The 17t o November is the 321st day o the year (322nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 44 days bidin.
1869 : Boats on the Suez Canal
1989 : Velvet Revolution
Danny DeVito
Rachel McAdams
9 - Vespasian , Roman Emperor (d. 79 )
1749 - Nicolas Appert , French inventor (d. 1841 )
1755 - Louis XVIII o Fraunce (d. 1824 )
1784 - Ebenezer Henderson , Scots meenister an meesionar (d. 1858 )
1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius , German mathematician (d. 1868 )
1839 - David Farquharson , Scots penter (d. 1907 )
1887 - Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscoont Montgomery o Alamein , Breetish field marshal (d. 1976 )
1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin , Roushie philosopher, leeterar creetic an semiotician (d. 1975 )
1896 - Lev Vygotsky , Soviet-Belaroushie psychologist (d. 1934 )
1902 - Eugene Wigner , Hungarian-American pheesicist (d. 1995 )
1916 - Shelby Foote , American historian (d. 2005 )
1923 - Aristides Pereira , 1st Preses o Cape Verde (d. 2011 )
1925 - Rock Hudson , American actor (d. 1985 )
1928 - Rance Howard , American actor an writer (d. 2017 )
1942 - Martin Scorsese , American director, producer, screenwriter an actor
1944 - Danny DeVito , American actor, director an producer
1949 - John Boehner , American politeecian
1951 - Jack Vettriano , Scots penter
1952 - Cyril Ramaphosa , Preses o Sooth Africae
1964 - Susan Rice , American diplomat
1964 - Moses Sithole , Sooth African serial killer
1966 - Sophie Marceau , French actress
1975 - Ewan MacDonald , Scots curler
1978 - Rachel McAdams , Canadian actress
1982 - Jim Hamilton , Inglis-Scots rugby union player
1986 - Nani , Portuguese fitbawer
375 - Valentinian I , Roman Emperor (b. 321 )
1558 - Mary I o Ingland (b. 1516 )
1592 - John III o Swaden (b. 1537 )
1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke o Newcastle , Prime Meenister o Great Breetain (b. 1693 )
1796 - Catherine the Great , Empress o Roushie (b. 1729 )
1858 - Robert Owen , Welsh social reformer (b. 1771 )
1893 - Alexander I o Bulgarie (b. 1857 )
1917 - Auguste Rodin , French penter (b. 1840 )
1974 - Erskine Hamilton Childers , Preses o the Republic o Ireland (b. 1905 )
1990 - Robert Hofstadter , American pheesicist (b. 1915 )
2006 - Ferenc Puskás , Hungarian fitbawer (b. 1927 )
2013 - Doris Lessing , Inglis writer (b. 1919 )