November 17
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[edit] Events
- 1558 - Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England.
[edit] Births
- 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian Renaissance humanist (b. 1463)
- 1503 - Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)
- 1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)
- 1685 - Pierre Gaultier La Verendrye, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
- 1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician (d. 1783)
- 1755 - King (1814-1824) Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)
- 1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, mathematician (d. 1868)
- 1793 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, painter (d. 1865)
- 1799 - Titian Peale, artist
- 1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, composer (d. 1876)
- 1835 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
- 1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, anarchist (d. 1912)
- 1878 - Grace Abbott, social worker, activist (d. 1939)
- 1887 - Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British commander in World War II (d. 1976)
- 1888 - Kurt Goetz, author (d. 1960)
- 1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
- 1899 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer (d. 1971)
- 1901 - Walter Hallstein, politician (d. 1982)
- 1901 - Lee Strasberg, director, acting teacher (d. 1982)
- 1904 - Isamu Noguchi, sculptor (d. 1988)
- 1905 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (d. 1935)
- 1905 - Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1906 - Soichiro Honda, automobile pioneer (d. 1992)
- 1911 - Christian Fouchet, diplomat (d. 1974)
- 1916 - Shelby Foote, historian
- 1925 - Rock Hudson, actor (d. 1985)
- 1925 - Charles Mackerras, American conductor
- 1929 - Norm Zauchin, Major League Baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1937 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer (d. 1995)
- 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, singer
- 1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
- 1942 - Martin Scorsese, film director
- 1943 - Lauren Hutton, actress
- 1944 - Danny DeVito, actor
- 1944 - Rem Koolhaas, architect
- 1944 - Lorne Michaels, producer
- 1944 - Tom Seaver, Baseball Hall of Fame player
- 1945 - Elvin Hayes, Basketball Hall of Fame player
- 1948 - Howard Dean, politician, US Democratic Party Chairman
- 1949 - Jon Avnet, producer, director
- 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, actress
- 1960 - RuPaul, actor
- 1966 - Jeff Buckley, musician (d. 1997)
- 1966 - Daisy Fuentes, model, actress
- 1966 - Sophie Marceau, actress
- 1973 - Alexei Urmanov, figure skating champion
- 1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player
- 1993 - Atri Rohan Banerjee
[edit] Deaths
- 375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
- 641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
- 1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint (b. 1207)
- 1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
- 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
- 1558 - Queen Mary I of England (b. 1516)
- 1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
- 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
- 1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
- 1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
- 1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
- 1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France (b. 1602)
- 1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
- 1665 - John Earle, English bishop
- 1668 - Joseph Alleine, English non-conformist preacher (b. 1634)
- 1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
- 1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
- 1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
- 1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
- 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English statesman (b. 1693)
- 1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
- 1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
- 1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
- 1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (b. 1860)
- 1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
- 1940 - Eric Gill, English sculptor and writer (b. 1882)
- 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
- 1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (b. 1911)
- 1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
- 1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (murdered) (b. 1960)
- 1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- 2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (Can) (b. 1948)
- 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician (b. 1915)
- 2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
- 2003 - Don Gibson, American singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
- 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
- 2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)