November 22 - Births

Births

  • 1458 – Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
  • 1515 – Marie of Guise, Queen consort of James V 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)
  • 1690 – François Colin de Blamont, French composer (d. 1760)
  • 1698 – Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
  • 1709 – Franz Benda, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1786)
  • 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)
  • 1744 – Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
  • 1767 – Andreas Hofer, Austrian innkeeper and politician (d. 1810)
  • 1780 – Jose Cecilio del Valle, Honduran Politician (d. 1834)
  • 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 Prize laureate (d. 1924)
  • 1856 – Heber J. Grant, American religious leader (d. 1945)
  • 1861 – Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar (d. 1917)
  • 1868 – John Nance Garner, American politician, 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives & 32nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1967)
  • 1869 – André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
  • 1870 – Howard Brockway, American composer (d. 1951)
  • 1873 – L.S. Amery, British politician (d. 1955)
  • 1873 – Alfred Bowerman, English cricket player (d. 1947)
  • 1874 – Eugène Balme, French shooter (d. 1914)
  • 1875 – Roscoe Lockwood, American rower (d. 1960)
  • 1876 – Emil Beyer, American gymnast (d. 1934)
  • 1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
  • 1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss businessman (d. 1930)
  • 1878 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II (d. 1918)
  • 1884 – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer (d. 1953)
  • 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French military general and statesman (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)
  • 1900 – Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni, American humanitarian, co-founder of U.S. Committee for UNICEF (d. 1987)
  • 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)
  • 1902 – Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-born American cellist (d. 1942)
  • 1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
  • 1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian aviation designer (d. 1970)
  • 1910 – Mary Jackson, American actress (d. 2005)
  • 1913 – Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)
  • 1913 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino jurist (d. 2006)
  • 1914 – Peter Townsend, British Equerry and air pilot (d. 1995)
  • 1917 – Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
  • 1918 – Claiborne Pell, American politician (d. 2009)
  • 1919 – Máire Drumm, Irish civil rights activist (d. 1976)
  • 1920 – Anne Crawford, British actress (d. 1956)
  • 1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
  • 1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (d. 2004)
  • 1922 – Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (d. 2012)
  • 1922 – Eugene Stoner, Designer of the AR-15 Rifle (d. 1997)
  • 1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
  • 1923 – Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (d. 2006)
  • 1924 – Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
  • 1925 – Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor
  • 1926 – Gene Berce, American basketball player
  • 1926 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player (d. 2007)
  • 1926 – Arthur Jones, American inventor (d. 2007)
  • 1928 – Timothy Beaumont, British noble (d. 2008)
  • 1929 – Staughton Lynd, American historian
  • 1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor
  • 1932 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (d. 1983)
  • 1934 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)
  • 1936 – Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
  • 1936 – Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah, Bahraini politician
  • 1938 – Henry C. Lee, Chinese-born American criminologist
  • 1938 – John du Pont, American member of the Du Pont family and convicted murderer (d. 2010)
  • 1939 – Allen Garfield, American actor
  • 1939 – Tom West, American computer engineer and industry executive
  • 1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
  • 1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian
  • 1940 – Roy Thomas, American comic book writer
  • 1941 – Tom Conti, British actor
  • 1941 – Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1941 – Terry Stafford, American singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
  • 1941 – Jesse Colin Young, American musician
  • 1942 – Guion Bluford, American astronaut
  • 1943 – Peter Adair, American filmmaker
  • 1943 – Roger L. Simon, American novelist and screenwriter
  • 1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player
  • 1943 – Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1945 – Tom Freston, American television executive
  • 1946 – Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band)
  • 1947 – Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
  • 1947 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
  • 1947 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
  • 1947 – Rod Price, English guitarist (Foghat) (d. 2005)
  • 1948 – Radomir Antić, Serbian football manager
  • 1948 – Stewart Graeme Guthrie, New Zealand Police officer (d. 1990)
  • 1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician and 17th Surgeon General of the United States
  • 1949 – David Pietrusza, American baseball historian
  • 1950 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
  • 1950 – Jim Jefferies, Scottish football manager
  • 1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
  • 1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American musician
  • 1950 – Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
  • 1951 – Kent Nagano, American conductor
  • 1953 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (d. 1994)
  • 1955 – James Edwards, American basketball player
  • 1956 – Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx)
  • 1956 – Richard Kind, American actor
  • 1957 – Donny Deutsch, American television personality and advertising executive
  • 1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
  • 1958 – Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
  • 1958 – Bruce Payne, English actor
  • 1958 – Horse, Scottish singer and songwriter
  • 1959 – Eddie Frierson, American voice actor and stage actor
  • 1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
  • 1959 – Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
  • 1959 – Lenore Zann, Australian-Canadian voice actress
  • 1960 – Léos Carax, French film director
  • 1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress
  • 1961 – Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
  • 1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
  • 1962 – Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
  • 1962 – Sumi Jo, South Korean operatic soprano
  • 1962 – Rezauddin Stalin, Bangladeshi poet and TV personality
  • 1963 – Winsor Harmon, American actor
  • 1963 – Scoop Jackson, American sportswriter
  • 1963 – Hugh Millen, American football player
  • 1963 – Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager
  • 1963 – Kennedy Pola, Samoan-born American pro football coach
  • 1963 – Brian Robbins, American actor and director
  • 1963 – Corinne Russell, British actress
  • 1964 – Robbie Slater, Australian footballer
  • 1965 – Jörg Jung, German footballer
  • 1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
  • 1965 – Peter Safran, British-born American film producer and talent agent
  • 1966 – Ed Ferrara, American pro wrestler and commentator
  • 1966 – Richard Stanley, South African film director
  • 1966 – Michael Kenneth Williams, American actor
  • 1967 – Boris Becker, German tennis player
  • 1967 – Quint Kessenich, American lacrosse player and sportscaster
  • 1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor
  • 1967 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born Belgian speed skater
  • 1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic computer programmer
  • 1969 – Byron Houston, American basketball player and convicted sex offender
  • 1969 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist
  • 1970 – Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer
  • 1970 – Stel Pavlou, British novelist
  • 1972 – Jay Payton, American baseball player
  • 1972 – Russell Hoult, English footballer
  • 1973 – Chad Trujillo, American astronomer
  • 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 – Annika Norlin, Swedish pop singer
  • 1977 – Michael Preston, English footballer
  • 1978 – Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
  • 1979 – Chris Doran, Irish singer
  • 1979 – Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer
  • 1980 – Shawn Fanning, American Internet entrepreneur (Napster)
  • 1980 – Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
  • 1980 – David Artell, English footballer
  • 1981 – Ben Adams, English singer
  • 1981 – Joleigh Fioravanti, American actress
  • 1981 – Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
  • 1981 – Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
  • 1982 – Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
  • 1982 – Charlene Choi, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
  • 1982 – Alasdair Duncan, Australian novelist
  • 1982 – Isild Le Besco, French actress
  • 1983 – Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
  • 1983 – Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
  • 1983 – Peter Ramage, English footballer
  • 1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress
  • 1985 – Austin Brown, American singer
  • 1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
  • 1985 – Mandy Minella, Luxembourgian tennis player
  • 1985 – James Roby, English rugby league footballer
  • 1985 – DeVon Walker, American football player
  • 1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
  • 1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer of Moroccan descent
  • 1988 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor
  • 1988 – Jyoti Guptara, British/Swiss novelist
  • 1988 – Suresh Guptara, Indian novelist
  • 1988 – Austin Romine, American baseball player
  • 1989 – Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer
  • 1989 – Chris Smalling, English footballer
  • 1991 – Diana Danielle, American/Malaysian actress
  • 1991 – Saki Shimizu, Japanese singer (Berryz Kobo)

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