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Famous People Born in November 1869

  • Nov 5 Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (founded the Swaraj Party), born in Bikrampur, British India (d. 1925)
  • Nov 10 Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (assassinated King Umberto I of Italy on July 29, 1900), born in Coiano, Prato, Tuscany (d. 1901)

Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947)

Nov 11 King of Italy (1900-46), Emperor of Ethiopia and King of the Albanians, born in Naples, Kingdom of

  • Nov 13 Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian politician, writer, and feminist, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1962)
  • Nov 13 Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist, and writer, born in Elberfeld, Germany (d. 1943)
  • Nov 20 Clark Griffith, American Baseball HOF pitcher (MLB ERA leader 1898 Chicago Colts/Orphans) and manager (Chicago WS, NY Highlanders, Cincinnati Reds, Washington Sens [owner]), born in Clear Creek, Missouri (d. 1955)

André Gide (1869-1951)

Nov 22 French writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947), born in Paris

  • Nov 23 Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer who invented devices for radio broadcasting, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1942)
  • Nov 24 António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (d. 1951)
  • Nov 25 Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer, born in Jackson, Tennessee (d. 1943)
  • Nov 26 Maud of Wales, Queen of Norway, spouse of King Haakon VII, born in Marlborough House, London (d. 1938)

Gustaf Dalén (1869-1937)

Nov 30 Swedish physicist and industrialist (AGA, Nobel Prize in Physics 1912), born in Stenstorp, Sweden