Notable Birthdays for October 1
Those born on this date include:
- Navy Capt. James Lawrence, hero of the War of 1812, in 1781
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- Novelist Faith Baldwin in 1893
- Pianist Vladimir Horowitz in 1903
- Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, in 1924 (age 83)
- U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, also in 1924
- Former major league batting champion Rod Carew in 1945 (age 62)
- Actor Walter Matthau in 1920
- Actor James Whitmore in 1921 (age 86)
- Actor Tom Bosley in 1927 (age 80)
- Actor George Peppard in 1928
- Actor Laurence Harvey in 1928
- Actor Richard Harris in 1930
- Actor Julie Andrews in 1935 (age 72)
- Actor Stella Stevens in 1936 (age 71)
- Actor Stephen Collins in 1947 (age 60)
- Actor Randy Quaid in 1950 (age 57)
- Former home run champ Mark McGwire in 1963 (age 44)
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Notable Birthdays for October 6
Those born on this date include:
- Singer Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, in 1820
- Inventor and manufacturer George Westinghouse in 1846
- Tennis champion Helen Wills Moody in 1905
- Actresses Janet Gaynor in 1906 and Carole Lombard in 1908
- Norwegian ethnologist, archaeologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl in 1914
- Former 60 Minutes journalist Shana Alexander in 1925
- Actress Britt Eklund in 1942 (age 65)
- Actress Elisabeth Shue in 1963 (age 44)
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Notable Birthdays for October 7
Those born on this date include:
- Poet James Whitcomb Riley in 1849
- Grand Ole Opry star Uncle Dave Macon in 1870
- Danish atomic physicist Niels Bohr in 1885
- Actor Andy Devine in 1905
- Singer/bandleader Vaughn Monroe in 1911
- Actress June Allyson in 1917
- Actor/singer Al Martino in 1927 (age 79)
- South African archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu in 1931 (age 76)
- Oliver North, the former White House aide who became the center of the Iran-Contra controversy, in 1943 (age 64)
- Rock singer John Mellencamp in 1951 (age 56)
- Classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1955 (age 52)
- Singer Toni Braxton in 1967 (age 40)
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Notable Birthdays for October 8
Those born on this date include:
- World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in 1890
- Argentine dictator Juan Peron in 1895
- Composer W.C. Handy in 1904
- Travel guide author Temple Hornaday Fielding in 1913
- Gossip columnist Rona Barrett in 1936 (age 71)
- Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson in 1941 (age 66)
- "Goosebumps" author R.L. Stine in 1943 (age 64)
- Actor Paul Hogan in 1939 (age 68)
- Actor Chevy Chase in 1943 (age 64)
- Actor Sigourney Weaver in 1949 (age 58)
- Actor Stephanie Zimbalist in 1956 (age 51)
- Actor Matt Damon in 1970 (age 37)
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Notable Birthdays for October 10
Those born on this date include:
- English chemist-physicist Henry Cavendish, discoverer of hydrogen, in 1731
- Composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1813
- Actress Helen Hayes in 1900
- Playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter in 1930 (age 77)
- Entertainer Ben Vereen in 1946 (age 61)
- Actress Jessica Harper in 1949 (age 58)
- Rocker David Lee Roth in 1954 (age 52)
- Country singer Tanya Tucker in 1958 (age 49)
- And pro football star Brett Favre in 1969 (age 38)
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Notable Birthdays for October 11
Those born on this date include:
- Clergyman Mason Locke Weems, who invented the story of George Washington and the cherry tree, in 1759
- Englishman George Williams, founder of the YMCA, in 1821
- Food industry pioneer Henry John Heinz in 1844
- Former first lady and author Eleanor Roosevelt in 1884
- Choreographer Jerome Robbins in 1918
- Country singer Dottie West in 1932
- Actor/singer Ron Leibman in 1937 (age 70)
- Singer Daryl Hall in 1946 (age 61)
- And actors David Morse in 1953 (age 54), Joan Cusack in 1962 (age 45) and Luke Perry in 1965 (age 42).
Notable Birthdays for October 12
Those born on this date include:
- Elmer Sperry, who devised practical uses for the gyroscope, in 1860
- English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1872
- Comedian and activist Dick Gregory in 1932 (age 75)
- Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti in 1935
- TV correspondent Chris Wallace in 1947 (age 60)
- Singer/actress Susan Anton in 1950 (age 57)
- Actor Adam Rich in 1968 (age 39)
- Actor Kirk Cameron in 1970 (age 37)
- Track star Marion Jones in 1975 (age 32)
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Notable Birthdays for October 13
Those born on this date include:
- American Revolutionary War heroine Molly Pitcher in 1754
- Actress Lillie Langtry in 1853
- Actor Cornel Wilde in 1915
- Puppeteer Burr Tillstrom in 1917
- Actor/singer Yves Montand in 1921
- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1925 (age 82)
- Comedian Lenny Bruce also in 1925
- Jesse L. Brown, the first black American naval aviator, in 1926
- Actress Melinda Dillon in 1939 (age 68)
- Singer/songwriter Paul Simon in 1941 (age 66)
- Rocker Sammy Hagar in 1947 (age 60)
- Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files, in 1956 (age 51)
- Entertainer Marie Osmond in 1959 (age 48)
- Actress Kelly Preston in 1962 (age 45)
- Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in 1969 (age 38)
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Notable Birthdays for October 15
Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra.
They include Roman poet Virgil in 70 B.C.
- German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche in 1844
- Boxing champion John L. Sullivan in 1858
- English writer and humorist P.G. Wodehouse in 1881
- Film producer Mervyn LeRoy, in 1900
- Picture archivist Otto Bettmann in 1903
- Writer and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in 1917
- Author Mario Puzo ( The Godfather ) in 1920
- Former Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca in 1924 (age 83)
- Actress Linda Lavin in 1937 (age 70)
- Actress/director Penny Marshall in 1942 (age 65)
- Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer in 1945 (age 62)
- Pop singer Richard Carpenter in 1946 (age 61)
- Pop singer Tito Jackson in 1953 (age 54)
- Sarah, Duchess of York, in 1959 (age 48)
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Notable Birthdays for October 16
Those born on this day are under the sign of Libra. They include lexicographer Noah Webster in 1758
- Irish author and dramatist Oscar Wilde in 1854
- David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, in 1886
- Playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1888
- Irish revolutionist Michael Collins in 1890
- Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas in 1898
- German novelist Gunter Grass in 1927 (age 80)
- Actor Barry Corbin ( Northern Exposure ) in 1940 (age 67)
- Actresses Linda Darnell in 1923
- Angela Lansbury in 1925 (age 82) and Suzanne Somers in 1946 (age 61)
- Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir in 1947 (age 60)
- Actor Tim Robbins in 1958 (age 49)
- Actress Kellie Martin in 1975 (age 32)
Notable Birthdays for October 17
Those born on this day are under the sign of Libra. They include Jupiter Hammon, America's first published black poet, in 1711
- Actress Irene Ryan in 1902
- Big band trombonist and wide-eyed comic Jerry Colonna, best remembered as a featured comedian on Bob Hope shows, in 1905
- Playwright Arthur Miller in 1915
- Actress Rita Hayworth in 1918
- Actor Tom Poston in 1921
- Actor Montgomery Clift in 1920
- Newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin in 1930 (age 77)
- Daredevil Robert Evel Knievel in 1938 (age 69)
- Actor Michael McKean in 1947 (age 60)
- Actress Margot Kidder in 1948 (age 59)
- Actor George Wendt in 1948 (age 59)
- Former astronaut Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, in 1956 (age 51)
- Rapper Eminem in 1972 (age 35)
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Notable Birthdays for October 18
Those born on this day include:
- Novelist Fannie Hurst in 1889
- Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1919
- Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, in 1921 (age 86)
- Greek actress Melina Mercouri in 1925
- Rock 'n' roll legend Chuck Berry in 1926 (age 81)
- Actors George C. Scott in 1927 and Peter Boyle in 1935
- Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in 1939
- Former pro football star and coach Mike Ditka in 1939 (age 68)
- Actor Joe Morton in 1947 (age 60)
- Actress Pam Dawber in 1951 (age 56)
- Musician Wynton Marsalis in 1961 (age 46)
- Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme in 1960 (age 47)
- Actress Erin Moran ( Happy Days ) in 1960 (age 47)
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Notable Birthdays for October 19
Those born on this day include:
- English physician and scholar Thomas Browne in 1605
- Abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay in 1810
- Historian and city planner Lewis Mumford in 1895
- Actress LaWanda Page ( Sanford and Son ) in 1920
- Newspaper columnist Jack Anderson in 1922
- English spy novelist John Le Carre, whose real name is David Cornwell, in 1931 (age 76)
- Pop artist Peter Max in 1937 (age 70)
- Actor John Lithgow in 1945 (age 62)
- Feminist Patricia Ireland in 1945 (age 62)
- Former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield in 1962 (age 45)
- Amy Carter, daughter of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in 1967 (age 40)
Notable Birthdays for October 20
Those born on this date include:
- English astronomer and architect Christopher Wren in 1632
- French poet Arthur Rimbaud in 1854
- James Robert Mann, Illinois congressman and author of the White Slave Traffic Act, also known as the Mann Act, in 1856
- Educator John Dewey in 1859
- Composer Charles Ives in 1874
- Actor Bela Lugosi ( Dracula ) in 1882
- Singer/pianist/composer Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton in 1890
- Mystery writer Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) in 1905
- TV personality Arlene Francis in 1907
- Country singer Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones in 1913
- Actor Herschel Bernardi in 1923
- Humorist Art Buchwald in 1925
- Former New York Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle in 1931
- Actor William Christopher ( M*A*S*H ) in 1932 (age 75)
- Actor Jerry Orbach in 1935
- And rock singer Tom Petty in 1950 (age 57)
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Notable Birthdays for October 21
Those born this date include:
- English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1772
- Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize, in 1833
- Dancer/choreographer Ted Shawn in 1891
- Conductor Georg Solti in 1912
- Jazz trumpeter John Dizzy Gillespie, in 1917
- Former pitcher Whitey Ford in 1928 (age 79)
- Author Ursula K. Le Guin in 1929 (age 78)
- And actress-author Carrie Fisher in 1956 (age 51)
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Notable Birthdays for October 22
Those born on this date include:
- Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in 1811
- Actresses Sarah Bernhardt in 1844 and Joan Fontaine in 1917 (age 90)
- English author Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, in 1919 (age 88)
- Psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary in 1920
- Artist Robert Rauschenberg in 1925 (age 82)
- Actor Derek Jacobi in 1938 (age 69)
- Actor Christopher Lloyd in 1938 (age 69)
- Actor Annette Funicello in 1942 (age 65)
- Actor Catherine Deneuve in 1943 (age 64)
- Actor Jeff Goldblum in 1952 (age 55)
- Champion skater Brian Boitano in 1963 (age 44)
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Notable Birthdays for October 23
Those born on this date include:
- French chef Nicholas Appert, inventor of the canning process, in 1752
- Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. vice president under Grover Cleveland from 1893-97, in 1835
- Pioneering college football coach John Heisman in 1869
- William Coolidge, inventor of the X-ray tube, in 1873
- Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, in 1906
- Former Tonight Show host Johnny Carson in 1925
- Pro golfer Juan Chi Chi Rodriguez in 1935 (age 72)
- Brazilian soccer star Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) in 1940 (age 67)
- Author Michael Crichton in 1942 (age 65)
- Filmmaker Ang Lee in 1954 (age 53)
- Singer Dwight Yoakam in 1956 (age 51) - Singer Weird Al Yankovic in 1959 (age 48)
- Football player Doug Flutie in 1962 (age 45)
- Football player Mike Tomczak in 1962 (age 45)
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Notable Birthdays for October 24
Those born on this date include:
- Pioneering Dutch microscope maker Anton Van Leeuwenhoek in 1632
- Journalist Sarah Josepha Hale, author of Mary Had a Little Lamb, in 1788
- Attorney Belva Lockwood, the first woman candidate for U.S. president, nominated by the National Equal Rights Party, in 1830
- Film producer-director Merian Cooper (the original King Kong ) in 1893
- Former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman in 1936 (age 71)
- Former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume in 1948 (age 59)
- Actor David Nelson in 1936 (age 71)
- Actor F. Murray Abraham in 1939 (age 68)
- Actor Kevin Kline in 1947 (age 60)
- Singer Monica (Arnold) in 1980 (age 27)
Notable Birthdays for October 25
Those born on this date include:
- British historian Thomas Macaulay in 1800
- Austrian composer Johann Strauss in 1825
- French composer Georges Bizet in 1838
- Artist Pablo Picasso in 1881
- Explorer Richard Byrd in 1888
- Country comedian Minnie Pearl in 1912
- Actors Tony Franciosa in 1928
- Marion Ross in 1928 (age 79)
- Basketball coach Bobby Knight in 1940 (age 67)
- Author Anne Tyler in 1941 (age 66)
- Pop singer Helen Reddy in 1941 (age 66)
- Violinist Midori in 1971 (age 36)
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Notable Birthdays for October 27
Those born on this date include:
- Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus in 1466
- English explorer Capt. James Cook in 1728
- Italian violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini in 1782
- Isaac Singer, developer of the first practical home sewing machine, in 1811
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States, in 1858
- Etiquette arbiter Emily Post in 1872
- Longtime Tonight Show producer/director Fred De Cordova in 1910
- Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in 1914
- Actress Nanette Fabray in 1920 (age 87)
- Actress Ruby Dee in 1924 (age 83)
- Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 1923
- Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher in 1925 (age 82)
- Pop pianist Floyd Cramer in 1933
- Comedian John Cleese in 1939 (age 68)
- Filmmaker Ivan Reitman in 1946 (age 61)
- Actor Carrie Snodgress in 1945
- Actor Roberto Benigni ( Life Is Beautiful ) in 1952 (age 55)
- Actor Robert Picardo ( Star Trek: Voyager ) in 1953 (age 54)
- Singer Simon Le Bon in 1958 (age 49)
Notable Birthdays for October 28
Those born on this date include:
- Rifle maker Eliphalet Remington in 1793
- Actress Elsa Lanchester in 1902
- English novelist Evelyn Waugh in 1903
- Dr. Jonas Salk, a developer of the polio vaccine, in 1914
- Former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn in 1926
- Country musician Charlie Daniels in 1936 (age 71)
- Actors Jane Alexander in 1939 (age 68) and Dennis Franz in 1944 (age 63)
- Singer/actress Thelma Hopkins in 1948 (age 59)
- Olympic decathlon champion-turned-sportscaster Bruce Jenner in 1949 (age 58)
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 1955 (age 52)
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 1956 (age 51)
- Actress Annie Potts in 1952 (age 55)
- Actress Lauren Holly in 1963 (age 44)
- Actress Jami Gertz in 1965 (age 42)
- Actress Julia Roberts in 1967 (age 40)
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Notable Birthdays for October 29
Those born on this date include:
- Scottish biographer James Boswell in 1740
- Singer/composer Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the words and music for Dixie, in 1815
- Comedian/singer Fanny Brice in 1891
- Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in 1897
- Political cartoonist Bill Mauldin in 1921
- Singer Melba Moore in 1945 (age 62)
- Actor Richard Dreyfuss in 1947 (age 60)
- Actress Kate Jackson in 1948 (age 59)
- Actress Finola Hughes in 1960 (age 47)
- Actress Joely Fisher in 1967 (age 40)
- Actress Winona Ryder in 1971 (age 36)
Notable Birthdays for October 30
Those born on this date include:
- John Adams, second president of the United States, in 1735
- French Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley in 1839
- French poet Paul Valery in 1871
- Poet Ezra Pound in 1885
- Strongman Charles Atlas in 1893
- Actress Ruth Gordon in 1896
- Film director Louis Malle in 1932
- Rock singer Grace Slick in 1939 (age 68)
- Actor/director Henry Winkler in 1945 (age 62)
- News correspondent Andrea Mitchell in 1946 (age 61)
- Actor Harry Hamlin in 1951 (age 56)
Notable Birthdays for October 31
Those born on this date include:
- Dutch painter Jan Vermeer in 1632
- English poet John Keats in 1795
- Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low in 1860
- Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, the first leader of Nationalist China, in 1887
- Actress/singer Ethel Waters in 1900
- Actresses Dale Evans in 1912
- Actress Barbara Bel Geddes in 1922
- Astronaut Michael Collins in 1930 (age 77)
- TV news anchorman Dan Rather in 1931 (age 76)
- Actor/producer Michael Landon in 1936
- Folk singer/songwriter Tom Paxton in 1937 (age 70)
- Actor David Ogden Stiers in 1942 (age 65)
- Actor Stephen Rea in 1946 (age 61)
- Actress Deidre Hall in 1947 (age 60)
- Comic actor John Candy in 1950
- Broadcaster Jane Pauley also in 1950 (age 57)
- Comic actor Rob Schneider in 1963 (age 44)
- Rapper Vanilla Ice in 1968 (age 39)
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Notable Birthdays for November 1
Those born on this date include:
- Journalist and novelist Stephen Crane in 1871
- Sportswriter/poet Grantland Rice in 1880
- Polish author Sholem Asch in 1880
- Journalist James Kilpatrick in 1920 (age 87)
- Actress Betsy Palmer in 1926 (age 81)
- Golfer Gary Player in 1935 (age 72)
- Publisher Larry Flynt in 1942 (age 65)
- Country singer Lyle Lovett in 1957 (age 50)
- Actress Rachel Ticotin in 1958 (age 49)
- Actress Jenny McCarthy in 1972 (age 35)
Notable Birthdays for November 2
Those born on this date include:
- Frontiersman Daniel Boone in 1734
- Marie Antoinette, queen of France, in 1755
- U.S. President James Polk in 1795
- U.S. President Warren G. Harding in 1865
- Astronomer Harlow Shapley, a pioneer in studies of the Milky Way, in 1885
- Trumpeter Bunny Berigan in 1908
- Actors Burt Lancaster in 1913 and Ray Walston in 1914
- Australian tennis player Ken Rosewall in 1934 (age 74)
- Columnist, commentator and presidential candidate Pat Buchanan in 1938 (age 70)
- Author Shere Hite in 1942 (age 66)
- Actress Stefanie Powers in 1942 (age 66)
- Singer k.d. lang in 1961 (age 47)
Notable Birthdays for November 3
Those born on this date include:
- Early Texas leader Stephen Austin, for whom the state capital is named, in 1793
- Poet William Cullen Bryant in 1794
- Chicago Bears legend Bronislaw Bronko Nagurski in 1908
- Actor Charles Bronson in 1922
- Conductor/composer John Barry in 1933 (age 75)
- Entertainer Ken Berry in 1933 (age 75)
- Former Massachusetts governor and 1986 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis in 1933 (age 75)
- Comedian Roseanne Barr in 1952 (age 56)
- Comedian Dennis Miller in 1953 (age 55)
- Actress Kate Capshaw in 1953 (age 55)
- Actress Kathy Kinney ( The Drew Carey Show ) in 1954 (age 54)
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Notable Birthdays for November 4
Those born on this date include:
- Humorist Will Rogers in 1879
- Reporter Walter Cronkite in 1916 (age 91)
- Actor Art Carney in 1918
- Actor Martin Balsam in 1919
- Actor Loretta Swit in 1937 (age 70)
- U.S. first lady Laura Bush in 1946 (age 61)
- Controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1946
- Actor Markie Post in 1950 (age 57)
- Actor Ralph Macchio ( The Karate Kid ) in 1961 (age 46)
- Actor Matthew McConaughey in 1969 (age 36)
- Singer/actor/songwriter Sean Puffy Combs in 1969 (age 36)
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Notable Birthdays for November 5
Those born on this date include:
- Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs in 1855
- Historian Ida Tarbell in 1857
- Historian Will Durant in 1885
- Inventor and industrialist Raymond Loewy, the father of streamlining, in 1893
- Band leader Jan Garber in 1897
- Movie singing cowboy star Roy Rogers in 1911
- Musician Ike Turner in 1931 (age 76)
- Singer Art Garfunkel in 1941 (age 66)
- Actress Vivien Leigh in 1913
- Actress Elke Sommer in 1940 (age 67)
- Actress Tatum O'Neal in 1963 (age 44)
- Dramatist/actor Sam Shepard in 1943 (age 64)
- Pop singer/songwriter Bryan Adams in 1959 (age 48)
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Notable Birthdays for November 6
Those born on this date include:
- Belgian instrument-maker Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, in 1814
- Band leader and composer John Philip Sousa ( the March King ) in 1854
- Charles Henry Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones and Co. and first editor of The Wall Street Journal, in 1851
- James Naismith, inventor of the game of basketball, in 1861
- Musician Ray Conniff in 1916
- Director Mike Nichols in 1931 (age 76)
- Actress Sally Field in 1946 (age 61)
- Singer/songwriter Glenn Frey in 1948 (age 59)
- TV journalist and California first lady Maria Shriver in 1955 (age 52)
- Actor Lance Kerwin in 1960 (age 47)
- Actor Ethan Hawke in 1970 (age 37)
- Actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in 1972 (age 35)
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Notable Birthdays for November 7
Those born on this date include:
- Marie Curie, discoverer of radium, in 1867
- Band leader Phil Spitalny (known for his all-female orchestra) in 1890
- Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in 1900
- Actor Dean Jagger in 1903
- Musician/comic Red Ingle in 1906
- French novelist Albert Camus in 1913
- Evangelist Billy Graham in 1918 (age 89)
- Jazz trumpeter Al Hirt in 1922
- Australian opera star Joan Sutherland in 1926 (age 81)
- Singers Mary Travers (Peter, Paul and Mary) in 1937 (age 70)
- Johnny Rivers in 1942 (age 65)
- Singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1943 (age 64)
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Notable Birthdays for November 8
Those born on this date include:
- British astronomer Edmond Halley in 1656
- Author Margaret Mitchell ( Gone With the Wind ) in 1900
- Actress June Havoc in 1916 (age 91)
- Heart transplant pioneer Dr. Christiaan Barnard in 1922
- TV journalist Morley Safer ( 60 Minutes ) in 1931 (age 76)
- Singer Patti Page in 1927 (age 80)
- Singer Minnie Riperton in 1947
- Singer Bonnie Raitt in 1949 (age 58)
- TV personality Mary Hart in 1950 (age 57)
- Actress Alfre Woodard in 1952 (age 55)
- Singer Ricki Lee Jones in 1954 (age 53)
- Actress Courtney Thorne-Smith in 1967 (age 40)
- Actress Parker Posey in 1968 (age 39)
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Notable Birthdays for November 9
Those born on this date include:
- Astronomer Benjamin Banneker in 1731
- Russian author Ivan Turgenev in 1818
- Architect Stanford White in 1853
- Actor-comedian Ed Wynn in 1886
- Actress Marie Dressler in 1869
- Actress Hedy Lamarr in 1913
- Sargent Shriver, first director of the Peace Corps, in 1915 (age 92)
- Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew in 1918
- Actress Dorothy Dandridge in 1923
- Astronomer Carl Sagan in 1934
- Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson in 1935 (age 72)
- Bodybuilder/actor Lou Ferrigno (TV's Incredible Hulk ) in 1951 (age 56)
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Notable Birthdays for November 10
Those born on this date include:
- Martin Luther, founder of Protestantism, in 1483
- William Hogarth, English artist and engraver, in 1697
- Irish author Oliver Goldsmith in 1730
- Actor Claude Rains in 1889
- Actor Richard Burton in 1925
- Actor Roy Scheider in 1932 (age 75)
- Singer Jane Froman in 1907
- Billy May, bandleader/trumpet/arranger, in 1916
- American Indian rights activist/actor Russell Means in 1939 (age 68)
- Lyricist Tim Rice in 1944 (age 63)
- Country singer Donna Fargo in 1945 (age 62)
- Actress Ann Reinking in 1949 (age 58)
- Actress Mackenzie Phillips in 1959 (age 48)
- Filmmaker Roland Emmerich ( Independence Day ) in 1955 (age 52)
- Comedian Sinbad in 1956 (age 51)
Notable Birthdays for November 11
Those born on this date include:
- Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1821
- U.S. Army Gen. George Patton in 1885
- Actor Pat O'Brien in 1899
- Alger Hiss, who was accused of being a communist spy in Washington in the late 1940s, in 1904
- Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in 1922
- Comedian Jonathan Winters in 1925 (age 82)
- Jazz musician Mose Allison in 1927 (age 80)
- Golfer Frank Fuzzy Zoeller in 1951 (age 56)
- Actor Demi Moore in 1962 (age 45)
- Actor Philip McKeon in 1964 (age 43)
- Actor Calista Flockhart in 1964 (age 43)
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Notable Birthdays for November 13
Those born on this date include:
- St. Augustine of Hippo, a theologian, in 354
- King Edward III of England in 1312
- Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in 1850
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1856
- Actor Richard Mulligan in 1932
- TV producer/director Garry Marshall in 1934 (age 73)
- Actor Dack Rambo in 1941
- Actor Joe Mantegna in 1947 (age 60)
- Actor Whoopi Goldberg in 1955 (age 52)
- Actor Chris Noth in 1954 (age 53)
- Actor Tracy Scoggins in 1953 (age 54)
Notable Birthdays for November 14
Those born on this date include:
- Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, in 1765
- French Impressionist painter Claude Monet, in 1840
- Indian statesman Jawaharlal Nehru in 1889
- Mamie Doud Eisenhower, wife of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, in 1896
- U.S. composer Aaron Copland in 1900
- Singer Morton Downey in 1901
- Singer Johnny Desmond in 1920
- Actor Dick Powell in 1904
- U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, D-Wis., in 1908
- Actress Veronica Lake in 1919
- Former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1922 (age 85)
- Actor Brian Keith in 1921
- Actor McLean Stevenson in 1927
- Astronaut Edward White, killed in the 1967 Apollo I launch pad fire, in 1930
- King Hussein of Jordan in 1935
- Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, in 1948 (age 59)
- New Age singer/songwriter Yanni in 1954 (age 53)
- Actress Laura San Giacomo in 1962 (age 45)
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Notable Birthdays for November 15
Those born on this date include:
- British statesman William Pitt ( the elder ) in 1708
- British astronomer William Herschel, discoverer of the planet Uranus, in 1738
- Nobel Prize-winning physiologist August Krogh of Denmark in 1874
- Artist Georgia O'Keeffe in 1887
- Jurist Felix Frankfurter in 1882
- Diplomat W. Averell Harriman and World War II German Gen. Erwin Rommel, both in 1891
- Annunzio Mantovani, orchestra leader, in 1905
- U.S. Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay in 1906
- TV personality and retired Judge Joseph Wapner in 1919 (age 88)
- Actor Edward Asner in 1929 (age 78)
- Pop singer Petula Clark in 1932 (age 75)
- Actor Yaphet Kotto in 1937 (age 70)
- Actor Sam Waterston in 1940 (age 67)
- Conductor Daniel Barenboim in 1942 (age 65)
- Actress Beverly D'Angelo in 1951 (age 56)
- Tonight Show band leader Kevin Eubanks in 1957 (age 50)
Notable Birthdays for November 16
Those born on this date include:
- Tiberius, emperor of Rome, in 42 B.C.
- Composer W.C. Handy, known as the Father of the Blues, in 1873
- Broadway director and playwright George S. Kaufman in 1889
- Jazz guitarist and bandleader Eddie Condon in 1905
- Actor Burgess Meredith in 1909
- Actress Marg Helgenberger in 1958 (age 49)
- Actress Lisa Bonet in 1967 (age 40)
- Olympic figure skater Oksana Baiul in 1977 (age 30)
Notable Birthdays for November 17
Those born on this date include:
- King Louis XVIII of France in 1755
- German astronomer and mathematician August Mobius in 1790
- Social reformer Grace Abbott in 1878
- British Army Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in 1887
- Drama teacher/actor Lee Strasberg in 1901
- Actor Rock Hudson in 1925
- Balladeer Gordon Lightfoot in 1938 (age 69)
- Film director Martin Scorsese in 1942 (age 65)
- Model/actress Lauren Hutton in 1943 (age 64)
- Actor/director Danny DeVito in 1944 (age 63)
- Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels in 1944 (age 63)
- Actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in 1958 (age 49)
- Model/actor RuPaul in 1960 (age 47)
- MTV veejay Daisy Fuentes in 1966 (age 41)
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Notable Birthdays for November 21
Those born on this date include:
- French author Francois Voltaire in 1694
- William Beaumont, pioneer U.S. Army surgeon, in 1785
- British steamship company founder Samuel Cunard in 1787
- Jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins in 1904
- Dancer/actress Eleanor Powell in 1912
- St. Louis Cardinals batting champion Stan Musial in 1920 (age 87)
- Actor Lawrence Luckinbill in 1934 (age 73)
- Actress Juliet Mills in 1941 (age 66)
- Actress Marlo Thomas in 1937 (age 70)
- TV producer Marcy Carsey in 1944 (age 63)
- Filmmaker/actor Harold Ramis in 1944 (age 63)
- Actress Goldie Hawn in 1945 (age 62)
- Actress Lorna Luft in 1952 (age 55)
- Actress Nicollette Sheridan ( Desperate Housewives ) in 1963 (age 44)
- Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman in 1966 (age 41)
Notable Birthdays for November 22
Those born on this date include:
- French explorer of North America Rene Robert de la Salle in 1643
- English novelist George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) in 1819
- French statesman and military leader Charles de Gaulle in 1890
- Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, in 1898
- Composers Hoagy Carmichael in 1899
- Composer Benjamin Britten in 1913
- Comedian Rodney Dangerfield in 1921
- Actress Geraldine Page in 1924
- Actor Robert Vaughn in 1932 (age 75)
- Actor Tom Conti in 1941 (age 66)
- Writer/director and Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam in 1940 (age 67)
- Guion S. Bluford, Jr., the first black U.S. astronaut in space, in 1942 (age 65)
- Tennis player Billie Jean King in 1943 (age 64)
- Actor Richard Kind in 1956 (age 51)
- Actress Jamie Lee Curtis in 1958 (age 50)
- Actress Mariel Hemingway in 1961 (age 46)
- Tennis player Boris Becker in 1967 (age 40)
- Actress Scarlett Johansson in 1984 (age 23)
Notable Birthdays for November 23
Those born on this date include:
- Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States, in 1804
- U.S. outlaw Billy The Kid Bonney in 1859
- Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco in 1883
- Actor Boris Karloff in 1887
- Romain de Tirtoff, the fashion designer and artist known as Erte, in 1892
- Comic actor Harpo (Adolph Arthur) Marx of the Marx Brothers in 1888
- Actress Susan Anspach in 1942 (age 65)
Notable Birthdays for November 25
Those born on this date include:
- Industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1835
- Pioneer German automobile designer Karl Benz in 1844
- Social reformer Carry Nation in 1846
- Pope John XXIII in 1881
- New York Yankees slugger Joe DiMaggio in 1914
- Actor Ricardo Montalban in 1920 (age 87)
- Actor Kathryn Crosby in 1933 (age 74)
- Actor John Larroquette in 1947 (age 60)
- John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1960
- Singer Amy Grant, also in 1960 (age 47)
- Actress Jill Hennessy in 1969 (age 38)
- Actress Christina Applegate in 1971 (age 36)
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Notable Birthdays for November 26
Those born on this date include:
- English poet William Cowper in 1731
- Air conditioning engineer Willis Carrier in 1876
- Surgeon and women's rights leader Mary Walker Edwards in 1832
- French playwright Eugene Ionesco in 1909
- TV journalist Eric Sevareid in 1912
- Cartoonist Charles Schulz ( Peanuts ) in 1922
- Singer Robert Goulet in 1933
- Impressionist Rich Little in 1938 (age 69)
- Singer Tina Turner in 1939 (age 68)
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Notable Birthdays for November 28
Those born on this date include:
- English poet William Blake in 1757
- John Hyatt, inventor of celluloid, in 1837
- Architect Henry Bacon, designer of the Lincoln Memorial, in 1866
- Motown Records founder Berry Gordy in 1929 (age 78)
- Actress Hope Lange in 1931
- Singer/composer Randy Newman in 1943 (age 64)
- Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov in 1949 (age 58)
- Band leader Paul Shaffer ( The Late Show With David Letterman ) in 1949 (age 58)
- Actor Ed Harris in 1950 (age 57)
- Actor S. Epatha Merkerson ( Law & Order ) in 1952 (age 55)
- Actor Judd Nelson in 1959 (age 48)
- Comedian Jon Stewart ( The Daily Show ) in 1962 (age 45)
Notable Birthdays for November 29
Those born on this date include:
- Austrian physicist Christian Doppler in 1803
- Author Louisa May Alcott in 1832
- Chinese Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi in 1835
- English electrical engineer John Fleming, who devised the radio tube-diode, in 1849
- Film choreographer Busby Berkeley in 1895
- Irish novelist C.S. Lewis in 1898
- Actress Diane Ladd in 1932 (age 75)
- Former French President Jacques Chirac in 1932 (age 75)
- Musician/composer Chuck Mangione in 1940 (age 67)
- Comedian Garry Shandling in 1949 (age 58)
- Comedian Howie Mandel in 1955 (age 52)
- Filmmaker Joel Coen in 1954 (age 53)
- Actress Cathy Moriarty in 1960 (age 47)
- Actress Kim Delaney in 1961 (age 46)
- Actor Andrew McCarthy in 1962 (age 45)
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Notable Birthdays for November 30
Those born on this date include:
- Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1508
- Irish satirist Jonathan Swift in 1667
- Novelist Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) in 1835
- British statesman Winston Churchill in 1874
- Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in 1918 (age 89)
- Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, in 1924
- Actor Richard Crenna in 1926
- Actor Robert Guillaume in 1927 (age 80)
- Producer/TV music show host Dick Clark in 1929 (age 78)
- Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy in 1930 (age 77)
- 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman in 1936
- Filmmaker Ridley Scott in 1937 (age 70)
- Playwright David Mamet in 1947 (age 60)
- Singer/actor Mandy Patinkin in 1952 (age 55)
- Rock singer Billy Idol in 1955 (age 52)
- Actor Ben Stiller in 1965 (age 42)
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Notable Birthdays for December 1
Those born on this date include:
- Detective novelist Rex Stout in 1886
- Former United Mine Workers president W.A. Tony Boyle in 1904
- Actress Mary Martin in 1913
- Comedian-filmmaker Woody Allen in 1935 (age 72)
- Soul singer Lou Rawls in 1933
- Pro golfer Lee Trevino in 1939 (age 68)
- Comedian Richard Pryor in 1940
- Singer/actress Bette Midler in 1945 (age 62)
- Actor Treat Williams in 1951 (age 56)
- Model Carol Alt in 1960 (age 47)
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Notable Birthdays for December 2
Those born on this date include:
- French painter Georges Seurat in 1859
- Circus co-founder Charles Ringling in 1863
- Engineer Peter Carl Goldmark, the inventor of the long-playing record, in 1906
- Actor Ray Walston in 1914
- Composer/lyricist Adolph Green in 1914
- Opera singer Maria Callas in 1923
- Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr. in 1924 (age 83)
- Actress Julie Harris in 1925 (age 82)
- Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III in 1931 (age 76)
- Artist and dog photographer William Wegman in 1943 (age 64)
- Actress Cathy Lee Crosby in 1944 (age 63)
- Figure skater Randy Gardner in 1957 (age 50)
- Actress Lucy Liu in 1968 (age 39)
- Tennis player Monica Seles in 1973 (age 34)
- Pop singer Britney Spears in 1981 (age 26)
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Notable Birthdays for December 3
Those born on this date include:
- Presidential portrait painter Gilbert Stuart in 1755
- U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist Cleveland Abbe, who initiated daily weather bulletins, in 1838
- English novelist Joseph Conrad in 1857
- Country singer Ferlin Husky in 1925 (age 82)
- Singer Andy Williams in 1927 (age 80)
- Rocker Ozzy Osbourne in 1948 (age 59)
- Former race car driver Rick Mears in 1951 (age 56)
- Actress Daryl Hannah in 1960 (age 47)
- Actress Julianna Moore in 1960 (age 47)
- Olympic figure skater Katarina Witt in 1965 (age 42)
- Actor Brendan Fraser in 1968 (age 39)
- Actor Brian Bonsall in 1981 (age 26)
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Notable Birthdays for December 4
Those born on this date include:
- Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle in 1795
- English novelist Samuel Butler in 1835
- Actress/singer Lillian Russell in 1861
- Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1892
- Gregory "Pappy" Boyington in 1912
- Actress Deanna Durbin in 1921 (age 86)
- Actors Max Baer Jr. in 1937 (age 70)
- Jeff Bridges in 1949 (age 58)
- Actresses Patricia Wettig in 1951 (age 56)
- Marisa Tomei in 1964(age 43)
- Model Tyra Banks in 1973 (age 34)
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Notable Birthdays for December 5
Those born on this date include:
- Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States, in 1782
- U.S. Army Gen. George Custer in 1839
- Film director Fritz Lang in 1890
- Walt Disney in 1901
- U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., in 1902
- Film director Otto Preminger in 1906
- Singer Little Richard (Richard Penniman) in 1932 (age 75)
- Author Joan Didion in 1934 (age 73)
- Opera tenor Jose Carreras in 1946 (age 61)
- Rock singer Jim Messina in 1947 (age 60)
- Comedian Margaret Cho in 1968 (age 39)
- Actor Frankie Muniz ( Malcolm In The Middle ) in 1985 (age 22)
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Notable Birthdays for December 5
Those born on this date include:
- Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States, in 1782
- U.S. Army Gen. George Custer in 1839
- Film director Fritz Lang in 1890
- Walt Disney in 1901
- U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., in 1902
- Film director Otto Preminger in 1906
- Singer Little Richard (Richard Penniman) in 1932 (age 75)
- Author Joan Didion in 1934 (age 73)
- Opera tenor Jose Carreras in 1946 (age 61)
- Rock singer Jim Messina in 1947 (age 60)
- Comedian Margaret Cho in 1968 (age 39)
- Actor Frankie Muniz ( Malcolm In The Middle ) in 1985 (age 22)
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Notable Birthdays for December 6
Those born on this date include:
- England's King Henry VI in 1421
- French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1778
- Pioneer Western movie star William S. Hart in 1870
- Poet Joyce Kilmer in 1886
- Lyricist Ira Gershwin in 1896
- Photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1898
- Actress Agnes Moorehead in 1900
- Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck in 1920 (age 87)
- Comedian Wally Cox in 1924
- Actor James Naughton in 1945 (age 62)
- Actor Tom Hulce in 1953 (age 54)
- Comedian Steven Wright in 1955 (age 52)
- Actress Janine Turner in 1962 (age 45)
Notable Birthdays for December 7
Those born on this date include:
- Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1598
- Waxworks museum founder Marie Tussaud in 1761
- German physiologist Theodor Schwann, co-originator of the cell theory and the first to use the term, in 1810
- Novelist Willa Cather in 1873
- Composer Rudolph Friml ("Indian Love Call") in 1879
- Actor Eli Wallach in 1915 (age 91)
- Actor Ted Knight in 1923
- Linguist Noam Chomsky in 1928 (age 79)
- Actress Ellen Burstyn in 1932 (age 75)
- Rock/folksinger Harry Chapin in 1942
- Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench in 1947 (age 60)
- Former basketball star and coach Larry Bird in 1956 (age 51)
- Actor C. Thomas Howell in 1966 (age 41) Copyright 2007 by United Press International
Notable Birthdays for December 8
Those born on this date include:
- Mary Queen of Scots in 1542
- Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, in 1765
- General Motors founder William Durant in 1861
- Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in 1865
- Mexican muralist Diego Rivera in 1886
- Humorist and artist James Thurber in 1894
- Actor Lee J. Cobb in 1911
- Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. in 1925
- Actor Maximilian Schell in 1930 (age 77)
- Comedian Flip Wilson in 1933
- Actor David Carradine in 1936 (age 71)
- Actor James MacArthur in 1937 (age 70)
- Irish flutist James Galway in 1939 (age 68)
- Rock musician Jim Morrison in 1943
- Rock musician Gregg Allman in 1947 (age 60)
- Actress Kim Basinger in 1953 (age 54)
- Actress Teri Hatcher in 1964 (age 43)
- Irish pop singer/songwriter Sinead O'Connor in 1966 (age 41)
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Notable Birthdays for December 9
Those born on this date include:
- English poet John Milton in 1608
- Journalist Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus stories, in 1848
- Clarence Birdseye, industrialist/inventor, noted as the father of frozen foods, in 1886
- Circus clown Emmett Kelly in 1898
- Bandleader Freddie Martin in 1906
- Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in 1909
- Actor Broderick Crawford in 1911
- Former Speaker of the House Thomas Tip O'Neill, D-Mass., in 1912
- Actor Kirk Douglas in 1916 (age 91)
- Comedian Redd Foxx in 1922
- Actress Dina Merrill in 1925 (age 82)
- Actor Dick Van Patten in 1928 (age 79)
- Actor John Cassavetes in 1929
- Actress Judi Dench in 1934 (age 73)
- Actor Beau Bridges in 1941 (age 66)
- Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker, sportscaster and actor Dick Butkus in 1942 (age 65)
- Actor Michael Nouri in 1945 (age 62)
- Actor John Malkovich in 1953 (age 54)
- Singer Donny Osmond in 1957 (age 50)
- Actor Joe Lando in 1961 (age 46)
Notable Birthdays for December 10
Those born on this date include:
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the first free school for the deaf, in 1787
- Poet Emily Dickinson in 1830
- Librarian Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal book classification system, in 1851
- TV newscaster Chet Huntley in 1911
- Actress Dorothy Lamour in 1914
- Actor Harold Gould in 1923 (age 84)
- Actress Susan Dey in 1952 (age 55)
- Actor/director Kenneth Branagh in 1960 (age 47)
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Notable Birthdays for December 11
Those born on this date include:
- Scottish physicist and kaleidoscope inventor David Brewster in 1781
- French composer Hector Berlioz in 1803
- German pioneer bacteriologist Robert Koch in 1843
- New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in 1882
- Italian film producer Carlo Ponti in 1912
- Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1918 (age 89)
- Actress Rita Moreno (first performer to win an Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy) in 1931 (age 76)
- Singer David Gates in 1940 (age 67)
- Singer Brenda Lee in 1944 (age 63)
- Actress Donna Mills in 1943 (age 64)
- Actress Teri Garr in 1949 (age 58)
- Singer Jermaine Jackson in 1954 (age 53)
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