Who Was Born Today – November 23 Birthdays
Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day
Born on November 23 | ||
1804 | Franklin Pierce, hero of the American war with Mexico and 14th president of the United States. | |
1878 | Ernest King, commander-in-chief of the U.S. fleet who designed the United States’ winning strategy in World War II. | |
1887 | Boris Karloff, film actor most famous for his role as the monster in the movie Frankenstein. | |
1888 | Adolph Arthur “Harpo” Marx, American comedian, one of the Marx brothers. | |
1897 | Willie “The Lion” Smith, jazz and ragtime pianist. | |
1923 | Gloria Whelan, poet, author primarily known for children’s and young-adult fiction; her novel Homeless Bird won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2000. | |
1943 | Andrew Goodman, civil rights activist; murdered by Ku Klux Klan in 1964 near Philadelphia, Miss. | |
1961 | John Schnatter, businessman; founded Papa John’s Pizza. | |
1980 | Ishmael Beah, authored A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, a memoir of his time as a Sierra Leonean child solider in that country’s civil war. |
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