Doodle: Mark Twain's 176th Birthday November 30, 1835
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."
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Doodle: Louis Daguerre's 224th Birthday
Louis Daguerre Gashti Ka (November 18, 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French artist and physicist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography.
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Doodle: Marie Curie 144th birthday 7 November 2011
With today's homepage doodle we celebrate the life and work of Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel prize and one of only two people to have won a Nobel in two fields.
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