Famous Births on 23 Nov
1221 - King Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
1402 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
1417 - William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
1553 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
1616 - John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
1632 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)
1641 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
1705 - Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766)
1715 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
1719 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
1749 - Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (d. 1800)
1760 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (d. 1797)
1785 - Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest (d. 1853)
1804 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
1820 - Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)
1837 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
1859 - Billy The Kid, American outlaw (d. 1881(?))
1860 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
1861 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1864 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (d. 1936)
1869 - Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
1875 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)
1876 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
1883 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949)
1887 - Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (d. 1943)
1887 - Boris Karloff, British actor (d. 1969)
1887 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)
1888 - Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)
1889 - Harry Sunderland, Australian rugby league identity (d. 1964)
1890 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
1892 - Erté, French artist (d. 1990)
1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1897 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948)
1902 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
1907 - Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)
1908 - Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer (d. 2006)
1909 - Nigel Tranter, British historian and writer (d. 2000)
1912 - George O'Hanlon, American actor (d. 1989)
1914 - Michael Gough, English actor
1914 - Roger Avon, Durham actor (d. 1998)
1915 - John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
1920 - Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (d. 1970)
1920 - Wayne Thiebaud, American painter
1921 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
1922 - Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia
1923 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d. 1986)
1923 - Daniel Brewster, American democrat (d. 2007)
1923 - R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
1924 - Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003)
1924 - Colin Macmillan Turnbull, British-born anthropologist (d. 1994)
1924 - Anita Linda, Filipino actress
1925 - Johnny Mandel, American songwriter
1925 - José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran politician (d. 1990)
1926 - Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher
1927 - Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (d. 2005)
1928 - Jerry Bock, American Broadway composer
1929 - Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer
1930 - Jack McKeon, American baseball manager
1931 - Dervla Murphy, Irish traveller and author
1931 - Gloria Lynne, American singer
1932 - Michel David-Weill, French investment banker
1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
1934 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
1934 - Robert Towne, American screenwriter and director
1935 - Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
1936 - Robert Barnard, British mystery writer
1938 - Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor
1939 - Betty Everett, American singer (d. 2001)
1940 - Luis Tiant, Cuban baseball player
1941 - Franco Nero, Italian actor
1942 - Susan Anspach, American actress
1943 - Sue Nicholls, British actress
1943 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
1944 - Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-born film producer and writer
1944 - James Toback, American writer and director
1945 - Jerry Harris, American sculptor
1945 - Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
1945 - Steve Landesberg, American actor
1945 - Keith Hampshire, English singer-songwriter
1946 - Bobby Rush, American politician
1946 - Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer
1946 - Diana Quick, English actress
1948 - Bruce Vilanch, American comedy writer
1950 - Chuck Schumer, American politician
1951 - David Rappaport, English actor (d. 1990)
1952 - Bill Troiano, musician
1953 - Francis Cabrel, French singer
1954 - Bruce Hornsby, American musician
1954 - Glenn Brummer, American baseball player
1954 - Ross Brawn, British Honda Racing F1 team principal
1955 - Steven Brust, American author
1955 - Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist
1955 - Mary Landrieu, American politician, senior senator of Louisiana
1959 - Maxwell Caulfield, British actor
1959 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
1960 - Robin Roberts, American television reporter
1961 - Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer
1961 - Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author
1963 - Joe Ahearne, British television director
1963 - Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer and rapist (d. 2004)
1964 - Frank Rutherford, Bahamian athlete
1965 - Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian
1966 - Jerry Kelly, American professional golfer
1966 - Vincent Cassel, French actor
1968 - Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer
1968 - Kirsty Young, Scottish television journalist
1969 - Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer
1970 - Oded Fehr, Israeli actor
1970 - Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
1971 - Lisa Arch, American actress
1972 - Chris Adler, American musician (Lamb of God)
1973 - Trick Daddy, American rapper
1974 - Jamie Sharper, American football player
1974 - Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
1976 - Page Kennedy, American actor
1977 - Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
1977 - Adam Eaton, American baseball player
1978 - Kayvan Novak, English actor
1979 - Kelly Brook, English actress/model
1980 - David Britz, American nano-technologist
1980 - Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
1982 - Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice-hockey player
1982 - Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
1984 - Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
1985 - Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
1987 - Nicklas Backstrom, Swedish ice hockey player
1991 - Anurag Kashyap, 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
1992 - Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer
912 - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
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
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
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