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Here’s a list of authors and illustrators as well as a few famous people with birthdays in November. You can find more famost people at http://holidayinsights.com/bday/november.htm

November 2, 1734- Daniel Boone, Kentucky frontiersman

November 2, 1755- Marie Antoinette, queen of France

November 2, 1795- James K. Polk, 11th U.S. President (1845-1849)

November 2, 1865- Warren G. Harding, 29th U.S. President, died of a heart attack while in office (1921-1923)

November 3, 1793- Stephen Austin, defeated Mexican army and founded Texas

November 3 – Janell Cannon – author/illustrator

November 3 – Bette Bao Lord – author

November 4, 1916- Walter Cronkite, TV journalist

November 4 – Sterling North – author

November 5, 1911- Roy Rogers, the “King of the Cowboys”, born Leonard Franklin Slye

November 6, 1854- John Philip Sousa, composer, band conductor

November 7, 1867- Marie Curie, chemist, physicist

November 7, 1918- Billy Graham, evangelist

November 7 – Armstrong Sperry – author

November 8, 1656- Edmund Halley, astronomer, mathematician

November 8, 1847 Bram Stoker, novelist, wrote horror novel Dracula

November 8, 1922- Christian Barnard, surgeon, performed the first heart transplant

November 9, 1918- Spiro T. Agnew, The only U.S. Vice President to resign while in office.

November 9 – Lois Ehlert, author/illustrator

November 10 – Neil Gaiman, author

November 10 – Kate Seredy, author

November 11, 1885- George S. Patton, WWII general

November 12, 1815- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, leader of women’s suffrage

November 12 – Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, author

November 13 – Nathaniel Benchley, author

November 13, 1850- Robert Louis Stevenson, writer

November 14 – Astid Lindgren, author

November 14 – Miska Miles, author

November 14 – William Steig, author/illustrator

November 14, 1765- Robert Fulton, invented the steamboat

November 14, 1840- Claude Monet, painter

November 14, 1896 -Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States

November 14, 1948- Prince Charles, Prince of Wales

November 14, 1954- Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor, Secretary of State for Bush Administration

November 16 – Jean Fritz, author

November 18, 1923- Alan Shepard, astronaut, first American in space

November 18, 1928 – Mickey Mouse’s Birthday

November 19, 1752- George Rogers Clark, soldier, frontiersman

November 19, 1831- James A. Garfield, 20th U.S. President, assassinated during first year in office (1881)

November 20, 1889- Edwin Hubble, astronomer

November 20, 1900- Chester Gould, cartoonist, created “Dick Tracy”

November 21 – Leo Politi, author

November 21 – Elizabeth George Speare, author

November 21, 1694- Voltaire, philosopher

November 22, 1890- Charles de Gaulle, President of France

November 22 – Jamie Lee Curtis, author

November 23 – Marc Simont, author

November 23 – Gloria Whelan, author

November 23, 1804- Franklin Pierce, 14th U.S. President (1853-1857)

November 23, 1859- William “Billy the Kid” Bonney, Wild West outlaw

November 24, 1784 Zachary Taylor, 12th U.S. President, died in office. Got sick eating cherries and milk. (1849-1850)

November 24, 1888- Dale Carnegie, inspirational author, lecturer, wrote “How to Win Friends and Influence People”,, more

November 24, 1925- William F. Buckley Jr., author, columnist

November 24 – Carlo Collodi, author

November 24 – Yoshiko Uchida, author

November 25 – Crescent Dragonwagon, author

November 25 – Marc Brown, author

November 25 – P.D. Eastman, author

November 25, 1835- Andrew Carnegie, financier, banker

November 25, 1981- Barbara and Jenna Bush, twin daughters of President George W. Bush

November 26, 1922- Charles Schulz, cartoonist, created “Peanuts”

November 27 – Kevin Henkes, author

November 29 – Louisa May Alcott, author

November 29 Madeleine L’Engle, author

November 29 – C.S. Lewis, author

November 29 – David M. Schwartz, author

November 30 – L.M. Montgomery, author

November 30 – Jonathan Swift, author

November 30 – Margot Zemach, author

November 30, 1835- Samuel Clemens “Mark Twain”, author “Tom Sawyer”

November 30, 1874- Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain during WWII

Do you know all of these people? Challenge your students will a reference “quiz” on who the lesser known people are.