October/November Birthdays

NOVEMBER 30

• 1667 – Jonathan Swift
• 1835 – Mark Twain
• 1874 – Winston Churchill
• 1915 – Brownie McGhee
• 1918 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
• 1920 – Virginia Mayo
• 1924 – Shirley Chisholm
• 1924 – Allan Sherman
• 1927 – Robert Guillaume
• 1929 – Dick Clark
• 1936 – Abbie Hoffman
• 1937 – Frank Ifield
• 1937 – Ridley Scott
• 1943 – Terrence Malick
• 1945 – Roger Glover
• 1947 – David Mamet
• 1952 – Mandy Patinkin
• 1953 – Shuggie Otis
• 1953 – June Pointer
• 1955 – Billy Idol
• 1959 – Cherie Currie
• 1965 – Ben Stiller
• 1975 – Mindy McCready

NOVEMBER 29

• 1832 – Louisa May Alcott
• 1895 – Busby Berkeley
• 1898 – C. S. Lewis
• 1915 – Billy Strayhorn
• 1927 – Vin Scully
• 1933 – John Mayall
• 1939 – Peter Bergman
• 1940 – Denny Doherty
• 1940 – Chuck Mangione
• 1942 – Felix Cavaliere
• 1949 – Jerry Lawler
• 1949 – Garry Shandling
• 1951 – Barry Goudreau
• 1954 – Joel Coen
• 1955 – Howie Mandel
• 1958 – Michael Dempsey
• 1970 – Frank Delgado

NOVEMBER 28

• 1912 – Morris Louis
• 1929 – Berry Gordy
• 1932 – Gato Barbieri
• 1933 – Hope Lange
• 1936 – Celin Romero (The Romeros)
• 1940 – Bruce Channel
• 1943 – Randy Newman
• 1944 – R. B. Greaves
• 1949 – Paul Shaffer
• 1962 – Matt Cameron
• 1962 – Jon Stewart

NOVEMBER 27

• 1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith
• 1934 – Al Jackson, Jr.
• 1940 – Bruce Lee
• 1941 – Eddie Rabbitt
• 1942 – Jimi Hendrix
• 1955 – Bill Nye
• 1957 – Caroline Kennedy
• 1961 – Steve Oedekerk
• 1964 – Robin Givens

NOVEMBER 27

• 1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith
• 1934 – Al Jackson, Jr.
• 1940 – Bruce Lee
• 1941 – Eddie Rabbitt
• 1942 – Jimi Hendrix
• 1955 – Bill Nye
• 1957 – Caroline Kennedy
• 1961 – Steve Oedekerk
• 1964 – Robin Givens

NOVEMBER 26

• 1922 – Charles M. Schulz
• 1933 – Robert Goulet
• 1938 – Rich Little
• 1939 – Wayland Flowers
• 1939 – Tina Turner
• 1944 – Jean Terrell (The Supremes)
• 1945 – John McVie

NOVEMBER 25

• 1909 – P. D. Eastman
• 1914 – Joe DiMaggio
• 1924 – Paul Desmond
• 1941 – Percy Sledge
• 1942 – Bob Lind
• 1943 – Jerry Portnoy
• 1951 – Bill Morrissey
• 1960 – Amy Grant
• 1963 – Holly Cole
• 1964 – Mark Lanegan

NOVEMBER 24

• 1864 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• 1867 – Scott Joplin
• 1888 – Dale Carnegie
• 1912 – Garson Kanin
• 1912 – Teddy Wilson
• 1921 – John Lindsay
• 1941 – Pete Best
• 1941 – Donald "Duck" Dunn
• 1942 – Billy Connolly
• 1943 – Robin Williamson
• 1944 – Bev Bevan
• 1944 – Candy Darling
• 1945 – Lee Michaels
• 1947 – Dave Sinclair
• 1955 – Clem Burke
• 1962 – John Squire

NOVEMBER 23

• 1887 – Boris Karloff
• 1888 – Harpo Marx
• 1925 – Johnny Mandel
• 1926 – R. L. Burnside
• 1928 – Jerry Bock
• 1940 – Luis Tiant
• 1944 – Joe Eszterhas
• 1944 – James Toback
• 1945 – Steve Landesberg
• 1954 – Bruce Hornsby

NOVEMBER 22

• 1899 – Hoagy Carmichael
• 1921 - Jacob Rodney Cohen (Rodney Dangerfield)
• 1932 – Robert Vaughn
• 1940 – Terry Gilliam
• 1941 – Terry Stafford
• 1941 – Jesse Colin Young
• 1943 – Billie Jean King
• 1946 – Aston Barrett
• 1947 – Rod Price (Foghat)
• 1950 – Steven Van Zandt
• 1950 – Tina Weymouth

NOVEMBER 21

• 1694 – Voltaire
• 1898 – René Magritte
• 1902 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
• 1904 – Coleman Hawkins
• 1920 – Stan Musial
• 1937 – Marlo Thomas
• 1940 – Dr. John
• 1944 – Earl Monroe
• 1944 – Harold Ramis
• 1945 – Goldie Hawn
• 1956 – Cherry Jones
• 1960 – Brian Ritchie

NOVEMBER 20

• 1925 – Kaye Ballard
• 1925 – Robert F. Kennedy
• 1936 – Don DeLillo
• 1939 – Dick Smothers
• 1942 – Joe Biden
• 1942 – Norman Greenbaum
• 1946 – Duane Allman
• 1947 – Joe Walsh
• 1965 – Mike D.

NOVEMBER 19

• 1905 – Tommy Dorsey
• 1919 – Alan Young
• 1921 – Roy Campanella
• 1933 – Larry King
• 1936 – Dick Cavett
• 1936 – Ray Collins (The Mothers of Invention)
• 1937 – Penelope Leach
• 1938 - Hank Medress (The Tokens)
• 1938 – Ted Turner
• 1939 - Warren "Pete" Moore (The Miracles)
• 1943 – Fred Lipsius (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
• 1946 - Joe Correro (Paul Revere and the Raiders)
• 1958 – Charlie Kaufman
• 1959 – Allison Janney
• 1961 – Meg Ryan

NOVEMBER 18

• 1908 – Imogene Coca
• 1909 – Johnny Mercer
• 1927 – Hank Ballard
• 1936 – Don Cherry
• 1939 – Brenda Vaccaro
• 1942 – Linda Evans
• 1950 – Graham Parker
• 1953 – Kevin Nealon
• 1960 – Kim Wilde
• 1962 – Kirk Hammett
• 1968 – Owen Wilson
• 1969 – Duncan Sheik

NOVEMBER 17

• 1916 – Shelby Foote
• 1925 – Rock Hudson
• 1937 – Peter Cook
• 1938 – Gordon Lightfoot
• 1940 – Luke Kelly
• 1942 – Bob Gaudio
• 1942 – Martin Scorsese
• 1944 – Gene Clark
• 1944 – Danny DeVito
• 1944 – Lorne Michaels
• 1944 – Tom Seaver
• 1946 – Martin Barre
• 1951 – Dean Paul Martin
• 1960 – RuPaul
• 1966 – Jeff Buckley
• 1967 – Tab Benoit

NOVEMBER 16

• 1873 – W. C. Handy
• 1889 – George S. Kaufman
• 1905 – Eddie Condon
• 1907 – Burgess Meredith
• 1931 – Hubert Sumlin
• 1933 – Garnet Mimms
• 1941 – Dan Penn
• 1948 – Chi Coltrane
• 1964 _ Diana Krall
• 1966 – Joey Cape

NOVEMBER 15

• 1928 – C. W. McCall
• 1928 – Seldon Powell
• 1929 – Ed Asner
• 1929 – Joe Hinton
• 1932 – Petula Clark
• 1932 – Clyde McPhatter
• 1937 – Little Willie John
• 1940 – Sam Waterston
• 1941 – Rick Kemp (Steeleye Span)
• 1942 – Daniel Barenboim
• 1945 – Frida Lyngstad
• 1955 – Georgina Born (Henry Cow)
• 1956 – Michael Hampton (Parliament-Funkadelic)
• 1957 – Kevin Eubanks

NOVEMBER 14

• 1719 – Leopold Mozart
• 1740 – Johann van Beethoven
• 1840 – Claude Monet
• 1896 – Mamie Eisenhower
• 1900 – Aaron Copland
• 1907 – William Steig
• 1916 – Sherwood Schwartz
• 1919 – Veronica Lake
• 1921 – Brian Keith
• 1936 – Freddie Garrity
• 1939 – Wendy Carlos
• 1947 – Buckwheat Zydeco
• 1949 – James Young (Styx)
• 1951 – Stephen Bishop
• 1964 – Joseph Simmons (Run–D.M.C.)
• 1964 – Patrick Warburton
• 1967 – Nina Gordon (Veruca Salt)
• 1970 – Brendan Benson (The Raconteurs)
• 1975 – Travis Barker

NOVEMBER 13

• 1856 – Louis Brandeis
• 1919 – Veronica Lake
• 1934 - Timmy Thomas
• 1938 – Jean Seberg
• 1941 – Mel Stottlemyre
• 1947 – Toy Caldwell
• 1949 – Terry Reid
• 1949 - Roger Steen (The Tubes)
• 1953 – Andrew Ranken (The Pogues)
• 1967 – Jimmy Kimmel
• 1978 – Nikolai Fraiture (The Strokes)

NOVEMBER 12

• 1917 – Jo Stafford
• 1929 – Grace Kelly
• 1931 – Bob Crewe
• 1936 – Mort Shuman
• 1943 – Brian Hyland
• 1943 – John Walker
• 1944 – Booker T. Jones
• 1945 – Neil Young
• 1947 – Buck Dharma
• 1955 – Les McKeown (Bay City Rollers)
• 1964 – Vic Chesnutt

NOVEMBER 11

• 1821 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• 1922 – Kurt Vonnegut
• 1925 – Jonathan Winters
• 1927 – Mose Allison
• 1929 – LaVern Baker
• 1944 – Chris Smither
• 1945 – Chris Dreja
• 1953 – Marshall Crenshaw
• 1953 – Andy Partridge
• 1955 – Dave Alvin
• 1956 – Ian Craig Marsh

NOVEMBER 10

• 1889 – Claude Rains
• 1891 – Carl Stalling
• 1909 – Johnny Marks
• 1925 – Richard Burton
• 1944 – Tim Rice
• 1945 – Donna Fargo
• 1947 – Glen Buxton
• 1947 – Greg Lake
• 1948 – Hugh Moffatt
• 1968 – Tracy Morgan

NOVEMBER 9

• 1886 – Ed Wynn
• 1928 – Anne Sexton
• 1936 – Mary Travers
• 1937 – Roger McGough
• 1941 – Tom Fogerty
• 1944 – Phil May (The Pretty Things)
• 1948 – Joe Bouchard (Blue Öyster Cult)
• 1970 – Scarface (Geto Boys)
• 1970 – Susan Tedeschi

NOVEMBER 8

• 1836 – Milton Bradley
• 1847 – Bram Stoker
• 1898 – Marie Prevost
• 1920 – Esther Rolle
• 1924 – Joe Flynn
• 1927 – Ken Dodd
• 1927 – Patti Page
• 1944 – Bonnie Bramlett
• 1946 – Roy Wood
• 1947 – Minnie Riperton
• 1949 – Bonnie Raitt
• 1954 – Rickie Lee Jones

NOVEMBER 7

• 1879 – Leon Trotsky
• 1913 – Albert Camus
• 1922 – Al Hirt
• 1926 – Joan Sutherland
• 1942 – Johnny Rivers
• 1942 – Jean Shrimpton
• 1943 – Joni Mitchell
• 1949 – Stephen Bruton
• 1957 – John Benitez
• 1957 – Christopher Knight
• 1964 – Sandra Denton (Salt-N-Pepa)

NOVEMBER 6

• 1854 – John Philip Sousa
• 1887 – Walter Johnson
• 1916 – Ray Conniff
• 1932 – Stonewall Jackson
• 1937 – Eugene Pitt (The Jive Five)
• 1938 – P.J. Proby
• 1941 – Guy Clark
• 1946 – Sally Field
• 1947 – George Young
• 1948 – Glenn Frey
• 1949 – Arturo Sandoval

NOVEMBER 5  

• 1911 – Roy Rogers
• 1913 – Vivien Leigh
• 1919 – Myron Floren
• 1940 -  Neptina's mother 
• 1941 – Art Garfunkel
• 1943 – Sam Shepard
• 1946 – Herman Brood
• 1946 – Gram Parsons
• 1947 – Rubén Juárez
• 1947 – Peter Noone
• 1948 – Peter Hammill
• 1949 – Jimmie Spheeris
• 1952 – Bill Walton
• 1959 – Bryan Adams
• 1960 – Tilda Swinton
• 1974 – Ryan Adams

NOVEMBER 4

• 1879 – Will Rogers
• 1916 – Walter Cronkite
• 1918 – Art Carney
• 1932 – Tommy Makem
• 1937 – Loretta Swit
• 1940 – Delbert McClinton
• 1944 – Scherrie Payne (The Supremes)
• 1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe
• 1954 – Chris Difford
• 1956 – James Honeyman-Scott
• 1960 – Kathy Griffin
• 1961 – Jeff Probst
• 1969 – Sean Combs

NOVEMBER 3

• 1933 – John Barry
• 1933 – Ken Berry
• 1933 – Michael Dukakis
• 1943 – Bert Jansch
• 1948 – Lulu
• 1954 – Adam Ant
• ?? - Bob Benjamin (LightOfDay.org)

NOVEMBER 2

• 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1931 – Phil Woods
• 1937 – Earl Carroll (The Cadillacs and The Coasters)
• 1938 – Jay Black
• 1941 – Bruce Welch
• 1942 – Stefanie Powers
• 1944 – Keith Emerson
• 1945 – J. D. Souther
• 1947 – Dave Pegg
• 1951 – Lindy Morrison
• 1952 – Maxine Nightingale
• 1957 – Carter Beauford
• 1961 – k.d. lang
• 1975 – Chris Walla

NOVEMBER 1

• 1922 – George S. Irving
• 1926 – Lou Donaldson
• 1942 – Marcia Wallace
• 1944 – Kinky Friedman
• 1946 – Ric Grech
• 1947 – Jim Steinman
• 1949 – David Foster
• 1950 – Dan Peek
• 1957 – Lyle Lovett
• 1958 – Robert Hart
• 1962 – Anthony Kiedis
• 1963 – Rick Allen

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OCTOBER 9

• 1940 – John Lennon
• 1940 – Joe Pepitone
• 1944 – John Entwistle
• 1944 – Nona Hendryx
• 1948 – Jackson Browne
• 1953 – Tony Shalhoub
• 1954 – James Fearnley (The Pogues)
• 1969 – PJ Harvey
• 1969 – Giles Martin
• 1975 – Sean Lennon

OCTOBER 8

• 1943 – Chevy Chase
• 1943 – R. L. Stine
• 1948 – Johnny Ramone
• 1949 – Hamish Stuart
• 1950 – Robert Bell (Kool & the Gang)
• 1965 – C. J. Ramone

OCTOBER 7

• 1894 – Del Lord
• 1911 – Jo Jones
• 1911 – Vaughn Monroe
• 1927 – R. D. Laing
• 1931 – Desmond Tutu
• 1944 – Judee Sill
• 1951 – John Mellencamp
• 1955 – Yo-Yo Ma
• 1968 – Thom Yorke

OCTOBER 6

• 1906 – Janet Gaynor
• 1908 – Carole Lombard
• 1951 – Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon)
• 1954 – David Hidalgo
• 1959 – Oil Can Boyd
• 1964 – Matthew Sweet
• 1982 – William Butler

OCTOBER 5 (Note: The most common birth date, nine full months after New Year's Eve)

• 1902 – Larry Fine
• 1907 – Mrs. Miller
• 1917 – Allen Ludden
• 1936 – Václav Havel
• 1940 – John Byrne Cooke
• 1941 – Roy Book Binder
• 1942 – Richard Street (The Temptations)
• 1943 – Steve Miller
• 1945 – Brian Connolly (Sweet)
• 1947 – Brian Johnson
• 1948 – Carter Cornelius (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose)
• 1949 – B. W. Stevenson
• 1951 – Bob Geldof
• 1957 – Bernie Mac
• 1958 – Neil Peart
• 1959 – Kelly Joe Phelps

OCTOBER 4:

• 1895 – Buster Keaton
• 1941 – Anne Rice
• 1941 – Robert Wilson
• 1942 – Bernice Johnson Reagon (Sweet Honey in the Rock)
• 1943 – H. Rap Brown
• 1946 – Susan Sarandon
• 1947 – Jim Fielder
• 1948 – Duke Robillard
• 1952 – Jody Stephens (Big Star)
• 1957 – Russell Simmons
• 1959 – Chris Lowe (Pet Shop Boys)

OCTOBER 3:

• 1908 – Johnny Burke
• 1936 – Steve Reich
• 1938 – Eddie Cochran
• 1941 – Chubby Checker
• 1949 – Lindsey Buckingham
• 1951 – Keb' Mo'
• 1954 – Stevie Ray Vaughan
• 1955 – Allen Woody
• 1962 – Tommy Lee
• 1969 – Gwen Stefani

OCTOBER 2

• 1890 – Groucho Marx
• 1895 – Bud Abbott
• 1945 – Don McLean
• 1946 – Jo-El Sonnier
• 1949 – Richard Hell
• 1949 – Annie Leibovitz
• 1950 – Mike Rutherford
• 1951 – Sting
• 1955 – Philip Oakey
• 1957 – Dave Faulkner
• 1960 – Robbie Nevil
• 1967 – Gillian Welch
• 1969 – Badly Drawn Boy
• 1971 – Tiffany

OCTOBER 1

• 1903 – Vladimir Horowitz
• 1920 – Walter Matthau
• 1924 – Jimmy Carter
• 1927 – Tom Bosley
• 1930 – Richard Harris
• 1932 – Albert Collins
• 1935 – Julie Andrews
• 1945 – Donny Hathaway
• 1947 – Martin Turner (Wishbone Ash)
• 1947 – Mariska Veres (Shocking Blue)
• 1948 – Cub Koda (Brownsville Station)
• 1958 – Martin Cooper (OMD)
• 1959 – Youssou N'Dour
• 1969 – Zach Galifianakis