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Chaplain Charles Watters receives Medal of Honor
Cambodians appeal for help
Robert Sidney 1st Earl of Leicester English statesman (d. 1626)
Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate Electress of Bavaria (d. 1660)
Lieuwe van Aitzema Dutch historian (Matters of State & War)
Erasmus Quellinus II [Quellien] Flemish painteretcher
Jean-Antoine Nollet French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
Pierre Leclair French composer and violinist (d. 1784)
Leopold Auenbrugger Austrian physician (d. 1809)
Benjamin Chew Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d. 1810)
George Rogers Clark frontier military leader in Revolutionary War
Bertel Thorvaldsen Danish sculptor (Dying Lion) born in Copenhagen Denmark (d. 1844)
Ferdinand de Lesseps French diplomat (built Suez Canal)
August Willich Prussian-American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Braunsberg Province of East Prussia (d. 1878)
John Ancrum Winslow Comm (Union Navy) (d. 1873)
Isaac Munroe St John Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1880)
Wilhelm Dilthey German philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans)
Georg H Quincke German physicist (test of Quincke)
Fitzhugh Lee Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1905)
Aleksandr Kovalevsky Shustyanka near Dvinsk Russian Biologist who founded comparative embryology and experimental histology and who identified a common pattern of embryological development in all multi-cellular animals
Richard Avenarius German philosopher (d. 1896)
Emile C Wauters Belgian painter (Van der Goes in the Red Monastery)
Billy Bates cricketer (England all-rounder 1882-87 hat-trick 1883)
Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov Russian musician (Armenian Rhapsody)
George Barbier American actor (Tarzans Revenge Wife vs Secretary) born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania (d. 1945)
Michael I Kalinin Russian metal workerhead of state
Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva RussianDutch mathematician (d. 1964)
Karel van den Oever Flemish authorpoet (Geuzenstad)
Edward Ned Sparks Canadian actor (42nd Street Imitation of Life) born in Guelph Ontario Canada (d. 1957)
Erskine Sanford American actor (Citizen Kane Angel on My Shoulder) born in Trinidad Colorado (d. 1969)
Fernand Crommelynck Belgian playwright (Le Cocu Magnificent)
James B. Sumner American chemist Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1955)
Jose RaulCapablanca Cuba world chess champion (1921-27)
Clifton Webb [Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck] American actor (Razors Edge Laura) born in Indianapolis Indiana (d. 1966)
George Regas Greek actor (The Mark of Zorro) born in Goranoi Greece (d. 1940)
Nov 19 1302 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree Unam sanctam
Nov 19 1367 League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV
Nov 19 1521 Battle at Milan Emperor Karel VspontificalSpanishGerman troops beat France & occupy Milan