Anniversaries 3 November

Birth

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus58

Roman poet 39–65

Benvenuto Cellini7

Florentine sculptor and goldsmith 1500–1571

Thomas Kyd11

English dramatist 1558–1594

Aurangzeb65

Sixth Mughal Emperor 1618–1707

Francis Place7

English social reformer 1771–1854

William Cullen Bryant41

American romantic poet and journalist 1794–1878

John Mitchel3

Irish politician 1815–1875

Ian Maclaren1

British theologian and writer 1850–1907

Bangalore Nagarathnamma3

Indian singer 1878–1952

André Malraux37

French novelist, art theorist and politician 1901–1976

Leopold III of Belgium2

King of Belgians 1901–1983

Walker Evans2

American photographer 1903–1975

Carl B. Boyer15

American mathematician 1906–1976

James Reston5

Journalist, newspaper editor 1909–1995

Karel Zeman6

Czech film director, artist and animator 1910–1989

Edith Schaeffer2

American writer 1914–2013

Conor Cruise O'Brien9

Irish politician 1917–2008

Oodgeroo Noonuccal2

Aboriginal Australian poet, artist, teacher and campaigner… 1920–1993

Nick Holonyak1

American inventor 1928

Osamu Tezuka18

Japanese cartoonist and animator 1928–1989

Frits Staal1

Dutch indologist 1930–2012

James Kennedy (televangelist)4

American evangelist 1930–2007

Amartya Sen31

Indian economist 1933

Jeremy Brett2

English actor 1933–1995

Adi Da Samraj24

American writer 1939–2008

Martin Cruz Smith3

American writer 1942

Brian Bates6

British academic 1944

Tom Savini3

American actor, stuntman, director and makeup artist 1946

Lulu (singer)2

Scottish singer, actress, and television personality 1948

Larry Holmes6

American boxer 1949

Anna Wintour6

English editor-in-chief of American Vogue 1949

Joe Queenan2

American writer 1950

Roseanne Barr5

American actress, comedienne, writer, producer and director 1952

Eileen Wilks9

fiction writer 1952

Salvatore Garau3

Italian artist 1953

Dennis Miller29

American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor 1953

Brigitte Lin6

Taiwanese actress 1954

Gary Ross16

American film director 1956

Dolph Lundgren1

Swedish actor 1957

Moeketsi Majoro1

Mosotho politician 1961

Gabe Newell7

American computer programmer and businessman 1962

Scott Galloway (professor)1

clinical professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of … 1964

Michelle Fischbach1

American politician 1965

Jamie Zawinski24

American programmer 1968

Dawn Butler7

British politician 1969

Dylan Moran120

Irish actor and comedian 1971

Alexander De Croo1

Belgian politician 1975

Nino Raspudić1

Croatian philosopher, writer and political analyst 1975

Jane Monheit5

American singer 1977

Джордж Грегори Плитт (младший)2

1977–2015

Josh Duffy11

Subject of the documentary THE MAYOR 1978

Colin Kaepernick1

American football quarterback 1987

Death

Constantius II7

Roman emperor 317–361

Umar5

Second Caliph of Rashidun Caliphate and a companion of Muha… 585–644

Richard Hooker6

English bishop and Anglican Divine 1554–1600

François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis4

Catholic cardinal 1715–1794

Harriet Taylor Mill1

British philosopher 1807–1858

Ellen Sturgis Hooper1

American writer 1812–1848

Léon Bloy22

French writer, poet and essayist 1846–1917

A.C. Cuza11

Romanian politician 1857–1947

Henri Matisse60

French artist 1869–1954

Ralph Hodgson6

British writer 1871–1962

Herbert Farjeon5

American playwright, theater manager, critic, and researche… 1879–1972

Jean Metzinger33

French painter 1883–1956

Georg Trakl5

austrian poet 1887–1914

Edward Hallett Carr3

English historian, diplomat, journalist and international r… 1892–1982

Léon Theremin2

Russian inventor 1896–1993

Wilhelm Reich89

Austrian-American psychoanalyst 1897–1957

Ludwig Hohl3

Swiss writer 1904–1980

Ernst Gombrich16

art historian 1909–2001

Mary Martin13

American actress 1913–1990

Bob Kane3

American comic book artist, the creator of Batman 1915–1998

Flora Rheta Schreiber4

American journalist 1918–1988

Gordon Tullock6

American economist 1922–2014

William Packard1

American writer 1933–2002

Timoci Bavadra4

Fijian politician 1934–1989

Viktor Chernomyrdin3

Russian diplomat 1938–2010

Ahmed Chalabi1

Iraqi politician 1944–2015