Shelby Foote
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. was an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War.
17 November 1916
Born on the same birth day (17 November): Butch Davis • Carolina Neurath • Grace Abbott • Jeremy Hanley • John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer • Runa Laila • Ruth Aaronson Bari • Tom Ellis (actor) • Werner Hoyer
Born in the same month (November 1916): Billy May • Charles E. Osgood • Chick Hearn • Clinton Jones (priest) • Daws Butler • Donald T. Campbell • Evelyn Keyes • Forrest J Ackerman • Fran Ryan • Jean Papineau-Couture • Martha Settle Putney • Michael Gough • Michael Gwynn • P. K. Page • Paul Emery • Peg Lynch • Ramón José Velásquez • Robert Carr • Roger Apéry • Walter Cronkite