Anniversaries 30 November

Birth

Philip Sidney26

English diplomat 1554–1586

Jonathan Swift141

Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745

John Toland12

Irish philosopher 1670–1722

Ebenezer Kinnersley1

American scientist 1711–1778

Джордж Вашингтон Бернап1

1802–1859

Mark Lemon2

British magazine editor 1809–1870

Charles-Valentin Alkan1

French composer and pianist 1813–1888

Theodor Mommsen65

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

William-Adolphe Bouguereau2

French painter 1825–1905

Mark Twain637

American author and humorist 1835–1910

Jagadish Chandra Bose17

Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist and archae… 1858–1937

Andrés Bonifacio3

Filipino nationalist and revolutionary 1863–1897

Lucy Maud Montgomery14

Canadian fiction writer 1874–1942

Winston S. Churchill601

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

R. H. Tawney34

English philosopher 1880–1962

Albert Kesselring9

German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II 1885–1960

Ma Zhanshan4

Chinese politician 1885–1950

Mary Lasker1

American health activist and founder of Lasker Awards 1900–1994

Clyfford Still15

American artist 1904–1980

Jacques Barzun46

Historian 1907–2012

Gordon Parks1

American photographer, musician, writer and film director 1912–2006

Allan Sherman2

American comedian 1924–1973

Shirley Chisholm12

American politician 1924–2005

Rex Reason2

American actor 1928–2015

Dick Clark1

American radio personality 1929–2012

G. Gordon Liddy5

American lawyer in Watergate scandal 1930

Romila Thapar9

Indian historian 1931

Irving Younger2

American lawyer 1932–1988

James Ah Koy9

Fijian politician 1936

Abbie Hoffman43

American political and social activist 1936–1989

Adeline Yen Mah8

Author and physician 1937

Ridley Scott9

English film director and film producer 1937

Michael Jensen8

American economist 1939

George Graham7

Scottish footballer 1944

Harriet Lerner2

American psychologist 1944

Marina Abramović6

Yugoslav-American artist 1946

David Mamet28

American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film direc… 1947

Stephen Kosslyn12

American psychologist 1948

Mandy Patinkin6

American actor and tenor singer 1952

Joceline Clemencia2

Curaçaoan writer 1952–2011

Lawrence H. Summers12

Former US Secretary of the Treasury 1954

Andy Gray (footballer born 1955)4

footballer, commentator 1955

Nicholas Dawidoff1

American writer 1962

Ben Stiller7

actor, Comedian, director, writer 1965

Tod A14

American musician 1965

David Nicholls79

British writer 1966

Stephen Dami Mamza1

Nigerian catholic priest 1969

Tayari Jones1

American writer 1970

Nicole Blackman2

American musician 1971

Kristi Noem6

South Dakota politician 1971

Marcellus Wiley1

American football player 1974

Paul Nuttall1

British politician 1976

Robert Kirkman5

American comic book writer 1978

Clay Aiken8

singer-songwriter, actor, record producer 1978

Om Swami6

Indian mystic 1979

Kim Bora2

South Korean director 1981

Magnus Carlsen5

Norwegian chess player 1990

Death

Li Bai19

Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period 701–762

William Gilbert (astronomer)7

English physician, physicist and natural philosopher 1544–1603

John Selden28

English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and co… 1584–1654

Tsunetomo Yamamoto65

Samurai 1659–1719

Brook Taylor9

English mathematician 1685–1731

Friedrich List15

German economist with dual American citizenship 1789–1846

George Henry Lewes54

British philosopher 1817–1878

Mary Gardiner Brainard3

American poet 1837–1905

Mary Harris Jones12

Irish-born American labor and community organizer 1837–1930

Oscar Wilde812

Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

Paula Modersohn-Becker55

German artist 1876–1907

Francis Picabia11

French painter and writer 1879–1953

Compton Mackenzie1

Scottish writer, cultural commentator, raconteur and nation… 1883–1972

Fernando Pessoa288

Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi… 1888–1935

Laura Gilpin1

Photographer 1891–1979

Roy Turk6

American songwriter 1892–1934

Alan Tower Waterman3

American physicist 1892–1967

Ingeborg Refling Hagen5

Norwegian writer 1895–1989

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu66

Romanian politician 1899–1938

Patrick Kavanagh10

poet 1904–1967

Richard Llewellyn3

British novelist 1906–1983

Joyce Grenfell8

British comedian, singer, actress 1910–1979

Terence Rattigan5

playwright, screenwriter 1911–1977

Etty Hillesum28

Jewish diarist 1914–1943

Norman Cousins32

American journalist 1915–1990

Eloise Jarvis McGraw2

American writer 1915–2000

I. K. Gujral11

Indian politician 1919–2012

Vincent Scully1

American architectural historian 1920–2017

George H. W. Bush51

American politician, 41st President of the United States 1924–2018

Milorad Pavić2

Serbian writer 1929–2009

Guy Debord29

French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding mem… 1931–1994

Paul Crouch3

American broadcster 1934–2013

Kent Haruf3

Novelist 1943–2014

Kathy Acker38

American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet 1947–1997

Paul Walker2

American actor 1973–2013