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Sam Esmail wrote and directed the feature films Comet (2014) and Leave the World Behind (2023).
Famous Birthdays on September 17
1977 — Sam Esmail
American screenwriter
September 17 has 266 recorded notable births across history, from 879 to 2002. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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879 – 2002
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Major events on September 17
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- 1849 American abolitionist Harriet Tubman makes her first attempt to escape from slavery. Source
- 1787 The United States Constitution is signed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, bringing the Constitutional Convention to an end. Source
- 1778 The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe. Source
- 1543 The first Finnish-language book, the Abckiria by Mikael Agricola, is published in Stockholm. Source
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In 2018, he joined the Netflix drama Seven Seconds as a member of a support group for parents who had lost their children.
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Chaim Herzog was an Irish-Israeli politician, military officer, lawyer and author who served as President of Israel from 1983 to 1993.
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In the field of real analysis, he is mostly known for the first rigorous formulation of the integral, the Riemann integral, and his work on Fourier series.
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William Carlos Williams's Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T.
More major people born on September 17
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1967
Malik Yoba
American actor
Abdul-Malik Kashie Yoba is an American actor. He is known for his starring role as NYPD Detective J. C. Williams on the Fox police drama New York Undercover and as Yul Brenner in the film Cool Runnings.
1918
Chaim Herzog
Irish-born Israeli general and politician, 6th President of Israel (died 1997)
Chaim Herzog was an Irish-Israeli politician, military officer, lawyer and author who served as President of Israel from 1983 to 1993.
1826
Bernhard Riemann
German-Italian mathematician and academic (died 1866)
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was a German mathematician who made profound contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
1883
William Carlos Williams
American poet, short story writer, and essayist (died 1963)
William Carlos Williams was an American-Puerto Rican poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922).
1915
M. F. Husain
Indian painter and director (died 2011)
Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian painter and film director who painted narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style.
1743
Marquis de Condorcet
French mathematician and political scientist (died 1794)
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet, known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, political economist, politician, and mathematician.
1688
Maria Luisa of Savoy
queen consort of Spain (died 1714)
Princess Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy, nicknamed La Savoyana, was Queen of Spain by marriage to King Philip V.
1550
Paul V
pope of the Catholic Church (died 1621)
Pope Paul V, born Camillo Borghese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 16 May 1605 to his death, in January 1621.
1961
Ty Tabor
American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
Ty Tabor is an American musician. He is the lead guitarist, songwriter, and co-lead vocalist for the hard rock band King's X. Tabor has a wide-ranging guitar style, from big guitar riffs to middling melodic passages.
1929
David Craig
Baron Craig of Radley, Northern Irish air marshal and politician
Marshal of the Royal Air Force David Brownrigg Craig, Baron Craig of Radley, is a retired Royal Air Force officer and member of the House of Lords.
1989
Kate Deines
American soccer player
Kathleen Ann Deines is an American soccer midfielder–defender. She most recently played for Turbine Potsdam in the German Bundesliga and Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
1971
Mike Catt
South African-English rugby player and coach
Michael John Catt OBE is a South African-born former rugby union player who played for the England national rugby union team. He played professionally for the clubs London Irish and Bath.
1953
Altaf Hussain
Pakistani-English soldier and politician
Altaf Hussain is a British Pakistani politician who is known as the founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.
1906
J. R. Jayewardene
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (died 1996)
Junius Richard Jayewardene, commonly referred to by his initials JR, was a Sri Lankan lawyer, and statesman who served as prime minister of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1978 and as the second president of Sri Lanka from 1978…
1900
J. Willard Marriott
American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (died 1985)
John Willard Marriott Sr. was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation, the parent company of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains, and food services companies.
1995
Patrick Mahomes
American football player
Patrick Lavon Mahomes II is an American professional football quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL).
1961
Jim Cornette
American wrestling manager and sportscaster
James Mark Cornette is an American author, sports historian, and podcaster who previously worked in the professional wrestling industry as an agent, booker, color commentator, manager, photographer, promoter, trainer,…
1932
Robert B. Parker
American author and academic (died 2010)
Robert Brown Parker was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works include the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser.
1996
Slayyyter
American singer and songwriter
Catherine Grace Garner, known professionally as Slayyyter, is an American singer-songwriter and rapper.