Famous Births on 17 Nov

Famous Births on 17 Nov

1502 - Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (d. 1533)
1503 - Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)
1576 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)
1612 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
1681 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
1685 - Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
1729 - Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (d. 1785)
1755 - Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)
1765 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
1793 - Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
1799 - Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)
1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
1827 - Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
1835 - Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
1854 - Hubert Lyautey, French general (d. 1934)
1857 - Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932)
1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
1868 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
1877 - Frank Calder, the first NHL President (d. 1943)
1878 - Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939)
1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
1887 - Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976)
1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (d. 1972)
1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
1897 - Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)
1899 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)
1901 - Walter Hallstein, German politician (d. 1982)
1901 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d. 1982)
1902 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1904 - Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
1905 - Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)
1905 - Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)
1906 - Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (d. 1992)
1906 - Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1907 - Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)
1911 - Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
1916 - Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005)
1920 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
1921 - Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter
1922 - Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1923 - Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)
1923 - Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm
1923 - Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1925 - Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor
1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
1927 - Robert Brown, American actor
1928 - Rance Howard, American actor
1929 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete (d. 2006)
1933 - Orlando Peña, Cuban baseball player
1934 - James Inhofe, American politician, senior senator from Oklahoma
1934 - Fenella Fielding, English actress
1935 - Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player
1935 - Toni Sailer, Austrian skier
1936 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
1940 - Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player
1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
1942 - Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician
1943 - Lauren Hutton, American actress
1944 - Tom Seaver, baseball player
1944 - Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991)
1944 - Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
1944 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
1944 - Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame Coach
1945 - Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
1945 - Roland Joffé, Anglo-French film director
1946 - Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
1946 - Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull)
1947 - Inky Mark, Canadian politician
1947 - Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
1948 - Howard Dean, American politician
1949 - Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Vietnam
1950 - Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and race team owner
1951 - Stephen Root, American actor
1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987)
1951 - Butch Davis, American football coach
1952 - Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
1954 - Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
1955 - Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007)
1955 - Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player
1957 - Debbie Thrower, BBC News Reader
1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
1959 - Terry Fenwick, English footballer
1960 - RuPaul, American drag entertainer
1960 - Jonathan Ross, British presenter
1960 - Kirk Fogg, host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
1961 - Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (d. 1985)
1962 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
1964 - Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality
1964 - Mitch Williams, Major League Baseball player
1965 - Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer
1966 - Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
1966 - Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress
1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
1966 - Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1968 - Sean Miller, American basketball coach
1968 - Amber Michaels, German porn actress
1969 - Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
1970 - Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
1972 - Leonard Roberts, American actor
1973 - Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
1973 - Eli Marrero, American baseball player
1973 - Bernd Schneider, German footballer
1974 - Leslie Bibb, American actress
1974 - Berto Romero, Spanish humorist
1975 - Lord Infamous, Rapper
1976 - Diane Neal, American actress
1976 - Brandon Call, American actor
1977 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player
1978 - Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress
1979 - Matthew Spring, English footballer
1980 - Mercedes Martinez, professional wrestler
1980 - Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
1980 - Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
1981 - Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1982 - Katie Feenstra, American basketball player
1982 - Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer
1983 - Scott Moore, American baseball player
1983 - Christopher Paolini, American novelist
1983 - Harry Lloyd, English actor
1983 - Nick Markakis, American baseball player
1983 - Ryan Braun, American baseball player
1983 - Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
1984 - Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
1986 - Nani, Portuguese football player
1987 - Darren McKillion, Northern Irish sportsman
1990 - Shanica Knowles, American actress
1992 - Darian Weiss, American actor
1994 - Raquel Castro, American actress
9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)

Famous Births on 16 Nov

Famous Births on 16 Nov

1436 - Leonardo Loredan, Doge of the Republic of Venice (d. 1521)
1603 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (d. 1673)
1609 - Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of England (d. 1669)
1643 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703)
1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1793)
1720 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, Italian composer (d. 1788)
1758 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
1766 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist (d. 1831)
1836 - David Kalakaua of Hawaii, Hawaiian king (d. 1891)
1839 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908)
1841 - Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923)
1847 - Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
1862 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (d. 1944)
1873 - W. C. Handy, American composer (d. 1958)
1880 - Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921)
1885 - Michael Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
1888 - Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician (d. 1957)
1889 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (d. 1961)
1892 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (d. 1978)
1892 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (d. 1953)
1895 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
1896 - Oswald Mosley, British fascist (d. 1980)
1896 - Lawrence Tibbett, American singer (d. 1960)
1897 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951)
1904 - Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (d. 1996)
1905 - Eddie Condon, American musician (d. 1973)
1908 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
1916 - Daws Butler, voice actor (d. 1988)
1922 - Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist
1922 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel laureate
1924 - Mel Patton, American athlete
1928 - Clu Gulager, American actor
1930 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author
1930 - Salvatore Riina, Sicilian mafioso
1931 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician
1931 - Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (d. 2006)
1933 - Garnet Mimms, American singer
1936 - John Moore, Australian politician
1938 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
1941 - Gerry Marshall, British race car driver (d. 2005)
1942 - Willie Carson, Scottish jockey
1942 - Joanna Pettet, English-American actress
1944 - Oliver Braddick, British psychologist
1946 - Terence McKenna, American writer (d. 2000)
1947 - Ebby Thust, German Boxing promoter and writer
1948 - Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic
1950 - David Leisure, American actor
1950 - John Swartzwelder, American television writer and novelist
1951 - Miguel Sandoval, American actor
1952 - Robin McKinley, writer
1952 - Piero Falchetta, Head of the department of ancient maps at the Biblioteca Marciana
1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer
1953 - Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, writer and actor
1954 - Dick Gross, Australian politician
1954 - Andrea Barrett, American author
1954 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy (d. 2004)
1955 - Pierre Larouche, National Hockey League player
1956 - Terry Labonte, NASCAR driver
1957 - Jacques Gamblin, French actor
1958 - Marg Helgenberger, American actress
1958 - Boris Krivokapić, Serbian academic
1961 - Frank Bruno, British boxer
1961 - Corinne Hermès, French singer
1962 - Gary Mounfield, English musician (Primal Scream)
1962 - Josh Silver, American musician (Type O Negative)
1964 - Maeve Quinlan, American actress
1964 - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian actress
1964 - Harry J. Lennix, American actor
1964 - Diana Krall, Canadian Jazz pianist and singer
1964 - Dwight Gooden, American baseball player
1965 - Mika Aaltonen, Finnish footballer
1966 - Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)
1966 - Dean McDermott, Canadian actor
1966 - Tahir Shah, British travel writer and explorer
1967 - Lisa Bonet, American actress
1967 - Craig Arnold, American poet
1968 - Vlado Å ola, Croatian handball goalkeeper
1970 - Martha Plimpton, American actress
1971 - Mustapha Hadji, Moroccan footballer
1971 - Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
1971 - Koshi Rikdo, Japanese mangaka.
1971 - Waqar Younis, Pakistani cricketer
1972 - Missi Pyle, American actress
1973 - Brendan Laney, Scottish rugby player
1973 - Christian Horner, British Formula One team owner
1974 - Eric Judy, American Musician
1974 - Maurizio Margaglio, Italian ice dancer
1974 - Paul Scholes, British footballer
1975 - Julio Lugo, Dominican baseball player
1976 - Martijn Zuijdweg, Dutch swimmer
1976 - Danny Wallace, British author
1976 - Juha Pasoja, Finnish footballer
1977 - Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
1977 - Mauricio Ochmann, Mexican actor
1978 - Gary Naysmith, Scottish footballer
1978 - Kip Bouknight, American baseball player
1978 - Carolina Parra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1979 - Bruce Irons, American surfer
1979 - Tony Frias, American footballer
1980 - Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
1980 - Nicole Gius, Italian alpine skier
1981 - Osi Umenyiora, NFL football player
1981 - Caitlin Glass, American voice actress
1981 - Allison Crowe, Canadian singer
1982 - Jannie du Plessis, South African rugby player
1982 - Amare Stoudemire, American basketball player
1983 - K, South Korean singer
1983 - Kari Lehtonen, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
1984 - Gemma Atkinson, British actress and model
1984 - Kimberly J. Brown, American actress
1986 - Saeko, Japanese actress
1995 - Noah Gray-Cabey, American child actor
42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37)