Birthdays of important personalities on November 1

Joe Arroyo, spanish entertainer
1050 : Henry IV, German emperor (1056/84-1105) [or Nov 11]
1500 : Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author (Perseus)
1607 : Georg Philipp Harsdrfer, Nornberg Germany, poet (Poetischer Trichter)
1757 : Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor
1762 : Spencer Perceval, (Tory), British PM (1809-12)
1782 : Viscount Goderich, (Tory), British PM (1827-28)
1798 : Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor
1815 : Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer (use of ether)
1815 : Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1825 : Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1890
1835 : Godfrey Weitzel, (Union volunteers Major general, died in 1884)
1853 : Jos‚ Santos Zelaya, (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910)
1855 : Guido Adler, Austria, musicologist (Still in the Music)
1859 : Charles Brantley Aycock, (Gov-NC)
1871 : Stephen Crane, US, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage)
1878 : Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentina, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936)
1879 : Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41)
1880 : Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)
1880 : Karel Paul van der Mandele, financier/director (Rotterdamsche Bank)
1880 : Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities)
1886 : Hermann Broch, Austria, novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment)
1889 : Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate (Nobel 1959)
1896 : Edmund Blunden, English poet/critic (Undertones of War)
1897 : Naomi Mitchison, author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill)
1902 : Eugen Jochum, Babenhausen Bavaria, German conductor (Hamburg Orch)
1902 : Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist (The Defeat)
1903 : Don Robey, US gospel singer
1903 : Gerard "G‚" Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/co-founder (NVSH)
1903 : Jean Tardieu, author
1907 : Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist
1914 : William "Sabby" Lewis, jazz pianist/arranger
1915 : Carlos A Nicolaas, Bonaire, teacher/poet
1917 : Clarence E Miller, (Rep-R-OH, 1967- )
1917 : Margaret Taylor Burroughs, US author/house painter (Black Queen)
1917 : Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, US, sci-fi author (Anything Box)
1919 : John Secondari, Rome Italy, newscaster (Open Hearing)
1920 : James J Kilpatrick, Okla City Okla, columnist (60 Minutes)
1921 : Ilse Aichinger, Austria, author
1923 : Edward A de Jongh, Antillian author (The Arch)
1923 : Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canada, sci-fi author (Genetic General)
1924 : Robert N Rapoport, social anthropologist
1924 : Victoria de los Angeles, Spain, soprano (Mimi-La Boh‚me)
1926 : Gnter de Bruyn, writer
1929 : Nicholas Mavroules, (Rep-D-MA, 1979- )
1929 : Rudy [Herman R] Kousbroek, literary (Leopold the Buch)
1934 : Aat Veldhoen, Dutch artist
1934 : Hugh Bidwell, mayor (London)
1934 : Umberto Agnelli, VP (Fiat)
1937 : Bill Anderson, country singer (Still, From This Pen)
1938 : Patrick Buchanan, commentator/politician (Crossfire)
1939 : Barbara Bosson, Belle Vernon Pa, actr (Fay-Hill St Blues, Hooperman)
1941 : Johnny Kendall, [Johan Donkerkaat], Dutch blues singer
1942 : John M Spratt Jr, (Rep-D-SC, 1983- )
1942 : Larry Flynt, magazine publisher (Hustler)
1942 : Shere Hite, author/sex therapist
1944 : Keith Emerson, England (Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Brain Salad Surgery)
1945 : Rick Grech, Bordeaux France, rock bassist (Blind Faith, Traffic)
1950 : Dan Peck, Panama City Fla, rock vocalist/guitarist (America)
1950 : Tony Hymphris, political activist
1951 : Ronald Bell, Youngstown Oh, rock sax (Kool & The Gang)
1953 : N Jan Davis, Cocoa Beach Florida, PhD/astronaut (STS 47, 60, 85)
1956 : Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief (Sunday Telegraph)
1956 : Lyle Lovett, Klein Tx, country singer (God Will, Joshua Judges Ruth)
1959 : Eddie MacDonald, rocker (The Alarm-Knocking on Heaven's Door)
1960 : Fernando Valenzuela, Navajua Mexico, pitcher (LA Dodgers, SD Padres)
1961 : Magne Furuholmen, Oslo Norway, keyboardist/vocalist (Aha-Take on Me)
1962 : Anthony Kiedis, rock vocalist (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 : Maga Furuholmen, rocker
1963 : Antonella Ella, Italian entertainer
1963 : Rick Allen, rock drummer (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
1964 : Joe LeSt‚, San Diego Cal, rock vocalist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1971 : Rob Waldrop, CFL defensive tackle (Toronto Argonauts)

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