November Birthdays Through History

November Birthdays

11/1/1793 :Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz, naturalist.
11/1/1863 :J.W. Packard, inventor and industrialist.
11/1/1871 :Stephen Crane, author.
11/1/1880 :Alfred Lothar Wegener, geologist.
11/1/1880 :Grantland Rice, sportswriter (“… how you played the game.”).
11/1/1880 :Sholem Asch, Polish author.
11/1/1920 :James Jackson Kilpatrick, journalist.
11/1/1926 :Betsy Palmer (Patricia Bromek), actress.
11/1/1935 :Gary Player, South African golfer.
11/1/1941 :Robert Foxworth, actor.
11/1/1942 :Larry Claxton Flynt, publisher.
11/1/1949 :Jeannie Berlin, actress.
11/1/1960 :Fernando Valenzuela, baseball player.
11/1/1960 :Lyle Lovett. (1957?)
11/1/1963 :Rick Allen, rock musician.
11/2/1734 :Daniel Boone, frontiersman.
11/2/1755 :Marie Antoinette, queen of France.
11/2/1795 :James Knox Polk, 11th US president.
11/2/1865 :Warren Gamaliel Harding, 29th US president.
11/2/1885 :Harlow Shapley, astronomer.
11/2/1913 :Burt Lancaster, actor.
11/2/1914 :Ray Walston, actor and director.
11/2/1920 :Ann Rutherford, actress.
11/2/1921 :William D. Schaefer, Maryland Governor.
11/2/1938 :Patrick J. Buchanan, political commentator.
11/2/1941 :David Stockton, golfer.
11/2/1942 :Shere Hite, author.
11/2/1942 :Stefanie Powers, actress.
11/2/1944 :Keith Emerson.
11/2/1953 :Alfre Woodard, actress.
11/2/1961 :k.d. lang, singer.
11/3/1718 :John Montague, fourth Earl of Sandwich, inventor of the sandwich.
11/3/1793 :Stephen Fuller Austin, namesake of Texas capital.
11/3/1794 :William Cullen Bryant, US poet.
11/3/1845 :Edward Douglass White, US Supreme Court Chief Justice.
11/3/1901 :Andre Malraux, French novelist.
11/3/1909 :James Reston, journalist.
11/3/1918 :Bob Feller, baseball player.
11/3/1922 :Charles Bronson (Charles Buchinsky), actor.
11/3/1931 :Monica Vitti (Monica Luisa Ceciarelli), actress.
11/3/1933 :Ken Berry, actor and singer.
11/3/1933 :Louis Wade Sullivan, Secretary of US Department of Health and
:Human Services.
11/3/1933 :Michael S. Dukakis, former Massachusetts Governor.
11/3/1945 :Steve Landesberg, actor.
11/3/1948 :Lulu, singer.
11/3/1948 :Tom Shales, TV critic.
11/3/1949 :Larry Holmes.
11/3/1951 :Dwight Evans, baseball player.
11/3/1952 :Roseanne Arnold, comedienne.
11/3/1953 :Dennis Miller.
11/3/1954 :Adam Ant (Stewart Goddard), singer.
11/3/1956 :Phil Simms, football player.
11/3/1960 :Karch Kiraly.
11/4/1650 :King William III (William of Orange).
11/4/1862 :Eden Phillpotts, English novelist and poet.
11/4/1873 :G.E. Moore, British philosopher.
11/4/1879 :William Penn Adair Rogers, US humorist.
11/4/1916 :Walter Leland Cronkite Jr, TV news anchor.
11/4/1918 :Art Carney, actor.
11/4/1918 :Cameron Mitchell, actor.
11/4/1919 :Martin Balsam, actor.
11/4/1923 :Alfred Heineken, brewery executive.
11/4/1930 :Doris Roberts, actress.
11/4/1930 :Kate Reid, actress.
11/4/1937 :Loretta Switt, actress.
11/4/1946 :Robert Mapplethorpe, photographer.
11/4/1950 :Markie Post, actress.
11/4/1962 :Ralph Macchio, actor. (1961?)
11/4/1963 :Andrea McArdle, singer and actress. (11/5?)
11/5/1855 :Eugene Victor Debs, Socialist Party US presidential candidate.
11/5/1857 :Ida M. Tarbell, historian.
11/5/1885 :Will Durant, historian.
11/5/1893 :Raymond Fernand Loewy, “father of streamlining.”
11/5/1912 :Paul Dehn, screenwriter.
11/5/1912 :Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye), movie cowboy.
11/5/1913 :Vivian Leigh, actress.
11/5/1931 :Ike Turner, singer and songwriter.
11/5/1932 :Arthur Lawrence Liman, lawyer.
11/5/1940 :Elke Sommer (Elke Schletze), actress. (1941?)
11/5/1942 :Paul Simon, singer and actor.
11/5/1943 :Sam Shepard (Samuel Shepard Rogers), author.
11/5/1947 :Peter Noone, singer.
11/5/1959 :Bryan Adams, singer and songwriter.
11/5/1959 :Lloyd Anthony Moseby, baseball player.
11/5/1963 :Andrea McArdle, actress. (11/4?)
11/5/1963 :Tatum O’Neal, actress.
11/5/1971 :Corin Nemec, actor.
11/6/1558 :Thomas Kyd, playwright (“The Spanish Tragedy”).
11/6/1671 :Colley Cibber, actor and playwright.
11/6/1814 :Adolphe Sax (Antoine Joseph Sax), Belgian inventor of the
:saxophone.
11/6/1854 :John Philip Sousa, band leader and composer.
11/6/1860 :Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish composer and pianist.
11/6/1861 :James Naismith, basketball inventor.
11/6/1880 :Robert Musil, novelist (“The Man Without Qualities”).
11/6/1887 :Walter Johnson, baseball player.
11/6/1916 :Ray Conniff, band leader.
11/6/1921 :James Jones.
11/6/1931 :Mike Nichols (Michael Igor Peschkowsky), actor and director.
11/6/1946 :Sally Field, actress.
11/6/1948 :Glenn Frey, rock singer.
11/6/1955 :Maria Owings Shriver, NBC TV newscaster.
11/6/1960 :Lance Kerwin, actor.
11/6/1966 :Peter DeLuise.
11/6/1978 :Nicole Dubuc.
11/7/1867 :Marie Sklodowska Curie, discoverer of radium.
11/7/1900 :Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS leader.
11/7/1913 :Albert Camus, French novelist.
11/7/1918 :Billy (William Franklin) Graham, evangelist.
11/7/1922 :Al Hirt, musician.
11/7/1924 :Wolf Mankowitz, screenwriter.
11/7/1926 :Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian opera star.
11/7/1930 :Rudy Boschwitz, former Minnesota Senator.
11/7/1937 :Mary Travers, author and composer.
11/7/1943 :Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson), singer.
11/7/1964 :Dana Plato, actress.
11/8/1656 :Edmund Halley, British astronomer.
11/8/1900 :Margaret Mitchell, US author (“Gone With the Wind”).
11/8/1914 :Norman Lloyd, actor.
11/8/1916 :June Havoc, actress.
11/8/1921 :Gene Saks, actor-director.
11/8/1922 :Dr. Christian Neethling Barnard, heart transplant pioneer.
11/8/1927 :Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler), singer.
11/8/1931 :Morley Safer, newscaster.
11/8/1933 :Esther Rolle.
11/8/1935 :Alain Delon, actor.
11/8/1949 :Bonnie Raitt, singer and songwriter.
11/8/1951 :Mary Hart (Mary Harum), “Entertainment Tonight” co-host.
11/8/1952 :Christie Hefner, business executive.
11/8/1954 :Ricki Lee Jones, musician.
11/8/1961 :Leif Garrett.
11/9/1802 :Elijah P. Lovejoy, US newspaper publisher and abolitionist.
11/9/1815 :Leonard Andrew Grimes, abolitionist.
11/9/1818 :Ivan Turgenev, Russian author.
11/9/1853 :Stanford White, US architect (“Madison Square Garden”).
11/9/1873 :Marie Dressler, actress.
11/9/1886 :Ed Wynn, actor-comedian.
11/9/1913 :Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress.
11/9/1915 :Sargent Shriver, first director of Peace Corps.
11/9/1918 :Spiro Theodore Agnew, former US vice president.
11/9/1928 :Anne Sexton.
11/9/1930 :Charlie Jones, sportscaster.
11/9/1931 :Whitey Herzog, baseball manager.
11/9/1934 :Carl Sagan, astronomer and biologist.
11/9/1935 :Bob Gibson, baseball player.
11/9/1936 :Bob Graham, Florida Senator.
11/9/1942 :Tom Weiskopf, golfer.
11/9/1952 :Lou Ferrigno, actor.
11/10/1483:Martin Luther, Augustinian monk and founder of Protestantism.
11/10/1697:William Hogarth, English artist and engraver.
11/10/1728:Oliver Goldsmith, Irish author.
11/10/1759:Friedrich von Schiller.
11/10/1793:Jared Kirtland, US physician and naturalist.
11/10/1879:Vachel Lindsey.
11/10/1893:John P. Marquand, American novelist (“The Late George Apley”).
11/10/1909:Johnny Marks, songwriter (“Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”).
11/10/1925:Richard Burton (Richard Jenkins), actor.
11/10/1935:Roy Scheider, actor. (10/11?)
11/10/1940:Russell Charles Means, Native American rights activist.
11/10/1944:Tim Rice, lyricist.
11/10/1948:Greg Lake.
11/10/1949:Ann Reinking, dancer.
11/10/1949:Donna Fargo (Yvonne Vaughan), country singer.
11/10/1951:Jack Scalia, actor.
11/10/1955:Jack Anthony Clark, baseball player.
11/10/1957:Sinbad. (11/18/1956?)
11/10/1959:Mackenzie Phillips, actress.
11/11/1744:Abigail Smith Adams, wife of John Adams.
11/11/1821:Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian author.
11/11/1836:Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American author and editor.
11/11/1885:General George Smith Patton Jr, US military officer.
11/11/1891:Rabbit Maranville, baseball player.
11/11/1899:Pat O’Brien, actor.
11/11/1904:Alger Hiss, former US State Department official.
11/11/1915:William Proxmire, former Wisconsin Senator.
11/11/1920:James Bond.
11/11/1922:Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author.
11/11/1925:Jonathan Winters, comedian.
11/11/1927:Mose Allison, jazz musician.
11/11/1928:Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist.
11/11/1935:Bibi Andersson (Birgitta Anderson), actress.
11/11/1937:Richard F. Celeste, former Ohio Governor.
11/11/1940:Barbara Boxer, California Senator.
11/11/1945:Daniel Ortega Saavedra, former Nicaraguan president.
11/11/1951:Frank Urban “Fuzzy” Zoeller, golfer.
11/11/1962:Demi Moore, actress.
11/11/1964:Philip McKeon, actor.
11/12/1746:Jacques Charles, French physicist.
11/12/1790:Letitia Christian Tyler, first wife of John Tyler.
11/12/1815:Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women’s suffrage activist.
11/12/1817:Baha’u’llah (Mirza Husayn Ali), prophet-founder of Baha’i faith.
11/12/1840:Auguste Rodin, French sculptor.
11/12/1908:Harry A. Blackmun, US Supreme Court Justice.
11/12/1915:Roland Barthes, French critic and semiotician.
11/12/1922:Kim Hunter (Janet Cole), actress.
11/12/1928:Bill Muncey, hydroplane racer.
11/12/1929:Peter Lamont, film production designer.
11/12/1929:Princess Grace of Monaco (Grace Patricia Kelley), former US movie
:star.
11/12/1945:Neil Young, rock musician.
11/12/1961:Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gymnast.
11/12/1970:Tonya Harding, Olympic figure skater.
11/13/354 :Saint Augustine of Hippo.
11/13/1312:King Edward III of England.
11/13/1792:Edward John Trelawney, English traveller and author.
11/13/1831:James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist.
11/13/1833:Edwin (Thomas) Booth, actor and brother of John Wilkes Booth.
11/13/1850:Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author.
11/13/1856:Louis Dembitz Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice.
11/13/1914:William Gibson, American playwright.
11/13/1922:Madeline Sherwood, actress.
11/13/1924:Linda Christian (Blanca Rosa Walker), actress.
11/13/1932:Richard Mulligan, actor.
11/13/1934:Gary Marshall, producer and director.
11/13/1941:Dack Rambo, actor.
11/13/1947:Joe Mantegna, actor.
11/13/1949:Whoopi Goldberg (Karen Johnson), actress and comedian.
11/13/1953:Charlie Tickner, figure skater.
11/13/1959:Tracy Scoggins, actress (“Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of
:Superman”).
11/13/1963:Vinnie (Vincent Frank) Testaverde, football player.
11/14/1765:Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat.
11/14/1797:Charles Lyell, geologist.
11/14/1840:Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter.
11/14/1861:Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian (“The Frontier in
:American History”).
11/14/1863:Leo Baekeland, Belgian chemist (inventor of Bakelite).
11/14/1889:Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman.
11/14/1896:Mamie Doud Eisenhower, wife of Dwight David Eisenhower.
11/14/1900:Aaron Copland, composer.
11/14/1907:Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (“Pippi Longstocking”).
11/14/1909:Joseph McCarthy, Wisconsin Senator.
11/14/1921:Brian Keith, actor.
11/14/1922:Boutros Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary General.
11/14/1929:McLean Stevenson, actor.
11/14/1935:Don Stewart, actor and singer.
11/14/1935:King Hussein of Jordan.
11/14/1948:Prince Charles, heir to the British throne.
11/14/1955:Jack Sikma, basketball player.
11/14/1961:D.B. Sweeney.
11/14/1966:Curt Schilling.
11/15/-2349:Methuselah.
11/15/1708:William (“the elder”) Pitt, British statesman.
11/15/1738:Sir William Herschel, Discoverer of the planet Uranus.
11/15/1862:Gerhart Hauptmann.
11/15/1874:August Krogh, Danish Nobel Prize-winning physiologist.
11/15/1881:Franklin P. Adams, American humorist.
11/15/1882:Justice Felix Frankfurter.
11/15/1886:George Spelvin, fictional theatrical character.
11/15/1887:Georgia O’Keeffe, artist.
11/15/1887:Marianne Moore, poet.
11/15/1891:Erwin Rommel, German commander.
11/15/1891:W. Averell Harriman, diplomat.
11/15/1897:Sacheverell Sitwell, British writer.
11/15/1905:Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, conductor.
11/15/1906:General Curtis LeMay, USAF.
11/15/1921:Joseph Wapner, judge. (1919?)
11/15/1925:Howard H. Baker Jr, former White House chief of staff.
11/15/1929:Edward Asner, actor.
11/15/1932:Petula Clark, singer-actress.
11/15/1934:Joanna Barnes, actress.
11/15/1935:John Coleman, TV meteorologist.
11/15/1937:Yaphet Kotto, actor.
11/15/1940:Sam Waterston, actor.
11/15/1942:Daniel Barenboim, musician and conductor.
11/15/1954:Beverly D’Angelo, actress.
11/16/-42 :Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor.
11/16/1873:William Christopher Handy, composer and “Father of the Blues”.
11/16/1889:George S. Kaufman, Broadway director-playwright.
11/16/1895:Michael Arlen, novelist (“The Green Hat”).
11/16/1895:Paul Hindemith, composer and teacher.
11/16/1905:Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist-bandleader. (1904?)
11/16/1908:Burgess Meredith, actor. (1909?)
11/16/1930:Chinua Achebe, writer.
11/16/1931:Bob Gibson, singer and musician.
11/16/1935:Elizabeth Drew, journalist.
11/16/1944:Joanna Pettet, actress.
11/16/1945:Martine Van Hammel, ballerina.
11/16/1946:Jo Jo White, basketball player.
11/16/1950:Harvey Martin, football player.
11/16/1963:Zina Garrison.
11/16/1964:Dwight Gooden, baseball player.
11/16/1967:Lisa Bonet, actress.
11/16/1970:Martha Plimpton, actress.
11/17/-3 :Jesus Christ (according to Clement of Alexandria).
11/17/1755:King Louis XVIII of France.
11/17/1790:August Ferdinand Mobius, German describer of the Mobius Strip.
11/17/1799:Titian Ramsey Peale, American artist and naturalist.
11/17/1878:Grace Abbott, US social reformer.
11/17/1887:Bernard Montgomery, British Field Marshal.
11/17/1901:Lee Strasberg, drama teacher.
11/17/1917:Robert D. Orr, Indiana Governor.
11/17/1925:Rock Hudson (Roy Scherer Jr), actor.
11/17/1930:Bob Mathias, track athlete and congressman.
11/17/1937:Peter Cook, comedian and actor.
11/17/1939:Gordon Lightfoot, singer and songwriter. (1938?)
11/17/1942:Donna Garratt, stuntwoman.
11/17/1942:Martin Scorsese, film director.
11/17/1944:Danny DeVito, actor.
11/17/1944:(Mary) Lauren(ce) Hutton, model and actress.
11/17/1944:George Thomas Seaver, baseball player.
11/17/1946:Terry E. Branstad, Iowa Governor.
11/17/1948:Howard Dean, Vermont Governor.
11/18/1647:Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and writer.
11/18/1786:Henry Bishop, English composer (“Home Sweet Home”).
11/18/1789:Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French inventor of the
:Daguerreotype photographic process.
11/18/1836:Cesare Lombroso, Italian founder of criminology.
11/18/1836:Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame.
11/18/1869:Neville Chamberlain, British prime minister.
11/18/1874:Clarence Day.
11/18/1882:(Percy) Wyndham Lewis, English painter and novelist (“The Apes of
:God”).
11/18/1889:Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian operatic soprano.
11/18/1899:Eugene Ormandy, orchestra conductor.
11/18/1901:George Gallup, pollster.
11/18/1908:Imogene Coca, comedic actress.
11/18/1909:Johnny Mercer, songwriter.
11/18/1923:Alan Shepard, astronaut.
11/18/1923:Ted Stevens, Alaska Senator.
11/18/1926:Dorothy Collins, singer.
11/18/1928:Mickey Mouse.
11/18/1939:Brenda Vaccaro, actress.
11/18/1939:Margaret Atwood, author.
11/18/1942:Linda Evans, actress.
11/18/1944:Susan Sullivan, actress.
11/18/1950:Jameson Parker.
11/18/1956:Sinbad. (11/10/1957?)
11/18/1956:Warren Moon, football player.
11/18/1960:Kim Wilde.
11/19/1600:King Charles I of England.
11/19/1752:George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader.
11/19/1831:James Abram Garfield, 20th US president (first left-handed).
11/19/1863:Billy Sunday, religious revivalist.
11/19/1896:Clifton Webb, actor.
11/19/1899:Allen Tate.
11/19/1905:Tommy Dorsey, bandleader.
11/19/1917:Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister.
11/19/1919:Alan Young, actor.
11/19/1921:Roy Campanella, baseball player.
11/19/1926:Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, political scientist and former UN
:ambassador.
11/19/1930:Joe Morgan, baseball manager.
11/19/1933:Larry King, radio and TV personality.
11/19/1935:John Francis Welch Jr, chairman and CEO of General Electric.
11/19/1936:Dick Cavett, entertainer.
11/19/1938:Ted Turner, broadcasting and sports executive.
11/19/1939:Garrick Utley, journalist.
11/19/1939:Thomas R. Harkin, Iowa Senator.
11/19/1941:Tommy G. Thompson, Governor of Wisconsin.
11/19/1942:Calvin Klein, fashion designer.
11/19/1942:Sharon Olds.
11/19/1949:Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore), sportscaster.
11/19/1954:Kathleen Quinlan, actress.
11/19/1961:Meg Ryan, actress.
11/19/1962:Jodie Foster, actress.
11/20/1726:Oliver Wolcott, signer of the US Declaration of Independence.
11/20/1752:Thomas Chatterton, poet and forger.
11/20/1781:Andres Bello, Venezuelan diplomat and author.
11/20/1841:Sir Wilfred Laurier, Canadian statesman.
11/20/1851:John Merle Coulter, botanist.
11/20/1858:Selma Lagerlof, Swedish novelist.
11/20/1866:Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
11/20/1884:Norman Thomas, six time Socialist Party candidate for US
:president.
11/20/1889:Edwin Powell Hubble, astronomer.
11/20/1900:Chester Gould, cartoonist (“Dick Tracy”).
11/20/1908:Alistair Cooke, TV commentator.
11/20/1916:Judy Canova, singer-actress.
11/20/1917:Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia Senator.
11/20/1920:Gene Tierney, actress.
11/20/1923:Beryl Sprinkel, economist.
11/20/1923:Nadine Gordimer.
11/20/1925:Robert Francis Kennedy, US Senator.
11/20/1926:Kaye Ballard, comedian.
11/20/1927:Estelle Parsons, actress.
11/20/1932:Richard Dawson, actor and game show host.
11/20/1937:Ruth Laredo, concert pianist.
11/20/1939:Dick Smothers, entertainer. (1938?)
11/20/1942:Joseph Robinette Biden Jr, Delaware Senator.
11/20/1943:Veronica Hamel, actress.
11/20/1946:Duane Allman, rock musician.
11/20/1946:Judy Woodruff, journalist and author.
10/20/1947:Joe Walsh.
11/20/1954:Steve Dahl, disc jockey.
11/20/1956:Bo Derek (Cathleen Collins), actress.
11/20/1956:Mark Gastineau, football player.
11/20/1959:Sean Young, actress.
11/20/1974:Marissa Ryan.
11/21/1694:Jean Francois Marie Voltaire, French author and philosopher.
11/21/1785:William Beaumont, pioneer US army surgeon.
11/21/1835:Henrietta Howland Robinson “Hetty” Green, “richest woman in
:America.”
11/21/1854:Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo dela Chiesa), 258th pope.
11/21/1920:Stan Musial, baseball player.
11/21/1921:Vivian Blaine, actress-singer.
11/21/1934:Laurence Luckinbill, actor.
11/21/1938:Marlo Thomas, actress. (1937?)
11/21/1940:Natalia Makarova, ballerina.
11/21/1941:David Hemmings, actor.
11/21/1941:Juliet Mills, actress.
11/21/1945:Goldie Hawn, actress.
11/21/1952:Lorna Luft, actress.
11/21/1963:Nicollette Sheridan, actress.
11/21/1966:Troy Aikman.
11/21/1969:George Kenneth Griffey Jr, baseball player.
11/22/1643:Rene Robert de la Salle, French explorer of North America.
11/22/1819:George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), English novelist.
11/22/1857:George Gissing, English novelist.
11/22/1868:John Nance Garner, 32nd US vice president.
11/22/1869:Andre Gide.
11/22/1888:Tarzan.
11/22/1890:Charles de Gaulle, French statesman.
11/22/1898:Wiley Post, first pilot to fly solo around the world.
11/22/1899:Hoagland Howard “Hoagie” Carmichael, composer.
11/22/1913:(Edward) Benjamin Britten, English composer.
11/22/1918:Claiborne Pell, Rhode Island Senator.
11/22/1921:Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen), actor and comedian.
11/22/1924:Geraldine Page, actress.
11/22/1932:Robert Vaughn, actor.
11/22/1935:Michael Callan, actor.
11/22/1940:Terry Gilliam, comedy writer and animator.
11/22/1941:Tom Conti, actor.
11/22/1942:Guion S. Bluford, astronaut.
11/22/1942:Harry Edwards, sports sociologist.
11/22/1943:Billie Jean King, tennis star.
11/22/1950:Greg Luzinski, baseball player.
11/22/1958:Jamie Lee Curtis, actress.
11/22/1961:Mariel Hemingway, actress.
11/22/1967:Boris Becker, tennis player.
11/23/1749:Edward Rutledge, signer of the US Declaration of Independence.
11/23/1804:Franklin Pierce, 14th US president.
11/23/1834:James Thomson, Scottish poet.
11/23/1859:William H. “Billy The Kid” Bonney (Henry McCarty), outlaw.
11/23/1869:Valdemar Poulsen, Danish inventor of the modern tape recorder.
11/23/1883:Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexican artist.
11/23/1887:Boris Karloff (William Pratt), actor.
11/23/1892:Romain de Tirtoff, fashion designer and artist (“Erte”).
11/23/1913:Charles Berlitz, American linguist.
11/23/1913:Maurice Zolotow, author.
11/23/1915:Ellen Drew, actress.
11/23/1928:Jerry Bock, Broadway composer.
11/23/1930:William E. Brock, former US Secretary of Labor.
11/23/1933:Krzysztof Penderecki, composer.
11/23/1955:Bruce Hornsby.
11/23/1957:Andrew Toney, basketball player.
11/23/1959:Maxwell Caulfield, actor.
11/24/1632:Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher.
11/24/1713:Laurence Sterne, British novelist and clergyman.
11/24/1784:Zachary Taylor, 12th US president.
11/24/1849:Frances Hodgson Burnett.
11/24/1853:William Bartholomew “Bat” Masterson, gambler, frontier lawman,
:and sportswriter.
11/24/1864:Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, painter.
11/24/1868:Scott Joplin, ragtime composer.
11/24/1877:Alben William Barkley, 35th US vice president.
11/24/1888:Dale Carnegie, lecturer and author.
11/24/1912:Garson Kanin, producer-writer.
11/24/1913:Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress.
11/24/1917:Howard Duff, actor.
11/24/1925:William F. Buckley Jr, columnist.
11/24/1927:Alfredo Kraus, operatic tenor.
11/24/1935:Ron Dellums, US House Armed Services Chairman.
11/24/1940:Paul Tagliabue, football commissioner.
11/24/1942:Marlin Fitzwater, former White House spokesman.
11/24/1950:Stanley Livingston, actor.
11/24/1957:Denise Crosby, actress.
11/25/1562:Lope de Vega.
11/25/1835:Andrew Carnegie, industrialist.
11/25/1844:Karl Benz, German automobile designer.
11/25/1846:Carry Amelia Moore Nation, social reformer.
11/25/1849:Felix Klein, German mathematician.
11/25/1877:Harley Granville-Barker, English playwright and critic.
11/25/1880:Leonard Woolf, English writer.
11/25/1881:Pope John 23d (Angelo Roncalli).
11/25/1896:Virgil Thomson, composer and musician.
11/25/1913:Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist.
11/25/1914:Joe DiMaggio, baseball player.
11/25/1920:Ricardo Montalban, actor.
11/25/1933:Kathryn Crosby, actress.
11/25/1933:Rene Enriquez, actor.
11/25/1947:John Larroquette, actor (“Night Court”).
11/25/1951:Russell Earl “Bucky” Dent, baseball player.
11/25/1960:Amy Grant, singer.
11/25/1960:John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
11/25/1963:Bernie Kosar, football player.
11/25/1966:Stacy Lattisaw.
11/25/1971:Christina Applegate, actress.
11/26/1607:John Harvard, founder of Harvard University.
11/26/1731:William Cowper, English poet.
11/26/1792:Sarah Moore Grimke, American feminist and social reformer.
11/26/1832:Mary Edwards Walker, first female physician in US Army.
11/26/1836:John MacAdam, road-paving inventor.
11/26/1876:Willis Carrier, air conditioning engineer.
11/26/1894:Norbert Weiner.
11/26/1912:Eric Sevareid, TV news commentator.
11/26/1912:Eugene Ionesco, playwright.
11/26/1922:Charles Monroe Schulz, cartoonist (“Peanuts”).
11/26/1933:Robert Goulet, singer.
11/26/1935:Marian Mercer, actress-singer.
11/26/1938:Richard Caruthers Little, impressionist.
11/26/1938:Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock), rock singer and actress.
11/26/1960:Johnny Hector, football player.
11/27/1701:Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor of the centigrade thermometer.
11/27/1746:Robert R. Livingston, administered the oath of office to George
:Washington.
11/27/1804:Sir Julius Benedict, musician and composer.
11/27/1809:Frances “Fanny” Anne Kemble, English actress.
11/27/1843:Cornelius Vanderbilt, philanthropist.
11/27/1874:Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman.
11/27/1874:Charles Austin Beard, US historian.
11/27/1903:Mona Washbourne, actress.
11/27/1909:James Agee.
11/27/1912:David Merrick, Broadway producer.
11/27/1917:”Buffalo” Bob Smith, children’s entertainer.
11/27/1921:Alexander Dubcek, former Czechoslovakian communist leader.
11/27/1927:William Simon, former US Treasury Secretary.
11/27/1937:Gail Henion Sheehy, author and journalist.
11/27/1941:Eddie Rabbitt, singer.
11/27/1942:Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist.
11/27/1953:Boris Grebenshikov, Soviet rock musician.
11/27/1957:Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg.
11/27/1964:Robin Givens, actress.
11/27/1976:Jaleel White, actor.
11/28/1628:John Bunyan, English cleric and author.
11/28/1632:Jean Baptiste Lully, musician and composer.
11/28/1757:William Blake, English poet.
11/28/1820:Friedrich Engels, communist theoretician.
11/28/1837:John Hyatt, inventor of lock-stitch sewing machine and celluloid.
11/28/1866:Henry Bacon, architect (designer of the Lincoln Memorial).
11/28/1929:Berry Gordy Jr, Motown Records founder.
11/28/1933:Hope Lange, actress.
11/28/1936:Gary Hart (Gary Hartpence), former US presidential candidate.
11/28/1943:Randy Newman, singer and songwriter.
11/28/1946:Susan Spencer, CBS News correspondent.
11/28/1949:Alexander Godunov, ballet dancer.
11/28/1949:Paul Shaffer, band leader.
11/28/1950:Ed Harris, actor.
11/28/1959:Judd Nelson, actor.
11/28/1964:Cornelia Guest.
11/28/1964:Roy Tarpley, basketball player.
11/29/1729:Charles Thomson, first official American record keeper.
11/29/1803:Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist.
11/29/1811:Wendell Phillips, American women’s suffrage leader.
11/29/1816:Morrison R. Waite, US Supreme Court Justice.
11/29/1832:Louisa May Alcott, author (“Little Women”).
11/29/1834:Tz’u Hsi, Chinese empress-dowager. (1835?)
11/29/1849:John Fleming, English devisor of the radio tube-diode.
11/29/1895:Busby Berkeley, film choreographer.
11/29/1898:C.S. Lewis, Irish novelist.
11/29/1918:Madeleine L’Engle, writer.
11/29/1927:Vin Scully, sportscaster.
11/29/1928:Paul Simon, Illinois Senator.
11/29/1932:Jacques Rene Chirac, French political leader.
11/29/1933:John Mayall, musician.
11/29/1939:Dianne Ladd (Rose Diane Ladner), actress.
11/29/1940:Chuck Mangione, jazz flugelhornist.
11/29/1946:Suzy Chaffee, skier.
11/29/1949:Garry Shandling, comedian.
11/29/1955:Howie Mandel, actor-comedian.
11/29/1960:Cathy Moriarty, actress.
11/29/1962:Andrew McCarthy.
11/29/1968:Jonathan Knight, vocalist.
11/30/1508:Andrea Palladio, Italian Renaissance architect.
11/30/1554:Sir Philip Sidney, English poet and statesman.
11/30/1667:Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist.
11/30/1835:Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), author.
11/30/1863:Andres Bonifacio, leader of Phillippine revolt against Spain.
11/30/1874:Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman.
11/30/1920:Virginia Mayo, actress. (1922?)
11/30/1923:Efrem Zimbalist Jr, actor.
11/30/1924:Allan Sherman, songwriter (“Camp Granada”).
11/30/1924:Shirley Chisholm, first black woman elected to US Congress.
11/30/1925:Maryon Pittman Allen, former US Senator.
11/30/1927:Richard Crenna, actor.
11/30/1928:Robert Guillaume, actor.
11/30/1928:Chic Hecht, Nevada Senator.
11/30/1929:Dick Clark, TV music show host.
11/30/1930:G. Gordon Liddy, convicted Watergate defendant.
11/30/1936:Abbot (Abbie) Hoffman, former 1960’s radical.
11/30/1937:Paul Stookey (Noel Stookey), singer and songwriter.
11/30/1947:David Mamet, American dramatist.
11/30/1952:Mandy Patinkin.
11/30/1953:Mike Espy, US Secretary of Agriculture.
11/30/1955:Billy Idol, singer.
11/30/1962:Bo Jackson (Vincent Edward Jackson), football and baseball player