August 17
1994 – Taissa Farmiga, appeared in the FX TV series “American Horror Story”.
1969 – Donnie Wahlberg, brother of Mark, appeared in “Black Circle Boys”, “The Sixth Sense”, “Dreamcatcher”, “Saw II”, “Saw III”, “Saw IV”, “Dead Silence”.
1954 – Robert Joy, appeared in “Amityville 3-D”, “The Dark Half”, “Fallen”, “Resurrection”, “Land of the Dead”, “The Hills Have Eyes”.
1943 – Robert De Niro, one of the finest actors of our time, starred in “Angel Heart”, “Cape Fear”, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”, “Hide and Seek”, “Machete” and “Red Lights”.
1920 – Maureen O’Hara, a wonderful actress who’s only genre related role was in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” 1939.
1918 – Evelyn Ankers, a star contract player for Universal Studios who appeared in a slew of horror pictures including “Hold That Ghost”, “The Wolf Man”, “The Ghost of Frankenstein”, “Captive Wild Woman”, “Son of Dracula”, “The Mad Ghoul” and many more.