More Notable Birthdays on May 17: 1956 - Sugar Ray Leonard, American Athlete 1955 - Bill Paxton, actor, Brain Dead, Next of Kin, Indian Summer, True Lies 1945 - George Miller, born in Richmond, California, Representative-D-California 1975 - 1936 - Dennis Hopper, born in Kansas, actor, True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider 1912 - Archibald Cox, special prosecutor, Watergate