November 17 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 17, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#213 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 17 birthdays
Voltairine de Cleyre · American anarchist writer and feminist1866
Bernard Montgomery · British Army officer1887
Lev Vygotsky · Soviet psychologist1896
Lee Strasberg · American theatre director, actor and acting teacher1901
Eugene Wigner · Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician1902
Stanley Cohen · American biochemist1922
Rock Hudson · American actor1925
Rance Howard · American actor1928
Martin Scorsese · American filmmaker1942
Danny DeVito · American actor, comedian, director and producer1944
Abdelmadjid Tebboune · President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria since 20191945
Cyril Ramaphosa · President of South Africa since 20181952
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio · American actress1958
RuPaul · American drag performer, actor, and musician1960
Susan Rice · American diplomat and policy advisor1964
Jeff Buckley · American musician1966
Sophie Marceau · French actress1966
Rachel McAdams · Canadian actress1978
Christopher Paolini · Author, novelist1983
Nani · Portuguese association football player1986
On this day in history
1993United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement.
2003Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger's tenure as the governor of California begins.
2009Administrators at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit discovered that their servers had been hacked, and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.
2013An outbreak of 77 confirmed tornadoes occurred in seven U.S. states; it became the largest November tornado outbreak in Illinois and Indiana.
1962President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
1969Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
1973Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1989Walt Disney Pictures released The Little Mermaid to theatres, beginning the Disney Renaissance.
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