November 17

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They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
but the LORD was my support.

Psalm 18:18 NIV

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799: Artist and naturalist Titian Peale

1901: Director Lee Strasberg

1905: Actor Mischa Auer (My Man Godfrey, Brewster's Millions, Destry Rides Again, You Can't Take it with You)

1914: Entertainer and comedian Archie Campbell (Trouble in the Amen Corner, Bleeping Sleauty, Ridercella, The Men in My Little Girl's Life; Hee Haw, Grand Ole Opry)

1916: Historian Shelby Foote

1925: Actor (Roy Scherer Fitzgerald) Rock Hudson (McMillan and Wife, Giant, A Gathering of Eagles, Ice Station Zebra, Magnificent Obsession, Pillow Talk, Written on the Wind)

1930: Olympic & National Track & Field Hall of Famer Bob Mathias

1935: Baseball player Orlando Pena

1936: Baseball player Gary Bell

1937: Actor-comedian Peter Cook (Bedazzled, The Princess Bride, Whoops Apocalypse, The Two of Us)

1938: Singer Gordon Lightfoot (Sundown, If You Could Read My Mind, Carefree Highway, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald)

1941: Singer and Musician Gene Clark (Group: The Byrds: Turn, Turn, Turn; New Christy Minstrels)

1942: Movie director Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets, The Color of Money, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, New York, New York, The Last Temptation of Christ, Cape Fear, Michael Jackson's Bad video)

1942: Singer Bob Gaudio (Group - The Four Seasons: Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, Walk like a Man, Rag Doll)

1944: Actress Lauren Hutton (American Gigolo, Lassiter, Paper Lion)

1944: Actor-director Danny DeVito (Taxi, Twins, Batman Returns, Hoffa, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Terms of Endearment, director: Throw Mama from the Train, The War of the Roses, Jack the Bear)

1944: Baseball hall-of-famer Tom Seaver (Cy Young Award-winner [1969, 1973, 1975])

1944: Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels

1945: Movie director Roland Joffe ("The Killing Fields")

1950: Olympic Gold Medalist in swimming Roland Matthes

1958: Actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (The Color of Money, The Abyss, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Class Action, Consenting Adults, Scarface)

1959: Actor William Moses

1962: Actor Eric Olson (Apple's Way, Swiss Family Robinson)

1967: Rhythm-and-blues singer (New Edition) Ronnie DeVoe

1960: Entertainer RuPaul

1963: Actor Dylan Walsh

1966: Actress-model-veejay Daisy Fuentes

1967: Rhythm-and-blues singer Ronnie DeVoe (New Edition; Bell Biv DeVoe)

1968: Rhythm-and-blues musician Jeff Allen (Mint Condition)

1976: Actor Brandon Call

1980: Rock musician Isaac Hanson (Hanson)

1988: Actor Justin Cooper

 

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