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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 (1060 listed)

Showing 257–272 of 1060
Diego Maradona — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona

Football Legend & World Cup Champion

Argentina Sports & Athletics
Oct 30, 1960 — Living
Dileep — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Dileep
ദിലീപ്

Leading Malayalam Film Actor, Producer, Mimicry Artist & Box Office Superstar

India Cinema
Oct 27, 1968 — Living
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
Dmitri Sychev — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Dmitri Sychev
Дмитрий Евгеньевич Сычёв

Russian International Striker, Russian Footballer of the Year & UEFA Euro 2008 Bronze Medalist

Russia Sports
Oct 26, 1983 — Living
Dolph Lundgren — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Dolph Lundgren
Hans Lundgren

Swedish Action Cinema Superstar (Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, The Expendables) & Chemical Engineer

Sweden Cinema & Martial Arts
Nov 3, 1957 — Living
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
Dominick Dunne — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Dominick Dunne

Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author

United States Journalism & Literature
Oct 29, 1925 — Living
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
Donny Robinson — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Donny Robinson
Donald Robinson

Olympic BMX Racing Bronze Medalist (Beijing 2008) & UCI World Champion

United States Sports
Nov 5, 1983 — Living
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
Dr. Muhammad Yunus — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Dr. Muhammad Yunus

Economist, Social Entrepreneur & Nobel Peace Laureate

Bangladesh Peace
Jun 28, 1940 — Living
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
Drake — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Drake
Aubrey Drake Graham

Global Hip-Hop Icon, 5-Time Grammy Award Winner & Best-Selling Music Artist of the Streaming Era

Canada Music
Oct 24, 1986 — Living
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
Duns Scotus — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Duns Scotus
Blessed John Duns Scotus OFM (Doctor Subtilis)

Scottish Franciscan Friar, High Scholastic Philosopher & Theologian

United Kingdom Philosophy
Mar 1, 1266 — Nov 8, 1308
Dwight D. Eisenhower — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

United States Leadership
1890 — 1969