Died on This Day (17-Nov)
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| Tuka Rocha | Christiano "Tuka" Chiaradia Alcoba Rocha was a Brazilian race car driver. | Brazilian race car driver | 36 | 1 | |
| Steve Truglia | Steve Truglia was a stunt coordinator, stunt performer and action unit director in the UK. | Stuntman and soldier | 54 | 4 | |
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Bal Thackeray | Bal Keshav Thackeray , lovingly addressed as "Balasaheb", was an Indian politician who founded the Shiv Sena, a right-wing pro-Marathi and Hindu nationalist party active mainly in the state of Maharashtra. | Indian politician | 86 | 8 |
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Alexander Ragulin | Alexander Pavlovich "Rags" Ragulin was a Russian ice hockey player. | Russian ice hockey player | 63 | 16 |
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Abba Eban | Abba Solomon Meir Eban ; Hebrew: אבא אבן [ˈaba ˈeven]; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. | Israeli politician and statesman | 87 | 18 |
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Louis Néel | Louis Eugène Félix Néel was a French physicist born in Lyon. | French physicist | 95 | 20 |
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Herbert B. Maw | Herbert Brown Maw was an American politician and the eighth Governor of Utah. | Governor of Utah | 97 | 30 |
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Detlev Bronk | Detlev Wulf Bronk was a prominent American scientist, educator, and administrator. | American scientist and educator | 78 | 45 |
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William Wedgwood Benn | William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate, was a British Liberal politician who later joined the Labour Party. | British MP | 83 | 60 |
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W. Frank James | William Francis James was a soldier and politician from the U. | American politician | 72 | 75 |
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Salvatore Riina | Salvatore Riina riˈiːna]; 16 November 1930 – 17 November 2017), called Totò 'u Curtu , was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, resulting in widespread public outcry and a major crackdown by the authorities. | Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia | 87 | 3 |
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Doris Lessing | Doris May Lessing was a British-Zimbabwean novelist. | Novelist | 94 | 7 |
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Lex Luger | Lawrence Wendell Pfohl , better known by the ring name Lex Luger, is an American retired professional wrestler, television producer, bodybuilder, and football player. | American wrestler | 53 | 9 |
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Arthur Conley | Arthur Lee Conley , also known in later years as Lee Roberts, was an American soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit "Sweet Soul Music". | Soul singer | 57 | 17 |
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Harrison A. Williams | Harrison Arlington "Pete" Williams Jr. was an American politician and lawyer. | United States Senator | 81 | 19 |
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Alan Hull | James Alan Hull was an English singer-songwriter and founding member of the Tyneside folk rock band Lindisfarne. | British singer | 50 | 25 |
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Lon Nol | Marshal Lon Nol was a Cambodian politician and general who served as Prime Minister of Cambodia twice , as well as serving repeatedly as defence minister and provincial governor. | Prime Minister of Cambodia | 72 | 35 |
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Andrejs Upīts | Andrejs Upīts was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer and Communist polemicist. | Latvian writer | 92 | 50 |
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James P. Johnson | James Price Johnson was an American pianist and composer. | American pianist and composer | 61 | 65 |
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Alexander Hogg | Alexander Wilson Hogg was a member of parliament for Masterton, in the North Island of New Zealand. | New Zealand politician | 79 | 100 |