Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 5

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[edit] Births

• 1549 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
• 1855 - Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d. 1926)
• 1905 - Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
• 1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1913 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967) (pictured)
• 1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
• 1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian musician
• 1965 - Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
• 1973 - Johnny Damon, baseball player

[edit] Deaths

• 1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
• 1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)
• 1956 - Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909)
• 1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)
• 1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
• 1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)