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Nov 20 1327

Bassui Tokusho Zen founder (Kogakuji monastery in Nakamura Japan)

Nov 20 1606

Abraham de Wicquefort Dutch diplomathistorian

Nov 20 1620

Peregrine White First English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony born aboard the Mayflower (d. 1704)

Nov 20 1625

Artus II Quellinus the Young Flemish sculptor baptised

Nov 20 1660

Daniel Ernst Jablonski German theologian (d. 1741)

Nov 20 1726

Oliver Wolcott US judge signed US Declaration of Independence born in Windsor Connecticut (d. 1797) [NSDec 1]

Nov 20 1761

Pius VIII [Francesco S Castiglioni] Italian 253rd Pope (1829-30)

Nov 20 1762

Pierre Andr Latreille French entomologist (d. 1833)

Nov 20 1765

Sir Thomas Fremantle British naval captain (d. 1819)

Nov 20 1802

James Lawrence Lardner Comm (Union Navy) (d. 1881)

Nov 20 1830

Patrick Henry Jones Irish-American lawyer Postmaster of New York City and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in County Westmeath Republic of Ireland (d. 1900)

Nov 20 1836

John Thomas Croxton American attorney diplomat and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Paris Kentucky (d. 1874)

Nov 20 1838

William Painter American inventor (crown cork bottle cap and opener) born in Ireland (d. 1906)

Nov 20 1841

Victor DHondt Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)

Nov 20 1855

Josiah Royce American philosopher (Conception of Immortality) born in Grass Valley California (d. 1916)

Nov 20 1862

Willem H Vliegen Dutch typographerco-founderchairman (SDAP)

Nov 20 1863

Maria H Mina Beersmans Flemish actress (Black Griet) and wife of John Dilis born (d. 1939)

Nov 20 1864

Gerard W Kernkamp Dutch historianeditor (Groene Amsterdammer)

Nov 20 1866

Kenesaw Mountain Landis judge1st commissioner of baseball

Nov 20 1869

Clark Griffith Mo baseball playermanager (NY Yankees)

Nov 20 1871

William H Kilpatrick American mathematicianphilosophereducator

Nov 20 1873

Daniel Gregory Mason composer (Chanticker) born in Brookline Massachusetts

Nov 20 1874

James Michael Curley 53rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)

Nov 20 1880

George McBride American MLB shortstopmanager (AL fielding leader 1912-15) born in Milwaukee Wisconsin (d. 1973)

Nov 20 1882

Andy Coakley baseball player and long-time coach at Columbia University (d. 1963)

Nov 20 1884

Norman Thomas American socialist pacifist and presidential candidate (1928-48) born in Marion Ohio (d. 1968)

Nov 20 1886

Karl von Frisch zoologistbee expert (Nobel 1973)

Nov 20 1890

Robert Armstrong American actor (Mighty Joe Young King Kong) born in Saginaw Michigan

Nov 20 1891

Leon Cadore pitcher (pitched all of 26 inning game)

Nov 20 1891

Reginald Denny Richmond England actor (Rebecca Cat Ballou Batman)

Nov 20 1892

James B Collip Canadian biochemistphysiologist (insulin)

Nov 20 1894

Carl Mayer Austrian-Jewish actor (Dreaming Lips Ariane Sunrise) born in Graz Austria (d. 1944)

Nov 20 1897

Lores Bonney Australian aviator 1st female solo flight Australia to UK born in Pretoria South Africa (d. 1994)

Nov 20 1194 Palermo Sicily is conquered by Emperor Henry VI

Nov 20 1342 Pope Clemens VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht

Nov 20 1347 Coke di Rienzo later Roman Tribunal addressess a meeting of on the Capitol during peoples revolt in Rome

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