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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Arthur Askey
Comic
6-Jun-1900 16-Nov-1982 Horn-rimmed British comic
Carter T. Barron
Business
30-Jan-1905 16-Nov-1950 Washington advocate for the arts
Harry Blackstone
Magician
27-Sep-1885 16-Nov-1965 Vaudeville illusionist
Trajano Boccalini
Author
1556 16-Nov-1613 Ragguagli di Parnaso
Pierce Butler
Judge
17-Mar-1866 16-Nov-1939 US Supreme Court Justice, 1923-39
Joe C.
Rapper
9-Nov-1974 16-Nov-2000 Tiny rapping sidekick of Kid Rock
Pierre Charron
Philosopher
1541 16-Nov-1603 De la Sagesse
Morgan Conway
Actor
16-Mar-1903 16-Nov-1981 Dick Tracy
Frederick G. Cottrell
Inventor
10-Jan-1877 16-Nov-1948 Smokestack filters to fight pollution
Claude Dauphin
Actor
19-Aug-1903 16-Nov-1978 Barbarella
Réné Louiche Desfontaines
Botanist
14-Feb-1750 16-Nov-1833 Flora Atlantica Tunetano et Algeriensi
Ralph Edwards
Game Show Host
13-Jun-1913 16-Nov-2005 This Is Your Life
John Emery
Actor
20-May-1905 16-Nov-1964 Rocketship X-M
Milton Friedman
Economist
31-Jul-1912 16-Nov-2006 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics
Clark Gable
Actor
1-Feb-1901 16-Nov-1960 Gone With the Wind
John Hawkesworth
Author
c. 1715 16-Nov-1773 Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere
King Henry III
Royalty
1-Oct-1207 16-Nov-1272 King of England, 1216-72
William Holden
Actor
17-Apr-1918 16-Nov-1981 Stalag 17
Reed Irvine
Activist
29-Sep-1922 16-Nov-2004 Founder, Accuracy in Media
Karl von Linde
Engineer
11-Jun-1842 16-Nov-1934 Inventor of refrigeration
Daniel Nathans
Scientist
30-Oct-1928 16-Nov-1999 Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage)
George O. Petrie
Actor
16-Nov-1912 16-Nov-1997 Harv Smithfield on Dallas
Sam Rayburn
Politician
6-Jan-1882 16-Nov-1961 Speaker of the US House, 1940-61
Leonard Rose
Cellist
28-Jul-1918 16-Nov-1984 Virtuoso cellist
DJ Screw
Disc Jockey
20-Jul-1971 16-Nov-2000 Screw Music inventor
Edie Sedgwick
Socialite
20-Apr-1943 16-Nov-1971 Warhol factory girl
Jack Sheppard
Criminal
1702 16-Nov-1724 English scoundrel, escapee
John J. Sparkman
Politician
20-Dec-1899 16-Nov-1985 US Senator from Alabama, 1946-79
Jean-Lambert Tallien
Politician
23-Jan-1767 16-Nov-1820 French Revolutionary
Henry Taube
Chemist
30-Nov-1915 16-Nov-2005 Mechanisms of electron transfer
Reg Varney
Actor
11-Jul-1916 16-Nov-2008 On the Buses
Carl von Clausewitz
Military
1-Jun-1780 16-Nov-1831 On War
Alan Watts
Philosopher
6-Jan-1915 16-Nov-1973 Zen beat counterculture sage
Robert Charles Winthrop
Politician
12-May-1809 16-Nov-1894 Speaker of the 30th Congress
Edward Woodward
Actor
1-Jun-1930 16-Nov-2009 The Equalizer
O. V. Wright
Singer
9-Oct-1939 16-Nov-1980 Southern gospel and soul singer




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