Births — January to June 1917

January

January 1 – Shannon Bolin, American actress and singer (d. 2016)

January 2 – Vera Zorina, German dancer and actress (d. 2003)

January 3

Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)

Jesse White, American actor (d. 1997)

January 5

Lucienne Day, British textile designer (d. 2010)

Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat and prominent socialite (d. 2006)

Jane Wyman, American actress, philanthropist, and first wife of Ronald Reagan (d. 2007)

January 6 – Koo Chen-fu, Nationalist Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)

January 10 – Jerry Wexler, American record producer (d. 2008)

January 12 – Jimmy Skinner, Detroit Red Wings head coach (d. 2007)

January 15 – K. A. Thangavelu, Indian film actor and comedian (d. 1994)

January 16 – Carl Karcher, American founder of the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008)

January 19 – Graham Higman, British mathematician (d. 2008)

January 25 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2003)

January 26

Louis Zamperini, American prisoner of war (World War II), Olympic distance athlete (1936), and Christian evangelist (d. 2014)

William Verity Jr., American politician (d. 2007)

February

February 1 – Squadron Leader James "Ginger" Lacey, the top scoring RAF fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain (d. 1989)

February 2 – Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese leader

February 3 – Shlomo Goren, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel (d. 1994)

February 6

John Franzese, Italian-born American prisoner

February 11

T. Nagi Reddy, Indian revolutionary (d. 1976)

Sidney Sheldon, American author and television writer (d. 2007)

February 12 – Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 2009)

February 14 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2011)

February 17 – Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (d. 2002)

February 18 – Tuulikki Pietilä, Finnish artist (d. 2009)

February 19 – Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967)

February 21 – Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (d. 1996)

February 25

Anthony Burgess, English author (d. 1993)

Brenda Joyce, American actress (d. 2009)

February 27

February 28 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, cinematographer, and producer (d. 2007)

March

March 1 – Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977)

March 2

Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, bandleader, musician, and television producer; co-founder of Desilu Productions (d. 1986)

Laurie Baker, English architect (d. 2007)

March 3 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952)

March 12

Leonard Chess, American record company executive and co-founder of Chess Records (d. 1969)

March 20 – Vera Lynn, English actress and singer (living)

March 21 – Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist, politician, and Military Chief of Staff (d. 1984)

March 24

Constantine Andreou, Brazilian-Greek artist (d. 2007)

John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1997)

March 27 – Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002)

March 29 – Man o' War, champion thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947)

April

April 1 – Sydney Newman, Canadian-born television producer (d. 1997)

April 7 – R. G. Armstrong, American actor (d. 2012)

April 8 – John Whitney, American animator, composer, and pioneer in computer animation (d. 1995)

April 10 – Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

April 11 – Morton Sobell, American spy

April 13 Robert O. Anderson, American businessman, founder of Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (d. 2007)

April 15 – Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)

April 16 – Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)

April 21  Francis William Monette, truck driver/teamster

April 22 – Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina (d. 2016)

April 26

I. M. Pei, Chinese-born architect

Virgil Trucks, American baseball player (d. 2013)

May

May 1

John Beradino, American baseball player and actor, better known for his role in General Hospital (d. 1996)

Ulric Cross, Trinidadian judge, diplomat and war hero (d. 2013)

Danielle Darrieux, French singer and actress

Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator (d. 2012)

May 12 – Frank Clair, Canadian football coach (d. 2005)

May 14 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)

May 16

Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer and photographer (d. 1986)

May 20 – Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d. 2005)

May 21 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor, better known for his role in Perry Mason (d. 1993)

May 25 – Theodore Hesburgh, American priest and educator (d. 2015)

May 28

Papa John Creach, African-American fiddler (d. 1994)

Marshall Reed, American film and television actor (d. 1980)

June

June 1 – William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)

June 2

Casey Adams, American actor (d. 2000)

Max Showalter, American actor and musician (d. 2000)

June 4

Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004)

Howard Metzenbaum, American Jewish Senator from Ohio (d. 2008)

June 6 – Kirk Kerkorian, Armenian-American businessman and billionaire (d. 2015)

June 7

Gwendolyn Brooks, African American writer (d. 2000)

Dean Martin, American actor and singer (d. 1995)

June 8

George D. Wallace, American actor (d. 2005)

Byron White, American football player and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2002)

June 10

Ruari McLean, British typographer (d. 2006)

June 14

Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist and writer

Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2007)

June 15

John Fenn, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)

Lash LaRue, American cowboy actor (d. 1996)

June 16

Katharine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)

Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009)

June 17 – Ben Bubar, American presidential candidate (d. 1995)

June 18

Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)

Ross Elliott, American actor (d. 1999)

Erik Ortvad, Danish artist (d. 2008)

June 21 – Leslie Shepard, British author, archivist, and curator (d. 2004)

June 24 – Lucy Jarvis, American television producer

June 25

Nils Karlsson, Swedish Olympic cross-country skiier (d. 2012)

Claude Seignolle, French author

June 30

Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)

Lena Horne, American singer and actress (d. 2010)