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Notable Birthdays for November 30

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Those born on this date include:

- Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1508
- Irish satirist Jonathan Swift in 1667
- novelist Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) in 1835
- film director Gordon Parks in 1912
- British statesman Winston Churchill in 1874
- actors Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in 1918 and Virginia Mayo in 1920
- Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, and comedian Allan Sherman, both in 1924
- actors Richard Crenna in 1926 and Robert Guillaume in 1927 (age 89)
- producer/TV music show host Dick Clark in 1929
- Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy in 1930 (age 86)
- 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman in 1936
- filmmaker Ridley Scott in 1937 (age 79)
- playwright David Mamet in 1947 (age 69)
- singer/actor Mandy Patinkin in 1952 (age 64)
- singer June Pointer in 1953 (age 63)
- rock singer Billy Idol in 1955 (age 61)
- historian Michael Beschloss in 1955 (age 61)
- Heisman Trophy winner and football Hall of Fame member Bo Jackson in 1962 (age 54)
- actor Ben Stiller in 1965 (age 51)
- and singer Clay Aiken in 1978 (age 38).

 


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