Anniversaries 1 November
Birth
![Étienne de La Boétie photo]()
French judge, writer and philosopher
1530–1563
![Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux photo]()
French poet and critic
1636–1711
![George Horne photo]()
English churchman, writer and university administrator
1730–1792
![John Taylor (Latter Day Saints) photo]()
third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…
1808–1887
![Erastus Otis Haven photo]()
American Methodist Episcopal bishop
1820–1881
![Stephen Crane photo]()
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
1871–1900
![Grantland Rice photo]()
American sportswriter
1880–1954
![Sholem Asch photo]()
Polish-American novelist, dramatist, essayist
1880–1957
![Hermann Broch photo]()
austrian writer
1886–1951
![Sakutarō Hagiwara photo]()
Japanese writer
1886–1942
![L. S. Lowry photo]()
British visual artist
1887–1976
![Edmund Blunden photo]()
English poet, author and literary critic
1896–1974
![George Grant photo]()
Canadian philosopher
1918–1988
![Hermann Bondi photo]()
British mathematician and cosmologist
1919–2005
![Gordon R. Dickson photo]()
Canadian-American science fiction writer
1923–2001
![Menachem Elon photo]()
Israeli High Court judge
1923–2013
![Joe Girard photo]()
American salesman
1928–2019
![Charles G. Koch photo]()
American businessman
1935
![Edward Said photo]()
Professor of English and literature
1935–2003
![Gary Player photo]()
South African golfer
1935
![Ralph Klein photo]()
Canadian politician
1942–2013
![Kinky Friedman photo]()
Singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician
1944
![Bobby Heenan photo]()
American professional wrestler, professional wrestling comm…
1944–2017
![Rafic Hariri photo]()
Lebanese businessman and politician
1944–2005
![Amani Abeid Karume photo]()
Zanzibari politician
1948
![Marjorie Cohn photo]()
American law professor
1948
![Pat Condell photo]()
Stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality
1949
![Patrick Pinder photo]()
Roman Catholic archbishop of Nassau, the Bahamas
1953
![Tim Cook photo]()
American business executive
1960
![Ryan Zinke photo]()
52nd and current United States Secretary of the Interior an…
1961
![David Bossie photo]()
American political activist
1965
![Jenny McCarthy photo]()
American model, comedian, actress, author, activist, and ga…
1972
![V. V. S. Laxman photo]()
former Indian cricketer
1974
![Penn Badgley photo]()
American actor and musician
1986
![Lil Peep photo]()
American rapper
1996–2017
![Nelson Itodo photo]()
Nigerian Entrepreneur
2001
Death
![Theodor Mommsen photo]()
German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, po…
1817–1903
![Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney photo]()
American writer
1823–1908
![Oliver P. Morton photo]()
American politician
1823–1877
![Dexter S. Kimball photo]()
American engineer
1865–1952
![Pietro Badoglio photo]()
Italian general during both World Wars and a Prime Minister…
1871–1956
![Lima Barreto photo]()
Brazilian writer
1881–1922
![Ezra Pound photo]()
American Imagist poet and critic
1885–1972
![Georgios Papandreou photo]()
Greek politician - former prime minister of Greece
1888–1968
![Dale Carnegie photo]()
American writer and lecturer
1888–1955
![Robert Staughton Lynd photo]()
American sociologist
1892–1970
![Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay photo]()
Indian author in Bengali
1894–1950
![Kevin Barry photo]()
18 year old medical student and Irish republican, executed …
1902–1920
![Steven Runciman photo]()
British historian
1903–2000
![Richard McKenna photo]()
American writer
1913–1964
![Paul Tibbets photo]()
United States Air Force pilot
1915–2007
![Leonard Jimmie Savage photo]()
American mathematician
1917–1971
![Ma Ho-ling photo]()
father of Ma Ying-jeou
1920–2005
![René Lévesque photo]()
Quebec politician
1922–1987
![Paul R. Lawrence photo]()
American business theorist
1922–2011
![Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett photo]()
British politician
1923–2014
![William Styron photo]()
American novelist and essayist
1925–2006
![Gae Aulenti photo]()
Italian architect, lighting and interior designer, and indu…
1927–2012
![Günter Schabowski photo]()
German politician
1929–2015
![J. J. Sakurai photo]()
American physicist
1933–1982
![Bobby Knight photo]()
American college basketball coach and former player
1940–2023
![Tato Laviera photo]()
Puerto Rican writer
1950–2013
