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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Grace Abbott
Activist
17-Nov-1878 19-Jun-1939 Advocate against child labor
Nicolas Appert
Inventor
17-Nov-1749 3-Jun-1841 Food preservation
Mischa Auer
Actor
17-Nov-1905 5-Mar-1967 My Man Godfrey
Jon Avnet
Film/TV Producer
17-Nov-1949   Fried Green Tomatoes
Joseph Babinski
Doctor
17-Nov-1857 29-Oct-1932 The Babinski sign
Leslie Bibb
Actor
17-Nov-1974   Crossing Jordan
Jim Boeheim
Basketball
17-Nov-1944   Syracuse Head Coach
John Boehner
Politician
17-Nov-1949   Speaker of the US House
Dr. Bombay
Musician
17-Nov-1963   Purveyor of faux-ethnic Eurodance
Pam Bondi
Government
17-Nov-1965   Attorney General of Florida
Terry E. Branstad
Politician
17-Nov-1946   Governor of Iowa
Robert Brown
Actor
17-Nov-1926   Jason Bolt on Here Come the Brides
Jeff Buckley
Singer
17-Nov-1966 29-May-1997 Influential rock vocalist
Brandon Call
Actor
17-Nov-1976   J.T. Lambert on Step by Step
Gene Clark
Singer/Songwriter
17-Nov-1944 24-May-1991 The Byrds, No Other
Voltairine de Cleyre
Anarchist
17-Nov-1866 20-Jun-1912 Anarchist without an adjective
Stanley Cohen
Scientist
17-Nov-1922   Nerve and skin cell growth factors
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz
Poet
17-Nov-1733 28-Jan-1805 Dorottya
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Mathematician
17-Nov-1717 29-Oct-1783 Early work in partial differential equations
Butch Davis
Football
17-Nov-1951   Former football coach, University of North Carolina
Howard Dean
Politician
17-Nov-1948   Chairman of the Democratic Party
Kat DeLuna
Singer/Songwriter
17-Nov-1987   Whine Up
Ralph D. DeNunzio
Business
17-Nov-1931   CEO of Kidder Peabody, 1980-87
Danny DeVito
Actor
17-Nov-1944   Short loudmouth from Taxi
Shelby Foote
Author
17-Nov-1916 27-Jun-2005 Shiloh
Daisy Fuentes
Model
17-Nov-1966   America's Funniest Home Videos
Richard H. Gallagher
Engineer
17-Nov-1927 30-Sep-1997 Finite element method
Sara Haden
Actor
17-Nov-1899 15-Sep-1981 The Shop Around the Corner
Isaac Hanson
Musician
17-Nov-1980   Member of boy band Hanson
Elvin Hayes
Basketball
17-Nov-1945   NBA Hall of Famer
Peter Hoagland
Politician
17-Nov-1941 30-Oct-2007 Congressman from Nebraska, 1989-95
Soichiro Honda
Business
17-Nov-1906 5-Aug-1991 Founder of Honda Motor Company
Rance Howard
Actor
17-Nov-1928   Father of Ron Howard, Clint Howard
Rock Hudson
Actor
17-Nov-1925 2-Oct-1985 Ice Station Zebra
Lauren Hutton
Model
17-Nov-1944   Paper Lion and American Gigolo
James Inhofe
Politician
17-Nov-1934   US Senator from Oklahoma
Richard Jewell
Victim
17-Nov-1962 29-Aug-2007 Innocent security guard blamed for bombing
Roland Joffé
Film Director
17-Nov-1945   The Killing Fields
Gordon Lightfoot
Musician
17-Nov-1938   Canadian balladeer
Louis XVIII
Royalty
17-Nov-1755 16-Sep-1824 King of France, 1814-15 & 1815-24
John J. Mack
Business
17-Nov-1944   CEO of Morgan Stanley
Sophie Marceau
Actor
17-Nov-1966   The World Is Not Enough
Dean-Paul Martin
Relative
17-Nov-1951 21-Mar-1987 Son of Dean Martin
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Actor
17-Nov-1958   The Abyss
Bob Mathias
Sports Figure
17-Nov-1930 2-Sep-2006 Decathlon athlete turned Congressman
Roland Matthes
Swimmer
17-Nov-1950   East German swimmer
Frank Maxwell
Actor
17-Nov-1916 4-Aug-2004 Dan Rooney on General Hospital
Rachel McAdams
Actor
17-Nov-1978   The Notebook
Barry McCaffrey
Government
17-Nov-1942   White House Drug Czar, 1996-2001
Lorne Michaels
Film/TV Producer
17-Nov-1944   Producer of Saturday Night Live
August Möbius
Astronomer
17-Nov-1790 26-Sep-1868 Möbius strip
Bernard Montgomery
Military
17-Nov-1887 24-Mar-1976 Won Battle of El Alamein during WWII
William R. Moses
Actor
17-Nov-1959   Cole Gioberti on Falcon Crest
Diane Neal
Actor
17-Nov-1975   Law & Order: SVU
Herbert O'Conor
Politician
17-Nov-1896 4-Mar-1960 Governor and Senator from Maryland
Robert D. Orr
Politician
17-Nov-1917 10-Mar-2004 Governor of Indiana, 1989-92
William A. Percy II
Business
17-Nov-1939   Trail Lake Plantation
John S. Plaskett
Astronomer
17-Nov-1865 17-Oct-1941 Plaskett's star
Chopper Read
Criminal
17-Nov-1954   Earless Australian killer, author
Bebe Rebozo
Business
17-Nov-1912 8-May-1998 Nixon confidant
Susan E. Rice
Diplomat
17-Nov-1964   US Ambassador to the UN
Stephen Root
Actor
17-Nov-1951   Jimmy James on News Radio
RuPaul
TV Personality
17-Nov-1960   Drag queen supermodel
Toni Sailer
Skier
17-Nov-1935 24-Aug-2009 Won 3 Gold Medals in 1956
Martin Scorsese
Film Director
17-Nov-1942   Taxi Driver
Tom Seaver
Baseball
17-Nov-1944   Three-time Cy Young Award winner
David Hyrum Smith
Relative
17-Nov-1844 29-Aug-1904 Son of Joseph Smith
Lee Strasberg
Theater Director
17-Nov-1901 17-Feb-1982 Theater director and acting coach
Pat Toomey
Politician
17-Nov-1961   US Senator from Pennsylvania
Solomon D. Trujillo
Business
17-Nov-1951   CEO of Telstra
Carlo Verdone
Actor
17-Nov-1950   Manuale d'amore
Dylan Walsh
Actor
17-Nov-1963   Dr. Sean McNamara on Nip/Tuck
Charles Walters
Film Director
17-Nov-1911 13-Aug-1982 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Auberon Waugh
Columnist
17-Nov-1939 16-Jan-2001 Columnist for Private Eye
Olin L. Wethington
Government
17-Nov-1948   Chairman of AIG China
Eugene Wigner
Physicist
17-Nov-1902 1-Jan-1995 Law of conservation of parity
Hans Zinsser
Scientist
17-Nov-1878 4-Sep-1940 Typhus vaccine


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