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What happened in history on this day: February 17?
On February 17 in ...
- 1938 - First public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London, England).
- 1996 - NBC airs the 400th episode of TV show Saturday Night Live.
- 2023 - Ice-T receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Births on February 17
- 1888 - Birth of Henrietta P "Hetty" Beck; actress (Bouwmeester Award).
- 1895 - Birth of Anita Stewart in New York City, New York, USA; actress (South of Hell Mountain).
- 1908 - Birth of Staats Cotsworth in Oak Park, Illinois, USA; actor (Peyton Place).
- 1910 - Birth of Marc Lawrence in New York City, New York, USA; actor (The Man With the Golden Gun).
- 1911 - Birth of Arthur Hunnicutt in Gravelly, Arkansas, USA; actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising).
- 1914 - Birth of Arthur Kennedy in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place).
- 1914 - Birth of [Bert de] Wayne Morris in Los Angeles, California, USA; WWII-pilot/actor (Paths of Glory).
- 1916 - Birth of Raf Vallone in Tropea, Italy; actor (El Cid, Two Women, Greek Tycoon).
- 1919 - Birth of Jock Mahoney in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Dallas, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury).
- 1919 - Birth of Kathleen Freeman in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Beverly Hillbillies).
- 1925 - Birth of Hal Holbrook in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; actor (All the President's Men, Mark Twain).
- 1934 - Birth of Alan Bates in Allestree, England; actor (Zorba the Greek, Unmarried Woman).
- 1936 - Birth of Jim Brown in Georgia, USA; NFL full back (Cleveland Browns), actor (The Dirty Dozen).
- 1945 - Birth of Brenda Fricker in Dublin, Ireland; actress (My Left Foot).
- 1945 - Birth of Patricia Morrow; actress (Rita - Peyton Place).
- 1946 - Birth of André Dussollier in Annecy, France; actor (Three Men and a Cradle).
- 1946 - Birth of Zina Bethune in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Nurses, Who's That Knocking at My Door).
- 1947 - Birth of Dallas Adams; British actor/painter/writer (Terror From Within).
- 1947 - Birth of Dodie Stevens [Geraldine Ann Pasquale] in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Mary Hartman!).
- 1954 - Birth of Rene Russo; actress (Ransom).
- 1958 - Birth of Heidi Hagman; actress (Linda - Archie Bunker's Place).
- 1959 - Birth of Richard Karn in Seattle, Washington, USA; actor (Al - Home Improvement).
- 1962 - Birth of Lou Diamond Phillips in the Philippines; actor (La Bamba, Stand and Deliver).
- 1963 - Birth of Dan Reed; rocker/actor (HOTS, Lake Consequence).
- 1965 - Birth of Clayton Prince in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Dark Justice, Reuben - Another World).
- 1967 - Birth of Michelle Forbes in Austin, Texas, USA; actress (Ensign Ro - Star Trek: The Next Generation).
- 1974 - Birth of Jerry O'Connell in New York City, New York; actor (Scream 2, Sliders, Andrew Clements - My Secret Identity).
- 1982 - Birth of Joseph Gordon-Levitt; actor (Tommy Solomon - Third Rock From the Sun).
Deaths on February 17
- 1959 - Kathryn Adams, actress (Meet the Chump, 5th Avenue Girl), dies.
- 1961 - Nita Naldi, actress (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), dies of heart attack at age 63.
- 1962 - Joseph Kearns, actor (George - Dennis the Menace), dies at age 55.
- 1966 - Frank Pettingell, actor (Becket, Up the Creek), dies at age 75.
- 1966 - Gail Kane, actress (White Sister, Arizona), dies at age 81.
- 1968 - Donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at age 65.
- 1971 - Teddy Hart, actor (Three Men on a Horse), dies at age 73.
- 1976 - Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Every Man is My Enemy), dies at age 65.
- 1979 - Death of William Gargan, American actor (Rain, Bells of Saint Mary, New Adventures of Martin Kane), at age 73 (born 1905).
- 1982 - Lee [Israel] Strasberg, father of method acting/actor (And Justice for All), dies of a heart attack at age 80.
- 1984 - Lucille Benson, actress (Lilly - Bosom Buddies), dies at age 69.
- 1985 - Wanda Perry, actress (Roberta, Death of a Salesman), dies at age 67.
- 1986 - Paul Stewart, actor (Opening Night, In Cold Blood, Window), dies.
- 1987 - Hal K Dawson, actor (Another Language, Wells Fargo), dies.
- 1987 - Verree Teasdale, actress (Skyscraper Souls), dies.
- 1990 - Erik Rhodes, actor (Top Hat), dies of pneumonia at age 84.
- 1990 - Marc Clement, actor (Career Opportunities, Sluggers Wife), dies.
- 1996 - Death of [Elsie] Evelyn Laye at age 95; actress/singer (Sun Child).
- 2016 - Death of Andrzej Zulawski, Polish film director and writer (born 1940).
- 2023 - Death of Stella Stevens at age 84 from Alzheimer's disease; actor (The Nutty Professor movie, The Poseidon Adventure movie).
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