Anniversaries 30 November
Birth
![Philip Sidney photo]()
English diplomat
1554–1586
![Jonathan Swift photo]()
Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
1667–1745
![John Toland photo]()
Irish philosopher
1670–1722
![Ebenezer Kinnersley photo]()
American scientist
1711–1778
![Mark Lemon photo]()
British magazine editor
1809–1870
![Charles-Valentin Alkan photo]()
French composer and pianist
1813–1888
![Theodor Mommsen photo]()
German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, po…
1817–1903
![Mark Twain photo]()
American author and humorist
1835–1910
![Jagadish Chandra Bose photo]()
Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist and archae…
1858–1937
![Andrés Bonifacio photo]()
Filipino nationalist and revolutionary
1863–1897
![Lucy Maud Montgomery photo]()
Canadian fiction writer
1874–1942
![Winston S. Churchill photo]()
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1874–1965
![R. H. Tawney photo]()
English philosopher
1880–1962
![Albert Kesselring photo]()
German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II
1885–1960
![Ma Zhanshan photo]()
Chinese politician
1885–1950
![Mary Lasker photo]()
American health activist and founder of Lasker Awards
1900–1994
![Clyfford Still photo]()
American artist
1904–1980
![Gordon Parks photo]()
American photographer, musician, writer and film director
1912–2006
![Allan Sherman photo]()
American comedian
1924–1973
![Shirley Chisholm photo]()
American politician
1924–2005
![Dick Clark photo]()
American radio personality
1929–2012
![G. Gordon Liddy photo]()
American lawyer in Watergate scandal
1930
![Irving Younger photo]()
American lawyer
1932–1988
![Abbie Hoffman photo]()
American political and social activist
1936–1989
![Adeline Yen Mah photo]()
Author and physician
1937
![Ridley Scott photo]()
English film director and film producer
1937
![Harriet Lerner photo]()
American psychologist
1944
![Marina Abramović photo]()
Yugoslav-American artist
1946
![David Mamet photo]()
American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film direc…
1947
![Stephen Kosslyn photo]()
American psychologist
1948
![Mandy Patinkin photo]()
American actor and tenor singer
1952
![Joceline Clemencia photo]()
Curaçaoan writer
1952–2011
![Lawrence H. Summers photo]()
Former US Secretary of the Treasury
1954
![Andy Gray (footballer born 1955) photo]()
footballer, commentator
1955
![Ben Stiller photo]()
actor, Comedian, director, writer
1965
![Stephen Dami Mamza photo]()
Nigerian catholic priest
1969
![Kristi Noem photo]()
South Dakota politician
1971
![Marcellus Wiley photo]()
American football player
1974
![Robert Kirkman photo]()
American comic book writer
1978
![Clay Aiken photo]()
singer-songwriter, actor, record producer
1978
![Kim Bora photo]()
South Korean director
1981
![Magnus Carlsen photo]()
Norwegian chess player
1990
Death
![Li Bai photo]()
Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period
701–762
![William Gilbert (astronomer) photo]()
English physician, physicist and natural philosopher
1544–1603
![John Selden photo]()
English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and co…
1584–1654
![Brook Taylor photo]()
English mathematician
1685–1731
![Friedrich List photo]()
German economist with dual American citizenship
1789–1846
![George Henry Lewes photo]()
British philosopher
1817–1878
![Mary Harris Jones photo]()
Irish-born American labor and community organizer
1837–1930
![Oscar Wilde photo]()
Irish writer and poet
1854–1900
![Francis Picabia photo]()
French painter and writer
1879–1953
![Compton Mackenzie photo]()
Scottish writer, cultural commentator, raconteur and nation…
1883–1972
![Fernando Pessoa photo]()
Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi…
1888–1935
![Roy Turk photo]()
American songwriter
1892–1934
![Alan Tower Waterman photo]()
American physicist
1892–1967
![Ingeborg Refling Hagen photo]()
Norwegian writer
1895–1989
![Corneliu Zelea Codreanu photo]()
Romanian politician
1899–1938
![Richard Llewellyn photo]()
British novelist
1906–1983
![Joyce Grenfell photo]()
British comedian, singer, actress
1910–1979
![Terence Rattigan photo]()
playwright, screenwriter
1911–1977
![Norman Cousins photo]()
American journalist
1915–1990
![Eloise Jarvis McGraw photo]()
American writer
1915–2000
![I. K. Gujral photo]()
Indian politician
1919–2012
![Vincent Scully photo]()
American architectural historian
1920–2017
![George H. W. Bush photo]()
American politician, 41st President of the United States
1924–2018
![Guy Debord photo]()
French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding mem…
1931–1994
![Paul Crouch photo]()
American broadcster
1934–2013
![Kathy Acker photo]()
American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet
1947–1997
