Born on November 23

A Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, Jean Mabillon is the founder of diplomatics, the critical science of authenticating charters and ancient documents. His major work, De re diplomatica (1681), laid the foundations of modern historical method.

American outlaw of the Wild West, famous for his skill as a gunfighter and his involvement in the Lincoln County War. Killed at age 21 by Sheriff Pat Garrett, he became a legendary figure of the conquest of the American West.

Robert Goldwater (1907–1973) was an American art historian specializing in primitive art and modern art. He founded the Museum of Primitive Art in New York in 1954 and was one of the first scholars to theorize primitivism in twentieth-century Western art.

Pierre Étaix (1928-2016) was a French clown, filmmaker, actor and illustrator. A collaborator of Jacques Tati, in the 1960s he directed slapstick comedies such as “The Suitor” and “Yoyo,” in the tradition of visual comic cinema.

Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist, essayist, and activist born in 1961. Her novel The God of Small Things (1997) won the Booker Prize. She is a vocal advocate against nuclear weapons, dam construction, and social inequality in India.

Born in 1992 in the United States, Miley Cyrus is a versatile artist who has established herself as a singer-songwriter and actress. She first rose to fame through the Hannah Montana series (Disney Channel), before successfully transitioning to an independent and outspoken musical career.