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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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