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Today's Milestones (November 5)

Icons Remembered & Celebrated Today

54 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

All Personalities (991 listed)

Showing 369–384 of 991
Hachiro Kasuga — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Hachiro Kasuga
春日八郎

Pioneering Japanese Enka Singer & Cultural Legend ("The Father of Modern Enka")

Japan Music
Oct 9, 1924 — Oct 22, 1991
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad (Bir Bikrom) — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad (Bir Bikrom)
মেজর (অব.) হাফিজ উদ্দিন আহমদ (বীর বিক্রম)

Liberation War Commander, Statesman & Footballer

Bangladesh Military & Politics
Oct 29, 1944 — Living
Hal Roach — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Hal Roach
Harold Eugene Roach Sr.

Film & Television Producer

United States Cinema & Comedy
Jan 14, 1892 — Nov 2, 1992
Han Hye-jin — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Han Hye-jin
한혜진

Prominent South Korean Television & Film Actress, Soseono in Jumong

South Korea Cinema
Oct 27, 1981 — Living
Han Suyin — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Han Suyin
韩素音 (Rosalie Chou)

Author & Physician

China Literature & Medicine
Sep 12, 1917 — Nov 2, 2012
Hannah Höch — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Hannah Höch
Hannah Höch

Avant-Garde Dada Artist, Pioneer of Photomontage & Feminist Cultural Trailblazer

Germany Arts
Nov 1, 1889 — May 31, 1978
Hans Leo Hassler — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Hans Leo Hassler
Hans Leo Haßler

German Late Renaissance / Early Baroque Composer & Organist Who Synthesized Italian and German Polyphony

Germany Music
Oct 26, 1564 — Jun 8, 1612
Hans Merensky — Biography & Quotes
Memorial Anniversary
Hans Merensky
Hans Merensky

South African Geologist, Prospector, Philanthropist & Discoverer of the Bushveld Platinum Complex

South Africa Science
Mar 16, 1871 — Oct 21, 1952
Hans Sachs — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Hans Sachs
Hans Sachs

Celebrated Nuremberg Meistersinger, Poet, Playwright & Voice of the Reformation

Germany Literature
Nov 5, 1494 — Jan 19, 1576
Hara Takashi — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Hara Takashi
原 敬

10th Prime Minister of Japan ("Commoner Prime Minister") & Political Reformer

Japan Politics
Mar 15, 1856 — Nov 4, 1921
Harlow Shapley — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Harlow Shapley
Harlow Shapley

Astronomer & Astrophysicist

United States Science & Astronomy
Nov 2, 1885 — Oct 20, 1972
Harry Hamlin — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Harry Hamlin

Television & Film Actor, Author & Clean Energy Advocate

United States Television & Cinema
Oct 30, 1951 — Living
Harry Houdini — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Harry Houdini
Weisz Erik

Legendary Magician, Illusionist & Escapologist

United States Arts & Entertainment
Mar 24, 1874 — Living
Haruka Kudo — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Haruka Kudo
工藤 遥

Japanese Pop Singer, Actress, Former Morning Musume Member & Tokusatsu Star

Japan Music
Oct 27, 1999 — Living
Heinrich von Kleist — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Heinrich von Kleist
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist

Seminal German Romantic Playwright, Novelist & Poet Behind Michael Kohlhaas and The Broken Jug

Germany Literature
Oct 18, 1777 — Nov 21, 1811
Helen Reddy — Biography & Quotes
Birthday
Helen Reddy
Helen Maxine Reddy

Legendary Australian Singer, "Queen of 1970s Pop", Global Feminist Anthem Creator ("I Am Woman") & Grammy Winner

Australia Music
Oct 25, 1941 — Sep 29, 2020