On This Day

Famous People Born in November 1850

  • Nov 5 Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (Poems of Passion), born in Johnstown, Wisconsin (d. 1919)
  • Nov 8 Karel Komzák II, Bohemian-Viennese violinist, and composer of marches and dances (Bad’ner Mad’ln), born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1905) [1]
  • Nov 9 Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist (father of psychopharmacologist), born in Tuchel, West Prussia (d. 1929)
  • Nov 12 Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)

Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Nov 13 Scottish novelist (Treasure Island; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), born in Edinburgh, Scotland

Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Nov 20 Arthur Goring Thomas, English composer, born Ratton Park, Sussex, England (d. 1892)
  • Nov 26 Henricus van de Wetering, Archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929), born in Hoogland, Netherlands (d. 1929)

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