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November
November 1
1643 John Strype--Died (English Historian & Author
1755 Earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal 50,000 people Killed
1762 Spencer Perceval--Born (British Prime Minister)
1764 Stephen Van Rensselaer--Born (Educator/Politician)
1778 Gustavus IV (Adolphus)--Born (King of Sweden/Son of Gustavus III)
1782 Frederick John (Viscount Goderich) Robinson--Born (British Prime Minister)
1796 The French Revolution's Directory began
1815 Douglas Hancock Cooper--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1816 Friedrich Wilhelm von Hacklander--Born (German Author)
1825 Joseph Benjamin Palmer--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1826 Frederich Hesse--Born (German Actor)
1835 Godfrey Weitzel--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1871 Stephen Crane--Born (Author)
1903 Margaret Reid--Born (Actress)
November 2
1160 Henry the Young King Married Margaret Capet, Queen Consort of England
1627 Lord Edward Littleton--Born (English Jurist)
1734 Daniel Boone--Born
1739Karl von Dittersdorf--Born (Austrian Composer)
1755 Marie Antoinette--Born (Queen of France)
1773 Madame Guizot (Elizabeth Charlotte Pauline de Meulan)--Born (French Author/Wife of
Francois Guizot)
1795 James Knox Polk--Born (11th US President)
1810 Andrew Atkinson Humphreys--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1820 Benjamin Perley Poore--Died (American Author & Journalist)
1822 James Byron Gordon--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1824 Thomas Stowall Phelps--Born (US Navy Rear-Admiral)
1826 Robert Hopkins Hatton--Born (Brigadier General, CSA/US Congressman)
1828 Bryan Grimes--Born (Major General CSA)
1865 Warren Gamaliel Harding--Born (29th US President)
1870 William Felix Brantley--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1875 Horatio Balch Hackett--Died (American Bible Scholar)
1887 Randolph Barnes Marcy--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1892 Alice Brady--Born(Actress)
1913 Burt Lancaster--Born (Actor)
1926 Annie Oakley--Died
November 3
1500 Benvenuto Cellini--Born (Italian Sculptor)
1718 John Montagu--Born (4th Earl of Sandwich/Son of the Viscount of Hinchinbroke, Edward Richard Montagu)
1793 Stephen Fuller Austin--Born (Founder of the state of Texas/Son of Moses Austin & Maria Brown)
1794 William Cullen Bryant--Born (American Poet)
1799 William Sprague III--Born (Rhode Island Congressman /Governor / Industrialist)
1809 James Richardson--Born (English Author/African traveler)
1815 John Mitchel--Born (Irish Revolutionary/Author)
1826 Jasper Adalmorn Maltby--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1841 Isabella Macdonald Alden --Born (American Religious Author)
1855 Eugene Debs--Born(Socialist US Presidential Candidate)
1856 Foster McGowen Voorchees--Born (New Jersey Governor)
1860 Baron Julius von Minutoli--Died (German Author)
1862 Israel Bush "Fighting Dick" Richardson--Born (Major General, Union Army/Descendant of General Israel Putnam of the Revolutionary War)
1873 Richard Delafield--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1893 Theodor von Eltz--Born (Actor)
1907 Cyrus Longworth Lundell--Born (Tropical Plant Reseacher)
1913 Vivien Leigh--Born (Actress)
November 4
1575 Guido Reni--Born (Italian Artist)
1677 William & Mary II (King & Queen of England) married
1732 Thomas Johnson--Born (US Supreme Court Justice)
1800 Edwin Waller--Born (Texas Politician)
1809 Benjamin Curtis--Born (US Supreme Court Associate Justice)
1816 Stephen Field--Born (US Supreme Court Associate Justice)
1818 Alexander Robert Lawton--Born (Brigadier General, CSA/ US minister to Austria)
1820 Robert Vinkler Richardson--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1824 Owen Brown--Born (Son of John Brown)
1835 Lunsford Lindsay Lomax--Born (Major General, CSA)
1837 Gottfried Krueger--Born (Beer Magnate)
1847 Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy--Died (German Composer)
1855 Thomas Stalker Butler--Born (US Congressman from Pennsylvania)
1879 Will Rogers--Born (Comedian)
1889 Joe Frisco--Born (Vaudeville Actor/Comedian)
1890 Joseph Benjamin Palmer--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1896 Harry MacGregor Woods--Born (Songwriter/Actor)
1904 Don Alvarado--Born (Actor)
1906 John Henry Ketcham--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1909 Robert Cade Oliver--Born (Union Boss/Industrialist)
1910 Charles Cleveland Dodge--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1911 Ted Howard--Born (Actor)
1913 Gig Young--Born (Actor)
1918 Cameron Mitchell--Born (Actor)
1929 John Gunther Jr.--Born (John Gunther's Son)
November 5
1605 Gunpowder Plot (English Parliment)
1787 Sir John
Richardson--Born (British Naturalist/Author/Traveler)
1805 Thomas Wilson
Dorr--Born (Rhode Island Governor)
1818 Franklin (Beast),
(Spoons) Butler--Born (Major General, Union Army/US Congressman from
Louisiana/Governor of Massachusetts /Presidential Candidate)
1825 Julius
Stahel--Born (Major General, Union Army/Medal of Honor recipient)
1832 William
Woods Averell--Born (Major General, Union Army/Inventor)
1855 Eugene
Debs--Born (Socialist US Presidential Candidate)
1856 Foster McGowen
Voorchees--Born (New Jersey Governor)
1860 Baron Julius von
Minutoli--Died (German Author)
1873 Richard
Delafield--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1876 Giles Alexander
Smith--Died (Major General, Union Army/Brother of Union Brig. Gen. Morgan
Lewis Smith)
1892 Ferdinand Van Derveer--Died (Brigadier General, Union
Army)
1893 Theodor von Eltz--Born (Actor)
1907 Cyrus Longworth
Lundell--Born (Tropical Plant Reseacher)
1913 Vivien
Leigh--Born (Actress)
November 6
1231 Emperor Tsuchimikado--Died (83rd Emperor of Japan)
1479 Joanna "The Mad"--Born (Queen of Castile and Leon & Daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella)
1558 Thomas Kyd--Born
1632 Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden--Died (King of Sweden/Son of Charles IX of Sweden & Christina of Holstein-Gottorp)
1794 James Swisher--Born (Texas Politician)
1822 Gordon Granger--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1834 Charles Hale Morgan--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1838 John Grant Mitchell--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1854 John Philip Sousa--Born (Composer)
1862 Charles Davis Jameson--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1872 George Gordon Meade--Died (Union General)
1873 William Joseph (Old Reliable) Hardee--Died (Lt. General, CSA)
1786 Sir Horace Mann--Died (English Diplomat/Virtuoso)
1887 Walter Johnson--Born (Baseball Player)
1893 Peter Ilitch Tschaikvsky--Died (Russian Composer)
1894 Philip Gilbert Hamerton--Died (English Author/Art Historian)
1903 Gordon Westcott--Born (Actor)
1904 Jesse Johnson Finley--Died (Brigadier General, CSA/US Congressman)
1905 James William Reilly--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1988 Earthquake in Southwest China 900 people Killed
November 7
1594 Sir Martin Forbisher--Died
1763 Sir Michael
Foster--Died (English Jurist)
1798 Silas Horton
Stringham--Born (American Admiral)
1811 Battle of
Tippecanoe--War of 1812
1819 Caleb Strong--Died (American
Revolutionary)
1828 Joseph Henry Thayer--Born (American Bible
Scholar)
1835 Michael Scott--Died (English Author)
1867 Madame Marie
Curie--Born (Physicist/Chemist & Wife of Pierre Curie)
1880 Joe
Moe--Born (Hollywood Director/Producer/Screenwriter)
1887 Joshua Thomas
"Paddy" Owen--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1890 Edward Asbury
O'neal--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1894 John Grant Mitchell--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1902 Ed Dodd--Born (Cartoonist)
1903 Gracie Lantz--Born (Actress/Voice of Woody the Woodpecker)
1914 Archie Campbell--Born (Actor/Hee Haw TV Show)
November 8
1226 Louis VIII--Died (King of France)
1674 John Milton--Died (English Poet/Son of John Milton Sr. & Sara Jeffrey)
1780 Samuel Augustus Foot--Born (U.S. Congressman/Senator/Governor of Connecticut)
1802 Elijah Parish Lovejoy--Born (Abolitionist Editor)
1817 Claudius Wistar Sears--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1829 Samuel Wylie Crawford--Born (Major General Union Army)
1830 Oliver Otis Howard--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1838 Rufus Peckham--Born (Associate Supreme Court Justice)
1840 Nathan Mayer Rothschild--Born
1847 Bram Stoker--Born (Author of Dracula)
1880 Alfred Napoleon Alexander (Nattie) Duffié--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1882 Harry Hayden--Born (Actor)
1893 Francis Parkman--Died (American Historian/Author)
1900 Margaret Mitchell--Born (Author)
1905 Ada Mae (Adamae) Vaughn--Born (Silent Film Actress)
1920 Esther Rolle--Born (Actress/TV Good Times Mother)
1924 Joe Flynn--Born (Actor/TV McHale's Navy Capt. Binghamton)
1931 Darla Jean Hood--Born (Actress/Little Rascals)
November 9
1389 Isabella of France--Born (Daughter of Charles VI of France/2nd Queen of Richard II King of England)
1623 William Camden--Died (English Historian)
1721 Mark Akenside--Born (Scottish Poet/Physician)
1731 Benjamin Banneker--Born (Scientist/Inventor)
1752 George Rogers Clarke--Born (Frontiersman)
1799 The French Revolution's Directory ended Napoleon Boneparte crowned himself Dictator of France
1801 Robert Dale Owen--Born (American Social Reformer/Author)
1812 Marcus Ward--Born (US Congressman from New Jersey/New Jersey Governor)
1817 Edward Richard Sprigg Canby--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1823 William Henry Forney--Born (Brigadier General, CSA/Brother of Major Gen. John Horace Forney)
1825 Ambrose Powell Hill--Born (Lt. General, CSA)
1841 Edward VII--Born (King of England/Son of Queen Victoria)
1854 Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton--
1861 James Alexander Reed--Born (US Congressman from Missouri/Presidential Candidate)
1862 John Bordenave Villepigue--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1872 Burton E. Stevenson--Born (Author/Librarian)
1883 Edna Mae Oliver--Born (Actress)
1886 Ed Wynn--Born (Actor)
1887 Gertrude Astor--Born (Actress)
1889 Snub Pollard--Born (Actor)
1893 Herman August Hagen--Died
1905 Roger Edens--Born(Producer)
1918 Spiro T. Agnew--Born
1922 Dorothy Jean Dandridge--Born (Actress/Singer)
1934 Carl Sagan--Born (Astronomer/Author)
November 10
1444 Battle of Varna The Ottomans under Murad II defeated the Polish & Hungarians under Vladislaus III & John Hunyadi
1483 Martin Luther--Born (German monk, priest, professor, theologian & church reformer/Son of Hans Luther & Margarethe Ziegler)
1549 Pope Paul III (Alessandro Farnese)--Died (Roman Catholic Pope 1534-1549)
1566 Rober Devereux--Born (2nd Earl of Essex)
1683 George II--Born (King of England 1727-1760/Son of George I & Sophia
Dorothea)
1697 William Hogarth--Born (English Author)
1730 Oliver Goldsmith--Born (Irish/English Author/Son of Charles Goldsmith and Ann Jones)
1753 Josiah Harmar--Born (US Army General)
1759 Johann Christoph Friederich von Schiller--Born (German Poet)
1792 Samuel Nelson--Born (Associate Supreme Court Justice)
1811 James Brooks--Born (US Congressman from New York)
1827 Alfred Howe Terry--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1830 Albert Gallatin Jenkins--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1834 Wager Swayne--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1861 Isidore Geoffroy Saint Hilaire--Died (French Zoologist/Son of Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire)
1869 John Ellis Wool--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1874 Donald MacMillan--Born (Arctic Explorer)
1877 Martyn Paine--Died (American Physician/Son of Elijah Paine)
1890 Misha R. Bakaleinikoff--Born (Russian Composer Musical Director)
1894 Martin Garralaga--Born (Actor)
1930 Norma Crane--Born (Actress)
1933 Norm Cash--Born (Baseball Player)
November 11
1605 William Habington--Born (English Poet)
1726 Sir Alexander Gordon--Died (Scottish Coventer)
1744 Abigail Smith Adams--Born (Wife of President John Adams)
1781 Cyrus Alger--Born (American Iron master/Inventor)
1811 Ben Mcculloch--Born (Brigadier General, CSA
1821 Fedor Dostoyevsky--Born (Russian Author)
1843 Ben Thompson--Born (Texas Gunfighter/Lawman)
1869 Marie Dressler--Born (Entertainer)
1872 Maude Adams--Born (Actress)
1873 John T. Dorance,Sr.--Born (Businessman/Inventor of Campbell's Condensed Soup)
1875 Dorothy Vernon (Dorothy Baird)--Born (Actress)
1880 Lucretia Coffin Mott--Died (American Quaker Minister/Abolitionist/Social Reformer/Daughter of Thomas Coffin & Anna Folger)
1885 George S. Patton, Jr.--Born (US Army General)
1892 Thomas Adolphus Trollope--Died (English Author)
1899 Pat O'Brien--Born (Actor)
1900 Hugh Doggett Scott, Jr.--Born (US Senator from Pennsylvania)
1904 Joe Penner--Born (Comedian)
1915 Raquel Torres--Born (Actress)
November 12
1035 Canute--Died (King of England, King of Denmark and
Norway)
1555 Bishop Gardiner--Died
1742 Friedrich
Hoffman--Died (German physician/Author)
1755 Gerhard Johann
David von Scharnhorst--Born (Prussian General)
1782 William
Hendricks--Born (Governor of Indiana/US Congressman from Indiana)
1815
Elizabeth Cady Stanton--Born (Suffragist)
1819 Sir Herbert
Benjamin Edwardes--Born (English General/Author)
1854 William Webb
Cox--Born (Associate Supreme Court Justice)
1867 Walter Husted
Stevens--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1870 Auguste Henri
Andre Dumeril--Died (Naturalist)
1886 Robert Doak
Lilley--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1891 Richard
Whiting--Born (Composer)
1903 Jack Oakie--Born (Comedian)
1910 Beverly
Holcombe Robertson--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1929 Princess Grace
Kelly--Born (Actress/Monaco Princess)
November 13
354 AD St. Augustine--Born
1312 Edward III--Born (King of England/Edward II, King of England, & Isabella, daughter of Philippe IV, King of France)
1687 Eleanor Gwyn--Died (Actress/Mistress of Charles II King of England)
1726 Sophia Dorothea--Died (Wife of George I King of England/Electress of
Hanover/Daughter of the Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle)
1785 Lady Caroline Lamb (Ponsomby)--Born (English Author/Wife of Lord Melbourne, William Lamb/Lady Caroline was the daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough/She was also Lord Byron's lover)
1790 William Wright--Born (US Conmgressman from New Jersey)
1804 Theophilus Hunter Holmes--Born (Lt. General, CSA)
1809 John Adolf Dalgren--Born (American Rear-Admiral)
1811 Robert Treat Paine--Died (American Poet/Son of Robert Treat Paine)
1813 John Wolcott Phelps--Born (Brigadier General, Union
Army)
1814 Joseph Hooker--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1844 Jacob Gunther--Born (Indian Scout/Medal of Honor Recipient)
1849 William Etty--Died (English Artist)
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson--Born (Author)
1859 Henry Haven Windsor--Born (Founder of Popular Mechanics Magazine)
1860 David Dale Owen--Died (American Geologist)
1861 Louis Dembitz Brandeis--Born (US Supreme Court Justice)
1863 Carnot Posey--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1870 J. Henry Kolker--Born (Actor/Director)
1874 Margeurite Long--Born (Pianist)
1877 Robert K. G. "Boss" Shannon--Born (Bootlegger/Friend of Machine Gun Kelly)
1897 Gertrude Olmsted Leonard--Born (Silent Film Actress)
1902 Evander Mcnair-- Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1938 Jean Seberg--Born (Actress)
November 14
1454 Jeanne Fourquet Hachette--Born (French Heroine who defended Beauvais against Charles the Bold with a hatchet)
1501 Catherine of Aragon--Married Arthur the Prince of Wales
1650 William III (William of Orange)--Born (King of England)
1719 Leopold Mozart--Born (German Violinist/Father of Amadeus Mozart)
1765 Robert Fulton--Born (Inventor)
1797 Charles Lyell--Born (President of the Royal Geological Society)
1805 Madame Fanny Cecile Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Hensel--Born (Composer/Wife of German Artist Wilhelm Hensel)
1809 John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren--Born (Union Navy Rear-Admiral)
1822 William Harrow--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1825 Jean Paul Friedrich Richter--Died (German Author/Humorist)
1827 Isaac Jones Wistar--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1828 James Birdseye Mcpherson--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1831 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel--Died (German Philosopher)
1840 Claude Monet--Born (Artist)
1844 John Abercrombie--Died (Scottish Physician/Philosopher/Son of Rev. George Abercrombie)
1872 James Hadley--Died (American Author/Yale Professor)
1890 John Converse Starkweather--Died (Brigadier General,
Union Army)
1891 Sir Frederick Banting--Born (Insulin Discover)
1894 Seena Owen--Born (Silent Film Actress)
1895 Frank J. Lausche--Born (Ohio Governor)
1896 Mamie Doud Eisenhower--Born (Wife of US President Dwight D. Eisenhower)
1900 Aaron Copland--Born (Composer)
1904 Dick Powell--Born (Actor)
1906 Louise Brooks--Born (Actress)
1908 Joseph McCarthy--Born (Anti-Communist Crusader/US Senator from Wisconsin)
1919 Veronica Lake--Born (Actress with the (peek-a-boo) hair style)
1921 Brian Keith--Born (Actor)
1926 Leonie Rysanek--Born (Opera
Singer)
November
15
1315 Battle of Morgarten, Switzerland (Austrian Army under Leopold
defeated by Swiss)
1630 Johannes Kepler--Died (German
Mathematician/Astronomer)
1708 William Pitt the Elder--Born (First Earl
Of Chatham/British Prime Minister)
1807 Peter H.
Burnett--Born (First Governor of California)
1814 Pleasant Adam
Hackleman--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1816 Joseph Bennett
Plummer--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1819 Daniel G.
Taylor--Born (Steamboat Captain)
1833 Edwin
Booth--Born (Actor and Elder brother of John Wilkes Booth)
1836 Pierce
Manning Bulter--Born (Major General CSA)
1882 Felix
Frankfurter--Born (US Supreme Court Justice)
1891 Erwin Rommel (The
Desert Fox)--Born (German Field Marshall)
1906 Curtis Emerson Le
May--Born (US Army General)
1913 Camille Armand
Jules Marie (Prince De Polignac)--Died (Major General, CSA)
November
16
1272 Henry III--Died (King of England/Son of John &
Isabella)
1632 Gustavus II (Adolphus)--Died (King of Sweden)
1782 George
Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound--Born (2nd Earl of Minto)
1814 Michael Kelly
Lawler--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1822 Charles Smith
Hamilton--Born (Major General, Union Army/US Marshal)
1835 Elliott Warren
Rice--Born (Major General, Union Army/Brig.Gen. Samuel A. Rice)
1836 King
David Kalakaua--Born (King of Hawaii)
1840 Henry Harrison
Markham--Born (Governor of California)
1865 Philippe Francois
Pinel Dumanoir--Died (French Playwrite)
1873 William
Handy--Born (Jazz Musician)
1894 Mabel
Normand--Born (Silent Film Actress)
1896 Lawrence
Tibbett--Born (Actor)
1908 Thomas John Lucas--Died (Major General,
Union Army)
1922 Royal Dano--Born (Actor)
1927 Barbara
Payton--Born (Actress)
November 17
1558 Mary I (Bloody Mary)--Died (Queen of England/Daughter of Henry VIII)
1724 William Ponsonby--Died [Birth 1659 Month & Day unknown] (1st Viscount Duncannon/Son of Sir John Ponsonby & Elizabeth Folliett)
1776 Robert Trimble--Born (Associate Supreme Court Justice)
1791 Benjamin Franklin Bache (son of Sarah the only daughter of Benjamin Franklin married Margaret Hartman Markoe
1794 George Grote--Born (English Historian)
1796 Catherine II--Died (Empress of Russia)
1814 Joseph Finegan--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1826 John Mcarthur--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1831 Stephen Hinsdale Weed--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1854 Louis Lyautey--Born (French Soldier/Politician)
1858 Robert Owen--Died (Founder of English Socialism)
1878 Grace Abbott--Born (American Social Worker)
1891 Lester Allen--Born (Actor)
1897 Edwin (Eddie) Baker--Born (Actor/Keystone Cop)
1901 Lee Strasberg--Born (Actor/Teacher)
1905 Helen Vinson (Rulfs Hardenbrook)--Born (Actress)
1906 Betty Bronson--Born (Actress)
1925 Rock Hudson--Born (Actor)
November 18
1786 Sir Henry Rowley Bishop--Born (English Composer/Home
Sweet Home)
1810 Asa Gray--Born (Botanist)
1812 Jesse Johnson Finley--Born (Brigadier General, CSA/US Congressman)
1824 Isham Nicholas Haynie--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1835 Americus Vespucius Rice--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army/US Congressman)
1836 Milton Bradley--Born (Game Magnate)
1877 Richard Mayr--Born (Opera Singer)
1882 James Deering Fessenden--Died (Major General, Union Army/Brother of Gen. Francis Fessenden)
1886 Chester A. Arthur--Died (21st US President / Eldest son of Rev. William Arthur & Malvina Stone)
1909 Johnny Mercer--Born (Composer/Song Writer-Moon River, etc.)
November 19
1600 Charles I--Born [King of England, son of James IV of Scotland (James I of England) and Anne of Denmark)]
1752 George Rogers Clark--Born (American General & Brother of William Clark)
1810 August Willich--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1812 Eugenide Mirecourt--Born (French Author)
1822 Earthquake in Valparaiso, Chile 29,000 people Killed
1824 The river Neva overflowed its banks near St. Petersburg, Russia over 10,000 people drowned
1827 Isaac Munroe St John--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1831 James Abram Garfield--Born (Major General, Union Army/20th US President)
1835 Fitzhugh Lee--Born (Major General, CSA)
1847 Mary Anna Hallock--Born (American Author/Illustrator/Daughter of Nathaniel Hallock & Anne Burling)
1863 William Price Sanders--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1882 Amelita Galli-Curci--Born (Opera Singer)
1891 Martha Bamattre--Born (Actress)
1898 Don Carlos Buell--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1914 Reaves Eason Jr. (Breezy)--Born (Actor)
November 20
1591 Sir Christopher Hatton--Died
1733 Philip Schuyler--Born (Major General Continental Army Revolutionary War)
1752 Thomas Chatterton--Born (English Poet)
1815 Baron Franz von John--Born (Austrian General)
1830 Patrick Henry Jones--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1836 Isaac Newton Van Nuys--Born (California Pioneer)
1841 Sir Wilfred Laurier--Born (Canadian Prime Minister)
1858 Selma Lagerlöf--Born (Swedish Author)
1859 Mountstuart Elphinstone--Died (English Historian)
1866 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis--Born (First Baseball Commissioner)
1886 John Smith Phelps--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1891 Denny Reginald--Born (Actor)
1894 Bert Moorhouse--Born (Actor)
1900 Athole Shearer Hawks--Born (Actress)
1916 Judy Canova--Born (Actress/Singer)
1925 Robert Kennedy--Born (US Senator/Attorney General)
November 21
1579 Sir Thomas Gresham-Died
1673 James II, King of
England 2nd Marriage to Mary, daughter of Alfonso d' Este, Duke of Modena
1694 Voltaire--Born
1729 Josiah Bartlett--Born (Signer of Declaration of Independence)
1785 William Beaumont--Born (Medical Doctor)
1787 Bryon Waller Procter--Born (English Poet)
1788 Sir Samuel Cunard--Born (Shipping Magnate)
1817 Richard Brooke Garnett--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1828 William Mccomb--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1831 John Franklin Miller--Born(Major General Union Army/ US Senator from California)
1834 Joseph Jackson Bartlett--Born (Major General, Union Army/US Minister to
Sweden)
1840 Victoria Adelaide Mary--Born (Princess Royal of England/Daughter of Queen Victoria)
1856 James Meadows Rendel--Died (English Bridge Engineer)
1868 Leslie Jasper Steele--Born (US Congressman from Georgia)
1875 Orris Sanford Ferry--Died (Major General, Union Army/US Senator)
1886 Charles Francis Adams--Died (Son of John Quincy Adams & Statesman/Author)
1890 Carli Elinor--Born (Composer)
1894 Max Miller (Thomas Henry Sargent)--Born (British Comedian)
1902 Foster Hewitt--Born (Canadian Sports Announcer/Hockey)
1912 Eleanor Powell--Born (Tap Dancer/Wife of Actor Glenn Ford)
1922 Richar R. Taylor--Born (US Surgeon General)
November 22
1515 Mary of Guise--Born (Queen of Scotland)
1643 Robert
Cavelier La Salle--Born (French Explorer)
1781 Maria Magdalena
von Schiller (von Pfingsten)--Born (Johann Friederich von Schiller's
daughter-in-law)
1787 Rasmus Kristian Rask--Born (Danish Linguist)
1805
Benjamin Huger--Born (Major General CSA)
1808 George William
Taylor--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1818 Samuel Gibbs
French--Born (Major General, CSA)
1819 George Eliot
(Mary Ann Evans Cross)--Born (English Author)
1822 Nathan
Kimball--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1824 Charles M.
Pandosy--Born (Canada's Johnny Appleseed)
1832 George Henry
Chapman--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1835 Frank Crawford
Armstrong--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1836 Otho (King of
Greece) Married Marie Friederike Amalie (Princess of Oldenburg
1844 Abigail
Adams--Born (Women's Rights Leader/Wife of John Adams US
President)
1860 Sir Alfred Barratt--Born (Sweet Dessert
Magnate)
1862 Francis Engle Patterson--Died (Brigadier General,
Union Army)
1868 John Nance Garner--Born (US 32nd Vice President under
FDR)
1878 Michael Romanov--Born (Grand Duke of Russia)
1889 James
Morrison Hawes--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1899 Hoagy
Carmichael--Born (Actor)
1902 Joe Adonis (Guiseppe Antonio Doto)--Born (Mobster/ a friend of Lucky Luciano)
1903 George Hume (Maryland) Steuart--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1912 Doris Duke--Born (Tobacco Heiress)
November 23
946 Eadred--Died (King of the English/Son of Edmund I & Edgiva/Eadred's year of birth c923) Edwy, Eadred's brother, succeeded as King of the English
1589 James I, King of England, Married Princess Anne of Denmark
1749 Edward Rutledge--Born (Signer of Declaration of Indepedence)
1803 Theodore Dwight Weld--Born (Reformer and educator)
1804 Franklin Pierce--Born (14th US President)
1807 Jean Francois Rewbell--Died (French Politician)
1809 Horatio Phillips Van Cleve--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1812 George Rawlinson--Born (English Orientalist/Author/Brother of Henry)
1814 Ebenezer Dumont--Born (Major General, Union Army/US Congressman)
1815 William Dennison, Jr.--Born (Governor of Ohio/US Postmaster General)
1819 Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1848 John Barrow--Died (English Founder of Royal Geography Society)
1859 William H. Bonney "Billy The Kid"--Born
1860 Hjalmar Branting--Born (Swedish Prime Minister)
1868 Nathan George (Shanks) Evans--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1878 Ernest Joseph King--Born (US Navy Admiral)
1883 Jose Clemente Orozco--Born (Artist)
1885 Cosmo Bellew--Born (Actor)
1888 Harpo Marx--Born (Actor/Comedian)
1889 Alexander McCarrell Patch--Born (General US Army WWII)
1891 Alvin Peterson Hovey--Died (Major General, Union Army/US Minister to Peru/US Congressman)
1893 Marion Bayard Folsom--Born (U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare)
1900 Rosetta Duncan--Born (Actress)
1906 Archie Twitchell--Born (Actor)
1924 Paul Richards--Born (Actor)
1951 David Stephen Rappaport--Born (Actor)
1959 Dominique Dunne--Born (Actress)
1988 Earthquake in Southern Italy 3,000 people
Killed & 3,000 people injured
November 24
1541 Battle of Spurs (Scots defeated by the English)
1632 Benedict Spinoza--Born (Philosopher)
1713 Laurence Sterne--Born (Irish Author/Son of Roger & Agnes (Nuttle)
Herbert/Laurence was also the Grandson of the Archbishop of York)
1770 Charles Jean Henault--Died (French Historian)
1784 Zachary Taylor--Born (12th President of U.S.)
1815 James Heyward Trapier--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1829 William Passmore Carlin--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1848 William Lamb--Died (English Prime Minister)
1853 Bat Masterson--Born (U.S. Marshall)
1867 James Hamilton--Died (Religious Author)
1894 William Wirt Allen--Died (Major General, CSA/US Marshal)
November 25
1638 Catherine of Braganza--Born (Wife of King Charles II of England/Daughter of King John IV of Portugal and Luisa de Guzman)
1758 John Armstrong--Born (American soldier/diplomat/Son of John Armstrong & Rebecca Lyon)
1809 Adolph Edward Borie--Born (U.S. Secretary of the Navy)
1823 Joseph Alexander Cooper--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1825 Edward Augustus Wild--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1859 Jane Hading--Born (French Actress)
1865 Heinrich Barth--Died (British Explorer)
1885 Thomas Andrews Hendricks--Died (American Vice President)
November 26
1504 Isabella I (The Catholic)--Died (Queen of Castile
& Financier of the explorer Christopher Columbus/Wife of Ferdinand of Aargon/Daughter of John II of Castile)
1792 Sarah Moore Grimke--Born (Abolitionist/Woman's rights activist/Sister of Angeline Emily Grimke/Daughter of John Faucheraud & Mary Smith)
1816 William Henry Talbot Walker--Born (Major General, CSA)
1827 Alfred Moore Scales--Born (Brigadier General, CSA/US Congressman North Carolina Governor)
1829 Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon--Born (British Colonial Governor)
1861 Wilhelm Hensel--Died (German Author)
1901 Joseph Henry Thayer--Died (American Bible Scholar)
November 27
1592 John Eliot--Died (English Statesman/Son of Richard Eliot & Bridget Carswell)
1754 Abraham de Moivre--Died (French Mathematician)
1808 Hugh Weedon Mercer--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1814 James Hamilton--Born (Religious Author)
1851 Basil Montagu--Died (English Legal Author/Son of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich)
1863 Claudius Charles Wilson--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1880 George Bibb Crittenden--Died (Major General, CSA/State librarian of Kentucky)
1895 Alexander Dumas--Died (French Author/Son of Alexander Dumas)
November 28
1582 William Shakespeare--Married Anne Hathaway
1757 William Blake--Born (English Artist/Poet)
1785 William Whipple--Died (Signer of Declaration of Independence)
1794 Friedrich William Von Steuben--Died (General American Revolution Army)
1805 John Loyd Stephens--Born (American Archeologist/Author)
1820 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1832 Sir Leslie Stephen--Born (English Author/Son of Sir James Stephen)
1859 Washington Irving--Died (American Author/Son of William Irving & Sarah Sanders)
1892 Richard Henry Jackson--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1899 Robert Brank Vance--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1901 William Hugh Young--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1976 Rosalind Russell (Brisson)--Died (Actress)
1993 Garry Moore--Died (Actor/T.V. Host)
November 29
1338 Lionel of Antwerp--Born (Earl of Ulster/Duke of Clarence/Son of Edward III & Philippa)
1489 Margaret Tudor--Born
1530 Cardinal Wolsey--Died
1626 Count Ernst von Mansfeld--Died (German General)
1790 John Nicholson--Born(English Poet)
1799 Amos Bronson Alcott--Born(Philosopher/Poet/Father of Louisa May Alcott)
1815 Stephen Augustus Hurlbut--Born (Major General, Union Army/Minister to Colombia & Peru/US Congressman)
1832 Louisa May Alcott--Born
1833 Louis Douglass Watkins--Born(Brigadier General, Union Army)
1834 Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom--Born(Major General, Union Army)
1869 James Lawlor Kiernan--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1872 Horace Greeley--Died
1875 Thomas Hewitt Key--Died (English Author/Latin Scholar)
1878 Robert Christie (Old Buck) Buchanan--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1884 Gershom Mott--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1897 John Sanford Mason--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
November 30
1447 Casimir IV--Born (King of Poland/Grand Duke of Lithuania)
1554 Sir Philip Sidney--Born (English poet & author/Son of Sir Henry Sidney[Lord Deputy of Ireland]& Mary Dudley [Daughter of the Duke of Northumberland]
1628 John Bunyan--Baptized (English Author)
1667 Jonathan Swift--Born (British Author/Son of Jonathan Swift [who died seven months before the birth of Jonathan] & Abigail Erick a cousin of John Dryden the poet)
1675 Lord Baltimore Calvert--Died (First Proprietor of Maryland)
1744 Karl Ludwig von Knebel--Born(German Author/Friend of Goethe)
1812 Auguste Henri Andre Dumeril--Born(Naturalist)
1826 George Washington Deitzler--Born(Brigadier General, Union Army)
1835 Mark Twain--Born (American Author)
1846 Friedrich List--DiedSuicide (German political economist/Author)
1864 John Adams--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1874 Winston Churchill--Born(British Prime Minister)
1879 Jefferson Columbus Davis--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1882 Daniel Tyler--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1897 Nelson Grosvenor Williams--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1900 Oscar Wilde--Died (Author)