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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 321–336 of 537
Lionel Murphy — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Lionel Murphy
Lionel Keith Murphy QC

22nd Attorney-General of Australia, High Court Justice, Creator of the Family Court & Legal Aid Pioneer

Australia Politics
Aug 30, 1922 — Oct 21, 1986
Lise Meitner — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Lise Meitner
Elise Meitner

Austrian-Swedish Nuclear Physicist & Co-Discoverer of Nuclear Fission

Austria Science
Nov 7, 1878 — Oct 27, 1968
Lord Palmerston — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Lord Palmerston
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Two-Time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1855–1858, 1859–1865) & Dominant Architect of Victorian Foreign Policy

United Kingdom Politics
Oct 20, 1784 — Oct 18, 1865
Louis Althusser — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser

Influential French-Algerian Marxist Philosopher, Structuralist Theorist & Academic

Algeria / France Philosophy
Oct 16, 1918 — Oct 22, 1990
Lucan — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Lucan
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

Eminent Roman Epic Poet of Pharsalia (De Bello Civili) & Imperial Intellectual

Roman Empire / Spain Classical Literature & Poetry
Nov 3, 0039 — Apr 30, 0065
Luchino Visconti — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone

Count of Lonate Pozzolo, Master Film, Opera & Theater Director, Neorealism Pioneer

Italy Entertainment
Nov 2, 1906 — Mar 17, 1976
Luciano Berio — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio

Visionary Italian Avant-Garde Composer, Pioneer of Electroacoustic Music & Musical Modernist

Italy Music
Oct 24, 1925 — May 27, 2003
Lucy Stone — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Lucy Stone

Pioneering American Abolitionist, Suffragist, Orator & Co-Founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association

United States Leadership
Aug 13, 1818 — Oct 18, 1893
Mahalia Jackson — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson

"The Queen of Gospel", International Musical Icon, Civil Rights Pioneer & Grammy Lifetime Achievement Laureate

United States Music
Oct 26, 1911 — Jan 27, 1972
Mahatma Gandhi — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Mahatma Gandhi

Leader of Indian Independence & Apostle of Nonviolence

India Peace
Oct 2, 1869 — Jan 30, 1948
Mahmud of Ghazni — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Mahmud of Ghazni
محمود غزنوی

First Sultan of History, Ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire & Medieval Military Strategist

Afghanistan History
Nov 2, 0971 — Apr 30, 1030
Mahn Ba Khaing — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Mahn Ba Khaing
မန်းဘခိုင်

Burmese Karen Political Leader, Independence Hero, Pre-Independence Minister of Industry and Labor & National Martyr

Myanmar Politics
Oct 26, 1903 — Jul 19, 1947
Marco Simoncelli — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Marco Simoncelli
Marco Simoncelli

2008 250cc World Motorcycle Champion, MotoGP Icon & MotoGP Legend Hall of Famer ("Super Sic")

Italy Sports
Jan 20, 1987 — Oct 23, 2011
Marcus Junius Brutus — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Marcus Junius Brutus
Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio

Roman Politician, Stoic Philosopher, Defender of the Republic & Leading Assassin of Julius Caesar

Ancient Rome / Italy History
Jan 1, 0085 — Oct 23, 0042
Margaret Mitchell — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell

American Author & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist (Gone with the Wind)

United States Literature
Nov 8, 1900 — Aug 16, 1949
Margaret Thatcher — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Margaret Thatcher

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & Stateswoman

United Kingdom Politics
Oct 13, 1925 — Apr 8, 2013