What happened on November 17 ?

9 - Vespasian, 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 de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)

1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1783)

1755 - King Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)

1765 - ÿtienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)

1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)

1793 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)

1799 - Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)

1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)

1835 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)

1857 - Joseph Babi?ski, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932)

1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)

1868 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)

1878 - Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (d. 1939)

1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)

1887 - Sir 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 first husband of Barbara Stanwyck (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 Belgium (d. 1935)

1905 - Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)

1906 - Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (d. 1992)

1907 - Israel Regardie, Occultist, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)

1911 - Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)

1916 - Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005)

1922 - Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1923 - Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)

1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)

1925 - Sir Charles Mackerras, American-born conductor

1928 - Rance Howard, American actor

1929 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)

1935 - Toni Sailer, Austrian skier

1936 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)

1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian, satirist, and writer (d. 1995)

1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer

1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)

1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director

1943 - Lauren Hutton, American actress

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

1946 - Terry E. Branstad, Former Governor of Iowa

1948 - Howard Dean, American politician

1951 - Stephen Root, American actor

1952 - Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player

1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress

1960 - Jonathan Ross, British television presenter and radio broadcaster

1960 - RuPaul, American actor

1965 - Rob Kokarinen, Finnish Opera and Rock Singer, most notorious for being the lead singer of Plus Ultra (1984 - 1986).

1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)

1966 - Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress

1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress

1966 - Kate Ceberano, Australian singer

1968 - Amber Michaels, German porn actress

1969 - Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player

1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)

1970 - Paul Allender, British singer (Cradle of Filth)

1973 - Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater

1975 - Diane Neal, American actress

1976 - Brandon Call, American actor

1977 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer

1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player

1980 - Isaac Hanson, guitarist and singer

1981 - Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)

1982 - Katie Feenstra, American basketball player

1983 - Christopher Paolini, author

1994 - Raquel Castro, American child actress