Anniversaries 17 November
Birth
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Emperor of Ancient Rome, founder of the Flavian dynasty
9–79
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Scottish academic
1600–1676
![Eliza Farnham photo]()
American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for…
1815–1864
![Voltairine de Cleyre photo]()
American anarchist writer and feminist
1866–1912
![Walter Terence Stace photo]()
British civil servant, educator and philosopher.
1886–1967
![Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein photo]()
British Army officer, Commander of Allied forces at the Bat…
1887–1976
![Eugene Paul Wigner photo]()
mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning physicist
1902–1995
![Soichiro Honda photo]()
Japanese businessman
1906–1991
![Shelby Foote photo]()
Novelist, historian
1916–2005
![Colin Campbell Mitchell photo]()
British Army officer and politician
1925–1996
![Fenella Fielding photo]()
English actress
1927–2018
![Alan Harrington photo]()
Welsh footballer
1933–2019
![Luis Rafael Sánchez photo]()
Puerto Rican playwright and novelist
1936
![Peter Cook photo]()
British architect
1937–1995
![Gordon Lightfoot photo]()
Canadian singer-songwriter
1938
![Barry McCaffrey photo]()
United States Army general
1942
![Martin Scorsese photo]()
American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
1942
![Gary Goldman photo]()
American film director and producer
1944
![Lorne Michaels photo]()
American television producer
1944
![Rem Koolhaas photo]()
Dutch architect (b.1944)
1944
![Abdelmadjid Tebboune photo]()
Algerian politician, current President of Algeria
1945
![Howard Dean photo]()
American political activist
1948
![Nguyễn Tấn Dũng photo]()
Prime Minister of Vietnam
1949
![John Boehner photo]()
Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1949
![Cyril Ramaphosa photo]()
5th President of South Africa
1952
![Yolanda King photo]()
American actress
1955–2007
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Actriz de Televisa, dueña y señora de los ejidos cacaoahuat…
1960
![Susan Rice photo]()
24th United States National Security Advisor
1964
![Ed Brubaker photo]()
comic book writer and cartoonist
1966
![Jeff Buckley photo]()
American singer, guitarist and songwriter
1966–1997
![Robin Li photo]()
billionaire businessman and entrepreneur
1968
![Jonathan Blow photo]()
American video game designer and programmer
1971
![Lord Infamous photo]()
American rapper
1975–2013
![Patrick McHale (artist) photo]()
writer, storyboard artist, animator, filmmaker
1983
![Rocsi Diaz photo]()
Television and radio personality
1983
Death
![Giovanni Pico della Mirandola photo]()
humanist and philosopher from Italy
1463–1494
![Mary I of England photo]()
Queen of England and Ireland
1516–1558
![Jakob Böhme photo]()
German Christian mystic and theologian
1575–1624
![Catherine the Great photo]()
Empress of Russia
1729–1796
![Robert Owen photo]()
Welsh social reformer
1771–1858
![William Greenough Thayer Shedd photo]()
American theologian
1820–1894
![Isaac Parker photo]()
American politician
1838–1896
![Auguste Rodin photo]()
French sculptor
1840–1917
![Lala Lajpat Rai photo]()
Indian author and politician
1865–1928
![George Sterling photo]()
American poet and playwright
1869–1926
![The Mother photo]()
spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo
1878–1973
![Victor Serge photo]()
Russian revolutionary and writer
1890–1947
![Louis Eugène Félix Néel photo]()
French physicist
1904–2000
![Eduardo de Castro photo]()
Filipino actor and film director
1907–1955
![Mervyn Peake photo]()
English writer, artist, poet and illustrator
1911–1968
![Abba Eban photo]()
Israeli diplomat and politician
1915–2002
![Doris Lessing photo]()
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer …
1919–2013
![Patrick Suppes photo]()
philosopher from United States of America
1922–2014
![Ferenc Puskás photo]()
Hungarian-Spanish association football player
1927–2006
![Colin Winter photo]()
Bishop of Damaraland noted for opposing apartheid; exiled B…
1928–1981
![Audre Lorde photo]()
writer and activist
1934–1992
![David Marr photo]()
British neuroscientist and psychologist
1945–1980
