November 17
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Art and culture
Births
- 1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
- 1904 - Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
- 1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
- 1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
- 1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
- 1944 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
- 1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
- 1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress
Deaths
- 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
- 1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516)
- 1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
- 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
- 1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
- 1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
- 1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
- 1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
- 1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
- 1665 - John Earle, English bishop
- 1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
- 1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
- 1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
- 1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
- 1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate
- 1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
- 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
- 1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
- 1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
- 1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
- 1796 - Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (b. 1729)
- 1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
- 1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
- 1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794)
- 1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
- 1897 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
- 1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
- 1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
- 1910 - Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado.
- 1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
- 1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
- 1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
- 1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
- 1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
- 1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
- 1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
- 1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
- 1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
- 1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
- 1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
- 1955 - James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
- 1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
- 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
- 1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
- 1973 - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
- 1979 - John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull)
- 1980 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st Sufi master of Oveyssi order (b. 1916)
- 1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
- 1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
- 1986 - Georges Besse, French automobile executive (b. 1927)
- 1987 - Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906)
- 1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
- 1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- 1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
- 1995 - Alan Hull, English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne)
- 1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
- 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
- 2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
- 2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
- 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
- 2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
- 2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
- 2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
- 2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
- 2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
- 2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
Notes
Catherine the Great
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Mikhail Bakhtin
Martin Scorsese
Rem Koolhaas
Mervyn Peake
Isamu Noguchi
Jeff Buckley
Claudine Beccarie
Audre Lorde
Auguste Rodin
Alain-René Le Sage
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Robert Owen
Germaine Dulac
Peter Cook
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