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Today's Milestones (November 6)

Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today

24 Milestones Observed
Emma Stone — Birthday Tribute
🎂 Birthday
Emma Stone
Two-Time Academy Award-Winning American Actress & Producer • United States
Ethan Hawke — Birthday Tribute
🎂 Birthday
Ethan Hawke
Four-Time Academy Award-Nominated American Actor, Screenwriter & Novelist • United States
John Philip Sousa — Birthday Tribute
🎂 Birthday
John Philip Sousa
American Composer, Conductor & "The March King" • United States
Charles Dow — Birthday Tribute
🎂 Birthday
Charles Dow
American Financial Journalist, Co-Founder of Dow Jones & Company & Creator of the Dow Jones Industrial Average • United States
Russian Romantic Composer & Creator of Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and 1812 Overture • Russia
King of Sweden, "Lion of the North" & Pioneer of Modern Combined-Arms Warfare • Sweden
Heinrich Schütz — Memorial Tribute
🥀 Memorial
Heinrich Schütz
German Early Baroque Composer & Organist • Germany

All Personalities (537 listed)

Showing 273–288 of 537
Joan Fontaine — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Joan Fontaine
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland

Academy Award-Winning British-American Screen Legend (Hitchcock’s "Suspicion" & "Rebecca")

United Kingdom / United States Cinema
Oct 22, 1917 — Dec 15, 2013
Joan Sutherland — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Joan Sutherland
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland

Australian Dramatic Coloratura Soprano ('La Stupenda')

Australia Music
Nov 7, 1926 — Oct 10, 2010
Joel McCrea — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea

Classic Hollywood Screen Legend (Sullivan's Travels, Foreign Correspondent)

United States Arts
Nov 5, 1905 — Oct 20, 1990
Johann Strauss II — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Johann Strauss II
Johann Baptist Strauss

Legendary Austrian Classical Composer, "The Waltz King", Operetta Master & Vienna Philharmonic Icon

Austria Music
Oct 25, 1825 — Jun 3, 1899
John Boyd Dunlop — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
John Boyd Dunlop
John Boyd Dunlop

Inventor of the Modern Pneumatic Rubber Tyre & Founder of Dunlop Rubber Company

United Kingdom Innovation
Feb 5, 1840 — Oct 23, 1921
John Dewey — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
John Dewey
John Dewey

Pioneering American Philosopher of Pragmatism, Educational Reformer & Author of "Democracy and Education"

United States Philosophy
Oct 20, 1859 — Jun 1, 1952
John J. Loud — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
John J. Loud
John Jacob Loud

American Inventor, Harvard-Trained Lawyer & Patentee of the First Ballpoint Pen (1888)

United States Science
Nov 2, 1844 — Aug 10, 1916
John le Carré — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
John le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell

British Espionage Novelist, Creator of George Smiley & Former MI5/MI6 Intelligence Officer

United Kingdom Literature
Oct 19, 1931 — Dec 12, 2020
John Milton — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
John Milton
John Milton

English Epic Poet, Pamphleteer & Civil Servant (Author of 'Paradise Lost')

United Kingdom Literature
Dec 9, 1608 — Nov 8, 1674
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
John Montagu

First Lord of the Admiralty, Patron of Captain James Cook & Namesake of the Sandwich

United Kingdom Politics & Maritime History
Nov 3, 1718 — Apr 30, 1792
John Philip Sousa — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa

American Composer, Conductor & "The March King"

United States Music
Nov 6, 1854 — Mar 6, 1932
John Tonkin — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
John Tonkin
John Trezise Tonkin AC

20th Premier of Western Australia (1971–1974), 44-Year Parliamentarian & Champion of Universal Water Desalination

Australia Politics
Feb 2, 1902 — Oct 20, 1995
John Tuzo Wilson — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
John Tuzo Wilson
John Tuzo Wilson

World-Renowned Canadian Geophysicist, Pioneer of Plate Tectonics & Transform Faults

Canada Science
Oct 24, 1908 — Apr 15, 1993
Johnny Carson — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Johnny Carson
John William Carson

"The King of Late Night", 30-Year Host of The Tonight Show & Television Icon

USA Media
Oct 23, 1925 — Jan 23, 2005
Jonas Salk — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Jonas Salk
Jonas Edward Salk

Virologist & Medical Researcher

United States Science & Medicine
Oct 28, 1914 — Jun 23, 1995
Jonathan Swift — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (Dean of St. Patrick's)

Anglo-Irish Literary Satirist, Essayist, Poet & Author of Gulliver's Travels

Ireland Literature
Nov 30, 1667 — Oct 19, 1745