Famous Birthdays In November - 05

1494 Hans Sachs, composer

1534 Joachim Camerarius, German botanist/physician (horticulture catalog)

1549 Philippe du Plessis, France, author

1549 Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)

1563 Anna van Nassau, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna of Saksen

1613 Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)

1615 Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648)

1654 Christian Liebe, composer

1666 Attilio Ariosti, composer

1667 Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)

1701 Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)

1715 John Brown, English writer (d. 1766)

1722 William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English duelist (d. 1798)

1742 Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)

1764 Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch scientist (Newton)

1770 Etienne P de Senancour, French author (Obermann)

1779 Washington Allston, US painter/author

1798 Carolina F L duchess of Berry, daughter of crown prince of Naples

1841 Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer

1846 Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)

1849 Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties

1850 Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)

1851 Charles Dupuy, French prime minister (d. 1923)

1854 Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)

1854 Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920)

1855 Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate

1855 Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (stratosphere)

1857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)

1866 Daniel Protheroe, composer

1873 Teddy Flack, Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896. (d. 1935)

1876 Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)

1881 George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (d. 1961)

1884 James Elroy Flecker, English poet/dramatist (Hassan)

1885 Will Durant, US, author/historian (Story of Civilization)

1887 Oscar Bossaert, Belgium, chocolate manufacturer/min of Middenstand

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