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Famous People Born in 1917

1917: 67 people

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Unoko Tsuboi

壷井宇乃子
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Unoko Tsuboi (壷井 宇乃子, Tsuboi Unoko; 13 December 1917 – 4 November 1940) was a Japanese swimmer. She competed in the…

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Saganohana Katsumi

佐賀ノ花勝巳
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Saganohana Katsumi (5 December 1917 – 28 March 1975) was a professional sumo wrestler born as Katsumi Kitamura in Saga…

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Chang Ucchin (Korean: 장욱진; Hanja: 張旭鎭, 26 November 1917 – 27 December 1990) was one of the most representative modern…

Tadao Kashio (樫尾 忠雄 Kashio Tadao; 26 November 1917 – 4 March 1993) was a Japanese entrepreneur and the founder of…

Noboru Terada (寺田 登, Terada Noboru; November 25, 1917 – September 26, 1986) was a Japanese freestyle swimmer. At the…

Hirokazu Ninomiya (二宮 洋一, Ninomiya Hirokazu; 22 November 1917 – 7 March 2000) was a Japanese football player and…

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Shizue Yamaguchi

山口シヅエ
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Shizue Yamaguchi (Japanese: 山口シヅエ; 31 October 1917 – 3 April 2012) was a Japanese physician and politician. She was one…

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Chang Ri-jin (Korean: 장이진; Hanja: 張利鎭, born 28 October 1917, date of death unknown) was a Korean basketball player. He…

Morikazu Toda (戸田 盛和, Toda Morikazu; 20 October 1917 – 6 October 2010) was a Japanese physicist, best known for the…

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Teisuke Chiba

千葉禎介
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Teisuke Chiba (千葉 禎介, Chiba Teisuke; 1917–1965) was a Japanese amateur photographer of rural life around the area where…

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Tony Tani

トニー谷
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Tony Tani (トニー谷) (14 October 1917 – 16 July 1987) was a popular Japanese entertainer of the 1950s. His flamboyant stage…

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Genyoshi Kadokawa (Japanese: 角川 源義, 9 October 1917 – 27 October 1975) was a Japanese businessman who was the founder of…

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Kusuo Kitamura (北村 久寿雄, Kitamura Kusuo; October 9, 1917 – June 6, 1996) was a Japanese swimmer who competed at the 1932…

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Osamu Matsubara

松原治
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Osamu Matsubara (松原 治, Matsubara Osamu; October 7, 1917 – January 3, 2012) was a Japanese businessman, business…

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Katsura Ōyama

大山桂
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Katsura Ōyama (大山 桂, Ōyama Katsura; October 6, 1917 – December 30, 1995) was a Japanese paleontologist and zoologist…

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Yōichi Nakanishi

中西陽一
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Yōichi Nakanishi (Japanese: 中西陽一, Hepburn: Nakanishi Yōichi; 23 September 1917 – 2 February 1994) was a Japanese…

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Chujiro Endo

遠藤忠二郎
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Chujiro Endo (遠藤 忠二郎, Endō Chūjirō; born September 20, 1917, date of death unknown) was a professional baseball player.…

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Takashi Shirozu (白水 隆, Shirōzu Takashi; 14 September 1917 in Fukuoka – 2 April 2004) was a Japanese entomologist who…

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Kenkichi Iwasawa (岩澤 健吉 Iwasawa Kenkichi, September 11, 1917 – October 26, 1998) was a Japanese mathematician who is…

Yukiko Todoroki (轟 夕起子 Todoroki Yukiko; September 11, 1917 – May 11, 1967) was a Japanese actress. Her real name was…

Masahiko Kimura (木村 政彦, Kimura Masahiko; 10 September 1917 – 18 April 1993) was a Japanese judoka and professional…

Tetsuo Hamuro (葉室 鐵夫, Hamuro Tetsuo; 7 September 1917 – 30 October 2005) was a Japanese breaststroke swimmer. In 1935…

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Kinsaku Nakane

中根金作
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Kinsaku Nakane (1917 – 1 March 1995) was a landscape garden designer, builder, restorer, and professor. He was the…

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Tosio Kato (加藤 敏夫, Katō Toshio; August 25, 1917 – October 2, 1999) was a Japanese mathematician who worked with partial…

Ko Arima (有馬 洪, Arima Kō; born August 22, 1917) is a Japanese former football player. He played for Japan national team.

Yukio Tsuda (津田 幸男, Tsuda Yukio; August 15, 1917 – April 17, 1979) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan…

Toshiko Ueda (Japanese: 上田 トシコ, Hepburn: Ueda Toshiko; August 14, 1917 – March 7, 2008) was a Japanese manga artist.…

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Akira Noguchi

野口明
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Akira Noguchi (野口明, Noguchi Akira) (August 6, 1917 – October 5, 1996) was a Japanese baseball pitcher, infielder…

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Jun Tatara

多々良純
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Jun Tatara (多々良純, Tatara Jun), whose real name was Shigeji Tatarai (田足井 重二, Tatarai Shigeji; 4 August 1917 in…

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Mutsuko Miki (三木 睦子, Miki Mutsuko; 31 July 1917 – 31 July 2012) was a Japanese activist who advocated on behalf of…

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Kiyoko Takeda

武田清子
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Cho Kiyoko (長清子, June 20, 1917 – April 12, 2018), better known as Takeda Kiyoko (武田清子), was a Japanese scholar of the…

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Kawatarō Nakajima (中島 河太郎, Nakajima Kawatarō; June 5, 1917 – May 5, 1999) was a Japanese researcher of Japanese popular…

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Seikichi Toguchi (渡口 政吉, Toguchi Seikichi; May 20, 1917 in Naha City, Okinawa, Japan – August 31, 1998 in Tokyo) was…

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Takahiko Ishikawa

石川隆彦
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Takahiko Ishikawa (石川隆彦, Ishikawa Takahiko, 1917–2008) was an All Japan Judo Champion. In the 1949 All-Japan Judo…

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Shigeo Sugiura (杉浦 重雄, Sugiura Shigeo; 10 May 1917 – 10 April 1988) was a Japanese freestyle swimmer. At the 1936…

Minoru Chiaki (Japanese: 千秋 実, Hepburn: Chiaki Minoru; April 28, 1917 – November 1, 1999) was a Japanese actor who…

Toshio Shimao (島尾 敏雄, Shimao Toshio; April 18, 1917 – November 12, 1986) was a Japanese novelist. He has been called a…

Yuko Minamimura (南村 侑広, Minamimura Yukō; born April 17, 1917 – April 17, 1990) was a Nippon Professional Baseball…

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Sadayoshi Fukuda (福田 定良, Fukuda Sadayoshi; April 6, 1917 – December 12, 2002) was a Japanese social philosopher and…

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Seino Araida

新井田セイノ
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Seino Araida (新井田 セイノ, Araida Seino; 4 April 1917 – November 2011) was an Ainu activist who promoted the transmission…

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Tōru Abe (安部 徹, Abe Tōru; 28 March 1917 – 18 July 1993) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films…

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Kakuzo Kawamoto

河本嘉久蔵
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Kakuzo Kawamoto (河本 嘉久蔵, kawamoto Kakuzo; 27 March 1917 – 24 March 1990) was a Japanese business executive and…

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Renzaburō Shibata (柴田錬三郎, Shibata Renzaburō; March 26, 1917 – June 30, 1978) was a Japanese author and Sinologist. He…

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Shinichi Maki

牧真一
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Shinichi Maki (牧 真一, Maki Shin'ichi) (26 March 1917 – 1977) was a Japanese fencer. He competed in the individual foil…

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Takashi Mukaibo (向坊 隆, Mukaibō Takashi; 24 March 1917 – 4 July 2002) was a Japanese chemist and nuclear engineer.…

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Shinsuke Ashida (芦田伸介, Ashida Shinsuke; 14 March 1914 – 10 January 1999) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than…

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Hong Jin-Ki (Korean: 홍진기; Hanja: 洪璡基; Japanese: 德山 進一, romanized: Tokuyama Shin'ichi; 13 March 1917 – 13 July 1986) was…

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Sankichi Tōge (峠 三吉, Tōge Sankichi; 19 February 1917 – 10 March 1953), born Mitsuyoshi Tōge, was a Japanese poet…

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Moichi Miyazaki

宮崎茂一
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Moichi Miyazaki (宮崎 茂一, Miyazaki Moichi; 15 February 1917 – 16 February 2004) was a Japanese politician, a member of…

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