November 24
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[edit] Births
- 1394 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (died 1465)
- 1632 - Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (died 1677)
- 1655 - King Charles XI of Sweden (died 1697)
- 1713 - Laurence Sterne, novelist (died 1768)
- 1713 - Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary (died 1784)
- 1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (died 1850)
- 1787 - Franz Xaver Gruber, organist and composer (died 1863)
- 1801 - Ludwig Bechstein, narrator and poet (died 1860)
- 1811 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, member of the Swiss Federal Council (died 1890)
- 1826 - Carlo Collodi, author (died 1890)
- 1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett, author (died 1924)
- 1853 - Bat Masterson, American gunslinger and policeman (died 1921)
- 1859 - Cass Gilbert, architect (died 1934)
- 1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (died 1901)
- 1868 - Scott Joplin, American musician (died 1917)
- 1874 - Charles Miller, father of football in Brazil
- 1876 - Walter Burley Griffin, architect
- 1877 - Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
- 1881 - Al Christie, Hollywood director and producer (died 1951)
- 1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (1952-1963) (died 1963)
- 1888 - Dale Carnegie, writer (died 1955)
- 1894 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (died 1978)
- 1905 - Irving Allen, producer, director (died 1987)
- 1912 - Garson Kanin, writer (died 1999)
- 1912 - Teddy Wilson, jazz musician (died 1986)
- 1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress
- 1916 - Forrest J. Ackerman, writer and publisher
- 1917 - Howard Duff, actor
- 1921 - John Lindsay, American politician (died 2000)
- 1921 - Yoshiko Uchida, Japanese-American writer (died 1992)
- 1924 - Victor Grinich Croatian-American businesman (died 2000)
- 1925 - William F. Buckley Jr., writer and political commentator
- 1927 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (died 1999)
- 1930 - Bob Friend, baseball pitcher
- 1934 - Alfred Schnittke, composer (died 1998)
- 1936 - Sophie Daumier, actress
- 1938 - Oscar Robertson, Basketball Hall of Famer
- 1941 - Pete Best, drummer
- 1943 - Dave Bing, basketball player
- 1946 - Ted Bundy, serial killer (died 1989)
- 1947 - Dwight Schultz, actor
- 1948 - Steve Yeager, baseball player
- 1949 - Linda Tripp, figure in Lewinsky scandal
- 1951 - Chet Edwards, American politician
- 1952 - Thierry Lhermitte, actor
- 1953 - Mudbone Cooper, singer (P Funk)
- 1955 - Ian Botham, English cricketer
- 1955 - Elvis Ramone, American drummer (The Ramones)
- 1957 - Denise Crosby, actress
- 1964 - Brad Sherwood, comedian
- 1967 - Russell Watson, British singer
- 1971 - Keith Primeau, Canadian hockey player
- 1971 - Fabio Morelli, Italo-Brazilian illustrator
- 1976 - Chen Lu, figure skater
- 1978 - Katherine Heigl, actress
[edit] Deaths
- 1541 - Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII (born 1489)
- 1572 - John Knox, Scottish reformer
- 1781 - James Caldwell, American revolutionary
- 1848 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1779)
- 1870 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (born 1846)
- 1890 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (born 1816)
- 1916 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of Maxim Gun (born 1840)
- 1922 - Robert Erskine Childers, author, Irish nationalist (executed) (born 1870)
- 1929 - Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (born 1841)
- 1956 - Guido Cantelli, conductor (born 1920)
- 1957 - Diego Rivera, painter (born 1886)
- 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, assassination suspect (born 1939)
- 1973 - John Neihardt, ghostwriter of Black Elk Speaks (born 1881)
- 1980 - George Raft, actor (born 1895)
- 1985 - Big Joe Turner, blues singer (born 1911)
- 1991 - Freddie Mercury, lead singer of (Queen), of AIDS (born 1946).
- 1996 - Sorley MacLean, Scottish Gaelic poet (born 1911)
- 2001 - Melanie Thornton, singer with dance band La Bouche (born 1967)
- 2001 - Rachel Gurney, actress (born 1920)
- 2002 - John Rawls, philosopher (born 1921)
- 2003 - Hugh Kenner, literary critic (born 1923)
- 2003 - Floquet de Neu, albino gorilla
- 2003 - Warren Spahn, Baseball Hall of Famer (born 1921)
- 2004 - James Wong, lyricist, composer, singer, writer, actor (born 1941)
- 2004 - Arthur Hailey, novelist (born 1920)
[edit] Events
- 1963-John F. Kennedy assassinated, Lyndon Johnson sworn in as President
- 1988-Mystery Science Theater 3000 premires.
