November 4th
Holidays and Festivals
Unity Day a.k.a. Day of People's Unity (Russia) * (see below)
Victory Day (Italy) * (see below)
Day of Love (Egypt)
Flag Day (Panama) * CLICK HERE
King Tut Day
National Chicken Lady Day
Use Your Common Sense Day
Start of the Ludi Plebeii (Roman)
The Day of National Unity Day of the Armed Forces - Original - (Italy) * CLICK HERE
Feast of Qudrat (Power) - Bahá'í Faith, first day of the 13th month of the Bahá'í calendar
Feast of St. Charles Borromeo (Roman Catholic)
Feast of St. Emeric (Roman Catholic)
Feast of St. Vitalis (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Our Lady of Kazan (Russian Orthodox Church)
* Day of People's Unity (Russia) AKA National Unity Day
* Victory Day (Italy) celebration of victory in World War I, AKA National Unity Day, Armed Forces Day
Toast of The Day
"It's the first drop that destroys you,
there's no harm at all in the last."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Pousse Cafe
1 Part Grenadine
1 Part Green Creme De Menthe
1 Part Triple Sec
1 Part Sloe Gin
1 Part Brandy
- Variation -
Pousse Cafe (2)
1 Part Grenadine
1 Part Yellow Chartreuse
1 Part Crème de Cassis
1 Part White Crème de cacao
1 Part Green Chartreuse
1 Part Brandy
-1/2 oz Parts recommended
Wine of The Day
Castillo de Molina (2008) Reserva
Style - Shiraz
Maule Valley
$15
Beer of The Day
La Grivoise de Noel
Brewer - Micro-Brasserie le Trou du Diable Shawinigan, Canada
Style - Belgian-Style Dark Strong Ale
Joke of The Day
Did you hear about the fat alcoholic transvestite?
All he wanted to do was eat, drink and be Mary..
Quote of The Day
"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."
- Will Rogers ( born William Penn Adair Rogers, November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935),an American cowboy and comedian.
2
"Prohibition is better than no liquor at all."
- Will Rogers
November Observances
Adopt A Senior Pet Month
American Diabetes Month
Aviation History Month
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
Beard Month (US)
Celebrate Empty Nester Month
Child Safety Protection Month
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month a.k.a. National Epilepsy Month
Family Stories Month
Final Binary Month (3of 3) (0s and 1s)
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
Greens and Plantains Month
Historic Bridge Awareness Month
I Am So Thankful Month
International Creative Child and Adult Month
International Drum (Percussion) Month
International Microfinance Month
Learn Chinese Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign (11/16-12/31)
Military Family Appreciation Month
Moustache Month a.k.a. Movember (Australia)
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Adoption Month a.k.a. National Adoption Awareness Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Month
National American Indian Heritage Month (Also see August)
National COPD Awareness Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Family Literacy Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Home Care & Hospice Month
National Hospice Month
National Impotency Month
National Inspirational Role Models Month
National Life Writing Month
National Long-term Care Awareness Month
National Marrow Awareness Month
National Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Awareness & Appreciation Month
National Model Railroad Month
National Native American Heritage Month
National Novel Writing Month
National PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month
National Pomegranate Month
National Roasting Month
National Scholarship Month
National Sleep Comfort Month
Native American Heritage Month (Also see August)
No-shave-ember
PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month
Peanut Butter Lovers' Month
Plum Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
Real Jewelry Month
Spinach Month
Squash Month
Sweet Potato Awareness Month (Also see February)
Vegan Month
Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month
Observances this Week
Novemberfest, First Week in NovemberRadiologic Technology Week, First Week in November
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week, First Week in November
Dear Santa Letter Week, First Week in November
National Family Week, First Week in November
National Care Week, First Week in November
National Fig Week, First Week in November
National Patient Accessibility Week, First Week in November
World Communication Week, First Week in November
Chemistry Week, First Week in November
Health Information and Technology Week, First Full Week in November
International Fraud Awareness Week, First Full Week in November
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week, First Full Week in November
National Nurse Practioner's Week, First Full Week in November
National Rad Tech Week, First Full Week in November
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week, First Work Week in November
Intimate Apparel Week, First Full Work Week in the Months of February, May, August, and November
World Origami Days, Oct. 24th to Nov. 11th
Historical Events on November 5th
922 Richarius becomes bishop of Luik
1333 The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
1429 Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1501 Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother they would later marry.
1501 Philip de Blank & Juana "la Loca" depart to Spain
1519 Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast
1520 Danish/Norwegian king Christian II crowned king of Sweden
1529 English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested
1576 In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed) in the Eighty Years' War.
1619 Frederik V crowned king of Bohemia
1631 Ferdinand of Austria installed as land guardian of S Netherlands
1645 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Holly
1646 Mass uses death penalty for denying that Saint Copybook is God's word
1675 Storm hits Western Europe, flood in Amsterdam
1677 The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1737 The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.
1771 Carlo Goldoni's "Le Bourru Bienfaisant," premieres in Paris
1783 W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1791 The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
1825 The Erie Canal is completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbour.
1834 The Delta Upsilon Fraternity is established at Williams College Massachusetts.
1839 The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
1841 1st wagon train arrives in California
1842 Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill
1845 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US
1846 Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg
1852 Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
1854 Lighthouse forms on Alcatraz Island
1856 James Buchanan elected 15th US president
1861 The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University.
1862 Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun (Indianapolis)
1864 Battle of Johnsonville of the American Civil War, Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
1864 Naval Engagement at Reynoldsburg Island
1866 Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
1867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
1873 Dentist John Beers of SF patents gold crown
1874 Samuel J Tilden elected governor of NY
1875 Passenger Steamship "Pacific" collides with sailing vessel "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 die
1875 Tonga adopts constitution
1876 John Brahms' 1st Symphony in C, premieres
1879 Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus
1879 James Ritty patents 1st cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for his 1st presidential term. The only American president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms
1886 Edward MacDowell's "Ophelia," premieres
1889 Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned emperor.
1889 Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL
1890 City & South London Railway, London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1890 Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate
1890 Prince of Wales opens 1st underground (Station Stockwell, London)
1890 St Aleksandr Borodons opera "Prins Igor," premieres in Petersburg
1893 Dr Jamesons Legertje occupies Bulawayo Matabeleland
1901 Clyde Fitch' "Way of the World," premieres in NYC
1903 Panama adopts its flag one day after it separated from Colombia
1904 1st stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)
1905 Harbor strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam
1908 Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in NYC
1909 Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich)
1910 Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust) It rained
1911 Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma
1911 France & Germany signs treaty about Morocco & Congo
1914 Russia declares Turkey the war
1914 Vogue holds 1st model show ("Fashion Fete," NYC)
1918 The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
1918 The Socialist Labour Party of Greece (now Communist Party of Greece) is formed.
1918 Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy, World War I.
1921 Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1921 The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
1921 The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
1922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1922 In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 British Labour government of MacDonald, resigns
1924 California legalizes pro boxing (illegal since 1914)
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
1924 US president Calvin Coolidge re-elected
1928 Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua
1929 John Baldridge' "Berkeley Square," premieres in NYC
1931 Jean Genet's "Judith," premieres in Paris
1933 Bradman scores 200 NSW v Queensland, 184 mins, 26 fours
1933 Hermann Goering & Georgi Dimitrov duel
1933 Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
1934 Pittsburgh ends Detroit Lions' shutout streak at 7 games but loses 40-7
1939 First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill
1939 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland
1939 US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II
1939 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents, World War II.
1940 Eggs & cake rationed in Netherlands
1942 13th day of the Second Battle of El Alamein in World War II, African corps draws back out Fuka-posing, Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
1943 France arrests government of Lebanon
1944 German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1944 RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed
1944 Bitola Liberation Day, World War II.
1946 "Park Avenue" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 72 performances
1946 UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization formed
1948 TS Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
1949 "One Man's Family" premieres on TV
1950 "Barrier" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances
1950 "Consul" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 269 performances
1950 Indonesian troops reconquer Ambonese capital Ambon
1950 US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea
1951 9th Ryder Cup, US wins 9½-2½ at Pinehurst Resort (Pinehurst, North Carolina, US)
1951 NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns
1951 Vijay Merchant scores 154 v England in his last Test Cricket innings
1952 Earthquake & flood strike Kamshatka-South America
1952 Eisenhower (R) elected 34th pres beating Adlai Stevenson (D)
1952 The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
1953 Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Phila A's
1953 New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk
1954 "Fanny" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 888 performances
1954 Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City
1955 After being totally destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1956 Israel captures Straits of Tiran & reach Suez Canal Egypt
1956 Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian (anti-Stalinist) revolution against the Soviet Union, that started on October 23rd. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
1956 USSR sends tanks into Hungary & threatens to bomb Budapest
1957 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
1958 Angelo G Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII
1958 Belgian government of Eyskens, resigns
1958 Democrats win US congressional election
1959 Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP
1960 "Misfits" premieres, final movie for Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe
1961 Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece
1962 In a test of the Nike-Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Island. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.
1962 Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 John Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewelry" line
1965 Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah
1966 Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1966 Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the River Arno floods; together with the contemporaneous flood of the Po River in northern Italy, this leads to 113 deaths, 30,000 made homeless, and the destruction of numerous Renaissance artworks and books.
1968 Battles between Jordan army & Al Fatah-arm forces
1968 WRDU (now WPTF) TV chan 28 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (NBC) 1st broadcast
1968 WTOG TV channel 44 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1970 Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1970 Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
1970 The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam, Vietnamization after the War.
1972 Bangladesh adopts constitution
1972 Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders
1973 1000s commemorates former premier Georgios Papandreou
1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic
1973 M Medoff's "When you Comin' Back, Red Ryder?," premieres in NYC
1973 New Orleans Saints 1st shutout victory, 13-0 vs Buffalo Bills
1973 The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters.
1975 Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award
1976 1st mass-market free-agent reentry draft, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Gullett, Tenace, Fingers, Baylor, Grich & McCovey, available
1977 UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa
1978 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, & Darrell Evans, available
1978 Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U
1978 Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3)
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 Iran hostage crisis begins, a group of 500 Iranians, mostly students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American) for 444 days.
1980 Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
1980 Libyan invasion in Chad
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) defeats Pres Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide
1980 Sadaharu Oh, 40, pro baseball's all-time HR run king with 868, retires
1980 Steve Carlton wins 3rd NL Cy Young Awards
1981 Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart," premieres in NYC
1981 Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining
1981 Dr George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley
1982 Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier
1983 Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed
1983 Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4
1984 Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1984 Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
1986 Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the Supreme Court of California for their opposition to capital punishment.
1987 Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year
1987 Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel
1987 NBA announces 4 new franchises; Charlotte & Miami for 1988 & Minneapolis & Orlando for 1989
1988 1st NBA game at Charlotte Coliseum Hornets lose to Cavs, 133-93
1989 1st NBA game at Orlando Arena, Orlando Magic loses to NJ Nets, 111-106
1989 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence
1989 Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
1989 The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
1989 The first appearance of Wallace and Gromit in their 30-minute film, "A Grand Day Out" where the pair travel to the moon to obtain cheese, Wallace's favourite food.
1990 "Buddy The Buddy Holly Story" opens at Shubert NYC for 225 perfs
1990 20th NYC Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil in 2:30:45
1990 21st NYC Marathon won by Douglas Wakiihuri in 2:12:39
1990 Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mazda Japan 133 Golf Classic
1990 Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war"
1990 Sec of State James Baker visits US troops in Saudi Arabia
1991 Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain
1992 NY Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR
1992 NY Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio
1993 "Timon of Athens" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
1993 A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
1993 Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1993 Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror for a false report on his diet
1993 Nia Peeples files for divorce from Howard Hewett
1994 First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web in San Francisco.
1994 Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazahkstan
1994 United Center in Chicago opens Bulls beat Charlotte Hornets, 89-83
1995 "Indiscretions" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 perfs
1995 1st-class Cricket debut of Paul Adams, W Province v N Transvaal
1995 Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
1995 Key Arena opens, Seattle Supersonics beat LA Lakers 103-89
2002 Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
2003 Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.
2003 The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
2004 12 French soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d'Ivoire civil war.
2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
2008 Proposition 8 passes in California, representing the first ever elimination of an existing right to marry for LGBT couples.
2012 Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
2012 Kimi Raikkonen wins the Abu Dhabi GP
2012 Syrian rebels capture a major oil field in Deir ez-Zor Governorate
2014 Protectionist wins the 2014 Melbourne Cup
2014 The body of the last missing victim is found on board the wrecked Costa Concordia, during its dismantling in Genoa
2014 The US votes in mid-term elections, Republicans retain the house & regain the Senate
2014 Tim Scott becomes the first African-American Senator in the south since the Reconstruction
2014 Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko orderes army reinforcements to key southern and eastern cities to combat potential rebel offensive
2015 Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister with a cabinet split equally between men and woman
2015 Katy Perry is the highest paid musician of the year earning 135 million, according to Forbes Magazine
2015 Plane crashes after take-off from Juba international airport, South Sudan, killing 37, 1 year old survives in father's arms
2015 Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announces his resignation after protests over a Bucharest nightclub fire that killed 32
Born on November 5th
1448 King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
1470 King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower (d. 1483)
1575 Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
1587 Samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised
1590 Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter
1631 Mary of Orange, eldest daughter of Charles I of England and mother of William III of England (d. 1660)
1640 Carlo Mannelli, composer
1650 William III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702)
1656 Leonard Sailer, composer
1661 Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
1674 Anton Englert, composer
1708 Robert Praelisauer, composer
1740 Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778)
1756 Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner
1765 Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1779 John W Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo)
1787 Edmund Kean, England, actor (Edmund Kean's Masonic Career)
1790 Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62)
1797 Aleksander A Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author
1800 Eduard Brendler, composer
1809 Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)
1812 Aleardo (Gaetano) Aleardi, Italian/East poet (Lettere a Maria)
1816 Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899)
1816 William Polk Hardeman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1898)
1818 Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1896)
1820 Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army) (d. 1870)
1823 Karel Komzak, composer
1835 Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1913)
1836 Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman and sawmill partner (d. 1912)
1841 Carl Tausig, composer
1842 William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy) (d. 1874)
1845 Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, The First Indian Revolutionary (d. 1883)
1846 Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer
1859 Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer
1862 Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes)
1867 Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish PM (1944-47)
1868 Carolina Otero (La Belle Otero), Spanish actress, singer and courtesan (d. 1965)
1872 Herman Finck, composer
1873 G E Moore, English philosopher (Ethics)
1874 Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
1876 James Fraser, designed buffalo nickel
1879 Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (Judge Priest) (d. 1935)
1881 Gena Branscombe, composer
1881 Milton Rosmer, Southport England, director (Murder in the Red Barn)
1883 Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general (d. 1953)
1884 Harry Ferguson, Northern Irish aviator and inventor (d. 1960)
1886 Ian Wolfe, American actor (Diary of a Madman, Wizards & Warriors)
1887 Knut Algot Hakanson, composer
1889 Alton Augustus Adams, composer
1890 Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer and poet (d. 1928)
1890 Klabund (Alfred Henschke), German writer (Bracke, Borgia)
1891 Miroslav Krejci, Czech composer
1896 Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines (d. 1971)
1897 Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara)
1899 Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet (Teotihuacan)
1899 Mimi Boesnach, Dutch actress (Wedding of Kloris & Roosje)
1899 Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1985)
1900 Lucretiu Patrascanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
1900 Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars)
1901 Princess Bang-ja of Korea (d. 1989)
1901 Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1974)
1902 Frank Jenks, American actor (Zombies on Broadway)
1903 Ion Vasilescu, composer
1904 Don Alvarado (Jose Page), American actor (Captain Thunder)
1904 Tadeusz Zylinski, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
1904 Walter Bauer, writer
1905 Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent
1906 Arnold Atkinson Cooke, composer
1906 Bob Considine, sports columnist (Bob Feller Story)
1906 Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer, diplomat
1906 Siegfried Borris, composer
1906 Sterling North, American author (d. 1974)
1907 Draga Matkovic, German concert pianist
1908 Anthony Warde, American actor (Black Widow)
1908 Józef Rotblat, Polish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
1908 Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (d. 1997)
1909 Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974)
1909 Evelyn Johnson, American aviator, female pilot (most flying hours 57,685) (d. 2012)
1909 Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1911 Jack Rose, screenwriter
1911 Ssamu Shimizu, composer
1912 H "Giff" Vivian, cricketer (father of Graham 1st Test for NZ at 18)
1912 Pauline Trigere, fashion designer (Bell Bottoms)
1912 Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, Russian composer (d. 1978)
1913 Gig Young, American actor (They Shoot Horses Don't They) (d. 1978)
1915 Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science
1915 Courtenay E Benson, broadcaster
1915 Lloyd James Austin, French Scholar
1916 Ruth Handler, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll (d. 2002)
1916 Walter Cronkite, American news broadcaster (CBS Evening News 1962-81) (d. 2009)
1917 Leonardo Cimino, Manhattan, New York, actor (V, Dune), (d. 2012)
1918 Art Carney, American actor (Ed Norton-Honeymooners) (d. 2003)
1918 Cameron Mitchell, American actor (Buck-High Chaparral) (d. 1994)
1919 Martin Balsam, American actor (Murray-Archie Bunker's Place, Catch 22) (d. 1996)
1920 Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician (Numbers Game)
1921 Antonio Ruiz Soler, spanish dancer
1922 Benno Besson, Swiss actor (d. 2006)
1922 Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer
1923 Alfred (Freddy) Heineken, Dutch businessman, Beer Brewer (Heineken) (d. 2002)
1923 Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
1927 Vittorio Fellegara, composer
1928 Hannah Weiner American experimental poet
1929 Jimmy Piersall, baseball player (Red Sox, Senators, Indians)
1929 Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (d. 1987)
1930 Dick Groat, American baseball player, shortstop (NL MVP 1960)
1930 Doris Roberts, American actress (Angie, Everybody Loves Raymond, Christmas Vacation, Emmy 1983)
1930 John Hahn-Petersen, danish actor (d. 2006)
1930 Kate Reid, English actress (Heaven Help US)
1931 Darla Hood, American singer, actress (Little Rascals)
1932 David Shipman, film historian
1932 Noam Pitlik, American actor, director (Sanford & Son, Bob Newhart)
1932 Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
1933 Mildred McDaniel, US high jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1933 Tito Francona, American baseball player
1934 Judith Herzberg, Dutch poetess/author (Charlotte Life or Theater)
1935 Elgar Howarth, composer
1936 C. K. Williams, American poet
1936 Didier Ratsiraka, president of Madagascar
1937 Loretta Swit, American actress (Hotlips Houlihan-M*A*S*H, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever)
1937 Michael Wilson, Canadian politician
1938 Alan Jones, cricketer (England v ROW 1970 his only intl honour)
1938 Harry Elston, rocker
1939 Shakuntala Devi, Indian calculating prodigy
1940 Delbert McClinton, American singer (Gonna Find a Good Woman)
1941 Martin Brozius, Dutch actor (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden)
1943 Bob Wollek, French race car driver (d. 2001)
1943 Clark Graebner, American tennis player
1943 Marlène Jobert, French actress, novelist (Adventures of John Difool)
1944 Linda Gary, American voice actress (d. 1995)
1944 Scherrie Payne, American singer (The Supremes)
1944 Willem Breuker, Dutch saxophonist/conductor (WB Collective)
1946 Frederick Elmes, American cinematographer
1946 Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States (2000-2008)
1946 Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1947 Aleksandr Tkachev, Socviet parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1947 Alexei Ulanov, Soviet pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1947 Edward Matt Dougherty, Chester PA, PGA golfer (1995 Deposit Guaranty)
1947 Rodney Marsh, cricketer
1949 Berlinda Tolbert, Charlotte NC, actor (Jenny-Jeffersons)
1949 Kathy McMullen, LPGA golfer
1950 Charles Frazier, American author
1950 Markie Post (Marjorie), American actress (Christine-Night Court, There's Something About Mary)
1951 Cosey Fanni Tutti, English performance artist (Throbbing Gristle, Chris and Cosey)
1951 Dan Hartman, US singer/songwriter/producer (Instant Replay)
1951 Traian Basescu, President of Romania
1953 Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
1953 Dr. Marvel Williamson, American educator
1953 Jacques Villeneuve (elder), Canadian racing driver
1953 Richie Green, Canadian actor
1954 Chris Difford, English vocalist and songwriter (Squeeze)
1955 Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
1955 Peter Boynton, Danaiscotta Maine, actor (Tonio-As the World Turns)
1956 James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist (The Pretenders) (d. 1982)
1956 Jeff Watson, rock guitarist (Night Ranger)
1956 Jordan Rudess, American musician (Dream Theater)
1957 Najee, rocker
1958 Anne Sweeney, American television executive
1959 Ken Kirzinger, Stuntman (X2)
1960 Frl. Menke, German pop singer of the Neue Deutsche Welle
1960 Kathy Griffin, American comedian (Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Pulp Fiction)
1960 Kim Forester, Lookout Mt Ga, country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
1960 Marc Awodey, American artist and writer
1961 Carlos Espinosa, Mexico, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Philippine Open)
1961 Daron Hagen, American composer
1961 Edward Knight, American composer
1961 Kathy Griffin, American comedian
1961 Les Sampou, American musician
1961 Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer
1961 Ralph Macchio, American actor (Karate Kid, 8 is Enough)
1962 Jeff Probst, American television host
1963 David Williams, WI cricket wicket-keeper (3 Tests 1992)
1963 Lena Zavaroni, Scottish artist and singer (d. 1999)
1963 Marc Déry, Canadian singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
1963 Michael Heidt, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1963 Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey coach
1963 Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1964 Fiona Pike, Adelaide Australia, golfer (S Aust State champ 1993/94)
1964 Kurt Krakowian, Berwyn, Illinios, child actor
1965 Erik Norgard, NFL center, guard (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1965 Gregory Scott (Koenig), American guitarist (Signs of Life)
1965 Jeff Scott Soto, American musician (Yngwie Malmsteen, Journey)
1965 Kiersten Warren, Musician and Actress (Independence Day)
1965 Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer
1965 Tomoaki Ishizuka "Pata", Japanese musician
1965 Wayne Static, American musician (Static-X)
1966 Bubba McDowell, NFL safety (Carolina Panthers)
1966 H. John Heinz IV, American medieval armor craftsman; son of Teresa Heinz
1966 Kathy Griffin, Chicago, comedienne (Vicki Groener-Suddenly Susan)
1966 Kool Rock (Damon Wimbley), American rapper (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1966 Petra Verkaik, Los Angeles Ca, playmate (Dec, 1989)
1967 Alex Rousseau, Paris France, US water polo 2m Offense (Oly-4th-92, 96)
1967 Asif Mujtaba, cricketer (Pakistani lefty batsman)
1967 Eric Karros, American baseball player, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1968 Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rican baseball player, infielder (Cleveland Indians)
1968 Domingo Cedeno, La Ramona Dom Rep, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1968 Osvaldo Fernandez, Holguin Cuba, pitcher (SF Giants)
1969 Jan Apell, Sweden, tennis star
1969 Katrin Borchert, Germany, Australian canoeist (Olympics-96)
1969 Matthew McConaughey, American actor (Magic Mike, Contact, A Time to Kill)
1969 Sean "Diddy" Combs (Puff Daddy), American rapper, record producer (Come to Me, I'll be Missing You)
1969 Tommy Henry, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1970 Corey Schwab, North Battleford Canada, NHL goalie (NJ Devils)
1970 Malena Ernman, Swedish Opera singer
1970 Tim DeBoom, American triathlete
1971 Russell Copeland, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer
1972 Tabassum Hashmi, Indian actress
1974 Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1974 Louise Redknapp, English singer, television presenter
1975 Curtis Stone, Australian chef and television personality
1975 Eduard Kokcharov, Russian handball player
1975 Eric Fichaud, Anjou Canada, NHL goalie (NY Islanders)
1975 Heather Tom, American actress (Victoria Howard-Young & Restless)
1975 Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
1975 Michael Osmond, Utah, singer (Osmond Boys)
1975 Mikki Moore, American basketball player
1975 Orlando Pace, American football player, tackle (St Louis Rams)
1975 Éric Fichaud, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 Warren Christie, Actor (Apollo 18)
1976 Bruno Junqueira, Brazilian racing driver
1976 Justine Waddell, Actress (The Fall)
1976 Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
1977 Larry Bigbie, American baseball player
1977 Roseanne Farrugia, Miss Universe-Malta (1996)
1977 So Ji-sub, South Korean swimmer, model and actor
1977 Tonicha Jeronimo, British actress
1978 Carmen Cali, American baseball player
1978 Danny Salomon, American actor
1978 John Grabow, American baseball player
1979 Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress
1979 Daisy Eagan, Bkln NY, actresss (Secret Graden)
1979 Jesse Camp, American MTV VJ
1979 Trishelle Cannatella, American reality tv castmember and model
1980 Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1980 Marcy Rylan, American actress
1980 Richard Owens, American football player
1980 Sabrina Colie, Jamaican actress
1981 Vince Wilfork, American football player
1982 Devin Hester, American football player
1982 Travis Van Winkle, Actor (Transformers)
1985 Gillian Zinser, Actress (Savages)
1985 Marcell Jansen, German footballer
1986 Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver
1986 Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer and actress (Final Destination 3)
1987 T.O.P, Korean rapper (Big Bang)
1988 Rickey Castleberry, Actor (Blind Dates)
1989 Jackie Daniels, Actress (The Sex Files: A Dark XXX Parody)
1989 Nicole Ray, Actress (KillFuck)
1990 Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Actor (LOL)
1990 Nadir Bouhmouch, Director (My Makhzen and Me)
1990 Cortnie Michelle Crayton, Actress (Roadside Chef)
1991 Bee Vang, Actor (Gran Torino)
1992 Omar Ajmeri, Prince of Saudi Arabia
1992 Johnny Morales Jr., Actor (Untitled Romance)
1993 Jonathan Ric Ocasek, son of rocker Ric & model Paulina Porizkova
1996 Fivel Stewart, Actress (Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft)
1998 Darcy Rose Byrnes, Actress (Amish Grace)
Died on November 5th
1203 Dirk VII, Count of Holland (1190-1203)
1411 Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)
1652 Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
1658 Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)
1669 Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
1674 Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits)
1698 Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1702 John Benbow, English vice-admiral (Santa Marta) (b. 1653)
1702 Thomas Eisenhut, composer
1704 Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)
1708 Henriette Catharina van Nassau, daughter of Frederik Henry
1768 Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist, philosopher, astronomer
1781 Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
1801 William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1712)
1830 Frederic LG de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle
1837 Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist
1847 Jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German pianist, composer (b. 1809)
1853 Alexander Stadtfeld, composer
1856 Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
1890 Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3)
1890 Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
1893 Cornelis E van Koetsveld, Dutch vicar/literature
1893 Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
1898 Jerome Hopkins, composer
1904 Jack Brown, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1894-99)
1906 John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
1908 Tomés Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06)
1914 Georg Trakl, writer
1918 Wilfred Owen, English , anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth) (b. 1893)
1921 Takasji Hara, premier of Japan, murdered
1924 Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem) (b. 1845)
1924 Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
1928 Arnold Rothstein, American businessman, gambler, shot to death (b. 1882)
1931 Charles Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (b. 1877)
1931 Luigi Galleani, Italian anarchist (b. 1861)
1932 Belle Bennett, actress (Iron Mask)
1935 Miklos Radnai, composer
1937 Rogelio del Villar, composer
1939 Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer
1940 Manuel Azaña y Diez, Spanish PM (1932..4), president (1936-39)
1942 Marcel Barger (Streliskie), cabaret performer, killed in Auschwitz
1950 Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1953 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer
1954 Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child)
1955 Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1956 Art(hur) Tatum, US jazz pianist, composer
1957 Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer
1957 Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
1965 Krsto Odak, composer
1967 June Thorburn, actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash
1968 Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
1968 Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer, author
1969 Carlos Marighella, Brazilian politician, guerilla, dies in battle (b. 1911)
1969 Ferenc Szabo, composer
1973 Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends)
1974 Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
1974 Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop
1975 Izzat Husrieh, Syrian Journalist, author, and publisher (b. 1914)
1975 Sheila Ryan, actress (Song of Texas, Great Guns)
1980 Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
1982 Dominique Dunne, American actress (Poltergeist), murdered by boyfriend (b. 1959)
1982 Jacques Tati(scheff), French mime, director
1984 Merie Earle, actress (Maude-Waltons), dies of uremic poisoning
1986 Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
1987 Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC)
1992 George Klein, Canadian inventor (b. 1904)
1992 Regina Carrol, actress (Jessi's Girl)
1993 Basuki Abdullah, Indonesian painter, murdered
1993 Cliff Young, pitcher (Cleveland Indians), dies in car accident
1993 Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen, Dutch journalist (Beehive)
1993 Ely A Landau, producer (Long Day's Journey)
1993 Jose L Guarner, Spanish movie reviewer
1994 Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist
1994 Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitar player MC5 (b. 1949)
1994 Jan Wegter, actor (Pastorale 1943)
1994 Samuel Lewis Francis, American painter (Basel Mural)
1995 Eddie Egan, actor in The French Connection, New York detective (b. 1930)
1995 Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
1995 Jerome Berger, lawyer, Film producer,
1995 Marti Lynne Stringer Caine, singer/comedienne
1995 Paul Eddington, actor (Jim Hacker)
1995 Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister (Nobel Peace Prize), assassinated (b. 1922)
1996 Robert Rapoport, social anthropologist
1997 George Chambers, PM of Trinidad & Tobago (1981-86)
1997 H. Richard Hornberger, American writer, surgeon (inspired M*A*S*H) (b. 1924)
1997 Wally Bruner, journalist (ABC, What's My Line)
1999 Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1958)
2003 Charles Causley, Cornish writer and poet (b. 1917)
2003 Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
2003 Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (b. 1923)
2005 Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
2005 Sheree North, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
2006 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (b. 1908)
2006 Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician, Nisga'a Statesman (b. 1915)
2007 Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2008 Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b. 1971)
2008 Michael Crichton, American author (b. 1942)
2009 Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (b. 1923)
2010 Eugénie Blanchard, French supercentenarian (b. 1896)
2010 Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (b. 1960)
2010 Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (b. 1934)
2011 Andy Rooney, American radio and television writer (b. 1919)
2012 Ted Curson, American jazz trumpeter
2013 Hakon Barfod, Norwegian sailor and Olympic champion
2014 Acker Bilk, English clarinetist who was part of the traditional jazz revival of the 1950s and 1960s
2015 Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter (E.T.)
