Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 7
Births
[edit]- 1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish-born chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)
- 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940) (pictured)
- 1913 - Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
- 1918 - Billy Graham, American evangelist (d. 2018)
- 1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
Deaths
[edit]- 1872 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
- 1910 (O.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)
- 1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
- 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
- 1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)