August 17

• 1994 – Taissa Farmiga, sister of Vera Farmiga. She has starred in “American Horror Story (TV Series)”, and the upcoming “The Final Girls” and “Mary Shelley’s Monster.”
• 1982 – Mark Salling, of the TV show “Glee.” He appeared in the films “The Graveyard” and “Children of the Corn: The Gathering.”
• 1969 – Donnie Wahlberg, brother of Mark, who appeared in the films, “The Sixth Sense,” “Dead Silence” and “Saw II, III & IV.”
• 1968 – Helen McCrory, who plays “Narcissa Malfoy” in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows.” She also appeared in “Interview With a Vampire”, “Frankenstein (TV Movie)”, “Penny Dreadful (TV Series)”, and the upcoming “The Woman in Black: Angel of Death.”
• 1961 – Ashlie Rhey, appeared in “Pot Zombies 2: More Pot, Less Plot”, “Dead Country”, “Cannibal Taboo”, “No Rest for the Wicked”, “Witchcraft 7: Judgement Hour”, “Body Count”, The Summoned” and more.
• 1951 – Robert Joy, appears in “Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem”, “The Hills Have Eyes” remake, “Land of the Dead”, “Resurrection” and more.
• 1943 – Robert De Niro, who played “The Creature” in the 1994 version of “Frankenstein” and the “Devil” in “Angel Heart.” He also starred in the film “Hide And Seek”, “Red Lights”, and “Machete.”
• 1930 – Glenn Corbett who appeared in the film “Homicidal,” and made appearances in the TV shows “Night Gallery,” “Star Trek” and “Manimal.”
• 1930 – Harve Bennett who produced the TV series “The Six Million Dollar Man,” “The Powers of Matthew Star” and “The Bionic Woman” as well as the films “Star Trek II, III, IV & IV” (all of which he wrote too).
• 1918 – Evelyn Ankers, who appeared in the Universal films “The Wolf Man,” “The Mad Ghoul” and “The Ghost of Frankenstein.”