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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 17th of November 0284 | EVENT | Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers. |
| 17th of November 0473 | EVENT | The future Leo II is named associate emperor by Leo I. |
| 17th of November 0794 | EVENT | Japanese Emperor Kammu changes his residence from Nara to Kyoto. |
| 17th of November 1183 | EVENT | The Battle of Mizushima. |
| 17th of November 1292 | EVENT | (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland. |
| 17th of November 1511 | EVENT | Spain and England ally against France. |
| 17th of November 1558 | EVENT | Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. |
| 17th of November 1603 | EVENT | English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. |
| 17th of November 1659 | EVENT | The Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain. |
| 17th of November 1777 | EVENT | Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification. |
| 17th of November 1796 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole : French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy. |
| 17th of November 1800 | EVENT | The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C. |
| 17th of November 1811 | EVENT | Jose Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile. |
| 17th of November 1812 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi. |
| 17th of November 1820 | EVENT | Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him). |
| 17th of November 1827 | EVENT | The Delta Phi fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, is founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York. |
| 17th of November 1831 | EVENT | Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Colombia. |
| 17th of November 1855 | EVENT | David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe. |
| 17th of November 1856 | EVENT | American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase. |
| 17th of November 1858 | EVENT | Modified Julian Day zero. |
| 17th of November 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins : Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege. |
| 17th of November 1869 | EVENT | In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated. |
| 17th of November 1871 | EVENT | The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York. |
| 17th of November 1876 | EVENT | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March is given its premiere performance in Moscow. |
| 17th of November 1878 | EVENT | First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy. |
| 17th of November 1903 | EVENT | The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority"). |
| 17th of November 1911 | EVENT | The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at an historically black college or university, is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. |
| 17th of November 1919 | EVENT | King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea is first suggested by Edward George Honey. |
| 17th of November 1922 | EVENT | Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy. |
| 17th of November 1933 | EVENT | United States recognizes Soviet Union. |
| 17th of November 1939 | EVENT | Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. In addition, all Czech universities are shut down and over 1200 Czech students sent to concentration camps. Since this event, International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic. |
| 17th of November 1947 | EVENT | The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath. |
| 17th of November 1947 | EVENT | American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th Century. |
| 17th of November 1953 | EVENT | The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland. |
| 17th of November 1957 | EVENT | Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. |
| 17th of November 1962 | EVENT | President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region. |
| 17th of November 1967 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." |
| 17th of November 1968 | EVENT | Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos. |
| 17th of November 1968 | EVENT | British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service. |
| 17th of November 1969 | EVENT | Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. |
| 17th of November 1970 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre. |
| 17th of November 1970 | EVENT | Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse. |
| 17th of November 1970 | EVENT | Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. |
| 17th of November 1973 | EVENT | Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook". |
| 17th of November 1973 | EVENT | The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. |
| 17th of November 1979 | EVENT | Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned. |
| 17th of November 1982 | EVENT | Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, Nevada, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing. |
| 17th of November 1983 | EVENT | The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico. |
| 17th of November 1989 | EVENT | Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29). |
| 17th of November 1990 | EVENT | Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts. |
| 17th of November 1997 | EVENT | In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants). |
| 17th of November 2000 | EVENT | A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years. |
| 17th of November 2000 | EVENT | Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. |
| 17th of November 2004 | EVENT | Kmart Corp. announces that it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation. |
| 17th of November 0009 | BIRTHDAY | Titus Flavius Vespasianus, Roman emperor (d. 79) |
| 17th of November 1503 | BIRTHDAY | Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572) |
| 17th of November 1576 | BIRTHDAY | Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628) |
| 17th of November 1587 | BIRTHDAY | Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679) |
| 17th of November 1612 | BIRTHDAY | Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650) |
| 17th of November 1681 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Francois le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776) |
| 17th of November 1685 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749) |
| 17th of November 1729 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (d. 1785) |
| 17th of November 1749 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Appert, French inventor (d. 1841) |
| 17th of November 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (d. 1815) |
| 17th of November 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824) |
| 17th of November 1765 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840) |
| 17th of November 1790 | BIRTHDAY | August Ferdinand Mobius, German mathematician (d. 1868) |
| 17th of November 1793 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865) |
| 17th of November 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885) |
| 17th of November 1816 | BIRTHDAY | August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876) |
| 17th of November 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895) |
| 17th of November 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (d. 1915) |
| 17th of November 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Hubert Lyautey, French general (d. 1934) |
| 17th of November 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Babinski, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932) |
| 17th of November 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912) |
| 17th of November 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918) |
| 17th of November 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Calder, British-born Canadian sports executive (d. 1943) |
| 17th of November 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939) |
| 17th of November 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968) |
| 17th of November 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher (d. 1967) |
| 17th of November 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976) |
| 17th of November 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (d. 1972) |
| 17th of November 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966) |
| 17th of November 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975) |
| 17th of November 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934) |
| 17th of November 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961) |
| 17th of November 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971) |
| 17th of November 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d. 1982) |
| 17th of November 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Hallstein, German politician (d. 1982) |
| 17th of November 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) |
| 17th of November 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988) |
| 17th of November 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967) |
| 17th of November 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935) |
| 17th of November 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (d. 1991) |
| 17th of November 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007) |
| 17th of November 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985) |
| 17th of November 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974) |
| 17th of November 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005) |
| 17th of November 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005) |
| 17th of November 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter |
| 17th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| 17th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Aristides Pereira, Cape Verdian politician |
| 17th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Hubertus Brandenburg, Swedish Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 2009) |
| 17th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986) |
| 17th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001) |
| 17th of November 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Faut, American baseball player |
| 17th of November 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985) |
| 17th of November 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor (d. 2010) |
| 17th of November 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Drasnin, American musician and composer |
| 17th of November 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Brown, American actor |
| 17th of November 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Rance Howard, American actor |
| 17th of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (d. 1999) |
| 17th of November 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Mathias, American decathlete (d. 2006) |
| 17th of November 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Pena, Cuban baseball player |
| 17th of November 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Fenella Fielding, English actress |
| 17th of November 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Inhofe, American politician |
| 17th of November 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player |
| 17th of November 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (d. 2009) |
| 17th of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005) |
| 17th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995) |
| 17th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer |
| 17th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001) |
| 17th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player (d. 1984) |
| 17th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Kang Kek Iew, Cambodian politician and criminal |
| 17th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Scorsese, American film director |
| 17th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Hutton, American actress |
| 17th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Danny DeVito, American actor |
| 17th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame basketball coach |
| 17th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991) |
| 17th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer |
| 17th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect |
| 17th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Seaver, American baseball player |
| 17th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Elvin Hayes, American basketball player |
| 17th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Joffe, Anglo-French film director |
| 17th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa |
| 17th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull) |
| 17th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter |
| 17th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Inky Mark, Canadian politician |
| 17th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Dean, American politician |
| 17th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | East Bay Ray, American musician |
| 17th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Boehner, American politician |
| 17th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Nguyen Tan Dung, Prime Minister of Vietnam |
| 17th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and race team owner |
| 17th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Butch Davis, American football coach |
| 17th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987) |
| 17th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Root, American actor |
| 17th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player |
| 17th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Babis Tennes, Greek football manager |
| 17th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal |
| 17th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007) |
| 17th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player |
| 17th of November 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Jones, British author and psychologist |
| 17th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Debbie Thrower, news reader |
| 17th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress |
| 17th of November 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Fenwick, English footballer |
| 17th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Hertwig, German footballer |
| 17th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Ross, British TV presenter |
| 17th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | RuPaul, American drag entertainer |
| 17th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mandy Yachad, former South African cricketer |
| 17th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (d. 1985) |
| 17th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Toomey, American politician, junior senator of Pennsylvania |
| 17th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Dede Fortin, Canadian singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000) |
| 17th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Black, Canadian drummer (Annihilator) |
| 17th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Rice, United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
| 17th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality |
| 17th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Williams, baseball player |
| 17th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer |
| 17th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997) |
| 17th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Ceberano, Australian singer |
| 17th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress |
| 17th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses) |
| 17th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Marceau, French actress |
| 17th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Miller, American basketball coach |
| 17th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Michaels, German pornographic actress |
| 17th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor |
| 17th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Walker, American feminist writer |
| 17th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player |
| 17th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth) |
| 17th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kimya Dawson, American singer |
| 17th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Joanne Goode, English badminton player |
| 17th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Roberts, American actor |
| 17th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas "Vintersorg" Hedlund, Swedish singer (Vintersorg) |
| 17th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Eli Marrero, American baseball player |
| 17th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater |
| 17th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Bernd Schneider, German footballer |
| 17th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Bibb, American actress |
| 17th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Berto Romero, Spanish humorist |
| 17th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Roland de Marigny, South African-born Italian rugby player |
| 17th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome James, American basketball player |
| 17th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Infamous, Rapper |
| 17th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Call, American actor |
| 17th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Neal, American actress |
| 17th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer |
| 17th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Shepherd, English footballer |
| 17th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Air, Former Rugby League player for London Broncos |
| 17th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Zoe Bell, New Zealand actress-stuntwoman |
| 17th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress |
| 17th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Wayne, American football player |
| 17th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Spring, English footballer |
| 17th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mercedes Martinez, American professional wrestler |
| 17th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler |
| 17th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson) |
| 17th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud) |
| 17th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Feenstra, American basketball player |
| 17th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Lucy Durack, Australian Singer/Performer |
| 17th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer |
| 17th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Otacilio Neto, Brazilian footballer |
| 17th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Hollie Smith, New Zealand singer |
| 17th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player |
| 17th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Braun, American baseball player |
| 17th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Crowe, American baseball player |
| 17th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Lloyd, English actor |
| 17th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Markakis, American baseball player |
| 17th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Moore, American baseball player |
| 17th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Paolini, American novelist |
| 17th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Bradley, American figure skater |
| 17th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Evora, American figure skater |
| 17th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Park Han-byul, South Korean actress |
| 17th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Fabio Concas, Italian footballer |
| 17th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Nani, Portuguese football player |
| 17th of November 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Gemma Spofforth, British swimmer |
| 17th of November 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Shanica Knowles, American actress |
| 17th of November 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Darian Weiss, American actor |
| 17th of November 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Raquel Castro, American actress |
| 17th of November 0344 | DEATH | Jin Kangdi, Chinese emperor (Born 322) |
| 17th of November 0375 | DEATH | Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (Born 321) |
| 17th of November 0594 | DEATH | Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (Born c. 530s|539) |
| 17th of November 0641 | DEATH | Emperor Jomei of Japan (Born 593) |
| 17th of November 0680 | DEATH | Hilda of Whitby (Born 614) |
| 17th of November 0885 | DEATH | Queen Liutgard of Saxony (Born c. 845) |
| 17th of November 1104 | DEATH | Nikephoros Melissenos, Byzantine general (Born c. 1045) |
| 17th of November 1231 | DEATH | Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (Born 1207) |
| 17th of November 1302 | DEATH | St. Gertrude the Great (Born 1256) |
| 17th of November 1326 | DEATH | Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (Born 1285) |
| 17th of November 1494 | DEATH | Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (Born 1463) |
| 17th of November 1558 | DEATH | Mary I of England (Born 1516) |
| 17th of November 1558 | DEATH | Reginald Pole, Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1500) |
| 17th of November 1562 | DEATH | Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (Born 1518) |
| 17th of November 1592 | DEATH | John III of Sweden (Born 1537) |
| 17th of November 1600 | DEATH | Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (Born 1542) |
| 17th of November 1632 | DEATH | Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (Born 1594) |
| 17th of November 1643 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guebriant, Marshal of France (Born 1602) |
| 17th of November 1648 | DEATH | Thomas Ford, English composer |
| 17th of November 1665 | DEATH | John Earle, English bishop |
| 17th of November 1668 | DEATH | Joseph Alleine, English preacher (Born 1634) |
| 17th of November 1690 | DEATH | Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (Born 1610) |
| 17th of November 1708 | DEATH | Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (Born 1631) |
| 17th of November 1713 | DEATH | Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (Born 1653) |
| 17th of November 1720 | DEATH | Calico Jack, English pirate (Born 1682) |
| 17th of November 1747 | DEATH | Alain-Rene Lesage, French writer (Born 1668) |
| 17th of November 1768 | DEATH | Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1693) |
| 17th of November 1776 | DEATH | James Ferguson, British astronomer (Born 1710) |
| 17th of November 1780 | DEATH | Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (Born 1720) |
| 17th of November 1794 | DEATH | Jacques Francois Dugommier, French general (Born 1738) |
| 17th of November 1796 | DEATH | Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (Born 1729) |
| 17th of November 1808 | DEATH | David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (Born 1721) |
| 17th of November 1818 | DEATH | Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King George III (Born 1744) |
| 17th of November 1835 | DEATH | Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (Born 1758) |
| 17th of November 1849 | DEATH | Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst, German priest and miracle-worker (Born 1794) |
| 17th of November 1858 | DEATH | Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (Born 1771) |
| 17th of November 1865 | DEATH | James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (Born 1813) |
| 17th of November 1897 | DEATH | George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (Born 1820) |
| 17th of November 1902 | DEATH | Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (Born 1847) |
| 17th of November 1905 | DEATH | Adolphe of Luxembourg, (Born 1817) |
| 17th of November 1910 | DEATH | Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado (Born 1886) |
| 17th of November 1917 | DEATH | Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (Born 1840) |
| 17th of November 1921 | DEATH | Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist |
| 17th of November 1922 | DEATH | Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (Born 1847) |
| 17th of November 1928 | DEATH | Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (Born 1865) |
| 17th of November 1929 | DEATH | Herman Hollerith, American statistician (Born 1860) |
| 17th of November 1936 | DEATH | Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (Born 1861) |
| 17th of November 1937 | DEATH | Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (Born 1860) |
| 17th of November 1938 | DEATH | Ante Trumbic, Croatian politician (Born 1864) |
| 17th of November 1940 | DEATH | Raymond Pearl, American biologist (Born 1879) |
| 17th of November 1940 | DEATH | Eric Gill, British sculptor (Born 1882) |
| 17th of November 1942 | DEATH | Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (Born 1879) |
| 17th of November 1947 | DEATH | Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (Born 1890) |
| 17th of November 1954 | DEATH | Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (Born 1899) |
| 17th of November 1955 | DEATH | James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (Born 1894) |
| 17th of November 1958 | DEATH | Mort Cooper, baseball player (Born 1913) |
| 17th of November 1959 | DEATH | Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (Born 1887) |
| 17th of November 1968 | DEATH | Mervyn Peake, British writer (Born 1911) |
| 17th of November 1973 | DEATH | Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother", Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Born 1878) |
| 17th of November 1979 | DEATH | John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull) (Born 1951) |
| 17th of November 1982 | DEATH | Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (Born 1905) |
| 17th of November 1982 | DEATH | Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (Born 1924) |
| 17th of November 1982 | DEATH | Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (Born 1959) |
| 17th of November 1986 | DEATH | Georges Besse, French automobile executive (Born 1927) |
| 17th of November 1987 | DEATH | Paul Derringer, baseball player (Born 1906) |
| 17th of November 1989 | DEATH | Mary Giatra Lemou, Greek actress (Born 1915) |
| 17th of November 1989 | DEATH | Gus Farace, American gangster (Born 1960) |
| 17th of November 1990 | DEATH | Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1915) |
| 17th of November 1992 | DEATH | Audre Lord, Caribbean-American writer, poet, and activist (Born 1934) |
| 17th of November 1993 | DEATH | Gerard D. Levesque, Canadian politician (Born 1926) |
| 17th of November 1995 | DEATH | Alan Hull, English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne) (Born 1945) |
| 17th of November 1998 | DEATH | Esther Rolle, American actress (Born 1920) |
| 17th of November 2000 | DEATH | Louis Neel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1904) |
| 17th of November 2001 | DEATH | Michael Karoli, German guitarist (Born 1948) |
| 17th of November 2002 | DEATH | Frank McCarthy, American artist and realist painter (Born 1924) |
| 17th of November 2002 | DEATH | Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (Born 1915) |
| 17th of November 2003 | DEATH | Arthur Conley, American singer (Born 1946) |
| 17th of November 2003 | DEATH | Don Gibson, American singer (Born 1928) |
| 17th of November 2003 | DEATH | Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi artist (Born 1962) |
| 17th of November 2004 | DEATH | Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (Born 1941) |
| 17th of November 2004 | DEATH | Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (Born 1970) |
| 17th of November 2005 | DEATH | Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (Born 1942) |
| 17th of November 2006 | DEATH | Ruth Brown, American blues singer (Born 1928) |
| 17th of November 2006 | DEATH | Bo Schembechler, American football coach (Born 1929) |
| 17th of November 2006 | DEATH | Ferenc Puskas, Hungarian footballer (Born 1927) |
| 17th of November 2006 | DEATH | Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (Born 1924) |
| 17th of November 2008 | DEATH | Pete Newell, American basketball coach (Born 1915) |
| 17th of November 2008 | DEATH | George Stephen Morrison, American admiral (Born 1919) |