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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Thomas Bewick
Engraver
12-Aug-1753 8-Nov-1828 English wood engraver
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Activist
19-Jul-1817 8-Nov-1901 "Mother to the boys in Blue"
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Educator
17-Jun-1919 8-Nov-1988 President of Yale, 1963-77
Wendell Corey
Actor
20-Mar-1914 8-Nov-1968 Desert Fury
Heavy D
Rapper
24-May-1967 8-Nov-2011 Heavy D & the Boyz
John Duns Scotus
Religion
c. 1265 8-Nov-1308 14th century Scottish scholar
Margaret O'Neill Eaton
Relative
1796 8-Nov-1879 War Secy.'s wife caused cabinet shakeup
Frances Faye
Singer
4-Nov-1912 8-Nov-1991 Out, Lesbian nightclub singer
Marshall Field III
Business
28-Sep-1893 8-Nov-1956 Founder of the Chicago Sun-Times
Peter Fowler
Physicist
27-Feb-1923 8-Nov-1996 Cosmic radiation
César Franck
Composer
10-Dec-1822 8-Nov-1890 Symphonic Variations
Jerry Fuchs
Drummer
c. 1974 8-Nov-2009 Maserati, !!!
Vitaly L. Ginzburg
Physicist
4-Oct-1916 8-Nov-2009 Type-II superconductors
Rumer Godden
Author
10-Dec-1907 8-Nov-1998 The River
Bob Grant
Actor
14-Apr-1932 8-Nov-2003 On the Buses
Chandler Harper
Golf
10-Mar-1914 8-Nov-2004 Winner, 1950 PGA Championship
Doc Holliday
Doctor
14-Aug-1851 8-Nov-1887 Wyatt Earp's reliable friend
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
Religion
1436 8-Nov-1517 Ascetic Spanish Cardinal and statesman
Bil Keane
Cartoonist
5-Oct-1922 8-Nov-2011 Family Circus
Dorothy Kilgallen
Columnist
3-Jul-1913 8-Nov-1965 What's My Line?
William Langer
Politician
30-Sep-1886 8-Nov-1959 Governor and Senator from North Dakota
Larry Levan
Disc Jockey
20-Jul-1954 8-Nov-1992 Legendary Disco DJ
Louis VIII
Royalty
5-Sep-1187 8-Nov-1226 King of France, 1223-26
Jean Marais
Actor
11-Dec-1913 8-Nov-1998 Beauty and the Beast
John Milton
Poet
9-Dec-1608 8-Nov-1674 Paradise Lost
Vyacheslav Molotov
Government
9-Mar-1890 8-Nov-1986 Stalin's right-hand-man
Herbert S. Okun
Diplomat
27-Nov-1930 8-Nov-2011 US Ambassador to the UN, 1985-89
Francis Parkman
Historian
16-Sep-1823 8-Nov-1893 France and England in North America
George Peacock
Mathematician
9-Apr-1791 8-Nov-1858 Treatise on Algebra
Norman Rockwell
Painter
3-Feb-1894 8-Nov-1978 Saturday Evening Post artist
Jeanne-Marie Roland
Relative
17-Mar-1754 8-Nov-1793 French woman of intrigue
Anton Rubinstein
Pianist
16-Nov-1829 8-Nov-1894 The Tower of Babel
Victorien Sardou
Playwright
5-Sep-1831 8-Nov-1908 Les Pattes de Mouche
Anya Seton
Author
23-Jan-1906 8-Nov-1990 Dragonwyck
V. M. Slipher
Astronomer
11-Nov-1875 8-Nov-1969 Interstellar dust
Sydney Tafler
Actor
31-Jul-1916 8-Nov-1979 The Lavender Hill Mob
Genevieve Taggard
Poet
28-Nov-1894 8-Nov-1948 Travelling Standing Still
Edgard Varèse
Composer
22-Dec-1883 8-Nov-1965 Poème électronique
Collin Walcott
Jazz Musician
24-Feb-1945 8-Nov-1984 Jazz sitar player




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