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November 21

Happy Birthday RIP Stan Musial(1920–2013) ; Margaret “Marlo” Thomas–76 Harold Ramis–69 Goldie Hawn–68 Lorna Luft–61 Colette “Nicollette” Sheridan–50 Björk  Robert “Rib” Hillis–43 “Chris Rockway”(Daniel Vomacka)–34 ; 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound

November 20

Happy Birthday RIP Robert F. Kennedy(1925–1968) Franklin Cover(1928–2006) “Richard Dawson”(Colin Emm 1932–2012) ; Richard “Dick” Smothers–74 Joseph Biden–71 Veronica Hamel–70 Joe Walsh–66 “Bo Derek”(Mary Collins)–57 Joel McHale–42 David O’Donnell–39 ; 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) Tommy Dorsey(1905–1956) ; Larry King(Lawrence Zeiger)–80 Richard “Dick” Cavett–77 Robert “Ted” Turner III–75 Richard “Calvin” Klein–71 Robert Beltran–60 Allison Janney–54 Margaret “Meg” Ryan(Hyra)–52 Ann Curry–57 Alicia “Jodie” Foster–51 Jack Dorsey–36 ; 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–74 Linda Evans(Evenstad)–71 Kevin Nealon–60 John Parr–59 Kim Wilde(Smith)–53 Owen Wilson–45 Chloë Sevigny–39 ; 1928 – The first successful sound-synchronized animated cartoon, Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” starring Mickey Mouse, premiered in New York City ; 1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service

November 17

Happy Birthday RIP “Rock Hudson”(Roy Scherer 1925–1985) ; Gordon Lightfoot–75 Martin Scorsese–71 Mary “Lauren” Hutton–70 Danny DeVito–69 Lorne Michaels(Lipowitz)–69 “RuPaul”(Andre Charles)–53 Rachel McAdams–35 Clarke Isaac Hanson–33 ; 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–63 Diana Krall–49 Lisa Bonet(Boney)–46 Martha Plimpton–43 Andrea “Missi” Pyle–41 Margaret “Maggie” Gyllenhaal–36 ; 1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

November 15

Happy Birthday RIP Georgia O’Keeffe(1887–1986) ; Joseph Wapner–94 Ed Asner–84 Petula Clark–81 Joanna Barnes–79 Sam Waterston–73 Anni-Frid Lyngstad–68 Alexander O’Neal–60 Margaret Reed–57 Jonny Lee Miller–41 Sean Murray–36 ; 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) Robert Keith Richey Jr.(“Brian Keith” 1921–1997) ; Peter Norton–70 Prince Charles Philip Mountbatten-Windsor–65 Condoleezza Rice–59 Yiànnis Hryssomàllis–59 Daniel Bernard Sweeney–52 Patrick Warburton–49 Joshua Duhamel–41 Russell Tovey–32 ; 1851 – Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” was published.

November 13

Happy Birthday RIP Richard Mulligan(1932–2000) ; Garry Marshall(Maschiarelli)–79 Joe Mantegna–66 Frances Conroy–60 Tracy Scoggins–60 Chris Noth–59 “Whoopi Goldberg”(Caryn Johnson)–58 Jimmy Kimmel–46 Steve Zahn–46 Gerard Butler–44 Jordan Bridges–40 Michael Copon–31 Kit Williamson–28 ; 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 François-Auguste-René Rodin(1840–1917) Grace Kelly(1929–1982) ; Neil Young–68 Megan Mullally–54 Nadia Comăneci–52 Sammy Sosa–45 Craig Parker–43 Harvey Stephens–43 Ryan Gosling–33 Anne Hathaway–31 ; 1954 – Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892