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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, November 23


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Births

* 1992 Miley Cyrus American actress and singer-songwriter.
* 1971 Laurent Touil-Tartour Award-winning French film director, screenwriter, producer.
* 1955 Steven Brust American fantasy and science fiction author.
* 1941 Derek Mahon Irish poet.
* 1933 Ali Shariati Iranian revolutionary and sociologist, who focused on the sociology of religion.
* 1933 Frank J. Low Solid state physicist who became a leader in the new field of infrared astronomy, after inventing the gallium doped germanium bolometer in 1961.
* 1926 Sathya Sai Baba Born Sathya Narayana Raju, was a popular Indian guru.
* 1926 Christopher Logue English writer, best known as a poet, though he was also a journalist, translator, lyricist, screenwriter, playwright and actor.
* 1898 Rodion Malinovsky Soviet military commander in World War II and Defense Minister of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and 1960s.
* 1890 El Lissitsky More famous as El Lissitzky [??? ????????], was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer, and architect.
* 1888 Harpo Marx One of the Marx Brothers.
* 1859 Billy the Kid Better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and murderer who was a participant in the Lincoln County War.
* 1834 James (B.V.) Thomson Scottish poet and essayist, best known for his The City of Dreadful Night.
* 1804 Franklin Pierce 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857.
* 1749 Rutledge,Edward American statesman, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and governor of South Carolina.
* 1221 Alfonso X of Castile Spanish monarch who ruled as the King of Galicia, Castile and Leσn from 1252 until his death.

Deaths

† 1991 Klaus Kinski German actor, best remembered for his emotional outbursts and work with director Werner Herzog.
† 1990 Roald Dahl British novelist and short story author of Norwegian descent, famous as a writer for both children and adults.
† 1976 Andre Malraux French novelist, adventurer, art historian and statesman.
† 1872 John Bowring English political economist, traveler, miscellaneous writer, polyglot, and the 4th Governor of Hong Kong.
† 1854 Ichabod Spencer Popular 19th century American Presbyterian preacher and author.
† 1814 Elbridge Gerry American statesman and diplomat, and Vice President of the United States of America, serving under James Madison.
† 1783 Ann Eliza Bleecker American poet and correspondent who experienced the American Revolution first-hand and recorded it.
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