November 22nd – Famous Birthdays!

Nov 22

November 22nd – Famous Birthdays!

The Tweens News | English

Happy Birthday To:

* 1458 – Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
* 1515 – Marie of Guise, Queen consort of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
* 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)
* 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 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)
* 1878 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Disputed Emperors of Russia (d. 1918)
* 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 – Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
* 1902 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
* 1902 – Emanuel Feuermann, Famed Austrian-American Cellist (d. 1942)
* 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 (d. 2009)
* 1920 – Anne Crawford, British film actor (d. 1956)
* 1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (d. 2004)
* 1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
* 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
* 1932 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (d. 1983)
* 1936 – Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
* 1936 – Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah, Prime Minister of Bahrain
* 1939 – Tom West, American computer engineer and computer 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 – Jesse Colin Young, American musician
* 1941 – Terry Stafford, American singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
* 1942 – Guion Bluford, American astronaut
* 1943 – Peter Adair, American filmmaker
* 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 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
* 1947 – Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
* 1947 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
* 1948 – Radomir Antić, Serbian football manager
* 1948 – Stewart Graeme Guthrie, New Zealand Police officer (d. 1990)
* 1949 – Richard Carmona, Surgeon General of the United States
* 1949 – David Pietrusza, American baseball historian
* 1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
* 1950 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
* 1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American musician
* 1950 – Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
* 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 broadcaster
* 1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
* 1958 – Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
* 1958 – Bruce Payne, English actor
* 1958 – Horse, Scottish singer and songwriter
* 1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
* 1959 – Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
* 1959 – Lenore Zann, Australian voice actress
* 1960 – Léos Carax, French film director
* 1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress
* 1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
* 1961 – Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
* 1962 – Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
* 1963 – Scoop Jackson, American sports journalist
* 1963 – Tony Mowbray, English football player and manager
* 1963 – Brian Robbins, American actor, producer and director
* 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
* 1966 – Ed Ferrara, Former pro wrestler, writer and commentator
* 1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor
* 1967 – Boris Becker, German tennis player
* 1967 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born Belgian speed skater
* 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
* 1972 – Russell Hoult, English football goalkeeper
* 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
* 1980 – Shawn Fanning, American Internet entrepreneur (Napster)
* 1980 – Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
* 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
* 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 (Home Alone 3, The Nanny Diaries)
* 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
* 1991 – Diana Danielle Dannye Beeson, Malaysian American actress