Famous people born on 17 November

• Eugene Paul WignerHungarian-American physicist and mathematician · 1902–1995
  92 yrs
• Louis XVIII of FranceKing of France and Navarre from 1814 to 1815 and from 1815 to 1824 · 1755–1824
  68 yrs
• Nicolas AppertFrench inventor of airtight food preservation · 1749–1841
  91 yrs
• Bernard MontgomeryBritish Army officer · 1887–1976
  88 yrs
• Lev VygotskySoviet psychologist · 1896–1934
  37 yrs
• Henry IVHoly Roman Emperor from 1084 to 1105 · 1050–1106
  55 yrs
• Rock HudsonAmerican actor · 1925–1985
  59 yrs
• Mikhail BakhtinRussian intellectual and philosopher · 1895–1975
  79 yrs
• August Ferdinand Möbius ↗German mathematician and astronomer · 1790–1868
  77 yrs
• Stanley Cohen ↗American biochemist · 1922–2020
  97 yrs
• Sōichirō Honda ↗Japanese engineer and industrialist · 1906–1991
  84 yrs
• Astrid of Sweden ↗Queen consort of the Belgians · 1905–1935
  29 yrs
• Jeff Buckley ↗American musician · 1966–1997
  30 yrs
• Isao Iwabuchi ↗Japanese association football player · 1933–2003
  69 yrs
• Lee Strasberg ↗American theatre director, actor and acting teacher · 1901–1982
  80 yrs
• Joost van den Vondel ↗Dutch poet and writer · 1587–1679
  91 yrs
• Kim Sung-gan ↗Japanese and South Korean association football player · 1912–1984
  71 yrs
• Aristides Pereira ↗Cape Verdean politician, and first president of Cape Verde · 1923–2011
  87 yrs
• Gordon Lightfoot ↗Canadian singer-songwriter · 1938–2023
  84 yrs
• Al-Muqtadir ↗The eighteenth Abbasid Caliph · AD 895–932
  36 yrs
• Isabella of Valois ↗Queen consort of England · 1389–1409
  19 yrs
• Voltairine de Cleyre ↗American anarchist writer and feminist · 1866–1912
  45 yrs
• Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald ↗Marshal of France · 1765–1840
  74 yrs
• Bernardino Telesio ↗Italian philosopher · 1509–1588
  78 yrs
• Pierre Nora ↗French historian and publisher · 1931–2025
  93 yrs
• Rance Howard ↗American actor · 1928–2017
  89 yrs
• Walter Hallstein ↗German diplomat and statesman · 1901–1982
  80 yrs
• Joseph Babinski ↗French neurologist · 1857–1932
  74 yrs
• Pierre Mignard I ↗French painter · 1612–1695
  82 yrs
• Kang Kek Iew ↗War criminal and former leader in the Khmer Rouge · 1942–2020
  77 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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