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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, November 30


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Births

* 1990 Magnus Carlsen Norwegian chess Grandmaster who is currently the number one ranked player in the world.
* 1978 Clay Aiken American singer, US Fund for UNICEF Ambassador, co-founder of the Bubel Aiken Foundation.
* 1971 Kristi Noem U S Representative for South Dakota At-Large.
* 1965 Ben Stiller American comedian, actor, writer, film director, and producer.
* 1965 Tod A American singer, songwriter, and graphic designer born in Greenville, South Carolina.
* 1955 Andy Gray Scottish football player and is now a football pundit for Sky Sports.
* 1954 Lawrence Summers American economist and the head of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama.
* 1952 Mandy Patinkin American actor and renowned tenor.
* 1947 David Mamet American playwright, screenwriter, film director, director, poet, essayist and novelist.
* 1944 George Graham Scottish former football player and manager.
* 1936 Abbie Hoffman Social and political activist in the United States, co-founder of the Youth International Party, and later, a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing cocaine.
* 1930 G. Gordon Liddy Chief operative for President Richard Nixon's White House Plumbers unit when they broke into the Watergate complex, which at the time was the headquarters of the Democratic National Convention, in 1972.
* 1924 Shirley Chisholm American politician, educator and author.
* 1907 Jacques Barzun French-born American scholar, historian, critic, teacher and editor.
* 1904 Clyfford Still American painter, and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism.
* 1897 Virginia Henderson American nurse, researcher, theorist and author.
* 1885 Albert Kesselring Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II He was one of the most respected and skillful generals of Nazi Germany.
* 1874 Winston Churchill British politician & statesman, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II He was Prime Minister of the UK from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
* 1835 Mark Twain Better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.
* 1835 Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens Better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.
* 1825 William-Adolphe Bouguereau French academic painter.
* 1817 Theodor Mommsen German classical scholar, jurist and historian, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century.
* 1809 Mark Lemon Editor of Punch, born in London, England.
* 1711 Ebenezer Kinnersley Scientist, inventor and lecturer, specializing in the investigation of electricity.
* 1667 Jonathan Swift Irish writer and satirist.
* 1554 Philip Sidney English courtier, soldier, poet and romancer.

Deaths

† 1997 Kathy Acker Born Karen Alexander, was an American experimental writer.
† 1994 Guy Debord French strategist and founding member of the groups Letterist International and Situationist International.
† 1990 Norman Cousins Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of California and a prominent world federalist leader.
† 1989 Ingeborg Refling Hagen Norwegian author and teacher.
† 1979 Joyce Grenfell English film and television actress and comedienne.
† 1977 Terence Rattigan English dramatist and screenwriter.
† 1967 Patrick Kavanagh Irish poet and novelist.
† 1967 Alan Tower Waterman American physicist.
† 1938 Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Romanian political leader of the far right, the founder and charismatic leader of the Iron Guard or The Legion of the Archangel Michael, a nationalist, Orthodox Christian, anti-Communist, and anti-Jewish organization which was active throughout most of the interwar period.
† 1934 Roy Turk U S songwriter.
† 1930 Mary Harris Jones Born in Cork, Ireland, was a prominent American socialist, labor and community organizer, and a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World.
† 1900 Oscar Wilde Irish essayist, novelist, playwright and poet.
† 1878 George Henry Lewes English philosopher, biographer, novelist, and literary and dramatic critic.
† 1654 John Selden English jurist, legal antiquary and oriental scholar.
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