Celebrities born on agosto 17

Disney animator Jack Campbell worked at Douglas Aircraft during WW2 as a art designer. There, he designed propaganda posters, and one of his creations was Tokyo Kid, who was a well-known WW2 propaganda character during the war. -http://disneybooks.blogspot.com/2013/07/jack-campbell.html

Storm David Newton was born on August 17, 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Sisterhood (2004), Drake and Josh Go Hollywood (2006) and RuPaul's Drag Race (2009).

Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

Damien Jalet (born August 17, 1976) is a Belgo-French freelance choreographer, dancer and performer working internationally. His work is often collaborative, creating intricate bounds between dance and other artistic media such as visual art, fashion, theater and music.

Daniela Castro is a famous Mexican actress with a long career in the artistic environment of her country and who has ventured into all areas: television, cinema, theater, and even music was encouraged at the end of the nineties, however, It has been in soap operas where she earned his recognition.

Anthony Valentine was born on August 17, 1939 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. He was an actor, known for TV series such as Callan, Coronation Street, Colditz, Raffles, and Minder and the films Performance and Escape to Athena. He was married to Susan Valentine. He died on December 2, 2015 after suffering from Parkinson's disease.

Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard (born 17 August 2003), known professionally as the Kid Laroi (stylized as the Kid LAROI), is an Australian rapper and singer. He originally gained recognition from his association with American rapper Juice Wrld while he was on tour in Australia. He gained a local following before signing a joint venture record deal with Lil Bibby's Grade A Productions and Columbia Records. He garnered mainstream recognition with his 2021 single "Stay" (with Justin Bieber), which peaked the charts in numerous countries including his native Australia, as well as the Canadian Hot 100 and Billboard Hot 100. His debut mixtape, F*ck Love (2020), peaked at number one on the Australian ARIA Charts, making him the youngest Australian solo artist to reach the top of the chart, and also reached number one on the US Billboard 200. The mixtape spawned two commercial re-issues: The first, titled F*ck Love: (Savage) contained his first hit song, "Without You"—which was remixed with American singer Miley Cyrus and reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100—and the second, titled F*ck Love 3: Over You (2021) contained "Stay". His debut studio album The First Time (2023) was preceded by the singles "Love Again" and "Too Much" (with Jungkook and Central Cee), and saw moderate success upon release. Howard claims that he does not have a single genre, and enjoys making both rap and pop music. Description above from the Wikipedia article The Kid Laroi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Kelvin Mercer (born August 17, 1969), also known by his stage name Posdnuos, Plug 1 and occasionally Pos, is an American rapper and record producer best known for his work as one third of the hip hop trio De La Soul. Through his work with the group, Mercer is considered to be one of the most consistent and underrated MCs of all time. Beginning with the highly acclaimed 3 Feet High and Rising in 1989, Mercer has gone on to release nine albums with De La Soul.