The 321st day of the year, the 322nd in a leap year
Born on 17 November
Every 17 November birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Scorpio, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- ScorpioWater, fixed, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- Topaz, CitrineThe 1912 list gave Topaz.
- Birth flower
- ChrysanthemumUsually taken today to mean loyalty.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 17 November in any year.
Which weekday 17 November falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 17 November falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 17 November is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,795 babies were born on 17 November in each year of the twenty, making it the 223rd most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 17 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Scorsese | 1942– | American filmmaker |
| Cyril Ramaphosa | 1952– | President of South Africa since 2018 |
| Eugene Wigner | 1902–1995 | Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician |
| Rachel McAdams | 1978– | Canadian actress |
| Louis XVIII | 1755–1824 | King of France and Navarre from 1814 to 1815 and from 1815 to 1824 |
| Danny DeVito | 1944– | American actor, comedian, director and producer |
| Nicolas Appert | 1749–1841 | French inventor of airtight food preservation |
| Bernard Montgomery | 1887–1976 | British Army officer |
| Lev Vygotsky | 1896–1934 | Soviet psychologist |
| Abdelmadjid Tebboune | 1945– | president of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria since 2019 |
| Sophie Marceau | 1966– | French actress |
| Nani | 1986– | Portuguese association football player |
| Rock Hudson | 1925–1985 | American actor |
| Bronzino | 1503–1572 | Italian Mannerist painter |
| August Ferdinand Möbius | 1790–1868 | German mathematician and astronomer |
| Stanley Cohen | 1922–2020 | American biochemist |
| Christopher Paolini | 1983– | author, novelist |
| Rem Koolhaas | 1944– | Dutch architect |
Died on 17 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Catherine the Great | 1729–1796 | Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796 |
| Doris Lessing | 1919–2013 | British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer |
| Auguste Rodin | 1840–1917 | French sculptor |
| Mary I | 1516–1558 | Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558 |
| Ferenc Puskás | 1927–2006 | Hungarian association football player |
| Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | 1463–1494 | Italian Renaissance philosopher |
| Valentinian I | 321–375 | Roman emperor from 364 to 375 |
| Louis Néel | 1904–2000 | French physicist |
| Robert Hofstadter | 1915–1990 | American physicist and Nobel laureate |
| Elizabeth of Hungary | 1207–1231 | Catholic saint |
| Audre Lorde | 1934–1992 | American writer and feminist activist |
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