Dr. Henry Chang-Yu Lee,

Dr. Henry Chang-Yu Lee, is a Chinese-born American forensic scientist. He is one of the world's foremost forensic scientists and founder of the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science. He was born on
November 22, 1938.

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George Emil Palade

George Emil Palade was a Romanian cell biologist. He was described as "the most influential cell biologist ever", in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, together with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. He was born on November 19, 1912 and died on October 7, 2008.

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Alan Bartlett Shepard

Alan Bartlett Shepard was born on November 18, 1923. he was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, NASA astronaut, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space. He died on July 21, 1998.

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Roberto Cavalli

Roberto Cavalli is an Italian fashion designer from Florence. He is known for detailed exotic prints and for creating the sand-blasted look for jeans which are now a standard style for the majority of jean makers. He was born on November 15, 1940.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister and he was born on 14 November 1889. He ruled  India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in office in 1964 May 27http://datesupdates.blogspot.in/2013/05/jawaharlal-nehru-death-anniversary.html.  His birthday is celebrated as Children's day in India.

Hugh Everett III

Hugh Everett III was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, which he termed his "relative state" formulation. He was born on November 11, 1930 and died on July 19, 1982.

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Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov is a Russian small arms designer, most famous for developing the AK-47, AKM, and AK-74 assault rifles. He was born on November 10, 1919.

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Jack William Szostak

Jack William Szostak was born November 9, 1952, he is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.

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Edwin Herbert Hall

Edwin Herbert Hall was an American physicist who discovered the "Hall effect". He was born on November 7, 1855 and died on November 20, 1938. 

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James Naismith was born on November 6, 1861, he was a Canadian-American sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and he died on November 28, 1939.

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Charles Kuen Kao

Charles Kuen Kao is a Chinese-born Hong Kong, American and British electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications. He was born on November 4, 1933. 

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Nick Holonyak

Nick Holonyak invented the first practically useful visible LED in 1962 and has been called "the father of the light-emitting diode". He was born on November 3, 1928.

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George Boole

George Boole was born on November 2, 1815. He was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is now best known as the author of The Laws of Thought. He died on December 8, 1864. 

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Sardar Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel

Sardar Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was born on 31 October 1875, he was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of India. He is known to be a social leader of India who played an unparalleled role in the country's struggle for independence and guided its integration into a united, independent nation. He died on 15 December 1950.

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A. J. Ayer

Alfred Jules Freddie Ayer was born on  October 29, 1910. He was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic and The Problem of Knowledge. He died on June 27, 1989.

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Bill Gates

William Henry Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, he is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.

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Otto Wichterle

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Otto Wichterle was a Czech chemist, best known for his invention of modern soft contact lenses. He was born on October 27, 1913 and died on August 18, 1998. 
 

Joseph Aloysius Hansom

Joseph Aloysius Hansom was a prolific English architect working principally in the Gothic Revival style. He invented the Hansom cab and founded the eminent architectural journal, The Builder, in 1843. He was born on October 26, 1803 and died on June 29, 1882.

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Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell was born on October 25, 1877, he was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram. In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed Russell–Saunders coupling which is also known as LS coupling. He died on February 18, 1957.

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Alfred Bernhard Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He was born on October 21, 1833. He was the inventor of dynamite and he died on December 10, 1896.

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