Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 15

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Births

1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778) (pictured)
1731 - William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
1738 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1822)
1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (d. 1986)
1891 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944)
1929 - Ed Asner, American actor (d. 2021)

Deaths

1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
1919 - Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1954 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878)
1958 - Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
1978 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901)