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| 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 |
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Fried Green Tomatoes |
| Joseph Babinski |
Doctor |
17-Nov-1857 |
29-Oct-1932 |
The Babinski sign |
| Leslie Bibb |
Actor |
17-Nov-1974 |
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Crossing Jordan |
| Jim Boeheim |
Basketball |
17-Nov-1944 |
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Syracuse Head Coach |
| John Boehner |
Politician |
17-Nov-1949 |
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Speaker of the US House |
| Dr. Bombay |
Musician |
17-Nov-1963 |
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Purveyor of faux-ethnic Eurodance |
| Pam Bondi |
Government |
17-Nov-1965 |
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Attorney General of Florida |
| Terry E. Branstad |
Politician |
17-Nov-1946 |
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Governor of Iowa |
| Robert Brown |
Actor |
17-Nov-1926 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Former football coach, University of North Carolina |
| Howard Dean |
Politician |
17-Nov-1948 |
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Chairman of the Democratic Party |
| Kat DeLuna |
Singer/Songwriter |
17-Nov-1987 |
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Whine Up |
| Ralph D. DeNunzio |
Business |
17-Nov-1931 |
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CEO of Kidder Peabody, 1980-87 |
| Danny DeVito |
Actor |
17-Nov-1944 |
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Short loudmouth from Taxi |
| Shelby Foote |
Author |
17-Nov-1916 |
27-Jun-2005 |
Shiloh |
| Daisy Fuentes |
Model |
17-Nov-1966 |
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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 |
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Member of boy band Hanson |
| Elvin Hayes |
Basketball |
17-Nov-1945 |
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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 |
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Father of Ron Howard, Clint Howard |
| Rock Hudson |
Actor |
17-Nov-1925 |
2-Oct-1985 |
Ice Station Zebra |
| Lauren Hutton |
Model |
17-Nov-1944 |
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Paper Lion and American Gigolo |
| James Inhofe |
Politician |
17-Nov-1934 |
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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 |
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The Killing Fields |
| Gordon Lightfoot |
Musician |
17-Nov-1938 |
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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 |
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The Abyss |
| Bob Mathias |
Sports Figure |
17-Nov-1930 |
2-Sep-2006 |
Decathlon athlete turned Congressman |
| Roland Matthes |
Swimmer |
17-Nov-1950 |
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East German swimmer |
| Frank Maxwell |
Actor |
17-Nov-1916 |
4-Aug-2004 |
Dan Rooney on General Hospital |
| Rachel McAdams |
Actor |
17-Nov-1978 |
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The Notebook |
| Barry McCaffrey |
Government |
17-Nov-1942 |
|
White House Drug Czar, 1996-2001 |
| Lorne Michaels |
Film/TV Producer |
17-Nov-1944 |
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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 |
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Trail Lake Plantation |
| John S. Plaskett |
Astronomer |
17-Nov-1865 |
17-Oct-1941 |
Plaskett's star |
| Chopper Read |
Criminal |
17-Nov-1954 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Taxi Driver |
| Tom Seaver |
Baseball |
17-Nov-1944 |
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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 |
