Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 7, 1885, to mother Ellen Adler, a prosperous Jewish banking family, and father Christian Bohr, a noted physiology scholar. By 1911, the young Bohr had earned his master's and PhD in physics from Copenhagen University. Bohr was first confronted with the consequences of Planck's quantum theory of radiation in this study.

Indira Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, India, as Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, née Nehru. She was an Indian politician who served as the country's first female prime minister for three consecutive terms (1966–77) and a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.

Lala Lajpat Rai, also known as "Punjab Kesari," was an Indian independence activist, author, politician, and freedom fighter who played a pivotal role in the Indian Independence movement. He was one of the three members of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. On November 17, 1928, the great soul departed for the heavenly abode.

On this day in 2006, the stars married within Bracciano, Italy's 15th-century Odescalchi Castle, a ceremony that allegedly cost them more than $3 million. Katie was raised Catholic and began studying Scientology after falling in love with Tom. Suri, their daughter, was born in April 2006, only seven weeks after they met. Katie and Tom married in a Scientologist ceremony at Odescalchi Castle in Italy on November 18, 2006.

ICICI Bank's managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) is Chanda Kochhar. She was born in Rajasthan on November 17th, 1961. She is well-known for her contribution to the development of retail banking in India.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She and her family relocated to Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, in 1945, and to Toronto, Canada, in 1946. She spent part of every year until she was eleven in the northern Ontario wilderness, where her father worked as an entomologist (insect scientist). Her writing was one among the many things she liked doing in her "bush" time, when she wasn't in school. Atwood has garnered over fifty-five accolades, including two Governor General's Awards, the first in 1966 for The Circle Game, her first major collection of poetry, and the second in 1985 for The Handmaid's Tale, which was adapted into a film.

Shigeru Miyamoto (JP) is a Nintendo video game director, producer, artist, designer, and general manager who was born on November 16, 1952. He is regarded as one of the most innovative, admired, prolific, influential, and acclaimed video game developers of all time.

The PPP of Pakistan's Bhutto won the first free elections for the first time in 11 years. Despite allegations of vote rigging against the PPP and the use of the ID card rule to prevent its less well-organized and less well-off supporters from voting, Bhutto won the election by a margin of more than 8%, defeating the IJI's nine-party alliance.

Omprakash Valmiki was a Dalit writer and poet from India. Joothan is well-known for his autobiography, which is regarded as a watershed moment in Dalit literature. He was born in the village of Barla in the Uttar Pradesh district of Muzzafarnagar. He lived in Dehradun after retiring from the Government Ordnance Factory, where he died on November 17, 2013, of complications from stomach cancer.

After her half-sister died in November 1558, Elizabeth ascended to the throne. She was well-educated (fluent in five languages) and had inherited her parents' intelligence, determination, and shrewdness. Her 45-year reign is widely regarded as one of the most illustrious in English history.

Owen Wilson is an actor and screenwriter most known for his work with Wes Anderson, with whom he has collaborated on multiple projects. Wilson and Anderson met at the University of Texas and began their careers by co-writing the script for 'Bottle Rocket.' He was born on November 18, 1968, as the middle child of advertising executive Robert Andrew Wilson and photographer Laura Cunningham. He has two brothers, Andrew and Luke, who are also filmmakers. He is of Irish ancestry.

Claudia Ledington, a former waitress at Sanders' first business, Sanders Cafe, was one outlet for Sanders' sexual impulses. Claudia and Sanders married in 1949, two years after his divorce from Josephine and after an extended romance. Mrs. Sanders had began assisting the man known simply as "the Colonel," an honorary title he got from the Governor of Kentucky, to create a business that would become a fast-food empire even before they married in 1948. She met Mr. Sanders while working as a server at his first restaurant in Corbin, the Sanders Cafe, in the 1930s.

Ustad Imrat Khan is a world-renowned surbahar performer, a deep-toned, sitar-like stringed instrument invented by his great-grandfather, Ustad Sahabdad Khan, and Ustad Imdad Khan. The instrument's four-octave range is utilised to play the ultra-strict dhrupad style of Indian classical music. Imrat contributed to pioneer the distinctive gayaki ang approach to Indian instrumental music by forming one of the earliest sitar-and-surbahad duos with his older brother, Vilayat Khan.