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Kamal Haasan founded a magazine, Maiam, which he edited, and has written over 100 poems and some books.
Famous Birthdays on November 7
1954 — Kamal Haasan
Tamil actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
November 7 has 270 recorded notable births across history, from 630 to 2001. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on November 7
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- 1893 Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so. Source
- 1990 Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland. Source
- 1972 United States presidential election: U.S. President Richard Nixon is re-elected in the largest landslide victory at the time. Source
- 1775 John Murray (also known as Lord Dunmore), the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British. Source
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David Howell Petraeus is a retired United States Army general who served as the fourth director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from September 2011 until his resignation in November 2012.
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These developments were reflected by his most notable string of hit singles between 1964 and 1968, many of them covers.
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Sharleen Spiteri's debut album, Southside (1989) was a commercial success, selling over two million copies.
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Before joining Nintendo, he had strong familial connections; his great-grandfather, Fusajiro Yamauchi, founded the company, and was its first president, and his grandfather, Sekiryo Kaneda, was its second president.
More major people born on November 7
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1952
David Petraeus
American general, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
David Howell Petraeus is a retired United States Army general who served as the fourth director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from September 2011 until his resignation in November 2012.
1942
Johnny Rivers
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Johnny Rivers is an American retired musician. He achieved commercial success and popularity throughout the 1960s and 1970s as a singer and guitarist, characterized as a versatile and influential artist.
1967
Sharleen Spiteri
Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
Sharleen Eugene Spiteri is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist who has a contralto vocal range, best known as the lead singer of the rock band Texas, who rose to prominence in 1989 with the release of their debut…
1927
Hiroshi Yamauchi
Japanese businessman (died 2013)
Hiroshi Yamauchi was the third president of Nintendo, serving in the role from 25 April 1949 to 24 May 2002, and principal owner of the Seattle Mariners from 1992 until his death.
630
Constans II
Byzantine emperor (died 668)
Constans II, also called "the Bearded", was the Byzantine emperor from 641 to 668.
1931
G. Edward Griffin
American director, producer, and author
George Edward Griffin is an American author, filmmaker, lecturer, and a conspiracy theorist. Griffin's writings promote a number of right-wing views and conspiracy theories regarding politics, defense and health care.
1922
Al Hirt
American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1999)
Alois Maxwell "Al" Hirt was an American trumpeter and bandleader.
1966
Calvin Borel
American jockey
Calvin H. Borel is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing and rode the victorious mount in the 2007 Kentucky Derby, the 2009 Kentucky Derby and the 2010 Kentucky Derby.
1936
Gwyneth Jones
Welsh soprano
Dame Gwyneth Jones is a Welsh dramatic soprano, widely regarded as one of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos of the second half of the 20th century.
1918
Maria Teresa de Noronha
Portuguese singer (died 1993)
D. Maria Teresa do Carmo de Noronha, was a Portuguese aristocrat and a fado singer.
1971
Matthew Ryan
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Matthew Ryan is an American musician, singer and songwriter, born in Chester, Pennsylvania and inspired by such artists as U2, The Replacements, and Leonard Cohen.
1972
Jason London
American actor and producer
Jason Paul London is an American actor. Since his breakout role as Reese Witherspoon’s love interest Court Foster in The Man In the Moon , he has often featured as a leading man, with notable roles as Randall "Pink"…
1888
C. V. Raman
Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S.
1943
Joni Mitchell
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter.
1948
Buck Martinez
American baseball player and manager
John Albert "Buck" Martinez is an American former professional baseball catcher and manager, and was the television color commentator for the Toronto Blue Jays until his retirement in 2026.
1805
Thomas Brassey
English engineer and businessman (died 1870)
Thomas Brassey was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century.
1888
Nestor Makhno
Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (died 1934)
Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, also known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence.
1962
Dirk Shafer
American model, actor, and director (died 2015)
Dirk Alan Shafer was an American model, actor, screenwriter and director. Born in Carbondale, Illinois, he was most noted in the modeling world for having been Playgirl magazine's 1992 "Man of the Year".
1921
Lisa Ben
American singer-songwriter and journalist (died 2015)
Edythe D. Eyde better known by her pen name Lisa Ben, was an American editor, author, active fantasy-fiction fan and fanzine contributor, and songwriter.