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Today's Milestones (November 5)

Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today

55 Milestones Observed
Art Garfunkel — Birthday Tribute
🎂 Birthday
Art Garfunkel
Eight-Time Grammy-winning Singer, Poet & Half of Simon & Garfunkel • United States
Sam Rockwell — Birthday Tribute
🎂 Birthday
Sam Rockwell
Academy Award-winning Character Actor & Screen Icon • United States
Eugene V. Debs — Birthday Tribute
🎂 Birthday
Eugene V. Debs
Pioneering Trade Unionist, Socialist Leader & Five-Time U.S. Presidential Candidate • United States
Ida Tarbell — Birthday Tribute
🎂 Birthday
Ida Tarbell
Pioneering Investigative Journalist, Muckraker & Author of The History of the Standard Oil Company • United States
Christiaan Eijkman — Memorial Tribute
🥀 Memorial
Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch Physician, Pathologist & Nobel Laureate (Discoverer of Vitamins) • Netherlands

All Personalities (537 listed)

Showing 241–256 of 537
Hermann Rorschach — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Hermann Rorschach
Hermann Rorschach

Swiss Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst & Creator of the Rorschach Inkblot Test

Switzerland Science
Nov 8, 1884 — Apr 2, 1922
Hongwu Emperor — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Hongwu Emperor
朱元璋 (Zhu Yuanzhang) / 明太祖 (Ming Taizu)

Founding Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (1368–1398), Peasant Revolutionary & Reformer

China Politics
Oct 21, 1328 — Jun 24, 1398
Horatio Nelson — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Horatio Nelson
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte

British Naval Flag Officer, Victor of Trafalgar & Supreme Master of Naval Strategy

United Kingdom Politics
Sep 29, 1758 — Oct 21, 1805
Hu Zongxian — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Hu Zongxian
胡宗憲

Ming Dynasty Grand Commander, Coastal Strategist & Military Scholar

China Military
Nov 4, 1512 — Nov 25, 1565
Humaira Himu — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Humaira Himu
হুমায়রা হিমু

Actress & Model

Bangladesh Cinema & Television
Nov 2, 1985 — Nov 2, 2023
Humayun Ahmed — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Humayun Ahmed

Novelist, Dramatist, Screenwriter & Filmmaker

Bangladesh Literature
Nov 13, 1948 — Jul 19, 2012
Ida Tarbell — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Ida Tarbell
Ida Minerva Tarbell

Pioneering Investigative Journalist, Muckraker & Author of The History of the Standard Oil Company

United States Journalism
Nov 5, 1857 — Jan 6, 1944
Ike Turner — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Ike Turner
Izear Luster Turner Jr.

Rock and Roll Pioneer, Guitarist, Bandleader & Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee

United States Music
Nov 5, 1931 — Dec 12, 2007
Ila Mitra — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Ila Mitra
ইলা মিত্র (রাণী মা)

Legendary Communist Leader, Peasant Rights Pioneer & Heroine of the Historic Tebhaga Movement (\"Rani Ma\")

Bangladesh History
Oct 18, 1925 — Oct 13, 2002
Isaac de Benserade — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Isaac de Benserade
Isaac de Benserade

French Baroque Poet, Playwright & Court Librettist to the "Sun King" Louis XIV

France Literature
Nov 5, 1613 — Oct 19, 1691
Ismail al-Azhari — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Ismail al-Azhari
إسماعيل الأزهري

1st Prime Minister of Sudan (1954–1956), Father of Sudanese Independence & President of the High Council of State

Sudan Politics
Oct 20, 1900 — Aug 26, 1969
Ivan Bunin — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Ivan Bunin
Иван Алексеевич Бунин

First Russian Nobel Laureate in Literature (1933), Master of Realist Prose & Poetry

Russia Literature
Oct 22, 1870 — Nov 8, 1953
Ivan Turgenev — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Иван Сергеевич Тургенев)

Russian Master Novelist, Short Story Writer & Playwright ('Fathers and Sons')

Russia Literature
Nov 9, 1818 — Sep 3, 1883
J. B. S. Haldane — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
J. B. S. Haldane
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

Evolutionary Biologist, Geneticist, Polymath & Co-Founder of Modern Synthesis

United Kingdom / India Science
Nov 5, 1892 — Dec 1, 1964
J. R. Jayewardene — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
J. R. Jayewardene
ජුනියස් රිචඩ් ජයවර්ධන

2nd President of Sri Lanka & Architect of Free-Market Economic Reforms

Sri Lanka Politics
Sep 17, 1906 — Nov 1, 1996
Jack Kerouac — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac

American Novelist, Poet, Cultural Icon & Preeminent Voice of the "Beat Generation"

United States Literature
Mar 12, 1922 — Oct 21, 1969