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- Hugh Auchincloss was born on 15 August 1897 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. He was married to Janet Auchincloss, Nina S. Gore and Maya de Chrapovitsky . He died on 20 November 1976 in Georgetown, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Alta Allen was born on 5 November 1904 in Oakland, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Seven Years Bad Luck (1921), The Set-Up (1926) and The Marriage Chance (1922). She was married to Hampton Del Ruth. She died on 20 November 1976 in Bakersfield, Kern, California, USA.
- Soviet agrobiologist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, was mainly known for his work on temperature variation on the life-cycle of plants before he rejected Mendelian genetics for his own theories. He became director of the USSR Institute of Genetics as a result of support from Joseph Stalin, who hoped he could eradicate famine. He did not believe in DNA or genes, and after WWII, combined his own theories with those of Olga Lepeshinskaya, to proclaim that non-cellular material could produce living cells. One of his theories, that plants of the same species can be planted very close together because they won't compete, has been blamed for more famines in the USSR and for bringing on China's Great Famine in 1959-61. Before the 1930s the Soviets had a thriving genetics community, but due to the imprisonment of anyone opposed to Lysenko's theories, it has been claimed he set Soviet biology back by 50 years.
- Jean-Pierre Festi was born on 7 July 1936 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He died on 20 November 1976 in Remoulins, Gard, France.
- Aleksandr Khazin was born on 29 April 1912 in Berdichev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Nevskiye melodii (1960), Povest o molodozhyonakh (1960) and Arkadiy Raykin (1968). He died on 20 November 1976 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].