Donald Richie
Donald Richie was an American-born author who wrote about the Japanese people, the culture of Japan, and especially Japanese cinema. Although he considered himself primarily a film historian, Richie also directed a number of experimental films, the first when he was seventeen.
17 April 1924
Born on the same birth date (17 April 1924): Kenneth Norman Jones
Born on the same birth day (17 April): Chuck Kobasew • Fabien Roy • Gregor Piatigorsky • Hervé Bazin • Hongseok • Jean-Baptiste Accolay • Jonathan Brown (Welsh footballer) • Josif Pančić • Nick Hornby • Pete Shelley • Phil Henderson (basketball) • Richard Epstein • Ryan Raburn • Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana • Tony Boselli
Born in the same month (April 1924): Arthur Shaw (footballer, born 1924) • Blossom Dearie • Bob Christie (racing driver) • Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown • Clement Freud • Igor Borisov • Ingemar Johansson (racewalker) • Kenneth Norman Jones • Marlon Brando • Nam Duck-woo • Paulo Vanzolini • Vernon B. Romney