November 8th
Holidays and Festivals
National Parents As Teachers Day (USA)
Mundus Patet (Roman) * (see below)
Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day
Dunce Day
Abet and Aid Punsters Day
Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers of Heaven in Greece, Cyprus and all other Eastern Orthodox Churches worldwide
Saint Demetrius Day celebrated by the Orthodox Churches that follow the old calendar (in Russia, Serbia etc.)
Feast of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity in the Catholic Church and Godfrey of Amiens
* Tasmanian Beerfest is held on the 2nd Saturday of November
* Mundus Patet (Roman), an ancient Roman harvest feast involving the dead.
Fête de la Dentelaire Translation: Leadworts Day (French Republican) The 18th day of the Month of Brumaire in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here's to beefsteak when you're hungry,
Whiskey when you're dry,
All the women you'll ever want,
And heaven when you die."
- Traditional Irish
- Variation -
"Here’s to steak when you’re hungry
Whiskey when you’re dry
A lover when you need one
And Heaven when you die."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Scarlet O'Hara
1 Part Southern Comfort
2 Parts Cranberry Juice
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and then strain into a cold cocktail glass.
- In honor of Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8th, 1900 - August 16th, 1949), an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her epic novel Gone with the Wind, her only major publication.
Wine of The Day
Hayman & Hill (2007) Reserve Selection
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley
$20
Beer of The Day
Dirty Bastard
Brewer - Founders Brewing Co. Grand Rapids, MI
Style - Strong Ale
Joke of The Day
I felt sorry for a hypnotist I saw last night.He hypnotised 7 blokes,then he tripped over the microphone cord,and yelled "F*ck me"
What happened next will haunt me forever.
Quote of The Day
"Bad decisions make good stories."
- Unknown
Whisky of The Day
Glen Taite 19 Year Old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Price: $100
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
Health Information and Technology Week ,First Full Week in NovemberInternational 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
Intimate Apparel Week, First Full Work Week in the Months of February, May, August, and November
Sherlock Holmes Weekend, First Friday through Sunday in November (Also Third Friday through Sunday in March)
Dear Santa Letter Week, November 7th through 13th
Pursuit of Happiness Week, November 7th through 13th
Home Care Aide Week, Second Week in November
American Education Week, Second Week in November
Youth Appreciation Week, Second Week in November
World Origami Days, Oct. 24th to Nov. 11th
Historical Events on November 8th
392 Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion, state religion
911 Duke Koenraad I chosen German king
1322 Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht
1494 Uprising against Piero de' Medici in Florence Italy
1519 Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
1520 Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
1575 French Roman Catholics & Huguenots signs treaty
1576 Pacification of Ghent of the Eighty Years' War, The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation, 17 Dutch provinces sign anti-Spanish covenant.
1598 Spanish troops under of Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem
1602 The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
1620 The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
1627 English fleet under George Villiers leaves Île de Ré
1638 Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts
1658 Battle of Sont: Swedish fleet beats Dutch
1701 William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges
1731 In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library
1734 Cook Vincent la Chapelle forms Free Masons Lodge
1745 Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
1789 Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky)
1793 In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
1833 Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die
1837 Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1st US college founded for women, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
1838 Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas," premieres in Paris
1842 Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)
1861 The "Trent Affair" of the American Civil War, The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
1861 Battle of Mount Ivy, KY
1864 Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President
1870 Democratic governor elected in Tennessee
1880 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NY's Booth Theater
1883 English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage)
1884 German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1889 Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) elected president
1892 The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
1895 While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen (Germany) discovers the X-ray.
1900 Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
1901 Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
1904 American President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
1910 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
1917 Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants
1917 The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.
1918 Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs
1920 Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn
1920 Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th
1923 Beer Hall Putsch, In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1924 Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt
1924 Fortune Theatre opens in London
1926 George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay," premieres in NYC
1928 George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl," premieres in NYC
1929 Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38," premieres in Paris
1929 NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1930 Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro," premieres in Berlin
1932 "Make Mine Music," debuts
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected the 32d President (1st time) of the United States defeating Herbert Hoover.
1933 Part of the New Deal, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
1934 Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president
1935 A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with advancing industrial unionism.
1937 The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
1938 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
1938 A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.
1939 H Lindsay & R Crouse' "Life with Father," premieres in NYC
1939 In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1939 Venlo Incident, Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
1940 RAF bombs Munich
1941 The Albanian Communist Party is founded.
1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
1942 Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall
1942 Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US
1942 French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, World War II.
1942 Operation Torch of World War II begins, United States and United Kingdom forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa.
1944 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor
1944 Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders
1945 "Girl from Nantucket" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 12 performances
1945 Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550
1946 Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse," premieres in Paris
1947 Bradman scores his 99th 1st-class cricket century, 100 SA v Victoria
1950 Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year
1950 In the Korean War, United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
1951 NY Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards
1953 Salazars party wins all parliament seats in Portugal
1954 AL approves Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City
1956 UN demands USSR leave Hungary
1957 Operation Grapple X, Round C1, Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island, its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
1958 "Maria Golovin" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 5 performances
1959 KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1959 Tunisian pres Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair
1960 JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for 35th US president
1961 Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn
1962 Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape
1964 IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
1964 KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1964 Orioles Frank Robinson unanimous choice as AL MVP
1965 "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV
1965 The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Vietcong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
1965 The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
1965 The Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
1966 Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
1966 Frank Robinson selected AL MVP
1966 Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
1966 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the American football to merge with the upstart American Football League.
1967 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester)
1967 Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John
1970 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
1973 Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai
1973 The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
1974 British Lord Lucan disappears
1974 Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1976 A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
1977 Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
1978 Tom Stoppard's "Night & Day," premieres in London
1979 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline")
1979 Bernard Slade's "Romantic Comedy," premieres in NYC
1979 The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed.
1980 Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
1981 Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
1981 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1983 Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky
1983 STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad
1983 W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia
1984 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test
1984 Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit
1984 STS 51-A mission, launch
1985 Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission
1986 "Song & Dance" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 474 performances
1987 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes
1987 Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup
1987 IRA-bomb attack in Enniskillen North Ireland, 11 killed
1987 Remembrance Day Bombing, A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
1987 Yuko Moriguchi wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1988 900 die as earthquake hits China
1988 Arco Arena in Sacramento CA opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75
1988 George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency
1988 Rafael Fernandez Colón elected if pres of Puerto Rico
1989 Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year
1989 David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of NYC
1989 Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (Virginia)
1989 Hong Kong's MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service.
1990 "6 Degrees of Separation" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 496 perfs
1990 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf
1990 Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers
1990 Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World
1990 Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
1991 Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV
1991 Paul Coffey sets NHL defensman soring mark with 311th goal
1992 "Solitary Confinement" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1992 300,000 demonstrators against racism in Berlin
1992 Betsy King wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1994 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98
1994 Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms
1997 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away
1997 Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild
1998 Japan Golf Classic
2002 UN Security Council Resolution 1441 The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein and Iraq to disarm or face "serious consequences".
2004 More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah during the War in Iraq.
2008 Boston College beats Notre Dame 17-0 in Chestnut Hill at the 18th College Football Holy War
2011 The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976
2013 11 people are killed in a car park bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia
2013 27th Soul Train Music Awards: Miguel, Tamar Braxton win
2013 At least 6,000 people are killed after Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm recorded at landfall, makes landfall in the Philippines
2014 Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War
2014 Protests across New Zealand against the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
2014 US President Obama authorises deployment of 1500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants
Born on November 8th
30 Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
35 Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
1342 Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416)
1431 Vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince (d. 1476)
1491 Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
1572 Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia
1590 Francesco Gonzaga, composer
1592 Domenico Mazzocchi, composer
1622 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs' War)
1622 Charles X Gustaf, King of Sweden (1654-60) (d. 1660)
1647 Pierre Bayle, French-Netherlands theologist, philosopher, writer
1656 Edmond Halley, British astronomer (comet of Halley) and mathematician (d. 1742)
1657 Thomas Bullis, composer
1693 Leonhard Trautsch, composer
1706 Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
1710 Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
1715 Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II "the Great" of Prussia (d. 1797)
1723 John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
1760 Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, South Neth earl, general
1768 Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840)
1770 Friedrich Witt, composer
1777 Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860)
1785 Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer
1814 Girolamo Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku)
1817 Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1891)
1817 Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter
1829 Samuel Wylie Crawford, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1892)
1830 Oliver Otis Howard, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1909)
1831 Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English statesman and Viceroy of India (1876-1880)
1836 Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
1847 Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (Dracula), theater manager (d. 1912)
1847 Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
1848 Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (Begriffsschrift) (d. 1925)
1849 Edward Julius Biedermann, composer
1850 Karel Komzak, composer
1854 Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
1863 René (Raphael) Viviani, French historian, social premier (1914-15)
1866 Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
1867 Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer
1868 Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
1869 Zinaida Gippius, Russian woman-poet in exile in France (d. 1945)
1876 Frank L Gillespie, American founder (Supreme Life Insurance Company)
1878 Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor, world champion cyclist (1899)
1879 King Baggot I, St Louis MO, director (Tumbleweeds)
1882 Lazare Saminsky, composer
1883 Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, English composer (Farewell My Youth) (d. 1953)
1883 Ethel Clayton, American actress (Hotel Continental)
1884 Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1885 Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966)
1885 Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951)
1885 Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
1887 Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin, composer
1888 David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (d. 1974)
1893 Clarence Williams, American pianist and composer (d. 1965)
1893 John Miljan, American actor (Possessed, Final Extra, Susan Lenox)
1893 Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941)
1895 Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer
1895 Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965)
1896 Bucky Harris, baseball player, manager (Phillies, Yankees) (d. 1977)
1897 Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors), social activist (d. 1980)
1898 Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
1900 Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943)
1900 Georges Lonque, composer
1900 Margaret Mitchell, American author (Gone With the Wind) (d. 1949)
1900 Mihailo Vukdragovic, composer
1901 Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president
1901 Szymon Laks, composer
1902 Mihail A Suslov, Soviet-party ideologist
1902 Walerian Josef Gniot, composer
1904 Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990)
1905 Richard Nicholson, musician
1907 Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader
1908 Martha Gellhorn, American writer (d. 1998)
1909 Alberto Erede, Italian conductor
1912 Jean-Louis Martinet, composer
1912 Joseph Fattorini, businessman
1912 June Havoc, American actress (d. 2010)
1913 Robert Strauss, American actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey)
1914 Lute T de Cock, student, resistance fighter
1914 Norman Lloyd, American actor (Auschlander-St Elsewhere)
1916 Frank McGuire, basketball coach (won 550 games in 30 college seasons)
1916 June Havoc, American actress (Willy, Panic, GE Theater)
1916 Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)
1918 Hermann Zapf, German designer
1919 P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000)
1920 Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
1920 Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal
1921 Douglas Townsend, composer
1921 Gene Saks, American actor, director (One & Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave)
1921 Jerome Hines (Heinz), American basso (I am The Way)
1922 Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
1922 Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant) (d. 2001)
1922 Esther Rolle, American actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude)
1923 Dmitri T Jazov, Russian minister of defense (1991 coup)
1923 Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer (Nobel laureate) (handheld calculator, integrated circuit) (d. 2005)
1924 Joe Flynn, American actor (McHale's Navy) (d. 1974)
1927 Ken Dodd, English comedian
1927 Nguyen Khanh, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
1927 Patti Page, American singer
1927 Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler), American singer (Tennessee Waltz)
1929 António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
1929 Bobby Bowden, American football coach
1929 Trevor McMahon, NZ cricket wicketkeeper (v India & Pak 1955-56)
1930 Bob Harris, American actor (Jim-Troubleshooters)
1930 Edmund Happold, engineer
1931 Darla Hood, American actress (d. 1979)
1931 Morley Safer, Canadian journalist, TV newscaster (60 Minutes)
1932 Ben(jamin William) Bova, American sci-fi author (Exiled from Earth)
1932 Richard E Lawyer, American astronaut
1932 Stephane Audran, Versailles France, actress (Just Before Nightfall)
1933 Peter Arundell, British racing driver
1934 Roberta Hazard, USN Admiral
1935 Alain Delon, French actor (Honor Among Thieves, Return of Zorro)
1935 Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop (d.2008)
1936 Edward George Gibson, American astronaut (Skylab 4)
1936 Viscount Mountgarret (Butler), English large landowner
1938 Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007)
1938 John Asprey, British jeweler, multi-millionaire
1938 Pleuni Touw, Dutch actress (Black Rider)
1938 Pleuntje "Pleuni" Cordon, actress (Dear Guys)
1938 Richard Stoker, composer
1942 Aleksandr Yakovlevich Kramarenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1942 Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey (won over 6,000 races)
1942 Gerald Alston, US singer (Manhattans-Crazy)
1943 Martin Peters, English footballer
1944 Bonnie Bramlett, American singer, vocalist (Delaney, Bonnie & Friends)
1944 Rodney Desborough Slater, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
1945 Arnold Rosner, composer
1945 David Jessel, British TV-reporter
1945 Judith Lang Zaimont, composer
1945 Roy Wood, Birmingham England, rock vocalist/cellist (ELO)
1945 Tony Mann, Aust cricket leggie (1977 century as nightwatchman v India)
1946 Guus Hiddink, Dutch football coach
1946 Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard)
1947 Margaret Rhea Seddon, Murfreesboro Tenn, MD/astro (STS 51D, 40, SK:58)
1947 Minnie Riperton, American singer (Loving You) (d. 1979)
1948 Dale A Gardner, Fairmont Minn, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A)
1949 Al Berger, rocker
1949 Bonnie Raitt, American country singer (Green Light, The Glow)
1949 Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice Presidenf of the National Rifle Association.
1950 Mary Hart, American television personality
1951 Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general
1951 Larry Burnette, rocker (Firefall)
1951 Mary Hart, Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1952 Alfre Woodard, American actress (Primal Fear)
1952 Christie Ann Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, CEO (Playboy Enterprises)
1952 Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist
1952 Jerry Remy, American baseball player, color commentator
1953 Alfre Woodard, Tulsa Oklahoma, actress (St Elsewhere, Extremities)
1953 John Musker, American animation director
1954 David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster
1954 Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
1954 Kazuo Ishiguro, British author
1954 Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director
1954 Rickie Lee Jones, American singer (Chuck E's in Love)
1954 Thanasis Pafilis, Greek politician
1956 Beverly Klass, LPGA golfer
1956 Randi Brooks, NYC, actress (Man With 2 Brains, Tightrope)
1956 Richard Curtis, British screenwriter (Love Actually)
1956 Steven Miller, American record producer
1957 Alan Curbishley, English football manager
1957 Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
1957 Yohan Gunasekera, cricketer (2 Tests for Sri Lanka 1983)
1958 Don Byron, American clarinetist
1958 Terry Lee Miall, England, rock drummer (Adam & The Ants)
1959 Simon Davis, Victorian cricket pace bowler (Test v NZ 1986, no wkts)
1960 Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
1960 Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
1961 Leif Garrett, American singer, actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road)
1961 Micky Adams, English football manager
1962 Ron Johnson, Australian baseball hitting coach (Olympics-1996)
1963 Dwight Smith, Tallahassee FL, outfielder (Atlanta Braves)
1963 Paul Butcher, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1964 Chuck Cecil, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)
1965 Bart Latuheru, soccer player (Vitesse)
1965 Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter
1965 Jeff Blauser, American baseball player, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1965 Mike Peluso, Pengilly Canada, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1966 Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality (Hells Kitchen)
1966 Michael Soles, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes)
1966 Ulrich Cruden, Soccer player (NEC)
1967 Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress (Day by Day, Lucas, Summer School)
1967 Henry Rodriguez, Dominican Republic baseball player, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1967 Jay Taylor, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1967 Kamar de los Reyes, American actor
1967 Kim Dugger, Wichita Kansas, Miss Kansas-America (1991)
1967 Mark Zollitsch, Orono Maine, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1967 Rhonda Kottke, Minneapolis Minn, WPVA volleyballer
1968 Jose Offerman, Dominican baseball player, infielder (KC Royals)
1968 Keith Jones, Brantford, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals)
1968 Michelle Kline, Circle Pines Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 Parker Posey, American actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns, The House of Yes)
1968 Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
1968 Zara Whites, Dutch actress
1969 Devon McDonald, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 Ricardo McDonald, NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 Roxana Zal, American actress
1970 Diana King, Jamaican singer
1970 José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer
1970 Qadry Ismail, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins)
1970 Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace
1971 Aaron Yates (Tech N9NE), American rapper
1971 Anna Katrina Simcic, Christchurch NZ, backstroker (Olympics-96)
1971 Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
1971 Twan Scheepers, soccer player (MVV)
1972 Chris Fydler, Sydney NSW NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1972 Gretchen Mol, American actress (Rounders)
1972 Ken Blackman, NFL guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 Frantisek Kaberle, hockey defenseman (Team Czech Oly-gold-1998)
1973 Nicole Teter, San Diego California, 800m runner
1973 Tara Johnson, Miss USA-Wisconsin (1997)
1973 Vanesa Littlecrow, Puerto Rican cartoonist, dancer, writer and model
1974 Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
1974 Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor (Titus)
1974 Penny Heyns, South African swimmer
1974 Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
1975 Brevin Knight, American basketball player, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 José Pinto, Spanish footballer
1975 Stephen Saber, drummer/songwriter
1975 Tara Reid, American actress (The Big Lebowski)
1976 Brett Lee, Australian cricketer
1976 Colin Strause, American director
1977 Bucky Covington, American entertainer
1977 Jully Black, Canadian R&B singer
1977 Nick Punto, American baseball player
1978 Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
1978 Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer
1978 Maurice Evans, American basketball player
1978 Shyne (Moses Michael Leviy), Belizean born rapper
1978 Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer
1978 Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
1979 Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
1979 Dania Ramírez, Dominican actress (Premium Rush)
1980 Ana Vidovic, classical guitarist
1980 Luis Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
1981 Azura Skye, American actress (Bandits)
1981 Joe Cole, English footballer
1982 Lynndie England, former U.S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib
1982 Mika Kallio, Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer
1982 Sam Sparro, Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor
1982 Ted DiBiase Jr., Professional wrestler in WWE
1983 Blanka Vlašic, Croatian high jumper
1983 Kat Shoob, British television presenter
1983 Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
1983 Starlette Miariaunii, Actress (The Mechanic)
1985 Jack Osbourne, English television star
1985 Magda Apanowicz, Actress (The Butterfly Effect)
1986 Farren Monét, Actress (A Dog of Flanders)
1986 Jamie Roberts, Welsh and British & Irish Lions rugby player
1987 Sam Bradford, American football player and winner of the 2008 Heisman Trophy
1987 Samantha Droke, American actress (Horton Hears a Who!)
1988 Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress (Altitude, 90210)
1989 Lee-Ann Simon, Actress (Best Enemies)
1990 Liam Swann, Editor (Something New)
1991 Riker Lynch, Actor (It's All Part of the Plan)
1992 Carlos Velasquez Corleto, Actor (Prince Badass)
1993 Caroline Ford, Actress (Good Luck Chuck)
1994 Allison Andreas, Actress (Belittled)
1996 Telana Lynum, Actress (G.I. Jesus)
2000 Madison and Marissa Poer Actresses, The Young and the Restless
2003 Lady Louise Windsor, British royal
Died on November 8th
397 Martin of Tours (St Martin), bishop of Tours
618 St Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18)
911 Louis the Child, last Carolingian ruler of the East Franks (b. 893)
955 Pope Agapetus II
1115 Godfrey of Amiens (b. 1066)
1171 Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1195 Conrad of Hohenstaufen
1226 Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26) (b. 1187)
1228 Dirk I, ruler of Heinsberg/Valkenburg
1246 Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
1308 Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce)
1494 Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter
1517 Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish Chancellor of Castilia, Cardinal (b. 1436)
1527 Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
1578 Johann Walter, composer
1590 Joost Jansz Bilhamer, master builder/cartographer
1595 Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist
1599 Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1600 Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
1605 Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
1638 Johann H Alsted, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50
1658 Pieter Floriszoon, Dutch admiral, dies in naval Battle of the Sound at about 50
1658 Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer, dies in naval Battle of the Sound (b. 1599)
1674 John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost) (b. 1608)
1694 Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer, law historian, polemist
1719 Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
1757 Pierre Prowo, composer
1805 Francois-Thomas de Baculard d'Arnaud, French writer
1811 Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies
1817 Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon (b. 1754)
1830 King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1833 Maximilian Stadler, composer
1873 Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Spanish poet, comic playwright (b. 1796)
1880 Jacob Edvard Gille, composer
1885 Johannes Kneppelhout (Klikspaan), Dutch humorist, author
1886 Frederick J "Fred" Archer, English jockey, commits suicide
1887 John Henry "Doc" Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
1890 Caesar-Auguste Franck, Belgian organist, composer (b. 1822)
1905 Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
1908 Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene)
1909 Charles Bordes, composer
1909 Eduard de Hartog, composer
1917 Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879)
1920 Abraham Kuyper, Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), clergyman
1920 Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek)
1921 Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
1924 Michele Merlo, American mafia figure (b. 1880)
1924 Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer
1928 Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor, director (Streets of sin)
1933 Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan, assassinated by Abdul Khallig
1934 Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
1937 James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister (Lab, 1924, 29-35)
1941 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle)
1944 Walter Nowotny, German combat jet fighter pilot (b. 1920)
1945 August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
1949 Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874)
1952 Claude Carter, South African cricketer
1953 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
1953 John van Melle, South African author (Bart Nel) (b. 1887)
1959 Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (b. 1890)
1963 Simon Jurovsky, composer
1965 Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
1966 Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer (first reliable pregnancy test) (b. 1891)
1968 Wendell Corey, American actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl) (b. 1914)
1969 Kam Tong, actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr Garlund)
1970 Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
1974 Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (b. 1914)
1977 Bucky Harris, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1978 Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (Saturday Evening Post covers) (b. 1894)
1979 Sydney Tafler, actor (Too Many Crooks)
1979 Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
1983 James Booker, American jazz singer (b. 1939)
1983 James Hayden, American actor (b. 1953)
1983 Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
1983 Robert Agnew, director
1984 Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer
1985 Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, sculptor, ex libris designer, book illustrator (b. 1915)
1985 Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
1986 Beatrice Kay, singer, actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col)
1986 Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
1989 Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV), chairman (VARA)
1990 Anya Seton, US author
1990 Grampy Davis
1991 Christine Felsmann
1991 Frances Faye, singer, actress (Pretty Baby)
1991 John Kirckpatrick, American musicologist (Charles Ives Archives)
1991 Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street)
1992 Alexander Dubcek, President of Czechoslovakia (1968-69)
1992 Kees (Cornelis) Broekman, speed skater (Olympic-silver-1952)
1992 Keith "Red" Mitchell, American-Swedish jazz bassist
1992 Larry Levan, American DJ (b. 1954)
1993 Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1994 Marianne Straub, weaver
1994 Michael O'Donoghue, American comedy writer (SNL) (b. 1940)
1995 Country Dan Dick Montana McLain, singer
1995 Neil Blaney, politician
1996 Edward Albert Radice, economist
1996 Peter Fowler, physicist
1998 Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
1998 John Hunt, Baron Hunt, British expedition leader of the first successful ascent of Everest (b. 1910)
1998 Rumer Godden, British writer (b. 1907)
1999 Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
1999 Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
2002 Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931)
2003 Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
2003 C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
2003 Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956)
2004 Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (b. 1931)
2005 Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
2005 David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
2006 Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
2006 Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist (b. 1941)
2007 Chad Varah, English founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911)
2007 Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary (b. 1943)
2009 Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
2010 Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (b. 1950)
2010 Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925)
2010 Jack Levine, American painter (b. 1915)
2010 Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b. 1961)
2011 Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
2011 Heavy D, American hip-hop artist. (b. 1967)
2012 Lucille Bliss, American voice artist
2014 Don Paul, American football player
