page_title: 1917
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1917 / Births / April
caption_attribution_description: 10 1st. Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Awards Luncheon 05-Dec-76 Robert Bloch with His Award
context_page_description: 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1917th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 917th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1917, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: April 1
  Sydney Newman, Canadian-born television producer (d. 1997)
  Leon Janney, American actor (d. 1980)
  April 2 – Dabbs Greer, American actor (d. 2007)
  April 3 – Edward Rowny, American army lieutenant general (d. 2017)
  April 5 – Robert Bloch, American writer (d. 1994)
  April 7 – R. G. Armstrong, American actor (d. 2012)
  April 8
  John Whitney, American animator, composer, and pioneer in computer animation (d. 1995)
  Hubertus Ernst, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
  April 9 – Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002)
  April 10 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
  April 11 – Morton Sobell, American spy (d. 2018)
  April 12 – Džemal Bijedić, Yugoslav politician (d. 1977)
  April 13
  Robert O. Anderson, American businessman, founder of Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (d. 2007)
  Bill Clements, Governor of Texas (d. 2011)
  Li Rui, Chinese Communist Party politician (d. 2019)
  April 14
  Valerie Hobson, British actress (d. 1998)
  Marvin Miller, American baseball executive (d. 2012)
  April 15 – Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)
  April 16 – Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)
  April 22
  Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina (d. 2016)
  Ambrose Schindler, American football player, actor (d. 2018)
  April 23 – Dorian Leigh, American model (d. 2008)
  April 25 – Ella Fitzgerald, American jazz singer (d. 1996)
  April 26
  I. M. Pei, Chinese-born architect (d. 2019)
  Virgil Trucks, American baseball player (d. 2013)
  April 28
  Minoru Chiaki, Japanese actor (d. 1999)
  Robert Cornthwaite, American actor (d. 2006)
  April 29
  Celeste Holm, American actress (d. 2012)
  Maya Deren, Russian-American experimental filmmaker (d. 1961)
  April 30 – Bea Wain, American singer (d. 2017)
caption: Robert Bloch
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