What happened on November 17 ?

375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)

594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.539)

641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)

680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)

1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint (b. 1207)

1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)

1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)

1558 - Queen Mary I of England (b. 1516)

1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)

1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)

1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)

1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)

1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)

1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France (b. 1602)

1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer

1665 - John Earle, English bishop

1668 - Joseph Alleine, English non-conformist preacher (b. 1634)

1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)

1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)

1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)

1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)

1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, British statesman (b. 1693)

1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)

1789 - Charlotte, Duchess of Albany, only child of Bonnie Prince Charlie (b. 1753)

1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)

1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)

1858 - Robert Owen, British socialist, social reformer and father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)

1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer, First Superintendent of the West London Mission (b. 1847)

1905 - Grand Duke Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)

1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)

1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)

1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)

1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (b. 1860)

1938 - Ante Trumbi?, Croatian politician (b. 1864)

1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor and writer (b. 1882)

1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)

1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)

1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (b. 1911)

1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)

1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)

1986 - Georges Besse, president of Renault (b. 1927)

1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (murdered) (b. 1960)

1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (Can) (b. 1948)

2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician (b. 1915)

2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)

2003 - Don Gibson, American singer and songwriter (b. 1928)

2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)

2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)

2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)