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Nat Turner executed in Virginia
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Alphonse of Toulouse son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271)
Joachim Hopperus [Hoppers] Frisian lawyerpolitician
Martin Ruland the Younger German physician and alchemist (d. 1611)
George Savile 1st marquis of Halifaxauthor (Character of a Trimmer)
Guido Starhemberg Austria earlfieldmarshal (Turkish Wars)
Johann Albert Fabricius German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
Lorenzo Somis Italian composer and violinist born in Turin (d. 1775)
Andrea Zani Italian composer and violinist born in Casalmaggiore Cremona Province (d. 1757)
Willem A Alting governor-general of Neth-Indies (1780-97)
Carl Peter Thunberg Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
Carlos IV (English Charles] King of Spain (1788-1808) born in Portici Italy (d. 1819)
King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819) Reigned 1788-1808
Bernhard Romberg German cellistcomposerroyal chaplain bandmaster
Ephraim McDowell surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery)
Josef Munzinger Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
Mary Anne Evans English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
Ben McCulloch Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1862)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich American authoreditor (Story of a Bad Boy)
Franz Conrad von Htzendorf Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
Alfred Hermann Fried German pacifist (Nobel 1911)
George Washington Crile Chili Ohio American Surgeon who conducted the first direct blood transfusion and studied the effects of surgical shock
Edouard Vuillard French painter and graphic artist
Victor Emmanuel III King of Italy (1900-46)Ethiopia
Gaetano Bresci Italian-American anarchist (d. 1901)
Nils Kjaer Norwegian playwright (Det evige Savn)
Maude Adams American actress (Baldwins Theatre-Peter Pan) born in Salt Lake City Utah (d. 1953)
David I. Walsh 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
Vesto Slipher Mulberry Indiana American Astronomer who provided the first evidence to support the expanding-universe theory
Ernest Ansermet Swiss conductor (Ruilles de Printemps) born in Vevey Switzerland (d. 1969)
Roland Young British-born American actor born in London England (d. 1953)
Maulana Azad 1st minister of education in independent India
Rabbit Maranville American baseball player (d. 1954)
Winifred Kingston British silent screen actress (The Squaw Man Davy Crockett) born in England (d. 1967)
Nov 11 1215 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
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