Anniversaries 1 November

Birth

Étienne de La Boétie12

French judge, writer and philosopher 1530–1563

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux30

French poet and critic 1636–1711

George Horne18

English churchman, writer and university administrator 1730–1792

John Taylor (Latter Day Saints)4

third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day… 1808–1887

Henry Giles15

Irish minister 1809–1882

Erastus Otis Haven1

American Methodist Episcopal bishop 1820–1881

Stephen Crane42

American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist 1871–1900

Grantland Rice2

American sportswriter 1880–1954

Sholem Asch2

Polish-American novelist, dramatist, essayist 1880–1957

Hermann Broch1

austrian writer 1886–1951

Sakutarō Hagiwara1

Japanese writer 1886–1942

L. S. Lowry12

British visual artist 1887–1976

Edmund Blunden5

English poet, author and literary critic 1896–1974

George Grant4

Canadian philosopher 1918–1988

Hermann Bondi5

British mathematician and cosmologist 1919–2005

Gordon R. Dickson19

Canadian-American science fiction writer 1923–2001

Menachem Elon2

Israeli High Court judge 1923–2013

Joe Girard1

American salesman 1928–2019

Charles G. Koch1

American businessman 1935

Edward Said24

Professor of English and literature 1935–2003

Gary Player2

South African golfer 1935

Ralph Klein10

Canadian politician 1942–2013

Larry Flynt5

American publisher 1942

Jacques Attali2

French economist 1943

Kinky Friedman10

Singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician 1944

Bobby Heenan27

American professional wrestler, professional wrestling comm… 1944–2017

Rafic Hariri3

Lebanese businessman and politician 1944–2005

Jim Steinman32

American musician 1947

Amani Abeid Karume1

Zanzibari politician 1948

Marjorie Cohn1

American law professor 1948

Belita Moreno2

American actress 1949

Pat Condell74

Stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality 1949

Robert B. Laughlin14

American physicist 1950

Patrick Pinder1

Roman Catholic archbishop of Nassau, the Bahamas 1953

Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi1

Japanese bishop 1958

Susanna Clarke29

British author 1959

Tim Cook19

American business executive 1960

Ryan Zinke3

52nd and current United States Secretary of the Interior an… 1961

Anthony Kiedis36

American singer 1962

Karen Marie Moning304

author 1964

David Bossie3

American political activist 1965

James Wood3

literary critic 1965

Jeremy Hunt8

British politician 1966

Sophie B. Hawkins17

American musician 1967

Caprice Crane1

American writer 1970

Jenny McCarthy1

American model, comedian, actress, author, activist, and ga… 1972

V. V. S. Laxman17

former Indian cricketer 1974

Penn Badgley7

American actor and musician 1986

Lil Peep12

American rapper 1996–2017

Nelson Itodo3

Nigerian Entrepreneur 2001

Death

William Motherwell3

British writer 1797–1835

Theodor Mommsen65

German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, po… 1817–1903

Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney7

American writer 1823–1908

Oliver P. Morton6

American politician 1823–1877

Dexter S. Kimball7

American engineer 1865–1952

Pietro Badoglio17

Italian general during both World Wars and a Prime Minister… 1871–1956

Alfred Jarry7

French writer 1873–1907

Lima Barreto11

Brazilian writer 1881–1922

Ezra Pound68

American Imagist poet and critic 1885–1972

Georgios Papandreou2

Greek politician - former prime minister of Greece 1888–1968

Dale Carnegie98

American writer and lecturer 1888–1955

Robert Staughton Lynd3

American sociologist 1892–1970

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay3

Indian author in Bengali 1894–1950

Kevin Barry6

18 year old medical student and Irish republican, executed … 1902–1920

Steven Runciman3

British historian 1903–2000

Richard McKenna16

American writer 1913–1964

Paul Tibbets1

United States Air Force pilot 1915–2007

Leonard Jimmie Savage3

American mathematician 1917–1971

Ma Ho-ling1

father of Ma Ying-jeou 1920–2005

René Lévesque7

Quebec politician 1922–1987

Paul R. Lawrence17

American business theorist 1922–2011

Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett4

British politician 1923–2014

William Styron36

American novelist and essayist 1925–2006

Gae Aulenti1

Italian architect, lighting and interior designer, and indu… 1927–2012

Günter Schabowski3

German politician 1929–2015

J. J. Sakurai1

American physicist 1933–1982

Bobby Knight3

American college basketball coach and former player 1940–2023

Tato Laviera2

Puerto Rican writer 1950–2013