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November 16

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Born this day

1955

Guillermo Lasso

Turns 70

Oldest record

785th

Ibn Arabi

death anniversary

Famous births5

1717 · 308 yrs

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert ( DAL-əm-BAIR; French:; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie.

ScienceWould be 308

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1922 · 103 yrs

José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago (European Portuguese:; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer.

LiteratureWould be 103

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1930 · 95 yrs

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature.

LiteratureWould be 95

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1955 · 70 yrs

Guillermo Lasso

Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza (Latin American Spanish:; born 16 November 1955) is an Ecuadorian businessman, banker and politician who served as the 47th president of Ecuador from 2021 to 2023. Lasso served as Superminister of Economy during the Jamil Mahuad presidency briefly in 1999.

PoliticsAge 70

Photo: Presidencia de la República del Ecuador · Public domain

1985 · 40 yrs

Sanna Marin

Sanna Mirella Marin (born 16 November 1985) is a Finnish politician who served as prime minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023 and as the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) from 2020 to 2023. She was a Member of Parliament from 2015 to 2023.

PoliticsAge 40

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Famous deaths5

1240 · 785 yrs

Ibn Arabi

Ibn al-ʿArabī (August, 1165 – November, 1240) was a Muslim Arab scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher from al-Andalus, who exercised notable influence within Sufi metaphysics and Islamic thought in general.

PhilosophyWould be 861

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1272 · 753 yrs

Henry III of England

Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.

RoyaltyWould be 819

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1831 · 194 yrs

Carl von Clausewitz

Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz ( KLOW-zə-vits; German:; born Carl Philipp Gottlieb Clauswitz; 1 July 1780 – 16 November 1831) was a Prussian army officer and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (in modern terms meaning psychological) and political aspects of waging war.

MilitaryWould be 246

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1960 · 65 yrs

Clark Gable

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American actor often referred to as the "King of Hollywood ". He appeared in more than 60 motion pictures across a variety of genres during a 37-year career, three decades of which he spent as a leading man.

FilmWould be 125

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2006 · 19 yrs

Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy.

ScienceWould be 114

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