Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Charles Francis Adams |
Diplomat |
18-Aug-1807 |
21-Nov-1886 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1861-68 |
Georg Agricola |
Geologist |
24-Mar-1490 |
21-Nov-1555 |
Father of Minerology |
Max Baer |
Boxing |
11-Feb-1909 |
21-Nov-1959 |
Beat Max Schmeling in 1933 |
William S. Beardsley |
Politician |
17-May-1901 |
21-Nov-1954 |
Governor of Iowa, 1949-54 |
Robert Benchley |
Author |
15-Sep-1889 |
21-Nov-1945 |
Humorist and screenwriter |
Bill Bixby |
Actor |
22-Jan-1934 |
21-Nov-1993 |
David Banner on The Incredible Hulk |
Jerry Colonna |
Radio Personality |
17-Sep-1904 |
21-Nov-1986 |
Sidekick of Bob Hope |
Quentin Crisp |
Actor |
25-Dec-1908 |
21-Nov-1999 |
The Naked Civil Servant |
Fernando Fernán-Gómez |
Actor |
28-Aug-1921 |
21-Nov-2007 |
Voyage to Nowhere |
Ellen Glasgow |
Novelist |
22-Apr-1873 |
21-Nov-1945 |
In This Our Life |
Leopold Godowsky |
Pianist |
13-Feb-1870 |
21-Nov-1938 |
Exceptional Polish-American pianist |
Sir Thomas Gresham |
Business |
1518 |
21-Nov-1579 |
Founder of Gresham College |
Gunnar Gunnarsson |
Novelist |
18-May-1889 |
21-Nov-1975 |
Af Borgslaegtens Historie |
Cary A. Hardee |
Politician |
13-Nov-1876 |
21-Nov-1957 |
Governor of Florida, 1921-25 |
Florence Harding |
First Lady |
15-Aug-1860 |
21-Nov-1924 |
Wife of US President Warren G. Harding |
Francis Burton Harrison |
Politician |
18-Dec-1873 |
21-Nov-1957 |
Drug prohibition |
Garret A. Hobart |
Politician |
3-Jun-1844 |
21-Nov-1899 |
Vice President under McKinley |
James Hogg |
Poet |
1770 |
21-Nov-1835 |
The Queen's Wake |
Carl Hubbell |
Baseball |
22-Jun-1903 |
21-Nov-1988 |
New York Giants pitcher |
Tom Johnson |
Hockey |
18-Feb-1928 |
21-Nov-2007 |
NHL Hall of Famer, coach |
Thomas H. Kuchel |
Politician |
15-Aug-1910 |
21-Nov-1994 |
US Senator from California, 1953-69 |
David L. Lawrence |
Politician |
18-Jun-1889 |
21-Nov-1966 |
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1959-63 |
George P. Lawrence |
Politician |
19-May-1859 |
21-Nov-1917 |
Congressman, committed suicide |
Willem J. Luyten |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1899 |
21-Nov-1994 |
Stellar mortician |
Ricardo Flores Magón |
Anarchist |
16-Sep-1873 |
21-Nov-1922 |
Agitator behind Mexican revolution |
Norris Church Mailer |
Novelist |
31-Jan-1949 |
21-Nov-2010 |
Norman Mailer's painter/novelist wife |
Daniel Mann |
Film Director |
8-Aug-1912 |
21-Nov-1991 |
Come Back, Little Sheba |
Anne McCaffrey |
Author |
1-Apr-1926 |
21-Nov-2011 |
Pern series |
John P. McConnell |
Military |
7-Feb-1908 |
21-Nov-1986 |
USAF Chief of Staff, 1965-69 |
Gardner McKay |
Actor |
10-Jun-1932 |
21-Nov-2001 |
Adventures in Paradise |
Joseph McKenna |
Judge |
10-Aug-1843 |
21-Nov-1926 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1898-1925 |
Mel Ott |
Baseball |
2-Mar-1909 |
21-Nov-1958 |
HoF New York Giants outfielder |
Lee Patrick |
Actor |
22-Nov-1901 |
21-Nov-1982 |
Henrietta Topper on Topper |
Kaysone Phomvihane |
Head of State |
13-Dec-1920 |
21-Nov-1992 |
Prime Minister of Laos, 1975-91 |
Henry Purcell |
Composer |
c. 1659 |
21-Nov-1695 |
Dido and Aeneas |
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman |
Physicist |
7-Nov-1888 |
21-Nov-1970 |
Discovered the Raman Effect |
Bruno Rossi |
Astronomer |
13-Apr-1905 |
21-Nov-1993 |
Rossi curve and magnetopause |
Jeremiah M. Rusk |
Politician |
17-Jun-1830 |
21-Nov-1893 |
Governor of Wisconsin, 1882-89 |
Abdus Salam |
Physicist |
29-Jan-1926 |
21-Nov-1996 |
Electroweak Theory |
Hugh Sidey |
Journalist |
3-Sep-1927 |
21-Nov-2005 |
Time magazine |
Anzia Yezierska |
Novelist |
c. 1880 |
21-Nov-1970 |
Bread Givers |
Harry von Zell |
Actor |
11-Jul-1906 |
21-Nov-1981 |
You're in the Navy Now |