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      1
39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter born 1924
Pianist Vladimir Horowitz born 1904
UN International Day of Older Persons
Disabilities Awareness Month
 		 2
Political leader Mahatma Gandhi born 1869
Slave revolt leader Nat Turner born 1800
Community hero Soedati Warsito Rasman born 1937
 		 3
Author James Herriot born 1916
 		 4
Religious leader St. Francis of Assisi born 1181
World Space Week (4-10)
 
5
Architect and artist Maya Lin born 1959
UN Teachers Day
Dramatist and president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel born 1936
 		 6
Inventor and engineer George Westinghouse born 1846
Anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl born 1914
Novelist Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra born 1547
 		 7
UN World Habitat Day
Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu born 1931
 		 8
Aviator and war hero "Eddie" (Edward V.) Rickenbacker born 1890
Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson born 1941
 		 9
Singer and songwriter John Lennon born 1940
Composer Camille Saint-Saëns born 1835
Nobel Peace Prize and landmine activist Jody Williams born 1950
 		 10
UN World Mental Health Day
 		 11
Humanitarian and former first lady of the U.S. Eleanor Roosevelt born 1884
Jazz musician Art Blakey born 1919
 
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Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti born 1935
 		 13
Former prime minister of England Margaret Thatcher born 1925
Revolutionary War heroine Molly Pitcher born 1754
 		 14
Former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden born 1910
 		 15
Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche born 1844
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith born 1908
Staples Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition deadline today. Winners announced November 12, 2008.
 		 16
UN World Food Day
Dictionary author Noah Webster born 1758
Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde born 1854
Playwright Eugene O'Neill born 1888
 		 17
Astronaut and scientist Mae Jemison born 1956
Dutch explorer Alexandrine Tinne born 1839
 		 18
Poet Ntozake Shange born 1948
 
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Artist and designer Peter Max born 1937
 		 20
Baseball player Mickey Mantle born 1931
Educator and philosopher John Dewey born 1859
Poet Robert Pinsky born 1940
 		 21
Chemist and engineer who established the Nobel Prizes Alfred Nobel born 1833
Poet Samuel Coleridge born 1772
Conservationist/cartoonist J.N. "Ding" Darling born 1876
 		 22
Composer and pianist Franz Liszt born 1811
 		 23
Novelist Michael Crichton born 1942
Soccer player Pele born 1940
First woman to swim the English Channel Gertrude Ederle born 1906
 		 24
UN Disarmament Week (24-30)
United Nations Day
 		 25
Artist Pablo Picasso born 1881
Composer Georges Bizet born 1838
Aviator and Antarctic explorer Richard E. Byrd born 1888
 
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Explorer James Cook born 1728
26th President of the U.S. Theodore Roosevelt born 1858
Poet Dylan Thomas born 1914
 		 28
Developer of the polio vaccine Jonas Salk born 1914
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates born 1955
 		 29
Quilt artist Harriet Powers born 1837
 		 30
2nd President of the U.S. John Adams born 1735
 		 31 Founder of the Girl Scouts Juliette Gordon Low born 1860
Poet John Keats born 1795
Film Director Peter Jackson born 1961
 		  
 
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