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 Birthdates Which Occur on November 29: 
1229 Louis II the Stern, ruler (upper Baveria)
1330 Louis van Male Count of Flanders/Nevers/R‚thel
1761 Fridolin Weber composer
1770 Peter Hansel composer
1781 Andr‚s Bello Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas)
1797 Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti composer
1799 Amos Bronson Alcott US educator/poet (Concord Days)
1803 Christian Doppler Austrian physicist (Doppler effect)
1811 Wendell Phillips women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer
1815 Stephen Augustus Hurlbut Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1816 Carl Binder composer
1818 George Brown Canada, publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (L) (1858)
1832 Louisa May Alcott Germantown Pa, author (Little Women)
1833 Louis Douglass Watkins Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1834 Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
 and Tz'u-hsi empress-douairiŠre of China
1838 Aeneas Mackay Baron/Dutch minister of interior
1839 Ludwig Anzengruber Austrian playwright (Der Schandfleck)
1849 Ambrose Fleming inventor (diode)
1852 Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher composer
1856 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg German Chancellor/premier Prussia
1860 Hans Haym composer
1862 Friedrich Klose composer
1863 Spyridon Filiskos Samaras composer
 and S˜fert H Koorders botanist (Java)
1866 Waldemar von Baussnern composer
1870 Andr‚ Lichtenberger French sudan/writer (Le petit roi)
1872 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg Austrian soprano/director
1874 Ant¢nio Egas Moniz Portugal, lobotomist (Nobel 1949)
1891 Julius Raab Austrian union chancellor (1953-61)
 and Richard Frank Donovan composer
1894 Yakima Canutt [Enos Edward], Colfax WA, actor/dir (Texas Terror)
1895 Busby Berkeley Los Angeles CA, choreographer
 and Lodovico Rocca composer
 and William V S Tubman (Whig), 17th Liberian president (1943-70)
1896 Philip L Carret Lynn Mass, CEO (Pioneer Fund)
 and Rod(erique) La Rocque (La Tour) western actor (Beau Bandit)
1897 Emiel van Hemeldonck Belgian writer (Cleyne Keyser)
1898 C[live] S[taples] Lewis UK, sci-fi author (Silver Chair)
 and Rod La Rocque Chicago IL, actor (Our Modern Maidens)
1899 Gustave Reese composer
19-- Charles Flohe actor (Edge of Night)
 and Eddie Earl Hatch actor (John-All My Children)
 and Fran Ryan LA Calif, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres, Gunsmoke)
 and Jane Cameron actress (Another World)
 and John Calvin Staten Island NY, actor (Howie-The Paul Lynde Show)
 and John Stagliano XXX director (D Cup Delights, Dance Fever)
 and Kory Clarke rocker (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
 and Michael Mat˜evic Ct, rock vocalist (Steelheart-She's Gone)
 and Naomi Stevens Trenton NJ, actress (Vega$, Montefuscos)
 and Shane rocker (Law & Order-Whiskey Song)
 and Yvonne Suhor actress (Lou McCloud-The Young Riders)
1901 Mildred Harris Cheyenne WY, actress (No No Nannette)
1902 Carlo Levi Italy, painter/novelist (Of Fear & Freedom)
 and Georges Poulet French/Belgian critic (Temps Humain)
1904 Kay Johnson Mt Vernon NY, actress (Real Glory, Of Human Bondage)
 and Piet Ketting pianist/conductor/composer (Glorify Kokila)
1905 Marcel LefŠbvre French rk bishop (excommunicated)
1906 Luis Van Rooten Mexico City Mexico, actor (One Man's Family)
1907 Merle Travis Muhlenberg County KY, country singer (16 Tons)
1908 Adam Clayton Powell Jr (Rep-D-NY)/minister
1911 Klaus EJ Fuchs German/British atomic physicist/spy
1914 Taisen Deshimaru Saga City Japan, found several Zen centers in France
1915 Earl W Sutherland US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971)
1916 Valentino Bucchi composer
1918 Herb Shriner Toledo Ohio, host/humorist (Herb Shriner Show)
 and Madeleine L'Engle [Franklin], US, sci-fi author (Ilsa, Love Letters)
1922 Benjamin Smit Cura‡aos architect (St Elizabeth Hospital)
1923 Frank Reynolds E Chicago Ind, news anchor (ABC Evening News)
1926 Dagmar Huntington WV, actress (Broadway's Open House)
1927 Rubert Crosse NYC, actor (Det Robinson-The Partners)
 and Vin[ce] Scully sportscaster (NBC Baseball Game of the Week)
1928 Paul Simon (Sen-D-IL, 1985-  )
1929 Don January pro golfer (1976 Vardon Trophy)
1931 Frank T Mdlalose South Afr minister of Internal minister
1932 Antoine Tisne composer
 and Diane Ladd Meridian Miss, actress (Wild Angels, Wild at Heart)
1933 David Reuben author (Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex)
 and John Mayall MacClesfield England, pop musician (Don't Washed Me Time)
1936 Davide Anzagai composer
1937 Johan J Holst Norwegian minister of Defense/Foreign affairs
1939 Gennadiy Volnov USSR, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
 and Meco rocker
1940 Chuck Mangione jazz composer/horn blower (Chasing the Clouds Away)
1941 Dennis Doherty Halifax Canada, rocker (Mamas & The Papas)
 and Ronald D Coleman (Rep-D-TX, 1983-  )
1944 Felix Cavaliere Pelham NY, rock keyboardist (Rascals-Lonely too Long)
1945 Roger Bambuck Guadeloupe, French 4X100 runner (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1946 Suzy Chaffee US, skier/chapstick user (Olympics-1968)
1949 Garry Shandling AZ, comedian (Garry Shandling, Larry Sanders Show)
 and Kenneth D Cameroon Cleve Oh, Lt Col USMC/astronaut (STS 37, 56)
 and Petra Kelly German peace activist/Green parliament member
1950 Kevin O'Donnell Jr US, sci-fi author (Caverns, Reefs, Lava)
1951 Barry Doudreau Boston Mass, rock guitarist (Boston)
1952 Dusty Hare English rugby player
1954 Joel Coen Minneapolis Mn, actor/dir (Spies Like Us, Barton Fink)
1955 Howie Mandel Toronto Canada, comedian (Dr Wayne Fiscus-St Elsewhere)
1958 Pamela Prati Rome Italy, Million $ Cap (1984)/actress
1959 Charles Grant Winston Salem NC, actor (Another World)
1960 Cathy Moriarty Bronx NY, actress (Raging Bull, Bless This House)
1961 Kim Delaney Phila, actress (All My Children, Tour of Duty)
1962 Andrew McCarthy NYC, actor (St Elmo's Fire, Class)
1964 Kris Kamm Evanston Ill, actor (Stuart Rosebrock-Coach)
1965 Neill Barry NYC, actor (Old Enough, Heat)
1968 Jonathan Raleigh Knight Mass, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
1969 Ben Iroha soccer player (Vitesse)
 and Pierre van Hoo˜donk soccer player (NAC)
1971 Amy Peterson Maplewood Minn, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
 and Gena Lee Nolin actress (Baywatch)
1973 Dick van Burik soccer player (Ajax/NAC)
1990 Blake Tuomy-Wilhoit actor (Full House)
 and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit actor (Full House)
 Deaths Which Occured November 29: 
 561 Chlotarius I king of the France (558-61), dies at about 61
 917 Radboud bishop of Utrecht/Deventer (900-17)/saint, dies
1268 Clement IV [Guido Fulcodi], Pope (1265-68), dies
1314 Philippe IV the Schone, King of France (1285-1314), dies
1378 Charles IV Roman-German King/German emperor (Univ of Prague), dies
1382 Philip Van Artevelde Flemish commander-in-chief, dies in battle
1530 Lord Chancellor (1514-29), dies at about 56
     Thomas Wolsey Cardinal/adviser to England's King Henry VIII, dies
1632 Frederik V king of Bohemia (White Mountain), dies at 36
1643 Claudio Z A Monteverdi Italian composer (L'arianna), dies at 76
1682 Ruprecht prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician, dies
1775 Lorenzo Somis composer, dies at 87
1780 Maria Theresa Habsburg queen of Austria, dies at 63
1813 Giambattista Bodoni Ital stamp cutter/book publisher (bodoni), dies
1843 Marco Santucci composer, dies at 81
1864 One-Eye Cheyenne-chief, dies
1865 Herman van Sonsbeeck lawyer/statesman, dies at 69
1872 Cornelius Kreighoff Canadian, dies
     Giovanni Tadolini composer, dies at 83
     Horace Greeley US founder/publisher (NY Tribune), dies at 61
1895 Eduard earl von Taaffe Austria premier (1868..93), dies at 62
1918 Harald Kidde Danish writer (Helten), dies at 40
1921 Ivan Caryll composer, dies at 60
1924 Giacomo Puccini Ital composer (Mme Butterfly), dies at 65 in Brussels
1925 Karl Flodin composer, dies at 67
1939 Philipp Scheidemann Ger parliament leader (SPD)/mayor of Kassel, dies
1952 Rosa Lewis English chef/owner (Cavendish Hotel London), dies
     Vladimir N Ipatiev Russian chemist, dies
1954 Enrico Fermi Italian/US nuclear physicist, dies
     George Edward Robey English comic/actor (Henry IV), dies at 85
1957 Erich Wolfgang Korngold Austria/US composer (Kathrin), dies at 60
1959 Fritz Brun composer, dies at 81
1962 Rav Aaron Kotler Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood NJ
1963 Ernesto Lecuona composer, dies at 67
1964 Anne de Vries teacher/author (Bartje searches for happiness), dies
1967 Theo Marcuse actor (Mara of Wilderness), dies in auto accident at 47
1970 Robert Ruthenfranz composer, dies at 65
1971 Heinz Tiessen composer, dies at 84
1974 Haroldson L Hunt US multi-millionaire, dies at 85
     Ouida Bergere scriptwriter, dies at 88
1976 Godfrey Cambridge actor (Watermelon Man), dies at 43
     Judith Lowry actress (Effect of Gamma Rays ...) dies at 86
1977 George Hamilton Combs TV host (Through the Curtain), dies at 78
1978 Alan Richardson composer, dies at 74
1980 Dorothy Day author (Stump the Authors), dies at 83
1981 Natalie Wood actress (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), drowns at 43
1985 Rik Jacobs Flemish music director, dies at 71
1986 Cary Grant actor (Charades), dies in Davenport Iowa at 82
     Herb Vigran actor (Vampire, Mark of Vampire), dies
1987 Howard Pyle (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55), dies at 81
     Irene Handl actress (Riding High, Morgan), dies at 85
1989 Ann Burton [Anna Rafalowicz], singer, dies
1991 Frank Yerby US writer, dies at 76
     Ralph Bellamy actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl Friday), dies at 87
1992 Cary Scott Lowenstein dancer/singer, dies of AIDS at 30
     Emilio Pucci Italian fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy), dies
     Robert F Simon US actor (Operation Petticoat, M*A*S*H), dies at 83
     Robert Shayne US actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!), dies of cancer at 92
1993 JRD Tata Indies industrialist (Air-India), dies at 89
1994 Sviatoslav S Stravinsky French/US composer/son of Igor S, dies at 84
1995 Stone Cates fictional character on General Hospital, dies of AIDS
 Holidays Which Occur November 29: 
     Albania Liberation Day (1944)
     Liberia President Tubman's Birthday
     Panama Independence Day (1821 - from Spain)
     Suriname Commemoration of Victims "Moi Wana"
     UN Intl Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
     Yugoslavia Proclamation of Social Fed Rep of Yugoslavia (1945)
1130 Yugoslavia Proclamation Day of Socialist Federal Republic
 Religious Observances on November 29: 
 267 RC Comm of St Saturninus, 1st bishop of Toulouse/martyr to Rome
 917 RC Radboud, bishop of Utrecht/Deventer
1742 Christian Commemoration of St Francis Fasani, Italian priest
 Things to Remember for November 29: 
     Flower-chrysanthemum         Gem-topaz
     International Creative Child & Adult Month
     National Raisin Bread & Television Sweeps Month
     [NY] Puerto Rican Heritage Month
 22 Days Astrological sign:  Sagittarius
 Highlights in History Which Occur November 29: 
 799 Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome
1349 Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred
1382 Battle of Westrozebeke (French army beats Flemings-1,000s die)
1516 Treaty of Freiburg] French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty
1561 L˜fland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of Poland
1573 Don Lu¡s de Requesensy Zu¤iga succeeds duke of Alva as land
     guardian of Netherlands
1581 Doornik surrenders to duke of Parma
1596 King Philip II devalues Spanish currency
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Carlisle
 and Bonnie Prince Charlies army moves into Manchester
1760 French commandant Belˆtre surrenders Detroit to Maj R Rogers
1803 Dessalines & Christophe declare St Domingue (Ha‹ti) Independence
1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
1813 Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes minister of Finance
1825 1st Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in US (NYC)
1847 Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
1863 Battle of Ft Sanders, TN (Ft Loudon)
1864 4th & last day of skirmishes at Waynesboro, Georgia
 and Battle of Spring Hill, TN (Thomason's Station)
 and Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
1870 Compulsory education proclaimed in England
1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph
1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1890 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point
1900 Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in S Afr
1901 East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved & opened
1902 Gerhart Hauptmanns "Der arn‰ Heinrich," premieres in Vienna
1913 5th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Parkdale, 44-2
1916 Germany: Erwin Garbage marries Lucie "Lu" Mollin
 and US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1918 Serbia annexes Montenegro
1921 Coldest day in Nov in Netherlands -14.0øC
 and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #970 Primula
 and Z Parenteau & Schuyler Green's musical "Kiki," premieres in NYC
1924 12th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeat Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3
 and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1048 Feodosia
 and NHL's Montr‚al Forum opens
1926 W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife," premieres in NYC
1929 Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have
     reached vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong)
1932 Cole Porters musical "Gay Divorcee," premieres in NYC
 and E Delporte discovers asteroid #1366 Piccolo
 and France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union
 and USSR & France sign no attack treaty
1933 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
 and Japan begins spread of communism
1934 Chicago Bears beat Detroit in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally
 and English King George V weds princess Marina of Greece/Denmark
1935 Michael Savage becomes 1st Labour premier of NZ
1937 M B Protitch discovers asteroid #1550 Tito
 and Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in Netherlands
1938 Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany
1939 Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8)
 and USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland
1940 Oterma discovers asteroid #2717 Tellervo, #2803 Vilho & #3132 Landgraf
1941 29th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 18-16
 and Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Jap war fleet
1942 US rations coffee
1943 Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce Bosnia
 and U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
 and US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
1944 Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day)
 and John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery
1945 Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed
1946 Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities
1947 35th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 10-9
 and UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews
1948 KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa
 and Uranium explosions in East Germany kills 3,700
1950 National Council of Church of Christ in US forms
1951 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
 and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 and Winston Churchill re elected British premier
1952 40th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 21-11
 and Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war
1953 WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 Ellis Island closes
1955 Turkish government of Menderes resigns
1956 Styne/Comden/Green's musical "Bells are Ringing," premieres in NYC
1958 46th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 35-28
1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
 and Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
1962 Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year
 and Great-Britain & France decide to jointly build Concorde
1963 Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
 and LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK
1964 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English
1965 Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
1967 British troops withdraw from Aden
 and Last British troops leave South-Yemen
 and Robert McNamara becomes president of World bank
 and US Sec of Def McNamara becomes president of World Bank
1968 John & Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK
1969 Beatles' "Come Together/Something" reaches #1
1970 Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton," premieres
1971 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World
 and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 E F Helin discovers asteroid #2083 Smither
1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1976 Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with Yankees
1978 UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian
 and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
     people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2649 Oongaq
1982 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3210 Lupishko & #3615 Safronov
 and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 75th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 38-36
 and France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
 and Joe Montana of 49ers completes NFL record 22 consecutive passes
 and Korean Air jetliner disappears off Burma, all 115 lost
 and Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles)
     It was later ruled that he should not be credited with goal
1989 8th Largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
 and India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
1990 UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
1991 TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode - Can't Help Loving that Man
1992 80th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 24-10
 Your Special Reminders for November 29: 
     1875   14øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
 and 1990   69øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
 and 333rd day of year with 32 days left    (Numerology = 4)