Thursday, 20th November 2025 in Lisbon

On this day, 407 notable people were born on 20th November — spanning from 270 to 2002. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

20/11/2002

Madisyn Shipman, American actress

Madisyn Shipman is an American actress, singer and model. She is known for playing Kenzie Bell in the Nickelodeon sitcom Game Shakers.

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20/11/2001

Caty McNally, American tennis player

Catherine "Caty" McNally is an American professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 49 on June 22, 2026 and her best WTA doubles ranking of No. 11 on April 4, 2022. She has won nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour, three of them with Coco Gauff, and the pair also reached the final of the 2021 US Open. She reached another major final at the 2022 US Open with Taylor Townsend. McNally has also won six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In singles, she has won two titles on the WTA Challenger Tour plus four on the ITF Circuit.

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Adrien Truffert, French footballer

Adrien Lilian Gaëtan Truffert is a French professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Premier League club Bournemouth.

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20/11/2000

Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter

Connie Victoria Elizabeth Talbot is a British singer who was the runner-up of the first series of Britain's Got Talent in 2007. She then signed with Rainbow Recording Company and released her debut album Over the Rainbow on 26 November 2007, which has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide and reached number one in three countries.

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20/11/1997

Levi Garcia, Trinidadian footballer

Levi Samuel García is a Trinidadian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Russian Premier League club Spartak Moscow and the Trinidad and Tobago national team.

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20/11/1996

Blaž Janc, Slovenian handballer

Blaž Janc is a Slovenian professional handball player who plays for FC Barcelona and the Slovenia national team. He is the older brother of fellow handball player Mitja Janc.

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Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer

Denis Lemi Zakaria Lako Lado is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ligue 1 club Monaco, whom he captains, and the Switzerland national team. He has also represented Switzerland internationally at youth level.

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20/11/1995

Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete

Timothy Cheruiyot is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specialising in the 1500 metres. He is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the event and the 11th fastest athlete all time over the distance. At the World Athletics Championships, Cheruiyot won the silver medal in 2017 in London, and a gold in 2019 in Doha.

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Shaolin Sándor Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater

Shaolin Sándor Liu is a Chinese-Hungarian Olympic champion short track speed skater. He has won one gold and one bronze as part of the Hungarian team in short track speed skating relays at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics. He has represented China internationally since 2023.

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Kyle Snyder, American wrestler

Kyle Frederick Snyder is an American freestyle wrestler and graduated folkstyle wrestler who competes at 97 kilograms. He currently competes in the Light Heavyweight division of Real American Freestyle (RAF), where he is the current RAF Light Heavyweight Champion.

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20/11/1994

Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle-distance runner

Timothy Kitum is a Kenyan middle distance runner.

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20/11/1993

Anna Prugova, Russian ice hockey player

Anna Aleksandrovna Prugova is a Russian ice hockey player and member of the Russian national ice hockey team, currently playing in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) with Agidel Ufa.

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20/11/1992

Amit Guluzade, Azerbaijani footballer

Amit Guluzade is head coach of the club "Qaradağ Lökbatan" and a former Azerbaijani football player. In July 2025, Amit married Dizhe Valeriуa.

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Zoltán Harcsa, Hungarian boxer

Zoltán Ádám Harcsa is a Hungarian middleweight boxer who won bronze medals at the 2013 and 2017 European Championships and the 2015 European Games. He competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, but was eliminated in the second-third bout on both occasions. His brother Norbert is also an international boxer.

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Kristiina Mäkelä, Finnish triple jumper

Meri Kristiina Mäkelä is a Finnish athlete whose specialty is the triple jump. She has competed in two Olympics and four World Athletics Championships, with the best result of 9th in 2022. Her personal bests in the event are 14.64 m outdoors and 14.38 m indoors.

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Jenna Prandini, American track and field athlete

Jenna Elizabeth Prandini is an American track and field athlete who has competed in both sprinting and long jump. She is a two-time national champion at 200 meters, and a two-time Olympian in 2016 and 2020. She won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics as part of the United States 4 × 100 m relay team, and won a gold medal with the US 4 × 100 m relay at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.

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20/11/1991

Irene Esser, Venezuelan actress and model

Irene Sofía Esser Quintero is a Venezuelan actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Venezuela 2011. Esser grew up in Río Caribe, Sucre, Venezuela. She represented Venezuela in Miss Universe 2012, finishing as 2nd Runner-Up.

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Grant Hanley, Scottish footballer

Grant Campbell Hanley is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Scottish Premiership club Hibernian and the Scotland national team.

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20/11/1990

Haley Anderson, American swimmer

Haley Danita Anderson is an American competitive swimmer, who competed for the University of Southern California, and is an Olympic silver medalist. She placed second in the 10-kilometer open water event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and later competed in the event in the 2016, and 2020 Olympics.

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Mark Christian, Manx cyclist

Mark Peter Christian is a Manx former racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI ProTeam Eolo–Kometa.

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Aleksandra Król, Polish snowboarder

Aleksandra Król-Walas is a Polish snowboarder.

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20/11/1989

Babita Kumari, Indian wrestler

Babita Kumari Phogat is a former Indian professional wrestler and a politician from the state of Haryana. She is a multiple Commonwealth Games medalist, winning the gold medal in 2014 Commonwealth Games, and silver medals at the 2010 and 2018 Commonwealth Games. When she won the 2014 Commonwealth gold medal, she became the second Indian women wrestler to win a Commonwealth gold after her sister Geeta Phogat, who had won it in 2010.

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Cody Linley, American actor and singer

Cody Linley is an American actor and singer. He played a recurring role as Jake Ryan in the television series Hannah Montana, and was a contestant on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars, in which he was partnered with Julianne Hough and finished fourth.

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Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian ballet dancer

Sergei Vladimirovich Polunin is a Russian ballet dancer, actor and model. He has Russian and Serbian citizenships, and has "always regarded himself as Russian". In 2025, he was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship.

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Eduardo Vargas, Chilean footballer

Eduardo Jesús Vargas Rojas is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga de Primera club Universidad de Chile.

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20/11/1988

Marie-Laure Brunet, French biathlete

Marie-Laure Brunet is a retired French biathlete and Olympic athlete who won a bronze medal in the women's pursuit at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games of Vancouver.

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Aya Medany, Egyptian modern pentathlete.

Aya Medany is an Egyptian modern pentathlete. She made her Olympic début at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, as the youngest competitor both in the Egyptian team and competing in the pentathlon.

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Max Pacioretty, American ice hockey player

Maximillian Kolenda Pacioretty is an American former professional ice hockey left winger.

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Dariga Shakimova, Kazakhstani boxer

Dariga Shakimova is a Kazakhstani boxer. In 2015, she was named the Female Boxer of the Year by the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation. She won a bronze medal in the middleweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Shakimova studied at the Kazakh Academy of Sport and Tourism. After watching the film Million Dollar Baby, her mother wanted her to stop boxing, fearing for a serious injury. Shakimova's coach persuaded her to reconsider.

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Dušan Tadić, Serbian footballer

Dušan Tadić is a Serbian professional footballer who plays for UAE Pro League club Al Wahda. Positionally, he can be deployed as an attacking midfielder, winger or forward.

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Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor and director

Rhys Wakefield is an Australian actor and director, known for his roles in Australian TV series Home and Away, the feature film The Black Balloon (2008) and in season 3 of HBO's True Detective in 2019.

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20/11/1987

Amelia Rose Blaire, American actress

Amelia Rose Blaire Dechart is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Willa Burrell on the HBO series True Blood, portraying the Tracis in the game Detroit: Become Human, and Piper Shaw on the MTV series Scream.

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Mylène Lazare, French swimmer

Mylène Lazare is a French swimmer, who won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 4 × 200 m freestyle.

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Nathan Lyon, Australian cricketer

Nathan Michael Lyon is an Australian international cricketer. He made his Test debut in 2011 and plays domestic cricket for New South Wales. Lyon is an off-spin bowler and a lower-order right-handed batsman. Statistically the most successful Australian off-spin bowler of all time, Lyon holds the record for the most Test wickets taken by an Australian off-spin bowler, passing Hugh Trumble's 141 wickets in 2015. In January 2021, Lyon played in his 100th Test match during Australia's series against India. As of 2025, Lyon is Australia's second highest Test wicket taker of all time and ranks sixth among all international players in Test cricket with more than 500 wickets.

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Joëlle Numainville, Canadian cyclist

Joëlle Numainville is a Canadian former road bicycle racer.

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20/11/1986

Ashley Fink, American actress and singer

Ashley Fink is an American actress and singer. She is known for roles such as Lauren Zizes in the television series Glee and as Carter McMahon in Huge.

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Kōhei Horikoshi, Japanese manga artist

Kōhei Horikoshi is a Japanese manga artist known for creating the manga series Oumagadoki Zoo, Barrage, and My Hero Academia, all of which have been serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. His latter work had over 100 million copies in circulation by April 2024, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Horikoshi is a graduate of Toho High School and Nagoya University of Arts and is a native of Aichi Prefecture. He was a former assistant for Yasuki Tanaka, creator of the manga series Summer Time Rendering, Hitomi no Catoblepas, and Kagijin.

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Oliver Sykes, English singer-songwriter

Oliver Scott Sykes, known professionally as Oli Sykes is an English musician, and the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band Bring Me the Horizon. He founded apparel company Drop Dead Clothing and opened a vegan bar and restaurant in Sheffield.

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20/11/1985

Greg Holland, American baseball player

Gregory Scott Holland is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals, Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Texas Rangers. Holland is a three-time All-Star.

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Maria Mukhortova, Russian skater

Maria Vladimirovna Mukhortova is a Russian pair skater. With former partner Maxim Trankov, she is the 2008 European silver medalist, a five-time Grand Prix medalist, 2005 World Junior champion, 2004 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and 2007 Russian national champion. In her early career, she competed with Egor Golovkin and Pavel Lebedev. She also competed one season with Jérôme Blanchard.

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Aaron Yan, Taiwanese actor and singer

Aaron Yan is a Taiwanese actor, singer, television host and businessman. He was also one of the members of Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit.

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20/11/1984

Jeremy Jordan, American actor

Jeremy Michael Jordan is an American actor and singer. He has performed on Broadway, in television and film, in concert, as well as in other theatrical productions.

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Moe Meguro, Japanese curler

Moe Meguro is a Japanese curler. She was born November 20, 1984, in Kushiro, Hokkaido, but grew up in Minamifurano, Hokkaido.

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Florencia Mutio, Argentine field hockey player

María Florencia Mutio is an Argentine field hockey player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Argentina field hockey team where the team achieved the silver medal. Florencia also won one Champions Trophy, the bronze medal at the 2014 World Cup and two Pan American Cups.

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Monique van der Vorst, Dutch cyclist

Monique van der Vorst is a Dutch racing cyclist. She is a two-time silver medal winner at the Paralympic Games.

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Lee Yun-yeol, South Korean gamer

Lee Yun-yeol, better known as NaDa, is a South Korean entrepreneur, video game designer and former professional gamer who competitively played StarCraft: Brood War and StarCraft II. He is known for being one of the most accomplished Brood War players of all time with a total of six major title victories, including three KPGA tours in a row in 2002 and subsequently winning three OnGameNet StarLeagues over the following years, earning him the nickname, "Genius Terran". He achieved the highest KeSPA score of any player before it was re-scaled, and holds the record for longest stay in KeSPA's top 30 at 87 months, beginning in March 2002 and ending in May 2009. He has played for several top-ranking teams, including Pantech EX, Toona S.G., KT_MagicNs, Ideal Space and WeMade FOX. After his transition to StarCraft II in 2010, he joined the Korean team of Old Generations. In February 2012, he joined the American multi-gaming team, compLexity gaming.

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20/11/1983

Future, American rapper

Nayvadius DeMun Cash, known professionally as Future, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Known for his mumble-style, rap-singing and prolific output, Future is credited with helping pioneer the use of Auto-Tuned delivery in trap music. He is commonly regarded as one of the most influential rappers of his generation.

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Mónika Kovacsicz, Hungarian handballer

Mónika Kovacsicz is a retired Hungarian handballer of Slovak descent.

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20/11/1982

Dương Hồng Sơn, Vietnamese footballer

Dương Hồng Sơn is a Vietnamese football manager and former player who is the manager of Quang Nam. He is best known for his performance helping the Vietnam national team to win their first ASEAN Championship. He was declared 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup MVP of the tournament.

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Rémi Mathis, French historian and curator

Rémi Mathis is a French historian and curator. He was president of Wikimedia France from 2011 to 2014.

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Shermine Shahrivar, Iranian model

Shermine Shahrivar is an Iranian-German model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Europe 2005.

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20/11/1981

Carlos Boozer, American basketball player

Carlos Austin Boozer Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. A two-time NBA All-Star, he played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Utah Jazz, Chicago Bulls, and Los Angeles Lakers, and then spent his last season playing overseas with the Guangdong Southern Tigers. As a member of Team USA, Boozer won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and an Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Yuko Kavaguti, Japanese ice skater

Yuko Kavaguti is a retired pair skater who represented Japan and Russia in international competition. In 2006, she began competing with Alexander Smirnov for Russia. They are two-time European champions, two-time World bronze medalists, two-time ISU Grand Prix Final bronze medalists, and three-time Russian national champions (2008–2010). In 2015, they became the first pair in history to complete two quadruple throw jumps in one program and the first to land a quadruple throw loop.

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Andrea Riseborough, English actress

Andrea Louise Riseborough is an English actress. She made her film debut with a small part in Venus (2006), and has since appeared in more prominent roles in Brighton Rock (2010), W.E. (2011), Shadow Dancer (2012), Oblivion (2013), Birdman (2014), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Battle of the Sexes, The Death of Stalin, Mandy, Nancy, The Grudge, and Possessor. For playing an alcoholic in To Leslie (2022), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Kimberley Walsh, English singer-songwriter and actress

Kimberley Jane Scott is an English singer, dancer, television presenter and actress. She rose to fame in late 2002 when she auditioned for the reality series Popstars: The Rivals on ITV. The series announced that Walsh had won a place as a member of the girl group Girls Aloud. The group achieved large success, having twenty consecutive top ten singles in the UK, six studio albums have all been certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), two of which went to number one in the UK, and accumulating a total of five BRIT Award nominations. In 2009, Girls Aloud won "Best Single" with their song "The Promise".

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20/11/1980

Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, Thai boxer

Chalermwong Udomna, who boxes as Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, is a retired professional boxer from Thailand who fought in the Super bantamweight division. He is a former WBA Regular Bantamweight and Super Bantamweight World Champion, and a former PABA regional Bantamweight and Superbantamweight.

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20/11/1979

Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player

Maree Bowden is a New Zealand international netball player. Bowden played with the Canterbury Flames in the National Bank Cup from 1999 to 2007. She continued with the Canterbury franchise, which became the Canterbury Tactix, when the ANZ Championship began in 2008. With the retirement of long-standing Canterbury captain Julie Seymour after the 2009 season, in 2010 Bowden was given the captaincy role of the Tactix.

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Kateryna Burmistrova, Ukrainian wrestler

Kateryna Burmistrova is a Ukrainian wrestler.

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Naide Gomes, Portuguese heptathlete and long jumper

Enezenaide "Naide" do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes is a São Toméan and Portuguese retired track and field athlete who competed in jumping, throwing, hurdling, and combined events. She is the 2004 World Indoor Champion in the pentathlon and the 2008 World Indoor Champion in the long jump. She has held the São Toméan record in nine disciplines and the Portuguese record in five disciplines. She improved the Portuguese record in women's long jump 14 times, raising it from 6.56 metres to 7.12 metres.

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Joseph Hallman, American composer and academic

Joseph Hallman is an American composer. A functional orphan, Hallman was born and raised in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Girard College from first to twelfth grades. Based in Philadelphia, Hallman's works have been performed internationally. His music has been described as eclectic, merging classical, Renaissance, and contemporary popular styles. Hallman also teaches composition at Drexel University.

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Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Russian sprint athlete

Anastasiya Alexandrovna Kapachinskaya is a Russian former sprint athlete. She was the 2003 World champion in the 200 m. She was disqualified from competitions in 2004 and 2008 due to doping offences. As a result, the bulk of her athletics performances after 2004 have been annulled.

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Hassan Mostafa, Egyptian footballer

Hassan Mostafa Hassan Abdel Rahman is an Egyptian former footballer. He played as a defensive midfielder for Al Ahly and Zamalek and The Egyptian national team. He is currently the manager of Sharkia SC.

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Shalini, Indian actress

Shalini is a former Indian actress and child artist who worked in Tamil and Malayalam films. During the 80s, Shalini was a child artist in Malayalam and Tamil films.

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Arpad Sterbik, Serbian handball player

Arpad Sterbik Capar is a retired handball player who represented the national teams of Yugoslavia and Spain.

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20/11/1978

Kéné Ndoye, Senegalese track and fielder

Kéné Ndoye was a Senegalese track and field athlete, competing internationally for Senegal. She was 14th in the triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.

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20/11/1977

Mikhail Ivanov, Russian cross-country skier

Mikhail Petrovich Ivanov ; born 20 November 1977 in Ostrov, Soviet Union) is a Russian cross-country skier who competed from 1996 to 2007.

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Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer and producer

Daniel Svensson is a Swedish drummer. He is currently a member of the Swedish supergroup The Halo Effect (2021–) and formerly a drummer of the metal bands In Flames, Sacrilege GBG and Diabolique.

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Josh Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Joshua Otis Turner is an American country singer and songwriter. In 2003, he signed to MCA Nashville Records. That same year, his debut album's title track, "Long Black Train", was his breakthrough single release. His second album, Your Man (2006) accounted for his first two No. 1 hits, "Your Man" and "Would You Go with Me", while 2007's Everything Is Fine included a No. 2 hit, "Firecracker". Haywire, released in 2010, produced his biggest hit, the four-week No. 1 hit "Why Don't We Just Dance" and another No. 1 song, "All Over Me". It was followed by Punching Bag (2012), whose lead-off single, "Time Is Love", was the biggest country hit of 2012 according to Billboard Year-End.

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20/11/1976

Mohamed Barakat, Egyptian footballer

Mohamed Barakat Ahmed Bastamy is an Egyptian former professional footballer. A right-footed playmaker, he usually played as an right winger or attacking midfielder for Egyptian club Al Ahly and the Egypt national team.

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DeJuan Collins, American basketball player

DeJuan Collins is an American former professional basketball player. He was listed at 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) in height, and 190 pounds (86 kg) in weight. Collins was best known as a scorer, and also for organizing and leading his team's game on offense.

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Dominique Dawes, American gymnast and actress

Dominique Margaux Dawes is a retired American artistic gymnast. Known in the gymnastics community as 'Awesome Dawesome', she was a 10-year member of the U.S. national gymnastics team, the 1994 U.S. all-around senior National Champion, a three-time Olympian, a World Championship silver and bronze medalist, and a member of the gold-medal-winning "Magnificent Seven" team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She is also the Olympic bronze medalist on floor exercise from the Atlanta games.

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Tusshar Kapoor, Indian Bollywood actor and producer

Tusshar Ravi Kapoor is an Indian actor and producer who works in Hindi films.

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Pascal Roller, German basketball player

Pascal Roller is a German former professional basketball player. At a height of 1.80 m, and a weight of 81 kg (179 lb), he played at the point guard position.

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Nebojša Stefanović, Serbian politician

Nebojša Stefanović is a Serbian politician who served as deputy prime minister of Serbia from 2016 to 2022 and as minister of defence from 2020 to 2022. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he previously served as president of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2012 to 2014 and as minister of internal affairs from 2014 to 2020.

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Doug Viney, New Zealand boxer

Douglas Ma'afu Hawke, better known as Doug "Vicious" Viney is a Tongan-New Zealander heavyweight boxer and kickboxer. He is the K-1 World GP 2007 in Las Vegas champion, who also represented Tonga as a super heavyweight boxer under the name of Ma'afu Hawke at 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

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Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer

Ji Yun-Nam is a North Korean former professional footballer who played for April 25 in the DPR Korea League.

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20/11/1975

Mengke Bateer, Chinese Inner Mongolian basketball player

Mönkhbaatar, commonly known by his Chinese name Mengke Bateer, is a Mongolian-Chinese former professional basketball player. As a center, he played parts of three seasons in the NBA, winning the NBA Finals with the San Antonio Spurs in 2003; Bateer is one of two players born in China to win an NBA championship, the other being shooting guard/small forward Sun Yue, who won the 2009 NBA Finals with the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Dierks Bentley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Frederick Dierks Bentley is an American country singer and songwriter. Bentley moved to Nashville in the late 90s to pursue a career in music, leading up to his releasing the self-funded and independent album Don't Leave Me in Love in 2001. In 2003, he signed to Capitol Nashville and released his eponymous debut album. Both it and its follow-up, 2005's Modern Day Drifter, are certified Platinum in the United States, and his third album, 2006's Long Trip Alone, is certified Gold. It was followed in mid-2008 by a greatest hits package. His fourth album, Feel That Fire, was released in February 2009, and a bluegrass album, Up on the Ridge, was released on June 8, 2010. His sixth album, Home, followed in February 2012, as did a seventh one, Riser, in 2014. Bentley's eighth album, titled Black, was released in May 2016, and his ninth, The Mountain, was released in June 2018. His tenth studio album, Gravel & Gold, was released in February 2023.

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J. D. Drew, American baseball player

David Jonathan "J. D." Drew is an American former Major League Baseball right fielder. He began his major league career in 1998 with the St. Louis Cardinals, and also played for the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Boston Red Sox. He is the brother of two other major league players, Stephen and Tim.

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Davey Havok, American singer-songwriter

David Paden Marchand, known professionally as Davey Havok, is an American singer who is the lead vocalist of the rock band AFI, the synth-pop band Blaqk Audio, the hardcore punk band XTRMST, and the new wave band Dreamcar. Among various other ventures, he performed lead vocals for Son of Sam's debut album and for fictional band My Purple Agony in the animated series Harvey Girls Forever!.

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20/11/1974

Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, German speed skater

Daniela Anschütz-Thoms is a German former speed skater. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, she won a gold medal in the women's team pursuit with the German team, and four years later she defended the title in Vancouver. She is married to former speed skater Marian Thoms since December 2005.

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Drew Ginn, Australian rower

Drew Cameron Ginn OAM is an Australian five-time world champion rower, a four time Olympian and triple Olympic gold medallist. From 1995 to 1998 he was a member of Australia's prominent world class crew – the coxless four known as the Oarsome Foursome.

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20/11/1973

Angelica Bridges, American actress and singer

Angelica Bridges is an American actress, model, and singer. Bridges is best known for her role as Lt. Taylor Walsh on Baywatch.

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Neil Hodgson, English motorcycle racer and sportscaster

Neil Stuart Hodgson is a British former motorcycle racer, who won the 2000 British Superbike Championship, and the 2003 Superbike World Championship titles. He then went on to have a moderately successful four years in the American Superbike Championship, with a best 5th place championship finish.

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20/11/1972

Ed Benes, Brazilian comic book artist

José Edilbenes Bezerra, better known by his professional name Ed Benes, is a Brazilian comic book artist, known for his work for DC Comics, on such titles as Birds of Prey, Supergirl, Superman, and Justice League of America.

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Corinne Niogret, French biathlete

Corinne Niogret is a former French biathlete. She won 2 Olympic medals and 15 medals in the Biathlon World Championships. In 1999/2000 she finished 3rd in the overall World Cup, and she has a total of 8 victories in World Cup races.

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Tatiana Turanskaya, Transnistrian politician

Tatiana Mikhailovna Turanskaya is a Transnistrian politician who served as Prime Minister of Transnistria from 2013 to 2015. Prior to her tenure as prime minister she was active in the local affairs of Rîbnița, where she rose to become head of the local government. In 2019, she and seven other women associated with President Yevgeny Shevchuk were sentenced to eight years in prison.

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20/11/1971

Joey Galloway, American football player and sportscaster

Joseph Scott Galloway is an American former professional football player who is an analyst with ESPN. He was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). Galloway was selected by the Seattle Seahawks with the eighth overall pick of the 1995 NFL draft, and also played for the Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Washington Redskins. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes.

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Joel McHale, American comedian, actor, and producer

Joel Edward McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television presenter. He is best known for hosting The Soup (2004–2015) and his role as Jeffrey "Jeff" Winger on the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015). He has performed in the films Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011), Ted (2012), and The Happytime Murders (2018).

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20/11/1970

Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, simply referred to as Sheikh Mansour, is an Emirati royal and politician who is a current vice president and deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, as well as the minister of presidential court and member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi. He is the brother of the current president of the UAE, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and is married to Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai. A billionaire, he holds stakes in a variety of football clubs through City Football Group, including Premier League club Manchester City F.C.

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Matt Blunt, American lieutenant and politician, 54th Governor of Missouri

Matthew Roy Blunt is an American politician who served as the 54th governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2009. He previously served ten years in the United States Navy and as Missouri secretary of state.

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Phife Dawg, American rapper (died 2016)

Malik Izaak Taylor, known professionally as Phife Dawg, was an American rapper and a member of the group A Tribe Called Quest with Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. He was also known as the "Five-Foot Assassin" and the "Five-Footer", because he stood at 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m).

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Delia Gonzalez, American boxer

Delia 'Chiquita' Gonzalez is an American former flyweight female boxer. She has a record of 13-9-4 with 3 knockout wins, although several of her losses have been controversial.

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Stéphane Houdet, French wheelchair tennis player

Stéphane Houdet is a French wheelchair tennis player. Houdet is a former singles and doubles world number one. In 2014, he became the first man in history to complete the calendar-year Grand Slam in men's wheelchair doubles.

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Geoffrey Keezer, American pianist and educator

Geoffrey Keezer is an American jazz pianist. In 2023, he won the Best Instrumental Composition Grammy for Refuge

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20/11/1969

Kristian Ghedina, Italian alpine ski racer

Kristian Ghedina is an Italian alpine skiing coach and former competitive racer. His 13 victories are the second most by an Italian downhill specialist in World Cup history: the first is Dominik Paris with 21 victories. He is currently an auto racer.

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Chris Harris, New Zealand cricketer

Chris Zinzan Harris is a former New Zealand cricketer who became, over the course of the 1990s, a folk-hero in New Zealand cricket. Harris was a member of the New Zealand team that won the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy.

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Callie Thorne, American actress and producer

Callie Thorne is an American actress known for her role as Dr. Dani Santino on the USA Network series Necessary Roughness. She is also known for past work such as her roles on Homicide: Life on the Street as Detective Laura Ballard, a role she held for two seasons, and the movie Homicide: The Movie, as well as for playing Sheila Keefe on Rescue Me and Elena McNulty in The Wire.

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20/11/1968

James Dutton, American astronaut

James Patrick Dutton Jr. is an engineer, former NASA astronaut pilot of the Class of 2004, and a former test pilot in the US Air Force with the rank of colonel.

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Andrei Kharlov, Russian chess player

Andrei Vasilyevich Kharlov was a Russian chess grandmaster.

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David Einhorn, American hedge fund manager

David M. Einhorn is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and amateur poker player. He is the founder and president of Greenlight Capital, a "long-short value-oriented hedge fund".

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20/11/1967

Teoman, Turkish singer

Fazlı Teoman Yakupoğlu is a Turkish acoustic rock singer and songwriter. His biggest hits include Paramparça, Senden Önce Senden Sonra, 17 and Papatya. On Papatya, Turkish rock singer Özlem Tekin is featured as a backing vocalist. Şebnem Ferah has also been featured on a couple of Teoman's tracks.

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20/11/1966

Neil Broad, British tennis player

Neil Broad is a former professional tennis player who represented Great Britain for most of his playing career. He is a former UK number 1 who won seven ATP tour doubles titles in his career, and won the silver medal in doubles at the 1996 Summer Olympics partnering Tim Henman.

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Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1996)

Kevin Matthew Gilbert was an American singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and producer. He was best known for his solo progressive rock projects, Toy Matinee and his contributions to Tuesday Night Music Club (1993), the debut studio album of Sheryl Crow. Kevin Gilbert was found dead at his Los Angeles-area home on May 18, 1996, at the age of 29.

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Terry Lovejoy, Australian information technologist

Terry Lovejoy is an information technologist from Thornlands, Queensland, Australia, most widely known as an amateur astronomer. He has discovered six comets, including C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), the first Kreutz Sungrazing comet discovered by ground-based observation in over 40 years. He is also known for popularizing procedures for modifying consumer-grade digital cameras so that they can be used for digital camera astrophotography.

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Jill Thompson, American author and illustrator

Jill Thompson is an American comics artist and writer who has worked for stage, film, and television. Well known for her work on Neil Gaiman's The Sandman characters and her own Scary Godmother series, she has worked on The Invisibles, Swamp Thing, and Wonder Woman as well.

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20/11/1965

Mike D, American rapper and drummer

Michael Louis Diamond, known professionally as Mike D, is an American rapper, musician, and music producer. He is a founding member of the hip-hop group Beastie Boys. In 2026, he began performing and releasing music solo under the stage name Mike D 5D.

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Nigel Gibbs, English footballer and coach

Nigel James Gibbs is an English professional football manager and former player. He is assistant head coach at West Bromwich Albion, a role he previously held at Swansea City, has previously worked as a coach with the Under-19 squad of Tottenham Hotspur and has been assistant manager of Asteras Tripolis in Greece.

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Yehuda Glick, American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi

Yehudah Joshua Glick or Yehudah Glick, alternatively spelled “Yahudah (Yahushua) Glick”, “Yehuda Yehoshua Glick”, “Yehuda Yeshua Glick”, “Jehuda Joshua Glick” and “Judah Jesua Glick” is an American Orthodox-Jewish Israeli rabbi and politician, described as a "right-wing" or "far-right" activist. As the President of Shalom Jerusalem Foundation, he campaigns for expanding Jewish access to the Temple Mount. He was a member of the Knesset for Likud, having taken the place of former Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon in May 2016 until April 2019.

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Jimmy Vasser, American race car driver

James Edward Vasser Jr. is an American former racing driver who competed primarily in the CART series and Champ Car. Vasser won ten CART series races and won the 1996 CART championship with Chip Ganassi Racing. Vasser was the last American to win the CART title. Vasser won the 1996 U.S. 500, and had a best finish of fourth at the Indianapolis 500 twice.

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Yoshiki, Japanese musician

Yoshiki Hayashi , known mononymously as Yoshiki, is a Japanese musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, film director, and fashion designer. He is best known as the leader of the visual kei rock bands X Japan and the Last Rockstars, for which he is the drummer, pianist, and main songwriter. He has been described by Billboard as a "musical innovator" and named "one of the most influential composers in Japanese history" by Consequence. Time labeled Yoshiki as "an absolute force" and "one of Japan's most celebrated musicians". Yoshiki's solo career includes several classical studio albums and collaborations with artists such as George Martin, Bono, will.i.am, St. Vincent, the Chainsmokers, Skrillex, Ellie Goulding, Stan Lee, Roger Taylor and Brian May of Queen, Gene Simmons and Kiss, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Brightman, Jonas Brothers, Josh Groban, and Diana Ross.

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20/11/1964

Boris Dežulović, Croatian journalist and author

Boris Dežulović is a Croatian journalist, writer and columnist, best known as one of the founders of the now defunct satirical magazine Feral Tribune.

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Andriy Kalashnykov, Ukrainian wrestler

Andriy Mykolaiovych Kalashnikov is a former Ukrainian wrestler and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He trained at Sports Club Kolos Kiev.

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John MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

John Carter MacLean is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He most recently served as the assistant coach for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He spent the majority of his playing career as a member of the New Jersey Devils, and also spent time with the San Jose Sharks, New York Rangers and Dallas Stars.

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20/11/1963

Tim Gavin, Australian rugby player

Bryant Timothy Gavin is an Australian former state and national representative rugby union player who played Number 8 for the Wallabies in 47 Test matches in between 1988 and 1996.

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Timothy Gowers, English mathematician and academic

Sir William Timothy Gowers, is a British mathematician. He is the holder of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, a Research Professor at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1998, he received the Fields Medal for research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics.

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Beezie Madden, American show jumper

Elizabeth Madden is an American Olympic champion equestrian competing in show jumping. She has two Olympic golds and one silver in team jumping, and an individual bronze. She won the FEI Show Jumping World Cup twice; won two silvers and two bronzes at World Championships; and won two golds, one silver and two bronzes at the Pan American Games. She was the first American to break into the international top three show jumping ranking, and the first woman to win over one million dollars in show jumping prize money.

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Ming-Na Wen, Chinese-American actress

Ming-Na Wen is an American actress and model. She has won multiple awards throughout her career, including an Annie Award and a Saturn Award, in addition to a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was honored as a Disney Legend in 2019 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023.

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20/11/1962

Živko Budimir, Bosnian politician

Živko Budimir is a Bosnian Croat politician who served as the 9th President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the two autonomous entities that compose Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 17 March 2011 until 9 February 2015. He is the founder and current president of the Party of Justice and Trust.

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Rajkumar Hirani, Indian director

Rajkumar "Raju" Hirani is an Indian filmmaker known for his works in Hindi films. Hirani's films have won several accolades, including four National Film Awards and 11 Filmfare Awards. A prolific director of Hindi cinema, his movies are often lighthearted but revolve around significant societal issues with humour and emotional intelligence.

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Peng Liyuan, wife of Xi Jinping

Peng Liyuan is a Chinese singer who has served as the First Lady of China since 2012, as the wife of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and paramount leader of China.

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Gerardo Martino, Argentine footballer and manager

Gerardo Daniel "Tata" Martino is an Argentine professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of Major League Soccer club Atlanta United.

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20/11/1961

Pierre Hermé, French pastry chef and chocolatier

Pierre Hermé is a French pastry chef and chocolatier. He began his career at the age of 14 as an apprentice to Gaston Lenôtre. Called "the Picasso of Pastry" by Vogue, Hermé was awarded the title of World's Best Pastry Chef in 2016 by The World's 50 Best Restaurants. He was also ranked the fourth most influential French person in the world by Vanity Fair. In 1998, Hermé created his own brand with Charles Znaty. He has written or co-written over 40 books.

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20/11/1960

Ye Jiangchuan, Chinese chess player

Ye Jiangchuan is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He is the second Chinese player, after Ye Rongguang, to achieve the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 1993. On 1 January 2000, he became the first ever Chinese player to cross the 2600 elo rating mark.

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20/11/1959

Diane James, British politician

Diane Martine James is a British politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2014 to 2019. She was briefly leader-elect of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from September 2016 to October 2016, but resigned before formalising her leadership. At the time of her election to the European Parliament, James was one of three UKIP MEPs for South East England, before joining the Brexit Party in 2019.

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Mario Martone, Italian director and screenwriter

Mario Martone is an Italian filmmaker. He has directed more than 30 films since 1985. His films have been shown in prestigious international film festivals around the world.

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Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, German prelate of the Catholic Church and theologian

Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst is a German prelate of the Catholic Church and theologian. He was a vicar and an auxiliary bishop in Münster before becoming the Bishop of Limburg in January 2008. Pope Francis removed him from the exercise of his episcopal office on 23 October 2013 and on 26 March 2014 accepted his resignation as Bishop of Limburg, following a long-standing public dispute about the costs and financing of a diocesan construction project.

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Sean Young, American actress and dancer

Mary Sean Lujan is an American actress. She is known for starring in science-fiction and comedy films throughout the 1980s and 1990s, although she has performed in many genres.

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20/11/1958

Rickson Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial artist and choreographer

Rickson Gracie is a Brazilian retired mixed martial artist. He is a member of the Gracie family: the third oldest son of Hélio Gracie, brother to Rorion and Relson Gracie, and half-brother to Rolker, Royce, Robin and Royler Gracie. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was widely considered to be the best fighter of the Gracie clan, and one of the toughest in the world. In July 2017, he was promoted to ninth-degree red belt, the second-highest ranking in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

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20/11/1957

Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (died 1985)

Stefan Bellof was a German racing driver. Bellof was the winner of the Drivers' Championship in the 1984 FIA World Endurance Championship, driving for the factory Rothmans Porsche team. His lap record on the Nordschleife configuration at the Nürburgring, set while qualifying for the 1000 km race in 1983, stood for 35 years, when it was beaten by Timo Bernhard in 2018. He also competed in Formula One with Tyrrell Racing during 1984 and 1985. Bellof was killed in an accident during the 1985 1000 km of Spa, a round of the 1985 World Sportscar Championship.

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John Eriksen, Danish footballer (died 2002)

John Hartmann Eriksen was a Danish professional footballer who played as a striker. He scored 319 league goals over the course of 15 seasons. He played in four countries, namely his native Denmark, the Netherlands, France and Switzerland. Eriksen was a Danish international in the 1980s, appearing in the 1986 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1988.

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Jean-Marc Furlan, French football manager

Jean-Marc Furlan is a French football manager and former player who played as a defender.

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Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He lost the 2015 presidential election to former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari and was the first incumbent president in Nigerian history to lose re-election.

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20/11/1956

Bo Derek, American actress and producer

Bo Derek is an American actress and model. She began her career as a child model before deciding to pursue acting on the advice of a talent agent she met through actress Ann-Margret, who was familiar with her parents. In 1973, she appeared in the romantic drama film Once Upon a Love, which was directed by her future husband John Derek and eventually released as Fantasies in 1981. Her breakthrough performance came in the romantic comedy film 10 (1979), which cemented her status as a sex icon and mainstream celebrity. The role earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for New Star of the Year – Actress.

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20/11/1955

Angela Finocchiaro, Italian actress

Angela Finocchiaro is an Italian actress.

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Toshio Matsuura, Japanese footballer

Satoshio Matsuura is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.

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Ray Ozzie, American software industry entrepreneur

Raymond "Ray" Ozzie is an American software industry entrepreneur who held the positions of Chief Technical Officer and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft between 2005 and 2010. Before Microsoft, he was best known for his role in creating Lotus Notes.

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20/11/1954

Richard Brooker, English actor and stuntman (died 2013)

Richard Brooker was a British actor and stuntman, best known for his role in Friday the 13th Part III as Jason Voorhees.

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Antonina Koshel, Soviet artistic gymnast

Antonina Vladimirovna Koshel is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a gold medal in the team allround competition. Individually her best achievement was 12th place on the balance beam and vault.

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Frank Marino, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter

Francesco Antonio Marino is a Canadian guitarist and singer, best known as the leader of Canadian hard rock band Mahogany Rush. Often compared to Jimi Hendrix, he is described as one of the most underrated guitarists of the 1970s. In 2021, he announced his retirement from music. In October 2025, he stated in an interview that his nerve damage had recovered sufficiently to allow performing again, though when and how was left up in the air.

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Bin Shimada, Japanese voice actor

Bin Shimada is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator affiliated with the talent management firm Aoni Production.

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20/11/1953

Fábio Jr., Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor

Fábio Correa Ayrosa Galvão, known as Fábio Jr. or Fábio Júnior, is a Brazilian MPB singer, songwriter and actor.

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Greg Gibson, American wrestler

Gregory P. Gibson is an American former wrestler who competed in the 100 kg weight division. He is the only American to win World medals in three styles of wrestling — Freestyle, Greco-Roman and Sambo.

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Halid Bešlić, Bosnian musician and singer (died 2025)

Halid Bešlić was a Bosnian folk singer and musician whose career spanned nearly five decades. Renowned for his distinctive baritone voice and emotive delivery, he became one of the most influential and best-selling performers in the former Yugoslavia and throughout the Balkans.

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Nirmal Selvamony, Indian Tamil academician and ecocritic

Nirmal Selvamony is an Indian academician and scholar with specialization in the field of ecocriticism.

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20/11/1952

John Van Boxmeer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

John Martin Van Boxmeer is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He also worked extensively as a hockey coach and scout after his playing career ended in 1984.

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20/11/1951

Rodger Bumpass, American actor and singer

Rodger Bumpass is an American actor. He is a main cast member on the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, providing the voice of Squidward Tentacles and several other voices.

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León Gieco, Argentine folk rock singer and interpreter

Raúl Alberto Antonio Gieco, better known as León Gieco, is an Argentine folk rock singer, songwriter, musician and interpreter. He is known for mixing popular folkloric genres with Argentine rock, and lyrics with social and political connotations, leading to him being called "The Argentine Bob Dylan".

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Aleksey Spiridonov, Soviet hammer thrower (died 1998)

Aleksey Sergeyevich Spiridonov was a Soviet athlete who mainly competed in the men's hammer throw event. Born in Leningrad he trained at VSS Trud in Leningrad.

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David Walters, American businessman and politician, 24th Governor of Oklahoma

David Lee Walters is an American businessman and politician who served as the 24th governor of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995.

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20/11/1950

Jacqueline Gourault, French politician

Jacqueline Gourault is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who served as Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex from 2018 to 2022. She previously served as Minister attached to the Minister of the Interior from 2017 to 2018. In 2022, she was appointed to the Constitutional Council by President Emmanuel Macron.

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Gary Green, British musician

Gary William Green is an English musician. During the 1970s, he was the guitarist for the progressive rock band Gentle Giant. Green was with the band throughout their recording career. Green's style was different from most of his peers, being a more blues-based guitarist. Like his fellow band members, Green was also adept at other instruments, including mandolin and recorder. According to a 2008 interview, founding member Phil Shulman said that, despite Green's blues influences, he fit in well with the band's progressive style since Green was "quick on the up-take."

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20/11/1949

Jeff Dowd, American film producer and activist

Jeff Dowd is an American film producer and political activist.

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Thelma Drake, American politician

Thelma Day Drake is an American politician and former member of Congress for Virginia's 2nd congressional district. A Republican, she served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2005 to 2009. Prior to serving in Congress, Thelma Drake served nine years in the Virginia House of Delegates.

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Ulf Lundell, Swedish writer and composer

Ulf Gerhard Lundell is a Swedish writer, poet, songwriter, composer, musician and artist.

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Juha Mieto, Finnish cross-country skier

Juha Iisakki Mieto is a Finnish former cross-country skier, who was born in Kurikka. He competed in the 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympics and won five medals, including a gold medal in the 4 × 10 km relay in 1976. He also placed fourth three times, losing the 15 km bronze medal in 1972 by 0.06 seconds. He finished second in this event in 1980 in the closest-ever margin of victory in Olympic cross-country skiing, 0.01 seconds, which led the International Ski Federation (FIS) to round all of their times to the nearest 1/10 second in future competitions. Mieto was selected as the Finnish flag bearer at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

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Nené, Portuguese footballer

Tamagnini Manuel Gomes Batista, known as Nené, is a retired Portuguese professional footballer. A prolific striker, he played his entire career with Benfica, appearing in nearly 600 official games for the club and winning 19 titles, a record for several years.

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20/11/1948

John R. Bolton, American lawyer and diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations

John Robert Bolton is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant, and political commentator. He served as the 25th United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, and as the 26th United States national security advisor from 2018 to 2019.

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Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)

Park Chul-soo was a South Korean film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. He was one of the most active filmmakers in Korean cinema in the 1980s and '90s.

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Barbara Hendricks, American-Swedish soprano and actress

Barbara Hendricks is an American lyric soprano and humanitarian. Born in Arkansas, Hendricks studied chemistry and mathematics at the University of Nebraska before becoming a singer. She gained acclaim for her operatic roles from her 1974 debut onwards, and also performs jazz among other genres. Hendricks has been a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador since 1987. She has lived in Europe since 1977, and in Switzerland since 1985. She is a citizen of Switzerland and of Sweden following her marriage to a Swedish citizen.

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Richard Masur, American actor and director

Richard Masur is an American character actor who has appeared in more than 40 films. From 1995 to 1999, he served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). He is best known for playing David Kane on One Day at a Time (1975–1976), Nick Lobo on Rhoda (1974–1977), Clark in The Thing (1982), adult Stanley Uris in the miniseries It (1990), and Edward L. L. Moore on Younger (2016–2018).

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Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (died 1978)

Gunnar Axel Arvid Nilsson was a Swedish racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1976 to 1977. Nilsson won the 1977 Belgian Grand Prix with Lotus.

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Kenjiro Shinozuka, Japanese race car driver (died 2024)

Kenjiro Shinozuka was a Japanese rally driver. After his debut in 1967, his greatest successes were as a works driver for Mitsubishi Motors.

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20/11/1947

Nurlan Balgimbayev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (died 2015)

Nūrlan Ötepūly Balğymbaev was a Kazakh politician who served as the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 10 October 1997 to 1 October 1999.

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Eli Ben Rimoz, Israeli footballer

Eliahu Ben Rimoz is an Israeli former international footballer who competed at the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

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Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

Joseph Fidler Walsh is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Best known as a member of the rock band Eagles, his six-decade career includes solo work and stints in other bands: the James Gang, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, and New Zealand's Herbs. He was part of the supergroup The Best and had success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, appearing on other artists' recordings. In 2011, Rolling Stone ranked him No. 54 on its list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

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20/11/1946

Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1971)

Howard Duane Allman was an American rock and blues guitarist and the founder and original leader of the Allman Brothers Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

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Algimantas Butnorius, Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (died 2017)

Algimantas Butnorius was a Lithuanian chess grandmaster and world seniors champion in 2007. From 2014 he represented Monaco.

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow

Kirill or Cyril is a Russian Orthodox bishop. He became Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church on 1 February 2009.

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Samuel E. Wright, American actor, voice actor and singer (died 2021)

Samuel Ernest Wright was an American actor. He was best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid, for which he provided the lead vocals to "Under the Sea", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He played Dizzy Gillespie in Bird, the biographical film about Charlie Parker. Wright also played the part of Mufasa in the original cast of The Lion King on Broadway and voiced Kron the Iguanodon in the 2000 CGI/live-action film Dinosaur.

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20/11/1945

Deborah Eisenberg, American writer, actress and teacher

Deborah Eisenberg is an American short story writer, actress and teacher. She was a professor of writing at Columbia University.

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20/11/1944

Louie Dampier, American basketball player and coach

Louis Dampier is an American former professional basketball player. He played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA), primarily playing with the Kentucky Colonels.

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Wayne Maki, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1974)

Wayne Maki was a professional ice hockey player and an early star of the Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Anthea Stewart, Zimbabwean field hockey player

Anthea Dorine Stewart is a former field hockey player who was a member of the Zimbabwe national women's team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Previously, she had represented South Africa between 1963 and 1974.

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20/11/1943

David Douglas-Home, British businessman and politician (died 2022)

David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home, was a British banker and hereditary peer. He was a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 1996 until his death in 2022.

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Veronica Hamel, American actress and model

Veronica Hamel is an American actress and model. She was nominated five times for an Emmy Award for her role as attorney Joyce Davenport in the TV police drama Hill Street Blues.

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Ivan Hrdlička, Slovak footballer

Ivan Hrdlička is a Slovak former footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for Czechoslovakia, playing 17 matches and scoring two goals. He was a participant at the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

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Suze Rotolo, American artist (died 2011)

Susan Elizabeth Rotolo, known as Suze Rotolo, was an American artist and political activist. From 1961 to 1964, she was in a relationship with musician Bob Dylan. Dylan later acknowledged her strong influence on his music and art during that period. Rotolo is the woman walking with him on the cover of his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, a photograph by the Columbia Records studio photographer Don Hunstein. In her book A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Rotolo described her time with Dylan and other figures in the folk music and bohemian scene in Greenwich Village, New York. She discussed her upbringing as a "red diaper" baby; a child of Communist Party USA members during the McCarthy Era. As an artist, she specialized in artists' books and taught at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.

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20/11/1942

Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American former politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009 and also served as the 47th vice president under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.

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Bob Einstein, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019)

Stewart Robert Einstein was an American actor, comedy writer, and producer. He created and performed the satirical stuntman character Super Dave Osborne, and was also known for his roles as Marty Funkhouser in Curb Your Enthusiasm and Larry Middleman on Arrested Development.

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Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Norman Joel Greenbaum is an American singer-songwriter, known for his 1969 hit song "Spirit in the Sky". The song made him one of the most famous acts with a best-selling one-hit wonder of all time.

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Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer

Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records. In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Grand Opera and the American Music Theater Festival. Her music has been used in films by the Coen Brothers and Jean-Luc Godard. Trip hop musician DJ Shadow sampled Monk's "Dolmen Music" on the song "Midnight in a Perfect World". In 2014, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts.

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Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul (died 2008)

Paulos Faraj Rahho was a Chaldean Catholic prelate who served as the Archeparch of Mosul in the northern part of Iraq from 2001 until his death in 2008 at the hands of terrorists.

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20/11/1941

Oliver Sipple, U.S. Marine and Vietnam War veteran (died 1989)

Oliver Wellington "Billy" Sipple was an American man known for intervening to foil an assassination attempt against U.S. President Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975. A decorated U.S. Marine and disabled Vietnam War veteran, he grappled with Sara Jane Moore as she fired a pistol at Ford in San Francisco, causing her to miss.

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Dr. John, American singer and songwriter (died 2019)

Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., better known by his stage name Dr. John, was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. His music combined New Orleans blues, jazz, R&B, soul and funk.

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20/11/1940

Wendy Doniger, American indologist

Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty is an American Indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades. A scholar of Sanskrit and Indian textual traditions, her major works include The Hindus: An Alternative History; Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva; Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook; The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology; Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts; and The Rig Veda: An Anthology, 108 Hymns Translated from the Sanskrit.

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Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)

Helma Sanders-Brahms was a German film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Ediz Hun, Turkish actor and politician

Ediz Hun is a Turkish film actor, academician and politician.

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Arieh Warshel, Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist

Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and holds the Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry at the University of Southern California. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".

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20/11/1939

Jerry Colangelo, American businessman

Jerry Colangelo is an American businessman and sports executive. He formerly owned the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Sandsharks of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League, and the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball. He was also instrumental in the relocation of the original Winnipeg Jets team in the NHL to Phoenix to become the Phoenix Coyotes. In 2014, Grand Canyon University renamed its Christian based school of business after Colangelo, replacing Ken Blanchard's namesake. From December 2015 to April 2016, Colangelo served as chairman of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers, before serving as a special advisor to the team until December 2018.

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Copi, Argentine writer and artist (died 1987)

Raúl Damonte Botana, better known by the nom de plume Copi, was an Argentine writer, cartoonist, and playwright who spent most of his career in Paris.

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Dick Smothers, American actor and comedian

Richard Remick Smothers is an American actor, comedian, composer, and musician, best known as one half of the folk‑comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, alongside his older brother Tom Smothers.

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Jan Szczepański, Polish boxer (died 2017)

Jan Antoni Szczepański was a Polish boxer, who won the gold medal in the lightweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. In the final he defeated Hungary's László Orbán on points (5:0).

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20/11/1938

Colin Fox, Canadian actor (died 2025)

Colin R. Fox was a Canadian actor, who appeared in various Canadian and American films and television series. His best known roles included Jean Paul Desmond / Jacques Eloi Des Mondes on Strange Paradise (1969–70), Professor Anton Hendricks on PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000), and Fritz Brenner on A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–02).

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20/11/1937

René Kollo, German tenor

René Kollo is a German operatic tenor, especially known for his Wagnerian Heldentenor roles. He also performed a wide variety of operas and operettas, and made several recordings.

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Ruth Laredo, American pianist and educator (died 2005)

Ruth Laredo was an American classical pianist.

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Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier (died 2013)

Eero Antero Mäntyranta was one of the most successful Finnish cross-country skiers. He competed in four Winter Olympics (1960–1972) winning seven medals at three of them. His performance at the 1964 Winter Olympics earned him the nickname "Mister Seefeld", referring to the venue where the cross-country skiing and biathlon competitions took place. The Finnish Ministry of Education endowed him with the Pro Urheilu letter of recognition in 2000. There is also a museum centered on Mäntyranta in his birthplace of Pello.

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Bruno Mealli, Italian cyclist (died 2023)

Bruno Mealli was an Italian professional road cyclist. He competed in eight editions of the Giro d'Italia.

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Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian author and screenwriter

Viktoriya Samuilovna Tokareva is a Soviet and Russian screenwriter and short story writer. Her work has been translated into English and is available in several anthologies as well as in The Talisman and Other Stories - a book of Tokareva's short stories translated by Rosamund Bartlett. She lives in Moscow, where she continues to write.

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20/11/1936

Hans van Abeelen, Dutch geneticist (died 1998)

Hans van Abeelen was the first Dutch behaviour geneticist. He obtained his M.Sc from the University of Groningen and his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1965, where he stayed for the rest of his career as "wetenschappelijk hoofdmedewerker". He was a founding member of the Behavior Genetics Association and was a member-at-large of its executive committee from 1984 till 1987. He also served on the editorial board of its journal, Behavior Genetics, from its creation in 1971 to 1992. Van Abeelen took early retirement in 1991, but nevertheless became one of the founding members of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society. Over the span of his career, he published 64 articles and book chapters and edited a book, The Genetics of Behaviour, which was an early overview of European behaviour genetics.

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Don DeLillo, American novelist, essayist, and playwright

Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, television, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics and sports.

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Luciano Fabro, Italian sculptor and artist (died 2007)

Luciano Fabro was an Italian sculptor, conceptual artist and writer associated with the Arte Povera movement.

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Charles R. Larson, American admiral (died 2014)

Charles Robert Larson was an Admiral of the United States Navy.

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20/11/1935

Leo Falcam, Micronesian politician and 5th President of Micronesia (died 2018)

Leo Amy Falcam was a Micronesian political figure. He was born in Pohnpei. He served as the first elected Governor of Pohnpei from 1979 to 1983 and as Vice President of Micronesia from May 1997 to May 1999. He then served as the fifth president of the Federated States of Micronesia, holding the position from May 11, 1999, to May 11, 2003. In March 2003 he lost his parliamentary seat during elections, denying him a chance at a second term.

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Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (died 2011)

Imre Makovecz was a Hungarian architect active in Europe from the late 1950s onward.

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20/11/1934

Paco Ibáñez, Spanish singer and musician

Francisco "Paco" Ibáñez is a Spanish singer and musician. He never composed his own lyrics, but used famous poems, like those of Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Rafael Alberti or Miguel Hernández. He also sang compositions from Georges Brassens.

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Lev Polugaevsky, Soviet Chess Grandmaster (died 1995)

Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1962 and was a frequent contender for the World Championship, although he never achieved that title. He was one of the strongest players in the world from the early 1960s until the late 1980s, as well as a distinguished author and opening theorist whose contributions in this field remain important to the present day.

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20/11/1932

Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (died 2012)

Richard Dawson was an English actor, comedian, game-show host, and panelist. He was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk in Hogan's Heroes, as a regular panelist on Match Game (1973–1978), and as the original host of Family Feud.

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Yorozuya Kinnosuke, Japanese kabuki actor (died 1997)

Yorozuya Kinnosuke (萬屋錦之介) was a Japanese kabuki actor. Born Kin'ichi Ogawa , son of kabuki actor Nakamura Tokizō III, he entered kabuki and became the first in the kabuki tradition to take the name Nakamura Kinnosuke. He took on his guild name (yagō) Yorozuya as his surname in 1971.

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Sándor Mátrai, Hungarian footballer (died 2002)

Sándor Mátrai was a Hungarian footballer.

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Paulo Valentim, Brazilian footballer (died 1984)

Paulo Angelo Valentim was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a striker for clubs in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.

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Colville Young, Governor-General of Belize

Sir Colville Norbert Young is a Belizean politician who served as the second governor-general of Belize. He is also a patron of the Scout Association of Belize. He was appointed as the Governor-General in 1993, taking office on 17 November of that year, and was knighted in 1994.

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20/11/1931

Wayne Moore, American swimmer (died 2015)

Wayne Richard Moore was an American competition swimmer, who competed for Yale University, a 1952 Helsinki Olympic champion, and a former world record-holder.

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20/11/1930

Christine Arnothy, French writer (died 2015)

Christine Arnothy was a Hungarian-born French writer. She was born in Budapest. Her first book, J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir was submitted for a literary competition and won the Grand Prix Verité in 1954.

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Aarón Hernán, Mexican actor (died 2020)

Aarón Hernán was a Mexican telenovela and film actor.

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Bernard Horsfall, English-Scottish actor (died 2013)

Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall was an English actor of stage and screen.

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Choe Yong-rim, North Korean Premier

Choe Yong-rim is a North Korean politician who served as the Premier of North Korea from June 2010 to April 2013 and was a member of the 6th Presidium of the Workers' Party of Korea. He has been described by The New York Times as a "KWP insider" and a "friend of Kim Jong Il's family." He was also honorary vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, the country's parliament.

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20/11/1929

Jerry Hardin, American actor

Jerry Hardin is an American actor. Hardin has appeared in film and television roles, including the character nicknamed Deep Throat in The X-Files. He has guest starred in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. He amassed over 100 appearances in film and television and over 75 theatrical credits. They include The Rockford Files, Roots: The Gift, The Golden Girls, Sliders, Cujo (1983), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987), Little Nikita (1988), The Firm (1993).

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Raymond Lefèvre, French composer (died 2008)

Raymond Lefèvre was a French easy listening orchestra leader, arranger and composer.

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Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian footballer (died 2020)

Gabriel Ochoa Uribe was a Colombian football player and manager. He won four league titles and the Copa Colombia with Millonarios as a player and fourteen league titles as a manager, making him the most successful Colombian coach of all time.

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Ron Willey, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2004)

Ronald William Willey (1929−2004) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He was a representative for the Australian national side. After playing, Willey had a long and successful first grade and State representative coaching career.

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20/11/1928

Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2017)

Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter, and pedagogue acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989.

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Franklin Cover, American actor (died 2006)

Franklin Edward Cover was an American actor best known for his role in The Jeffersons, Tom Willis, half of one of the first interracial marriages to be seen on prime-time television.

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Pedro Ferrándiz, Spanish basketball coach (died 2022)

Pedro Ferrándiz González was a Spanish professional coach in the sport of basketball. He is most famous for having been the head coach of Real Madrid's basketball club, in the 1960s and 1970s. The International Olympic Committee awarded him with the Olympic Order in 1977. He was made an inductee of the Basketball Hall of Fame, in April 2007. In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors. He was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2009. He was also awarded with the Spanish Royal Order of Sports Merit.

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John Disley, Welsh athlete (died 2016)

John Ivor Disley CBE was a Welsh athlete. He competed mainly in the 3000 metres steeplechase before co-founding the London Marathon and becoming active in sports promotion and administration.

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Pete Rademacher, American boxer (died 2020)

Thomas Peter Rademacher was an American heavyweight boxer. As an amateur, he was a gold medalist at the 1956 Olympics. Rademacher became the only person to challenge for the world heavyweight championship in his first professional bout when he faced Floyd Patterson in Seattle on August 22, 1957. He compiled a 15-7-1 record over 23 professional bouts.

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Genrikh Sapgir, Russian writer (died 1999)

Genrikh Sapgir was a Russian poet and fiction writer of Jewish descent.

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20/11/1927

Vakhtang Balavadze, Georgian wrestler (died 2018)

Vakhtang Balavadze was a Georgian welterweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1956. He won the world title in 1954 and 1957, and was a runner-up in 1959. Balavadze won the Soviet title in 1952–55 and 1957, placing second in 1956 and 1959. He retired from competition following the 1960 Summer Olympics to become a wrestling coach and referee.

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Ed Freeman, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2008)

Ed W. "Too Tall" Freeman was a United States Army helicopter pilot who received the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War. During the battle, he flew through machine gunfire 14 times, bringing supplies to a trapped American battalion and flying dozens of wounded soldiers to safety. Freeman was a wingman for Major Bruce Crandall, who also received the Medal of Honor for the same missions.

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Estelle Parsons, American actress and director

Estelle Parsons is an American actress.

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Wolfgang Schreyer, German writer (died 2017)

Wolfgang Schreyer was a German writer of fiction, historic adventures mixed with documentary, science fiction for TV shows and movies and is best known as the author of over 20 adventure stories.

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Mikhail Ulyanov, Soviet and Russian actor (died 2007)

Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov was a Soviet and Russian actor who was one of the most recognized persons of the post-World War II Soviet theatre and cinema. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1969, a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1986, and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982.

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20/11/1926

John Gardner, English soldier and author (died 2007)

John Edmund Gardner was an English writer of spy and thriller novels. He is best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also wrote a series of Boysie Oakes books and three novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty.

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Tôn Thất Đính, Vietnamese general (died 2013)

Lieutenant General Tôn Thất Đính was an officer who served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). He is best known as one of the key figures in the November 1963 coup that led to the arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm, the first president of the Republic of Vietnam, commonly known as South Vietnam.

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Édouard Leclerc, French businessman and entrepreneur (died 2012)

Édouard Leclerc was a French businessman and entrepreneur who founded the French supermarket chain E.Leclerc in 1948. From his first store, Leclerc's chain has multiplied into more than 550 locations in France and 114 stores outside the country, as of 2012.

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Miroslav Tichý, Czech photographer (died 2011)

Miroslav Tichý was a photographer who from the 1960s until 1985 took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown of Kyjov in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes, tin cans and other at-hand materials. Most of his subjects were unaware that they were being photographed. A few struck beauty-pageant poses when they sighted Tichý, perhaps not realizing that the parody of a camera he carried was real.

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20/11/1925

June Christy, American singer (died 1990)

June Christy was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. She pursued a solo career from 1954 and is best known for her debut album Something Cool. After her death, she was hailed as "one of the finest and most neglected singers of her time."

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Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (died 1968)

Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he is considered an icon of modern American liberalism in the 21st century.

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Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (died 2015)

Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship. She danced during the Soviet era at the Bolshoi Theatre under the directorships of Leonid Lavrovsky, then of Yury Grigorovich; later she moved into direct confrontation with him. In 1960, when famed Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova retired, Plisetskaya became prima ballerina assoluta of the company.

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20/11/1924

Bill Borthwick, Australian politician (died 2001)

William Archibald Borthwick was an Australian politician. Borthwick was a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the electorates of Scoresby (1960–1967) and Monbulk (1967–1982).

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Timothy Evans, Welshman wrongfully convicted of murder (died 1950)

Timothy John Evans was a Welsh lorry driver who was wrongfully accused of murdering his wife Beryl and infant daughter Geraldine at their residence in Notting Hill, London. In January 1950, Evans was tried and convicted of the murder of his daughter, and on 9 March he was executed by hanging.

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Karen Harup, Danish swimmer (died 2009)

Karen Margrethe Harup Petersen was a Danish swimmer. She competed in four events at the 1948 Summer Olympics and won three medals: a gold in the 100 m backstroke and silvers in the 400 m and 4 × 100 m freestyle, placing fourth in the 100 m freestyle.

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Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (died 2010)

Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life". He referred to himself as a "fractalist" and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word "fractal", as well as developing a theory of "roughness and self-similarity" in nature.

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Michael Riffaterre, French literary critic and theorist (died 2006)

Michel Riffaterre, known as Michael Riffaterre, was an influential French literary critic and theorist. He pursued a generally structuralist approach. He is well known in particular for his book Semiotics of Poetry, and his conceptions of hypogram and syllepsis. Kornelije Kvas observes three phases in Riffaterre's work: stylistic, semiotic, and the intertextual phase. The most important is his intertextual phase in which he develops his understanding of intertextuality. For Riffaterre, "intertextuality is not a felicitous surplus, the privilege of a good memory or a classical education. The term indeed refers to an operation of the reader's mind, but it is an obligatory one, necessary to any textual decoding. Intertextuality necessarily complements our experience of textuality. It is the perception that our reading of the text cannot be complete or satisfactory without going through the intertext, that the text does not". According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "the key concept of Riffaterre's theory – intertextuality – is actually a method of text interpretation through which structures or poetic signs are recognized in the text that make the text literary. Intertextuality is a hermeneutic means of discovering the meaning of the poem, which strictly regulates the ways of the reader's perception of poetic signs. As in the case of the semiotic phase of his understanding of poetry, Riffaterre's intertextual phase is more like a theory of the interpretation of poetry than a theory of poetry itself".

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Henk Vredeling, Dutch agronomist and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence (died 2007)

Hendrikus "Henk" Vredeling was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA). He served as Minister of Defence in the Den Uyl cabinet from 1973 to 1977, and as European Commissioner from 1977 to 1981.

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20/11/1923

Gunnar Åkerlund, Swedish sprint canoer (died 2006)

Ernst Gunnar Åkerlund was a Swedish canoe sprinter who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won two Olympic medals in the K-2 10000 m event: a gold in 1948 and a silver in 1952.

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Danny Dayton, American actor and director (died 1999)

Danny Dayton was an American actor and television director. Beginning in the 1950s, he played many roles in film and on TV. He had a recurring role as Hank Pivnik on All in the Family and had guest roles in M*A*S*H, The Incredible Hulk, Charlie's Angels and The Love Boat.

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Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer (died 2005)

Antonio "Tonino" Delli Colli was an Italian cinematographer.

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Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)

Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".

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20/11/1921

Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (died 1992)

James Carothers Garrison was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, from 1962 to 1973 and later a state appellate court judge. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the prosecution of New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw to that effect in 1969, which ended in Shaw's acquittal. Garrison believed the assassination was the result of a conspiracy involving the CIA, FBI, The Pentagon, the Mafia and other organizations. He wrote three published books, one of which became a prime source for Oliver Stone's film JFK in 1991, in which Garrison was portrayed by Kevin Costner, while Garrison himself made a cameo appearance as Earl Warren.

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20/11/1920

Douglas Dick, American actor and psychologist (died 2015)

Douglas Harvey Dick was an American actor and occasional screenwriter. His most famous role came in the 1948 film Rope. In 1971, Dick left the entertainment industry to work as a psychologist.

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20/11/1919

Alan Brown, English race car driver (died 2004)

Alan Everest Brown was a British racing driver from England. He took up motor racing in a Cooper, later forming the Ecurie Richmond team with Eric Brandon. He participated in nine World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 18 May 1952 and numerous non-Championship Formula One races. He scored two championship points. He was the first driver to score championship points for Cooper and also gave the first Vanwall its race debut. After he retired, he fielded two drivers in the 1959 British Grand Prix under the team name Alan Brown Equipe.

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Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (died 2012)

Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter was an American actress. She is best known for portraying Ellen Lawson in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) and Martha "Ma" Kent in Superman (1978). She also appeared in Bewitched (1945), Blood on the Moon (1948), and The World of Henry Orient (1964).

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20/11/1918

Corita Kent, American nun, illustrator, and educator (died 1986)

Corita Kent, born Frances Elizabeth Kent and also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, was an American artist, designer and educator, and former religious sister. Key themes in her work included Christianity and social justice. She was also a teacher at the Immaculate Heart College.

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Dora Ratjen, German high jumper (died 2008)

Heinrich Ratjen, born Dora Ratjen, was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later determined to be male and/or intersex. In some news reports, he was erroneously referred to as Hermann Ratjen and Horst Ratjen.

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20/11/1917

Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (died 2010)

Robert Carlyle Byrd was an American politician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A Democrat, Byrd also served as a U.S. representative for six years, from 1953 until 1959. He remains the longest-serving U.S. senator in history; he was the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress until surpassed by Representative John Dingell of Michigan. Byrd is the only West Virginian to have served in both chambers of the West Virginia legislature and in both chambers of Congress.

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Leonard Jimmie Savage, American mathematician (died 1971)

Leonard Jimmie Savage was an American mathematician and statistician. Economist Milton Friedman said Savage was "one of the few people I have met whom I would unhesitatingly call a genius."

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Erich Leo Lehmann, American statistician (died 2009)

Erich Leo Lehmann was a German-born American statistician, who made a major contribution to nonparametric hypothesis testing. He is one of the eponyms of the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and of the Hodges–Lehmann estimator.

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Bobby Locke, South African golfer (died 1987)

Arthur D'Arcy "Bobby" Locke was a South African professional golfer. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time. He won The Open Championship four times and 15 PGA Tour events in total. In addition, he was a prolific tournament winner in South Africa, ultimately recording over 50 significant victories in his home country, including the South African Open nine times.

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20/11/1916

Charles E. Osgood, American psychologist (died 1991)

Charles Egerton Osgood was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Illinois. He was known for his research on behaviourism versus cognitivism, semantics, cross-culturalism, psycholinguistic theory, and peace studies. He is credited with helping in the early development of psycholinguistics. Charles Osgood was recognized as a distinguished and highly honored psychologist throughout his career.

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Michael J. Ingelido, American general (died 2015)

Michael Joseph Ingelido was an American Air Force major general who was commander of the Fourteenth Aerospace Force,, Ent Air Force Base, Colorado.

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Evelyn Keyes, American actress (died 2008)

Evelyn Louise Keyes was an American film actress. She is best known for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

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Donald T. Campbell, American social scientist (died 1996)

Donald Thomas Campbell was an American social scientist. He is noted for his work in methodology. He coined the term evolutionary epistemology and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Campbell as the 33rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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20/11/1915

Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)

Kon Ichikawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films The Burmese Harp (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959), to the documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965), which won two BAFTA Film Awards, and the 19th-century revenge drama An Actor's Revenge (1963). His film Odd Obsession (1959) won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.

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Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (died 1989)

Hu Yaobang was a Chinese politician who was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China. He held the top office of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1981 to 1987, first as Chairman from 1981 to 1982, then as General Secretary from 1982 to 1987. After the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Hu rose to prominence as a close ally of Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader of China at the time.

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20/11/1914

Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer and politician (died 1992)

Marchese Emilio Pucci di Barsento was an Italian aristocrat, fashion designer and politician. He and his eponymous company Pucci designed geometric prints in many colors.

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Kurt Lundqvist, Swedish high jumper (died 1976)

Kurt Lundqvist was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the high jump. He was the 1938 European champion in the event.

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20/11/1913

Franz Berghammer, Austrian field handballer (died 1944)

Franz Berghammer was an Austrian field handball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Austria field handball team that won the silver medal in handball at the Olympics. He played two matches during the tournament, scoring five goals.

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Charles Berlitz, American linguist (died 2003)

Charles Frambach Berlitz was an American polyglot, language teacher and writer, known for his language-learning courses and his books on paranormal phenomena.

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Charles Bettelheim, French Marxian economist and historian (died 2006)

Charles Bettelheim was a French Marxian economist and historian, founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization at the EHESS, economic advisor to the governments of several developing countries during the period of decolonization. He was very influential in France's New Left, and considered one of "the most visible Marxists in the capitalist world", in France as well as in Spain, Italy, Latin America, and India.

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Judy Canova, American actress and comedian (died 1983)

Judy Canova, born Juliette Canova, was an American comedienne, actress, singer, and radio personality who appeared on Broadway and in films. She hosted her own eponymous network radio program, a popular series broadcast from 1943 to 1955.

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Kostas Choumis, Greek footballer (died 1981)

Kostas Choumis was a Greek-Romanian football player who played as a striker. He is often regarded in Greece and Romania as one of the greatest strikers from the 1930s.

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Russell Rouse, American screenwriter, director and producer (died 1987)

Russell Rouse was an American screenwriter, director, and producer who is noted for the "offbeat creativity and originality" of his screenplays and for film noir movies and television episodes produced in the 1950s.

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Libertas Schulze-Boysen, German opponent of the Nazis (died 1942)

Libertas Viktoria "Libs" Schulze-Boysen was a German noblewoman and resistance fighter against the Nazis. From the early 1930s to 1940, she attempted to build a literary career, first as a press officer and later as a writer and journalist. Initially sympathetic to the Nazis, she changed her mind after meeting and marrying Luftwaffe officer Harro Schulze-Boysen. As an aristocrat, Schulze-Boysen had contact with many different people in different strata of German society. Starting in 1935, she utilized her position to recruit left-leaning Germans into discussion groups which she hosted at her and Harro's apartment, where they sought to influence their guests. Through these discussions, resistance to the Nazi regime grew, and by 1936, she and Harro began to actively resist the Nazis. During the early 1940s, whilst working as a censor for the German Documentary Film Institute, Schulze-Boysen began to document atrocities committed by the Nazis from photographs of war crimes forwarded by soldiers of the Sonderbehandlungen task force to the Film Institute.

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Yakov Zak, Soviet pianist (died 1976)

Yakov Izrailevich Zak was a Soviet pianist and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1966).

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20/11/1912

Enrique Garcia, Argentine footballer (died 1969)

Enrique García was an Argentine footballer. Nicknamed Chueco, or El Poeta de la Zurda, is regarded as the best Argentine left winger ever.

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Otto von Habsburg, the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary (died 2011)

Otto von Habsburg was the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until its dissolution in November 1918. In 1922, he became the pretender to the former thrones, head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, and sovereign of the (Austrian) Order of the Golden Fleece, upon the death of his father. He resigned as Sovereign of the Golden Fleece in 2000 and as head of the Imperial House in 2007.

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20/11/1911

Eduard Kainberger, Austrian footballer (died 1974)

Eduard "Edi" Kainberger was an Austrian association football player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Austrian team, which won the silver medal in the football tournament. He played all four matches as goalkeeper and captain.

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David Seymour, Polish photographer (died 1956)

David Seymour, or Chim, was a Polish photographer and photojournalist.

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Jean Shiley, American high jumper (died 1998)

Jean Shiley Newhouse was an American high jumper. She was born Jean Shiley in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Havertown, a Philadelphia suburb, where she joined the team at Haverford High School.

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Rupert Weinstabl, Austrian sprint canoeist (died 1953)

Rupert Weinstabl was an Austrian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1930s.

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Paul Zielinski, German footballer (died 1966)

Paul Zielinski was a German football player who participated in the 1934 FIFA World Cup.

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20/11/1910

Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician, pilot, and academic (died 1944)

Willem Jacob van Stockum was a Dutch mathematician who made an important contribution to the early development of general relativity.

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Pauli Murray, American civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, Episcopal priest, and author (died 1985)

Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray was an American civil rights activist, advocate, legal scholar and theorist, author and – later in life – an Episcopal priest. Murray's work influenced the civil rights movement and expanded legal protection for gender equality.

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20/11/1909

John Berger, Swiss cross-country skier (died 2002)

John Berger was a Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the 1930s. He was born in Överluleå and won a bronze medal in the 4 × 10 km relay at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

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Vicente Feola, Brazilian football manager and coach (died 1975)

Vicente Ítalo Feola was a Brazilian football manager and coach from São Paulo. He is best known for leading the Brazil national team to its first FIFA World Cup title in 1958.

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Piero Gherardi, Italian costume and set designer (died 1971)

Piero Gherardi was an Italian costume designer, production designer and art director. He is best known to international audiences for his collaborations with directors Mario Monicelli and Federico Fellini. Gherardi has been nominated three times for both the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and the Academy Award for Best Production Design for his work on Fellini's films, and he won twice for creating the costumes for La dolce vita (1960) and 8½ (1963).

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Samand Siabandov, Soviet Red Army writer (died 1989)

Samand Aliyevich Siabandov was a Soviet writer, military officer and politician who was a Yazidi Kurd. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union during the Soviet war against Nazi Germany.

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20/11/1908

Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (died 1968)

Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine was the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse by his second wife, Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich. He was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria.

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Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (died 2004)

Alistair Cooke, KBE was a British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and America: A Personal History of the United States, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He is the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.

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Jenő Vincze, Hungarian footballer (died 1988)

Jenő Vincze (Serbian: Eugen Vince) was a Hungarian footballer and a legend of Újpest FC, most famous for playing for the Hungary national team in the 1938 World Cup Final.

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20/11/1907

Fran Allison, American entertainer (died 1989)

Frances Helen Allison was an American television and radio comedienne, personality, and singer.

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Mihai Beniuc, Romanian writer (died 1988)

Mihai Beniuc was a Romanian socialist realist poet, dramatist, and novelist.

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Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director, screenwriter and producer (died 1977)

Henri-Georges Clouzot was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear (1953) and Les Diaboliques (1955), which are critically recognized as among the greatest films of the 1950s. He also directed documentary films, including The Mystery of Picasso (1956), which was declared a national treasure by the government of France.

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Anni Rehborn, German swimmer (died 1987)

Anni Rehborn was a German swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 1927 European Aquatics Championships. She entered two swimming events at the 1928 Summer Olympics, but did not compete for unknown reasons. During her career she won eight national titles in the 100 m backstroke and 100 m freestyle events (1923–1924).

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20/11/1906

Vera Tanner, English swimmer (died 1971)

Iris Vera Tanner was an English swimmer born in Eastbourne, who competed in the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics. At the 1924 Olympics she won a silver medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event and was fifth in the 100 m freestyle event. In the 400 m freestyle competition she was eliminated in the semi-finals. Four years later in Amsterdam she won her second silver medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event, was sixth in the 400 m freestyle event and fourth in her heat in the semi-finals of 100 m freestyle event and did not advance.

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20/11/1905

Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1998)

Minocher Rustom "Minoo" Masani was an Indian politician, a leading figure of the erstwhile Swatantra Party. He was a three-time Member of Parliament, representing Gujarat's Rajkot constituency in the second, third and fourth Lok Sabha. A Parsi, he was among the founders of the Indian Liberal Group think tank that promoted classical liberalism.

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20/11/1904

Arnold Gartmann, Swiss bobsledder (died 1980)

Arnold "Noldi" Gartmann was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1930s. He won a gold medal in the four-man event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

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20/11/1903

Alexandra Danilova, Russian-American ballerina and choreographer (died 1997)

Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova was a Russian-born prima ballerina, who became an American citizen. In 1989, she was recognized for lifetime achievements in ballet as a Kennedy Center Honoree.

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Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator (died 1981)

Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi popularly known as I.H. Qureshi, SP, HI, was a Pakistani nationalist historian and playwright. He was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi from 1961 till 1971.

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20/11/1902

Gianpiero Combi, Italian footballer (died 1956)

Gianpiero Combi was an Italian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He spent his entire club career at Juventus, where he won five Italian League titles. At international level, he won the 1934 World Cup with the Italy national team, as well as two Central European International Cups, and an Olympic bronze medal in 1928.

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Erik Eriksen, Danish politician (died 1972)

Erik Eriksen was a Danish politician, who served as the prime minister of Denmark from 1950 to 1953 and as the president of the Nordic Council in 1956. Eriksen was leader of the Danish Liberal party Venstre from 1950 to 1965. He served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 30 October 1950 to 30 September 1953 as leader of the Eriksen cabinet forming a minority government of Venstre and the Conservative People's Party. Eriksen was a farmer by profession.

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Heini Meng, Swiss ice hockey player (died 1982)

Heinrich Anton Meng was a Swiss ice hockey player who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics.

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Jean Painlevé, French photographer and filmmaker (died 1989)

Jean Painlevé was a French photographer and filmmaker who specialized in underwater fauna. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime minister of France Paul Painlevé.

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Philipp Schmitt, German officer of the Schutzstaffel (died 1950)

Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) who served as commandant of Fort Breendonk, a Nazi prison camp in German-occupied Belgium during World War II. For a year, he was also in charge of Mechelen transit camp but was dismissed for corruption and black marketeering. He later served in occupied Denmark and the Netherlands. After the war, he was convicted of war crimes and was executed in 1950. Schmitt was the last person executed in Belgium.

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20/11/1901

José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (died 1957)

José Leandro Andrade Quiroz was a Uruguayan professional footballer who played as a wing-half. He was nicknamed "the Black Marvel". During his prime he was regarded as one of the finest players in the world, contributing to the Uruguay national team's domination of international football during the 1920s, winning two consecutive Olympic gold medals and then the inaugural FIFA World Cup he was the first black player to compete in both Olympic football and the World Cup.

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20/11/1900

Florieda Batson, American Olympic hurdler (died 1996)

Florieda Burton Batson Gibbens was an American hurdler and captain of the United States team at the Women's Olympics in Paris in 1922.

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Helen Bradley, English painter (died 1979)

Helen Layfield Bradley MBE was an English artist born in Lees, Lancashire, England. Her paintings, mostly in oils, typically depict life in Lancashire in the Edwardian era.

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Chester Gould, American cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy (died 1985)

Chester Gould was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.

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20/11/1899

Alicja Kotowska, Polish nun (died 1939)

Alicja Jadwiga Kotowska was a Polish religious sister who was head of the Resurrectionist convent in Wejherowo between 1934 and 1939. She was arrested by the Gestapo on 24 October 1939 during prayer and murdered alongside over 300 other Poles and Jews on 11 November in one of the Piaśnica massacres. Witnesses reported seeing her comfort Jewish children while being transported. She was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1999 as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II.

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20/11/1898

Richmond Landon, American high jumper (died 1971)

Richmond Wilcox Landon was an American high jumper who won a gold medal for the United States at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

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Adrian Piotrovsky, Russian dramaturge (died 1937)

Adrian Ivanovich Piotrovsky was a Russian Soviet dramaturge, responsible for creating the synopsis for Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet. He was the "acknowledged godfather" of the Workers' Youth Theatre.

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20/11/1897

Germaine Krull, German photographer and political activist (died 1985)

Germaine Luise Krull was a photographer, political activist, and hotel owner. Her nationality has been categorized as German, French, and Dutch, but she spent years in Brazil, Republic of the Congo, Thailand, and India. Described as "an especially outspoken example" of a group of early 20th-century female photographers who "could lead lives free from convention", she is best known for photographically illustrated books such as her 1928 portfolio Métal.

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20/11/1896

Chiyono Hasegawa, Japanese supercentenarian (died 2011)

Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 263 Japanese supercentenarians, most of whom are women. As of 28 June 2026, the oldest-known living Japanese person is Shigeko Kagawa, who is aged 115 years, 31 days. The oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever is Kane Tanaka (1903–2022), who lived to the age of 119 years and 107 days, making her the second-oldest validated person ever as well. Japan was also home to the world's oldest man ever, Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.

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Carl Mayer, Austrian-Jewish screenplay writer (died 1944)

Carl Mayer was an Austrian screenwriter. Mayer wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Haunted Castle (1921), Der Letzte Mann (1924), Tartuffe (1926), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and 4 Devils (1928), most of them being films directed by F. W. Murnau. Mayer was a fundamental figure in the dramatic and narrative establishment of both German expressionist cinema and Kammerspielfilm.

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20/11/1895

Pierre Cot, French politician (died 1977)

Pierre Jules Cot, was a French politician and leading figure in the Popular Front government of the 1930s.

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20/11/1894

Johann Nikuradse, Georgian-born German engineer and physicist (died 1979)

Johann Nikuradse was a Georgia-born German engineer and physicist. His brother, Alexander Nikuradse, was also a Germany-based physicist and geopolitician known for his ties with Alfred Rosenberg and for his role in saving many Georgians during World War II.

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20/11/1893

André Bloch, French mathematician (died 1948)

André Bloch was a French mathematician who is best remembered for his fundamental contribution to complex analysis.

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Grace Darmond, Canadian-American actress (died 1963)

Grace Darmond was a Canadian and American actress.

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20/11/1892

James Collip, Canadian biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin (died 1965)

James Bertram Collip was a Canadian biochemist who was part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin. He served as the chair of the department of biochemistry at McGill University from 1928 to 1941 and dean of medicine at the University of Western Ontario from 1947 to 1961, where he was a charter member of The Kappa Alpha Society.

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20/11/1891

Reginald Denny, English actor (died 1967)

Reginald Leigh Dugmore, known professionally as Reginald Denny, was an English actor, aviator, and UAV pioneer.

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20/11/1890

Robert Armstrong, American actor (died 1973)

Robert William Armstrong was an American film and television actor, best known to today's audiences for playing Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong from RKO Pictures. He delivered the film's famous final line: "It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."

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Harald Madsen, Danish actor (died 1949)

Harald Martin Bergmann Madsen was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 51 films between 1917 and 1948. Harald Madsen was a part of the Danish comedian couple Fyrtårnet og Bivognen, known as "Long & Short" in the United Kingdom and "Ole & Axel" in the United States, alongside his partner Carl Schenstrøm (Fy).

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Lauri Tanner, Finnish gymnast (died 1950)

Lauri Arvo Tanner was a Finnish gymnast and amateur football (soccer) player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

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20/11/1889

Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (died 1953)

Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. Hubble proved that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He used the strong direct relationship between a classical Cepheid variable's luminosity and pulsation period for scaling galactic and extragalactic distances.

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20/11/1888

Dennis Fenton, American sports shooter (died 1954)

Dennis Fenton was an American sport shooter and Olympic champion. He was born in Ventry, Ireland, and died in San Diego, California.

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20/11/1887

Jean Ducret, French footballer (died 1975)

Jean Ducret was a French international footballer. He played as a midfielder and played for five teams, most notably Olympique Lillois and Stade Français. Ducret was one of the national team's first-ever permanent captains having served in the role 13 times in 20 appearances from 1910 to 1914. Ducret also scored three goals for the team, which included his first-ever against Italy in a 6–2 defeat in May 1910.

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20/11/1886

Robert Hunter, American golfer (died 1971)

Robert Edward Hunter was an American amateur golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

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Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982)

Karl Ritter von Frisch was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.

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Alexandre Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (died 1934)

Serge Alexandre Stavisky was a French financier and embezzler whose actions created a political scandal that became known as the Stavisky Affair.

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20/11/1885

George Holley, English footballer (died 1942)

George Holley was an English professional footballer who spent most of his career as an inside forward with Sunderland, helping them claim the Football League title in 1913. He was also joint top scorer in the First Division in 1911–12 and represented England ten times, scoring eight goals.

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Kaarlo Vasama, Finnish gymnast (died 1926)

Kaarlo Hjalmar Vasama was a Finnish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Finnish team, which won the silver medal in the gymnastics men's team, free system event.

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20/11/1884

Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (died 1968)

Norman Mattoon Thomas was an American Presbyterian minister, political activist, and perennial candidate for president. He achieved fame as a socialist and pacifist, and was the Socialist Party of America's candidate for president in six consecutive elections between 1928 and 1948.

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20/11/1883

Edwin August, American actor and director (died 1964)

Edwin August Phillip von der Butz was an American actor, director, and screenwriter of the silent era.

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Tony Gaudio, Italian American cinematographer (died 1951)

Gaetano (Tony) Gaudio, A.S.C. was a pioneer Italian-American cinematographer of more than 1000 films. Gaudio won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Anthony Adverse, becoming the first Italian to have won an Oscar, and was nominated five additional times for Hell's Angels, Juarez, The Letter, Corvette K-225, and A Song to Remember. He is cited as the first to have created a montage sequence for a film in The Mark of Zorro. He was among the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers, and served as president from 1924 until 1925.

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20/11/1882

Ernestas Galvanauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician (died 1967)

Ernestas Galvanauskas was a Lithuanian engineer, politician, and one of the founders of the Peasant Union. He also served twice as Prime Minister of Lithuania.

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20/11/1881

Irakli Tsereteli, Georgian politician (died 1959)

Irakli Tsereteli was a Georgian politician and a leading spokesman of the Social Democratic Party of Georgia and later Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) during the era of the Russian Revolutions.

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20/11/1880

Walter Brack, German swimmer (died 1919)

Walter Brack was a German backstroke and breaststroke swimmer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. In the 1904 Olympics he won a gold medal in the 100 yard backstroke and a silver medal in the Men's 440 yard breastroke. He was born and died in Berlin.

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20/11/1877

Herbert Pitman, English sailor (died 1961)

Herbert John Pitman was a British Merchant Navy seaman, who was the Third Officer of RMS Titanic during its ill-fated maiden voyage, and one of four officers to survive when the ship sank after striking an iceberg during the night of 14 April 1912.

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20/11/1876

Rudolf Koch, German designer (died 1934)

Rudolf Koch was a German type designer, professor, and a master of lettering, calligraphy, typography and illustration. Commonly known for his typefaces created for the Klingspor Type Foundry, his most widely used typefaces include Neuland and Kabel.

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20/11/1875

Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat (died 1944)

Friedrich-Werner Erdmann Matthias Johann Bernhard Erich Graf von der Schulenburg was a German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to the Soviet Union before Operation Barbarossa, the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, during World War II. He began his diplomatic career before World War I, serving as consul and ambassador in several countries.

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20/11/1874

James Michael Curley, American lawyer, politician, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts, and criminal (died 1958)

James Michael Curley was an American Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts. He served four terms as mayor of Boston between 1914 and 1950. Curley ran for mayor in every election for which he was legally qualified. He was twice convicted of criminal behavior and notably served time in prison during his last term as mayor. He also served a single term as governor of Massachusetts. He is remembered as one of the most colorful figures in Massachusetts politics.

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20/11/1873

Ramón Castillo, Argentine politician (died 1944)

Ramón Antonio Castillo Barrionuevo was President of Argentina from 1942 to 1943. He took office after the resignation of President Roberto María Ortiz, under whom he was the Vice President. He was a leading figure in the period known as the Infamous Decade, characterised by electoral fraud, corruption and rule by conservative landowners heading the alliance known as the Concordancia.

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William Coblentz, American physicist (died 1962)

William Weber Coblentz was an American physicist notable for his contributions to infrared radiometry and spectroscopy.

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Georges Caussade, French composer (died 1936)

Georges Paul Alphonse Emilien Caussade was a French composer, music theorist, and music educator.

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Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer and music critic (died 1953)

Daniel Gregory Mason was an American composer and music critic.

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20/11/1871

William Heard Kilpatrick, American pedagogue (died 1965)

William Heard Kilpatrick was an American pedagogue and a pupil, a colleague and a successor of John Dewey. Kilpatrick was a major figure in the progressive education movement of the early 20th century.

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Augusto Weberbauer, German naturalist (died 1948)

Augusto Weberbauer was a German naturalist, botanist and university professor. He conducted systematic exploration of Peru in search of new plant species. Weberbauer received his PhD in botany at the University of Breslau (1894), continued his studies in natural sciences at universities in Heidelberg and Berlin. He taught at the University of Breslau. He was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin to develop botanical research in Peru (1901). In 1905, he delivered 5200 species of seagrass which he had collected in Peru. The Peruvian government hired him to develop the Zoo and Botanical Garden in 1908. He received the degree of Doctor of Science at the National University of San Marcos in 1922. He taught here as professor of pharmaceutical chemistry (1923–48) and Systematic Botany (1925–48), as well as directing the Botany Seminar (1935–1948). The wild potato species, S. neoweberbaueri, collected by Weberbauer on Morro Solar, was named by Ludwig Wittmack in 1914.

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20/11/1869

Zinaida Gippius, Russian writer and editor (died 1945)

Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius was a Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker. She is considered one of the major figures in Russian symbolism.

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Josaphata Hordashevska, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun (died 1919)

Josaphata was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic religious sister in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She was the first member and co-founder of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate.

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20/11/1867

Patrick Joseph Hayes, American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1938)

Patrick Joseph Hayes was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 1919 until his death. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1924.

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Gustav Giemsa, German chemist and bacteriologist (died 1948)

Berthold Carl Gustav Giemsa was a German chemist and bacteriologist who was a native of Medar-Blechhammer. He is best known for creating a dye solution commonly known as "Giemsa stain" which is used in staining for use in the histopathological diagnosis of malaria and parasites such as Plasmodium, Trypanosoma, and Chlamydia.

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20/11/1866

Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (died 1944)

Kenesaw Mountain Landis was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as the first commissioner of baseball from 1920 until his death in 1944. He is remembered for his resolution of the Black Sox Scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests. His iron rule over baseball in the near quarter-century of his commissionership is generally credited with restoring public confidence in the game.

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Maria Letizia Bonaparte, daughter of Prince Napoléon Bonaparte (died 1926)

Maria Letizia Bonaparte was one of three children born to Prince Napoléon-Jérôme and his wife Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy. In 1888, she married Prince Amadeo, Duke of Aosta, the former king of Spain and her uncle. Following her marriage, Maria Letizia became Duchess of Aosta. Their marriage was instrumental in almost reviving French hopes of reinstating the Bonaparte dynasty into a position of power, as seen in the days of Napoleon III.

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20/11/1864

Percy Cox, British Indian Army officer (died 1937)

Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, was a British Indian Army officer and Colonial Office administrator in the Middle East. He is considered one of the main architects behind the current Middle Eastern borders.

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20/11/1862

Georges Palante, French philosopher and sociologist (died 1925)

Georges Toussaint Léon Palante was a French philosopher and sociologist.

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Edvard Westermarck, Finnish philosopher and sociologist (died 1939)

Edvard Alexander Westermarck was a Finnish social anthropologist, sociologist and philosopher. He was the most internationally prominent Finnish scholar of his time, known for his work on the history of marriage and the origin of moral ideas. He was the first to lecture on sociology in both England and the Nordic countries, and held professorships at the London School of Economics, the University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi University, where he also served as the first rector. He is perhaps best remembered today for the Westermarck effect, the hypothesis that children raised in close proximity develop a natural aversion to sexual relations with each other. His scholarly interest in human sexuality and marriage has been linked by some biographers to his own presumed homosexuality.

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20/11/1861

Camillo Laurenti, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1938)

Camillo Laurenti was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites from 1929 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1921.

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20/11/1860

José Figueroa Alcorta, President of Argentina, (died 1931)

José María Cornelio Figueroa Alcorta was an Argentine lawyer and politician, who managed to be the only person to head the three powers of the State: Vice President of the Nation, from October 12, 1904 to March 12, 1906, President of the Nation from that date and until October 12, 1910; and President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Argentine Nation, from 1929 until his death in 1931.

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20/11/1858

Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. In 1914, she was the first woman to be granted a membership of the Swedish Academy.

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20/11/1857

Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (died 1938)

Helena Charlotta Westermarck was a Swedish-speaking Finnish artist and writer. She is known for her pioneering biographies of women.

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20/11/1855

Josiah Royce, American philosopher (died 1916)

Josiah Royce was an American pragmatist and objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism. His philosophical ideas included his joining of pragmatism and idealism, his philosophy of loyalty, and his defense of absolutism.

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20/11/1853

Oskar Potiorek, Austro-Hungarian Army officer (died 1933)

Oskar Potiorek was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army, who served as Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1911 to 1914. He was a passenger in the car carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Duchess Sophie of Hohenberg when they were assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. Potiorek had failed to inform the driver of a change of route which led the royal car to take a wrong turn, stalling after trying to turn around, and ending up in front of Gavrilo Princip. In World War I, Potiorek commanded the Austro-Hungarian forces in the failed Serbian campaign of 1914. He was removed from command, retiring from the army shortly afterward.

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20/11/1851

Mikhail Albov, Russian writer (died 1911)

Mikhail Nilovich Albov was a writer from the Russian Empire.

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John Merle Coulter, American botanist (died 1928)

John Merle Coulter, Ph. D. was an American botanist and educator. In his career in education administration, Coulter is notable for serving as the president of Indiana University and Lake Forest College and the head of the Department of Botany at the University of Chicago.

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Margherita of Savoy, Italian Queen consort (died 1926)

Margherita of Savoy was Queen of Italy by marriage to her first cousin King Umberto I of Italy. She was the daughter of Prince Ferdinando of Savoy, Duke of Genoa, and Princess Elisabeth of Saxony, and the mother of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.

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20/11/1850

Joseph Samuel Bloch, Austrian rabbi and deputy (died 1923)

Joseph (Josef) Samuel Bloch was an Austrian rabbi and deputy of Polish descent.

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Charlotte Garrigue, wife of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (died 1923)

Charlotte Garrigue-Masaryk was the American-born wife of the Czechoslovak philosopher, sociologist, and politician, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first President of Czechoslovakia.

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20/11/1841

Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (died 1901)

Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt was a Belgian lawyer and jurist of civil law at Ghent University. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for allocating seats to candidates in party-list proportional representation elections. The method has been adopted by a number of countries, including Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Fiji, Finland, Israel, Japan, North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Iceland, Uruguay and Wales. A modified D'Hondt system is used for elections to the London Assembly and the Scottish Parliament.

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François Denys Légitime, Haitian general (died 1935)

François Denys Légitime was a Haitian general who served as President of Haiti from 1888 to 1889.

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Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1919)

Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier was the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minister, his 15-year tenure remains the longest uninterrupted term of office among Canadian prime ministers and his nearly 45 years of service in the House of Commons is a record for the House. Laurier is best known for his compromises between English and French Canada.

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20/11/1834

Franjo Kuhač, Croatian conductor and composer (died 1911)

Franjo Ksaver Kuhač was a Croatian piano teacher, choral conductor, composer, and comparative musicologist who studied Croatian folk music. Kuhač did a great deal of field work in this area, collecting and publishing 1,600 folk songs. Like Cecil Sharp, who did similar work in Britain and Appalachia, Kuhač published the folk songs with a piano accompaniment.

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20/11/1830

Mikhail Dragomirov, Russian general (1905)

Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov was a Russian Imperial general and military writer of Ukrainian origin. His grandfather Ivan Antonovych Dragomirecki-Mockewicz after being granted a noble title in 1786, changed his name from Dragomirecki to the Russified form of Dragomirov.

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20/11/1813

Franz Miklosich, Slovenian linguist and philologist (died 1891)

Franz Miklosich was a Slovenian philologist and rector of the University of Vienna.

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20/11/1808

Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein, French orientalist (died 1887)

Albert Félix Ignace Kazimirski or Albin de Biberstein was a Polish orientalist, author of an Arabic-French dictionary and a number of Arab-French translations, including the Quran.

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20/11/1801

Mungo Ponton, Scottish inventor (died 1880)

Mungo Ponton FRS FRSE was a Scottish inventor who in 1839 created a method of permanent photography based on potassium dichromate.

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20/11/1794

Eduard Rüppell, German naturalist and explorer (died 1884)

Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell, also spelled Rueppell was a German naturalist and explorer, best known for his collections and descriptions of plants and animals from Africa and Arabia.

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20/11/1788

Félix Varela, Cuban-born Roman Catholic priest (died 1853)

Félix Varela y Morales was a Cuban Catholic priest and independence leader who is regarded as a notable figure in the Catholic Church in both his native Cuba and the United States, where he also served.

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20/11/1787

Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, German firearms inventor and manufacturer (died 1867)

Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse was a German firearms inventor and manufacturer. He is most famous for submitting the Dreyse needle gun in 1836 to the Prussian army, which was adopted for service in December 1840 as the Leichte Perkussions-Gewehr M 1841 – a name deliberately chosen to mislead about the rifle's mechanism – later renamed Zündnadelgewehr M 1841 in 1855.

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20/11/1784

Marianne von Willemer, Austrian actress and dancer (died 1860)

Marianne von Willemer was an Austrian actress and dancer best known for her relationship with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and her appearance in his poetry.

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20/11/1783

Georgios Sinas, Greek entrepreneur and banker (died 1856)

Georgios Sinas was an Austrian–Greek entrepreneur and banker. He became a national benefactor of Greece and Romanians, and was the father of another Greek national benefactor, Simon Sinas. He was also the founder of the National Observatory of Athens.

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20/11/1782

Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, Dutch painter (died 1861)

Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, was a 19th-century painter from the Netherlands.

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20/11/1781

Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German captain and jurist (died 1854)

Karl Friedrich Eichhorn was a German jurist.

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Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (died 1835)

Bartolomeo Pinelli was an Italian illustrator and engraver.

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20/11/1776

Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Austrian violinist (died 1830)

Ignaz Schuppanzigh was an Austrian violinist and friend of Beethoven, and leader of Count Razumovsky's private string quartet. Schuppanzigh and his quartet premiered many of Beethoven's string quartets, and in particular, the late string quartets. The Razumovsky quartet, which Schuppanzigh founded in late 1808, is considered to be the first professional string quartet. Until the founding of this quartet, quartet music was played primarily by amateurs or by professional musicians who joined together on an ad hoc basis.

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20/11/1761

Pope Pius VIII (died 1830)

Pope Pius VIII was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 31 March 1829 to his death in November 1830.

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20/11/1755

Stanisław Kostka Potocki, Polish noble, politician and writer (died 1821)

Count Stanisław Kostka Potocki was a Polish nobleman, politician, writer, public intellectual, and patron of the arts. He was involved in public education and active in the period that has been termed as the Polish Enlightenment. He was of the Pilawa coat of arms.

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20/11/1753

Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince of Wagram (died 1815)

Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Neuchâtel et Valangin, prince de Wagram was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was twice Minister of War of France and was made a Marshal of the Empire in 1804. Berthier served as chief of staff to Napoleon Bonaparte from his first Italian campaign in 1796 until his first abdication in 1814. The operational efficiency of the Grande Armée owed much to his considerable administrative and organizational skills.

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20/11/1752

Thomas Chatterton, English poet (died 1770)

Thomas Chatterton was an English poet who committed suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge.

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20/11/1750

Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (died 1799)

Tipu Sultan, commonly referred to as Sher-e-Mysore, was the Sultan of Mysore from 1782 until his death in 1799. He was a pioneer of rocket artillery. He expanded the iron-cased Mysorean rockets and commissioned the military manual Fathul Mujahidin. The economy of Mysore reached a zenith during his reign. He deployed rockets against advances of British forces and their allies during the Anglo-Mysore Wars, including the Battle of Pollilur and Siege of Srirangapatna.

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20/11/1748

Jean-François de Bourgoing, French diplomat, writer and translator (died 1811)

Jean-François, baron de Bourgoing was a French diplomat, writer and translator. A commander of the Legion of Honour, he was also a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences, a member of the Copenhagen Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1810, a knight then a baron de l'Empire, and a knight of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star.

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20/11/1739

Jean-François de La Harpe, French writer and literary critic (died 1803)

Jean-François de La Harpe was a French playwright, writer and literary critic.

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20/11/1737

José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, Spanish-Mexican scientist and cartographer (died 1799)

José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez was a priest in New Spain, scientist, historian, and cartographer.

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20/11/1733

Philip Schuyler, American general and senator (died 1804)

Philip John Schuyler was an American military officer and politician who fought in the American Revolutionary War and served as a United States Senator from New York. He is usually known as Philip Schuyler, while his son is usually known as Philip J. Schuyler.

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20/11/1726

Oliver Wolcott, American politician (died 1797)

Oliver Wolcott Sr. was an American Founding Father and politician. He was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation as a representative of Connecticut, and the nineteenth governor of Connecticut. Wolcott was a major general for the Connecticut militia in the Revolutionary War serving under George Washington.

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20/11/1717

George (Konissky), Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian (died 1795)

George, secular name Grigori Osipovich Konissky was an Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian.

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20/11/1715

Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (died 1799)

Pierre Charles Le Monnier was a French astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Lemonnier.

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20/11/1688

Gyeongjong of Joseon, 20th king of the Joseon Dynasty (died 1724)

Gyeongjong, personal name Yi Yun, was the 20th monarch of Joseon. His father was King Sukjong and his mother was the infamous Concubine Hui.

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20/11/1660

Daniel Ernst Jablonski, Czech-German theologian and reformer (died 1741)

Daniel Ernst Jablonski was a German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants.

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20/11/1629

Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (died 1698)

Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was Prince of Calenberg from 1679 until his death, and father of King George I of Great Britain. He was appointed as the ninth prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire in 1692.

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20/11/1625

Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (died 1654)

Paulus Potter was a Dutch painter who specialized in landscapes featuring animals, often from a low vantage point.

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20/11/1620

Avvakum, Russian priest and saint (died 1682)

Avvakum Petrov was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. His autobiography and letters to the tsar and other Old Believers such as Feodosia Morozova are considered masterpieces of 17th-century Russian literature.

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20/11/1603

Fasilides, Ethiopian emperor (died 1667)

Fasilides, also known as Fasil, Basilide, or Basilides, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1632 to his death on 18 October 1667, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His throne name was Alam Sagad.

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20/11/1602

Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (died 1686)

Otto von Guericke was a German scientist, inventor, mathematician, and physicist. His pioneering scientific work, the development of experimental methods and repeatable demonstrations on the physics of the vacuum, atmospheric pressure, electrostatic repulsion, his advocacy for the reality of "action at a distance" and of "absolute space" were noteworthy contributions for the advancement of the Scientific Revolution.

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20/11/1545

Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania (died 1592)

Ernst Ludwig was duke of Pomerania from 1560 to 1592. From 1569 to 1592, he was duke in the Teilherzogtum Pomerania-Wolgast, sharing the rule over the Duchy of Pomerania with his older brother Johann Friedrich, duke in the other Teilherzogtum Pomerania-Stettin and bishop of Cammin.

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20/11/0939

Emperor Taizong of Song (died 997)

Zhao Jiong, known as Zhao Guangyi from 960 to 977 and Zhao Kuangyi before 960, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Taizong of Song, was the second emperor of the Song dynasty of China. He reigned from 976 to his death in 997. He was a younger brother of his predecessor Emperor Taizu, and the father of his successor Emperor Zhenzong.

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20/11/0270

Maximinus II, Roman emperor (died 313)

Galerius Valerius Maximinus, born as Daza, was Roman emperor from 310 to 313. In 305 his uncle Galerius admitted him to the Tetrarchy with the rank of caesar, a controversial appointment which helped start the civil wars of the Tetrarchy in the following year. Maximinus Daza claimed the title of augustus in 310, sharing and often contesting power with Licinius. A committed pagan, he engaged in one of the last persecutions of Christians, and was the last person to hold the title of Pharaoh of Egypt. In 313 Maximinus Daza openly turned against Licinius and was routed at the Battle of Tzirallum. He died during the subsequent retreat, shortly after publishing an edict of tolerance restoring the Christians' freedoms.

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