Famous Birthdays In November - 25
1454 Catherine Cornaro, queen of Cyprus (d. 1510)
1501 Yi Hwang, Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
1562 Lope Felix de Vega, Madrid Spain, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia)
1577 Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (d. 1629)
1638 Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles II of England (d. 1705)
1697 Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (wrote in blood)
1703 Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
1712 Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of 'Signed French' (d. 1789)
1714 Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
1721 Willem Crul, admiral (West-Indies)
1734 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wenkel, composer
1737 Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer
1741 Johann Christian Frischmuth, composer
1752 Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer
1753 Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, composer
1778 Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (d. 1856)
1787 Franz Xavier Gruber, Austria, organist/composer (Silent Night)
1814 Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
1839 Stanislaw Duniecki, composer
1840 Hugo Verriest, Flemish author/poet (Flemish Movement)
1841 Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)
1843 Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
1844 Karl F Benz, German designer/auto manufacturer (4-taktmotor)
1845 José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese novelist (d. 1900)
1846 Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers & drinkers
1846 Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911)
1852 Johan N Salvator, [Johann Orth], archduke of Austria
1856 Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev, Russia, composer (Oresteia)
1858 Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922)
1862 Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer
1869 Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer (d. 1934)
1870 Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (d. 1937)
1871 Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, actor/director (Ghost Hotel)
1874 Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
1876 Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1936)
