Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 17

Births

 * 1755 - Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824) (pictured)
 * 1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
 * 1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
 * 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer (d. 2023)
 * 1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
 * 1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
 * 1948 - Howard Dean, American politician

Deaths

 * 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
 * 1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate
 * 1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
 * 2000 - Louis Néel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
 * 2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)