 17, 2001) was an English anarchist, artist and surrealist author and illustrator.
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