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Today's Milestones (November 2)

Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today

58 Milestones Observed
Burt Lancaster — Birthday Tribute
🎂 Birthday
Burt Lancaster
Academy Award-Winning American Actor, Independent Film Producer & Cultural Pioneer • United States
David Schwimmer — Birthday Tribute
🎂 Birthday
David Schwimmer
Emmy-Nominated Actor, Director & Producer, Iconic for Friends & Band of Brothers • United States
James K. Polk — Birthday Tribute
🎂 Birthday
James K. Polk
11th President of the United States, Statesman & Manifest Destiny Architect • United States
Warren G. Harding — Birthday Tribute
🎂 Birthday
Warren G. Harding
29th President of the United States, Newspaper Publisher & Senator • United States
Eva Cassidy — Memorial Tribute
🥀 Memorial
Eva Cassidy
Beloved American Vocalist, Acoustic Guitarist & Song Interpreter • United States
James Thurber — Memorial Tribute
🥀 Memorial
James Thurber
Author, Cartoonist & Humorist • United States
Hal Roach — Memorial Tribute
🥀 Memorial
Hal Roach
Film & Television Producer • United States
George Bernard Shaw — Memorial Tribute
🥀 Memorial
George Bernard Shaw
Nobel Laureate in Literature, Academy Award-Winning Playwright, Critic & Polemicist • Ireland

All Personalities (482 listed)

Showing 113–128 of 482
David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes

Scottish Judge, Historian, Advocate & Luminary of the Scottish Enlightenment

United Kingdom History & Leadership
Oct 28, 1726 — Nov 29, 1792
Dhirendranath Datta — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Dhirendranath Datta
ধীরেন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত

Statesman, Lawyer, Pioneer of the 1948 Bengali Language Movement & Martyr of 1971

Bangladesh Politics
Nov 2, 1886 — Apr 8, 1971
Dizzy Gillespie — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie

American Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader & Founding Pioneer of Bebop and Afro-Cuban Jazz

United States Music
Oct 21, 1917 — Jan 6, 1993
Domenico Scarlatti — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Domenico Scarlatti
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti

Italian Baroque Composer, Keyboard Virtuoso & Master of 555 Harpsichord Sonatas

Italy Music
Oct 26, 1685 — Jul 23, 1757
Domitian — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Domitian
Titus Flavius Caesar Domitianus Augustus

Roman Emperor (81–96 AD), Final Ruler of the Flavian Dynasty & Empire-Wide Architectural Builder

Italy History
Oct 24, 0051 — Sep 18, 0096
Douglass North — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Douglass North
Douglass Cecil North

Nobel Memorial Prize-winning Economist (1993) & Pioneer of New Institutional Economics

United States Science
Nov 5, 1920 — Nov 23, 2015
Dragutin Tadijanović — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Dragutin Tadijanović
Dragutin Tadijanović

Doyen of Croatian Modernist Poetry, Literary Translator & Academician

Croatia Literature
Nov 4, 1905 — Jun 27, 2007
Dražen Petrović — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Dražen Petrović
Dražen Petrović

Hall of Fame Basketball Legend, EuroLeague Champion & NBA All-NBA Guard ("The Mozart of Basketball")

Croatia Sports
Oct 22, 1964 — Jun 7, 1993
Dwight D. Eisenhower — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Dwight D. Eisenhower

34th President of the United States & Five-Star General

United States Leadership
1890 — 1969
Dylan Thomas — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas

World-Renowned Welsh Poet, Playwright, BBC Broadcaster & Author of "Do not go gentle into that good night"

United Kingdom Literature
Oct 27, 1914 — Nov 9, 1953
Eddie Daniels — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Eddie Daniels
Edward Joseph Daniels

Heroic South African Anti-Apartheid Freedom Fighter, Robben Island Political Prisoner & Nelson Mandela’s Trusted Comrade

South Africa Activism
Oct 25, 1928 — Nov 30, 2017
Edith Head — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Edith Head
Edith Claire Posener

Legendary Costume Designer & 8-Time Academy Award Winner

United States Cinema & Arts
Oct 28, 1897 — Oct 24, 1981
Edmund Kean — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Edmund Kean
Edmund Kean

Celebrated British Shakespearean Tragedian & Drury Lane Theatre Legend

United Kingdom Entertainment
Nov 4, 1787 — May 15, 1833
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond
Edmwnd Tudur

Earl of Richmond, Father of King Henry VII and Progenitor of the Royal House of Tudor

Wales / England Monarchy & British History
Jun 11, 1430 — Nov 3, 1456
Edna St. Vincent Millay — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay

First Woman to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Lyrical Poet & Playwright

United States Literature
Feb 22, 1892 — Oct 19, 1950
Edogawa Ranpo — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Edogawa Ranpo
江戸川 乱歩 (Hirai Tarō)

Father of Japanese Detective Fiction, Master of Psychological Mystery & Founder of MWJ

Japan Literature
Oct 21, 1894 — Jul 28, 1965