William Holden

William Franklin Holden was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the television miniseries The Blue Knight (1973).

17 April 1918

Born on the same birth day (17 April): Edmonde Charles-Roux • John Barrett (tennis) • Liz Phair • Louis Jean Heydt • Michael IX Palaiologos • Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer • Tsutomu Wakamatsu

Born in the same month (April 1918): Alfredo Ovando Candía • Betty Ford • Fanny Blankers-Koen • George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe • Glendon Swarthout • Hans Billian • Kai Siegbahn • Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918) • Maurice Druon • Mickey Vernon • Spike Milligan • Sten Rudholm