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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, Viennese composer, born in Prague (d. 1905)
  • 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)

Person of interestRobert Louis Stevenson

Nov 13 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (Treasure Island), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1894)

Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson
Novelist
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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