17 November is the 321st day of the year (322nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. On this day was born in the year: 9 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (d. 79) 1503 – Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572) 1576 – Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628) 1587 – Joost van den Vondel, Dutch playwright (d. 1679) 1612 – Dorgon, Manchu son of Nurhaci (d. 1650) 1681 – Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776) 1685 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian military officer and explorer (d. 1749) 1729 – Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain (d. 1785) 1749 – Nicolas Appert, French chef, inventor of canning (d. 1841) 1753 – Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (d. 1815) 1755 – Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824) 1765 – Jacques MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840) 1790 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868) 1793 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter (d. 1865) 1816 – August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876) 1827 – Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian poet (d. 1895) 1857 – Joseph Babiński, French neurologist (d. 1932) 1866 – Voltairine de Cleyre, American author and activist (d. 1912) 1868 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918) 1877 – Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist and businessman (d. 1943) 1878 – Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939) 1887 – Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English army officer (d. 1976) 1895 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975) 1899 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer (d. 1971) 1902 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) 1906 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company (d. 1991) 1920 – Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgian singer-songwriter (d. 2005) 1924 – Leonid Kogan, Russian violinist (d. 1982) 1925 – Jean Faut, American baseball player 1927 – Robert Drasnin, American clarinet player and composer 1927 – Fenella Fielding, English actress 1930 – Bob Mathias, American decathlete, actor, and politician (d. 2006) 1937 – Peter Cook, English comedian and actor (d. 1995) 1938 – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1939 – Auberon Waugh, English author (d. 2001) 1940 – Luke Kelly, Irish singer and banjo player (The Dubliners) (d. 1984) 1940 – Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, Turkish composer, author, and poet (d. 2002) 1942 – Partha Dasgupta, Bangladeshi economist 1942 – Bob Gaudio, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (The Four Seasons) 1942 – Lesley Rees, English endocrinologist 1942 – István Rosztóczy, Hungarian microbiologist 1942 – Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor 1944 – Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter (The Byrds, The New Christy Minstrels, and Dillard & Clark) (d. 1991) 1946 – Martin Barre, English guitarist and songwriter (Jethro Tull) 1948 – East Bay Ray, American guitarist (Dead Kennedys) 1951 – Dean Paul Martin, American singer, actor, and tennis player (Dino, Desi & Billy) (d. 1987) 1952 – Cyril Ramaphosa, South African politician and businessman 1955 – Yolanda King, American daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007) 1958 – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer 1960 – RuPaul, American drag queen performer, actor, and singer 1962 – Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Les Colocs) (d. 2000) 1963 – Randy Black, Canadian drummer (Annihilator and Primal Fear) 1963 – Daniel Scott, American writer 1964 – Susan Rice, American diplomat, 27th United States Ambassador to the United Nations 1965 – Amanda Brown, Australian violinist and composer (The Go-Betweens) 1966 – Ben Allison, American bassist and composer 1966 – Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gods and Monsters) (d. 1997) 1966 – Kate Ceberano, Australian singer-songwriter and actress 1966 – Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N Roses and Love Spit Love) 1966 – Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress 1966 – Sophie Marceau, French actress 1967 – Tab Benoit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1967 – Ronnie DeVoe, American singer, producer, and actor (New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe) 1970 – Wendy Piatt, English director-general of the Russell Group 1970 – Paul Allender, English guitarist and songwriter (Cradle of Filth and The Blood Divine) 1972 – Kimya Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Moldy Peaches) 1972 – Lorraine Pascale, English cook and former model 1973 – Andreas Hedlund, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (Vintersorg, Borknagar, Cronian, Fission, Waterclime, and Otyg) 1974 – Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean-French heptathlete and long jumper 1975 – Lord Infamous, American rapper (Three 6 Mafia) 1980 – Isaac Hanson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hanson) 1980 – Israel Idonije, Nigerian-Canadian football player 1981 – Sarah Harding, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Girls Aloud) 1982 – Lucy Durack, Australian actress and singer 1982 – Otacílio Mariano Neto, Brazilian footballer 1982 – Hollie Smith, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist 1990 – Shanica Knowles, American actress and singer 1994 – Raquel Castro, American actress and singer
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