Celebrity Birthdays August 17th:

Entertainment:

Robert De Niro is an actor known for the movies “Raging Bull” and “The Deer Hunter”.

Austin Butler is an actor known for the movies “Elvis” and “Dune 2”.

Taissa Farmiga is an actress known for the movies “The Final Girls” and “6 Years.

Sean Penn is an actor known for the movies “Milk” and “Mystic River”.

Donnie Wahlberg is an actor-singer known for the TV show “Blue Bloods” and the movie “The Sixth Sense”. He is also a member of the pop band New Kids on the Block.

Belinda Carlisle is a singer-songwriter who gained fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go’s, the most successful all-female rock band of all time, and went on to have a prolific career as a solo artist.

Sports:

Football:

Jon Gruden is a former head coach who won one Super Bowl Championship in 2002 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Ed McCaffrey is a former wide receiver who made one Pro-Bowl and won three Super Bowl Championships.

Basketball:

Christian Laettner is a former forward who made one All-Star team and won two NCAA Championships.

Rudy Gay is a forward who has won two Gold Medals and made the All-Rookie First-Team.

Baseball:

Boog Powell is a former first basemen who made four All-Star teams and won two World Series Championships with the Baltimore Orioles.

Jorge Posada is a former catcher who made five All-Star teams and won four World Series Championships with the New York Yankees.

Dustin Pedroia is a former four time All-Star second basemen who won four Gold Glove Awards and won two World Series Championships with the Boston Red Sox.

Diego Segui is a former pitcher who led the league in ERA once.

Dave Lemanczyk is a former pitcher who made one All-Star team.

Jesse Winker is an outfielder for the Mets who made one All-Star team.

Other Baseball Birthdays:

Brett Myers, Skip Lockwood, Butch Hobson, Dick Lines, Bill Parsons, Bill Landrum, Brad Wellman, Jeff Moronko, Jeff Fischer, Tony Barron, Kelly Mann, Jim Converse, Roberto Ramirez, Jeff Abbott, Adam Butler, Jeff Liefer, Mike Cervenak, Matt Anderson, Yohanny Valera, Mike Maroth, Chad Qualls, Mike O’Connor, Jeff Ridgway, Chris Waters, Travis Metlcalf, Tuffy Gosewisch, Tyler Greene, Thomas Neal, Kyle Farmer, Dillon Overton, Victor Caratini, Blake Taylor, Drey Jameson, River Ryan, Elehuris Montero & Yoshinobu Yamamoto!

In Memoriam:

Entertainment:

Helen McCrory was an actress known for the movies “Harry Potter” franchise and “The Count of Monte Cristo”.

Mark Salling was an actor known for the TV show “Glee” and the movie “Rocky Road”.

Mae West was an actress known for the movies “She Done Him Wrong” and “I’m No Angel”.

Maureen O’Hara was an actress known for the movies “Miracle on 34th Street” and “The Parent Trap”.

Sports:

Baseball:

Rudy York was a first basemen who made Seven All-Star teams and won one World Series Championship in 1945 with the Detroit Tigers.

Jim Davenport was a third basemen who made two All-Star teams and won one Gold Glove Award.

Vern Bickford was a starting pitcher who made one All-Star team and pitched one no-hitter.