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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 (1084 listed)

Showing 1041–1056 of 1084
Walker Evans — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Walker Evans
Walker Evans

Preeminent American Documentary Photographer (FSA) & Co-Author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

United States Visual Arts & Photography
Nov 3, 1903 — Apr 10, 1975
Walter Cronkite — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Walter Cronkite
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr.

Legendary CBS Evening News Anchor & "The Most Trusted Man in America"

United States Journalism
Nov 4, 1916 — Jul 17, 2009
Walter Gieseking — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Walter Gieseking
Walter Wilhelm Gieseking

Virtuoso Classical Pianist & Definitive Interpreter of Debussy and Ravel

France / Germany Music
Nov 5, 1895 — Oct 26, 1956
Walter Payton — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Walter Payton
Walter Jerry Payton

Pro Football Hall of Fame Running Back ("Sweetness"), Super Bowl XX Champion & NFL MVP

United States Sports
Jul 25, 1954 — Nov 1, 1999
Warren G. Harding — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding

29th President of the United States, Newspaper Publisher & Senator

United States Politics
Nov 2, 1865 — Aug 2, 1923
Wasfia Nazreen — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Wasfia Nazreen
ওয়াসফিয়া নাজরীন

Celebrated Mountaineer, Human Rights Activist, Environmentalist & National Geographic Explorer

Bangladesh Sports
Oct 27, 1982 — Living
Wayne Rooney — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Wayne Rooney
Wayne Mark Rooney

All-Time Manchester United Goalscorer, England Football Legend & Premier League Hall of Famer

United Kingdom Sports
Oct 24, 1985 — Living
Wilfred Owen — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen

Foremost English War Poet of World War I, Soldier & Author of "Dulce et Decorum Est"

United Kingdom Literature
Mar 18, 1893 — Nov 4, 1918
Will Durant — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Will Durant
William James Durant

Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian, Philosopher & Author of The Story of Civilization

United States Literature
Nov 5, 1885 — Nov 7, 1981
Will Rogers — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Will Rogers
William Penn Adair Rogers

Cherokee-American Humorist, Vaudeville Star, Social Philosopher & Columnist

United States Entertainment
Nov 4, 1879 — Aug 15, 1935
William Cullen Bryant — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant

American Romantic Poet (Thanatopsis), Longtime Editor of New York Evening Post & Abolitionist

United States Literature & Journalism
Nov 3, 1794 — Jun 12, 1878
William Grenville — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
William Grenville
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Statesman & Historic Abolitionist who Passed the Slave Trade Act 1807

United Kingdom Politics
Oct 25, 1759 — Jan 12, 1834
William Higinbotham — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
William Higinbotham
William Alfred Higinbotham

Manhattan Project Physicist, Video Game Pioneer (Creator of Tennis for Two 1958) & First Chairman of Federation of American Scientists

United States Science
Oct 25, 1910 — Nov 10, 1994
William Shakespeare — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet & Actor (The Bard of Avon)

United Kingdom Literature
Apr 26, 1564 — Apr 23, 1616
William Styron — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
William Styron
William Clark Styron Jr.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist & Essayist, Author of Sophie’s Choice and Darkness Visible

United States Literature
Jun 11, 1925 — Nov 1, 2006
Willow Smith — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Willow Smith
Willow Camille Reign Smith

American Singer, Songwriter, Musician & Cultural Creator

United States Music & Contemporary Culture
Oct 31, 2000 — Living