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Nov 05 1271

Mamd Ghzn 7th Mongol Empire ruler in Iran born in Abaskun Iran (d. 1304)

Nov 05 1494

Hans Sachs German composer playwright and shoemaker born in Nrnberg (d. 1576)

Nov 05 1534

Joachim Camerarius German botanist (horticulture catalog) and physician born in Nuremberg Germany (d. 1598)

Nov 05 1549

Philippe de Mornay (or Philippe Du-Plessis-Mornay) French writer born in Buhy France (d. 1623)

Nov 05 1563

Anna van Nassau daughter of William the Silent and his second wife Anna of Saxony and wife of William Louis Count of Nassau-Dillenburg born in Breda Netherlands (d. 1588)

Nov 05 1592

Charles Chauncy American clergyman and President of Harvard College (1654-72) born in Yardley-Bury England (d. 1672)

Nov 05 1613

Isaac de Benserade French poet born in Lyons-la-Fort France (d. 1691)

Nov 05 1615

Ibrahim I 18th Ottoman Sultan (1640-48) born in Constantinople Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)

Nov 05 1654

Christian Liebe German composer born in Freiberg Saxony (d. 1708)

Nov 05 1666

Attilio Ariosti Italian composer born in Bologna (d. 1729)

Nov 05 1667

Christoph Ludwig Agricola German landscape painter born in Regensburg Germany (d. 1719)

Nov 05 1701

Pietro Longhi Venetian painter born in Venice (d. 1785)

Nov 05 1715

John Brown English writer born in Rothbury Northumberland England (d. 1766)

Nov 05 1722

William Byron 5th Baron Byron English duelist (d. 1798)

Nov 05 1770

Etienne P de Senancour French author (Obermann)

Nov 05 1798

Carolina F L duchess of Berry daughter of crown prince of Naples

Nov 05 1818

Benjamin Franklin Butler American Major General (Union Army) born in Deerfield New Hampshire (d. 1893)

Nov 05 1825

Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel Hungarian-American diplomat mining engineer and Major General (Union Army) born in Szeged Hungary (d. 1912)

Nov 05 1832

William Woods Averell Major General (Union Army) (d. 1900)

Nov 05 1846

Duncan Gordon Boyes English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)

Nov 05 1849

Rui Barbosa Brazil statesmanjuristessayistcivil liberties

Nov 05 1850

Ella Wheeler Wilcox American author and poet (d. 1919)

Nov 05 1851

Charles Dupuy French prime minister (d. 1923)

Nov 05 1854

Paul Sabatier French chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)

Nov 05 1854

Alphonse Desjardins founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920)

Nov 05 1855

Eugene V. Debs Terre Haute Indiana American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (d. 1926)

Nov 05 1855

Leon P Teisserenc de Bort French meteorologist (stratosphere)

Nov 05 1857

Ida Tarbell muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)

Nov 05 1869

Chittaranjan Das Indian lawyer and politician (founded the Swaraj Party) born in Bikrampur British India (d. 1925)

Nov 05 1876

Raymond Duchamp-Villon cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)

Nov 05 1881

George A. Malcolm American jurist & educator (d. 1961)

Nov 05 1883

Ernie Parker Australian tennis player (Australasian Cship 1913) born in Perth WA (d. 1918)

Nov 05 1884

James Elroy Flecker English poetdramatist (Hassan)

Nov 05 1228 Wu MeKuan a collection of 48 Zen koans compiled in China

Nov 05 1414 Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens

Nov 05 1499 Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). Breton-French-Latin dictionary written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc was first Breton and French dictionary

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