Bridgers, Phoebe (1994)
The indie rock singer who did the album 'Punisher'
Famous People Born on August 17
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Butler, Austin (1991)
The title star of the 2022 biopic Elvis -
Crockett, Davy (1786)
Tennessee frontiersman and defender of the Alamo -
Deep Throat (1913)
Mysterious informer of the Watergate scandal -
De Niro, Robert (1943)
The intense star of Taxi Driver -
Franzen, Jonathan (1959)
Author of The Corrections -
Garvey, Marcus (1887)
Founder of the "back to Africa" movement -
Henry, Thierry (1977)
The superstar whose handball put the French into World Cup 2010 -
Koresh, David (1959)
Founder of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas -
Naipaul, V.S. (1932)
Nobel-winning author of A House for Mr. Biswas -
Penn, Sean (1960)
The intense actor who won Oscars for Mystic River and Milk -
Powers, Francis Gary (1929)
The U-2 pilot shot down by the Soviet Union in 1960 -
Wahlberg, Donnie (1969)
Danny on the TV cop show Blue Bloods -
West, Mae (1893)
Early Hollywood sex symbol -
Zemin, Jiang (1926)
President of the People's Republic of China, 1993-2003