Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 7

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[edit] Births

• 1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish-born chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)
• 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940) (pictured)
• 1913 - Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1918 - Billy Graham, American evangelist
• 1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician

[edit] Deaths

• 1872 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
• 1910 (O.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)
• 1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
• 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)