Born on Monday, 17th November – Famous Birthdays

17/11/2004

Linda Nosková, Czech tennis player

Linda Nosková is a Czech professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 12 by the WTA, achieved on 5 January 2026, and a doubles ranking of No. 60, set on 19 August 2024. Nosková has won one WTA Tour title, at the 2024 Monterrey Open. Her best performance at the majors is reaching the quarterfinals at the 2024 Australian Open, defeating world No. 1 Iga Świątek en route. Nosková is currently the No. 1 women's singles player from Czechia.

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17/11/2001

Kate Douglass, American swimmer

Katherine Cadwallader Douglass is an American competitive swimmer. Douglass is a five-time Olympic medalist, including two golds, and has won 34 medals with 16 golds at the World Championships. Since 2024, she has been the world record holder for the short-course 200m breaststroke (SC) as well as being part of the 200 IM record team.

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17/11/2000

Joanne Züger, Swiss tennis player

Joanne Züger is an inactive Swiss tennis player.

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17/11/1999

Gabi Gonçalves, Brazilian politician

Gabriela Cristina Gonçalves da Silva Cordeiro, better known as Gabi Gonçalves, is a Brazilian politician. In 2022, she was elected state deputy for Alagoas.

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17/11/1997

Dragan Bender, Croatian basketball player

Dragan Bender is a Croatian former professional basketball player. He stands 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) and played the power forward and center positions. He was selected by the Phoenix Suns with the fourth overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft but only played four years in the league. Bender represents the Croatian national team, with experience in the FIBA Europe junior tournaments. Before playing in Israel, he competed with multiple teams in Croatia and in Nikola Vujčić's academy.

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Julian Ryerson, Norwegian footballer

Julian Ryerson is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a full-back or wing-back for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Norway national team.

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Yugyeom, South Korean singer

Kim Yu-gyeom, known mononymously as Yugyeom, is a South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer who made his debut as a member of the South Korean boy band Got7 in 2014 and the subunit Jus2.

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17/11/1996

Minkah Fitzpatrick, American football player

Minkah Annane Fitzpatrick Jr. is an American professional football safety for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, and was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the first round of the 2018 NFL draft. He has also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Jamayne Taunoa-Brown, Australian rugby league player

Jamayne Taunoa-Brown is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer.

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17/11/1995

Elise Mertens, Belgian tennis player

Elise Mertens is a Belgian professional tennis player. She became the world No. 1 in women's doubles on 10 May 2021, the third Belgian to hold a top ranking in either singles or doubles. She has won 34 WTA Tour-level titles, comprising 10 in singles and 24 in doubles.

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Panashe Muzambe, Scottish rugby union player

Panashe Muzambe is a Scottish professional rugby union player. She is the first black woman to play rugby for Scotland.

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17/11/1994

Raquel Castro, American actress and singer

Raquel Castro is an American actress and singer. She is known for starring in the 2004 film Jersey Girl as Gertie Trinké, the daughter of Ollie Trinké and Gertrude Steiney, for which Castro won the Young Artist Award for the Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Actress Age Ten or Younger. She was a contestant in the American version of The Voice.

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Rose Ayling-Ellis, British actress

Rose Lucinda Ayling-Ellis is an English actress, television presenter and writer of children's books. Deaf since birth, she is a British Sign Language user.

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17/11/1993

Taylor Gold, American snowboarder

Taylor Riley "Ty" Gold is an American Olympian snowboarder. He competes in the halfpipe.

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17/11/1992

Damiris Dantas, Brazilian basketball player

Damiris Dantas do Amaral is a Brazilian basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Botaş SK of the Turkish Super League.

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Katarzyna Kawa, Polish tennis player

Katarzyna Kawa is a Polish professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are No. 64 in doubles, set on 10 October 2022, and No. 112 in singles, achieved on 9 November 2020. She has won five WTA Challenger doubles titles, and also seven singles and 19 doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit.

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Danielle Kettlewell, Australian synchronised swimmer

Danielle Merlyn Reedy is an Australian synchronised swimmer. She competed in the team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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17/11/1990

Elías Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player

Elías David Díaz Soto is a Venezuelan professional baseball catcher in the Kansas City Royals organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, and San Diego Padres. Díaz has also represented the Colombia national team.

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17/11/1989

Ryan Griffin, American football player

Ryan Walsh Griffin is an American former professional football quarterback. He played college football for the Tulane Green Wave. He was signed by the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent in 2013. Griffin earned a Super Bowl ring with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the 2020 season. He was signed by the Skorpions Varese of the Italian Football League (IFL) as quarterback/Offensive Coordinator in the spring of 2024. After the season Griffin joined the Chicago Bears coaching staff as an Offensive Assistant QB/WR Coach.

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Seth Lugo, American baseball player

Jacob Seth Lugo is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the New York Mets and San Diego Padres. He made his MLB debut in 2016. Lugo played for the Puerto Rican national baseball team in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, winning a silver medal.

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Roman Zozulya, Ukrainian footballer

Roman Vyacheslavovych Zozulya is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a striker.

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17/11/1988

Justin Cooper, American actor

Justin Cooper is an American former child actor. He has starred in the film Liar Liar and in the sitcom Brother's Keeper. He serves as an executive producer of The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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17/11/1987

Justine Michelle Cain, English actress

Justine Michelle Andrews is an English actress, best known for her roles of Charlie in Some Girls from 2012 to 2014 and Carly in Edge of Heaven in 2014.

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Craig Noone, English footballer

Craig Stephen Noone is an English professional football manager and player who plays as a winger for Northern Premier League Premier Division club Warrington Town where he is a player-coach. During his playing career, he played for Plymouth Argyle, Exeter City, Brighton & Hove Albion, Cardiff City, Bolton Wanderers, and Melbourne City and Macarthur FC.

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Gemma Spofforth, English swimmer

Gemma Mary Spofforth is an English former competition swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics, FINA world championships and European championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games. Spofforth is the former world record-holder and former world champion in the 100-metre backstroke, and won a total of eight medals in major international championships.

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17/11/1986

Everth Cabrera, Nicaraguan baseball player

Everth Cabrera is a Nicaraguan former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and Baltimore Orioles. He led the National League (NL) in stolen bases in 2012, and was an All-Star in 2013.

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Fabio Concas, Italian footballer

Fabio Concas is an Italian footballer who plays for the Serie D side Derthona as a winger.

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Aaron Finch, Australian cricketer

Aaron James Finch is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer who previously captained the Australia national cricket team in both One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket. An opening batter and occasional left arm orthodox spinner, he made his international debut in 2011. He also played for Victoria in domestic cricket and the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League.

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Nani, Portuguese footballer

Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha, commonly known as Nani, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Kazakhstan Premier League club Aktobe. He is known for his pace, flair and work ethic.

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Greg Rutherford, English long jumper

Gregory James Rutherford is a retired British track and field athlete who specialised in the long jump. He represented Great Britain at the Olympics, World and European Championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games. Rutherford is the most recent of only five athletes to win the ''Grand Slam" of Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles in the same event and the only one also to win the Diamond League.

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17/11/1985

Luis Aguiar, Uruguayan footballer

Luis Bernardo Aguiar Burgos is a Uruguayan former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

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Sékou Camara, Malian footballer (died 2013)

Abdoulaye Sékou Camara, better known as Sékou Camara, was a Malian footballer. Nicknamed "McCarthy", Camara primarily played as a striker and as a centre forward. At the time of his death, he was a striker for Pelita Bandung Raya.

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Carolina Neurath, Swedish journalist

Anna Carolina Neurath is a Swedish journalist and writer. She specializes in writing business articles for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. In 2016 her first work of fiction, Fartblinda, was published.

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17/11/1984

Amanda Evora, American figure skater

Amanda Evora is an American former competitive pair skater. She competed with Mark Ladwig. They are two-time U.S. silver medalists, 2012 U.S. bronze medalists and two-time U.S. pewter medalists.

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Park Han-byul, South Korean model and actress

Park Han-byul is a South Korean actress and model.

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17/11/1983

Viva Bianca, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter

Viva Bianca is an Australian actress best known for her role as Ilithyia on the Starz network series Spartacus: Blood and Sand and Spartacus: Vengeance.

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Ioannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player

Ioannis Bourousis, commonly known as Giannis Bourousis is a Greek former professional basketball player and basketball executive. He is the general manager of the Greek basketball club ASK Karditsa. During his playing career, at a height of 7 ft 3⁄4 in tall and a weight of 270 lb. (122 kg), Bourousis played at the center position. Bourousis, who was a two-time All-EuroLeague First Team selection, was compared to FIBA Hall of Fame / Basketball Hall of Fame center Vlade Divac, by San Antonio Spurs' head coach Gregg Popovich.

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Ryan Bradley, American figure skater

Ryan Scott Bradley is an American former competitive figure skater. He is the 2008 Skate Canada International silver medalist, the 2009 Skate America bronze medalist, the 2011 U.S. national champion, and a three-time U.S. Collegiate champion.

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Ryan Braun, American baseball player

Ryan Joseph Braun is an American former professional baseball player. A left fielder, he played his entire career for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2007 to 2020. Braun also played right field and first base during his career, and was a third baseman during his rookie season.

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Trevor Crowe, American baseball player

Trevor Thornton Crowe is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians and Houston Astros. Prior to playing professionally, Crowe attended the University of Arizona, where he played college baseball for the Arizona Wildcats.

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Jodie Henry, Australian swimmer

Jodie Clare Henry, is an Australian former competitive swimmer, Olympic gold medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics and former world-record holder.

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Harry Lloyd, English actor, producer, and screenwriter

Harry Charles Salusbury Lloyd is an English actor. His performance in the Channel 4 miniseries The Fear (2012) earned him a British Academy Television Award nomination. He gained prominence through his roles as Will Scarlet in the BBC drama Robin Hood (2006), Jeremy Baines in the Doctor Who episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood" (2007), and Viserys Targaryen in the first season of the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011).

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Nick Markakis, American baseball player

Nicholas William Markakis is an American former professional baseball right fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 15 seasons for the Baltimore Orioles and Atlanta Braves. Markakis was the Orioles' first-round draft pick in the 2003 Major League Baseball draft, and made his MLB debut in 2006. Markakis is a three-time Gold Glove Award winner, and he won a Silver Slugger Award and was named an MLB All-Star in 2018. Markakis previously held the MLB record for consecutive games by an outfielder without making an error (398). Markakis retired prior to the start of the 2021 season.

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Scott Moore, American baseball player

Scott Alanboyd Moore is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles and Houston Astros. He played with the St. Louis Cardinals organization until his release in May 2015.

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Christopher Paolini, American author

Christopher James Paolini is an American and Italian author. He is best known for The Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon (2002), Eldest (2005), Brisingr (2008), Inheritance (2011), the follow-up short story collection The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm (2018), and Murtagh (2023), the first in a follow-up duology. His first science fiction novel, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, was published on September 15, 2020. He lives in Paradise Valley, Montana, where he wrote his first book.

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17/11/1982

Katie Feenstra-Mattera, American basketball player

Katharen Ruth Mattera is an American college basketball coach and former player for the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

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Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer

Yusuf Khan Pathan is an Indian former cricketer and politician of the Trinamool Congress. Pathan made his debut in first-class cricket in 2001/02 as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. His younger brother, Irfan Pathan was also an Indian cricketer. Pathan retired from all forms of cricket in February 2021. He was a member of the Indian team that won both the 2007 T20 World Cup and the 2011 Cricket World Cup. As of June 2024, Pathan is a Member of Parliament from the Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency of West Bengal.

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Hollie Smith, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist

Hollie Smith is a New Zealand soul singer-songwriter based in Auckland. Her four solo albums Long Player, Humour and the Misfortune of Others, Water or Gold, and Coming In From The Dark have all reached number one on the RIANZ albums chart.

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17/11/1981

Sarah Harding, English singer, dancer, and actress (died 2021)

Sarah Harding was an English singer, model, and actress. Her professional career began in 2002 when she successfully auditioned for the ITV reality series Popstars: The Rivals, during which Harding won a place in the girl group Girls Aloud. The group achieved twenty consecutive top ten singles in the UK, six albums that were certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), two of which went to number one in the UK, and accumulated a total of five BRIT Award nominations. In 2009, Girls Aloud won "Best Single" with their song "The Promise".

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Doug Walker, American actor, comedian, film critic, internet personality, and filmmaker

Douglas Darien Walker is an American YouTuber, filmmaker, film critic, comedian and actor. He is best known for creating and starring in the satirical film review web series Nostalgia Critic, wherein the title character reviews nostalgic media in an exaggeratedly aggressive manner. After an initial run on YouTube, Walker co-created the website That Guy with the Glasses in 2008, where he and the series gained wider popularity. The site also presented other media critics who created similar content, including Lindsay Ellis and Angry Joe. Walker and his series returned to YouTube in 2014.

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17/11/1980

Jay Bradley, American wrestler

Bradley Thomas Jay is an American professional wrestler, best known for his time in Impact Wrestling under the ring names of Jay Bradley and Aiden O'Shea, and WWE as Ryan Braddock.

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17/11/1979

Matthew Spring, English footballer

Matthew John Spring is an English semi-professional footballer and coach who last played as a midfielder for Southern League Division One Central club Hitchin Town. He previously played for Luton Town, Leeds United, Watford, Sheffield United, Charlton Athletic, Leyton Orient, Wycombe Wanderers, St Neots Town and Hemel Hempstead Town.

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17/11/1978

Glen Air, Australian rugby league player

Glen Air is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. His usual position was as at halfback and he could also operate at five-eighth.

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Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress and stuntwoman

Zoë E. Bell is a New Zealand stuntwoman and actress. Some of her most notable stunt-work includes doubling for Lucy Lawless in Xena: Warrior Princess and for Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.

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Tom Ellis, Welsh actor

Thomas John Ellis is a Welsh actor. He became known for playing Gary Preston in the BBC One sitcom Miranda (2009–2015), then achieved wider recognition for his role as Lucifer Morningstar in the Fox/Netflix urban fantasy series Lucifer (2016–2021), also the Arrowverse franchise crossover "Crisis on Infinite Earths" (2019), and Colin Glass in the CBS drama series CIA (2026–present).

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Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress

Rachel Anne McAdams is a Canadian actress. A graduate of York University in 2001 with a BFA in theatre, she is known for her starring roles in comedy and drama films as well as her work in television and theater. Her accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Tony Award. In 2026, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As a leading actress, her films have grossed over $3.4 billion worldwide.

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Reggie Wayne, American football player

Reginald Wayne is an American professional football coach and a former professional wide receiver who played 14 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He is currently the wide receivers coach for the Colts. He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes, and was selected by the Colts in the first round of the 2001 NFL draft with the 30th overall pick. A six-time Pro Bowl selection, Wayne was a member of the Colts' Super Bowl XLI winning team over the Chicago Bears. He ranks second in Colts' franchise history to Marvin Harrison in major receiving categories: receptions, receiving yards, targets, and receiving touchdowns. On December 14, 2014, Wayne played in both his 209th game and his 142nd win as a member of the Colts, breaking the franchise records set by Peyton Manning.

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17/11/1977

Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer

Ryk Neethling OIS is a South African businessman who rose to prominence as a three-time World Aquatic Champion and four-time World Record breaking Olympic swimming champion, participating in four Olympics for South Africa from 1996-2008. He won a gold medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and is known as one of the most accomplished South African swimmers in history. He would later serve as the CEO of the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation South Africa, and found the Ryk Neethling Swimming Schools.

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17/11/1976

Brandon Call, American actor

Brandon Spencer Lee Call is an American former television and film actor. He played Hobie Buchannon in the first year of Baywatch and J.T. Lambert on Step by Step.

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Diane Neal, American actress and director

Diane Neal is an American-Israeli actress. She is best known for portraying New York Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak in the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2003 to 2012. She is also known for portraying Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) Special Agent Abigail Borin in the NCIS franchise.

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17/11/1975

Kinga Baranowska, Polish mountaineer

Kinga Baranowska is a Polish mountaineer. She made ascents of nine eight-thousanders and is the first Polish woman to have climbed Dhaulagiri, Manaslu and Kangchenjunga. She has also climbed the seven summits.

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Lee Carseldine, Australian cricketer

Lee Andrew Carseldine is a retired professional Australian cricketer, entrepreneur and media personality.

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Jerome James, American basketball player

Jerome Keith James is an American former professional basketball player. Originally from Tampa, Florida, James played college basketball for the Florida A&M Rattlers for three seasons and was the national leader in blocks per game in the 1997–98 season, his junior year. James declared for the 1998 NBA draft after his junior year, and the Sacramento Kings selected James in the second round of the draft. Over the course of his career, he has played for the Kings, Seattle SuperSonics and New York Knicks. He has also played for KK Budućnost Podgorica and the Harlem Globetrotters.

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17/11/1974

Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean-French heptathlete and long jumper

Eunice Claudia Barber is a Sierra Leonean-French athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump. Barber initially competed for Sierra Leone and then for France from 1999 onwards. She won the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in 1999, the long jump in 2003 and finished second in heptathlon in 2003 and 2005.

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Leslie Bibb, American actress and producer

Leslie Louise Bibb is an American actress and model. She first received wider attention for playing Brooke McQueen on the WB teen series Popular (1999–2001). Bibb later portrayed journalist Christine Everhart in Marvel Cinematic Universe projects, including Iron Man (2008) and Iron Man 2 (2010). Her television work in the 2020s includes Grace Sampson on Netflix's Jupiter's Legacy (2021), Dinah Donahue on Apple TV's Palm Royale (2024), and Kate in season three of HBO’s The White Lotus (2025).

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Berto Romero, Spanish comedian and actor

Alberto Romero Tomás, better known as Berto Romero, is a Spanish comedian.

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17/11/1973

Andreas Hedlund, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer

Andreas Hedlund, better known by his stage names Vintersorg and Mr. V, is a Swedish vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who has played in several heavy metal bands, including Borknagar, Cronian and Vintersorg.

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Eli Marrero, Cuban baseball player, coach, and manager

Elieser Marrero, is a Cuban former Major League Baseball player. Marrero started his career as a catcher, but spent time at first base, third base and in the outfield.

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Bernd Schneider, German footballer

Bernd Schneider is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. After retiring in June 2009, he took up an advisory role at his first club, Carl Zeiss Jena, and a scouting position at Bayer Leverkusen.

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Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater and coach

Alexei Yevgenyevich Urmanov is a Russian figure skating coach and former competitor. He is the 1994 Olympic champion, the 1993 World bronze medalist, the 1997 European champion, the 1995–96 Champions Series Final champion, a four-time Russian national champion, and the 1992 Soviet national champion.

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17/11/1972

Kimya Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Kimya Dawson is an American folk singer-songwriter, one half of the anti-folk duo the Moldy Peaches. Dawson's work with the Moldy Peaches earned them a cult following and critical acclaim, with their 2001 song "Anyone Else but You" landing a spot in multiple acclaimed indie film soundtracks. "Anyone Else but You" as performed by Michael Cera and Elliot Page charted on the Billboard Hot 100 after its prominent inclusion in the 2007 film Juno, the soundtrack of which includes several songs by Dawson and her associated musical acts. The song remains Dawson's highest charting single to date. In addition to her work with the Moldy Peaches, Dawson has released seven solo studio albums and collaborated with various other artists from a diverse range of genres, including Aesop Rock, They Might Be Giants, The Mountain Goats, and Third Eye Blind.

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Joanne Goode, English badminton player

Joanne Gwendoline Goode MBE is an English badminton player. She represented Great Britain at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, and won the 2000 mixed doubles bronze medal with Simon Archer. Goode also won seven gold medals at the Commonwealth Games, a gold at the European Championships, and a silver at the World Championships.

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Lorraine Pascale, English model and chef

Lorraine Pascale is a British TV chef and USA Food Network host and former model, best known for selling almost one million books in the UK alone. Her TV shows are in 70 countries worldwide. She had her own cooking show on the BBC for several seasons. From 2007 to 2012 she owned a retail outlet in London selling baked goods called Ella's Bakehouse named after her daughter. She is the United Kingdom Government Fostering and Adoption Ambassador and an emotional wellness advocate. She is the mother of Charlie’s Angels star Ella Balinska.

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Leonard Roberts, American actor

Leonard Roberts is an American actor. He portrayed Sean Taylor in Drumline, Forrest Gates on the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and D. L. Hawkins on Heroes.

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17/11/1971

David Ramsey, American actor

David Paul Ramsey is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in The CW Arrowverse series Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and Batwoman as John Diggle / Spartan, portraying Diggle and Bass Reeves in Legends of Tomorrow, recurring as an alternate universe version of Diggle in Superman & Lois, recurring as Anton Briggs on the Showtime TV series Dexter, and starring in the film Mother and Child (2009) as Joseph.

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Tonje Sagstuen, Norwegian handball player, journalist, newspaper editor, and gambling executive

Tonje Sagstuen is a Norwegian former team handball player, journalist, newspaper editor, and gambling executive.

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17/11/1970

Paul Allender, English guitarist and songwriter

Paul James Allender is an English guitarist, best known for his work with the English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. He was a longtime member with stints in the band from 1992 to 1995 and then again from 1999 to 2014.

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Tania Zaetta, Australian actress

Tania Zaetta is an Australian actress, television and radio presenter.

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17/11/1969

Ryōtarō Okiayu, Japanese voice actor and singer

Ryōtarō Okiayu is a Japanese actor, voice actor and singer affiliated with Aoni Production. His major roles include Byakuya Kuchiki in Bleach, Treize Khushrenada in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Hisashi Mitsui in Slam Dunk, Meisuke Nueno in Hell Teacher Nūbē, Kunimitsu Tezuka in The Prince of Tennis, Alucard in Castlevania, Zero in Mega Man X, Yuu Matsuura in Marmalade Boy, Shigure Sohma in Fruits Basket, Dark in D.N. Angel, Toriko in Toriko and Kokushibo in Demon Slayer. As a singer, he was one of the members for Entertainment Music Unit from 1995 to 2000. He is married to voice actress Ai Maeda. His range is A～E♯ and his dialect is Osakan. His older sister is an animator. He is the official voice-over dub for Scott Foley, Taylor Kitsch, Lin Gengxin and Stephen Fung.

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Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player

Jean-Michel Saive is a Belgian former professional table tennis player. Saive competed at seven consecutive Olympics between 1988 and 2012, and he was also a winner in singles at European Championship 1994.

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Rebecca Walker, American author

Rebecca Walker is an American writer, feminist, and activist. Walker has been regarded as one of the prominent voices of Third Wave Feminism, and the coiner of the term "third wave", since publishing a 1992 article on feminism in Ms. magazine called "Becoming the Third Wave", in which she proclaimed: "I am the Third Wave."

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17/11/1968

Sean Miller, American basketball player and coach

Sean Edward Miller is an American college basketball coach who currently serves as head coach at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously served as head coach at the University of Arizona from 2009 to 2021 and Xavier University from 2004 to 2009 and then again from 2022 to 2025.

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17/11/1967

Tab Benoit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Tab Benoit is an American blues guitarist, musician, and singer. His playing combines a number of blues styles, primarily Delta blues.

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Ronnie DeVoe, American singer, producer, and actor

Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr., is an American singer and rapper. known as one of the members of the R&B/pop group New Edition, and the R&B/hip hop group Bell Biv DeVoe. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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17/11/1966

Ben Allison, American bassist and composer

Ben Allison is an American double bassist, composer, producer, bandleader, educator. In addition to his work as a performer, he co-founded the non-profit Jazz Composers Collective and served as its Artistic Director for twelve years. Allison is an adjunct professor at New School University and serves as President of the board of the New York chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

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Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1997)

Jeffrey Scott Buckley was an American musician. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, he attracted a following in the early 1990s performing at venues in the East Village, Manhattan. He signed with Columbia and released his only studio album, Grace, in 1994. Buckley toured extensively to promote Grace, with concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia.

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Kate Ceberano, Australian singer-songwriter and actress

Catherine Yvette Ceberano is an Australian singer and actress who performs in the rock, soul, jazz and pop genres, as well as in film and musicals such as Jesus Christ Superstar. Her single "Bedroom Eyes" received a platinum sales certification in 1989. As of 2023, Ceberano has 11 platinum and 8 gold albums Ceberano was the artistic director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

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Richard Fortus, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Richard Fortus is an American guitarist. He has been a member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses since 2002 and has recorded one studio album with them. Fortus has also collaborated extensively with The Psychedelic Furs frontman Richard Butler and former Guns N' Roses bandmate Frank Ferrer. Aside from lead singer Axl Rose and keyboardist Dizzy Reed, Fortus is the longest-tenured member of Guns N' Roses, having been with the band continuously since 2002.

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Daisy Fuentes, Cuban-American model and actress

Daisy Fuentes is an American model, television host, actress and former weather presenter. Fuentes became MTV's first Latina VJ and Revlon's first Latina spokesperson to be signed to a worldwide contract.

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Sophie Marceau, French actress, director, and screenwriter

Sophie Marceau is a French actress. As a teenager, she achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including L'Étudiante (1988), Pacific Palisades (1990), Fanfan (1993) and Revenge of the Musketeers (1994). She became an international film star with her performances in Braveheart (1995), Firelight (1997), Anna Karenina (1997) and as Elektra King in the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999). Some of her later films tackle critical social issues such as Arrêtez-moi (2013), Jailbirds (2015) and Everything Went Fine (2021).

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Alvin Patrimonio, Filipino basketball player and manager

Alvin Dale Vergara Patrimonio is a Filipino retired professional basketball player from the Philippine Basketball Association and is the current team manager for the Magnolia Hotshots.

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17/11/1965

Darren Beadman, Australian jockey

Darren Beadman is an Australian champion jockey. In 2007 at age 41 he was the youngest jockey ever to be inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame, being the first to do so while still active in the industry.

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Pam Bondi, American politician and attorney, 87th U.S. Attorney General

Pamela Jo Bondi is an American attorney and politician who served as the 87th United States attorney general from February 2025 to April 2026. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the 37th attorney general of Florida from 2011 to 2019.

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Amanda Brown, Australian violinist and composer

Amanda Gabrielle Brown is an Australian composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. She was the violinist of Australian indie rock band the Go-Betweens from 1986 to 1989 and recorded on their studio albums Tallulah (1987) and 16 Lovers Lane (1988). Brown has also worked as a session musician and, since 2000, as a screen music composer. She won the AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score in 2020 for Babyteeth (2019) and also Best Original Music Score in a Documentary for Brazen Hussies (2020). At the APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards of 2009 she won Best Music for a Documentary for Sidney Nolan: Mask and Memory (2008) and Best Music for a Television Series or Serial for The Secrets She Keeps at the 2020 ceremony.

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17/11/1964

Susan Rice, American academic and politician, 24th United States National Security Advisor

Susan Elizabeth Rice is an American former diplomat, policy advisor, and public official. As a member of the Democratic Party, Rice served as the 22nd director of the United States Domestic Policy Council from 2021 to 2023, as the 27th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013, and as the 23rd U.S. national security advisor from 2013 to 2017.

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Mitch Williams, American baseball player and sportscaster

Mitchell Steven Williams, nicknamed "Wild Thing", is an American former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for six teams from 1986 to 1997. He was also a studio analyst for the MLB Network from 2009 to 2014.

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17/11/1963

Adrian Branch, American basketball player and sportscaster

Adrian Francis Branch is a retired American professional basketball player.

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Daniel Scott, American novelist and short story writer

Daniel Scott is an American novelist and short story writer best known for his discussions of marginalized characters of American society. He has also been cited as an "almost post-gay" writer in that he sometimes employs gay characters whose sexuality is not necessarily a driving force of the story. Scott has been the recipient of awards from various organizations including the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. Born November 17, 1963, in Milton, Massachusetts, he currently lives in New York City.

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Dylan Walsh, American actor

Dylan Walsh is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Dr. Sean McNamara on the FX television series Nip/Tuck, Al Burns on Unforgettable, Sam Lane on Superman & Lois, and David Hollander on Heated Rivalry.

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17/11/1962

Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2000)

André "Dédé" Fortin was a founding member, frontman, and guitarist of the Québécois band Les Colocs, formed in 1990.

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17/11/1961

Robert Stethem, American soldier (died 1985)

Robert Dean Stethem was a United States Navy Seabee diver who was murdered by Hezbollah members during the hijacking of the commercial airliner he was aboard, TWA Flight 847. At the time of his death, his Navy rating was Steelworker Second Class (SW2). He was posthumously promoted to Master Chief Constructionman (CUCM).

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Pat Toomey, American businessman and politician

Patrick Joseph Toomey Jr. is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he served three terms as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district, from 1999 to 2005.

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17/11/1960

Michael Hertwig, German footballer and manager

Michael Hertwig is a former German football player and manager.

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Jonathan Ross, English actor and talk show host

Jonathan Stephen Ross OBE is an English broadcaster, television personality, comedian, and writer. He has presented television comedy chat shows, including BBC's Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001–2010) and ITV's The Jonathan Ross Show (2011–present). For the BBC show, he won three British Academy Television Awards for Best Entertainment Performance. Ross hosted his own radio show on BBC Radio 2 from 1999 to 2010. He served as film critic and presenter of the television programme Film… (1999–2010).

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RuPaul, American drag queen performer, actor, and singer

RuPaul Andre Charles is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. He produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race and has received several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, a Tony Award, and a Guinness World Records title. He has been dubbed the "Queen of Drag" and is considered the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States, with Fortune saying that he is "easily the world's most famous drag queen." In 2017, RuPaul was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

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Steve Stipanovich, American basketball player

Stephen Samuel Stipanovich is an American former professional basketball player. A 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) center who played college basketball for the Missouri Tigers between 1979 and 1983, he and Jon Sundvold helped coach Norm Stewart to four consecutive Big Eight Conference championships and NCAA tournament appearances. Stipanovich was selected by the Indiana Pacers with the second pick of the 1983 NBA draft, which remains the highest a Missouri player has been picked in the NBA draft in school history. Knee problems limited his career to five seasons, and he retired in 1988 with career totals of 5,323 points and 3,131 rebounds.

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17/11/1959

Terry Fenwick, English footballer and manager

Terence William Fenwick is an English former football manager and player who played either as a centre-back or a full-back.

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William R. Moses, American actor and producer

William Remington Moses is an American actor.

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Jaanus Tamkivi, Estonian politician

Jaanus Tamkivi is an Estonian politician of the Estonian Reform Party. He was Mayor of Kuressaare from 1996 to 2005, a member of the Riigikogu from 2005 to 2015, and the Minister of the Environment from 2007 to 2011. Currently he is the chairman of Saaremaa Municipality Council.

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17/11/1958

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is an American actress and singer. She made her Broadway debut as an understudy in the 1980 revival of West Side Story, and went on to appear in the 1983 film Scarface as Al Pacino's character's sister, Gina Montana, which proved to be her breakout role. For her role as Carmen in the 1986 film The Color of Money, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include The Abyss (1989), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), and The Perfect Storm (2000). In 2003, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the Broadway revival of Man of La Mancha.

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17/11/1957

Jim Babjak, American guitarist and songwriter

Jim Babjak is an American guitarist and ex-banker. He is the lead guitar player and co-founder of The Smithereens. Babjak has written and sung several songs for the band. He also is the leader of the band Buzzed Meg.

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17/11/1956

Angelika Machinek, German glider pilot (died 2006)

Angelika Machinek was a German glider pilot. Born in the district of Holzminden, she started gliding at the age of 14, gained her pilot’s license in 1973 and received her instructor’s license in 1980. She was five times German gliding champion between 1994 and 2006 and broke nine FIA gliding world records, four in the D1M class, four in D15 and one in DO. She won the Elly-Beinhorn Rally in 1998, the first International Hexencup in 2003 and the first International Flatland Cup in Hungary, in 2006. She died while flying a microlight shortly after the last win and a fund to promote women glider pilots was set up as a legacy for her in 2007.

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Jim McGovern, Scottish politician

James McGovern is a Scottish Labour politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dundee West from 2005 to 2015.

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17/11/1955

Peter Cox, English singer-songwriter

Peter John Cox is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the English pop duo Go West. As a solo artist, he scored three top 40 hits on the UK singles chart in the 1990s.

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Yolanda King, American actress and activist (died 2007)

Yolanda Denise King was an American activist and campaigner for African-American rights and first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, who pursued artistic and entertainment endeavors and public speaking. Her childhood experience was greatly influenced by her father's highly public activism.

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Dennis Maruk, Ukrainian-Canadian ice hockey player

Dennis John Maruk is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1975 to 1989, scoring a career-high 60 goals for the Washington Capitals in 1981–82. Maruk is of Ukrainian descent.

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17/11/1954

Chopper Read, Australian criminal and author (died 2013)

Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read was an Australian convicted criminal, gang member and author. Read wrote a series of semi-autobiographical fictional crime novels and children's books. The 2000 film Chopper is based on his life.

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17/11/1953

Babis Tennes, Greek footballer and manager

Babis Tennes is a Greek association football coach and retired association football player who played as midfielder.

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17/11/1952

David Emanuel, Welsh fashion designer

David Emanuel is a Welsh fashion designer who designed, with his wife, Elizabeth, the wedding dress worn by Lady Diana Spencer at her wedding to Prince Charles in 1981.

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Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player

Ties Kruize is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands. He competed at the 1972 and 1984 Olympic Games and finished in fourth and sixth place, respectively. He became world champion in 1973, European champion in 1983, and retired from international competition in 1986, after the Hockey World Cup in London.

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Runa Laila, Bangladeshi singer

Runa Laila is a Bangladeshi playback singer and composer. She started her career in the Pakistani film industry in the late 1960s. Her style of singing is inspired by Pakistani playback singer Ahmed Rushdi and also frequently joined him for singing duets, after replacing another singer Mala. She is one of the most prominent singers in South Asia. She's is known as the "'Queen of melody"' in South Asian music. Her playback singing in films – The Rain (1976), Jadur Banshi (1977), Accident (1989), Ontore Ontore (1994), Devdas (2013) and Priya Tumi Shukhi Hou (2014) - earned her seven Bangladesh National Film Awards for Best Female Playback Singer. She won the Best Music Composer award for the film Ekti Cinemar Golpo (2018).

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Cyril Ramaphosa, South African businessman and politician, fifth President of South Africa

Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is a South African businessman and politician serving as the president of South Africa since 2018. A former anti-apartheid activist and trade union leader, Ramaphosa is also the president of the African National Congress (ANC).

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17/11/1951

Butch Davis, American football player and coach

Paul Hilton "Butch" Davis Jr. is an American football coach. He was most recently the head football coach at Florida International University. After graduating from the University of Arkansas, he became an assistant college football coach at Oklahoma State University and the University of Miami before becoming the defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He was head coach of the University of Miami's Hurricanes football team from 1995 to 2000 and the NFL's Cleveland Browns from 2001 to 2004. Davis served as the head coach of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Tar Heels football team from 2007 until the summer of 2011, when a series of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) investigations resulted in his dismissal. He was hired by the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an advisor in February 2012.

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Werner Hoyer, German economist and politician

Werner Hoyer is a German economist and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) between 2012 and 2023.

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Dean Paul Martin, American singer, actor, and pilot (died 1987)

Dean Paul Martin Jr. was an American pop singer and film and television actor. A member of the California Air National Guard, Martin died in a crash during a military training flight. He was the son of entertainer Dean Martin.

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Stephen Root, American actor

Stephen Root is an American actor. He has starred as Jimmy James on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio (1995–1999), as Milton Waddams in the film Office Space (1999), and voiced Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland on the animated series King of the Hill.

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Jack Vettriano, Scottish painter and philanthropist (died 2025)

Jack Vettriano was a Scottish painter, known for his distinctive figurative style, often depicting scenes of romance, mystery, and nostalgia. Largely self-taught, Vettriano gained international recognition with his 1992 painting The Singing Butler, which became one of the best-selling art prints in the UK.

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17/11/1950

Roland Matthes, German swimmer (died 2019)

Roland Matthes was a German swimmer and the most successful backstroke swimmer of all time. Between April 1967 and August 1974 he won all backstroke competitions he entered. He won four European championships and three world championships in a row, and swam 19 world and 28 European records in various backstroke, butterfly and medley events. He was trained by Marlies Grohe.

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17/11/1949

John Boehner, American businessman and politician, 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

John Andrew Boehner is a retired American politician and lobbyist who served as the 53rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served 13 terms as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 8th congressional district from 1991 to 2015. The district included several rural and suburban areas near Cincinnati and Dayton.

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Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Vietnamese soldier and politician, eighth Prime Minister of Vietnam

Nguyễn Tấn Dũng is a Vietnamese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Vietnam from 2006 to 2016. He was confirmed by the National Assembly on 27 June 2006, having been nominated by his predecessor, Phan Văn Khải, who retired from office. At a party congress held in January 2011, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng was ranked 3rd in the hierarchy of the Communist Party of Vietnam, after President Trương Tấn Sang. Following the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng was not able to maintain his post in the party and stepped down from his position as Prime Minister on 7 April 2016.

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Michael Wenden, Australian swimmer

Michael Vincent Wenden, is a champion swimmer who represented Australia in the 1968 Summer Olympics and 1972 Summer Olympics. In 1968 he won four medals: gold in both the 100- and 200-metre freestyle and a silver and a bronze in freestyle relays.

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17/11/1948

Howard Dean, American physician and politician, 79th Governor of Vermont

Howard Brush Dean III is an American physician and retired politician who served as the 79th governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 2009. Dean was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election. Afterward, he became a political commentator and consultant to McKenna Long & Aldridge, a law and lobbying firm.

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East Bay Ray, American guitarist

Raymond John Pepperell, more commonly known by the stage name "East Bay Ray", is an American musician who plays guitar for the San Francisco Bay area-based punk band Dead Kennedys. His guitar work was influenced by jazz and rockabilly. Alongside Jello Biafra's astute lyrics and unique vibrato-based vocal style, East Bay Ray's playing was one of the defining factors of the music of the Dead Kennedys, and by extension, of the "second wave" of American punk. He is also the only Dead Kennedy to remain a constant member of the band since its formation.

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Howard Fineman, American journalist and television commentator (died 2024)

Howard David Fineman was an American journalist and television commentator. In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Fineman covered nine presidential campaigns as a reporter, writer, and analyst. For 30 years, he drove Newsweek magazine's political coverage. At the height of the publication's influence, Fineman was its chief political correspondent, senior editor, and deputy Washington bureau chief. His "Living Politics" column was posted weekly on Newsweek.com. After his tenure at Newsweek, he was named global editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group.

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17/11/1947

Rod Clements, British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist

Roderick Parry Clements is a British guitarist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He formed the folk-rock band Lindisfarne with Alan Hull in 1970, and wrote "Meet Me on the Corner", a UK Top 5 hit in March 1972, which won Clements an Ivor Novello Award. Lindisfarne broke up in 1973 and Clements became a founding member of Jack the Lad, also working with Ralph McTell and Bert Jansch. Lindisfarne reformed in 1977 and Clements continued to be part of the line-up until 2003. Rod rejoined Lindisfarne in 2015 and is currently touring and performing with the band.

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17/11/1946

Martin Barre, English guitarist and songwriter

Martin Lancelot Barre is an English guitarist. He was lead guitarist of British rock band Jethro Tull, with whom he recorded and toured from 1968 until the band's initial dissolution in 2011. Barre played on all of Jethro Tull's studio albums from their 1969 album Stand Up to their 2003 album The Jethro Tull Christmas Album. In the early 1990s he began a solo career, and he has recorded several albums as well as touring with his own live band.

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Terry Branstad, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th Governor of Iowa and U.S. Ambassador to China (2017-2020)

Terry Edward Branstad is a retired American politician and U.S. Army veteran who served as the 39th and 42nd governor of Iowa and the United States ambassador to China (2017–2020). A member of the Republican Party, Branstad is the longest-serving governor in United States history, with a total gubernatorial tenure of 22 years, 4 months, and 13 days.

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Petra Burka, Dutch-Canadian figure skater and coach

Petra Burka is a Canadian former competitive figure skater and now coach. She won the 1964 Olympic bronze medal in women's figure skating and the 1965 World championship in the sport.

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17/11/1945

Lesley Abdela, English journalist and activist

Lesley Julia Abdela.

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Jeremy Hanley, English accountant and politician, British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

Sir Jeremy James Hanley, KCMG is a politician and former chartered accountant from the United Kingdom. He served as the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1994 to 1995, and as a member of parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Richmond and Barnes from 1983 to 1997.

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Elvin Hayes, American basketball player and sportscaster

Elvin Ernest Hayes, nicknamed "the Big E", is an American former professional basketball player and radio analyst for his alma mater Houston Cougars. He is a member of the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams, and an inductee in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Known for both his offensive and defensive prowess, Hayes is often regarded as one of the best power forwards in NBA history.

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Roland Joffé, English-French director, producer, and screenwriter

Roland Joffé is an English film and television director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for directing the critically-acclaimed films The Killing Fields (1984) and The Mission (1986), both of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the latter winning the Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

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Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Algerian politician, 8th President of Algeria

Abdelmadjid Tebboune is an Algerian politician currently serving as the president of Algeria since December 2019 alongside as its minister of defence. Following the death of Liamine Zéroual in 2026, Tebboune is the only living Algerian president.

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17/11/1944

Jim Boeheim, American basketball player and coach

James Arthur Boeheim Jr. is an American former college basketball coach and current Special Assistant to the Athletic Director at Syracuse University. From 1976 until 2023, he was the head coach of the Syracuse Orange men's team of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Boeheim guided the Orange to ten Big East Conference regular season championships, five Big East tournament championships, and 34 NCAA tournament appearances, including five Final Four appearances and three appearances in the national title game. In those games, the Orangemen lost to Indiana in 1987, and to Kentucky in 1996, before defeating Kansas in 2003 with All-American Carmelo Anthony.

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Malcolm Bruce, English-Scottish journalist, academic, and politician

Malcolm Gray Bruce, Baron Bruce of Bennachie, is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Gordon from 1983 to 2015 and was the chairman of the International Development Select Committee from 2005 to 2015. He was deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats from January 2014 to May 2015. He was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours. He was also previously President of the Scottish Liberal Democrats until being succeeded by Councillor Eileen McCartin from 1 January 2016.

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Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1991)

Harold Eugene Clark was an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk rock band the Byrds. He was the Byrds' principal songwriter between 1964 and early 1966, writing most of the band's best-known originals from this period, including "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better", "She Don't Care About Time", "Eight Miles High" and "Set You Free This Time".

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Danny DeVito, American actor, director, and producer

Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his short stature, raspy voice, distinct accent, and energetic comedy roles, he gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the television series Taxi (1978–1983), which won him a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. Since 2006, he has played Frank Reynolds on the FXX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect and academic, designed the Seattle Central Library

Remment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is often cited as a representative of deconstructivism and is the author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.

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Lorne Michaels, Canadian-American screenwriter and producer, created Saturday Night Live

Lorne Michaels is a Canadian and American television and film producer, comedian, screenwriter and director. He created and produced Saturday Night Live and produced the Late Night series, The Kids in the Hall, and The Tonight Show.

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Tom Seaver, American baseball pitcher (died 2020)

George Thomas Seaver, nicknamed "Tom Terrific" and "the Franchise", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, and Boston Red Sox from 1967 to 1986. Commonly described as the most iconic player in Mets history, Seaver played a significant role in their victory in the 1969 World Series over the Baltimore Orioles.

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Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights activist (died 1966)

Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. was a civil rights and voting rights activist who was murdered for trying to desegregate a "whites only" restroom. Younge was an enlisted service member in the United States Navy, where he served for two years before being medically discharged. Younge was an active member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and a leader of the Tuskegee Institute Advancement League.

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17/11/1943

Lauren Hutton, American model and actress

Lauren Hutton is an American model and actress. Born and raised in the southern United States, Hutton relocated to New York City in her early adulthood to begin a modeling career. Though she was initially dismissed by agents for a signature gap in her teeth, Hutton signed a modeling contract with Revlon in 1973, which at the time was the biggest contract in the history of the modeling industry.

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17/11/1942

Derek Clayton, English-Australian runner

Derek James Clayton is a former Australian long-distance runner, born in Cumbria, England and raised in Northern Ireland.

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Partha Dasgupta, Bangladeshi economist and academic

Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta is an Indian-British economist who is Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

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Bob Gaudio, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer

Robert John Gaudio is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer, best known as the keyboardist and backing vocalist of the 1960s pop rock band The Four Seasons. Gaudio wrote or co-wrote the vast majority of the group's music, including hits like "Sherry" and "December, 1963 ", as well as "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" for Frankie Valli. Though he no longer performs with the band, Gaudio and lead singer Valli remain co-owners of "the Four Seasons" brand.

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Lesley Rees, English endocrinologist and academic

Dame Lesley Howard Rees DBE is a British professor, medical doctor, and endocrinologist. She was Dean of St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College (Bart's) from 1989 to 1995, the first and only woman to hold this post. Rees led the college to a successful merger with the London Hospital Medical College as part of Queen Mary University of London in 1995. She is currently emeritus professor of chemical endocrinology at Bart's.

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István Rosztóczy, Hungarian-Japanese microbiologist and physician (died 1993)

István Rosztóczy was a Hungarian microbiologist, medical researcher, blood donor organizer, who devoted his life to research and science.

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Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of cinema. He has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

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17/11/1940

Luke Kelly, Irish singer, folk musician and actor (died 1984)

Luke Kelly was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor from Dublin, Ireland. Born into a working-class household in the city, he moved to England in his late teens and became involved in the folk music revival there. After returning to Dublin in the early 1960s, he co-founded the Dubliners in 1962. Known for his distinctive singing style and occasional political themes, Kelly has been described by The Irish Post and other commentators as one of Ireland's greatest folk singers.

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17/11/1939

Auberon Waugh, English journalist and author (died 2001)

Auberon Alexander Waugh was a British journalist and novelist, and eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was widely known by his nickname "Bron".

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17/11/1938

Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, Scottish general (died 2025)

Field Marshal Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, was a senior officer of the British Army who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1994 to 1997 and Chief of the Defence Staff from 1997 until his retirement in 2001.

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Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Widely considered one of Canada's greatest songwriters, he had numerous gold and platinum albums, and his songs have been covered by many of the world's most renowned musical artists. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings wrote, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness."

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17/11/1937

Peter Cook, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 1995)

Peter Edward Cook was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishment comedic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s.

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17/11/1936

Crispian Hollis, English Roman Catholic bishop

Roger Francis Crispian Hollis is the Bishop Emeritus of Portsmouth for the Roman Catholic Church.

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17/11/1935

Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player

Bobby Joe Conrad is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies.

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Toni Sailer, Austrian skier and actor (died 2009)

Anton Engelbert "Toni" Sailer was an Austrian alpine ski racer, considered among the best in the sport. At age 20, he won all three gold medals in alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics. He nearly duplicated the feat at the 1958 World Championships with two golds and a silver. He also won world titles both years in the combined, then a "paper" race, but awarded with medals by the International Ski Federation (FIS).

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Masatoshi Sakai, Japanese record producer (died 2021)

Masatoshi Sakai was a Japanese record producer who produced a large number of hit songs. He received the Person of Cultural Merit in November 2020. He achieved sales of records to the value of more than ¥870 billion. He produced songs such as Ihojin by Saki Kubota, and Ii Hi Tabidachi and Playback Part 2 by Momoe Yamaguchi.

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17/11/1934

Jim Inhofe, American soldier and politician, senior senator of Oklahoma (died 2024)

James Mountain Inhofe was an American politician who served from 1994 to 2023 as a United States senator from Oklahoma. A member of the Republican Party, he was the longest-serving U.S. senator from Oklahoma. He served in various elected offices in Oklahoma for nearly 60 years, between 1966 and 2023.

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Anthony King, Canadian-English Psephologist and academic (died 2017)

Anthony Stephen King was a Canadian-British professor of government, psephologist and commentator. He taught at the Department of Government at the University of Essex for many years.

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Terry Rand, American basketball player (died 2014)

Lynwood Terry Rand was an American basketball player, best known for his college career at Marquette University. Despite being drafted in the second round of the 1954 NBA draft, he never played in the NBA, instead choosing to play in the National Industrial Basketball League for six years. After retiring from basketball, he worked as a stockbroker with Rand Financial Advisors.

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17/11/1933

Dan Osinski, American baseball player (died 2013)

Daniel Osinski, nicknamed "the Silencer", was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher. The 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), 195 pounds (88 kg) right-hander was signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent before the 1952 season. He played for the Kansas City Athletics (1962), Los Angeles Angels (1962–1964), Milwaukee Braves (1965), Boston Red Sox (1966–1967), Chicago White Sox (1969), and Houston Astros (1970).

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Orlando Peña, Cuban-American baseball player and scout

Orlando Gregorio Peña Guevara is a Cuban former professional baseball pitcher. The right-hander played in Major League Baseball for all or parts of 14 seasons between 1958 and 1975 for the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals and California Angels. Born in Victoria de Las Tunas, he was listed as 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and 154 pounds (70 kg).

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17/11/1932

Jeremy Black, English admiral (died 2015)

Sir John Jeremy Black, also known as J. J. Black, was a senior Royal Navy officer. He commanded the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible during the Falklands War, and later served as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command from 1989 until his retirement in 1991.

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17/11/1930

Bob Mathias, American decathlete, actor, and politician (died 2006)

Robert Bruce Mathias was an American decathlete, politician, and actor. Representing the United States, he won two Olympic gold medals in the Decathlon, at the 1948 and the 1952 Summer Games. As a Republican, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for California's 18th congressional district, for four terms from 1967 to 1975.

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17/11/1929

Gorō Naya, Japanese actor and director (died 2013)

Gorō Naya was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director from Hakodate, Hokkaidō. He was part of Theatre Echo all his career, and was the older brother of actor and voice actor Rokurō Naya.

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Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (died 1999)

Norbert Henry Zauchin was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators (1958–59). He batted and threw right-handed, stood 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall and weighed 220 pounds (100 kg). In a six-season career, Zauchin was a .233 hitter with 50 home runs and 159 RBI in 346 games. He is most remembered for driving in 10 runs during a major league game.

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17/11/1928

Arman, French-American painter and sculptor (died 2005)

Arman was a French and American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave to using them as the artworks themselves. He is best known for his Accumulations and destruction/recomposition of objects.

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Rance Howard, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2017)

Rance Howard was an American actor who starred in film and on television. He was the father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, and grandfather of actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard.

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Colin McDonald, Australian cricketer (died 2021)

Colin Campbell McDonald was an Australian cricketer. He played in 47 Test matches from 1952 to 1961, and 192 first-class matches between 1947 and 1963. He was born in Glen Iris, Victoria.

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17/11/1927

Robert Drasnin, American clarinet player and composer (died 2015)

Robert Jackson Drasnin was an American composer and clarinet player.

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Fenella Fielding, English actress (died 2018)

Fenella Fielding was an English stage, film and television actress who rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, and was often referred to as "England's first lady of the double entendre". She was known for her seductive image and distinctively husky voice. Fielding appeared in two Carry On films, Carry On Regardless (1961) and Carry On Screaming! (1966).

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Nicholas Taylor, Canadian geologist, businessman, and politician (died 2020)

Nicholas William "Nick" Taylor was a geologist, businessman and politician from Alberta, Canada.

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17/11/1925

Jean Faut, American baseball player and bowler (died 2023)

Jean Anna Faut [Winsch/Eastman] was an American starting pitcher who played from 1946 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m), 137 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.

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Rock Hudson, American actor (died 1985)

Rock Hudson was an American actor. One of the most popular film stars of his time, he had a screen career spanning more than three decades, and was a prominent figure in the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Charles Mackerras, American-Australian oboe player and conductor (died 2010)

Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (; was an American-born Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was long associated with the English National Opera and Welsh National Opera and was the first Australian chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He also specialized in Czech music as a whole, producing many recordings for the Czech label Supraphon.

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17/11/1923

Hubertus Brandenburg, Swedish bishop (died 2009)

Hubertus Brandenburg was a Catholic bishop of Stockholm. He was ordained priest in Osnabrück on 20 December 1952. On 12 December 1974, he was appointed by Pope Paul VI as auxiliary bishop of Osnabrück. On 21 November 1977, he was appointed as Bishop of Stockholm. He resigned in 1998, and was succeeded by Bishop Anders Arborelius.

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Mike Garcia, American baseball player (died 1986)

Edward Miguel "Mike" Garcia, nicknamed "Big Bear" and "Mexican Mike", was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). Garcia was born in San Gabriel, California, and grew up in Orosi, Tulare County.

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Aristides Pereira, Cape Verdean politician, first President of Cape Verde (died 2011)

Aristides Maria Pereira was a Cape Verdean politician. He was the first President of Cape Verde, serving from 1975 to 1991.

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Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer and coach (died 2001)

Bert Sutcliffe was a New Zealand Test cricketer. Sutcliffe was a successful left-hand batsman. His batting achievements on tour in England in 1949, which included four fifties and a century in the Tests, earned him the accolade of being one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year. He captained New Zealand in four Tests in the early 1950s, losing three of them and drawing the other. None of Sutcliffe's 42 Tests resulted in a New Zealand victory. In 1949 Sutcliffe was named the inaugural New Zealand Sportsman of the Year, and in 2000 was named as New Zealand champion sportsperson of the decade for the 1940s.

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17/11/1922

Stanley Cohen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)

Stanley Cohen was an American biochemist who, along with Rita Levi-Montalcini, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for the isolation of nerve growth factor and the discovery of epidermal growth factor.

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Jack Froggatt, English footballer (died 1993)

Jack Froggatt was an English footballer.

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17/11/1921

Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter and illustrator (died 2019)

Albert Bertelsen was a Danish autodidact painter and graphic artist.

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17/11/1920

Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgian singer-songwriter (died 2005)

Camillo Jean Nicolas Felgen was a Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, disc jockey, and television presenter, who represented Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 and in 1962.

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Gemini Ganesan, Indian actor and director (died 2002)

Ramasamy Ganesan, better known by his stage name Gemini Ganesan, was an Indian actor who worked mainly in Tamil cinema. He was referred as Kaadhal Mannan for his romantic roles in films. Ganesan was one of the "three biggest names of Tamil cinema", the other two being M. G. Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan. While Sivaji Ganesan excelled in dramatic films and M. G. Ramachandran was popular as an action hero, Gemini Ganesan was known for his romantic films. A recipient of the Padma Shri in 1971, he had also won several other awards including the Kalaimamani, the MGR Gold Medal, and the Screen Lifetime Achievement Award. He was one of the few college graduates to enter the film industry then.

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17/11/1919

Kim Heungsou, Korean painter and educator (died 2014)

Kim Heungsou was a Korean painter who was sometimes called the "Picasso of Korea". Jang soo hyun, his partner and executive curator of Kim Heungsou museum died of ovarian cancer in November 2012.

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17/11/1917

Ruth Aaronson Bari, American mathematician (died 2005)

Ruth Aaronson Bari was an American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and algebraic homomorphisms. She was a professor at George Washington University, beginning in 1966.

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17/11/1916

Shelby Foote, American historian and author (died 2005)

Shelby Dade Foote Jr. was an American writer and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War.

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17/11/1911

Christian Fouchet, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of the Interior (died 1974)

Christian Marie Joseph Fouchet was a French politician.

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17/11/1907

Israel Regardie, English occultist and author (died 1985)

Francis Israel Regardie was an English and American occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer who spent much of his life in the United States. He wrote fifteen books on the subject of occultism.

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17/11/1906

Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company (died 1991)

Soichiro Honda was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer.

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Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (died 2007)

Rolland Mays Stiles was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Browns from 1930 to 1933. Born in Ratcliff, Arkansas, he batted and threw right-handed, and was 9–14 with an earned run average of 5.92 in his three seasons. Rollie attended Southeastern State Teachers College. His first game in the major leagues was on June 19, 1930, and his last game was October 1, 1933. Stiles' nicknames when playing baseball were "Leapin' Lena", "Lena", and "Rollie", all typical of how he signed autographs for baseball fans.

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17/11/1905

Astrid of Sweden (died 1935)

Princess Astrid of Sweden was a member of the Swedish House of Bernadotte and later became Queen of the Belgians as the first wife of King Leopold III. Following her marriage to Leopold in November 1926, she assumed the title of Duchess of Brabant. Astrid held the position of Queen of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until her death in 1935. Known for her charitable efforts, she focused particularly on causes related to women and children.

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Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor (died 1967)

Mischa Auer was a Russian-American actor who moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s. He first appeared in film in 1928. Auer had a long career playing in many of the era's best known films. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1936 for his performance in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey, which led to further zany comedy roles. He later moved into television and acted in films again in France and Italy well into the 1960s.

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Arthur Chipperfield, Australian cricketer (died 1987)

Arthur Gordon Chipperfield was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 test matches between 1934 and 1938. He is one of three players to make a score of 99 runs on his Test match debut.

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17/11/1904

Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and architect (died 1988)

Isamu Noguchi was an American artist, furniture designer and landscape architect whose career spanned six decades from the 1920s. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, Akari light sculptures, and furniture pieces, many of which are still manufactured and sold. His work is displayed at the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in New York City as well as many other museums.

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17/11/1902

Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)

Eugene Paul Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles".

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17/11/1901

Walter Hallstein, German academic and politician, first President of the European Commission (died 1982)

Walter Hallstein was a German academic, diplomat and statesman who was the first president of the Commission of the European Economic Community and one of the founding fathers of the European Union.

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Lee Strasberg, Ukrainian-American actor and director (died 1982)

Lee Strasberg was an American acting coach and actor. Born in Budzanów, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he immigrated to the United States in 1909. He co-founded, with theatre directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective". In 1951, he became director of the nonprofit Actors Studio in New York City, considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school," and, in 1966, he was involved in the creation of Actors Studio West in Los Angeles.

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17/11/1899

Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American engineer (died 1971)

Douglas Graham Shearer was a Canadian American pioneering sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures. The elder brother of actress Norma Shearer, he won seven Academy Awards for his work. In 2008, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

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17/11/1897

Frank Fay, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1961)

Frank Fay was an American vaudeville comedian, film actor, and stage actor. Considered an important pioneer in comedy, he has been referred to as "the first stand-up." For a time he was a well known and influential star, vaudeville's highest-paid headliner, earning $17,500 a week in the 1920s, but he later fell into obscurity, in part because of his abrasive personality and fascist political views. He played the role of Elwood P. Dowd in the 1944 Broadway play Harvey by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase. He is best known as the first husband of actress Barbara Stanwyck.

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17/11/1896

Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian psychologist and philosopher (died 1934)

Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Russian and Soviet psychologist, best known for his work on psychological development in children and creating the framework known as cultural-historical activity theory. After his early death, his books and research were banned in the Soviet Union until Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, with a first collection of major texts published in 1956. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Vygotsky as the 83rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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17/11/1895

Gregorio López, Mexican journalist, author, and poet (died 1966)

Gregorio López Fuentes was a Mexican bartender. In his youth, he spent much time in his father's general store, where he came in contact with the Indians, farmers, and labourers of the region, whose lives he would later describe with deep insight. After unsuccessful efforts at poetry and novels, he began to draw upon his experiences in the Revolution. His first success, Campamento, was followed by several others dealing with aspects of the Revolution, including Tierra, a novel about the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata; Mi general!, a work on the lives of generals after the Revolution; and El indio, a fictional study of the life of Mexico's indigenous race, his most celebrated work.

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17/11/1891

Lester Allen, American screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director (died 1949)

Lester M. Allen was an American actor, dancer, singer, comedian, and circus performer. After beginning his career as a child acrobat with the Barnum and Bailey Circus, he became a performer in minstrel shows, burlesque, and vaudeville. He worked as primarily a dancer and acrobat in the Broadway musical revues George White's Scandals and Ziegfeld Follies in the 1910s and early 1920s; ultimately progressing to singing and comedic acting parts. He starred as a comic actor in several musical comedies on Broadway during the 1920s and the early 1930s. He transitioned into work as a film actor, appearing in more than 15 films released from 1941 to 1950. He was killed after being struck by a motor vehicle in 1949.

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17/11/1887

Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (died 1976)

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein,, nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.

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17/11/1886

Walter Terence Stace, English-American philosopher, academic, and civil servant (died 1967)

Walter Terence Stace was a British civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism. He worked with the Ceylon Civil Service from 1910 to 1932, and from 1932 to 1955 he was employed by Princeton University in the Department of Philosophy. He is most renowned for his work in the philosophy of mysticism, and for books like Mysticism and Philosophy (1960) and Teachings of the Mystics (1960). These works have been influential in the study of mysticism, but they have also been severely criticised for their lack of methodological rigor and their perennialist pre-assumptions.

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17/11/1878

Grace Abbott, American social worker (died 1939)

Grace Abbott was an American social worker who specifically worked in improving the rights of immigrants and advancing child welfare, especially the regulation of child labor. She served as director of the U.S. Children's Bureau from 1921 to 1934.

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Augustus Goessling, American swimmer and water polo player (died 1963)

Augustus Michael "Gus" Goessling, usually known as "Gus", was an American water polo player, and breaststroke and backstroke swimmer who represented the United States at the 1904 St. Louis and 1908 London Summer Olympics.

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17/11/1877

Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist and businessman (died 1943)

Frank Sellick Calder was a British-born Canadian ice hockey executive, journalist, and athlete.

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17/11/1868

Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic (died 1918)

Korbinian Brodmann was a German neuropsychiatrist who is known for mapping the cerebral cortex and defining 52 distinct regions, known as Brodmann areas, based on their cytoarchitectonic (histological) characteristics.

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17/11/1866

Voltairine de Cleyre, American author and activist (died 1912)

Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist feminist writer and public speaker.

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17/11/1857

Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (died 1932)

Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski was a French-Polish professor of neurology. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage.

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17/11/1854

Hubert Lyautey, French general and politician, French Minister of War (died 1934)

Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey was a French Army general and colonial administrator.

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17/11/1835

Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (died 1915)

Andrew Lintner Harris was one of the heroes of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War and served as the 44th governor of Ohio.

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17/11/1827

Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian journalist and poet (died 1895)

Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a Bulgarian poet, publicist, politician and folklorist.

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17/11/1816

August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer and historian (died 1876)

August Wilhelm Ambros was an Austrian music historian, critic and composer of Czech descent.

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17/11/1793

Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter, historian, and academic (died 1865)

Sir Charles Lock Eastlake was a British painter, gallery director, collector and writer of the 19th century. After a period as keeper, he was the first director of the National Gallery. From 1850 to 1865 he served as President of the Royal Academy, succeeding Martin Archer Shee in the role.

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17/11/1790

August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1868)

August Ferdinand Möbius was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer.

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17/11/1769

Charlotte Georgine, duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1818)

Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz by birth and a Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen through her marriage to Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

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17/11/1765

Jacques MacDonald, French general (died 1840)

Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, 1st duc de Tarente, was a Marshal of the Empire and military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

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17/11/1755

Louis XVIII, king of France (died 1824)

Louis XVIII, known as the Desired, was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. Before his reign, he spent 23 years in exile from France beginning in 1791, during the French Revolution and the First French Empire.

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17/11/1753

Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American pastor and botanist (died 1815)

Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg was an American clergyman and botanist.

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17/11/1749

Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning (died 1841)

Nicolas Appert was a French confectioner and inventor who, in the early 19th century, invented airtight food preservation. Appert, known as the "father of food science", described his invention as a way "of conserving all kinds of food substances in containers".

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17/11/1729

Maria Antonia Ferdinanda, Sardinian queen consort (died 1785)

Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain was Queen of Sardinia by marriage to King Victor Amadeus III. She was the youngest daughter of Philip V of Spain and Elisabeth Farnese. She was the mother of the last three mainline kings of Sardinia.

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17/11/1685

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Canadian commander and explorer (died 1749)

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye was a military officer, fur trader, and explorer. In the 1730s, he and his four sons explored the area west of Lake Superior and established trading posts there. They were part of a process that added Western Canada to the original New France territory that was centred along the Saint Lawrence basin.

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17/11/1681

Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian and author (died 1776)

Pierre François le Courayer was a French Catholic theological writer, for many years an expatriate in England.

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17/11/1612

Dorgon, Chinese prince and regent (died 1650)

Dorgon was a Manchu prince and regent of the early Qing dynasty. Born in the House of Aisin-Gioro as the 14th son of Nurhaci, Dorgon started his career in military campaigns against the Mongols, the Koreans, and the Ming dynasty during the reign of Hong Taiji who succeeded their father.

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17/11/1602

Agnes of Jesus, French Catholic nun (died 1634)

Agnes of Jesus, OP was a French Catholic nun of the Dominican Order. She was prioress of her monastery at Langeac, and is venerated in the Catholic Church, having been beatified by Pope John Paul II on 20 November 1994.

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17/11/1587

Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet and playwright (died 1679)

Joost van den Vondel was a Dutch playwright, poet, literary translator and writer. He is generally regarded as the greatest writer in the Dutch language as well as an important figure in the history of Western literature. In his native country, Vondel is often called the "Prince of Poets" and the Dutch language is sometimes referred to as "the language of Vondel". His oeuvre consists of 33 plays, a large number of poems in different genres and forms, an epic poem and many translations of predominantly classical literature. Vondel lived in the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War and became the leading literary figure of the Dutch Golden Age.

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17/11/1576

Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and saint (died 1628)

Roque González de Santa Cruz, SJ was a Guaraní-Spanish Jesuit priest who was the first missionary among the Guaraní in Paraguay. He was murdered in 1628 and is venerated as a martyr and a saint by the Catholic Church.

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17/11/1503

Bronzino, Italian painter (died 1572)

Agnolo di Cosimo, usually known as Bronzino or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. His sobriquet, Bronzino, may refer to his relatively dark skin or reddish hair.

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17/11/1493

John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (died 1543)

John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer was an English peer. His third wife was Catherine Parr, later queen of England.

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17/11/1453

Alfonso, Asturian prince (died 1468)

Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, called Alfonso the Innocent, was the figurehead of rebelling Castilian magnates against his half-brother Henry IV, who had recognized him as heir presumptive.

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17/11/1412

Zanobi Strozzi, Italian painter (died 1468)

Zanobi di Benedetto di Caroccio degli Strozzi was an Italian Renaissance painter and manuscript illuminator active in Florence and nearby Fiesole. He was closely associated with Fra Angelico, probably as his pupil, as told by Vasari. He is the same painter as the Master of the Buckingham Palace Madonna. Most of his surviving works are manuscript illuminations but a number of panel paintings have also been attributed to him, including seven altarpieces and six panels with the Virgin and Child, along with some designs for metalwork.

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17/11/1019

Sima Guang, Chinese politician (died 1086)

Sima Guang, courtesy name Junshi, hao Yusou, was a Chinese historian, politician, and writer. He was a high-ranking Song dynasty scholar-official who authored the Zizhi Tongjian, a monumental work of history.

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17/11/0009

Vespasian, Roman emperor (died 79)

The 0s began on January 1, AD 1 and ended on December 31, AD 9, covering the first nine years of the Common Era.

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