On This Day — November 17
3920 noted people were born and 1987 died on November 17 in our archive, including Lise Meitner, Ahliman Amiraslanov and Carolina Neurath Bengtsson.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on November 17
Lise Meitner
1878 – 1968
Ahliman Amiraslanov
b. 1947
Carolina Neurath Bengtsson
b. 1985
Chanda Kochhar
b. 1961
Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank
1938 – 2025
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
1913 – 2011
Christopher G. Weeramantry
1926 – 2017
Dominick Chilcott
b. 1959
Friedrich Christoph Schlosser
1776 – 1861
George Grote
1794 – 1871
Hans Zinsser
1878 – 1940
Jean Starobinski
1920 – 2019
Jens B. Nielsen
b. 1962
Joseph Babinski
1857 – 1932
José Graziano da Silva
b. 1949
Katarina Carroll
b. 1963
Martin Scorsese
b. 1942
Max Gürke
1854 – 1911
Mike Cannon-Brookes
b. 1979
Mirasadulla Mirgasimov
1883 – 1958
Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs
1903 – 1978
Nikolai A. Golovkinsky
1834 – 1897
Paul Vermeersch
b. 1973
Paulo Duarte
1899 – 1984
Peter Oluf Brøndsted
1780 – 1842
Pierre Nora
1931 – 2025
Rem Koolhaas
b. 1944
Richard Keith Ellis
b. 1949
Robin Li
b. 1968
Sonia Cheng
b. 1980
Stanley Cohen
1922 – 2020
Susan Rice
b. 1964
Suzan Gail LeVine
b. 1969
Terry Branstad
b. 1946
Ulrike Liedtke
b. 1958
Walter Hallstein
1901 – 1982
Welington de Melo
1946 – 2016
Werner Hoyer
b. 1951
William H. Hastie
1904 – 1976
Yuan Chang
b. 1959
Abdelmadjid Tebboune
b. 1945
Alexander Gurov
b. 1945
Alexis, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt
1845 – 1919
Ali Akbar Navis
1924 – 2003
Amanda Levete
b. 1955
Anatoly Dneprov
1919 – 1975
Anna Seniuk
b. 1942
Annie Sartre-Fauriat
b. 1947
Anthony Cheung
b. 1952
Anthony King
1934 – 2017
Anthony N. Michel
1935 – 2020
Armand de Mestral
1941 – 2023
August Ferdinand Möbius
1790 – 1868
August Wilhelm Ambros
1816 – 1876
Ben Allison
b. 1966
Bernard Montgomery
1887 – 1976
Bertalan Andrásfalvy
b. 1931
Bob Mathias
1930 – 2006
Brigita Schmögnerová
b. 1947
Bruce E. Rittmann
b. 1950
Carlo Salinari
1919 – 1977
Casper Ehrenborg
1788 – 1823
Cathcart Wason
1848 – 1921
Cecilia Medina
b. 1935
Charles Lock Eastlake
1793 – 1865
Christian L. Jensen
1885 – 1978
Christina Birch
b. 1986
Cyril Ramaphosa
b. 1952
Daniela Kovářová
b. 1964
Demyan Korotchenko
1894 – 1969
Derek Chollet
b. 1970
Dieter Sauberzweig
1925 – 2005
Dorothy Meredith
1906 – 1986
Edme-François Jomard
1777 – 1862
Edward Preston Young
1913 – 2003
Edward Stankiewicz
1920 – 2013
Ellie Harrison
b. 1977
Erich Marcks
1861 – 1938
Eugene Paul Wigner
1902 – 1995
Fabrice Lhomme
b. 1965
Fofi Gennimata
1964 – 2021
Francis Home
1719 – 1813
Frank C. Whitmore Jr.
1915 – 2012
Gaston Reinig
b. 1956
George Thomas Beilby
1850 – 1924
Gerrit Holdijk
1944 – 2015
Gwen Lux
1908 – 1986
H. R. Fox
1889 – 1951
Hans Jansen
1942 – 2015
Hans Schlange-Schöningen
1886 – 1960
Hassan Suhrawardy
1884 – 1946
Henri Gouraud
1867 – 1946
Henri de Man
1885 – 1953
Hiroshi Matsumoto
1942 – 2025
Howard Dean
b. 1948
Hukmdev Narayan Yadav
b. 1939
Igor Pushkaryov
b. 1974
Ihor Bakai
b. 1963
Ivars Ijabs
b. 1972
Jacob Stang
1830 – 1907
Jan Frans Foppens
1689 – 1761
Jan van Bemmel
b. 1938
Jean Pierson
1940 – 2021
Jean-Michel Baylet
b. 1946
Jeremy Beecham, Baron Beecham
1944 – 2026
Jesse Appleton
1772 – 1819
Jim Boeheim
b. 1944
Joanne Patricia Sharp
b. 1969
Johannes Bilberg
1646 – 1717
John Boehner
b. 1949
John Stanley Plaskett
1865 – 1941
Jonathan Levin
b. 1972
Jonathan Ross
b. 1960
Julius Christiaan van Oven
1881 – 1963
Julià Guillamon
b. 1962
Kang Kek Iew
1942 – 2020
Karl Buck
1894 – 1977
Karl Ernst Wilhelm von Canitz und Dallwitz
1787 – 1850
Kim Ng
b. 1968
Kiril, Prince of Preslav
1895 – 1945
Klymentiy Sheptytsky
1869 – 1951
Korbinian Brodmann
1868 – 1918
Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse
1840 – 1908
Lev Vygotsky
1896 – 1934
Louis-Hubert Lyautey
1854 – 1934
Magdalena Bogdziewicz
b. 1975
Malcolm Bruce
b. 1944
Mario Soldati
1906 – 1999
Marzena Czarnecka
b. 1969
Masatoshi Sakai
1935 – 2021
Michael A'Hearn
1940 – 2017
Michael Johnston
b. 1974
Michele Carafa
1787 – 1872
Minnie Earl Sears
1873 – 1933
Mohamed Hassad
b. 1952
Mykhailo Bondar
b. 1973
Nelson Barbosa
b. 1969
Nevin Carr
b. 1956
Nikolai Pogrebov
1860 – 1942
Oleh Hornykiewicz
1926 – 2020
Olena Kondratiuk
b. 1970
Otto Kahn-Freund
1900 – 1979
Panagiotis Danglis
1853 – 1924
Partha Dasgupta
b. 1942
Pat Toomey
b. 1961
Patrick McHale
b. 1983
Paul Henderson
b. 1934
Peter J. Stang
b. 1941
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye
1685 – 1749
Pim van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout
1892 – 1986
Prince Maximilian of Saxony
1870 – 1951
Ravinder N. Maini
b. 1937
Rivers Solomon
b. 1989
Robert D. Orr
1917 – 2004
Robert Hale Merriman
1908 – 1938
Robert Post
b. 1947
Robert Storrie Guthrie
1857 – 1921
Rodney Hilton
1916 – 2002
Rodolfo Usigli
1905 – 1979
Roger Tomlinson
1933 – 2014
Rose Caron
1857 – 1930
Roswell Rudd
1935 – 2017
Ruslana Pysanka
1965 – 2022
Salomėja Nėris
1904 – 1945
Severin Schwan
b. 1967
Stefania Skwarczyńska
1902 – 1988
Stephen Mallinga
1943 – 2013
Susan Decker
b. 1962
Sōichirō Honda
1906 – 1991
Thomas G. Bergin
1904 – 1987
Uchida Kōsai
1865 – 1936
Vladimir Burkov
1939 – 2025
Walter D. Mooney
b. 1951
Wang Yongzhi
1932 – 2024
William Goldman
b. 1955
William Morfill
1834 – 1909
Wu Yi
b. 1938
Zhang Bojun
1895 – 1969
Zhou Ziqi
1869 – 1923
Zuhdi Jasser
b. 1967
Abba Kyari
1938 – 2018
Achille Fould
1800 – 1867
Adam Dyczkowski
1932 – 2021
Adrian Branch
b. 1963
Agnes Sirkka Prammer
b. 1977
Alain Gerbault
1893 – 1941
Alan Curtis
1934 – 2015
Aleksander Bardini
1913 – 1995
Alex Rathgeber
b. 1982
Alexander Duncan McRae
1874 – 1946
Alima Mahama
b. 1957
Alka Saraogi
b. 1960
Allen Weh
b. 1942
Amir Hassanpour
1943 – 2017
Amira Sartani
b. 1931
Anders Anundsen
b. 1975
Andreas Aulie
1897 – 1990
Andreas Kalbitz
b. 1972
Andrew L. Harris
1835 – 1915
André Bernard
1935 – 2026
… and 3,720 more
Died on November 17
Anastasios Venetsanopoulos
1941 – 2014
Paul Ekman
1934 – 2025
Andreas Räss
1794 – 1887
Arsenio Moreno Mendoza
1953 – 2021
Cheng Kaijia
1918 – 2018
Herman Hollerith
1860 – 1929
Johannes Paulus Lotsy
1867 – 1931
Leonid Milov
1929 – 2007
Louis Hautecoeur
1884 – 1973
Louis Néel
1904 – 2000
Olaf Olsen
1928 – 2015
Robert Hofstadter
1915 – 1990
Taisiya Sergeevna Osintseva
1923 – 2008
Teruaki Mukaiyama
1927 – 2018
Yao-Chang Chen
1949 – 2025
Abba Eban
1915 – 2002
Achille Costa
1823 – 1898
Adnan Pachachi
1923 – 2019
Adolph Joffe
1883 – 1927
Alexander Imeretinsky
1837 – 1900
Alexandre Pierre Chevalier Moline de Saint-Yon
1786 – 1870
Andrejs Upīts
1877 – 1970
Antoni Jackowski
1935 – 2025
Audre Lorde
1934 – 1992
Bo Bergman
1869 – 1967
Charles Edward Hovey
1827 – 1897
Daniel Lang
1913 – 1981
Detlev Bronk
1897 – 1975
Edward Everett Hayden
1858 – 1932
Eid Hourany
1940 – 2008
Eric Gill
1882 – 1940
Esther Rolle
1920 – 1998
Eugène Simon
1848 – 1924
Fred Brooks
1931 – 2022
Frederick Francis IV
1882 – 1945
Fyodor Avelan
1839 – 1916
Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault
1872 – 1934
George Giffard
1886 – 1964
Gohar Ayub Khan
1937 – 2023
Gustav Peichl
1928 – 2019
Gustav Schwantes
1881 – 1960
Hans-Heinrich Voigt
1921 – 2017
Henry Charlton Bastian
1837 – 1915
Herbert B. Maw
1893 – 1990
Ilie Ilașcu
1952 – 2025
Irv Anderson
1923 – 2008
Jakob Wimpfeling
1450 – 1528
James Furman Kemp
1859 – 1926
John Downey
1930 – 2014
John Robert Godley
1814 – 1861
Josef Matoušek
1906 – 1939
Ketil Motzfeldt
1814 – 1889
Kirsten Hansteen
1903 – 1974
Kuniyuki Tokugawa
1886 – 1969
Kōichi Shiozawa
1883 – 1943
Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
1890 – 1969
Marcos Vizcaya Retana
1947 – 2025
Maxwell Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor
1868 – 1950
Motohiko Kondo
1954 – 2018
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
1914 – 2024
Nikolay Olyalin
1941 – 2009
Orlando Ribeiro
1911 – 1997
Raymond Pearl
1879 – 1940
Rebecca Heineman
1963 – 2025
Robert Evander McNair
1923 – 2007
Roman Viktiuk
1936 – 2020
Sergei Konstantinovich Gershelman
1854 – 1910
Sergey Spasokukotsky
1870 – 1943
T. Franklin Ahearn
1886 – 1962
Tadeusz Banachiewicz
1882 – 1954
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
1750 – 1823
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1693 – 1768
Viktor Samsonov
1941 – 2024
Walter Bauer
1877 – 1960
Whitney Smith
1940 – 2016
Wilhelm Burgdorfer
1925 – 2014
William A. Clemens Jr.
1932 – 2020
William Hewins
1865 – 1931
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate
1877 – 1960
Yoshio Kimura
1905 – 1986
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani
1880 – 1976
Abraham Samson Onderwijzer
1862 – 1934
Achille Valois
1785 – 1862
Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer
1768 – 1852
Adam Kleczkowski
1883 – 1949
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1817 – 1905
Aleksej Osipovič Ahmanov
1897 – 1949
Alexander Ragulin
1941 – 2004
Alexander of Battenberg
1857 – 1893
Alexandros Papanastasiou
1876 – 1936
Alyque Padamsee
1928 – 2018
Anatoliy Pushnyakov
1954 – 2021
Andrew H. Burke
1850 – 1918
Angelo Oliviero Olivetti
1874 – 1931
Ante Trumbić
1864 – 1938
Anthony Caminetti
1854 – 1923
Antoni de Gimbernat
1734 – 1816
Antonio Idiáquez Manrique
1579 – 1615
Antonio Leal
1950 – 2021
Archie MacLaren
1871 – 1944
Arthur Vining Davis
1867 – 1962
Auguste Rodin
1840 – 1917
Augustus Anson
1835 – 1877
Avishai Dekel
1951 – 2025
Banamali Maharana
1941 – 2018
Ben Humphreys
1934 – 2019
Bernard J. Ray
1921 – 1944
Bernardo Bellotto
1721 – 1780
Bill Frenzel
1928 – 2014
Bob de Groot
1941 – 2023
Carrie Hall
1874 – 1963
Catherine II of Russia
1729 – 1796
Charles Blacker Vignoles
1793 – 1875
Charles Henry Chapman
1870 – 1934
Charles Masterman
1873 – 1927
Charles Mulberger
1873 – 1931
Constant Roux
1865 – 1942
Coulson Norman Mitchell
1889 – 1978
Dave Frishberg
1933 – 2021
David Rogerson Williams
1776 – 1830
Dominique Brasseur
1833 – 1906
Doris Lessing
1919 – 2013
Earle Hyman
1926 – 2017
Ebrahim Pourdavoud
1886 – 1968
Edmond Haraucourt
1856 – 1941
Eduard Brandt
1839 – 1891
Eduard Tubin
1905 – 1982
Eduardo Morales Miranda
1910 – 2012
Edward Simmons
1852 – 1931
Efim Geller
1925 – 1998
Ellison D. Smith
1864 – 1944
Elna Munch
1871 – 1945
Emerson Buckley
1914 – 1989
Erkki Huttunen
1901 – 1956
Ernest MacBride
1866 – 1940
Ernesto Abaterusso
1956 – 2022
Ernst Udet
1896 – 1941
Erskine Hamilton Childers
1905 – 1974
Eugène II Schneider
1868 – 1942
Francis X. Bellotti
1923 – 2024
Francisco de Lersundi y Hormaechea
1817 – 1874
Franciszek Kornicki
1916 – 2017
Frank Cadogan Cowper
1877 – 1958
François de La Rochefoucauld, 8th Duke of La Rochefoucauld
1765 – 1848
François-Joseph-Victor Broussais
1772 – 1838
Friedrich Klockmann
1858 – 1937
Friedrich von Weech
1837 – 1905
Gabriel Turbay
1901 – 1947
Gennaro Verolino
1906 – 2005
George Armitstead
1847 – 1912
George C. McKee
1837 – 1890
George Stephen Morrison
1919 – 2008
Georges Besse
1927 – 1986
Georges Saadeh
1930 – 1998
Gerhard Dünnhaupt
1927 – 2024
Giorgi Arsenishvili
1942 – 2010
Giuseppe De Capitani d'Arzago
1870 – 1945
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
1594 – 1632
Grace Goulder Izant
1893 – 1984
Gustav Seyffarth
1796 – 1885
Hans Süß
1935 – 2009
Haraprasad Shastri
1853 – 1931
Harold Grad
1923 – 1986
Harrie B. Chase
1889 – 1969
Harrison A. Williams
1919 – 2001
Harry H. Dale
1868 – 1935
Helga Dancberga
1941 – 2019
Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort
1792 – 1853
Henryk Martyna
1907 – 1984
Hubert Ludwig
1852 – 1913
Ireene Wicker
1905 – 1987
Isaac Parker
1838 – 1896
Isser Zalman Meltzer
1870 – 1953
J. Howard Edmondson
1925 – 1971
J. Howard Swick
1879 – 1952
J. J. Ferris
1867 – 1900
Jacques Dicker
1879 – 1942
Jacques Médecin
1928 – 1998
Jacques-Marie-Achille Ginoulhiac
1806 – 1875
James Baddiley
1918 – 2008
James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam
1775 – 1845
James Jabara
1923 – 1966
James Macarthur-Onslow
1867 – 1946
James McCune Smith
1813 – 1865
Jan Jerzy Karpiński
1896 – 1965
Jean Herly
1920 – 1998
Jean Lallemand
1898 – 1987
Jean-François Denisse
1915 – 2014
Jean-Louis Vallas
1901 – 1995
Jean-Marie Petitclerc
1953 – 2025
Jeff Dozier
1944 – 2024
Jefferson Poland
1942 – 2017
Jesse J. Taylor
1925 – 1965
Jim Dressler
1932 – 2018
Johan August Brinell
1849 – 1925
John Chappel Woodhouse
1748 – 1833
John Earle
1601 – 1665
John Eaton
1790 – 1856
John Eliot, 1st Earl of St Germans
1761 – 1823
John Evershed
1864 – 1956
… and 1,787 more