November 15: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is November 15th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on November 15th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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November 15th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

November 15th Birthdays: Famous Artists

John Banvard, American panoramic painter, was born on November 15, 1815.

Roger Donaldson, New Zealond-Australian film director (The Bank Job, The Bounty, Cadillac Man, Cocktail, Dante's Peak, The Getaway, Marie: A True Story, No Way Out, Nutcase, The Recruit, Sleeping Dogs, Smash Palace, Species, Thirteen Days Which Shocked the World, White Sands and the World's Fastest Indian), was born on November 15, 1943.

American guitarist, bandleader (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno) and film score composer (The Dinner, Psalms from the Underground, Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault and The Week That Girl Died) Kevin Tyrone Eubanks, was born on November 15, 1957.

American blues composer W. C. Handy was born on November 15, 1873. W.C. Handy has been called "The Father of the Blues."

Philips (Philip) Koninck, Dutch Baroque painter (Entrance to a Forest, Farmhouse by a Canal, Landscape - The Edge Of A Wood, Landscape with a Resting Traveler, Portrait of a Boy, The Raising of Tabitha, River Landscape and The Seamstress), was born on November 15, 1619. Philips Koninck studied under master artist Rembrandt van Rijn.

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe, American painter (Banana Flower, Black Iris, Canada, Cebona Church, Cottonwood, Cow's Skull, Cow's Skull with Calico Roses, A Cross by the Sea, Farmhouse Window and Door, Lake George, Petunia, Purple Leaves, Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills, Ranchos Church, Red Canna, Red Whit, and Blue, Roof with Snow, Sunflower, The Green Apple, White Flower and Yellow Jonquils), was born on November 15, 1887.