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2007 Calendar
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November
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[edit] Events

[edit] Births

  • 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian Renaissance humanist (b. 1463)
  • 1503 - Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)
  • 1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)
  • 1685 - Pierre Gaultier La Verendrye, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
  • 1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician (d. 1783)
  • 1755 - King (1814-1824) Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)
  • 1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, mathematician (d. 1868)
  • 1793 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, painter (d. 1865)
  • 1799 - Titian Peale, artist
  • 1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, composer (d. 1876)
  • 1835 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
  • 1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, anarchist (d. 1912)
  • 1878 - Grace Abbott, social worker, activist (d. 1939)
  • 1887 - Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British commander in World War II (d. 1976)
  • 1888 - Kurt Goetz, author (d. 1960)
  • 1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
  • 1899 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer (d. 1971)
  • 1901 - Walter Hallstein, politician (d. 1982)
  • 1901 - Lee Strasberg, director, acting teacher (d. 1982)
  • 1904 - Isamu Noguchi, sculptor (d. 1988)
  • 1905 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (d. 1935)
  • 1905 - Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)
  • 1906 - Soichiro Honda, automobile pioneer (d. 1992)
  • 1911 - Christian Fouchet, diplomat (d. 1974)
  • 1916 - Shelby Foote, historian
  • 1925 - Rock Hudson, actor (d. 1985)
  • 1925 - Charles Mackerras, American conductor
  • 1929 - Norm Zauchin, Major League Baseball player (d. 1999)
  • 1937 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer (d. 1995)
  • 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, singer
  • 1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
  • 1942 - Martin Scorsese, film director
  • 1943 - Lauren Hutton, actress
  • 1944 - Danny DeVito, actor
  • 1944 - Rem Koolhaas, architect
  • 1944 - Lorne Michaels, producer
  • 1944 - Tom Seaver, Baseball Hall of Fame player
  • 1945 - Elvin Hayes, Basketball Hall of Fame player
  • 1948 - Howard Dean, politician, US Democratic Party Chairman
  • 1949 - Jon Avnet, producer, director
  • 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, actress
  • 1960 - RuPaul, actor
  • 1966 - Jeff Buckley, musician (d. 1997)
  • 1966 - Daisy Fuentes, model, actress
  • 1966 - Sophie Marceau, actress
  • 1973 - Alexei Urmanov, figure skating champion
  • 1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player
  • 1993 - Atri Rohan Banerjee

[edit] Deaths

  • 375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
  • 641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
  • 1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint (b. 1207)
  • 1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
  • 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
  • 1558 - Queen Mary I of England (b. 1516)
  • 1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
  • 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
  • 1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
  • 1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
  • 1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
  • 1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France (b. 1602)
  • 1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
  • 1665 - John Earle, English bishop
  • 1668 - Joseph Alleine, English non-conformist preacher (b. 1634)
  • 1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
  • 1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
  • 1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
  • 1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
  • 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English statesman (b. 1693)
  • 1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
  • 1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
  • 1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
  • 1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (b. 1860)
  • 1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
  • 1940 - Eric Gill, English sculptor and writer (b. 1882)
  • 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
  • 1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (b. 1911)
  • 1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
  • 1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (murdered) (b. 1960)
  • 1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
  • 2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
  • 2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (Can) (b. 1948)
  • 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician (b. 1915)
  • 2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
  • 2003 - Don Gibson, American singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
  • 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
  • 2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)