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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Albert Ayler
Jazz Musician
13-Jul-1936 5-Nov-1970 Far-out sax blower
Isaiah Berlin
Philosopher
6-Jun-1909 5-Nov-1997 The Hedgehog and the Fox
Ward Bond
Actor
9-Apr-1903 5-Nov-1960 Wagon Train
Roy Boulting
Film Director
21-Nov-1913 5-Nov-2001 There's a Girl in My Soup
Louise Campbell
Actor
30-May-1911 5-Nov-1997 Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Al Capp
Cartoonist
28-Sep-1909 5-Nov-1979 Creator of L'il Abner
Alexis Carrel
Doctor
28-Jun-1873 5-Nov-1944 Sutured blood vessels
Casimir III
Royalty
1310 5-Nov-1370 King of Poland, 1333-70
Luis Cernuda
Poet
21-Sep-1902 5-Nov-1963 Generation of '27
Carl Charlier
Astronomer
1-Apr-1862 5-Nov-1934 Motion and the Distribution of the Stars
Jill Clayburgh
Actor
30-Apr-1944 5-Nov-2010 Starting Over
George M. Cohan
Composer
3-Jul-1878 5-Nov-1942 Yankee Doodle Dandy
Lloyd Corrigan
Actor
16-Oct-1900 5-Nov-1969 Arthur Manleder in Boston Blackie films
Jimmie Davis
Singer/Songwriter
11-Sep-1899 5-Nov-2000 You Are My Sunshine
Vernon Dent
Actor
16-Feb-1895 5-Nov-1963 Frequent foil to The Three Stooges
Bulent Ecevit
Government
28-May-1925 5-Nov-2006 Four-time Prime Minister of Turkey
Christiaan Eijkman
Scientist
11-Aug-1858 5-Nov-1930 Research led to discovery of vitamins
John Fowles
Novelist
31-Mar-1926 5-Nov-2005 The French Lieutenant's Woman
Roswell Garst
Agriculturalist
13-Jun-1898 5-Nov-1977 Hybrid corn farmer, amateur diplomat
Jacques Grévin
Playwright
1538 5-Nov-1570 Les Ébahis
William Torrey Harris
Educator
10-Sep-1835 5-Nov-1909 US Commissioner of Education
Bobby Hatfield
Singer
10-Aug-1940 5-Nov-2003 The Righteous Brothers
Vladimir Horowitz
Pianist
1-Oct-1903 5-Nov-1989 Virtuoso pianist
Claude Jutra
Film Director
11-Mar-1930 5-Nov-1986 Mon Oncle Antoine
Meir Kahane
Activist
1-Aug-1932 5-Nov-1990 Founder of Jewish Defense League
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Novelist
18-Oct-1741 5-Nov-1803 Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Guy Lombardo
Musician
19-Jun-1902 5-Nov-1977 The Royal Canadians
James Clerk Maxwell
Physicist
13-Jun-1831 5-Nov-1879 Maxwell's equations
Robert Maxwell
Publisher
10-Jun-1923 5-Nov-1991 Mirror Group tycoon
Jan Hendrik Oort
Astronomer
28-Apr-1900 5-Nov-1992 Theory of the origin of comets
Henry D. Owen
Diplomat
26-Aug-1920 5-Nov-2011 US Ambassador at Large, 1977-81
Reginald Owen
Actor
5-Aug-1887 5-Nov-1972 Prolific character actor
Sidney Reilly
Spy
24-Mar-1874 5-Nov-1925 Ace of Spies
O. E. Rölvaag
Novelist
22-Apr-1876 5-Nov-1931 Giants in the Earth
Mack Sennett
Film/TV Producer
17-Jan-1880 5-Nov-1960 Founder of Keystone Studios
Thomas Sully
Painter
19-Jul-1783 5-Nov-1872 19th c. American portrait painter
Art Tatum
Jazz Musician
13-Oct-1909 5-Nov-1956 Greatest jazz pianist of all time
Lionel Trilling
Critic
4-Jul-1905 5-Nov-1975 The Liberal Imagination
Shirley Verrett
Singer
31-May-1931 5-Nov-2010 Mezzo-soprano at the Met
August Weismann
Biologist
17-Jan-1834 5-Nov-1914 Theory of Germ Plasm
Link Wray
Guitarist
2-May-1929 5-Nov-2005 Rumble




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