| 78 | - Mike Nichols
Director
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| 77 | - Stonewall Jackson
Country singer
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| 72 | - Eugene Pitt
Singer (The Jive Five)
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| 71 | - P.J. Proby
Rock singer
|
| 68 | - Guy Clark
Country singer
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| 63 | - Sally Field
Actress
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| 61 | - Glenn Frey
Rock musician (The Eagles)
|
| 60 | - Rory Block
Blues singer
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| 58 | - Bob Herring
d. j. Bob the Music King
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55 -
| - Catherine Crier
TV host
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| 54 | - Maria Shriver
Broadcast journalist
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| 52 | - Lori Singer
Actress ("Fame")
|
| 49 | - Lance Kerwin
Actor
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| 46 | - Paul Brindley
Rock musician (The Sundays)
|
| 45 | - Corey Glover
Rock singer (Living Colour)
|
| 43 | - Peter DeLuise
Actor
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| 41 | - Kelly Rutherford
Actress ("Gossip Girl," "Melrose Place")
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| 39 | - Ethan Hawke
Actor
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| 37 | - Thandie Newton
Actress ("W.")
|
| 37 | - Rebecca Romijn
Model, actress
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| 35 | - Zoe McLellan
Actress ("Dirty Sexy Money")
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| 31 | - Nicole Dubuc
Actress
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| 31 | - Taryn Manning
Actress
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| 22 | - Ana Ivanovic
Tennis player
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| 21 | - Emma Stone
Actress
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| 20 | - Mercedes Kastner
Actress
| 1854 | John Philip Sousa, the king of American march music, was born in Washington, D.C.
| | 1861 | Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy.
| | 1861 | James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in Ontario, Canada.
| | 1887 | Baseball Hall of Famer Walter Johnson was born in Humboldt, Kansas.
| | 1888 | Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected president, beating incumbent Grover Cleveland in the Electoral College, even though Cleveland led in the popular vote.
| | 1893 | Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia.
| | 1900 | President William B. McKinley was returned to office, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
| | 1913 | Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
| | 1928 | Republican Herbert Hoover was elected president over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
| | 1956 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower won a second term by besting Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson at the polls.
| | 1995 | Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced plans to move the team to Baltimore.
| | 1997 | Former President George H.W. Bush opened his presidential library at Texas A&M University.
| | 2001 | Billionaire Republican Michael Bloomberg was elected New York City mayor |
Historic Birthdays
| | John Philip Sousa | 
11/6/1854 - 3/6/1932
American bandmaster and composer
(Go to obit.)
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| | 81 | Hans Sachs
11/5/1494 - 1/19/1576
German meistersinger
| | 68 | Philips Koninck
11/5/1619 - 10/4/1688
Dutch painter
| | 63 | Washington Allston
11/5/1779 - 7/9/1843
American painter
| | 79 | Adolphe Sax
11/6/1814 - 2/7/1894
Belgian-born French maker of musical instruments; inventor of the saxophone
| | 72 | Charles Garnier
11/6/1825 - 8/3/1898
French architect
| | 82 | Joseph Smith III
11/6/1832 - 12/10/1914
American religious leader; president of Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (1860-1914)
| | 51 | Charles Henry Dow
11/6/1851 - 12/4/1902
American journalist
| | 78 | James Naismith
11/6/1861 - 11/28/1939
Canadian-born American inventor of basketball
| | 59 | Walter Johnson
11/6/1887 - 12/10/1946
American professional baseball player
| | 59 | Harold Ross
11/6/1892 - 12/6/1951
American editor of The New Yorker (1925-51)
| | 27 | Sir John William Alcock
11/6/1892 - 12/18/1919
British aviator
| | 55 | James Jones
11/6/1921 - 5/9/1977
American novelist |
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