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We're not the ones to feel sorry for; it's the fans we feel sorry for, the families with children who have to stand out in the rain. (27 Sep 2024, after the fire alarm went off and the arena was evacuated due to pyrotechnics from the fans.)  Oss är det inte synd om, det är synd om fansen, det är synd om barnfamiljerna som måste stå ute i regnet. (27 Sep 2024, efter brandlarmet gick av och arenan utrymdes på grund av pyroteknik från fansen.)  Det er ikke synd på oss, det er synd på fansen, det er synd på barnefamiliene som må stå ute i regnet. (27 Sep 2024, etter at brannalarmen gikk og arenaen ble evakuert på grunn av pyroteknikk fra fansen.)  Det er ikke os, der er synd for, det er fansene, det er børnefamilierne, der skal stå ude i regnen. (27 Sep 2024, efter brandalarmen gik i gang, og arenaen blev evakueret på grund af pyroteknik fra fansene.) Konstantin Komarek (1992-) Ishockey Club Crises

These authors were born on the 12th of November:
Richard Baxter (1615-1691) - English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) - Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet
Mary Astell (1666-1731) - English feminist writer (1666-1731)
John Fairlie (1717-1757) - (1717-1757)
Ray Palmer (1808-1887) - American pastor
William Weathers (1814-1895) - Catholic bishop (1814–1895)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) - US feminist
Baha'u'llah (1817-1892) - founder of the Bahá'í Faith (1817–1892)
Franz Kreuzer (1819-1872) - German painter (1819-1872)
Aleksandr Borodin (1833-1887) - composer
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) - Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
Rodan (1840-1917) - French sculptor (1840–1917)
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) - French sculptor
Elizabeth Sommer (1841-1873)
John Oxenham (1852-1941) - English journalist, novelist and poet (1852–1941)
Julian Corbett (1854-1922) - British naval historian
Ola Hansson (1860-1925) - Swedish novelist.
Herbert Trench (1865-1923) - Irish poet (1865-1923)
Sun Wen (1866-1925) - Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) - Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
Joseph McCabe (1867-1955) - British writer (1867–1955)
Bert Williams (1874-1922) - American comedian and actor (1874–1922)
Warren Austin (1877-1962) - American politician (1877-1962)
Oscar Geismar (1877-1950) - Danish priest and writer (1877-1950)
Mark Catlin (1882-1956) - American football player and coach, lawyer, politician (1882-1956)
Marjorie Boyd (1892-) - (born 1892)
Dolores Ibarruri (Pasionaria) (1895-1989)
Hans Deppe (1897-1969) - German film actor and director (1897-1969)
Martin Gumpert (1897-1955) - German-American physician and writer (1897–1955)
George Dillon (1906-1968) - American poet
Bob Cooney (1907-1984) - Scottish politician (1907-1984)
Henry Billington (1908-1980) - British tennis player (1908-1980)
Harry Blackmun (1908-1999) - US Supreme Court justice from 1970 to 1994 (1908–1999)
Harry A. Blackmun (1908-1999) - US Supreme Court
Arbit Blatas (1908-1999) - Lithuanian and American painter and sculptor (1908-1999)
Matt Armstrong (1911-1995) - Scottish footballer (1911-1995)
David Bolton (1912-2004) - American lawyer (1912-2004)
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) - French critic
Richard Ney (1915-2004) - American actor (1916-2004)
Jo Stafford (1917-2008) - American singer (1917–2008)
Rupert Wood (1917-1968) - Barbadian cricketer
Johnny May (1918-2001) - English music manager, record producer and composer
Denis Miller (1918-2009) - New Zealand pilot
Henning Vik (1918-) - chaplain to seafarers
Lars Gyllensten (1921-2006) - Swedish physician and writer (1921–2006)
Paul Maxwell (1921-1991) - Canadian actor (1921-1991)
Loriot (1923-2011) - German humorist, cartoonist, film director and actor (1923–2011)
Ernie Anderson (1923-1997) - American disc jockey, and television and radio announcer/voiceover artist (1923-1997)
Oswald Dreyer-Eimbcke (1923-2010) - German entrepreneur (1923–2010)
Andy Hansen (1924-2002) - American baseball player (1924-2002)
Sam Jones (1924-1981) - American double bassist and cellist (1924-1981)
Hans Blohm (1927-2021) - rescue chief
Grace Kelly (1928-1982) - of Monaco.
Bob Monahan (1928-2020) - American ice hockey player (1928-2020)
Michael Ende (1929-1995) - German writer (1929–1995)
Richard Estrada (1929-2011) - American labor leader (1929–2011)
Kim Hunter (1929-1982) - American actress (1922-2002)
Norman Mineta (1931-2022) - American politician (1931–2022)
Jerry Douglas (1932-2021) - American television and film actor (1932–2021)
Jalal Talabani (1933-2017) - Iraqi politician (1933-2017)
Grant Teaff (1933-) - American football player and coach, college athletics administrator
Jeffrey Thomas (1933-1989) - British politician (1933-1989)
Diane Watson (1933-) - American politician (born 1933)
Jimmy Harris (1934-2011) - American football player (1934-2011)
Charlie Manson (1934-2017) - American criminal and cult leader (1934–2017)
Charles Manson (1934-2017) - US crazy person
Mills Lane (1936-2022) - American judge, boxer, boxing referee
Richard May (1938-2004) - British judge (1938–2004)
Benjamin Mkapa (1938-2020) - Tanzanian politician and former president (1938-2020)
George Blaney (1939-) - American basketball player-coach
Ronald Allen (1940-2020) - astronomer
Jim Ragland (1940-2006) - American football player and coach
Jürgen Todenhöfer (1940-) - journalist
Berrien Moore (1941-2024) - American mathematician
Eva Björklund (1942-) - head of driving tests at the Swedish Transport Administration in Falun
Craig Olson (1942-2024) - Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles 1970
Abbas Zaki (1942-) - Palestinian politician
Larry Cox (1943-) - football player (born 1943)
David Emm (1943-2006) - American comics artist (1943–2006)
Jan Jennehag (1943-) - former member of parliament and active in PRO
Valerie Leon (1943-) - Actress
Wallace Shawn (1943-) - American actor and playwright
Arnie Ball (1944-) - American volleyball coach
Lennart Koskinen (1944-) - senior bishop
Al Michaels (1944-) - American television sportscaster
Carol Beckwith (1945-) - American explorer and photographer
Fred Hassan (1945-) - American businessman
Tracy Kidder (1945-2026) - American writer (1945–2026)
Neil Young (1945-) - Canadian singer, songwriter and filmmaker (born 1945)
Bjørn Aas (1946-) - project manager for the NTNU project Kunstgress 2021
Pat Dooley (1946-) - Member of the Georgia General Assembly
Krister Henriksson (1946-) - actor
Ron Bryant (1947-2023) - American baseball player
Guy Hansen (1947-) - American baseball coach
William Herbst (1947-) - American astronomer
Ingelin Killengreen (1947-) - National Police Commissioner
Ingelin Killengren (1947-) - Police Commissioner
Věra Roubalová (1947-) - psychotherapist and former civil rights activist
Skip Campbell (1948-2018) - American politician
Tom Edwards (1948-) - American artist (born 1948)
Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa (1948-) - Minister of Local Government and Regional Development
Hassan Rohani (1948-) - President of Iran from 2013 to 2021
Hassan Rouhani (1948-) - President of Iran
Hassan Rowhani (1948-) - President of Iran from 2013 to 2021
Guram Adamia (1949-) - IT worker and protester
Jack Reed (1949-) - American politician (born 1949)
Barbara Fairchild (1950-) - American country and gospel singer
Anne Nolan (1950-) - sister of Linda Nolan
Stan Goff (1951-) - American activist
Hill Marta Solberg (1951-) - county governor
Hill-Marta Solberg (1951-) - Norwegian politician
Hill-Martha Solberg (1951-) - county governor
Hugo Vickers (1951-) - British writer and broadcaster
Ron Burkle (1952-) - supermarket billionaire
Ernie Fletcher (1952-) - American politician
Terry Robiskie (1954-) - American football player and coach
Peter Gudmundson (1955-) - President of KTH
Aghason Anba Paul (1955-)
Carl Armfelt (1956-) - fund manager at Swedbank Robur
Hanne Foighel (1956-2025) - author, former Middle East correspondent
Norman Black (1957-) - American basketball player-coach
Michael Combs (1957-) - American gospel singer
Simeon Ehui (1957-) - Ph.D. Purdue University 1987
Amanda Platell (1957-) - Writer/Commentator
Tim Sam (1957-2013) - American engineer (1957-2013)
Raymond Blair (1958-) - association football player
David Burns (1958-) - English footballer (born 1958)
Megan Mullally (1958-) - American actress
Gisela Widmer (1958-) - Swiss journalist
Henrik Bachner (1959-) - author of the report and PhD in history of ideas
Lester Butler (1959-1998) - American blues harmonica player and singer (1959-1998)
Bjørn M. Wiggen (1959-) - CEO of Orkla
Bjørn Wiggen (1959-) - CEO
Ingela Edlund (1960-) - LO's second vice president
Peggy Hessen Følsvik (1960-) - LO leader
Emilio Gonzalez (1960-) - Mexican politician
David Hood (1960-) - Canadian writer
Jeff Kottkamp (1960-) - American politician
Steinar Krogstad (1960-) - associate professor at the Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at NTNU in Trondheim
Ted Young (1960-) - American basketball player-coach
Nadia Comaneci (1961-) - Romanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist (born 1961)
Tomas Espedal (1961-) - author
Thomas Espedal (1961-) - author
Mohammed bin Sulayem (1961-) - President of the FIA
Mohammed Ben Sulayem (1961-) - President of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)
Frithjof Wilborn (1961-) - guest host
Lisa Adler (1962-) - German actress
Mariella Frostrup (1962-) - Broadcaster
Halil Karaveli (1962-) - expert on Turkey
Brix Smith-Start (1962-) - Fashion expert
Naomi Wolf (1962-) - American feminist and journalist (born 1962)
Damon Galgut (1963-) - author
Krister Hammarbergh (1963-) - member of the Election Review Board and former member of parliament for the Moderate Party
Sam Lloyd (1963-2020) - American actor (1963–2020)
Chris Stokes (1963-) - Jamaican bobsledder; track and field athlete; business executive, and author
Kevin Ball (1964-) - English footballer (born 1964)
David Ellefson (1964-) - American bass guitarist
Jerry Kilgore (1964-) - American musician
Birger Lahti (1964-) - Member of Parliament for the Left Party
Sunil Paul (1964-) - American businessman
Gerald Perry (1964-) - American football player
Chris Banks (1965-) - British footballer (born 1965)
Efim Khazanov (1965-) - physicist and assistant research director at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Christen Krogh (1965-) - president of OsloMet
Harald Larssen (1965-) - manager of Lerøy Midt
Thomas Senderovitz (1965-) - Director of the Danish Medicines Agency
Martin Wiseman (1965-) - researcher
Niels Nymann Eriksen (1966-) - spokesperson for the parish council and immigrant priest
Shaun Fitzgerald (1966-) - climate scientist and head of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Repair
Anette Norberg (1966-) - Swedish female curler
Tim O'Shea (1966-) - football player and manager (born 1966)
David Schwimmer (1966-) - American actor (born 1966)
Marc Solomon (1966-) - American LGBT rights activist
Andy Thorn (1966-) - English footballer and manager (born 1966)
Jeff Zients (1966-) - White House covid-19 coordinator
Bård Torgersen (1967-) - author
Ap Dijksterhuis (1968-) - Dutch psychologist
Randy Knorr (1968-) - American baseball player and coach
Michael Lohscheller (1968-) - CEO of Polestar
Sammy Sosa (1968-) - Dominican baseball player (born 1968)
David Boutin (1969-) - Canadian actor
Ian Bremmer (1969-) - American political scientist
Tilde Harkamp (1969-) - film director
Helena Olá (1969-) - site manager at Ericsson in Karlskrona
Jarone Pinhassi (1969-) - professor of microbiology and project leader in Kalmar
Kathleen Hanna (1970-) - American musician and feminist activist
Tonya Harding (1970-) - American figure skater
Sarah Harmer (1970-) - musician, activist
Steve Hoye (1970-) - football player (born 1970)
Craig Parker (1970-) - New Zealand actor
Janicke Andreassen (1971-) - State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries
Annette Heick (1971-)
Henrik Thunes (1971-) - Swedish local politician
Jesus Chavez (1972-) - Mexican boxer
Nasser Al-Khelaifi (1973-) - PSG president
Mayte Garcia (1973-) - Prince's ex-wife
Egil Gjelland (1973-) - national team manager
Radha Mitchell (1973-) - Australian actress
Ethan Zohn (1973-) - American soccer player and reality television series contestant
Aaron Brink (1974-2023) - American mixed martial artist (born 1974)
Hildegunn Dale (1974-) - author
Tyrone Marshall (1974-) - Jamaican soccer player and manager
Simen Eriksrud (1975-) - producer
Fredrik Eriksson (1975-) - media manager at Mälardalens räddningsförbund
Randy Palmer (1975-) - football player (born 1975)
Patrick Davis (1976-) - American musician
Rob Konrad (1976-) - American football fullback (born 1976)
Rachel Dolezal (1977-) - Woman who posed as a black woman
Malin Levanon (1977-) - actress
Benni McCarthy (1977-) - South African association football player (born 1977)
Rachel Moore (1977-) - former flight attendant
Aaron Heilman (1978-) - baseball player
Renaldo Hill (1978-) - player of American football
Geir Eithun (1979-) - beach volleyball player
Lucas Glover (1979-) - American professional golfer
Andrei Kostin (1979-) - Estonian association football player (born 1979)
Corey Maggette (1979-) - American basketball player (born 1979)
Cote De Pablo (1979-) - Actress
Nick Taylor (1979-) - American wheelchair tennis player (born 1979)
Isabellah Andersson (1980-) - marathon runner
Lance Briggs (1980-) - American football player, linebacker
Derek Damon (1980-) - American ice hockey player
Ryan Gosling (1980-) - Canadian actor (born 1980)
Jamie Lloyd (1980-) - British theatre director
Peter Sciretta (1980-) - Slash Film editor
Gustaf Skar (1980-) - professor of Norwegian didactics
Gustaf Skarsgård (1980-) - actor (plays Karl Oskar)
Jamie Dodd (1981-) - Professional soccer player
Ryan Dorsey (1981-) - actor
Gibril Wilson (1981-) - Sierra Leone-born American football player (born 1981)
Daniel Bernmar (1982-) - municipal commissioner
Paul Fellows (1982-) - rugby league footballer
Anne Hathaway (1982-) - American actress (born 1982)
Adam Munro (1982-) - Canadian ice hockey player
Charlie Weimers (1982-) - European Parliament candidate for the Sweden Democrats
Steve Huff (1983-) - American businessman
Steve Huffman (1983-) - American businessman
Stian Tvede Karlsen (1983-) - Chief of Staff for the DA in Western Cape
Rob Rogers (1983-) - Irish football referee
Loren Stokes (1983-) - American basketball player (born 1983)
Omarion (1984-) - American R&B singer
Jorge Masvidal (1984-) - MMA fighter
Arturo Santamaria (1984-) - researcher at Autonomous University in Sinaloa
Anthony Slack (1984-) - American basketball player (born 1984)
Kiril Wachsmann (1984-) - American basketball player
Yan Zi (1984-) - Chinese tennis player
Ben Aldridge (1985-) - actor
Chante Black (1985-) - American basketball player (born 1985)
Doug Hayes (1985-) - college basketball player (2005–2005) Dartmouth
Weldu Negash Gebretsadik (1986-) - asylum seeker
Nedum Onuoha (1986-) - Former Manchester City defender
Isaiah Dahlman (1987-) - college basketball player (2007–2010) Michigan State
Gleb Karakulov (1987-) - defector and former officer in the Russian Federal Protective Service, FSO
Katie Mackey (1987-) - American middle- and long-distance runner
Vanessa Marko (1987-) - political secretary to the chair of the municipal executive board Katrin Stjernfeldt-Jammeh
Lote Tuqiri (1987-) - Japanese rugby union footballer
Anders Vistisen (1987-) - politician for the Danish People's Party
Hravn Forsne (1988-) - chair of the Health and Social Care Committee in Kungsbacka Municipality
Alex Montgomery (1988-) - American basketball player (born 1988)
Leah O'Rourke (1988-) - Actress in Derry Girls
Russell Westbrook (1988-) - NBA player
Jørn Bjørn Augestad (1989-) - traveler
Jana Bieger (1989-) - American gymnast
Lorentz Tovatt (1989-) - Green Party politician
Dominique Brown (1990-2024) - American Disney influencer (1990–2024)
Florent Manaudou (1990-) - swimmer
James McCarthy (1990-) - Irish association football player (born 1990)
Tom Dunn (1992-) - English rugby union footballer
Jordan Nelson (1992-) - college basketball player (2012–2013) Evansville
David Plati (1993-)
Guillaume Cizeron (1994-) - ice dancer
Madelen Janogy (1995-) - football player
Romina Pourmokhtari (1995-) - Minister for Climate and Environment
Jasse Tuominen (1995-) - player for FC Inter
Sunniva Næs Andersen (1996-) - handball player/European Championship debutant
Vilma Johansson (1997-) - student
Jake Marsh (1998-) - American professional surfer
Omar Rudberg (1998-) - member of The Fooo Conspiracy
Joel Brown (2000-) - Canadian basketball player (born 2000)
Joel Mvuka (2002-) - football player
William von Barnekow (2002-) - player
Smilla Sundell (2004-) - Thai boxer

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