Anniversaries 25 November
Birth
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Spanish playwright and poet
1562–1635
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French historian
1655–1735
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German physicist
1814–1878
![Andrew Carnegie photo]()
American businessman and philanthropist
1835–1919
![Ernst Schröder photo]()
German mathematician
1841–1902
![Khwaja Ghulam Farid photo]()
19th-century sufi Punjabi poet of the punjab , polyglot, sc…
1845–1901
![José Maria Eça de Queiroz photo]()
Portuguese writer
1845–1900
![Leonard Woolf photo]()
English political theorist, author, publisher and civil ser…
1880–1969
![Pope John XXIII photo]()
261st Pope of the Catholic Church
1881–1963
![Joseph Wood Krutch photo]()
American writer, critic, and naturalist
1893–1970
![Helen Hooven Santmyer photo]()
American novelist
1895–1986
![Virgil Thomson photo]()
American composer
1896–1989
![Rudolf Höss photo]()
German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz concentration …
1901–1947
![Ba Jin photo]()
Chinese novelist
1904–2005
![John Summerson photo]()
British architectural historian
1904–1992
![Lewis Thomas photo]()
American physician, poet and educator
1913–1993
![Augusto Pinochet photo]()
Former dictator of the republic of Chile
1915–2006
![Harold Chestnut photo]()
American engineer
1917–2001
![Mauno Koivisto photo]()
President of Finland
1923–2017
![Paul Desmond photo]()
American jazz musician
1924–1977
![Poul Anderson photo]()
American science fiction and fantasy writer
1926–2001
![Jimmy Johnson photo]()
American Chicago blues guitarist and singer
1928
![Shelagh Delaney photo]()
English playwright
1938–2011
![Martin Feldstein photo]()
American economist
1939–2019
![Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi photo]()
Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet, author
1941–2001
![Ben Stein photo]()
actor, writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher, humorist
1944
![Feng Shih-kuan photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1945
![John Larroquette photo]()
born 1947; American film, television and stage actor
1947
![Lixion Avila photo]()
American meteorologist
1950
![Arturo Pérez-Reverte photo]()
Spanish writer and journalist
1951
![Chen Ming-tong photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1955
![Monte Melkonian photo]()
National Hero of Armenia
1957–1993
![Charles Kennedy photo]()
British politician
1959–2015
![Konrad Krajewski photo]()
Roman Catholic cardinal
1963
![Dominic Cummings photo]()
English political strategist
1971
![Sarah Monette photo]()
American novelist and short story author
1974
![Prosanta Chakrabarty photo]()
American ichthyologist
1978
![Thea Gilmore photo]()
British singer-songwriter
1979
Death
![Isaac Watts photo]()
English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
1674–1748
![Antoine François Prévost photo]()
French novelist
1697–1763
![John Gibson Lockhart photo]()
Scottish writer and editor
1794–1854
![Michel Bréal photo]()
French philologist
1832–1915
![Robert Stawell Ball photo]()
Irish astronomer
1840–1913
![Henry Morgenthau, Sr. photo]()
American diplomat
1856–1946
![Kenesaw Mountain Landis photo]()
American judge and baseball commissioner
1866–1944
![Charles Kettering photo]()
American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of…
1876–1958
![Upton Sinclair photo]()
American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist
1878–1968
![Ossip Zadkine photo]()
French sculptor
1890–1967
![Норман Шварцкопф photo]()
United States Army general and first superintendent of the …
1895–1958
![Hastings Banda photo]()
First president of Malawi
1898–1997
![U Thant photo]()
3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations
1909–1974
![Albert K. Cohen photo]()
American criminologist
1918–2014
![Yukio Mishima photo]()
Japanese author
1925–1970
![Fidel Castro photo]()
former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President…
1926–2016
![Anwar Shaikh photo]()
British Pakistani writer
1928–2006
![Flip Wilson photo]()
Comedian, actor
1933–1998
![Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi photo]()
Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet, author
1941–2001
![George Best photo]()
British footballer
1946–2005
![Nick Drake photo]()
British singer-songwriter
1948–1974
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American philosopher
1954–2007
