Anniversaries 11 November

Birth

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax65

English politician 1633–1695

Friedrich Albert Fallou1

German jurist and lawyer 1794–1877

Anne Lynch Botta2

writer, poet, socialite 1815–1891

Fyodor Dostoyevsky155

Russian author 1821–1881

Thomas Bailey Aldrich19

American poet, novelist, editor 1836–1907

Henry Mills Alden1

American magazine editor 1836–1919

Paul Signac9

French painter 1863–1935

Édouard Vuillard4

French painter 1868–1940

David I. Walsh1

U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (born 1872) 1872–1947

Daniel Daly4

United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient 1873–1937

George S. Patton77

United States Army general 1885–1945

Shirley Graham Du Bois1

American composer and writer 1896–1977

Gordon W. Allport2

American psychologist 1897–1967

Magda Goebbels2

German politician 1901–1945

Brother Theodore15

German-American monologuist and comedian 1906–2001

Anna Schwartz1

American economist 1915–2012

Kalle Päätalo1

Finnish novelist 1919–2000

Roy Jenkins51

British politician, historian and writer 1920–2003

Kurt Vonnegut318

American writer 1922–2007

Jonathan Winters2

American comedian, actor, and artist 1925–2013

Noah Gordon2

American writer 1926

Carlos Fuentes10

Mexican writer 1928–2012

Hugh Everett5

American physicist, author of the many-worlds interpretatio… 1930–1982

Liu Shahe2

Chinese writer and poet 1931–2019

Pete Stark4

American politician 1931–2020

Kay Arthur1

International Bible teacher/four-time ECPA Christian Book A… 1933

Barbara Boxer3

American politician 1940

Max Boisot17

British academic and educator 1943–2011

Andrew Louth1

1944

Daniel Ortega5

President of Nicaragua 1945

Susanna Kaysen65

American writer 1948

Kim Peek3

American savant, model for the protagonist of the film "Rai… 1951–2009

Judith Fitzgerald1

Canadian poet 1952–2015

Andy Partridge23

British musician 1953

Mary Gaitskill5

Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1954

Jigme Singye Wangchuck4

King of Bhutan 1972–2006 1955

Gregory John Mansour1

Catholic bishop 1955

Carlos Lacámara3

American actor 1958

Kathy Lette1

Australian author 1958

Steven Nadler1

American philosopher 1958

Celia Paul3

British artist 1959

Demi Moore6

American actress 1962

Jiang Shigong6

Chinese legal and political theorist 1967

Sean Pittman3

1968

Leonardo DiCaprio69

American actor and film producer 1974

Lou Vincent2

New Zealand cricketer 1978

Sanju Samson4

Indian cricketer 1994

Mwanandeke Kindembo1044

Congolese author 1996

Death

Guru Tegh Bahadur3

The ninth Guru of Sikhism 1621–1675

Julien Offray de La Mettrie42

French physician and philosopher 1709–1751

Anne Steele3

English hymn writer, essayist 1717–1778

John Ramsay McCulloch5

Scottish economist, author and editor 1789–1864

Nat Turner7

American slave rebellion leader 1800–1831

Sören Kierkegaard309

Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

H. W. Schneider1

1817–1887

David Lipscomb5

Leader, American Restoration Movement 1831–1917

August Spies4

American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper… 1855–1887

Ned Kelly27

Australian bushranger 1855–1880

Edward German8

English musician and composer 1862–1936

A. P. Herbert22

British politician 1890–1971

Alexander Calder41

American artist 1898–1976

Андреас Адамович Закс1

1903–1983

Kuvempu11

Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic, and thinker 1904–1994

Yiannis Ritsos3

Greek poet 1909–1990

Peter F. Drucker180

American business consultant 1909–2005

André Bazin1

French film critic 1918–1958

Frances Ames3

South African physician 1920–2002

Jack Gilbert1

poet 1925–2012

Edward S. Herman55

American journalist 1925–2017

Yasser Arafat18

former Palestinian President, and Nobel Peace Prize recipie… 1929–2004

Gallagher3

American comedian 1946–2022

Shakti Gawain3

Author 1948–2018