LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Grace Abbott	Activist	17-Nov-1878	19-Jun-1939	Advocate against child labor
Nicolas Appert	Inventor	17-Nov-1749	3-Jun-1841	Food preservation
Mischa Auer	Actor	17-Nov-1905	5-Mar-1967	My Man Godfrey
Jon Avnet	Film/TV Producer	17-Nov-1949		Fried Green Tomatoes
Joseph Babinski	Doctor	17-Nov-1857	29-Oct-1932	The Babinski sign
Leslie Bibb	Actor	17-Nov-1974		Crossing Jordan
Jim Boeheim	Basketball	17-Nov-1944		Syracuse Head Coach
John Boehner	Politician	17-Nov-1949		Speaker of the US House
Dr. Bombay	Musician	17-Nov-1963		Purveyor of faux-ethnic Eurodance
Pam Bondi	Government	17-Nov-1965		Attorney General of Florida
Terry E. Branstad	Politician	17-Nov-1946		Governor of Iowa
Robert Brown	Actor	17-Nov-1926		Jason Bolt on Here Come the Brides
Jeff Buckley	Singer	17-Nov-1966	29-May-1997	Influential rock vocalist
Brandon Call	Actor	17-Nov-1976		J.T. Lambert on Step by Step
Gene Clark	Singer/Songwriter	17-Nov-1944	24-May-1991	The Byrds, No Other
Voltairine de Cleyre	Anarchist	17-Nov-1866	20-Jun-1912	Anarchist without an adjective
Stanley Cohen	Scientist	17-Nov-1922		Nerve and skin cell growth factors
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz	Poet	17-Nov-1733	28-Jan-1805	Dorottya
Jean le Rond d'Alembert	Mathematician	17-Nov-1717	29-Oct-1783	Early work in partial differential equations
Butch Davis	Football	17-Nov-1951		Former football coach, University of North Carolina
Howard Dean	Politician	17-Nov-1948		Chairman of the Democratic Party
Kat DeLuna	Singer/Songwriter	17-Nov-1987		Whine Up
Ralph D. DeNunzio	Business	17-Nov-1931		CEO of Kidder Peabody, 1980-87
Danny DeVito	Actor	17-Nov-1944		Short loudmouth from Taxi
Shelby Foote	Author	17-Nov-1916	27-Jun-2005	Shiloh
Daisy Fuentes	Model	17-Nov-1966		America's Funniest Home Videos
Richard H. Gallagher	Engineer	17-Nov-1927	30-Sep-1997	Finite element method
Sara Haden	Actor	17-Nov-1899	15-Sep-1981	The Shop Around the Corner
Isaac Hanson	Musician	17-Nov-1980		Member of boy band Hanson
Elvin Hayes	Basketball	17-Nov-1945		NBA Hall of Famer
Peter Hoagland	Politician	17-Nov-1941	30-Oct-2007	Congressman from Nebraska, 1989-95
Soichiro Honda	Business	17-Nov-1906	5-Aug-1991	Founder of Honda Motor Company
Rance Howard	Actor	17-Nov-1928		Father of Ron Howard, Clint Howard
Rock Hudson	Actor	17-Nov-1925	2-Oct-1985	Ice Station Zebra
Lauren Hutton	Model	17-Nov-1944		Paper Lion and American Gigolo
James Inhofe	Politician	17-Nov-1934		US Senator from Oklahoma
Richard Jewell	Victim	17-Nov-1962	29-Aug-2007	Innocent security guard blamed for bombing
Roland Joffé	Film Director	17-Nov-1945		The Killing Fields
Gordon Lightfoot	Musician	17-Nov-1938		Canadian balladeer
Louis XVIII	Royalty	17-Nov-1755	16-Sep-1824	King of France, 1814-15 & 1815-24
John J. Mack	Business	17-Nov-1944		CEO of Morgan Stanley
Sophie Marceau	Actor	17-Nov-1966		The World Is Not Enough
Dean-Paul Martin	Relative	17-Nov-1951	21-Mar-1987	Son of Dean Martin
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio	Actor	17-Nov-1958		The Abyss
Bob Mathias	Sports Figure	17-Nov-1930	2-Sep-2006	Decathlon athlete turned Congressman
Roland Matthes	Swimmer	17-Nov-1950		East German swimmer
Frank Maxwell	Actor	17-Nov-1916	4-Aug-2004	Dan Rooney on General Hospital
Rachel McAdams	Actor	17-Nov-1978		The Notebook
Barry McCaffrey	Government	17-Nov-1942		White House Drug Czar, 1996-2001
Lorne Michaels	Film/TV Producer	17-Nov-1944		Producer of Saturday Night Live
August Möbius	Astronomer	17-Nov-1790	26-Sep-1868	Möbius strip
Bernard Montgomery	Military	17-Nov-1887	24-Mar-1976	Won Battle of El Alamein during WWII
William R. Moses	Actor	17-Nov-1959		Cole Gioberti on Falcon Crest
Diane Neal	Actor	17-Nov-1975		Law & Order: SVU
Herbert O'Conor	Politician	17-Nov-1896	4-Mar-1960	Governor and Senator from Maryland
Robert D. Orr	Politician	17-Nov-1917	10-Mar-2004	Governor of Indiana, 1989-92
William A. Percy II	Business	17-Nov-1939		Trail Lake Plantation
John S. Plaskett	Astronomer	17-Nov-1865	17-Oct-1941	Plaskett's star
Chopper Read	Criminal	17-Nov-1954		Earless Australian killer, author
Bebe Rebozo	Business	17-Nov-1912	8-May-1998	Nixon confidant
Susan E. Rice	Diplomat	17-Nov-1964		US Ambassador to the UN
Stephen Root	Actor	17-Nov-1951		Jimmy James on News Radio
RuPaul	TV Personality	17-Nov-1960		Drag queen supermodel
Toni Sailer	Skier	17-Nov-1935	24-Aug-2009	Won 3 Gold Medals in 1956
Martin Scorsese	Film Director	17-Nov-1942		Taxi Driver
Tom Seaver	Baseball	17-Nov-1944		Three-time Cy Young Award winner
David Hyrum Smith	Relative	17-Nov-1844	29-Aug-1904	Son of Joseph Smith
Lee Strasberg	Theater Director	17-Nov-1901	17-Feb-1982	Theater director and acting coach
Pat Toomey	Politician	17-Nov-1961		US Senator from Pennsylvania
Solomon D. Trujillo	Business	17-Nov-1951		CEO of Telstra
Carlo Verdone	Actor	17-Nov-1950		Manuale d'amore
Dylan Walsh	Actor	17-Nov-1963		Dr. Sean McNamara on Nip/Tuck
Charles Walters	Film Director	17-Nov-1911	13-Aug-1982	Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Auberon Waugh	Columnist	17-Nov-1939	16-Jan-2001	Columnist for Private Eye
Olin L. Wethington	Government	17-Nov-1948		Chairman of AIG China
Eugene Wigner	Physicist	17-Nov-1902	1-Jan-1995	Law of conservation of parity
Hans Zinsser	Scientist	17-Nov-1878	4-Sep-1940	Typhus vaccine

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