Famous Birthdays In November - 20
1327 Bassui Tokusho, Zen founder (Kogakuji monastery in Nakamura Japan)
1602 Otto von Guericke, inventor (air pump)
1606 Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian
1620 Peregrine White, son of Wm & Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower
1621 Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682)
1625 Artus II Quellinus "the Young", Flemish sculptor, baptised
1625 Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
1652 Romanus Weichlein, composer
1660 Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)
1726 Oliver Wolcott, (Ct-Gov)/signed Decl of Independence [NS=Dec 1]
1750 Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
1752 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Christabel)
1757 Giovanni Battista Gaiani, composer
1759 Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer
1761 Pius VIII, [Francesco S Castiglioni], Italy, 253rd Pope (1829-30)
1762 Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (d. 1833)
1765 Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer
1765 Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain (d. 1819)
1766 John Wall Calcott, composer
1781 Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian
1802 James Lawrence Lardner, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1881
1839 Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)
1841 Wilfrid Laurier, (L) 7th Canadian PM (1896-1911)
1841 Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)
1850 Arthor Goring Thomas, composer
1851 Queen Margherita of Italy (d. 1926)
1858 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
1862 Willem H Vliegen, Dutch typographer/co-founder/chairman (SDAP)
1863 Maria H "Mina" Beersmans, Flemish actress (Black Griet)
1864 Gerard W Kernkamp, Dutch historian/editor (Groene Amsterdammer)
1866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/1st commissioner of baseball
1867 Vicente Ripolles, composer
1869 Clark Griffith, Mo, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees)
1871 William H Kilpatrick, US mathematician/philosopher/educator
1873 Daniel Gregory Mason, Brookline Mass, composer (Chanticker)
