November 17 - Births

Births

• 9 – Titus Flavius Vespasianus, Roman emperor (d. 79)
• 1503 – Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)
• 1576 – Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
• 1587 – Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)
• 1612 – Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
• 1681 – Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
• 1685 – Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
• 1729 – Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (d. 1785)
• 1749 – Nicolas Appert, French inventor (d. 1841)
• 1755 – Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)
• 1765 – Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
• 1790 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
• 1793 – Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
• 1799 – Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)
• 1816 – August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
• 1827 – Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
• 1835 – Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
• 1854 – Hubert Lyautey, French general (d. 1934)
• 1857 – Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932)
• 1866 – Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
• 1868 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
• 1877 – Frank Calder, the first NHL President (d. 1943)
• 1878 – Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939)
• 1878 – Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
• 1887 – Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976)
• 1894 – Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (d. 1972)
• 1895 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
• 1895 – Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
• 1896 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
• 1897 – Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1899 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)
• 1901 – Walter Hallstein, German politician (d. 1982)
• 1901 – Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d. 1982)
• 1902 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• 1904 – Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)
• 1905 – Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)
• 1906 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (d. 1991)
• 1906 – Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007)
• 1907 – Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)
• 1911 – Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
• 1916 – Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
• 1921 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter
• 1922 – Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1923 – Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986)
• 1923 – Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde
• 1923 – Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)
• 1925 – Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1925 – Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor (d. 2010)
• 1927 – Robert Brown, American actor
• 1927 – Robert Drasnin, American musician and composer
• 1928 – Rance Howard, American actor
• 1929 – Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1930 – Bob Mathias, American decathlete (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Orlando Peña, Cuban baseball player
• 1934 – Fenella Fielding, English actress
• 1934 – Jim Inhofe, American politician, senior senator from Oklahoma
• 1935 – Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player
• 1935 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
• 1937 – Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
• 1938 – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
• 1939 – Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
• 1940 – Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player (d. 1984)
• 1942 – Kang Kek Iew, Cambodian politician and criminal
• 1942 – Martin Scorsese, American film director
• 1943 – Lauren Hutton, American actress
• 1944 – Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame basketball coach
• 1944 – Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991)
• 1944 – Danny DeVito, American actor
• 1944 – Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
• 1944 – Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
• 1944 – Tom Seaver, Baseball player
• 1945 – Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
• 1945 – Roland Joffé, Anglo-French film director
• 1946 – Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull)
• 1946 – Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
• 1947 – Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
• 1947 – Inky Mark, Canadian politician
• 1948 – Howard Dean, American politician
• 1948 – East Bay Ray, American musician
• 1949 – John Boehner, American politician
• 1949 – Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Vietnam
• 1950 – Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and race team owner
• 1951 – Butch Davis, American football coach
• 1951 – Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987)
• 1951 – Stephen Root, American actor
• 1952 – Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
• 1953 – Babis Tennes, Greek football manager
• 1954 – Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
• 1955 – Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007)
• 1955 – Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player
• 1956 – Graham Jones, British author and psychologist
• 1957 – Debbie Thrower, news reader
• 1958 – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
• 1959 – Terry Fenwick, English footballer
• 1960 – Michael Hertwig, German footballer
• 1960 – Jonathan Ross, British TV presenter
• 1960 – RuPaul, American drag entertainer
• 1960 – Mandy Yachad, former South African cricketer
• 1961 – Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (d. 1985)
• 1961 – Pat Toomey, American politician, senator-elect from Pennsylvania
• 1962 – Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
• 1963 – Randy Black, Canadian drummer (Annihilator)
• 1964 – Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality
• 1964 – Susan Rice, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1964 – Mitch Williams, Baseball player
• 1965 – Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer
• 1966 – Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
• 1966 – Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
• 1966 – Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
• 1966 – Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
• 1966 – Sophie Marceau, French actress
• 1968 – Amber Michaels, German pornographic actress
• 1968 – Sean Miller, American basketball coach
• 1969 – Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
• 1969 – Rebecca Walker, American feminist writer
• 1969 – Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
• 1970 – Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
• 1972 – Kimya Dawson, American singer
• 1972 – Joanne Goode, English badminton player
• 1972 – Leonard Roberts, American actor
• 1973 – Andreas "Vintersorg" Hedlund, Swedish singer (Vintersorg)
• 1973 – Eli Marrero, American baseball player
• 1973 – Bernd Schneider, German footballer
• 1973 – Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
• 1974 – Leslie Bibb, American actress
• 1974 – Berto Romero, Spanish humorist
• 1975 – Roland de Marigny, South African-born Italian rugby player
• 1975 – Jerome James, American basketball player
• 1975 – Lord Infamous, Rapper
• 1976 – Brandon Call, American actor
• 1976 – Diane Neal, American actress
• 1977 – Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
• 1977 – Paul Shepherd, English footballer
• 1978 – Glen Air, Former Rugby League player for London Broncos
• 1978 – Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress-stuntwoman
• 1978 – Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
• 1978 – Reggie Wayne, American football player
• 1979 – Matthew Spring, English footballer
• 1980 – Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
• 1980 – Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
• 1980 – Mercedes Martinez, American professional wrestler
• 1981 – Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
• 1982 – Katie Feenstra, American basketball player
• 1982 – Lucy Durack, Australian Singer/Performer
• 1982 – Otacílio Neto, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 – Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer
• 1982 – Hollie Smith, New Zealand singer
• 1983 – Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
• 1983 – Ryan Braun, American baseball player
• 1983 – Trevor Crowe, American baseball player
• 1983 – Harry Lloyd, English actor
• 1983 – Nick Markakis, American baseball player
• 1983 – Scott Moore, American baseball player
• 1983 – Christopher Paolini, American novelist
• 1984 – Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
• 1986 – Nani, Portuguese football player
• 1987 – Gemma Spofforth, British swimmer
• 1990 – Shanica Knowles, American actress
• 1992 – Darian Weiss, American actor
• 1994 – Raquel Castro, American actress