Anniversaries 28 November
Birth
![William Blake photo]()
English Romantic poet and artist
1757–1827
![Syed Ahmad Barelvi photo]()
Muslim activist
1786–1831
![Alfred Legoyt photo]()
statistician and author
1812–1869
![Friedrich Engels photo]()
German social scientist, author, political theorist, and ph…
1820–1895
![Leslie Stephen photo]()
British author, literary critic, and first editor of the Di…
1832–1904
![James Allen photo]()
British philosophical writer
1864–1912
![Stefan Zweig photo]()
Austrian writer
1881–1942
![Andrei Vyshinsky photo]()
Soviet politician
1883–1954
![Ernst Röhm photo]()
German Nazi and military officer
1887–1934
![Henry Hazlitt photo]()
American journalist
1894–1993
![Dawn Powell photo]()
American writer
1896–1965
![James Eastland photo]()
American politician
1904–1986
![Alberto Moravia photo]()
Italian writer and journalist
1907–1990
![Claude Lévi-Strauss photo]()
French anthropologist and ethnologist
1908–2009
![Umberto Veronesi photo]()
Italian oncologist and politician
1925–2016
![Abdul Halim of Kedah photo]()
King of Malaysia
1927–2017
![Carol Gilligan photo]()
American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist
1936
![Wilbur Ross photo]()
39th and current United States Secretary of Commerce
1937
![Tom Regan photo]()
American philosopher
1938–2017
![Eric Shinseki photo]()
retired United States Army four-star general, seventh Unite…
1942
![Rita Mae Brown photo]()
Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
1944
![Gustav Hasford photo]()
United States Marine
1947–1993
![Dick Morris photo]()
American political commentator and consultant
1947
![Alan Lightman photo]()
Physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist
1948
![Wendy Brown photo]()
American political theorist
1955
![Jonathan Pearce photo]()
British football commentator
1959
![Pan Wen-chung photo]()
Taiwanese educator and politician
1962
![Jon Stewart photo]()
American political satirist, writer, television host, actor…
1962
![Anna Nicole Smith photo]()
American model, actress, and television personality
1967–2007
![Hans Kluge photo]()
Belgian doctor, senior official of the WHO
1968
![Sharon Needles photo]()
American drag performer
1981
![Mary Elizabeth Winstead photo]()
American actress and singer
1984
![Karen Gillan photo]()
Scottish actress and former model
1987
Death
![William Whipple photo]()
American signatory of the Declaration of Independence
1730–1785
![Samuel Vince photo]()
British mathematician, astronomer and physicist
1749–1821
![Washington Irving photo]()
writer, historian and diplomat from the United States
1783–1859
![Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet photo]()
Lord Chief Justice
1802–1880
![John Lyon (poet) photo]()
Scottish Latter Day Saint poet and hymn writer
1803–1889
![Orson Hyde photo]()
American Mormon leader
1805–1878
![`Abdu'l-Bahá photo]()
Son of Bahá'u'lláh and leader of the Bahá'í Faith
1844–1921
![William McDougall photo]()
british psychologist
1871–1938
![Wilhelmina of the Netherlands photo]()
Queen of the Netherlands 1898 - 1948
1880–1962
![Boris Podolsky photo]()
American physicist
1896–1966
![Enrico Fermi photo]()
Italian physicist
1901–1954
![Rosalind Russell photo]()
actress from the United States
1907–1976
![Richard Wright photo]()
African-American writer
1908–1960
![Milton Sapirstein photo]()
American psychiatrist
1914–1996
![Samuel T. Cohen photo]()
American physicist
1921–2010
![Justo Gallego Martínez photo]()
Ex-monk and sole builder of a cathedral in Spain
1925–2021
![Zig Ziglar photo]()
American motivational speaker
1926–2012
![Thomas J. J. Altizer photo]()
American radical theologian
1927–2018
![Nakamura Kichiemon II photo]()
Japanese kabuki actor (1944-2021)
1944–2021
![Jeffrey Dahmer photo]()
American serial killer, cannibal and necrophile
1960–1994
