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Born This Day: November 30
| 1508 |
Andrea Palladio, architect (Padua, Italy; died 1580) |
| 1667 |
Jonathan Swift, clergyman/satirist (Dublin, Ireland; died 1745) |
| 1817 |
Theodor Mommsen, historian (Garding, Germany; died 1903) |
| 1835 |
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), novelist/humorist (Florida, MO; died 1910) |
| 1874 |
Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman and prime minister (Oxfordshire, England; died 1965) |
| 1924 |
Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (New York, NY; died 2005) |
| 1926 |
Richard Crenna, actor (Los Angeles, CA; died 2003) |
| Andrew Victor Schally, biochemist and Nobel laureate (Vilnius, Lithuania) |
| 1929 |
Dick Clark, TV personality and producer (Mount Vernon, NY) |
| 1936 |
Abbie Hoffman, political activist (Worcester, MA; died 1989) |
| 1937 |
Robert Guillaume, actor (St. Louis, MO) |
| Ridley Scott, director (Northumberland, England) |
| 1947 |
David Mamet, dramatist (Chicago, IL) |
| 1952 |
Mandy Patinkin, singer/actor (Chicago, IL) |
| 1955 |
Billy Idol, singer (London, England) |
| 1962 |
Bo Jackson, baseball and football player (Bessemer, AL) |
| 1965 |
Ben Stiller, actor/director (New York, NY) |
| 1971 |
Ivan Rodriguez, baseball player (Manati, Puerto Rico) |
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