Benvenuto Cellini
(1500) Italian goldsmith and sculptor
Sholem Asch (1880) Polish-born author who wrote in Yiddish and
English
James K. Polk (1795) 11th President of the United States
Warren G.
Harding (1865) 29th President of the United States
Stephen Austin (1793) American pioneer in Texas
Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879) Canadian author and Arctic explorer
Will Rogers (1879) American cowboy who became famous as a humorist
and social critic
Art Carney (1918) American comedian and actor
Who shares my birthday?
Is your birthday in November? The names of some of the famous people
born in November are shown on the calendar on this page and the next.
What do you know about the person who shares your birthday?
Eugene V. Debs (1855) American labor leader
Will Durant (1885) American philosopher, educator, and historian
John Philip Sousa (1854) American bandmaster
Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860) Polish pianist, composer, and statesman
Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867) Polish-born physicist who won Nobel
Prize for chemistry in 1911
Joan Sutherland
(1926) Australian opera star
Margaret Mitchell
(1900) American author of Gone with the Wind, a Civil War story
Katharine Hepburn
(1909) American star of stage and movies
Benjamin Banneker (1731) American astronomer and mathematician
Florence Sabin
(1871) American scientist and public health worker
Martin Luther
(1483) German religious leader
Vachel Lindsay
(1879) American poet
Fyodor
Dostoevsky (1821)
Russian author
Maude Adams
(1872) American stage actress
Grace Kelly (1929) princess of Monaco and a former actress
Nadia Comaneci (1961) Romanian gold medal Olympic gymnast
James C. Maxwell
(1831) Scottish physicist and teacher
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850) Scottish author of Treasure Island
Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889) 1st prime minister of India
Edward White
(1930) American astronaut; first man to walk in space
William Herschel
(1738) English astronomer
Felix Frankfurter (1882) associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Louis H. Frechette (1839) Canadian writer of lyric poetry
W. C. Handy (1873) American songwriter and bandleader, known as
“Father of the Blues”
Bernard Montgomery (1887)
British general and field marshal in
World War II
Louis Daguerre
(1787) French inventor of the daguerreotype
Sir William S. Gilbert (1836) English songwriter
James A. Garfield
(1831) 20th President of the United States
Indira Gandhi (1917) first woman prime minister of India
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Alistair Cooke
(1908) British-born author; host of “Masterpiece Theatre”
Maya Michailovna Plisetskaya (1925) Russian ballerina
Voltaire (1694)
French author and philosopher; his real name was Francois Marie Arouet
William Beaumont (1785) American surgeon
Abigail Adams (1744) wife of President John Adams and mother of
President John Quincy Adams
George Eliot (1819) English author
Franklin Pierce
(1804) 14th President of the United States
Sir Gilbert Parker (1862) Canadian author of historical stories
Junipero Serra (1713) Spanish missionary who founded the first
mission in California
Zachary Taylor (1784) 12th President of the United States
John XXIII (1881) Roman Catholic pope from 1958 to 1963 (born Angelo
Roncalli)
Joe DiMaggio (1914) New York Yankee baseball star for 25 years
Mary E. Walker (1832) American Civil War doctor; won the Medal of
Honor
Charles M. Schulz
(1922) American cartoonist; creator of “Peanuts”
Chaim Weizmann
(1874) Israeli statesman and 1st president of Israel
Charles A. Beard
(1874) American historian and teacher
William Blake
(1757) English poet and painter
Stefan Zweig (1881)
Austrian author of stories, poems, and biographies
Andres Bello (1781) Chilean poet
Louisa May Alcott (1832) American author of Little Women and other
books
Jonathan Swift (1667) English author of Gulliver’s Travels
Mark Twain (1835)
American author (real name, Samuel Clemens)
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