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1
Doctors without Borders founder Bernard Koucher born 1939.
Native-American Heritage Month
 		 2
Frontiersman Daniel Boone born 1734
Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky born 1821
 		 3
Poet and defender of human rights William Cullen Bryant born 1794
Culture Day in Japan
 		 4
Humorist and writer Will Rogers born 1879
TV journalist Walter Cronkite born 1916
 		 5
Writer and philosopher Will Durant born 1885
 		 6
UN International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
Composer John Philip Sousa born 1854
Inventor of basketball James Naismith born 1861
Yahoo! Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang born 1968
 		 7
Chemist and physicist Madame Curie born 1867
Douglas Wilder becomes the 1st elected African-American State Governor, 1989
 
8
Mathematician and astronomer Edmund Halley born 1656
Heart transplant surgeon Christiaan Barnard born 1922
 		 9
Newspaper publisher and slavery abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy born 1802
Astronomer and author Carl Sagan born 1934
African American actress Dorothy Dandridge born 1922
East Germany opens the Berlin Wall 1989
 		 10
Leader of the Protestant Reformation Martin Luther born 1483
Russian astrophysicist I.D. Novikov born 1935
English abolitionist and scholar Granville Sharp born 1735
 		 11
Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky born 1821
Author Carlos Fuentes born 1928
Actor/Conservationist Leonardo DiCaprio born 1974.
 		 12
Romanian Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci born 1961
Women's suffrage leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton born 1815
Baseball player Sammy Sosa born 1968
Sculptor Auguste Rodin born 1840
Princess Grace (Kelly) of Monaco born 1929
 		 13
Writer Robert Louis Stevenson born 1850
Youth Producing Change Program seeks film submissions ~ Deadline December 10, 2009
World Kindness Day
 		 14
Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton born 1765
Painter Claude Monet born 1840
King of Jordan King Hussein born 1935
 
15
Artist Georgia O'Keeffe born 1887
English astronomer Willam Herschel born 1738
 		 16
Nintendo toy producer Shigeru Miyamoto born 1952
UN International Day for Tolerance
International Education Week November 16-20, 2009
 		 17
Austrian/Swedish physicist Lise Meitner born 1878
German mathemetician August Mobius born 1790
Japanese American artist and architect Isamu Noguchi born 1904
 		 18
Inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre born 1789
First American in space Alan Shepard born 1923
Native American chief Wilma Mankiller born 1945
 		 19
1863—Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
Bullying Awareness Week November 19-25
Russian polymath, scientist and writer Mikhail Lomonosov born 1711
 		 20
UN Africa Industrialization Day
Astronomer Edwin Hubble born 1889
Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes born 1976
U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy born 1925
Universal Children's Day
 		 21
UN World Television Day
Celebrated to encourage global exchanges of television programmes, particularly those focusing on peace, security, economic and social development, and the enhancement of cultural exchanges.
Philosopher Voltaire born 1694
5th Annual MY HERO Short Film Festival
USC Norris Theatre
7:00 p.m.
 
22
Novelist George Eliot (pseudonym for Mary Ann Evans) born 1819
Tennis champion Billie Jean King born 1943
 		 23
American chemist Rachel Fuller Brown born 1898
 		 24
Composer Scott Joplin born 1868
Children's author Frances Hodgson Burnett born 1849
 		 25
Financier and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie born 1835
UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Australian doctor and bush pilot John Flynn born 1880
 		 26
Cartoonist and creator of Peanuts Charles M. Schulz born 1922
Playwright Eugene Ionesco born 1909
First and only woman to win U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor Mary Edwards Walker born 1832
Thanksgiving Day --
a special feature on PEOPLE TO BE THANKFUL FOR.
 		 27
Musician Jimi Hendrix born 1942
American TV educator Bill Nye born 1955
1st President of Israel Chaim Weizmann born 1874
Filipino pediatrician Fe del Mundo born 1911
 		 28
Social anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born 1908
Poet William Blake born 1757
Motown founder Berry Gordy born 1929
 
29
Scholar and author C. S. Lewis born 1898
Children's author Louisa May Alcott born 1832
Children's author Madeleine L'Engle born 1918
 		 30
British statesman Winston Churchill born 1874
Novelist and humorist Mark Twain born 1835
 		          
 
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