Anniversaries 7 November

Birth

Ibn Hazm27

Arab theologian 994–1064

Jami13

Persian poet 1414–1492

William Stukeley3

English antiquarian 1687–1765

Robert Payne Smith1

Dean of Canterbury 1818–1895

Andrew Dickson White37

American politician 1832–1918

John Todd Ferrier2

Christian vegetarian 1855–1943

Marie Curie21

French-Polish physicist and chemist 1867–1934

George S. Clason8

British businessman and writer 1874–1957

Mikhail Kalinin8

Soviet politician 1875–1946

Frank Knight13

American economist 1885–1972

Aron Nimzowitsch1

chess player and theoretician 1886–1935

Chester Barnard24

American businessman 1886–1961

C. V. Raman20

Indian physicist 1888–1970

Herman J. Mankiewicz3

American screenwriter 1897–1953

Konrad Lorenz17

Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology… 1903–1989

Viola Spolin9

American academic and acting theorist 1906–1994

Edmund Leach2

British anthropologist 1910–1989

Albert Camus209

French author and journalist 1913–1960

R. A. Lafferty109

American writer 1914–2002

Philip Morrison2

American astrophysicist 1915–2005

Helen Suzman11

South African politician 1917–2009

Billy Graham32

American Christian evangelist 1918–2018

Ellen Stewart3

American theater director and producer 1919–2011

William Wharton2

American author 1925–2008

Hiroshi Yamauchi5

Japanese businessman 1927–2013

Eric R. Kandel81

American neuropsychiatrist 1929

G. Edward Griffin6

American conspiracy theorist, film producer, author, and po… 1931

Dick Stuart8

American baseball player 1932–2002

Tien Hung-mao1

Taiwanese Minister of Foreign Affairs 1938

Sigitas Tamkevičius1

Lithuanian archbishop 1938

Helen Garner17

Australian author 1942

Tom Peters50

American writer on business management practices 1942

Johnny Rivers2

American musician 1942

John Lennox1

British mathematician and philosopher of science 1943

Joni Mitchell44

Canadian musician 1943

Chrystos3

American writer, activist 1946

Bernhard Goetz1

American politician 1947

David Petraeus4

retired American military officer and public official 1952

Guy Gavriel Kay28

Canadian author of fantasy fiction 1954

Kamal Haasan36

Indian actor 1954

Kurt Burnette1

American Catholic bishop 1955

Vladislav Doronin3

European businessman 1962

Xavier Velasco1

Mexican writer 1964

Morgan Spurlock1

American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer 1970

Yunjin Kim1

South Korean-American actress, born 1973 1973

Rio Ferdinand9

English association football player 1978

Rachele Brooke Smith2

American actress 1987

Rati Tsiteladze7

Georgian Filmmaker 1987

Lorde1

New Zealand singer-songwriter 1996

Death

Nizamuddin Ahmad27

historian 1551–1594

George Peele5

English translator and poet 1556–1596

Bahadur Shah Zafar1

Mughal emperor 1775–1862

Alfred Russel Wallace12

British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist an… 1823–1913

Leo Tolstoy456

Russian writer 1828–1910

John Nance Garner2

American politician 1868–1967

George Van Horn Moseley1

United States Army general 1874–1960

Eleanor Roosevelt148

American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady… 1884–1962

Will Durant85

American historian, philosopher and writer 1885–1981

Olga Rozanova4

Russian artist 1886–1918

Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad5

Caliph of the Messiah 1889–1965

Gene Tunney2

American boxer 1897–1978

John Patrick1

American playwright and screenwriter 1905–1995

Lawrence Durrell52

British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer 1912–1990

Лоренс Джордж Даррелл1

1912–1990

Donald Griffin2

American zoologist 1915–2003

James Grier Miller24

biologist 1916–2002

Alexander Dubček1

first Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party 1921–1992

Hannah Senesh3

Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II 1921–1944

Richard Yates24

Novelist, short story writer 1926–1992

Leonard Cohen169

Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934–2016

Joe Frazier6

American boxer 1944–2011