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November 17 | |
| 1878 | Birth date of Grace Abbott, social worker. (died 6/19/39) |
| 1888 | Birth date of Donald Marr Nelson, business executive head of the War Production Board. (died 9/29/59) |
| 1904 | Birth date of William Henry Hastie, civil rights attorney, law school professor, and federal judge. (died 4/14/76) |