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Nov 23 1221

Alfonso X (the Wise) king of Castile & Leon (1252-84)

Nov 23 1417

William FitzAlan 16th Earl of Arundel English politician (d. 1487)

Nov 23 1553

Prospero Alpini Italian botanistphysician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum)

Nov 23 1632

Jean Mabillon French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)

Nov 23 1669

Johann K Amman SwissDutch deaf-mute teacher (Surdus Loquens)

Nov 23 1690

Ernst J earl van Biron Russian duke of Koerlandregent of Ivan VI

Nov 23 1715

Pierre Charles Le Monnier French astronomer (d. 1799)

Nov 23 1719

Spranger Barry Irish Shakespearean actor born in Skinners Row Dublin (d. 1777)

Nov 23 1749

Edward Rutledge (Gov-SC)attorneysigner (Declaration of Independence)

Nov 23 1760

Gracchus Babeuf French utopian socialist (Tribun du Peuple)

Nov 23 1785

Joannes P Roothaan 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits (1829-53)

Nov 23 1800

Michail P Pogodin Russian historianauthor (Povesti)

Nov 23 1809

Horatio Phillips Van Cleve American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Princeton New Jersey (d. 1891)

Nov 23 1815

William Dennison postmastergeneral (Union) (d. 1882)

Nov 23 1819

Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss American politician and Major General (Union Army) born in Belleville Virginia (d. 1901)

Nov 23 1819

Josiah Dwight Whitney Northampton Massachusetts American Geologist who led the California Geological Survey (Mount Whitney and Whitney Glacier are named for him)

Nov 23 1820

John Willis Ellis Governor (Confederacy) (d. 1861)

Nov 23 1820

Isaac Todhunter British mathematician (d. 1884)

Nov 23 1830

Kaspar CE Ritter von Zumbusch GermanAustria sculptor

Nov 23 1842

James Lillywhite Jr cricketer (1st England Test captain)

Nov 23 1855

Frank Friday Fletcher American Naval Admiral (Medal of Order for Battle of Veracruz) born in Oskaloosa Iowa (d. 1928)

Nov 23 1858

Frank Hearne cricketer (brother of George and Alec England and South Africa)

Nov 23 1860

Karl Branting Swedish statesmandiplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921)

Nov 23 1862

Alberto Williams composer (Etrerno Reposo) born in Buenos Aires Argentina

Nov 23 1862

Theo van Rysselberghe Belgian painter (pointillism)

Nov 23 1864

Henry Bourne Joy American automobile executive (d. 1936)

Nov 23 1869

Valdemar Poulsen Danish engineer who invented devices for radio broadcasting born in Copenhagen Denmark (d. 1942)

Nov 23 1875

Anatoly Lunacharsky Russian Marxist revolutionary author and literary critic born in Poltava Russian Empire (d. 1933)

Nov 23 1878

Ernest J King US fleet admiralChief of Naval Operations (WWII)

Nov 23 1878

Andr Caplet French composer and conductor (Conte Fantastic Le miroir de Jesus) born on a boat sailing between Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) and Honfleur (Calvados) in France (d. 1925)

Nov 23 1882

Johan C T Kikkert Dutch painteretchercritic

Nov 23 1883

Herman Baccaert Flemish philologicalwriter (Along the water front)

Nov 23 1883

Jose Clemente Orozco Mexican painter (Epic of Culture in New World)

Nov 23 1227 Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Polish dukes at Gsawa

Nov 23 1248 Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile after the city capitulates

Nov 23 1334 St Clemens Flood Dike breaks at FlemishZeeuwseDutch coast

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