Famous Birthdays In November - 24
1394 Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465)
1420 John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (d. 1473)
1583 Juan MartÃnez de JÃĦuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
1615 Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)
1630 Etienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
1632 Baruch "Benedict" de Spinoza, Amsterdam, rationalist philosopher
1642 Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, earl of Tourville/knight/admiral/marshal
1655 Charles XI, King of Sweden (1660-97)
1690 Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer
1712 Willem Bachiene, theologist/geographer/astronomer (Ecclesiastical)
1713 Junipero Serra, priest had a mission in California
1713 Laurence Sterne, Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy)
1724 Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of Spain (d. 1760)
1729 Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
1740 John Bacon, English sculptor
1745 Maria Louisa of Spain, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1792)
1747 Felice Alessandri, composer
1766 J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist
1768 Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer
1774 Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)
1784 Zachary Taylor, (Whig) 12th Pres (Mar 5, 1849-July 9, 1850)
1795 Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer
1801 Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)
1806 Omar Pasha, [Michael Lats], Croatian governor/viceroy of Bosnia/Iraq
1806 William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby (d. 1872)
1811 Ditler G Monrad, Danish theologist/bishop/premier (1863- )
1811 Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)
1815 James Hewward Trapier, N Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1815 Grace Darling, English heroine (d. 1842)
1847 Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula)
1848 Lilli Lehmann, opera singer
1849 Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of childrens book (My Secret Garden)
1853 Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (d. 1921)
1859 Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
1864 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, France, painter (At the Moulin Rouge)
