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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bronson Alcott
Educator
29-Nov-1799 4-Mar-1888 Founder of Boston's Temple School
Louisa May Alcott
Author
29-Nov-1832 6-Mar-1888 Little Women
Hinton Battle
Singer
29-Nov-1956   Dancer, singer, and choreographer
Andrés Bello
Poet
29-Nov-1781 15-Oct-1865 South American intellectual, poet
Busby Berkeley
Film Director
29-Nov-1895 14-Mar-1976 Strike Up the Band
Lucas Black
Actor
29-Nov-1982   The kid from Sling Blade
Michael Boudin
Judge
29-Nov-1939   1st Circuit Court of Appeals
Ernest W. Brown
Astronomer
29-Nov-1866 22-Jul-1938 Tables of the Motion of the Moon
Thomas Burke
Author
29-Nov-1886 22-Sep-1945 Limehouse Nights
Larry Joe Campbell
Actor
29-Nov-1970   Andy on According to Jim
Yakima Canutt
Actor
29-Nov-1895 24-May-1986 Legendary stuntman
Suzy Chaffee
Skier
29-Nov-1946   Olympic skier, ChapStick spokesperson
Jean-Martin Charcot
Doctor
29-Nov-1825 16-Aug-1893 Father of neurology
Don Cheadle
Actor
29-Nov-1964   Boogie Nights
Jacques Chirac
Head of State
29-Nov-1932   President of France, 1995-2007
Ellen Cleghorne
Comic
29-Nov-1965   Saturday Night Live
Joel Coen
Film Director
29-Nov-1954   Half of the Coen brothers
Ronald D. Coleman
Politician
29-Nov-1941   Congressman from Texas, 1983-97
Joseph E. Davies
Diplomat
29-Nov-1876 9-May-1958 US Ambassador to the USSR, 1937-38
Kim Delaney
Actor
29-Nov-1961   Det. Diane Russell on NYPD Blue
Denny Doherty
Singer
29-Nov-1940 19-Jan-2007 The Mamas and the Papas
Gaetano Donizetti
Composer
29-Nov-1797 8-Apr-1848 Lucia di Lammermoor
Christian Doppler
Physicist
29-Nov-1803 17-Mar-1853 Discovered the Doppler Effect
Michel Duchaussoy
Actor
29-Nov-1938 13-Mar-2012 French character actor
Stanley Ann Dunham
Relative
29-Nov-1942 7-Nov-1995 Mother of President Barack Obama
John L. Duvall
Politician
29-Nov-1874 25-Feb-1962 Indianapolis mayor, took Klan bribes
Rahm Emanuel
Politician
29-Nov-1959   Mayor of Chicago
Jeff Fahey
Actor
29-Nov-1952   The Lawnmower Man
Anna Faris
Actor
29-Nov-1976   Scary Movie
John Ambrose Fleming
Engineer
29-Nov-1849 19-Apr-1945 Invented the vacuum tube
Ashley Force
Auto Racing
29-Nov-1982   Funny car drag racer
The Game
Rapper
29-Nov-1979   Ousted member of G-Unit
Janina Gavankar
Actor
29-Nov-1980   Papi on The L Word
Lauren German
Actor
29-Nov-1978   Hostel: Part II
Ryan Giggs
Soccer
29-Nov-1973   Manchester United
George Gilder
Pundit
29-Nov-1939   Technological futurist pundit
Alex Grey
Artist
29-Nov-1953   Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
Wilhelm Hauff
Poet
29-Nov-1802 18-Nov-1827 Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller
Fritz Henderson
Business
29-Nov-1958   CEO of General Motors, 2009-10
Kay Johnson
Actor
29-Nov-1904 17-Nov-1975 Of Human Bondage
Frank Kermode
Critic
29-Nov-1919 17-Aug-2010 The Sense of an Ending
Jonathan Knight
Singer
29-Nov-1968   New Kids on the Block
Madeleine L'Engle
Author
29-Nov-1918 6-Sep-2007 A Wrinkle In Time
Diane Ladd
Actor
29-Nov-1942   Chinatown
Leo Laporte
TV Personality
29-Nov-1956   TechTV host
Jerry Lawler
Wrestling
29-Nov-1949   Bitchslapped Andy Kaufman on Letterman
Yuan T. Lee
Chemist
29-Nov-1936   Crossed molecular beam experiments
C. S. Lewis
Novelist
29-Nov-1898 22-Nov-1963 Chronicles of Narnia
Yegor Ligachev
Politician
29-Nov-1920   Former Politburo hardliner
John A. Love
Politician
29-Nov-1916 21-Jan-2002 Governor of Colorado, 1963-73
Howie Mandel
Comic
29-Nov-1955   Host of Deal Or No Deal
Chuck Mangione
Musician
29-Nov-1940   Flugelhorn player on King of the Hill
John Mayall
Musician
29-Nov-1933   Bluesbreaker
Andrew McCarthy
Actor
29-Nov-1962   St. Elmo's Fire
Jody Miller
Country Musician
29-Nov-1941   Queen of the House
Minnie Minoso
Baseball
29-Nov-1922   The Cuban Comet
Egas Moniz
Scientist
29-Nov-1874 13-Dec-1955 Pre-frontal lobotomy and cerebral arteriography
Ronnie Montrose
Guitarist
29-Nov-1947 3-Mar-2012 Montrose and Gamma
Cathy Moriarty
Actor
29-Nov-1960   Raging Bull
Willie Morris
Author
29-Nov-1934 2-Aug-1999 North Toward Home
Janet Napolitano
Politician
29-Nov-1957   US Secretary of Homeland Security
Gena Lee Nolin
Actor
29-Nov-1971   Sheena
Adam Clayton Powell
Politician
29-Nov-1908 4-Apr-1972 Congressman from New York, 1945-71
Julius Raab
Head of State
29-Nov-1891 8-Jan-1964 Chancellor of Austria, 1953-61
Frank Reynolds
Journalist
29-Nov-1923 20-Jul-1983 Former ABC News anchor
Mariano Rivera
Baseball
29-Nov-1969   Yankees Relief Pitcher
John J. Rooney
Politician
29-Nov-1903 26-Oct-1975 Congressman from New York, 1944-74
Nellie Ross
Politician
29-Nov-1876 19-Dec-1977 First woman elected Governor in America
Steven B. Sample
Educator
29-Nov-1940   President, University of Southern California
Jean Schmidt
Politician
29-Nov-1951   Congresswoman, Ohio 2nd
Devon Scott
Actor
29-Nov-1958   Daughter of George C. Scott
Vin Scully
Sports Journalist
29-Nov-1927   Voice of the Dodgers
Garry Shandling
Comic
29-Nov-1949   Larry Sanders
Paul Simon
Politician
29-Nov-1928 9-Dec-2003 US Senator, one-time Presidential candidate
Tom Sizemore
Actor
29-Nov-1961   Heat, Robbery Homicide Division
John Stagliano
Pornstar
29-Nov-1950   Adventures of Buttman
Jackie Stallone
Relative
29-Nov-1921   Astrologer-Mother of Sylvester Stallone
Krystal Steal
Pornstar
29-Nov-1982   Krystal Method
Howard K. Stern
TV Personality
29-Nov-1968   Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer
Billy Strayhorn
Composer
29-Nov-1915 31-May-1967 Take the A Train
John Templeton
Philanthropist
29-Nov-1912 8-Jul-2008 Billionaire fund manager
Imogen Thomas
Model
29-Nov-1982   Big Brother
Charles Thomson
Politician
29-Nov-1729 16-Aug-1824 Designed Great Seal of the U.S.
Genevieve Tobin
Actor
29-Nov-1899 21-Jul-1995 One Hour with You
Merle Travis
Country Musician
29-Nov-1917 20-Oct-1983 Influential fingerpicking country guitarist
Margaret Tudor
Royalty
29-Nov-1489 18-Oct-1541 Queen of Scotland, 1503-13
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
Head of State
29-Nov-1856 1-Jan-1921 German Chancellor 1909-17
Morrison Waite
Judge
29-Nov-1816 23-Mar-1888 US Chief Justice, 1874-88
Dennis Weatherstone
Business
29-Nov-1930 13-Jun-2008 CEO of JP Morgan, 1990-94
Rosemary West
Criminal
29-Nov-1953   British serial killer, along with husband Fred
Fletcher H. Wiley
Attorney
29-Nov-1942   Of Counsel, Bingham McCutchen
Jemima Wilkinson
Religion
29-Nov-1752 1-Jul-1819 The Universal Friend
Elmo R. Zumwalt
Military
29-Nov-1920 2-Jan-2000 US Chief of Naval Operations, 1970-74




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