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Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 2: Tennis legend Ken Rosewall is 90. Political commentator Patrick Buchanan is 86. Bruce Welch, rhythm guitarist with The Shadows, is 83. Actress Stefanie Powers is 82. Actress Kate Linder is 77.

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 2:

Tennis legend Ken Rosewall is 90.

Political commentator Patrick Buchanan is 86.

Bruce Welch, rhythm guitarist with The Shadows, is 83.

Actress Stefanie Powers is 82.

Actress Kate Linder is 77.

Dave Pegg, bass guitarist and singer with Fairport Convention, is 77.

Singer Maxine Nightingale is 72.

Drummer Carter Beauford of the Dave Matthews Band is 66.

Actor Peter Mullan is 65.

Singer k.d. lang is 63.

Actress Lauren Velez ("Dexter") is 60.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is 60.

Actor David Schwimmer ("Friends") is 58.

Actor Sean Kanan is 58.

Singer Alvin Chea of Take 6 is 57.

Jazz singer Kurt Elling is 57.

Bassist Fieldy (Reginald Arvizu) of Korn is 55.

Actress Meta Golding ("The Hunger Games: Catching Fire") is 53.

Singer-guitarist John Hampson of Nine Days is 53.

Actress Marisol Nichols ("Riverdale") is 53.

Rapper Nelly is 50.

Country singer/TV personality Beverley Mahood is 50.

Actor Danny Cooksey ("Diff'rent Strokes") is 49.

Guitarist Chris Walla of Death Cab For Cutie is 49.

Actress Reshma Shetty is 47.

Actor-singer Kendall Schmidt ("Big Time Rush") is 34.

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Also born on this date (death in parentheses):

In 1734, American explorer and frontiersman Daniel Boone. (Sept. 26, 1820)

In 1755, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. (Oct. 16, 1793)

In 1795, U.S. President James Polk. (June 15, 1849)

In 1865, U.S. President Warren Harding. (Aug. 2, 1923).

In 1911, Canadian politician Hedard Robichaud. (Aug. 16, 1999)

In 1913, actor Burt Lancaster. (Oct. 20, 1994)

In 1914, playwright Dale Wasserman. (Dec. 21, 2008)

In 1917, actress Anne Rutherford ("Gone With The Wind"). (June 11, 2012)

In 1924, hockey player-priest Father David Bauer. (Nov. 9, 1988)

In 1926, Grand Ole Opry star Charlie Walker. (Sept. 12, 2008)

In 1937, singer Earl "Speedo" Carroll of The Cadillacs and The Coasters. (Nov. 25, 2012)

In 1938, singer Jay Black (Jay and the Americans). (Oct. 22, 2021)

In 1942, author Shere Hite. (Sept. 9, 2020)

In 1944, keyboardist Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. (March 11, 2016)

In 1945, country-rock singer-songwriter and actor J.D. Souther ("Nashville"). (Sept. 17, 2024)

In 1946, Italian conductor Guiseppe Sinopoli. (April 20, 2001)

In 1968, rock singer-musician Neal Casal. (Aug. 26. 2019)

In 1974, rapper Prodigy of Mobb Deep. (June 20, 2017)

The Canadian Press

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