March 17: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is March 17th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on March 17th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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March 17th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

March 17th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Adonis Led by Cupids to Venus, Baptism of Christ, The Holy Family, Mary's Ascension andVenus and Amor), was born on March 17, 1578.

Danish-American film producer Frederick Brisson (The Caretaker, Coco, Damn Yankees, Five Finger Exercise,Generation, The Pajama Game, The Pleasure of His Company, Mrs. Pollifax - Spy, Twigs, Under the Yum Yum Tree and The Velvet Touch) was born on March 17, 1912. Son of actor Carl Brisson, Frederick Brisson married actress Rosalind Russell.

British watercolor artist and illustrator Kate Greenaway was born on March 17, 1846. Kate Greenaway's illustrations appeared in several books, including A Day in a Child's Life, Kate Greenaway's Birthday Album, The Language of Flowers and Under the Window.

Austrian-American sculptor (The Performers) Chaim Gross was born on March 17, 1904.

John La Montaine, American composer (In Time of War) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1959), was born on March 17, 1920.

German-American photographer Hans Namuth (Guatemala and Todos Santos) was born on March 17, 1915.

Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter (Battle of Lesnaya, Battle of Pultawa, La Camargo, A Lady of the Court of Louis XV, Madame de La Porte, Magdalen, Marie Leczinska, Petrification of Phineus and of his Companions and Thalia), was born on March 17, 1685.

French Rococo painter Jean-Baptiste Oudry (Le Cheval Fondu, Clara le Rhinoceros, Fables de La Fontaine and A Hare and a Leg of Lamb) was born on March 17, 1686.

March 17th Birthdays: Famous Athletes