| 131011 | November 17 | Death | 1971 – Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1898) |
| 131012 | November 17 | Death | 1973 – Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (b. 1878) |
| 131013 | November 17 | Death | 1976 – Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1880) |
| 131014 | November 17 | Death | 1979 – John Glascock, English singer and bass player (Jethro Tull, The Gods, Toe Fat, Carmen, and Chicken Shack) (b. 1951) |
| 131015 | November 17 | Death | 1982 – Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1905) |
| 131016 | November 17 | Death | 1986 – Georges Besse, French businessman (b. 1927) |
| 131017 | November 17 | Death | 1987 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (b. 1906) |
| 131018 | November 17 | Death | 1988 – Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, author, and journalist (b. 1904) |
| 131019 | November 17 | Death | 1989 – Costabile Farace, American criminal (b. 1960) |
| 131020 | November 17 | Death | 1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) |
| 131021 | November 17 | Death | 1992 – Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American author, poet, and activist (b. 1934) |
| 131022 | November 17 | Death | 1993 – Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Premier of Quebec (b. 1926) |
| 131023 | November 17 | Death | 1995 – Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lindisfarne) (b. 1945) |
| 131024 | November 17 | Death | 1998 – Kea Bouman, Dutch tennis player (b. 1903) |
| 131025 | November 17 | Death | 1998 – Reinette L'Oranaise, Arab-Jewish singer of Arab-Andalus music (b. 1918) |
| 131026 | November 17 | Death | 1998 – Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920) |
| 131027 | November 17 | Death | 2000 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) |
| 131028 | November 17 | Death | 2001 – Michael Karoli, German guitarist and songwriter (Can) (b. 1948) |
| 131029 | November 17 | Death | 2001 – Harrison A. Williams, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1919) |
| 131030 | November 17 | Death | 2002 – Abba Eban, South African-Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1915) |
| 131031 | November 17 | Death | 2002 – Frank McCarthy, American painter and illustrator (b. 1924) |
| 131032 | November 17 | Death | 2003 – Surjit Bindrakhia, Indian singer (b. 1962) |
| 131033 | November 17 | Death | 2003 – Arthur Conley, American-Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1946) |
| 131034 | November 17 | Death | 2003 – Don Gibson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928) |
| 131035 | November 17 | Death | 2004 – Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler and manager (b. 1970) |
| 131036 | November 17 | Death | 2004 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1941) |
| 131037 | November 17 | Death | 2005 – Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor and director (b. 1942) |
| 131038 | November 17 | Death | 2006 – Ruth Brown, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1928) |
| 131039 | November 17 | Death | 2006 – Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1927) |
| 131040 | November 17 | Death | 2006 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924) |