November 24

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2006 Calendar

[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)