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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, November 16


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Births

* 1977 Maggie Gyllenhaal American actress and the older sister of Jake Gyllenhaal.
* 1974 Paul Scholes English football player who has spent his entire career at Manchester United.
* 1970 Martha Plimpton Former model turned actress who was born to famous actor parents Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton.
* 1961 Frank Bruno British former boxer whose career highlight was winning the WBC Heavyweight championship in 1995.
* 1953 Griff Rhys Jones Welsh comedian, actor and writer.
* 1952 Shigeru Miyamoto Nintendo's most respected video game developer.
* 1950 Alexander Stepanov Computer scientist and the key person behind the C++ Standard Template Library.
* 1946 Terence McKenna American writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist, who advocated paths of shamanism, and the use of hallucinogenic substances as a means of increasing many forms of human awareness.
* 1938 Robert Nozick American libertarian philosopher and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University.
* 1934 Shirley Abbott Magazine editor and writer, most noted for her three volumes of memoirs.
* 1930 Chinua Achebe Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic.
* 1922 Jose Saramago Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist.
* 1904 Nnamdi Azikiwe President of Nigeria from 1963 to 1966.
* 1896 Oswald Mosley British politician principally known as the founder of the British Union of Fascists.
* 1890 George Seldes American investigative journalist and media critic.
* 1873 W. C. Handy African American blues composer, often known as "The Father of the Blues".
* 1827 Charles Eliot Norton Leading American author, social critic, and professor of art.
* 1811 John Bright British politician and orator.

Deaths

† 2006 Milton Friedman American economist noted for his support for free markets and a reduction in the size of government.
† 2002 Abba Eban Born Aubrey Solomon Eban, was an Israeli diplomat, politician and author.
† 1973 Alan Watts English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.
† 1971 Edie Sedgwick American actress, socialite, and heiress who starred in many of Andy Warhol's short films in the 1960s.
† 1961 Sam Rayburn United States politician from Texas.
† 1960 Clark Gable Academy Award-winning American film actor.
† 1894 James McCosh Prominent philosopher of the Scottish School of Common Sense.
† 1894 Robert Charles Winthrop American philanthropist, congressman from Massachusetts and one-time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
† 1885 Louis Riel Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the Mιtis people of the Canadian prairies.
† 1855 Stephen Grellet Prominent Quaker missionary.
† 1831 Carl von Clausewitz Prussian general and influential military theorist.
† 1603 Pierre Charron French philosopher, and a close friend of Michel de Montaigne.
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