November 30

Happy Birthday RIP Richard "Dick" Clark(1929–2012) ; Robert Guillaume(Williams)–85 Sir Ridley Scott–75 Billy Idol(William Broad)–57 "Stacey Q" Swain–54 Ben Stiller–47 Clay Aiken(Clayton Grissom)–34 ; 1835 Author Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri (d. 1910)

November 29

Happy Birthday Jacques René Chirac–80 Diane Ladd(Rose Ladnier)–77 Chuck Mangione–72 Suzy Chaffee–66 Garry Shandling–63 Joel Coen–58 Howie Mandel–57 Andrew McCarthy–50 Tom Sizemore–51 Don Cheadle–48 Jonathan Knight–44 ; 1877 – Thomas Alva Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time with the words "Mary Had A Little Lamb" reproduced.

November 28

Happy Birthday RIP Anna Nicole Smith(Vickie Hogan 1967–2007) ; Randy Newman–69 Paul Shaffer–63 Ed Harris–62 Judd Nelson–53 Jon Stewart(Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz)–50 Ryan Kwanten–36 ; 1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.

November 27

Happy Birthday RIP Bruce Lee(李小龍 1940–1973) Johnny "Jimi" Hendrix(1942–1970) ; William Fichtner–56 Robin Givens–48 Michael Vartan–44 Jaleel White–36 ; 1910 – New York’s Penn Station opened.

November 26

Happy Birthday RIP Charles M Schulz(1922–2000) ; Tina Turner(Anna Bullock)–73 Rich Little–74 Adam Harrington–40 Peter Facinelli–39 Natasha Bedingfield–31 ; 1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.

November 24

Happy Birthday RIP Geraldine Fitzgerald(1913–2005) ; William "Billy" Connolly–70 William "Dwight" Schultz–65 Denise Crosby–55 Garret Dillahunt–48 Colin Hanks(Colin Dillingham)–35 Katherine Heigl–34 ; 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species", which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.

November 23

Happy Birthday RIP Adolph "Harpo" Marx(1888–1964) Steve Landesberg(1936–2010) ; Bruce Vilanch–64 Bruce Hornsby–58 Destiny "Miley" Cyrus–20 ; 1889 The jukebox made its debut, at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

November 22

Happy Birthday RIP Rodney Dangerfield(Jacob Cohen 1921–2004) ; Robert Vaughn–80 Billie Jean King(Moffit)–69 Jamie Leigh Curtis–54 Mariel Hemingway–51 Boris Becker–45 Mark Ruffalo–45 Scarlett Johansson–28 ; 1963 – President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas Texas. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States.

November 22

Happy Birthday RIP Rodney Dangerfield(Jacob Cohen 1921–2004) ; Robert Vaughn–80 Billie Jean King(Moffit)–69 Jamie Leigh Curtis–54 Mariel Hemingway–51 Boris Becker–45 Mark Ruffalo–45 Scarlett Johansson–28 ; 1963 – President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas Texas. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States.

November 21

Happy Birthday Stan Musial–92 Margaret "Marlo" Thomas–75 Harold Ramis–68 Goldie Hawn–67 Lorna Luft–60 Colette "Nicollette" Sheridan–48 Björk Guðmundsdóttir–47 ; 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound ; 1905 – Albert Einstein's paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².

November 20

Happy Birthday RIP Robert F. Kennedy(1925–1968) Richard Dawson(Colin Emm 1932–2012) ; Dick Smothers–74 Joe Biden–70 Veronica Hamel–69 Joe Walsh–65 Bo Derek(Mary Collins)–56 Joel McHale–41 David O'Donnell–38 ; 1966 The musical "Cabaret," with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway ; 1985 The first version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released

November 19

Happy Birthday RIP Gene Tierney(1920–1991) ; Larry King(Lawrence Zeiger)–79 Richard "Dick" Cavett–76 Robert "Ted" Turner III–74 Richard "Calvin" Klein–70 Robert Beltran–58 Allison Janney–53 Meg Ryan(Margaret Hyra)–51 Ann Curry–56 Alicia "Jodie" Foster–50 Jack Dorsey–35 ; 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. 

November 18

Happy Birthday RIP Louis Daguerre(1787–1851) Imogene Fernandez de Coca(1908–2001) ; Brenda Vaccaro–73 Linda Evans(Linda Evanstad)–70 Kevin Nealon–59 Kim Wilde(Kim Smith)–52 Owen Wilson–44 Chloë Sevigny–38 ; 1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times. ; 1928 – The first successful sound-synchronized animated cartoon, Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" starring Mickey Mouse, premiered in New York City.

November 17

Happy Birthday RIP Rock Hudson(Roy Scherer 1925–1985) ; Gordon Lightfoot–74 Martin Scorsese–70 Mary "Lauren" Hutton–69 Danny DeVito–68 Lorne Michaels(Lipowitz)–68 RuPaul(Andre Charles)–52 Rachel McAdams–34 Isaac Hanson–32 ; 1973, President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."

November 16

Happy Birthday RIP Oliver Burgess Meredith(1907–1997) ; David Leisure–62 Diana Krall–48 Lisa Bonet(Boney)–45 Margaret "Maggie" Gyllenhaal–35 ; 1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

November 15

Happy Birthday RIP Georgia O'Keeffe(1887–1986) ; Joseph Wapner–93 Ed Asner–83 Petula Clark–80 Sam Waterston–72 Anni-Frid Lyngstad–67 Jonny Lee Miller–40 Sean Murray–35 ; 1926 – The National Broadcasting Co. debuted with a radio network of 24 stations.

November 14

Happy Birthday RIP Constance Ockelman(Veronica Lake 1922–1973) Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr.(1927–1996) ; Peter Norton-69 Prince Charles Philip Mountbatten-Windsor–64 Condoleezza Rice–58 Yiànnis Hryssomàllis–58  Daniel Bernard Sweeney–51 Josh Duhamel–40 Russell Tovey–31 ; 1851 – Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was published.

November 13

Happy Birthday RIP Richard Mulligan(1932–2000) ; Garry Marshall(Garry Maschiarelli)–78 Joe Mantegna–65 Frances Conroy–59 Tracy Scoggins–59 Whoopi Goldberg(Caryn Johnson)–57 Jimmy Kimmel–45 Gerard Butler–43 Jordan Bridges–39 Michael Copon–30; 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. ; 1956 – The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

November 12

Happy Birthday RIP Grace Kelly(1929–1982) ; Neil Young–67 Megan Mullally–54 Nadia Comăneci–51 Sammy Sosa–44 Craig Parker–42 Harvey Stephens–42 Ryan Gosling–32 Anne Hathaway–30 ; 1954 – Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892.

November 11

Happy Birthday Jonathan Winters–87 Barbara Levy Boxer–72 Stanley Tucci–52 Demi Moore(Demetria Guynes)–50 Calista Flockhart–48 Philip McKeon–48 Carson Kressley–43 Leonardo DiCaprio–38; 1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.

November 10

Happy Birthday RIP Richard Burton(Richard Jenkins 1925–1984) Vincent Schiavelli(1948–2005) ; Russell Johnson–88 Jack Scalia(Giacomo Tedesco)–62 Sinbad(David Adkins)–56 Laura Mackenzie Phillips–53 Tommy Davidson–49 Tracy Morgan–44 Ellen Pompeo–43 Heather Matarazzo–30 ; 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas under authority of the Continental Congress.

November 9

Happy Birthday RIP Carl Sagan(1934–1996) Hedy Lamarr(Hedwig Kiesler 1913–2000) ; Dorrel "Whitey" Herzog–81 Robert David Hall–64 Lou Ferrigno–61 Robert Duncan McNeill–48 Eric Dane–40 Nick Lachey–39 ; 1967 – First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published 

November 8

Happy Birthday RIP Esther Rolle(1920–1998) ; Norman Lloyd–98 Morley Safer–81 Bonnie Raitt–63 Mary Hart(Mary Harum)–62 Christie Hefner–60 Alfre Woodard–60 Chi Chi LaRue(Larry Paciotti)–53 Leif Garrett(Leif Per Nervik)–51 Parker Posey–44 Gretchen Mol–40 Tara Reid–37 ; 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

November 7

Happy Birthday RIP Dana Plato Strain(1964–1999) ; Joni Mitchell(Roberta Anderson)–69 David Petraeus–60 Judy Tenuta–56 Christopher Knight–55 David Guetta–45 Michelle Clunie–43 Jason and Jeremy London–40 ; 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

November 6

Happy Birthday RIP Charles Henry Dow(Founder WSJ and creator Dow Industrial Average 1851–1902) ; Sally Field-66 Glenn Frey-64 Maria Shriver-57 Ethan Hawke-42 Rebecca Romijn-40 ; 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the U.S. presidency.

November 5

Happy Birthday RIP Roy Rogers(Leonard Slye 1911–1998) Vivien Leigh Hartley(1913–1967) ; Elke Sommer(Elke von Schletz)-72 Art Garfunkel-71 Samuel Shepard Rogers-69 Bryan Adams-54 Katherine Matilda Swinton-52 Tatum O’Neal-49 Famke Janssen-48 Sam Rockwell-44 Samuel Page Elliot-36 ; 1935 Parker Brothers began marketing the board game “Monopoly.”

November 4

Happy Birthday RIP Art Carney(1918–2003) ; Doris Roberts(Green)-87 Loretta Swit-75 Laura Bush-66 Marjorie "Markie" Post-62 Kathleen "Kathy" Griffin-52 Ralph Macchio-51 Matthew McConaughey-43 Sean John Combs-43 ; 2008 California voters approved Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage.

November 3

Happy Birthday RIP Charles Bronson(Charles Buchinsky 1921–2003) ; Tom Savini-66 Roseanne Barr-60 Kate Capshaw(Kathleen Nail)-59 Kathy Kinney-59 Dennis Miller-59 Adam Ant(Stuart Goddard)-58 Hans Dolph Lundgren-55 ; 1911 The Chevrolet Motor Car Co. was founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant ; 1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican Alfred Landon.

November 1

Happy Birthday RIP Burton Lancaster(1913–1994) ; Stefanie Powers(Stefania Federkiewicz)-70 Kate Linder-65 Kathryn Dawn "k.d." Lang-51 David Schwimmer-46 Sean Kanan(Sean Perelman)-46 Cornell “Nelly” Haynes-37 Randy Harrison-35 ; 1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states. ; 1898 –Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.

November 1

Happy Birthday Barbara Bosson-73 Larry Flynt-70 Marcia Wallace-70 Lyle Lovett-55 Rachel Ticotin-54 Anthony Kiedis-50 Antonia "Toni" Collette-40 Jennifer "Jenny" McCarthy-40 ; 1512 Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.