19th November — International Men's Day & World Toilet Day

On this day, 259 notable people were born on 19th November — spanning from 1417 to 1999. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

19/11/1999

Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater

Evgenia Armanovna Medvedeva, is a retired competitive Russian figure skater. She is the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic silver medalist, a two-time world champion, a two-time European champion, a two-time Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Russian national champion, silver medalist at the 2018 European Figure Skating Championships and bronze medalist at the 2019 World Championships. Earlier in her career, she won the 2015 World Junior Championships, the 2014 Junior Grand Prix Final, and the 2015 Russian Junior Championships.

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19/11/1998

Nahuel Ferraresi, Venezuelan footballer

Nahuel Adolfo Ferraresi Hernández is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or right-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Botafogo, on loan from São Paulo, and the Venezuela national team.

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19/11/1997

Zach Collins, American basketball player

Zach Collins is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs. He was drafted by the Sacramento Kings with the 10th overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft and was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers on draft night. During his earlier career with the team he battled many injuries causing him to only play in 154 games in his first four seasons. He joined the San Antonio Spurs as a free agent in August 2021, where he played for four seasons before being traded to the Bulls in 2025.

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Kotonowaka Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler

Kotozakura Masakatsu is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Matsudo. He wrestles for Sadogatake stable, a sumo stable previously run by his grandfather, former yokozuna Kotozakura, and currently run by his father, former sekiwake Kotonowaka. He made his debut in November 2015 and reached the top makuuchi division in March 2020, reaching the san'yaku ranks in January 2023. His highest rank has been ōzeki. He has won one championship in the top division and five special prizes for Fighting Spirit, as well as one Technique prize.

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19/11/1996

RiceGum, American YouTuber

Bryan Quang Le, better known as RiceGum, is an American former YouTuber, online streamer, and former rapper. He is best known for his diss tracks and online feuds with other YouTube personalities. Since creating his YouTube channel, his channel has received over ten million subscribers and over two billion video views.

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FaZe Rug, American YouTuber

Brian Rafat Awadis, formerly known online as FaZe Rug, is an American YouTuber who produces vlogs, challenges, gaming videos, and pranks on YouTube.

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Fred Warner, American football player

Federico Anthony Warner is an American professional football linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the BYU Cougars and was selected by the 49ers in the third round of the 2018 NFL draft.

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19/11/1995

Vanessa Axente, Hungarian model

Vanessa Axente is a Hungarian fashion model.

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19/11/1994

Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer

Ibrahima Mbaye is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Serie C Group C club Team Altamura.

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19/11/1993

Justin Anderson, American basketball player

Justin Lamar Anderson is an American professional basketball player for Dubai Basketball of the ABA League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers before being selected with the 21st overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Dallas Mavericks.

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Joey Gallo, American baseball player

Joseph Nicholas Gallo is an American professional baseball outfielder and infielder who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, and Washington Nationals.

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Suso, Spanish footballer

Jesús Joaquín Fernández Sáenz de la Torre, known as Suso, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or right winger for Segunda División club Cádiz.

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19/11/1992

Cameron Bancroft, Australian cricketer

Cameron Timothy Bancroft is an Australian cricketer contracted to Western Australia in Australian first class cricket, Gloucestershire in English first class cricket, and the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League. He made his Test debut for the Australian national team in November 2017.

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Roland Baumann, Austrian politician

Roland Baumann is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he has represented Greater Linz since October 2024.

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James Tarkowski, English footballer

James Alan Tarkowski is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Everton.

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19/11/1991

Fabien Antunes, French footballer

Fabien Antunes is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Greek Super League club A.E. Kifisia.

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Marina Marković, Serbian basketball player

Marina Marković Марина Марковић is a Serbian basketball player for Talleres and the Serbian national team, where she participated at the 2014 FIBA World Championship.

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19/11/1990

Marquise Goodwin, American football player

Marquise Derell Goodwin Sr. is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He also is an Olympian who competed in the long jump in track and field. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns.

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Josh Lambo, American football and soccer player

Joshua Gregory Lambo is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He is currently 8th all-time in field goal percentage, having made 87.07% of his field goals in his time in the NFL.

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John Moore, American ice hockey player

John Carroll Moore Jr. is an American former professional ice hockey player who played defense for 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted in the first round, 21st overall, of the 2009 NHL entry draft by the Columbus Blue Jackets.

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Benedikt Schmid, German footballer

Benedikt Schmid is a German footballer.

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19/11/1989

Kenneth Faried, American basketball player

Kenneth Bernard Faried Lewis is an American professional basketball player for the Cangrejeros de Santurce of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). Known as "the Manimal" due to his hustle on the court, he attended Morehead State University for four years, twice being named the Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year. He finished his collegiate career as the NCAA all-time leading rebounder in the post-1973 era with 1,673 rebounds, although he was surpassed by Armando Bacot in 2024. He was selected 22nd overall in the 2011 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets.

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John McCarthy, Australian footballer (died 2012)

John Shane McCarthy was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper

Roman Sergeevich Trofimov is a Russian ski jumper competing for Moskva WVSM. His first World Cup competition took place in Willingen, Germany in 2010, although he had previously competed in qualifying rounds without qualifying. He was 48th in the competition.

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Tyga, American rapper

Micheal Ray Stevenson, known professionally as Tyga, is an American rapper, singer, and actor. After several independent releases, he signed a recording contract with Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment, an imprint of Cash Money Records and Republic Records in 2008. His second album and major label debut, Careless World: Rise of the Last King (2012), peaked at number four on the Billboard 200, received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and was met with critical praise. It spawned the Billboard Hot 100-top ten single "Rack City", as well as the top 40 single "Faded". His third album, Hotel California (2013), was met with trailing critical and commercial response, along with his collaborative album with singer Chris Brown, Fan of a Fan: The Album (2015).

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19/11/1988

Víctor Cuesta, Argentine footballer

Víctor Leandro Cuesta is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Platense.

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Timo Eichfuss, Estonian basketball player

Timo Eichfuss is a former Estonian professional basketball player. He is a 2.00 m tall power forward. He represented the Estonian national basketball team internationally.

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Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player

Patrick Timothy Kane II is an American professional ice hockey player who is a right winger for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks with the first overall pick in the 2007 NHL entry draft and played for the Blackhawks until February 2023 when he was traded to the New York Rangers. Kane has represented the United States at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.

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19/11/1987

Sílvia Soler Espinosa, Spanish tennis player

Sílvia Soler Espinosa is a retired Spanish tennis player.

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19/11/1986

Sam Betty, English rugby player

Sam Betty is an English rugby union player for Worcester Warriors in the RFU Championship.

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Jeannie Ortega, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

Jeannette "Jeannie" Ortega is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, writer, and journalist. She made her recording debut in 2006 with the album No Place Like BKLYN at the age of 19. The album featured the single "Crowded", which reached the Billboard Hot 100.

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Michael Saunders, Canadian baseball player

Michael Edward Brett Saunders is a Canadian former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, and Philadelphia Phillies.

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Jessicah Schipper, Australian swimmer

Jessicah Lee Schipper is an Australian former competition swimmer and former world record holder for 200 metres butterfly. Specialising in the 100 and 200 metres butterfly, she won several gold medals at the Olympic Games and the World Championships between 2004 and 2009.

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Milan Smiljanić, Serbian footballer

Milan Smiljanić is a Serbian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Rad.

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19/11/1985

Chris Eagles, English footballer

Christopher Mark Eagles is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger.

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Alex Mack, American football player

Javon Alexander Mack is an American former professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears and was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the first round with the 21st overall selection of the 2009 NFL draft. He also played for the Atlanta Falcons and the San Francisco 49ers. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2025.

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19/11/1984

Jorge Fucile, Uruguayan footballer

Jorge Ciro Fucile Perdomo is a Uruguayan former professional footballer. A defender, he played as both right or left-back.

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Dawid Kucharski, Polish footballer

Dawid Kucharski is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a defender.

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Brittany Maynard, American activist (died 2014)

Brittany Lauren Maynard was an American activist with terminal cancer who decided that she would die "when the time seemed right." She was an advocate for the legalization of assisted suicide for the terminally ill.

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19/11/1983

Chandra Crawford, Canadian skier

Chandra Crawford is a Canadian cross-country skier who has competed since 2001 at the age of 16. Prior to this, she was a biathlete for five years. She was born in Canmore, Alberta, Canada.

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Adam Driver, American actor

Adam Douglas Driver is an American actor. His breakout performance as Adam Sackler in the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017) earned him three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations. Driver played supporting roles in Lincoln (2012), Frances Ha (2012), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and While We're Young (2014), before gaining more extensive recognition for his portrayal of Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019).

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Daria Werbowy, Polish-Canadian model

Daria Werbowy is a Canadian fashion model. She became a spokesmodel for the French beauty brand Lancôme in 2005. According to Forbes, Werbowy has appeared on over 50 international Vogue covers. She retired after ten years in fashion while still one of the industry's top models. In a retrospective, Vogue dubbed her the "ultimate model muse."

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19/11/1982

Jonathan Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player

Jonathan Omar Sánchez, nicknamed "the Kid" and "the Comeback Kid", is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball pitcher. He is one of only three Puerto Rican players to throw a no-hitter game in MLB, the others being John Candelaria in 1976 and Juan Nieves in 1987. A left-handed starter, Sánchez's pitching repertoire consisted of a low-to-mid 90s mph fastball, a change-up, and a slurve in the 80s.

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19/11/1981

Marcus Banks, American basketball player

Arthur Lemarcus Banks III is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the UNLV Runnin' Rebels, where he was Co-Defensive Player of the Year as a senior. He was selected with the 13th pick in the first round of the 2003 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies, then traded to the Boston Celtics, along with Kendrick Perkins.

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Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, Argentine rugby player

Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He played for Toulon in the French Top 14, having moved from Sale Sharks in England's Guinness Premiership. He previously played for Liceo Naval. He usually plays in the back row.

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André Lotterer, German race car driver

André Lotterer is a German racing driver who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Genesis Magma Racing. In endurance racing, Lotterer has won two FIA World Endurance Drivers' Championship titles in 2012 and 2024 with Audi and Porsche, respectively, and is a three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Audi. In Japanese motorsport, Lotterer won the Formula Nippon Championship in 2011, and is a two-time champion of Super GT, all with TOM'S.

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DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, producer, and songwriter

Kim Jeong-sik, more commonly known by the stage name DJ Tukutz, is a South Korean DJ, record producer and composer. He is best known as a member of the hip hop group Epik High.

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Mark Wallace, Welsh-English cricketer

Mark Alexander Wallace is a former Welsh cricketer who played for Glamorgan as a left-handed batsman and wicket-keeper between 1999 and 2016. He is currently the director of cricket at the county.

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19/11/1980

Courtney Anderson, American football player

Courtney Jerome Anderson Sr. is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). Born in Greenville, Texas, Anderson attended high school in Richmond, California, and played college football at Contra Costa College and San Jose State University. He was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the seventh round of the 2004 NFL draft and spent three seasons with that team. Later, he was a member of the Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions, Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills and Houston Texans. He is currently a firefighter for the community of Milpitas, CA.

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Otis Grigsby, American football player

Otis Wayne Grigsby Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2003. He played college football for the Kentucky Wildcats.

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Vladimir Radmanović, Serbian basketball player

Vladimir Radmanović is a Serbian former professional basketball player.

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19/11/1979

Keith Buckley, American singer-songwriter

Keith Michael Buckley is an American singer, best known as the vocalist and lyricist of Many Eyes, the now defunct metalcore band Every Time I Die and the heavy metal supergroup the Damned Things. He is also a published author.

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Mahé Drysdale, New Zealand rower

Alexander Mahé Owens Drysdale is a New Zealand politician and retired rower. Drysdale is a two-time Olympic champion and a five-time world champion in the single sculls. He is a seven-time New Zealand national champion and five-time recipient of New Zealand Sportsman of the Year. He is the current mayor of Tauranga.

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John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player

John-Ford David Griffin is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Ryan Howard, American baseball player

Ryan James Howard, nicknamed "the Big Piece", is an American former professional baseball first baseman. Howard spent his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, from 2004 to 2016. He is known for being the fastest player in baseball history to reach both 100 home runs and 200 home runs. Howard holds numerous Phillies franchise records.

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Barry Jenkins, American director, screenwriter, and producer

Barry Jenkins is an American filmmaker. After making his filmmaking debut with the short film My Josephine (2003), he directed his first feature film, Medicine for Melancholy (2008), for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. He is also a member of the Chopstars collective as a creative collaborator.

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Larry Johnson, American football player

Larry Alphonso Johnson Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions, winning the Maxwell Award and earning unanimous All-American honors in 2002. He was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round of the 2003 NFL draft, and also played for the Cincinnati Bengals, the Washington Redskins, and the Miami Dolphins.

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Leam Richardson, English footballer and manager

Leam Nathan Richardson is an English professional football manager and former player, currently managing Reading in EFL League One.

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19/11/1978

Dries Buytaert, Belgian computer programmer

Dries Buytaert is a Belgian open-source software programmer. He is the founder and lead developer of the Drupal content management system. He also serves as the CTO of Acquia.

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Matt Dusk, Canadian singer

Matthew-Aaron Dusk is a Canadian jazz vocalist. He has four certified gold albums: Two Shots, Good News, Old School Yule! and JetSetJazz, and two certified platinum albums; My Funny Valentine: The Chet Baker Songbook and Just the Two of Us.

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Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech discus thrower and shot putter

Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová is a Czech athlete, competing in the discus throw and the shot put. She married Czech professional wrestler Jakub Cechl on 17 October 2003.

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19/11/1977

Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistani politician

Hina Rabbani Khar is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2023. She previously served as Foreign Minister of Pakistan from July 2011, the first and only woman to hold the position, and was a member of the National Assembly from 2018 to 2023.

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Reid Scott, American actor

Reid Scott Weiner is an American actor. He is best known for his starring roles as Brendan "Brando" Dorff in the TBS comedy series My Boys (2006–2010), Dan Egan in the HBO comedy series Veep (2012–2019), Gordon Ford in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2022–2023), and NYPD Detective Vincent Riley on Law & Order (2024–present). He also appeared in the romantic comedy film Home Again (2017), the superhero film Venom (2018), and the comedy-drama film Late Night (2019).

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Kerri Strug, American gymnast

Kerri Allyson Strug is an American retired gymnast from Tucson, Arizona. She was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the victorious all-around women's gymnastics team that represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Strug performed the vault that clinched the gold for the U.S. team despite having injured her ankle.

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19/11/1976

Jack Dorsey, American businessman, co-founded Twitter

Jack Patrick Dorsey is an American tech entrepreneur and businessman who co-founded Twitter, Inc., which operated social media service Twitter; financial technology company Block, Inc., which owns and operates Square, Cash App, Afterpay, Bitkey, and Tidal; and microblogging social networking service Bluesky.

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Robin Dunne, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter

Robin Dunne is a Canadian actor who has had numerous leading roles in sequels throughout his career, but is perhaps best known for his role as Doctor Will Zimmerman in the science fiction television series Sanctuary.

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Jun Shibata, Japanese singer-songwriter

Jun Shibata , nicknamed "Shibajun", is a Japanese pop female singer-songwriter. She was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. In 2016, she was diagnosed with partial hearing loss.

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Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player

Petr Sýkora is a Czech former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New Jersey Devils, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Minnesota Wild. Sýkora played in six Stanley Cup Finals in his NHL career, winning the Stanley Cup twice, first in 2000 with the Devils, and then in 2009 with the Penguins.

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Stylianos Venetidis, Greek footballer and manager

Stelios Venetidis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a defender. He used to play in the left-back position, but could be also used on the left side of midfield.

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19/11/1975

Toby Bailey, American basketball player and agent

John Garfield "Toby" Bailey is an American former professional basketball player. He is currently a sports agent.

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Sushmita Sen, Indian actress, model and Miss Universe 1994

Sushmita Sen is an Indian actress and beauty pageant titleholder, who was crowned Miss Universe 1994, becoming the first Indian woman to win the title. Sen has since predominantly worked in Hindi films, and is a recipient of a Filmfare Award and a Filmfare OTT Award.

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19/11/1973

Billy Currington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

William Matthew Currington is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Mercury Records Nashville in 2003, he has released seven studio albums for the label: his self-titled debut (2003), Doin' Somethin' Right (2005), Little Bit of Everything (2008), Enjoy Yourself (2010), We Are Tonight (2013), Summer Forever (2015), Intuition (2021), And King Of The World (2025)

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Savion Glover, American dancer and choreographer

Savion Glover is an American tap dancer, actor and choreographer.

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19/11/1972

Sandrine Holt, English-American model and actress

Sandrine Claire Holt is a British-born Canadian actress. She was born in London and raised in Toronto. Her films include Black Robe (1991), Terminator Genisys (2015), and The Shrouds (2025).

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19/11/1971

Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, American author and activist

Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur is an author and activist focused on faith-based initiatives and gender equality in Islam who currently serves as the chief of staff and chief communications officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She works with Malaria No More, a leading non-profit formed to advance the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by ending malaria-related deaths by 2012. She also consults on a variety of interfaith projects and volunteerism efforts.

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Justin Chancellor, English bass player

Justin Gunnar Walter Chancellor is an English musician, best known as the bassist for rock band Tool, a position he has held since 1995. Prior to joining Tool, he played in a band called Peach. After settling in the US, along with his engagement in his musical projects, he and his wife Shelee Dykman Chancellor ran a store called Lobal Orning in Topanga, California, dedicated to music and literature "that shaped and changed" both of them. The store closed in 2008. He started the M.T.Void music project with Piotr "Glaca" Mohammed from Sweet Noise.

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Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer

Jeremy Christopher McGrath is an American former professional motocross and supercross racer. Considered one of the most popular and influential riders in the history of motorcycle racing, McGrath won seven AMA Supercross 250cc championships, one 250cc AMA Motocross championship, two 125cc West championships and a record 72 premier class supercross wins. He was also a two-time FIM Supercross World Champion as well as a two-time Team USA Motocross des Nations winner.

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Alice Peacock, American singer-songwriter

Alice Peacock is an American folk singer known for "flawless songwriting with a near confessional quality." She has recorded seven albums, including Alice Peacock, released by Aware/Columbia Records.

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Tony Rich, American R&B singer-songwriter and musician

Antonio Jeffries, better known as Tony Rich and The Tony Rich Project, is an American Grammy Award-winning R&B singer-songwriter best known for his 1995 hit single "Nobody Knows".

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Dmitri Yushkevich, Russian ice hockey player

Dmitri Sergeyevich Yushkevich is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He spent eleven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with four different teams, but most notably for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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19/11/1969

Philippe Adams, Belgian race car driver

Philippe Adams is a Belgian racing driver.

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Erika Alexander, American actress and screenwriter

Erika Rose Alexander is an American actress, writer, producer, entrepreneur and activist who played the roles of Pam Tucker on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show from 1990 to 1992, and Maxine Shaw on the Fox sitcom Living Single from 1993 to 1998. She has won numerous awards for her work on Living Single, including two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. Her film credits include The Long Walk Home (1990), 30 Years to Life (2001), Déjà Vu (2006), Get Out (2017), American Refugee (2021), Earth Mama (2023) and American Fiction (2023), for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Performance.

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Ertuğrul Sağlam, Turkish footballer and coach

Ertuğrul Sağlam is a UEFA Pro Licensed Turkish football manager and former player who most recently coached Kocaelispor.

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Richard Virenque, Moroccan-French cyclist and sportscaster

Richard Virenque is a retired French professional road racing cyclist. He was one of the most popular French riders with fans, known for his boyish personality and his long, lone attacks. He was a climber, best remembered for winning the King of the Mountains competition of the Tour de France a record seven times, and as one of the central figures in a widespread doping scandal in 1998, the Festina Affair.

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19/11/1968

Anja Vanrobaeys, Belgian politician

Anja M. M. G. Vanrobaeys is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of Vooruit, she has represented East Flanders since June 2019.

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19/11/1967

Randi Kaye, American journalist

Randi Kaye is an American television news journalist working for CNN. She is based in New York and serves as an investigative reporter for Anderson Cooper 360°.

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19/11/1966

Shmuley Boteach, American rabbi and author

Jacob Shmuel Boteach, also known as Rabbi Shmuley, is an American rabbi, author, and media host.

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Gail Devers, American sprinter and hurdler

Yolanda Gail Devers is an American retired track and field sprinter who competed in the 60 metres, 60 m hurdles, 100 m and 100 m hurdles. One of the greatest and most decorated female sprinters of all time, she was the 1993, 1997 and 2004 world indoor champion in the 60 m, while in the 60 m hurdles, she was the 2003 world indoor champion and 2004 silver medalist. In the 100 m, she is the second woman in history to defend an Olympic 100 m title, winning gold at both the 1992 and 1996 Olympics. She was also the 1993 world champion in the event, becoming the first ever female sprinter to simultaneously hold the world and Olympic titles in the 100 m. In the 100 m hurdles, she was the 1993, 1995 and 1999 world champion, and the 1991 and 2001 world silver medalist. In 2011, she was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.

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Rocco DiSpirito, American chef and author

Rocco DiSpirito is an American chef and reality television personality based in New York City, known for starring in the series The Restaurant.

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Kakhaber Kacharava, Georgian footballer and manager

Kakhaber Kacharava is a Georgian football coach and a former player, currently in charge of Erovnuli Liga 2 side Odishi 1919.

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Jason Scott Lee, American actor and martial artist

Jason Scott Lee is an American actor and martial artist. He played Mowgli in Disney's 1994 live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book and Bruce Lee in the 1993 martial arts film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.

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19/11/1965

Laurent Blanc, French footballer and manager

Laurent Robert Blanc is a French professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. He last managed Saudi Pro League club Al-Ittihad. He has the nickname Le Président, which was given to him following his stint at Marseille in tribute to his leadership skills. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time.

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Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor

Douglas James Henshall is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his roles as Professor Nick Cutter in the science fiction series Primeval (2007–2011) and Detective Inspector Jimmy Pérez in the crime drama Shetland (2013–2025).

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Jason Pierce, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Jason Andrew Pierce is an English musician. Currently the frontman and sole permanent member of the band Spiritualized, he previously co-fronted the alternative rock band Spacemen 3 with Peter Kember from 1982 until 1991. He has worked under the name J. Spaceman.

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Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, Brazilian cryptographer and academic

Paulo Licciardi Barreto is a Brazilian-American cryptographer and one of the designers of the Whirlpool hash function and the block ciphers Anubis and KHAZAD, together with Vincent Rijmen. He has also co-authored a number of research works on elliptic curve cryptography and pairing-based cryptography, including the eta pairing technique, identity-based cryptographic protocols, and the family of Barreto–Naehrig (BN) and Barreto–Lynn-Scott (BLS) pairing-friendly elliptic curves. More recently he has been focusing his research on post-quantum cryptography, being one of the discoverers of quasi-dyadic codes and quasi-cyclic moderate-density parity-check (QC-MDPC) codes to instantiate the McEliece and Niederreiter cryptosystems and related schemes.

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Paul Weitz, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright

Paul John Weitz is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He is the older brother of filmmaker Chris Weitz. Together they worked on the comedy films American Pie and About a Boy; for the latter, they were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Weitz is also a writer, executive producer, and director of the Amazon Prime Video dramedy series Mozart in the Jungle.

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19/11/1964

Fred Diamond, American-English mathematician and academic

Fred Irvin Diamond is a mathematician, known for his role in proving the modularity theorem for elliptic curves. His research interest is in modular forms and Galois representations.

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Vincent Herring, American saxophonist and flute player

Vincent Dwyne Herring is an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, composer, and educator. Known for his fiery and soulful playing in the bands of Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, and Nat Adderley in the earlier stages of his career, he now frequently performs around the world with his own groups and is heavily involved in jazz education.

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Phil Hughes, Irish footballer and coach

Philip Anthony Hughes is a Northern Ireland former international footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Jung Jin-young, South Korean actor

Jung Jin-young is a South Korean actor. He has starred in numerous films, including Hi! Dharma! (2001), Bunt (2007), and The Case of Itaewon Homicide (2009). Jung is best known for his frequent collaborations with director Lee Joon-ik in Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield (2003) and its sequel Battlefield Heroes (2011), The Happy Life (2007), Sunny (2008), and particularly for his role as King Yeonsan in the hugely successful King and the Clown (2005).

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Eric Musselman, American basketball player and coach

Eric Musselman is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach at the University of Southern California. He is the former head coach at the University of Arkansas, University of Nevada, Reno, the Sacramento Kings and the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Between head coaching stints at Golden State and Sacramento, Musselman served as an assistant for the Memphis Grizzlies under Mike Fratello. He moved to the college coaching ranks in 2012 as an assistant at Arizona State. From 2014 to 2019, he was the head coach for the Nevada Wolf Pack. The son of former NBA head coach Bill Musselman, Eric Musselman was a head coach in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) before becoming an assistant coach with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Orlando Magic, and Atlanta Hawks.

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Nicholas Patrick, English-American engineer and astronaut

Nicholas James MacDonald Patrick, is a British-American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. His flight on the 2006 Discovery STS-116 mission made him the fourth person born in the United Kingdom to go into space.

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19/11/1963

Terry Farrell, American actress

Theresa Farrell is an American actress and fashion model. She is best known for her roles as Jadzia Dax in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and as Regina "Reggie" Kostas in the comedy series Becker.

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Jon Potter, English-American field hockey player

Jonathan Nicholas Mark Potter is a former field hockey player who was a member of the gold-winning Great Britain squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. After his playing career he became the managing director of House of Suntory and Maison Courvoisier at Suntory Global Spirits.

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19/11/1962

Jodie Foster, American actress, director, and producer

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress and filmmaker. Foster started her career as a child actor before establishing herself as a leading actress in film. As a performer, she is known for her versatility. She has received several accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Honorary Palme d'Or.

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Sean Parnell, American lawyer and politician, 12th Governor of Alaska

Sean Randall Parnell is an American attorney and politician who was the tenth governor of Alaska from 2009 to 2014. He succeeded Sarah Palin in July 2009 and was elected to a full term as governor in 2010. In 2014, he narrowly lost his bid for re-election and returned to work in the private sector. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Filipino boxer and trainer

Diosdado "Dodie Boy" Peñalosa is a Filipino former professional boxer who competed from 1982 to 1995. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior-flyweight title from 1983 to 1986 and the IBF flyweight title in 1987.

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19/11/1961

Jim L. Mora, American football player and coach

James Lawrence Mora is an American football coach who is the head coach at Colorado State University. He recently was the head coach at the University of Connecticut for four seasons and at UCLA from 2012 to 2017. Prior to taking the job at UCLA, Mora served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL), coaching the Atlanta Falcons from 2004 to 2006 and Seattle Seahawks in 2009. He has also served as an analyst for NFL Network and Fox Sports.

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Meg Ryan, American actress and producer

Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra, known professionally as Meg Ryan, is an American actress. Known for playing quirky, charismatic women since the late 1980s, Ryan is particularly recognized for her leading roles in romantic comedies, a genre she dominated during the 1990s. Dubbed "America's Sweetheart" by the media, she became one of Hollywood's most bankable stars of the latter decade.

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Pernille Svarre, Danish athlete

Pernille Svarre is a Danish athlete who has specialized in triathlon and modern pentathlon. She competed in the modern pentathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, and has been Danish modern pentathlon champion 12 times between 1980 and 2014. In June 2000, she won the gold medal in modern pentathlon at the Senior Women World Championship in Pesaro, Italy.

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19/11/1960

Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler and manager (died 2003)

Elizabeth Ann Hulette, best known in professional wrestling as Miss Elizabeth, was an American professional wrestling manager, occasional professional wrestler, and professional wrestling TV announcer. She gained international fame from 1985 to 1992 in the World Wrestling Federation and from 1996 to 2000 in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), in her role as the manager to wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage, as well as other wrestlers of that period.

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Matt Sorum, American drummer, songwriter, and producer

Matthew William Sorum is an American drummer. He is best known as both a former member of the hard rock band The Cult, Guns N' Roses, with whom he recorded three studio albums, and as a member of the supergroup Velvet Revolver. Sorum has toured and recorded with Billy Gibbons, is a member of the touring project Kings of Chaos, and is a former member of both The Cult and Y Kant Tori Read. Sorum was also a member of Guns N' Roses side projects, Slash's Snakepit and Neurotic Outsiders, and has released two solo albums, Hollywood Zen (2004) and Stratosphere (2014). He was the touring drummer for the supergroup Hollywood Vampires from 2015 to 2017. His recent project was Deadland Ritual, featuring Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens, and Apocalyptica vocalist Franky Perez.

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19/11/1959

Robert Barron, American bishop, author, and theologian

Robert Emmet Patrick Barron is an American Catholic theologian who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester since 2022. He served as rector at Mundelein Seminary from 2012 to 2015 and as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 2015 to 2022. He has published on theology and spirituality, and is the founder of Word on Fire.

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Jo Bonner, American politician

Josiah Robins Bonner Jr. is an American academic administrator and former politician who currently serves as the fourth president of the University of South Alabama. He was previously the U.S. representative for Alabama's 1st congressional district from 2003 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. He resigned from Congress on August 2, 2013, to take a job with the University of Alabama. He served as Chief of Staff to Alabama governor Kay Ivey from 2019 to 2021, before becoming the president of the University of South Alabama. He was officially inaugurated in December 2021.

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Allison Janney, American actress

Allison Brooks Janney is an American actress. Known for her performances across the screen and stage, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and seven Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards.

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19/11/1958

Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (died 2007)

Isabella Blow was an English magazine editor. She was mentor to Philip Treacy, and is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl, and fashion designer Alexander McQueen, beginning when she bought the entirety of his graduate show inspired by Jack the Ripper.

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Algirdas Butkevičius, Lithuanian sergeant and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Lithuania

Algirdas Butkevičius is a Lithuanian politician and was Prime Minister of Lithuania, serving between 2012 and 2016. He also served as the Minister of Finance from 2004 to 2005 and the Minister of Transport and Communications from 2006 to 2008. He led the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania from 2009 to 2017.

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Terrence C. Carson, American actor and singer

Terrence "T.C." Carson is an American actor known for his performances across television, film, stage, and video games. He is best known for portraying Kyle Barker on the Fox sitcom, Living Single, and is the original voice of Kratos in the God of War video game series, playing the role in every installment set within the Greek pantheon. Additionally, Carson lent his voice to Mace Windu in various Star Wars media, including Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

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Annette Gordon-Reed, American historian, author, and academic

Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor. She is currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and a professor of history in the university's Faculty of Arts & Sciences. She is formerly the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard University and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Gordon-Reed is noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson regarding his relationship with Sally Hemings and her children.

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Charlie Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Charles Stuart Kaufman is an American filmmaker and novelist. His work is distinguished by postmodernist and surrealist storytelling, with many critics considering him an auteur. Getting his start as a television writer, Kaufman gained prominence for his collaborations with directors Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry on Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), before going on to direct films himself with Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015), and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). In 2020, he released a novel, Antkind.

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Michael Wilbon, American sportscaster and journalist

Michael Ray Wilbon is an American host and commentator for ESPN and former sportswriter and columnist for The Washington Post. He has co-hosted Pardon the Interruption on ESPN since 2001 and is also an analyst.

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19/11/1957

Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (died 2000)

Ofra Haza was an Israeli singer, songwriter, and actress, commonly known in the Western world as "the Madonna of the East", or "the Israeli Madonna". Her voice has been described as a "tender" mezzo-soprano. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked her at number 186 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.

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Tom Virtue, American actor

Tom Virtue is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the television series Even Stevens (2000–2003) and The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013).

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19/11/1956

Eileen Collins, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut

Eileen Marie Collins is an American retired NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel. A flight instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission.

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Ann Curry, Guamanian-American journalist

Ann Curry is an American retired journalist, who has been a reporter for more than 45 years, focused on war zones and natural disasters. She has reported from wars in Kosovo, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Afghanistan, Darfur, Congo, and the Central African Republic, as well as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Her appeal via Twitter regarding the latter disaster topped the site's "most powerful" list and was credited for helping speed the arrival of humanitarian planes.

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Glynnis O'Connor, American actress

Glynnis O'Connor is an American actress. She made her big-screen debut starring in the 1973 romantic drama film, Jeremy. She later starred in the short-lived CBS drama series Sons and Daughters (1974) and the television version of Our Town (1977). She starred in films Ode to Billy Joe, Baby Blue Marine, California Dreaming (1979), Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980), The White Lions (1981), Night Crossing, Melanie and Johnny Dangerously (1984).

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Sergiy Vilkomir, Ukrainian-born computer scientist (died 2020)

Sergiy A. Vilkomir was a Ukrainian-born computer scientist.

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19/11/1955

Sam Hamm, American screenwriter and producer

Sam Hamm is an American screenwriter and comic book writer. Hamm is known for writing the initial drafts of the screenplay for Batman (1989) before those duties were handed over to Warren Skaaren. He also received a story credit for Batman Returns, though the final version of the film differs significantly from his ideas.

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19/11/1954

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egyptian field marshal and politician, 6th President of Egypt

Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has served as the 6th president of Egypt since 2014.

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Réjean Lemelin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Réjean M. "Reggie" Lemelin is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender and coach. Lemelin played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Atlanta Flames, Calgary Flames and Boston Bruins. He is perhaps best known for leading the Bruins over the Montreal Canadiens for the first time since 1943, a span of 45 years and 18 series, in the 1988 playoffs. After his playing career, Lemelin spent 13 years as a goaltending coach for the Philadelphia Flyers, who had originally drafted him into the NHL.

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Kathleen Quinlan, American actress

Kathleen Denise Quinlan is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1977 film of the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and her Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated role in the 1995 film Apollo 13, along with many roles in other feature films, television movies, and series, in a career spanning almost five decades.

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19/11/1953

Robert Beltran, American actor

Robert Adame Beltran is an American actor known for his role as Commander Chakotay on the 1990s television series Star Trek: Voyager. He is also known for stage acting in California, and for playing Raoul Mendoza in the 1982 black comedy film Eating Raoul.

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Tom Villard, American actor (died 1994)

Thomas Louis Villard was an American actor. He played one of the leading roles in the 1980s television sitcom We Got It Made, as well as roles in the feature films Grease 2, One Crazy Summer, Heartbreak Ridge, My Girl, and Popcorn.

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19/11/1951

Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, is a British Labour politician, peer and barrister who served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 2003 to 2007.

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19/11/1950

Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian chess player

Peter Biyiasas is a Canadian chess grandmaster. He was Canadian champion in 1972 and 1975, represented Canada with success on four Olympiad teams, and played in two Interzonals. He moved to the United States in 1979, settling in California. He retired from competitive play in the mid-1980s to work as a computer programmer. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was a frequent training partner of Bobby Fischer, who stayed at his home in San Francisco for extended periods.

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19/11/1949

Raymond Blanc, French chef and author

Raymond Blanc OBE is a French chef. Blanc is the chef at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a hotel-restaurant in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England. The restaurant has two Michelin stars and scored 9/10 in the Good Food Guide. He is entirely self-taught, and has taught or employed chefs including Heston Blumenthal, John Burton-Race, Michael Caines, Paul Liebrandt, and Marco Pierre White.

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Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster

Ahmad Rashad is an American sportscaster and former professional football wide receiver. He was the fourth overall selection of the 1972 NFL draft, taken by the St. Louis Cardinals. He was known as Bobby Moore before changing his name in 1973.

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19/11/1947

Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager

Robert Raymond Boone is an American former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who was a four-time All-Star.

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Anfinn Kallsberg, Faroese politician, 10th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 2024)

Anfinn Kallsberg was a Faroese politician who was prime minister and leader of the People's Party. First elected to the Faroese parliament in 1980 and consecutively thereafter, Kallsberg served as Fisheries Minister from 1983 to 1985 and for 5 months in Jógvan Sundstein's first coalition government in 1989, and as Economics and Finance Minister from 1996 to 1998 in a coalition led by Edmund Joensen.

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Lamar S. Smith, American lawyer and politician

Lamar Seeligson Smith is an American politician and lobbyist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 21st congressional district for 16 terms, a district including most of the wealthier sections of San Antonio and Austin, as well as some of the Texas Hill Country. He is a member of the Republican Party. He sponsored the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act (PCIP). He also co-sponsored the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act.

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19/11/1945

Hans Monderman, Dutch engineer (died 2008)

Hans Monderman was a Dutch road traffic engineer and innovator. He was recognised for radically challenging the criteria used to evaluate engineering solutions for street design. His work compelled transportation planners and highway engineers to look afresh at the way people and technology relate to each other.

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Bobby Tolan, American baseball player and manager

Robert Tolan is an American former professional baseball center fielder / right fielder, and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals (1965–1968), Cincinnati Reds (1969–1973), San Diego Padres, Philadelphia Phillies (1976–1977), and Pittsburgh Pirates (1977); he also played one season in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), for the Nankai Hawks (1978). Tolan batted and threw left-handed.

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19/11/1944

Agnes Baltsa, Greek soprano and actress

Agni Baltsa is a leading Greek mezzo-soprano singer.

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Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Dennis William Hull was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played most of his career for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League. He was the brother of Bobby Hull and uncle of Brett Hull and Bart Hull.

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19/11/1943

Fred Lipsius, American saxophonist and educator

Fred Lipsius is an American musician who is the original saxophonist and arranger for the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears, for which he played alto saxophone and piano. He was with the band from 1967 to 1971 and has collected 3 GRAMMY Awards and 9 Gold Records.

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Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-American baseball player and manager (died 1990)

Aurelio Faustino Monteagudo Cintra, nicknamed "Monty", was a right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for parts of seven seasons with the Kansas City Athletics, Houston Astros, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Royals, and California Angels. He played Minor League Baseball during the course of 14 seasons, played in the Mexican Baseball League from 1974 to 1981, and played winter league baseball in Venezuela for 20 seasons. Monteagudo managed and coached in the minor leagues, principally in the California Angels' farm system, and in the Mexican Baseball League and Venezuelan winter ball. He was the son of former MLB player René Monteagudo.

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19/11/1942

Roland Clift, English engineer and academic

Roland Clift is a chemical engineering professor widely known for his work and media contributions on the topic of sustainability.

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Larry Gilbert, American golfer (died 1998)

Lawrence Allen Gilbert Sr. was an American professional golfer. He is best known for winning the 1997 Senior Players Championship, one of the major championships on the Senior PGA Tour.

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Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, founded Calvin Klein Inc.

Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer. In 1968, he launched the company that later became Calvin Klein. In addition to clothing, he has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewellery.

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Sharon Olds, American poet and academic

Sharon Olds is an American poet. She won the first San Francisco State University Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She teaches creative writing at New York University and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.

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19/11/1941

Dan Haggerty, American actor and producer (died 2016)

Daniel Francis Haggerty was an American actor who was best known for playing the title role in the film and television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams.

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Tommy Thompson, American captain and politician, 42nd Governor of Wisconsin, 19th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

Tommy George Thompson is an American politician who served as the 19th United States secretary of health and human services from 2001 to 2005 in the cabinet of President George W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 42nd governor of Wisconsin from 1987 to 2001 and Republican floor leader in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1981 to 1987. Thompson is the longest-serving governor in Wisconsin history and is the only person to be elected to the office four times.

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19/11/1940

Gary Gruber, author and expert on test-prep (died 2019)

Gary R. Gruber was an American theoretical physicist, educator, and author who wrote books and software programs for test preparation. His work focused on test-taking and critical thinking skills. His writings included the Gruber's Complete Guide series as well as books and columns of brain teaser puzzles and other articles. He also worked with schools, school districts, state departments of education and other educational organizations in the development of testing and critical thinking skills and educational motivation programs.

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19/11/1939

Emil Constantinescu, Romanian academic and politician, 3rd President of Romania

Emil Constantinescu is a Romanian professor and politician, who served as the president of Romania from 1996 to 2000.

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Tom Harkin, American lawyer and politician

Thomas Richard Harkin is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. representative for Iowa's 5th congressional district from 1975 to 1985. He is the longest-serving United States Senator to spend the entire tenure as a state's junior senator.

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Jane Mansbridge, American political scientist and academic

Jane Jebb Mansbridge is an American political scientist. She is the Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Warren "Pete" Moore, American singer-songwriter and record producer (died 2017)

Warren Thomas "Pete" Moore was an American singer-songwriter and record producer, notable as the bass singer for Motown group the Miracles from 1955 onwards, and was one of the group's original members. He is also a 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, and a BMI and ASCAP award-winning songwriter, and was the vocal arranger on all of the group's hits.

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Richard Zare, American chemist and academic

Richard Neil Zare is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. Throughout his career, Zare has made a considerable impact in physical chemistry and analytical chemistry, particularly through the development of laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) and the study of chemical reactions at the molecular and nanoscale level. LIF is an extremely sensitive technique with applications ranging from analytical chemistry and molecular biology to astrophysics. One of its applications was the sequencing of the human genome.

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19/11/1938

Len Killeen, South African rugby league player (died 2011)

Leonard Michael Anthony "Len"/"Lenny The Lion" Killeen was a South African basketball player, rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Frank Misson, Australian cricketer (died 2024)

Francis Michael Misson was an Australian cricketer who played in five Tests from December 1960 to June 1961. He played first-class cricket for New South Wales from 1958–59 to 1963–64.

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Ted Turner, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Turner Broadcasting System (died 2026)

Robert Edward Turner III was an American businessman, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel, and WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. Turner also founded the television networks TNT, TBS, The Cartoon Network, Inc., and Turner Classic Movies, bought Jim Crockett Promotions, and acquired and rebranded professional wrestling company World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

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19/11/1937

Penelope Leach, English psychologist and author

Penelope Jane Leach is a British psychologist who researches and writes extensively on parenting issues from a child development perspective.

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19/11/1936

Dick Cavett, American actor and talk show host

Richard Alva Cavett is an American television personality, comedian and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States from the 1960s through the 2000s.

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Ray Collins, American singer (died 2012)

Ray Collins was an American musician. He is best known for being an original member of the Mothers of Invention and the primary lead vocalist on their earliest albums.

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Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese physical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 for his contributions to the development of reaction dynamics.

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Ljubiša Samardžić, Serbian actor and director (died 2017)

Ljubiša Samardžić, nicknamed Smoki, was a Serbian actor and director, best known as Šurda in the Vruć vetar TV series, and Inspector Boško Simić in the comedy crime series Policajac sa Petlovog brda and film of the same name.

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19/11/1935

Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and scholar (died 1990)

Rashad Khalifa was an Egyptian-American biochemist, closely associated with the United Submitters International (USI), an organization that promotes the practice and study of "Quran, the Whole Quran, and Nothing But the Quran." Khalifa saw his role as purging the accretions that found their way into Islam via hadith and sunnah, which he claimed were corruptions. Similarly, he believed that previous revelations of God, such as the Bible, contained contradictions due to human interference . Instead, he believed that the beliefs and practices of Islam should be based on the Quran alone. He is also known for his claims regarding the existence of a Quran code, also known as The Number 19. In the last years of his life, Khalifa used the English words “Submission” and “Submitter” instead of the Arabic words ‘Islam’ and “Muslim”, and stated this in his publications and used it in his 1989 translation of the Qur'an.

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Jack Welch, American engineer, businessman, and author (died 2020)

John Francis Welch Jr. was an American business executive. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric (GE) between 1981 and 2001. During his twenty-year tenure, GE's market value grew from $14 billion to $600 billion, and he has frequently been cited as one of the greatest chief executives of the twentieth century.

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19/11/1934

Kurt Hamrin, Swedish footballer and scout (died 2024)

Kurt Roland "Kurre" Hamrin was a Swedish professional footballer who played as a winger. He began his career in his home country with AIK, but later played for several Italian clubs, most notably Fiorentina, with whom he won two Coppa Italia titles, a Cup Winners' Cup, and a Mitropa Cup over nine years, making over 350 appearances for the club and scoring over 200 goals in all competitions. He also represented AC Milan, with whom he won a Serie A title and the European Cup. A prolific goalscorer, he is currently the eighth highest goalscorer of all time in Italy's Serie A, with 190 goals.

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Valentin Ivanov, Russian footballer and manager (died 2011)

Valentin Kozmich Ivanov was a Russian footballer who played as a midfielder. He was the co-leading scorer at the 1962 World Cup, and the co-1960 European Nations' Cup top scorer.

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David Lloyd-Jones, English conductor (died 2022)

David Matthias Lloyd-Jones was a British conductor who specialised in British and Russian music. In 1978 he was a co-founder of Opera North, conducting 50 productions during the 12 years he was there, and was also an editor and translator, especially of Russian operas.

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19/11/1933

Larry King, American journalist and talk show host (died 2021)

Larry King was an American TV and radio host, author, and spokesman. He was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s. Beginning in 1978, King gained national prominence as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard over the Mutual Broadcasting System. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. King hosted Larry King Now from 2012 to 2020, which aired on Hulu, Ora TV, and RT America. He hosted Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show, on the same three channels from 2013 to 2020. King conducted over 50,000 interviews on radio and television.

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Jerry Sheindlin, American judge and author

Gerald Sheindlin is an American author, television personality, jurist and attorney. He spent many years as a trial judge serving the New York Supreme Court.

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19/11/1932

Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (died 2009)

Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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19/11/1930

Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player, referee, and sportscaster (died 2011)

Kurt Nielsen was a Danish tennis player. He was born in Copenhagen, and was the first Danish tennis player ever to have played in a men's singles final in a Grand Slam tournament.

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19/11/1929

Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and scholar (died 2004)

Norman Frank Cantor was a Canadian-American medievalist. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely read treatments of medieval history in English. He estimated that his textbook The Civilization of the Middle Ages, first published in 1963, had a million copies in circulation.

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19/11/1928

Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (died 2012)

Dara Singh was an Indian professional wrestler, actor, and politician. Widely regarded as one of India's greatest wrestlers, Singh earned international recognition during the 1950s and 1960s for his victories in both Indian and world wrestling circuits. In 1968, Singh became world champion by defeating Lou Thesz.

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19/11/1926

Jeane Kirkpatrick, American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2006)

Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anti-Communist, she was a longtime Democrat who became a neoconservative and switched to the Republican Party in 1985. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 presidential campaign, she became the first woman to serve as United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

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Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (died 2012)

Giuseppe Umberto "Pino" Rauti was an Italian neo-fascist politician who was a leading figure of the Italian far-right for many years. Involved in active politics since 1948, he was one of founders and for many years the leader of the Italian Social Movement (MSI). He was the main representative of the MSI's radical faction until the party dissolution in 1995.

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Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (died 2011)

Barrington John Reckord, known as Barry Reckord, was a Jamaican playwright, one of the earliest Caribbean writers to make a contribution to theatre in Britain. His brother was the actor and director Lloyd Reckord, with whom he sometimes worked.

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19/11/1925

Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-English sociologist, historian, and academic (died 2017)

Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrated to Israel; three years later, he moved to the United Kingdom. He resided in England from 1971, where he studied at the London School of Economics and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later emeritus. Bauman was a social theorist, writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, consumerism in postmodernity, and liquid modernity.

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19/11/1924

Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (died 2014)

Jane Freilicher was an American representational painter of urban and country scenes from her homes in lower Manhattan and Water Mill, Long Island. She was a member of the informal New York School beginning in the 1950s, and a muse to several of its poets and writers.

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William Russell, English actor (died 2024)

William Russell Enoch was an English actor who performed as both Russell Enoch and William Russell. His career on stage and screen spanned over seven decades and he first achieved prominence in the title role of the television series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956–1957). In 1963, he was in the original lead cast of BBC1's Doctor Who, playing the role of schoolteacher Ian Chesterton from the show's first episode until 1965.

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Knut Steen, Norwegian-Italian sculptor (died 2011)

Knut Steen was a Norwegian sculptor. Steen lived in Sandefjord for most of his life and dedicated works such as the Whaler's Monument to the city. Many of his sculptures may also be seen at Midtåsen Sculpture Park, a park dedicated to Steen at the former villa of Anders Jahre in Sandefjord.

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Margaret Turner-Warwick, English physician and academic (died 2017)

Dame Margaret Elizabeth Turner-Warwick was a British medical doctor and thoracic specialist. She was the first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians (1989–1992) and, later, chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Health Care NHS Trust (1992–1995).

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19/11/1923

Louis D. Rubin, Jr., American author, critic, and academic (died 2013)

Louis Decimus Rubin Jr. was a noted American literary critic, writer, teacher, and publisher. He is credited with helping to establish Southern literature as a recognized area of study within the field of American literature, as well as serving as a teacher and mentor for writers at Hollins College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and for founding Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a publishing company nationally recognized for fiction by Southern writers.

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19/11/1922

Salil Chowdhury, Indian director, playwright, and composer (died 1995)

Salil Chowdhury was an Indian music director, songwriter, lyricist, writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He composed music for films in 13 languages. This includes over 75 Hindi films, 41 Bengali films, 27 Malayalam films, and a few Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Odia and Assamese films. His musical ability was widely recognised in the Indian film industry. He was an accomplished composer and arranger who was proficient in several musical instruments, including the flute, the piano, and the esraj. He was also widely acclaimed and admired for his inspirational and original poetry in Bengali.

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Yuri Knorozov, Ukrainian-Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer (died 1999)

Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigraphist, and ethnologist. He is best known for the key role he played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system of the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

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Rajko Mitić, Serbian footballer and coach (died 2008)

Rajko Mitić was a Serbian footballer, coach, executive and journalist.

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19/11/1921

Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (died 1993)

Roy Campanella, nicknamed "Campy", was an American professional baseball player, primarily as a catcher. The Philadelphia native played in the Negro leagues and Mexican League for nine years before entering the minor leagues in 1946. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut in 1948 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, for whom he played until 1957. His playing career ended when he was paralyzed in an automobile crash in January 1958. A three-time MVP, he is considered one of the greatest catchers in the history of the game.

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Peter Ruckman, American pastor and educator (died 2016)

Peter Sturges Ruckman was an American Independent Baptist pastor, author, Bible teacher, and founder of the Pensacola Bible Institute in Pensacola, Florida.

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19/11/1920

Gene Tierney, American actress and singer (died 1991)

Gene Tierney was an American stage and film actress. Tierney was a prominent leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She starred as Laura Hunt in Otto Preminger's Laura (1944), a film noir classic, and as Ellen Berent in John M. Stahl's Leave Her to Heaven (1945), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Darryl F. Zanuck, co-founder of 20th Century Fox, said Tierney was "unquestionably, the most beautiful woman in movie history."

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19/11/1919

Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2006)

Gilberto Pontecorvo Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and '70s. He is best known for directing the landmark war docudrama The Battle of Algiers (1966). It won the Golden Lion at the 27th Venice Film Festival, and earned him Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

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Alan Young, English-Canadian actor, singer, and director (died 2016)

Alan Young was a British–born actor. Young is best known for portraying Wilbur Post in the television comedy Mister Ed (1961–1966) and voicing Disney's Scrooge McDuck for over 40 years, beginning in the 1974 Disneyland Records album An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players. He again voiced Scrooge in the Academy Award-nominated short film Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) and continued in the role in various other films, television series and video games up until his death. He was considered by TV Guide to be "the Charlie Chaplin of television".

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19/11/1917

Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (died 1984)

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician who served as the prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India's first and only female prime minister, and a central figure in Indian politics as the leader of the Indian National Congress (INC). She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, and the mother of Rajiv Gandhi, who succeeded her as prime minister. Her cumulative tenure of 15 years and 350 days makes her the second-longest-serving Indian prime minister after her father.

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19/11/1915

Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974)

Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. was an American pharmacologist and biochemist born in Burlingame, Kansas. Sutherland won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1971 "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones", especially epinephrine, via second messengers, namely cyclic adenosine monophosphate, or cyclic AMP.

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19/11/1912

Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American bishop (died 2015)

Bernard Joseph McLaughlin was an American bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as the Auxiliary Bishop of Buffalo and also held the titular see of Mottola.

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George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)

George Emil Palade was a Romanian-American cell biologist. In 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. The prize was granted for his innovations in electron microscopy and cell fractionation which together laid the foundations of modern molecular cell biology, the most notable discovery being the ribosomes of the endoplasmic reticulum – which he first described in 1955.

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Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author (died 2014)

Robert H. Simpson was an American meteorologist, hurricane specialist, first director of the National Hurricane Research Project (NHRP) from 1955 to 1959, and a former director (1967–1974) of the National Hurricane Center (NHC). He was the co-developer of the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale with Herbert Saffir. His wife was Joanne Simpson.

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19/11/1910

Adrian Conan Doyle, English race car driver, author, and explorer (died 1970)

Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle was the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his second wife Jean, Lady Doyle or Lady Conan Doyle. He had two siblings, sister Jean Conan Doyle and brother Denis, as well as two half-siblings, sister Mary and brother Kingsley.

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19/11/1909

Peter Drucker, Austrian-American theorist, educator, and author (died 2005).

Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory. He was also a leader in the development of management education, and contributed to the popularization of the concepts known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the champion of management as a serious discipline".

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Carlos López Moctezuma, Mexican actor (died 1980).

Carlos López Moctezuma Pineda was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in more than 210 films between 1938 and 1980. He starred in the film Happiness, which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.

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19/11/1907

Hans Liska, Austrian-German artist (died 1983)

Hans Liska was an Austrian artist, painter, commercial artist and illustrator.

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Jack Schaefer, American author (died 1991)

Jack Warner Schaefer was an American writer known for his Westerns. His best-known works are the 1949 novel Shane, considered the greatest western novel by the Western Writers of America, and the 1964 children's book Stubby Pringle's Christmas.

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19/11/1906

Franz Schädle, German SS officer (died 1945)

Franz Schädle was the last commander of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard, from 5 January 1945 until his death on 2 May 1945.

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19/11/1905

Eleanor Audley, American actress (died 1991)

Eleanor Audley was an American actress with a distinctive voice and a diverse body of work. She played Oliver Douglas's mom, Eunice Douglas, on the CBS sitcom Green Acres (1965–1969), and provided two Disney animated classics with the voices of the two iconic villainesses: Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's evil stepmother in Cinderella (1950), and Maleficent, the wicked fairy in Sleeping Beauty (1959). She had roles in live-action films, but was most active in radio programs such as My Favorite Husband as Liz Cooper's mother-in-law, Mrs. Cooper, and Father Knows Best as the Anderson family's neighbor, Mrs. Smith. Audley's television appearances include those in I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mister Ed, Hazel, The Beverly Hillbillies, Pistols 'n' Petticoats, and My Three Sons.

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Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, composer and bandleader (died 1956)

Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. His theme song was "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You". His technical skill on the trombone gave him renown among other musicians. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey. After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely successful band from the late 1930s into the 1950s. He is best remembered for standards such as "Opus One", "This Love of Mine" featuring Frank Sinatra on vocals, "Song of India", "Marie", "On Treasure Island", and his biggest hit single, "I'll Never Smile Again".

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19/11/1904

Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American murderer (died 1971)

Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb, together known as Leopold and Loeb, were two American murderers who kidnapped and killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on May 21, 1924.

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19/11/1901

Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (died 1961)

Nina Karlovna Bari was a Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series. She is also well-known for two textbooks, Higher Algebra and The Theory of Series.

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19/11/1900

Bunny Ahearne, Irish-English ice hockey player and manager (died 1985)

John Francis "Bunny" Ahearne was a British ice hockey administrator and businessman. He served rotating terms as president and vice-president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) from 1951 to 1975, and was the secretary of the British Ice Hockey Association from 1934 to 1971, and later its president until 1982. He began in hockey by managing the last Great Britain team to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games, before moving to the international stage. He implemented business reforms at the IIHF, oversaw the growth of ice hockey to new countries, and expanded the Ice Hockey World Championships. He was inducted into both the Hockey Hall of Fame and the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame during his lifetime and was posthumously inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.

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Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (died 1980)

Mikhail Alekseyevich Lavrentyev was a Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist.

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Anna Seghers, German author and politician (died 1983)

Anna Reiling, known by the pen name Anna Seghers, was a German writer. She was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married to a Hungarian Communist, Seghers escaped Nazi-controlled territory through wartime France. She was granted a visa and gained ship's passage to Mexico, where she lived in Mexico City (1941–47).

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19/11/1899

Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (died 1992)

Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei was a major Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja and dean of the Hawza of Najaf. Khoei was widely considered the most influential Twelver Shia Muslim scholar of his time.

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Allen Tate, American poet and critic (died 1979)

John Orley Allen Tate, known professionally as Allen Tate, was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and poet laureate from 1943 to 1944. Among his best known works are the poems "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (1928) and "The Mediterranean" (1933), and his only novel The Fathers (1938). He is associated with New Criticism, the Fugitives and the Southern Agrarians.

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19/11/1898

Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (died 1924)

Klement Jug was a Slovene philosopher, essayist and mountaineer who died while climbing Mount Triglav. Although he did not publish many works during his lifetime, he became one of the most influential thinkers of the younger generations of Slovenian intellectuals in the interwar period.

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Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist and academic (died 2003)

Arthur Robert von Hippel was a German American materials scientist and physicist. Von Hippel was a pioneer in the study of dielectrics, ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials, and semiconductors and was a codeveloper of radar during World War II.

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19/11/1897

Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (died 1918)

Quentin Roosevelt I was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt. Inspired by his father and siblings, he joined the United States Army Air Service where he became a pursuit pilot during World War I and shot down one German aircraft. He was killed in aerial combat over France on Bastille Day, 1918. He is the only child of a U.S. president to have been killed in action.

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19/11/1895

Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (died 1989)

Louise Emma Augusta Dahl-Wolfe was an American photographer. She is known primarily for her work for Harper's Bazaar, in association with fashion editor Diana Vreeland. At Harper's Bazaar she pioneered a new standard in color photography.

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Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (died 1964)

Evert van Linge was a Dutch footballer who earned 13 caps for the Dutch national side between 1919 and 1926, scoring three goals. He also participated at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He played for Be Quick 1887 and SC Veendam.

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19/11/1894

Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (died 1987)

Américo de Deus Rodrigues Tomás was a Portuguese Navy officer and politician who served as the president of Portugal from 1958 to 1974. He was the last president of the authoritarian and corporatist Estado Novo.

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19/11/1893

René Voisin, French trumpet player (died 1952)

René Louis Gabriel Voisin, was a French trumpeter and a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra trumpet section for 24 years. He was also father and teacher to Roger Voisin, the trumpet player and pedagogue who would later become principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony.

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19/11/1892

Thomas Clay, English footballer and coach (died 1949)

Thomas Clay was a professional footballer who played fullback for Leicester Fosse, Tottenham Hotspur and England during the 1910s and 1920s.

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Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (died 1970)

Huw Thomas Edwards MBE was a Welsh trade union leader and politician.

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19/11/1889

Clifton Webb, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 1966)

Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck, known professionally as Clifton Webb, was an American actor, singer, and dancer. He worked extensively and was known for his stage appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, including Blithe Spirit, as well as appearances on Broadway in a number of successful musical revues. As a film actor, he was nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Supporting Actor for Laura (1944) and The Razor's Edge (1946), and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Sitting Pretty (1948).

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19/11/1888

José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban-American chess player and theologian (died 1942)

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he was widely renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play.

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19/11/1887

James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)

James Batcheller Sumner was an American biochemist. He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley. He was also the first to prove that enzymes are proteins.

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19/11/1883

Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor and singer (died 1957)

Ned Sparks was a Canadian character actor of the American stage and screen. He was known for his deadpan expression, frequently sarcastic characters and a comically nasal, monotone delivery.

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19/11/1877

Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (died 1947)

Giuseppe Volpi, 1st Count of Misurata was an Italian businessman and politician.

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19/11/1876

Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (died 1964)

Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva-Ehrenfest was a Russian-Dutch mathematician and physicist who made contributions to the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics with her husband Paul Ehrenfest.

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19/11/1875

Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician, 1st Head of State of The Soviet Union (died 1946)

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 until his resignation in 1946. From 1926 until his death, he was a member of the Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

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19/11/1873

Elizabeth McCombs, the first woman elected to the Parliament of New Zealand (died 1935)

Elizabeth Reid McCombs was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party who in 1933 became the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. New Zealand women gained the right to vote in 1893, though were not allowed to stand for the House of Representatives until the election of 1919. McCombs had previously contested elections in 1928 and 1931.

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19/11/1862

Billy Sunday, American baseball player and evangelist (died 1935)

William Ashley Sunday was an American evangelist and professional baseball outfielder. He played for eight seasons in the National League before becoming the most influential American preacher during the first two decades of the 20th century.

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19/11/1859

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator (died 1935)

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov was a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor and teacher. His music ranged from the late-Romantic era into the 20th century era.

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19/11/1858

Gina Oselio, Norwegian opera singer (died 1937).

Gina Oselio was a Norwegian operatic mezzo-soprano. Her signature role was the title heroine in Georges Bizet's Carmen. Oselio was sponsored by Oscar II who he gave her the title of "hofsangerinde", and she was the only Norwegian person to receive the honour.

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19/11/1845

Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (died 1939)

Agnes Giberne was a British novelist and scientific writer. Her fiction was typical of Victorian evangelical fiction with moral or religious themes for children. She also wrote books on science for young people, a handful of historical novels, and one well-regarded biography.

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19/11/1843

Richard Avenarius, German-Swiss philosopher and academic (died 1896)

Richard Heinrich Ludwig Avenarius was a French-born German-Swiss philosopher. He formulated the radical positivist doctrine of "empirical criticism" or empirio-criticism.

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C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (died 1914)

Charles Xavier Larrabee was an American businessman and a co-founder of the town of Fairhaven, Washington. Later in life, Larrabee and his wife Frances donated much land for civic purposes, including schools and parks, and were considered stewards of the city of Bellingham.

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19/11/1834

Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (died 1924)

Georg Hermann Quincke was a German physicist.

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19/11/1833

Wilhelm Dilthey, German psychologist, sociologist, and historian (died 1911)

Wilhelm Dilthey was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher, working in a modern research university, Dilthey's research interests revolved around questions of scientific methodology, historical evidence and history's status as a science.

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19/11/1831

James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, 20th President of the United States (died 1881)

James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he ran for president, the Ohio General Assembly had elected him to the U.S. Senate, a position he declined upon becoming president-elect.

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19/11/1828

Rani Lakshmibai, Indian queen (died 1858)

The Rani of Jhansi, also known as Rani Lakshmibai, was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The queen consort of the princely state of Jhansi from 1843 to 1853, she assumed its leadership after the outbreak of the conflict and fought several battles against the British. Her life and deeds are celebrated in modern India and she remains a potent symbol of Indian nationalism.

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19/11/1812

Karl Schwarz, German theologian and politician (died 1885)

Karl Schwarz was a German Protestant theologian.

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19/11/1808

Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian journalist, physician, and politician (died 1881)

Janez Bleiweis was a Slovene conservative politician, journalist, physician, veterinarian, and public figure. He was the leader of the so-called Old Slovene political movement. Already during his lifetime, he was called father of the nation.

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19/11/1805

Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer, developed the Suez Canal (died 1894)

Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps was a French Orientalist diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal, which in 1869, joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas, substantially reducing sailing distances and times between Europe and East Asia.

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19/11/1802

Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (died 1866)

Solomon T. Foot was an American politician and attorney. He held numerous offices during his career, including Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, State's Attorney for Rutland County, member of the United States House of Representatives, and United States Senator.

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19/11/1770

Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor and academic (died 1844)

Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor and medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a working-class Danish/Icelandic family, and was accepted to the Royal Danish Academy of Art at the age of eleven. Working part-time with his father, who was a wood carver, Thorvaldsen won many honors and medals at the academy. He was awarded a stipend to travel to Rome and continue his education.

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19/11/1765

Filippo Castagna, Maltese politician (died 1830)

Filippo Castagna was a Maltese politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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19/11/1752

George Rogers Clark, American general (died 1818)

George Rogers Clark was an American military officer and surveyor from Virginia who became the highest-ranking Patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Virginia militia in Kentucky throughout much of the war, and is credited for founding Louisville, Kentucky in 1778. He is best known for his captures of Kaskaskia, Illinois, in 1778 and Vincennes, Indiana, in 1779 during the Illinois campaign, which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory and earned Clark the nickname "Conqueror of the Old Northwest". The British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris.

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19/11/1722

Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (died 1809)

Josef Leopold Auenbrugger or Avenbrugger, also known as Leopold von Auenbrugger, was an Austrian physician who invented percussion as a diagnostic technique. On the strength of this discovery, he is considered one of the founders of modern medicine.

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Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (died 1810)

Benjamin Chew was an American lawyer and judge who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania and later the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Born into a Quaker family, Chew was known for precision and brevity in his legal arguments and his excellent memory, judgment, and knowledge of statutory law. His primary allegiance was to the supremacy of law and the constitution.

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19/11/1711

Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer (died 1765)

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others. One of the founders of modern geology, Lomonosov was also a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language.

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19/11/1700

Jean-Antoine Nollet, French priest and physicist (died 1770)

Jean-Antoine Nollet was a French clergyman and physicist who conducted a number of experiments with electricity and discovered osmosis. As a deacon in the Catholic Church, he was also known as Abbé Nollet.

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19/11/1617

Eustache Le Sueur, French painter and educator (died 1655)

Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur was a French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. He is known primarily for his paintings of religious subjects. He was a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism.

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19/11/1600

Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1649)

Charles I was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and diplomat (died 1669)

Lieuwe (Leo) van Aitzema was a Dutch historian, diplomat, bon viveur, libertine and spy.

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19/11/1563

Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English poet and politician (died 1626)

Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, was an English courtier, soldier, and landowner. He was chamberlain to Anne of Denmark.

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19/11/1503

Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (died 1547)

Pier Luigi Farnese was the first Duke of Castro from 1537 to 1545 and the first Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1545 to 1547. He was the illegitimate son of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. He became a soldier and participated in the Sack of Rome in 1527.

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19/11/1464

Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (died 1526)

Emperor Go-Kashiwabara was the 104th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from November 16, 1500, to May 19, 1526. His personal name was Katsuhito (勝仁). His reign marked the nadir of Imperial authority during the Ashikaga shogunate.

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19/11/1417

Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern (died 1480)

Frederick I, the Hunsrücker was the Count Palatine of Simmern from 1459 until 1480.

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