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): Cap Anson • Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius • Don Kirshner • Lorna Fitzgerald • Pierre Guité • Rachel Notley • Riccardo Patrese • Sirimavo Bandaranaike • Travis Roy • Wheein • Win Maung • Yuichi Nishimura
Born in the same month (April 1924): Chuck Harmon • Clement Freud • Dick Ayers • Henry Mancini • Ira Louvin • Joseph Ruskin • Leslie Phillips • Neville Marriner • Raymond Barre • Roza Shanina • Sara Northrup Hollister