Famous Births on 22 Nov

Famous Births on 22 Nov

1458 - Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
1515 - Marie of Guise, Queen consort of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
1564 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
1602 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
1635 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
1643 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
1698 - Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
1721 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
1722 - Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
1767 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian patriot (d. 1810)
1787 - Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
1808 - Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)
1814 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
1819 - George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)
1849 - Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
1852 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)
1856 - Heber J. Grant, American religious leader (d. 1945)
1868 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (d. 1967)
1869 - André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
1877 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
1877 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
1884 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad (d. 1953)
1890 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970)
1893 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
1897 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
1898 - Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
1899 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)
1900 - Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
1901 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
1902 - Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
1902 - Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
1902 - Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
1904 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1909 - Mikhail Mil, Russian aviation designer (d. 1970)
1913 - Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)
1913 - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
1914 - Peter Townsend, British Equerry and air pilot (d. 1995)
1917 - Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate
1918 - Claiborne Pell, American politician
1919 - Máire Drumm, Irish civil rights activist (d. 1976)
1920 - Anne Crawford, British film actor (d. 1956)
1921 - Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (d. 2004)
1923 - Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (d. 2006)
1923 - Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
1924 - Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
1925 - Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor
1926 - Lew Burdette, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1926 - Arthur Jones (inventor), American inventor (d. 2007)
1928 - Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (d. 2008)
1929 - Aleksandar Popović, Serbian dramatist (d. 1996)
1932 - Robert Vaughn, American actor
1936 - Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
1938 - Henry C. Lee, Chinese-born American criminologist
1939 - Tom West, American astrophysicist
1939 - Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
1940 - Roy Thomas, American comic book writer
1940 - Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian
1941 - Tom Conti, British actor
1941 - Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1941 - Jesse Colin Young, American musician
1941 - Terry Stafford, American singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
1942 - Guion Bluford, American astronaut
1943 - Billie Jean King, American tennis
1943 - Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 - Tom Freston, American television executive
1946 - Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band)
1947 - Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
1947 - Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
1947 - Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
1948 - Radomir Antić, Serbian football manager
1949 - Richard Carmona, Surgeon General of the United States
1949 - David Pietrusza, American baseball historian
1950 - Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1950 - Steven Van Zandt, American musician
1950 - Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1951 - Kent Nagano, American conductor
1953 - Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (d. 1994)
1953 - Billy M. Sprague, American rocket scientist
1956 - Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx)
1956 - Richard Kind, American actor
1958 - Horse McDonald, Scottish singer and songwriter
1958 - Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
1959 - Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
1959 - Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
1960 - Bruce Payne, English actor
1960 - Léos Carax, French film director
1961 - Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
1961 - Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
1961 - Mariel Hemingway, American actress
1962 - Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
1963 - Scoop Jackson, American sports journalist
1964 - Robbie Slater, Australian former footballer
1965 - Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
1965 - Peter Safran, British-born American film producer and talent agent
1966 - Richard Stanley, South African film director
1967 - Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born Belgian speed skater
1967 - Boris Becker, German tennis player
1967 - Mark Ruffalo, American actor
1968 - Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic computer programmer
1969 - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist
1970 - Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketeer
1970 - Stel Pavlou, British novelist
1972 - Jay Payton, American baseball player
1974 - Joe Nathan, American baseball player
1974 - David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
1975 - Aiko, Japanese singer
1976 - Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
1976 - Torsten Frings, German footballer
1976 - Regina Halmich, German female boxer
1976 - Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)
1977 - Michael Preston, English footballer
1978 - Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
1979 - Chris Doran, Irish singer
1980 - Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
1980 - Shawn Fanning, American Internet entrepreneur (Napster)
1981 - Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
1981 - Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
1981 - Ben Adams, English singer
1982 - Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
1982 - Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1982 - Alasdair Duncan, Australian novelist
1983 - Peter Ramage, English footballer
1983 - Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
1983 - Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
1984 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
1984 - Kate Ground, Canadian adult internet model
1985 - Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
1986 - Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
1987 - Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer
1988 - Suresh Guptara and Jyoti Guptara, British-Indian novelists