Historical Events
Thomas Edison's Phonograph
Nov 29 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time
Famous Birthdays
Victor Trumper
Nov 2 Victor Trumper, Australian Cricket Batsman (48 Tests, top score 214; key figure foundation of rugby league in Australia), born in Sydney, NSW (d. 1915)
Aga Khan III
Nov 2 Aga Khan III, Shia Imam who was one of the founders of the All-India Muslim League and later President of the League of Nations (1937-38), born in Karachi, British India (d. 1957)
- Nov 2 Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul, born in Mdina, Malta (d. 1933)
- Nov 3 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, 19th and 25th President of Chile, born in Chillán, Chile (d. 1960)
- Nov 7 Henry Balfour Gardiner, English composer and musician, born in Kensington, England (d. 1950)
- Nov 9 Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet, born in Sialkot, Punjab Province, British India (d. 1938)
- Nov 9 Sergei US Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
- Nov 9 Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician, 1st President of Italy (1948), born in Naples, Italy (d. 1959)
- Nov 14 René de Clerq, Flemish poet/author (Emergency Horn)
Norman Brookes
Nov 14 Norman Brookes, Australian tennis player (Wimbledon 1907, 14), born in Melbourne, Victoria (d. 1968)
- Nov 16 Halliwell Hobbes, British actor (Gaslight, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), born in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England (d. 1962)
- Nov 17 Frank Calder, British born Canadian ice hockey executive (first NHL President), born in Bristol, England (d. 1943)
- Nov 18 Arthur Cecil Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England (d. 1959)
- Nov 21 Louis Campbell-Tipton, American composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1921)
- Nov 21 Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer, born in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany (d. 1933)
- Nov 22 Endre Ady, Hungarian lyric poet (Még egyzer, Uj versek), born in Ermindszent, Hungary (d. 1919)
- Nov 22 Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona, born in Winterthur, Switzerland (d. 1930)
- Nov 24 Alben W Barkley, Graves County Ky, (35th Vice Pres-D-1949-53)
- Nov 24 Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian CID Commissioner of Police (d. 1941)
- Nov 25 Harley Granville-Barker, English dramatist, producer (The Voysey Inheritance) and critic, born in London (d. 1946)
