17 October: today's birthdays

• Eleutheria Arvanitaki (Eleftheria Arvanitaki) - Greek folk singer
• Montgomery Clift - American film and stage actor. He starred in The Search, I Confess, The Young Lions, and The Misfits
• Lorraine Crapp - Former Australian swimmer
• László Darvasi - Hungarian writer and journalist
• Eminem - Pseudonym of Marshall Bruce Mathers III, American rapper, record producer, and songwriter
• Frederick Childe Hassam - American Impressionist painter
• Rita Hayworth - American actress and dancer, born Margarita Carmen Cansino. She starred in Gilda and Blood and Sand with Tyrone Power
• Wyclef Jean - Haitian rapper. He collaborated with Colombian singer-songwriter and dancer Shakira and with Irish singer Bono Vox,the frontman of the rock band U2
• Matthew Macfadyen - English actor. He is best known for his role as Mr. Darcy in the film Pride & Prejudice, based on the homonymous novel written by Jane Austen
• Marshall Bruce Mathers - American rapper, record producer, and songwriter, best known as Eminem
• Arthur Miller - American author and playwright, born Arthur Asher Miller. He was married to Marilyn Monroe. He wrote the plays Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
• Josep Puig i Cadafalch - Catalan architect
• Kimi Räikkönen - Finnish racing driver, born Kimi-Matias Räikkönen. Iceman is his nickname 
• Foday Sankoh - Sierra Leone revolutionary and guerrilla fighter