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Today's Anniversary – Wednesday, November 19


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Births

* 1962 Jodie Foster Two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer.
* 1946 Mike Warnke Christian evangelist and comedian who became one of evangelical Christianity's best-known experts on the subject of Satanism until an investigation by Cornerstone magazine revealed his testimony of having been a reformed ex-Satanist was a hoax.
* 1941 Tommy Thompson 19th U S Secretary of Health and Human Services and the 42nd Governor of Wisconsin.
* 1936 Dick Cavett Television talk show host known for his conversational style of in-depth discussion on often serious issues.
* 1935 Jack Welch Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001.
* 1926 Jeane Kirkpatrick American conservative political scientist and member of the neoconservative movement.
* 1925 Zygmunt Bauman Polish sociologist.
* 1919 Paul Taunton Matthews British theoretical particle physicist.
* 1917 Indira Gandhi Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, became the first woman Prime Minister of India in 1966.
* 1909 Peter F. Drucker Austrian-born American writer, management consultant and university professor.
* 1899 Allen Tate American poet, essayist, and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1943–1944.
* 1888 Jose Raul Capablanca Cuban world-class chess master in the early to mid-twentieth century.
* 1865 Madison Grant American lawyer, historian and anthropologist.
* 1862 Billy Sunday American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.
* 1831 James A. Garfield 20th President of the United States (1881), and the second U S President to be assassinated.
* 1752 George Rogers Clark American pioneer and military officer credited with winning the Northwest Territory during the American Revolution.
* 1600 Charles I of England King of England, Scotland and Ireland from March 27, 1625 until his execution in 1649.

Deaths

† 1994 Erwin Griswold U S Solicitor General under President Lyndon B Johnson, Dean of Harvard Law School, and President of the American Bar Foundation.
† 1984 George Aiken American politician from Vermont.
† 1982 Erving Goffman Canadian born American sociologist and writer.
† 1942 Bruno Schulz Polish writer and artist, considered by some to be the greatest prose stylist of the modern Polish language.
† 1918 Joseph F. Smith Usually known as Joseph F Smith to distinguish him from his son of the same name, was the sixth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
† 1915 Joe Hill Born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, and also known as Joseph Hillström, was a radical songwriter, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies.
† 1909 John B. Tabb American poet, Catholic priest, and professor of English, chiefly remembered today as educator of Jack London's friend, Californian poet George Sterling.
† 1887 Emma Lazarus American poet and playwright, born in New York City.
† 1867 Fitz-Greene Halleck American poet.
† 1828 Franz Schubert Austrian composer.
† 1798 Theobald Wolfe Tone Commonly known as Wolfe Tone, was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence movement and is regarded as the father of Irish republicans.
† 1692 Thomas Shadwell English playwright and miscellaneous writer who was appointed poet laureate in 1689.
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