Oh, wait, it is a holiday.
Three-time Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio is 36 today.
Calista Flockhart, Mrs. Harrison Ford, is 46. (He’s 68.)
Demi Moore is 48.
Stanley Tucci is 50.
Jonathan Winters is 85.
The late Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born on November 11, 1922.
George Patton was born on November 11, 1885. From his New York Times obituary in 1945:
Gen. George Smith Patton Jr. was one of the most brilliant soldiers in American history. Audacious, unorthodox and inspiring, he led his troops to great victories in North Africa, Sicily and on the Western Front. Nazi generals admitted that of all American field commanders he was the one they most feared. To Americans he was a worthy successor of such hardbitten cavalrymen as Philip Sheridan, J. E. B. Stuart and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
His great soldierly qualities were matched by one of the most colorful personalities of his period. About him countless legends clustered–some true, some untrue, but all testifying to the firm hold he had upon the imaginations of his men. He went into action with two pearl-handled revolvers in holsters on his hips. He was the master of an unprintable brand of eloquence, yet at times he coined phrases that will live in the American Army’s traditions.
“We shall attack and attack until we are exhausted, and then we shall attack again,” he told his troops before the initial landings in North Africa, thereby summarizing the military creed that won victory after victory along the long road that led from Casablanca to the heart of Germany.