November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in leap years), with 44 remaining.
Events:
Births:
- 9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (+ 79)
- 1717 - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician (+ 1783)
- 1755 - King Louis XVIII of France (+ 1824)
- 1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, mathematician (+ 1868)
- 1799 - Titian Peale[?], artist
- 1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, composer (+ 1876)
- 1878 - Grace Abbott[?], social worker, activist (+ 1939)
- 1887 - Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British commander in World War II (+ 1976)
- 1888 - Kurt Goetz[?], author (+ 1960)
- 1899 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer (+ 1971)
- 1901 - Lee Strasberg[?], director, acting teacher (+ 1982)
- 1901 - Walter Hallstein, politician (+ 1982)
- 1904 - Isamu Noguchi[?], sculptor
- 1905 - Queen Astrid of Belgium, (+ 1935)
- 1906 - Soichiro Honda, automobile pioneer (+ 1992)
- 1911 - Christian Fouchet[?], diplomat (+ 1974)
- 1916 - Shelby Foote[?], historian
- 1925 - Rock Hudson, actor (+ 1985)
- 1937 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer (+ 1995)
- 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, singer
- 1942 - Martin Scorsese, film director
- 1943 - Lauren Hutton[?], actress
- 1944 - Danny DeVito, actor
- 1944 - Lorne Michaels, producer
- 1944 - Tom Seaver[?], baseball player
- 1949 - Jon Avnet[?], producer, director
- 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, actress
- 1960 - RuPaul, actor
- 1966 - Sophie Marceau, actress
- 1966 - Jeff Buckley, musician
- 1973 - Alexei Urmanov[?], figure skating champion
Deaths:
Holidays and Observances:
See Also:
November 16 - November 18 - October 17 - December 17 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
November 17 is also the name of a
terrorist group.