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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Roy Acuff
Country Musician
15-Sep-1903 23-Nov-1992 Country music pioneer
Prospero Alpini
Botanist
23-Nov-1553 23-Nov-1616 De Plantis Aegypti liber
Artur Bodanzky
Conductor
16-Dec-1877 23-Nov-1939 Opera Conductor at the NY Met, 1915-39
Charles Booth
Sociologist
30-Mar-1840 23-Nov-1916 Studied poverty in London
J. C. Bose
Botanist
30-Nov-1858 23-Nov-1937 Plant physiology
Sir John Bowring
Author
17-Oct-1792 23-Nov-1872 4th Governor of Hong Kong
Patricia M. Byrne
Diplomat
1-Jun-1925 23-Nov-2007 US Ambassador to Burma, 1979-83
John F. Collins
Politician
20-Jul-1919 23-Nov-1995 Mayor of Boston, 1960-68
Betty Comden
Songwriter
3-May-1915 23-Nov-2006 Singin' in the Rain
Constance Cummings
Actor
15-May-1910 23-Nov-2005 Blithe Spirit
Roald Dahl
Author
13-Sep-1916 23-Nov-1990 James and the Giant Peach
George Darley
Poet
1795 23-Nov-1846 Nepenthe
Claire Dodd
Actor
29-Dec-1908 23-Nov-1973 Footlight Parade
King Edred
Royalty
c. 923 AD 23-Nov-955 AD King of England 946-55 AD
Henry Gantt
Engineer
1861 23-Nov-1919 Management as a science
Elbridge Gerry
Politician
17-Jul-1744 23-Nov-1814 Patron saint of Gerrymandering
Richard Hakluyt
Author
c. 1552 23-Nov-1616 Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation
Sessue Hayakawa
Actor
10-Jun-1889 23-Nov-1973 The Bridge on the River Kwai
Marcia Henderson
Actor
22-Jul-1929 23-Nov-1987 Peter Pan
Walter W. Jenkins
Government
23-Mar-1918 23-Nov-1985 LBJ assistant, outed in gay sex scandal
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
Military
29-Apr-1762 23-Nov-1833 Forced Austrians over the Rhine
Klaus Kinski
Actor
18-Oct-1926 23-Nov-1991 Nosferatu the Vampyre
Louis Malle
Film Director
30-Oct-1932 23-Nov-1995 Atlantic City
André Malraux
Novelist
3-Nov-1901 23-Nov-1976 La Condition Humaine
Yasuzo Masumura
Film Director
25-Aug-1924 23-Nov-1986 Blind Beast
Carlos J. Moorhead
Politician
6-May-1922 23-Nov-2011 Congressman from California, 1973-97
Sir Roger Newdigate
Historian
30-May-1719 23-Nov-1806 Established the Newdigate Prize
Philippe Noiret
Actor
1-Oct-1930 23-Nov-2006 Cinema Paradiso
Anita O'Day
Singer/Songwriter
18-Oct-1919 23-Nov-2006 Feminine master of scat
Merle Oberon
Actor
19-Feb-1911 23-Nov-1979 Wuthering Heights
John Oecolampadius
Religion
1482 23-Nov-1531 German-Swiss Protestant reformer
Barney Oliver
Astronomer
27-May-1916 23-Nov-1995 SETI researcher
Arthur Wing Pinero
Playwright
24-May-1855 23-Nov-1934 The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
Ingrid Pitt
Actor
21-Nov-1937 23-Nov-2010 Countess Dracula
Irving Price
Business
21-Sep-1884 23-Nov-1976 Co-Founder of Fisher-Price Toys
Brian Rawlinson
Actor
12-Nov-1931 23-Nov-2000 Robert Onedin on The Onedin Line
Joseph J. Sisco
Diplomat
31-Oct-1919 23-Nov-2004 Kissinger's Mideast Deputy
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve
Astronomer
15-Apr-1793 23-Nov-1864 Studied double stars
Thomas Tallis
Composer
c. 1510 23-Nov-1585 Miserere Nostri
Beverly Tyler
Actor
5-Jul-1927 23-Nov-2005 The Green Years
Ladislas V
Royalty
22-Feb-1440 23-Nov-1457 King of Hungary and Bohemia
Robert Vesco
Criminal
4-Nov-1935 23-Nov-2007 Fugitive financier
Junior Walker
Musician
14-Jun-1931 23-Nov-1995 Soul vocalist and sax player
Perkin Warbeck
Hoaxer
c. 1474 23-Nov-1499 Pretender to English throne
James Craig Watson
Astronomer
28-Jan-1838 23-Nov-1880 Claimed to discover the planet Vulcan
Mary Whitehouse
Activist
13-Jun-1910 23-Nov-2001 British anti-pornography crusader
Hack Wilson
Baseball
26-Apr-1900 23-Nov-1948 Hit 56 home runs and 191 RBI's in 1930
Marie Wilson
Actor
19-Aug-1916 23-Nov-1972 My Friend Irma


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