Today's Birthday Horoscope — November 19, 2026
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain
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Born Today
"People born on November 19 tend to be the ones others trust without quite knowing why. Something about them signals that what is said to them will be kept, turned over carefully, handled well. They hold what they know with discretion that looks like ease, because they understand that knowing is a responsibility and they have accepted that responsibility quietly for most of their lives. They notice things, the hesitation in a voice, the story beneath the story, and they file it gently rather than using it. What surprises people is how light they can also be, because that same attentiveness catches the comic thing, the joyful thing, the moment worth marking. They are the friend who remembers and the friend who laughs. At their best, they make others feel both truly seen and completely safe.
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Also Born November 19
- Tommy Dorsey — American trombonist, composer and bandleader (died 1956), born 1905
- Anna Seghers — German author and politician (died 1983)<ref></ref>, born 1900
- Allen Tate — American poet and critic (died 1979), born 1899
- Benjamin Chew — American lawyer and judge (died 1810), born 1722
- Jack Schaefer — American author (died 1991), born 1907
- Carlos López Moctezuma — Mexican actor (died 1980).<ref></ref>, born 1909
- Mikhail Lavrentyev — Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (died 1980), born 1900
- Arthur R. von Hippel — German-American physicist and academic (died 2003), born 1898
- Huw T. Edwards — Welsh poet and politician (died 1970)<ref></ref>, born 1892
- C. X. Larrabee — American businessman (died 1914), born 1843
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