This Week’s Birthdays – Week of November 7

November 7, 1805 – Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)

November 8, 1927 – Patti Page, American singer

November 9, 1825 – A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)

November 10, 1483 – Martin Luther, German Protestant reformer (d. 1546)

November 11, 1848 – Viscount Kawakami Sōroku, a general and one of the chief military strategists in the Imperial Japanese Army during the First Sino-Japanese War.

November 12, 1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)

November 13, 1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (d. 1894)