Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 23

Births

• 1616 - John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703) (pictured)
• 1804 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
• 1837 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
• 1887 - Boris Karloff, British actor (d. 1969)
• 1888 - Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)

Deaths

• 1814 - Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744)
• 1902 - Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851)
• 1979 - Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911)
• 1990 - Roald Dahl, British author (b. 1916)