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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
William Allingham
Poet
19-Mar-1824 18-Nov-1889 Day and Night Songs
Chester A. Arthur
Head of State
5-Oct-1829 18-Nov-1886 21st US President, 1881-85
Niels Bohr
Physicist
7-Oct-1885 18-Nov-1962 Father of Quantum Theory
Paul Bowles
Author
30-Dec-1910 18-Nov-1999 The Sheltering Sky
Cab Calloway
Jazz Musician
25-Dec-1907 18-Nov-1994 King of Hi-De-Ho
Gia Carangi
Model
29-Jan-1960 18-Nov-1986 Troubled supermodel, died from AIDS
Dennis Chavez
Politician
8-Apr-1888 18-Nov-1962 US Senator from New Mexico, 1935-62
James Coburn
Actor
31-Aug-1928 18-Nov-2002 Our Man Flint
Cy Coleman
Composer
14-Jun-1929 18-Nov-2004 Hey, Big Spender
Ruth Porter Crawford
Musicologist
3-Jul-1901 18-Nov-1953 Composer, musical ethnologist
Fred Daly
Golf
11-Oct-1911 18-Nov-1990 Winner, 1947 British Open
Nicholas L. Deak
Business
8-Oct-1905 18-Nov-1985 Deak-Perera
Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Author
1776 18-Nov-1847 English bibliographer
Lee Dong-Won
Politician
1926 18-Nov-2006 Foreign Minister of South Korea, 1964-66
Paul Éluard
Poet
14-Dec-1895 18-Nov-1952 La Capitale de la Douleur
Fritz Feld
Actor
15-Oct-1900 18-Nov-1993 Bringing Up Baby
Edward Forbes
Naturalist
12-Feb-1815 18-Nov-1854 History of British Mollusca
Victor Francen
Actor
5-Aug-1888 18-Nov-1977 Confidential Agent
Wilhelm Hauff
Poet
29-Nov-1802 18-Nov-1827 Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller
Walt Hazzard
Basketball
15-Apr-1942 18-Nov-2011 UCLA basketball coach 1984-88
Edward L. Jackson
Politician
27-Dec-1873 18-Nov-1954 Governor of Indiana, 1925-29
Jeanne-Claude
Artist
13-Jun-1945 18-Nov-2009 Gift-wraps large monuments
Jim Jones
Religion
13-May-1931 18-Nov-1978 Led mass People's Temple suicide
Michael Kamen
Composer
15-Apr-1948 18-Nov-2003 Prolific film composer and conductor
Joseph P. Kennedy
Business
6-Sep-1888 18-Nov-1969 Smuggler and patriarch of the Kennedy clan
John Lyly
Playwright
1554 18-Nov-1606 Euphues
George William Manby
Inventor
28-Nov-1765 18-Nov-1854 Invented the fire extinguisher
Donald Meek
Actor
14-Jul-1878 18-Nov-1946 Scottish-American character actor
Odette Myrtil
Actor
28-Jun-1898 18-Nov-1978 Out of the Fog
Walther Nernst
Chemist
25-Jun-1864 18-Nov-1941 Third Law of Thermodynamics
Junior Parker
Musician
27-Mar-1932 18-Nov-1971 Blues harmonica player, Mystery Train
Samuel F. Phillips
Attorney
18-Feb-1824 18-Nov-1903 US Solicitor General, 1872-85
Marcel Proust
Author
10-Jul-1871 18-Nov-1922 In Search of Lost Time
Man Ray
Photographer
27-Aug-1890 18-Nov-1976 Dadaist photographer
Leo Ryan
Politician
5-May-1925 18-Nov-1978 Congressman assassinated in Guyana
Doug Sahm
Musician
6-Nov-1941 18-Nov-1999 Sir Douglas Quintet
Philip Schuyler
Military
11-Nov-1733 18-Nov-1804 US Revolutionary War general
Conn Smythe
Hockey
1-Feb-1895 18-Nov-1980 Longtime owner, Toronto Maple Leafs
Donald Somervell
Politician
24-Aug-1889 18-Nov-1960 AG for England and Wales, 1936-45
Harold J. Stone
Actor
3-Mar-1911 18-Nov-2005 The Harder They Fall
Paul H. Todd, Jr.
Politician
22-Sep-1921 18-Nov-2008 Congressman from Michigan, 1965-67
Henry A. Wallace
Politician
7-Oct-1888 18-Nov-1965 US Vice President, 1941-45
Walter Wanger
Film/TV Producer
11-Jul-1894 18-Nov-1968 Joan of Arc
Chris Watson
Head of State
9-Apr-1867 18-Nov-1941 Prime Minister of Australia, 1904
Adam Weishaupt
Activist
6-Feb-1748 18-Nov-1811 Founder of the Bavarian Illuminati




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