Category: This Day In History November 17
Categories: This Day In History November
Note: These categories should be applied only to notable persons/events in history.
This Day in History for November 17
Historic Events:
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Famous Birthdays:
- 1899: Douglas Shearer 7 time Technical Academy Award winner
- 1925: Roy "Rock Hudson" Scherer Actor
Famous Deaths:
- 1516: Mary Tudor dau. of Henry VIII
- 1969: Muriel Lilah Matters was an Australian born suffragist, lecturer, journalist, educator, actress and elocutionist.
- 1991: Pixie O'Harris MBE was a Australian artist, author,newspaper, magazine and book illustrator, broadcaster, caricaturist and cartoonist, designer of book plates, sheet music covers and stationery, and children's hospital ward fairy style mural painter.
Person Profiles (8)
Edmund FitzAlan
01 May 1285 Marlborough Castle, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England - 17 Nov 1326

Rhona (Harris) Pratt
15 Oct 1903 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom - 17 Nov 1991

Gordon Lightfoot
17 Nov 1938 Orillia, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada - 01 May 2023

Muriel (Matters) Porter
12 Nov 1877 Bowden ,Adelaide, South Australia - 17 Nov 1969

Rachel McAdams
1970s

Roy (Scherer) Hudson
17 Nov 1925 Winnetka, Cook, Illinois, United States - 02 Oct 1985

Douglas Shearer
17 Nov 1899 Montreal, Quebec, Canada - 05 Jan 1971

Mary (Tudor) of England
18 Feb 1516 Greenwich, Kent, England - 17 Nov 1558

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