On this day, November 14th, we celebrate this famous birthdays:

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In 1650 ,William III, William of Orange, King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1689 to 1702, and Stadtholder, born in The Hague, Dutch Republic.

In 1765, Robert Fulton, American inventor and engineer (first commercial steamboat), born in Little Britain, Pennsylvania.

In 1771, Marie François Xavier bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (tissue theory), born in Paris.

In 1797, Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (Principles of Geology), born in Kinnordy, Angus, Scotland.

In 1840, Claude Monet [Oscar-Claude], French impressionist painter (Water Lilies, Haystacks, Poplars), born in Paris, France.

In 1863, Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and inventor, born in Ghent, Belgium.

In 1877, Norman Brookes, Australian tennis player winner of Wimbledon 1907 and 1914, born in Melbourne, Victoria.

In 1889, Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964, and important leader of the Indian independence movement, born in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, British India.

In 1891, Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, born in Alliston, Ontario.

In 1900, Aaron Copland, American composer (Billy the Kid; Appalachian Spring), born in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1909, Joseph McCarthy, American Senator, who claimed communists infiltrated the US government, born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin.

In 1922, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992- 96), born in Cairo, Egypt.

In 1947, P. J. O'Rourke, American journalist and satirist (Parliament of Whores, Easy Money), born in Toledo, Ohio.

In 1948, Prince Charles [Charles Philip Arthur George], Prince of Wales/Duke of Cornwall, born in London.

In 1954, Condoleezza Rice, 1st female African-American U.S. Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009, born in Birmingham, Alabama.

In 1959, Bryan Stevenson, American social justice activist and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, born in Milton, Delaware.

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