On this day: 17 November
Events, births and deaths on 17 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1917 · Deaths · Auguste Rodin
- 1925 · Births · Rock Hudson
- 1922 · Births · Stanley Cohen
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1104 · Deaths · Nikephoros Melissenos
- 935 · Deaths · Wang Yanjun
Events · 15
- 1183(Julian date)Battle of Mizushima — 1183 naval battle of the Genpei War
- 1810
- 18371837 Valdivia earthquake — 1837 earthquake and tsunami centered in south-central Chile
- 1885Battle of Slivnitsa — 1885 decisive battle in Serbo-Bulgarian War
- 1905Japan–Korea Treaty of November 1905 — unequal treaty subordinating Korea to the Japanese Empire
- 1943Battle of Sattelberg — battle Involving forces from Australia, the United States and Japan,
- 1968Heidi Game — 1968 American Football League game played between Oakland Raiders and New York Jets
- 1968Heidi — 1968 film directed by Delbert Mann
- 1986Japan Air Lines flight 1628 incident — Reported UFO sighting
- 1989Velvet Revolution — democratization process in Czechoslovakia in 1989
- 1997Luxor massacre — Terrorist attack in Luxor, Egypt on 17 November 1997
- 2009Climatic Research Unit email controversy — conspiracy allegations based on hacked emails
- 2012Manfalut railway accident — train wreck
- 2013Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 — November 2013 aeroplane accident in Russia
- 2018Yellow vests movement — 2018 social movement started in France
Births · 60
- 9(Julian date)Vespasian — ninth Roman Emperor and founder of the Flavian dynasty (69–79)
- 1503(Julian date)Bronzino — Italian Mannerist painter (1503-1572)
- 1587Joost van den Vondel — Dutch poet and writer (1587-1679)
- 1612Dorgon — Prince Rui of the First Rank and regent of the Qing Dynasty (1612-1650)
- 1749Nicolas Appert — French inventor of airtight food preservation (1749–1841)
- 1755Louis XVIII of France — King of France and Navarre from 1814 to 1815 and from 1815 to 1824 (1755-1824)
- 1765Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald — Marshal of France (1765-1840)
- 1790August Ferdinand Möbius — German mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
- 1851Empress Myeongseong — Empress Consort of Korea (1851–1895)
- 1857Joseph Babinski — French neurologist (1857-1932)
- 1866Voltairine de Cleyre — American anarchist writer and feminist
- 1887Bernard Montgomery — British Army officer (1887–1976)
- 1895Mikhail Bakhtin — Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895–1975)
- 1896Lev Vygotsky — Soviet psychologist (1896-1934)
- 1901Lee Strasberg — American theatre director, actor and acting teacher (1901–1982)
- 1901Walter Hallstein — German diplomat and statesman (1901–1982)
- 1902Eugene Paul Wigner — Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
- 1905Astrid of Sweden — queen consort of the Belgians (1905-1935)
- 1906Sōichirō Honda — Japanese engineer and industrialist
- 1922Stanley Cohen — American biochemist
- 1923Aristides Pereira — Cape Verdean politician, and first president of Cape Verde (1923-2011)
- 1925Rock Hudson — American actor (1925–1985)
- 1928Rance Howard — American actor (1928–2017)
- 1930Bob Mathias — American athlete and congressman (1930–2006)
- 1934Jim Inhofe — United States Senator from Oklahoma (1934–2024)
Deaths · 60
- 375(Julian date)Valentinian I — Roman emperor from 364 to 375
- 641(Julian date)Jomei — Japanese emperor
- 1104(Julian date)Nikephoros Melissenos — Byzantine general and usurper
- 1231(Julian date)Elizabeth of Hungary — Catholic saint (1207−1231)
- 1307Hethum II, King of Armenia — King of Cilician Armenia
- 1494(Julian date)Giovanni Pico della Mirandola — Italian Renaissance philosopher (1463–1494)
- 1525(Julian date)Eleanor of Viseu — Queen consort of Portugal (1458–1525)
- 1558(Julian date)Mary I — Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558 (1516-1558)
- 1558(Julian date)Reginald Pole — English cardinal, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1562(Julian date)Antoine of Navarre — French king consort (1518–1562)
- 1592John III of Sweden — Swedish king (1537-1592)
- 1624Jakob Böhme — German Christian mystic and theologian (1575-1624)
- 1632Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim — Austrian field marshal
- 1708Ludolf Bakhuizen — Dutch painter (1630-1708)
- 1747Alain-René Lesage — French writer (1668–1747)
- 1768Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — Prime Minister of Great Britain (1693-1768)
- 1776James Ferguson — Scottish astronomer (1710-1776)
- 1780Bernardo Bellotto — Italian artist (1722–1780)
- 1796Catherine II of Russia — eighth Emperor of Russia, called the Great, r. 1762–1796 (lived 1729-1796)
- 1818Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz — Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland from 1761 to 1818
- 1835Carle Vernet — French painter (1758-1836)
- 1856Ninomiya Sontoku — Japanese philosopher
- 1858Robert Owen — Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer (1771–1858)
- 1905Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg — Duke of Nassau (1839–1866), later Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1890–1905)
- 1917Auguste Rodin — French sculptor (1840–1917)
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