What happened on November 17? There are more than 331 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About November 17
November 17 is the 322nd day of the year 2024. There are 44 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 46th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Sidon, Mississippi 38954 sunrise occured at 06:33 AM and sunset occured at 04:58 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Topaz while the mystical birthstone is Pearl.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 73 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For November 17
- 473The future Leo II is named associate emperor by Leo I.
- 794Japanese Emperor Kammu changes his residence from Nara to Kyoto.
- 1183The Battle of Mizushima.
- 1292John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
- 1511Spain and England ally against France.
- 1558Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
- 1603English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
- 1659The Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
- 1777Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification.
- 1796Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole – French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
- 1800The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
- 1810Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
- 1811José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
- 1812Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.
- 1820Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him).
- 1831Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Colombia.
- 1839Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
- 1855David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
- 1856American 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.
- 1858Modified Julian Day zero.
- 1863American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins – Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.
- 1869In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
- 1871The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
- 1876Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow.
- 1878First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
- 1903The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for “majority”) and Mensheviks (Russian for “minority”).
- 1911Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, which is the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an HBCU, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington,DC.
- 1919King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea is first suggested by Edward George Honey.
- 1922Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy.
- 1922The first executions during the Irish Civil War take place when five Irish Republican Army members are sent to the firing squad by the Irish Free State.
- 1933United States recognizes Soviet Union.
- 1939Nine 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.
- 1947American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th Century.
- 1947The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
- 1953The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
- 1957Vickers 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.
- 1962President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
- 1967Vietnam 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.”
- 1968Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
- 1968British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
- 1968Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
- 1969Cold 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.
- 1970Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
- 1970Luna 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.
- 1970Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
- 1973The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
- 1973Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook”.
- 1979Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
- 1982Duk 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.
- 1983The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
- 1989Cold 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).
- 1990Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
- 1997In 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).
- 2000A 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.
- 2000Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
- 2009Administrators at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia discover their servers had been hacked and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen, which would serve as the basis of the “Climategate” controversy.
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Who Were Born On November 17?
- 9Emperor Vespasian, Roman emperor (d. 79)
- 1503Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1572)
- 1576Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
- 1587Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)
- 1612Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
- 1681Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
- 1685Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
- 1729Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (d. 1785)
- 1749Nicolas Appert, French inventor (d. 1841)
- 1753Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (d. 1815)
- 1755Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)
- 1765Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
- 1790August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
- 1793Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
- 1799Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)
- 1816August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
- 1827Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
- 1835Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
- 1854Hubert Lyautey, French general (d. 1934)
- 1857Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932)
- 1866Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
- 1868Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
- 1877Frank Calder, British-born Canadian sports executive (d. 1943)
- 1878Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939)
- 1878Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
- 1886Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher (d. 1967)
- 1887Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976)
- 1894Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (d. 1972)
- 1895Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
- 1895Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
- 1896Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
- 1897Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)
- 1899Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)
- 1901Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d. 1982)
- 1901Walter Hallstein, German politician (d. 1982)
- 1902Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1904Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
- 1905Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1905Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)
- 1906Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- 1906Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (d. 1991)
- 1907Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley’s secretary (d. 1985)
- 1911Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
- 1916Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005)
- 1920Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
- 1921Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter
- 1922Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1923Aristides Pereira, Cape Verdian politician (d. 2011)
- 1923Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)
- 1923Hubertus Brandenburg, Swedish Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 2009)
- 1923Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986)
- 1925Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor (d. 2010)
- 1925Jean Faut, American baseball player
- 1925Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1927Robert Brown, American actor
- 1927Robert Drasnin, American musician and composer
- 1928Arman, French/American artist (d. 2005)
- 1928Rance Howard, American actor
- 1929Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1930Bob Mathias, American decathlete (d. 2006)
- 1933Orlando Peña, Cuban baseball player
- 1934Fenella Fielding, English actress
- 1934Jim Inhofe, American politician
- 1935Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player
- 1935Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (d. 2009)
- 1936Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
- 1937Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
- 1938Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
- 1939Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
- 1940Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player (d. 1984)
- 1942Bob Gaudio, singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Keyboardist/backing vocalist for The Four Seasons (band)
- 1942Kang Kek Iew, Cambodian politician and criminal
- 1942Martin Scorsese, American film director
- 1943Lauren Hutton, American actress
- 1944Danny DeVito, American actor
- 1944Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991)
- 1944Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame basketball coach
- 1944Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
- 1944Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
- 1944Tom Seaver, American baseball player
- 1945Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
- 1945Roland Joffé, Anglo-French film director
- 1946Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull)
- 1946Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
- 1947Inky Mark, Canadian politician
- 1947Robert “Stewkey” Antoni lead vocalist and keyboardist for Nazz
- 1947Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
- 1948East Bay Ray, American musician
- 1948Howard Dean, American politician, 75th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont & 79th Governor of Vermont
- 1949John Boehner, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio & 61st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- 1949Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Vietnam
- 1950Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and race team owner (d. 2010)
- 1951Butch Davis, American football coach
- 1951Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987)
- 1951Stephen Root, American actor
- 1952Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
- 1953Babis Tennes, Greek football manager
- 1954Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
- 1955Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player
- 1955Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007)
- 1956Graham Jones, British author and psychologist
- 1957Debbie Thrower, news reader
- 1958Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
- 1959Terry Fenwick, English footballer
- 1959William R. Moses, American actor
- 1960Jonathan Ross, British TV presenter
- 1960Mandy Yachad, former South African cricketer
- 1960Michael Hertwig, German footballer
- 1960RuPaul, American drag entertainer
- 1961Pat Toomey, American politician, junior senator of Pennsylvania
- 1961Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (d. 1985)
- 1962Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
- 1963Randy Black, Canadian drummer (Annihilator)
- 1964Mitch Williams, baseball player
- 1964Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality
- 1964Susan Rice, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1965Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer
- 1966Ben Allison, American jazz bassist and composer
- 1966Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
- 1966Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
- 1966Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
- 1966Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
- 1966Sophie Marceau, French actress
- 1967Tab Benoit American Cajun musician
- 1968Amber Michaels, German pornographic actress
- 1968Sean Miller, American basketball coach
- 1969Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
- 1969Rebecca Walker, American feminist writer
- 1969Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
- 1970Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
- 1972Joanne Goode, English badminton player
- 1972Kimya Dawson, American singer
- 1972Leonard Roberts, American actor
- 1973Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
- 1973Andreas “Vintersorg” Hedlund, Swedish singer (Vintersorg)
- 1973Bernd Schneider, German footballer
- 1973Eli Marrero, American baseball player
- 1974Berto Romero, Spanish humorist
- 1974Leslie Bibb, American actress
- 1975Jerome James, American basketball player
- 1975Kinga Baranowska, Polish mountaineer
- 1975Lord Infamous, Rapper
- 1975Roland de Marigny, South African-born Italian rugby player
- 1976Brandon Call, American actor
- 1976Diane Neal, American actress
- 1976Jacqueline Aguilera, Venezuelan beauty queen
- 1977Paul Shepherd, English footballer
- 1977Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
- 1978Glen Air, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1978Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
- 1978Reggie Wayne, American football player
- 1978Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress-stuntwoman
- 1979Matthew Spring, English footballer
- 1980Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
- 1980Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
- 1980Mercedes Martinez, American professional wrestler
- 1981Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
- 1982Hollie Smith, New Zealand singer
- 1982Katie Feenstra-Mattera, American basketball player
- 1982Lucy Durack, Australian Singer/Performer
- 1982Otacílio Mariano Neto, Brazilian footballer
- 1982Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer
- 1983Christopher Paolini, American novelist
- 1983Harry Lloyd, English actor
- 1983Nick Markakis, American baseball player
- 1983Ryan Bradley, American figure skater
- 1983Ryan Braun, American baseball player
- 1983Scott Moore, American baseball player
- 1983Trevor Crowe, American baseball player
- 1983Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
- 1984Amanda Evora, American figure skater
- 1984Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
- 1986Fabio Concas, Italian footballer
- 1986Luis Aguiar, Uruguayan footballer
- 1986Nani, Portuguese footballer
- 1987Gemma Spofforth, British swimmer
- 1990Shanica Knowles, American actress
- 1992Darian Weiss, American actor
- 1994Raquel Castro, American actress
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Who Died On November 17?
- 265Dionysius, Greek Orthodox Pope of Alexandria (b. late 2nd, early 3rd century)
- 344Jin Kangdi, Chinese emperor (b. 322)
- 375Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
- 594Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c. 538)
- 641Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
- 680Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
- 885Queen Liutgard of Saxony (b. c. 845)
- 1104Nikephoros Melissenos, Byzantine general (b. c. 1045)
- 1231Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
- 1302St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256)
- 1326Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
- 1494Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
- 1558Mary I of England (b. 1516)
- 1558Reginald Pole, Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
- 1562Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
- 1592John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
- 1600Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
- 1632Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
- 1643Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
- 1648Thomas Ford, English composer
- 1665John Earle, English bishop
- 1668Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
- 1690Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
- 1708Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
- 1713Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
- 1720Calico Jack Rackham, English pirate (b. 1682)
- 1747Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
- 1768Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
- 1776James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
- 1780Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
- 1794Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
- 1796Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (b. 1729)
- 1808David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
- 1818Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King George III (b. 1744)
- 1835Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
- 1849Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794)
- 1858Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
- 1865James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813)
- 1897George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
- 1902Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
- 1905Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
- 1910Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, 1st ‘American’pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado (b. 1886)
- 1917Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
- 1921Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist
- 1922Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
- 1928Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
- 1929Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
- 1936Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
- 1937Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
- 1938Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
- 1940Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
- 1940Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
- 1942Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
- 1947Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
- 1954Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (b. 1899)
- 1955James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
- 1958Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
- 1959Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
- 1961Michael Rockefeller, son of Governor Nelson Rockefeller; died on expedition to New Guinea (b. 1938)
- 1968Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
- 1973Mirra Alfassa, “The Mother”, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
- 1976Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1880)
- 1979John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull) (b. 1951)
- 1982Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (b. 1959)
- 1982Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
- 1982Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
- 1986Georges Besse, French automobile executive (b. 1927)
- 1987Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906)
- 1988Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-US gossip columnist (b. 1904)
- 1989Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
- 1989Mary Giatra Lemou, Greek actress (b. 1915)
- 1990Peter Schilperoort, Dutch musician Dutch Swing College Band (b. 1919)
- 1990Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- 1992Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American writer, poet, and activist (b. 1934)
- 1993Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
- 1995Alan Hull, English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne) (b. 1945)
- 1998Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
- 1998Kea Bouman, Dutch tennisplayer (b. 1903)
- 2000Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 2001Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
- 2002Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
- 2002Frank McCarthy, American artist and realist painter (b. 1924)
- 2003Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
- 2003Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
- 2003Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi artist (b. 1962)
- 2004Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
- 2004Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
- 2005Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
- 2006Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
- 2006Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
- 2006Flo Sandon’s, Italian singer (b. 1924)
- 2006Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
- 2008George Stephen Morrison, American admiral (b. 1919)
- 2008Pete Newell, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
- 2011Kurt Budke, American basketball coach (b. 1961)
- 2011Olin Branstetter, American businessman and politician (b. 1929)
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