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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 (1084 listed)

Showing 801–816 of 1084
Peter Firth — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Peter Firth
Peter Macintosh Firth

Celebrated English Actor, Golden Globe Winner, BAFTA Laureate & Academy Award Nominee

United Kingdom Cinema
Oct 27, 1953 — Living
Peter Green — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Peter Green

Guitarist, Singer-Songwriter & Fleetwood Mac Founder

United Kingdom Music & Performing Arts
Oct 29, 1946 — Living
Peter Hammill — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Peter Hammill
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill

Progressive Rock Pioneer, Singer-Songwriter & Founder of Van der Graaf Generator

United Kingdom Music
Nov 5, 1948 — Living
Peter Jackson — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson

Three-Time Academy Award-Winning Director, Producer & Screenwriter

New Zealand Cinema & Filmmaking
Oct 31, 1961 — Living
Peter Tosh — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Peter Tosh
Winston Hubert McIntosh

Reggae Pioneer, Co-Founder of The Wailers, Grammy Award Winner & Rastafari Human Rights Icon

Jamaica Music
Oct 19, 1944 — Sep 11, 1987
PewDiePie — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
PewDiePie
Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg

World-Famous Swedish YouTube Creator, Online Gaming Pioneer & Digital Media Cultural Icon

Sweden Digital-media
Oct 24, 1989 — Living
Philip Noel-Baker — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Philip Noel-Baker
Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

Statesman, Olympic Silver Medalist & Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1959)

United Kingdom Politics
Nov 1, 1889 — Oct 8, 1982
Philippe de Mornay — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Philippe de Mornay
Philippe de Mornay, Seigneur du Plessis-Marly

Huguenot Statesman, Theologian, Diplomat & "The Huguenot Pope"

France Politics
Nov 5, 1549 — Nov 11, 1623
Phillip Cocu — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Phillip Cocu

Football Midfielder & Manager

Netherlands Sports & Athletics
Oct 29, 1970 — Living
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Under-Secretary-General of the UN, Executive Director of UN Women & Deputy President of South Africa

South Africa Human Rights & Global Governance
Nov 3, 1955 — Living
Pier Paolo Pasolini — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Visionary Film Director, Poet, Novelist, Essayist & Cultural Intellectual

Italy Arts
Mar 5, 1922 — Nov 2, 1975
Pierre Larousse — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Pierre Larousse
Pierre Athanase Larousse

Visionary French Lexicographer, Encyclopedist & Founder of Éditions Larousse

France Literature
Oct 23, 1817 — Jan 3, 1875
Pierre Trudeau — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau

15th Prime Minister of Canada, Architect of Canadian Official Bilingualism & Father of the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Canada Leadership
Oct 18, 1919 — Sep 28, 2000
Pierre-Simon Girard — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Pierre-Simon Girard
Pierre-Simon Girard

French Mathematician, Hydraulic Engineer & Chief Director of Canal de l'Ourcq

France Science
Nov 4, 1765 — Nov 30, 1836
Pietro da Cortona — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Pietro da Cortona
Pietro Berrettini

High Baroque Painter and Architect, Creator of the Palazzo Barberini Ceiling Fresco

Italy Arts
Nov 1, 1596 — May 16, 1669
Pietro Longhi — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Pietro Longhi
Pietro Falca

Venetian Master Painter of 18th-Century Social Life & Rococo Satire

Italy Arts
Nov 5, 1701 — May 8, 1785