Thursday, 12 November 2015

1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, political reformer and founder of the Women’s Rights Convention.

1929   Nov 12 Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco.


1821   Nov 11 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist and political revolutionary (The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment).


1962   Nov 11 Demi Moore, actress (Ghost, A Few Good Men); in 1996 became highest-paid actress in film history when she received $12.5 million to star in Striptease.
1974   Nov 11 Leonardo DiCaprio, actor; (Titanic, The Great Gatsby) won Golden Globe for Best Actor (The Aviator, 2004).


1840   Auguste Rodin, French sculptor.



1961   Nov 12 Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gold medal-winning Romanian gymnast; named one of the athletes of the century by Laureus World Sports Academy (2000).
1962   Nov 12 Naomi Wolf, activist, author of The Beauty Myth; a leader in what has been described as the third wave of the feminist movement