November 2, 1795 – 11th U. S. President James K. Polk is born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
November 4, 1879 – American humorist Will Rogers is born in Oologah Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
November 4, 1916 – United Press International wire service correspondent and later CBS-TV news anchorman Walter Cronkite is born in St. Joseph, Missouri. During his lifetime, he is widely ranked as America’s most trusted journalist.
November 7, 1867 – Polish chemist Marie Curie is born in Warsaw. In 1903 she shares the Nobel Prize for physics with her husband, Pierre, for their discovery of the element Radium.