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Birthdays of Personalities on November 29

1229 : Louis II, the Stern, ruler (upper Baveria)
1330 : Louis van Male, Count of Flanders/Nevers/R‚thel
1781 : Andr‚s Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas)
1799 : Amos Bronson Alcott, US educator/poet (Concord Days)
1802 : Wilhelm Hauff, writer
1803 : Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (Doppler effect)
1811 : Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer
1815 : Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1818 : George Brown, Canada, publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (L) (1858)
1832 : Louisa May Alcott, Germantown Pa, author (Little Women)
1833 : Louis Douglass Watkins, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1834 : Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 : Aeneas Mackay, Baron/Dutch minister of interior/Colonies
1839 : Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright (Der Schandfleck)
1849 : Ambrose Fleming, inventor (diode)
1856 : Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia
1863 : S˜fert H Koorders, Dutch botanist (Java)
1870 : Andr‚ Lichtenberger, French sociologist/writer (Le petit roi)
1874 : Ant¢nio Egas Moniz, Portugal, lobotomist (Nobel 1949)
1891 : Julius Raab, Austrian union chancellor (1953-61)
1895 : Busby Berkeley, Los Angeles CA, choreographer
1895 : William V S Tubman, (Whig), 17th Liberian president (1943-70)
1896 : Philip L Carret, Lynn Mass, CEO (Pioneer Fund)
1897 : Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Little Emperor)
1898 : C[live] S[taples] Lewis, UK, sci-fi author (Silver Chair)
xxxx : Kory Clarke, rocker (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
xxxx : Michael Matijevic, Ct, rock vocalist (Steelheart-She's Gone)
xxxx : Shane, rocker (Law & Order-Whiskey Song)
1902 : Carlo Levi, Italy, painter/novelist (Of Fear & Freedom)
1902 : Georges Poulet, French/Belgian critic (Temps Humain)
1905 : Mowbray Henry Gordon Howard, 6th Earl of Effingham
1907 : Merle Travis, Muhlenberg County KY, country singer (16 Tons)
1908 : Adam Clayton Powell Jr, (Rep-D-NY)/minister
1909 : Rupert Davies, methodist Scholar
1910 : Louis Levy Jr, music publisher
1911 : Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy
1914 : Edith Tilton Penrose, economist
1914 : Taisen Deshimaru, Saga City Japan, found several Zen centers in France
1915 : Earl W Sutherland, US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971)
1918 : Herb Shriner, Toledo Ohio, host/humorist (Herb Shriner Show)
1918 : Madeleine L'Engle, [Franklin], US, sci-fi author (Ilsa, Love Letters)
1919 : Pearl Primus, dancer
1922 : Benjamin Smit, Cura‡aos architect (St Elizabeth Hospital)
1923 : Frank Reynolds, E Chicago Ind, news anchor (ABC Evening News)
1928 : Paul Simon, (Sen-D-IL, 1985-??)
1931 : Frank T Mdlalose, KwaZulu minister of Internal minister
1932 : John Gary, Watertown, NY, singer
1933 : David Reuben, author (Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex)
1933 : John Mayall, MacClesfield England, pop musician (Don't Washed Me Time)
1936 : Gerti Tetzner, writer
1937 : Johan J Holst, Norwegian minister of Defense/Foreign affairs
1939 : Meco, rocker
1940 : Chuck Mangione, Rochester NY, jazz hornist (Chasing the Clouds Away)
1941 : Dennis Doherty, Halifax Canada, rocker (Mamas & The Papas)
1941 : Ronald D Coleman, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1944 : Felix Cavaliere, Pelham NY, rock keyboardist (Rascals-Lonely too Long)
1949 : Garry Shandling, AZ, comedian (Garry Shandling, Larry Sanders Show)
1949 : Kenneth D Cameron, Cleve Oh, Lt Col USMC/astronaut (STS 37, 56, 74)
1949 : Petra Kelly, German peace activist/MP (Green)
1950 : Kevin O'Donnell Jr, US, sci-fi author (Caverns, Reefs, Lava)
1951 : Barry Doudreau, Boston Mass, rock guitarist (Boston)
1951 : Jonathan Zeitlyn, artist
1955 : Howie Mandel, Toronto Canada, comedian (Dr Wayne Fiscus-St Elsewhere)
1965 : Ellen Cleghorne, comedienne (Saturday Night Live)
1968 : Jonathan Raleigh Knight, Mass, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
1969 : John Knight, rocker
1970 : David Beinhoff, mayor

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