Born on Friday, 21st November – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 207 notable people were born on 21st November — spanning from 1495 to 2004. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Friday, 21 November 2025 marks a date rich in historical significance and notable births across various fields. Among those born on this day was Isaac Bashevis Singer in 1903, the Polish-American novelist and short story writer who would go on to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, bringing Yiddish literature to an international audience. The date has also seen significant events unfold throughout history, including scientific and cultural milestones that have shaped modern society.
The entertainment and sports industries have produced numerous notable figures born on this date. Contemporary personalities sharing this birthday include Ken Griffey Jr., born in 1969, who became one of baseball’s most celebrated players, and Goldie Hawn, born in 1945, whose career in film and television spanning decades has made her an enduring presence in Hollywood. Beyond entertainment, the date has seen the birth of accomplished athletes, musicians, and professionals across multiple disciplines.
On 21 November 2025, conditions across the United Kingdom show overcast skies with temperatures ranging between eight and twelve degrees Celsius, creating typical autumn weather for late November. The current moon phase is the last quarter, while those born on this date fall under the Scorpio zodiac sign, known in astrology for traits associated with intensity and determination.
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21/11/2004
Liz, South Korean singer
Kim Ji-won, known professionally as Liz, is a South Korean singer under Starship Entertainment. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Ive.
Rico Lewis, English footballer
Rico Mark Lewis is an English professional footballer who plays as a full-back or defensive midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the England national team.
21/11/2001
Rizky Ridho, Indonesian footballer
Rizky Ridho Ramadhani is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Super League club Persija Jakarta and the Indonesia national team.
21/11/2000
Isabel May, American actress
Isabel May is an American actress. She first gained attention as high school student Katie Cooper on the Netflix series Alexa & Katie (2018–2020) as well as playing Elsa Dutton on the Paramount+ series 1883 (2021–2022). She reprised her role as Elsa Dutton as the narrator of its sequel series, 1923 (2022–2025). In 2026, she joined the Scream franchise starring as Tatum Evans, daughter of Sidney Prescott in Scream 7.
Matt O'Riley, English-Danish footballer
Matthew Sean O'Riley is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion. Born in England, he plays for the Denmark national team.
21/11/1999
Jaelin Howell, American soccer player
Jaelin Marie Howell is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Gotham FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team. She played college soccer for the Florida State Seminoles, winning the Hermann Trophy in two consecutive seasons. She won national championships in 2018 and 2021.
21/11/1998
Ognjen Ilić, Serbian cyclist
Ognjen Ilić is a Serbian cyclist.
Vangelis Pavlidis, Greek footballer
Vangelis Pavlidis is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a centre forward for Primeira Liga club Benfica and the Greece national team.
21/11/1997
Reo Hatate, Japanese footballer
Reo Hatate is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Scottish Premiership club Celtic and the Japan national team.
21/11/1995
Chris Chiozza, American basketball player
Christopher Xavier Chiozza is an American professional basketball player for Cantù of Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for the Florida Gators. Chiozza won an NBA championship with the Warriors in 2022.
Vladislav Gavrikov, Russian ice hockey player
Vladislav Andreyevich Gavrikov is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 159th overall by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2015 NHL entry draft.
21/11/1994
Andreas Johnsson, Swedish ice hockey player
Andreas Karl Johnsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey winger for Skellefteå AIK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Johnsson played with the Toronto Maple Leafs, New Jersey Devils, San Jose Sharks, and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the seventh round, 202nd overall, of the 2013 NHL entry draft.
Saúl Ñíguez, Spanish footballer
Saúl Ñíguez Esclápez, often known simply as Saúl, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo. A versatile player, he can also be deployed as a box-to-box midfielder or a left-back.
Wyatt Teller, American football player
Wyatt Teller is an American professional football guard for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Virginia Tech Hokies.
21/11/1991
Almaz Ayana, Ethiopian sprinter
Almaz Ayana Eba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres and bronze in the 5,000 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Almaz is a four-time World Athletics Championships medallist earning a bronze for the 5,000m in 2013, gold at the event in 2015 as well as gold in the 10,000m and silver in the 5,000m in 2017.
Lewis Dunk, English footballer
Lewis Carl Dunk is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the England national team.
Peni Terepo, New Zealand rugby league player
Peni Terepo is a Tonga former international rugby league footballer who played as a prop, second-row and lock for the Parramatta Eels in the NRL.
21/11/1990
Dani King, English cyclist
Danielle Rowe is a British former road and track cyclist. As a track cyclist, she is an Olympic gold medallist, three-time world champion, and two-time European champion in the team pursuit. She is a member of the British Cycling Hall of Fame.
Georgie Twigg, English field hockey player
Georgina Sophie Twigg is an English international field hockey player and an Olympic gold medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
21/11/1989
Will Buckley, English footballer
William Edward Buckley is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger.
Dárvin Chávez, Mexican footballer
Dárvin Francisco Chávez Ramírez is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He is an Olympic gold medalist.
Fabian Delph, English footballer
Fabian Delph is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder or left-back.
José Pirela, Venezuelan baseball player
José Manuel Pirela is a Venezuelan professional baseball second baseman and outfielder for the Diablos Rojos del México of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, and Philadelphia Phillies. He has also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp and in the KBO League for the Samsung Lions.
Chris Singleton, American basketball player
Christopher Carl Singleton Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Listed at 6'9", he played as a power forward and small ball center. He played college basketball for the Florida State Seminoles.
Justin Tucker, American football player
Justin Paul Tucker is an American professional football placekicker. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns and signed with the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2012, spending 13 seasons with the team. Regarded as one of the greatest placekickers ever, Tucker previously held the NFL record for longest field goal at 66 yards and is third in career field goal percentage at 89.1%. He has also been named to seven Pro Bowls and five first-team All-Pro teams, and was a member of the Ravens team that won Super Bowl XLVII.
21/11/1988
Larry Sanders, American basketball player
Larry Sanders is an American professional basketball player. He played power forward for the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams before declaring himself eligible for the 2010 NBA draft and was selected 15th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks.
Len Väljas, Canadian skier
Lennard "Len" Väljas is a Canadian former cross-country skier. He was born in Toronto, and is of Estonian descent. He is the younger brother of Canadian beach volleyball Olympian Kristina May.
Preston Zimmerman, American soccer player
Preston Mark Zimmerman is a retired American soccer player.
21/11/1987
Stefan Glarner, Swiss footballer
Stefan Glarner is a Swiss footballer who plays for FC Köniz in the Swiss 1. Liga.
Eesha Karavade, Indian chess player
Eesha Karavade is an Indian chess player from Pune. She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She played for India in the Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014.
Karl Stollery, Canadian ice hockey player
Karl Stollery is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He most recently played with HC Bolzano, Italian team of the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL).
21/11/1986
Colleen Ballinger, American YouTuber, comedian, actress, and singer
Colleen Mae Ballinger is an American comedian, YouTuber, actress, singer and writer. She is best known for her creation and portrayal of the Internet character Miranda Sings, posting videos of the character on YouTube, performing her one-woman comedy act on tour in theatres worldwide, and creating and starring in a Netflix original series titled Haters Back Off (2016–2017). Ballinger created the comically talentless, egotistical and eccentric character to satirize the many YouTube videos featuring people singing badly in hopes of breaking into show business but who appear unaware of their lack of talent.
Ben Bishop, American ice hockey player
Benjamin Manning Bishop III is an American former professional ice hockey player. As a goaltender, he played for the St. Louis Blues, Ottawa Senators, Tampa Bay Lightning, Los Angeles Kings, and Dallas Stars of the NHL. Nicknamed "Big Ben", Bishop is the tallest goaltender ever to play in the NHL, along with Mikko Koskinen, Mads Søgaard, Ivan Fedotov, and Dennis Hildeby at a height of 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m). He was a three-time Vezina Trophy finalist as the NHL's top goaltender.
Kristof Goddaert, Belgian cyclist (died 2014)
Kristof Goddaert was a Belgian road racing cyclist who competed as a professional between 2008 and 2014 for the Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator, Ag2r–La Mondiale and IAM Cycling squads.
Sam Palladio, English actor and musician
Sam Christian Palladio Scott is an English actor and musician. He is best known for his starring role as Gunnar Scott in the ABC musical drama series Nashville (2012–18). Palladio has also had recurring roles on the comedy series Episodes (2012–15) and the science fiction series Humans (2015–2018). His feature film credits include 7 Lives (2011), Runner, Runner (2013), Strange Magic (2015), The Princess Switch (2018), The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020) and The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star (2021).
21/11/1985
Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
Carly Rae Jepsen is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. After studying musical theatre for most of her school life and while in university, Jepsen garnered mainstream attention after placing third on the fifth season of Canadian Idol in 2007. In 2008, Jepsen released her folk-influenced debut studio album, Tug of War, in Canada before it was internationally released in 2011.
Jesús Navas, Spanish footballer
Jesús Navas González is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right-back or right winger.
Nicola Silvestri, Italian footballer
Nicola Silvestri is an Italian footballer.
21/11/1984
Álvaro Bautista, Spanish motorcycle racer
Álvaro Bautista Arce is a Spanish motorcycle road racer. He won the 2022 and 2023 Superbike World Championship with the Ducati factory team. He was the 2006 125cc World Champion and runner-up in 250cc, and finished in the top six in MotoGP in 2012 and 2013. He competed in the MotoGP class from 2010 to 2018.
Josh Boone, American basketball player
Oscar Joshua Boone is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'10" power forward-center, he played three years of college basketball for UConn. He declared for the 2006 NBA draft after his junior season, forgoing his final year of college.
Lindsey Haun, American actress, singer, and director
Lindsey Haun is an American actress, singer, and director. She is known for her role as Hadley on the HBO television series True Blood. She was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her role in the 2000 Disney Channel original movie The Color of Friendship as Mahree Bok, and has starred in the film Broken Bridges, for which she also recorded a portion of the soundtrack. She starred in and co-directed the 2023 comedy horror film Hanky Panky.
Jena Malone, American actress and singer
Jena Laine Malone is an American actress. Born in Sparks, Nevada, Malone spent her early life there and in Las Vegas, while her mother acted in local theater productions. Inspired to become an actress herself, Malone convinced her mother to relocate to Los Angeles. After a series of auditions, Malone was cast in the television film Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), for which she received Independent Spirit and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, and the television film Hope (1997), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. She next appeared in the feature films Contact (1997) and Stepmom (1998), winning a Saturn Award for the former.
21/11/1983
Brie Bella, American wrestler and television personality
Brianna Monique Danielson, also known by the stage names Brie Bella and Brie Garcia, is an American professional wrestler and media personality. She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Brie Bella. She is one-half of The Bella Twins alongside her twin sister Nikki Bella.
Nikki Bella, American wrestler and television personality
Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace, also known by the stage names Nikki Bella and Nikki Garcia, is an American professional wrestler and television personality. She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand.
21/11/1982
Ioana Ciolacu, Romanian fashion designer
Ioana Ciolacu Miron Mistretu is a Romanian fashion designer and researcher. She is the founder and creative director of the womenswear label Ioana Ciolacu, known for combining architectural design principles with contemporary womenswear and sustainable fashion practices.
Georgios Kalogiannidis, Greek archer
Georgios Kalogiannidis is an archer from Greece. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
John Lucas III, American basketball player and coach
John Harding Lucas III is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is currently serving as a player development coach for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). He played college basketball for Baylor and Oklahoma State.
21/11/1981
Wesley Britt, American football player
Wesley Britt is an American former professional football player who was a tackle for three seasons with the New England Patriots in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and received third-team All-American and a first-team All-SEC honors as a senior. Selected by the San Diego Chargers in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL draft, Britt was released before making the final roster and signed with the Patriots, where he played from 2006 to 2008. He is the husband of U.S. Senator Katie Britt.
Ainārs Kovals, Latvian javelin thrower
Ainārs Kovals is a Latvian track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. His personal best throw is 86.64 m. He achieved this at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he finished second.
Jonny Magallón, Mexican footballer
José Jonny Magallón Oliva is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
21/11/1980
Hank Blalock, American baseball player
Hank Joe Blalock is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays.
Alec Brownstein, American author and director
Alec Brownstein is an American creative marketer, the co-author of several humor books, and a film director. He attended The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and Tufts University. He is currently advisor and investor in a number of American startups. Previously, he was Global Head of Creative at PayPal Honey and was also the original Creative Director of Dollar Shave Club.
Leonardo González, Costa Rican footballer
Leonardo González Arce is a Costa Rican former professional footballer who played as a defender.
21/11/1979
Vincenzo Iaquinta, Italian footballer
Vincenzo Iaquinta is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Stromile Swift, American basketball player
Stromile Emanuel Swift is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the LSU Tigers before being selected second overall by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the 2000 NBA draft. At 6'10" and 220 lbs, he played the power forward and center positions.
Alex Tanguay, Canadian ice hockey player
Alex Joseph Jean Tanguay is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger who played for the Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning and Arizona Coyotes in the National Hockey League (NHL) and briefly for HC Lugano in the Swiss National League A in 2004. An offensive player, he is best known for his passing and playmaking ability. Tanguay currently serves as an assistant coach for the Detroit Red Wings.
21/11/1978
Daniel Bradshaw, Australian footballer
Daniel Mark Bradshaw is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Bears, Brisbane Lions and Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Lucía Jiménez, Spanish actress and singer
Lucía Jiménez Arranz is a Spanish actress.
21/11/1977
Michael Batiste, American basketball player
Michael James Batiste is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is currently an assistant coach for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A two-time All-EuroLeague selection, Batiste won three EuroLeague championships in 2007, 2009, and 2011 with the Greek Basket League club Panathinaikos. In 2018, he was named one of the 101 Greats of European Basketball. He was inducted into the Greek Basket League Hall of Fame in 2022.
Yolande James, Canadian lawyer and politician
Yolande James is a former Quebec provincial politician. She was the first black female MNA, the youngest, and the first black cabinet minister in Quebec history. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party, she represented the multicultural riding of Nelligan in the Island of Montreal from 2004 to 2014.
Jonas Jennings, American football player
Jonas Duran Jennings is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle that played in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the third round of the 2001 NFL draft. He has also played for the San Francisco 49ers. He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs. Jennings is now director of player development for his alma mater, the University of Georgia. He was part of the Bulldogs' coaching staff that won the National Championship over Alabama in the 2021 season.
21/11/1976
Mihaela Botezan, Romanian long-distance runner
Mihaela Maria Botezan is a Romanian long-distance runner who specializes mainly in the 10000 metres and the half marathon. She represented Romania at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2002 European Athletics Championships, twice at the World Championships in Athletics and five times at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
Saleem Elahi, Pakistani cricketer
Saleem Elahi is a former Pakistani cricketer who played 13 Test matches and 48 One Day Internationals between 1995 and 2004. He made 102 not out on his international debut, against Sri Lanka in September 1995, becoming the first player from Pakistan to score a century on ODI debut.
Martin Meichelbeck, German footballer
Martin Meichelbeck is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
Daniel Whiston, English figure skater
Daniel J Whiston is an English figure skater. He appeared in Strictly Ice Dancing on BBC One in 2004 and for all series of ITV show Dancing on Ice since its inception in 2006. He won the first series of Dancing on Ice while partnering actress Gaynor Faye, the fifth series with former Emmerdale actress Hayley Tamaddon and the eighth series with Olympic artistic gymnast, Beth Tweddle. Since 2019, Whiston has been Associate Creative Director of Dancing on Ice responsible for creating all professional routines and training all celebrity contestants.
Michael Wilson, Australian footballer
Michael Robert Wilson is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and the South Australian National Football League (SANFL)
21/11/1975
Jimmi Simpson, American actor
Jimmi Simpson is an American actor. Known for his work across film, television, and theatre, he is the recipient of BAFTA, Primetime Emmy, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
21/11/1974
Marina de Tavira, Mexican actress
Marina de Tavira Servitje is a Mexican actress. She is internationally known for her role in the film Roma (2018), which received widespread acclaim and earned her an Academy Award nomination.
21/11/1972
Rich Johnston, English author and critic
Richard "Rich" Johnston is a British comics creator, columnist, and founder of the comics news site Bleeding Cool.
Rain Phoenix, American actress and singer
Rain Joan of Arc Phoenix is an American actress, musician, and singer. She is the older sister of Joaquin, Liberty and Summer Phoenix and younger sister of River Phoenix.
21/11/1971
Michael Strahan, American football player, actor, and talk show host
Michael Anthony Strahan is an American television host and former professional football player. He spent his entire 15-year football career as a defensive end for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). A dominant pass rusher, Strahan set the NFL single-season record for quarterback sacks and helped the Giants win Super Bowl XLII in his final season in 2007. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014.
21/11/1970
Karen Davila, Filipino journalist
Kristin Karen Lising Davila–Sta. Ana, is a Filipino broadcast journalist. She has been the anchor or host of multiple programs under ABS-CBN's News and Current Affairs division, including Bandila, My Puhunan: Kaya Mo!, and TV Patrol.
Justin Langer, Australian cricketer and coach
Justin Lee Langer is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. He is the former coach of the Australia men's national team, having been appointed to the role in May 2018 and leaving in February 2022 and became the coach of Lucknow based IPL franchise Lucknow Super Giants in July, 2023. A left-handed batsman, Langer is best known for his partnership with Matthew Hayden as Australia's test opening batsmen during the early and mid-2000s, considered one of the most successful ever. Representing Western Australia domestically, Langer played English county cricket for Middlesex and also Somerset. He holds the record for the most runs scored at first-class level by an Australian. As Australia's coach, he led the team to victory in the 2021 T20 World Cup.
21/11/1969
Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player and actor
George Kenneth Griffey Jr., nicknamed "Junior" and "the Kid", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent most of his career with the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds, along with a short stint with the Chicago White Sox. The first overall pick in the 1987 draft and a 13-time All-Star, Griffey is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. His 630 home runs rank as the seventh-most in MLB history. Griffey was also an exceptional defender and won 10 Gold Glove Awards in center field. He is tied for the record of most consecutive games with a home run.
21/11/1968
Jan Bertels, Belgian politician
Jan Bertels is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of Vooruit, he has represented Antwerp since June 2024. He had previously been a member of the Chamber of Representatives from June 2019 to November 2020. He was a member of the Flemish Parliament from June 2014 to May 2019.
Andy Caddick, New Zealand-English cricketer
Andrew Richard Caddick is a former cricketer who played for England as a fast bowler in Tests and ODIs. At 6 ft 5in, Caddick was a successful bowler for England for a decade, taking 13 five-wicket hauls in Test matches. He spent his entire English domestic first-class cricket career at Somerset County Cricket Club, and then played one Minor Counties match for Wiltshire in 2009.
Alex James, English singer-songwriter, bass player
Steven Alexander James is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the rock band Blur. He has also played with the bands Fat Les, Me Me Me, WigWam and Bad Lieutenant.
Antonio Tarver, American boxer, sportscaster, and actor
Antonio Deon Tarver is an American former professional boxer and boxing commentator. In boxing, he competed from 1997 to 2015, and held multiple light heavyweight world championships, including the WBA (Unified), WBC, IBF and Ring magazine titles, as well as the IBO light heavyweight and cruiserweight titles. Tarver will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2026.
21/11/1967
Ken Block, American race car driver (died 2023)
Kenneth Paul Block was an American professional rally driver with the Hoonigan Racing Division, formerly known as the Monster World Rally Team. Block was also one of the co-founders of DC Shoes. He also competed in many action sports events, including skateboarding, snowboarding, and motocross.
Tripp Cromer, American baseball player
Roy Bunyan "Tripp" Cromer III is an American former professional baseball player. He is an alumnus of the University of South Carolina. His younger brother, D. T. was also a Major League Baseball player.
Toshihiko Koga, Japanese martial artist (died 2021)
Toshihiko Koga was a Japanese judoka, 9th degree black belt and Olympic champion who competed in the –71 kg and –78 kg divisions. Koga is regarded as having perhaps the greatest ippon seoi nage ever. He died of cancer on 24 March 2021 at the age of 53.
Amanda Lepore, American model and singer
Amanda Lepore is an American transgender model, singer, and performance artist. A former Club Kid, she has appeared in advertising for numerous companies. Lepore is noted as a regular subject in photographer David LaChapelle's work, serving as his muse, as well as many other photographers, such as Terry Richardson and Ruben van Schalm. She participated in LaChapelle's Artists and Prostitutes 1985–2005 exhibit in New York City, where she "lived" in a voyeuristic, life-sized set.
21/11/1966
Troy Aikman, American football player and sportscaster
Troy Kenneth Aikman is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. After transferring from the Oklahoma Sooners, he played college football for the UCLA Bruins and won the Davey O'Brien Award as a senior. Aikman was selected first overall in the 1989 NFL draft by the Cowboys, where he was named to six Pro Bowls and won three Super Bowls. He was also named MVP of Super Bowl XXVII, the franchise's first title in over a decade. Aikman was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008.
Evgeny Bareev, Russian chess player and coach
Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev is a Russian-Canadian chess player, trainer, and writer. Awarded the FIDE Grandmaster title in 1989, he was ranked fourth in the world in the international rankings in 1992 and again in 2003, with an Elo rating of 2739.
Thanasis Kolitsidakis, Greek footballer
Thanasis Kolitsidakis is a Greek football manager and former player.
21/11/1965
Björk, Icelandic singer-songwriter
Björk Guðmundsdóttir, known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Noted for her distinct voice, three-octave vocal range, and eccentric public persona, she has developed an eclectic musical style over a career spanning five decades, drawing on electronica, pop, dance, trip hop, jazz, and avant-garde music. She is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of her era.
Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (died 1993)
Reginald C. Lewis was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics from 1987 to 1993. At the age of 27, Lewis died while still a member of the Celtics, and his number was posthumously retired by the team.
21/11/1964
Shane Douglas, American wrestler and manager
Troy Allan Martin is an American professional wrestler, manager, and promoter, better known by his ring name Shane Douglas. He is best known for his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW), and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
Olden Polynice, Haitian-American basketball player and coach
Olden Polynice is a Haitian former professional basketball player. He played center for the Seattle SuperSonics, Los Angeles Clippers, Detroit Pistons, Sacramento Kings, and Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Liza Tarbuck, English actress, television and radio presenter
Liza Tarbuck is an English actress, comedian, and television and radio presenter.
21/11/1963
Dave Molyneux, Manx motorcycle racer
Dave Molyneux is a Manx chassis engineer who has built Sidecar motorcycles after having finished an accomplished career as a rider in the class. He is the most successful Sidecar competitor in the history of the Isle of Man TT races, achieving 17 TT victories and 30 podium finishes. His race wins place him fourth on the all-time wins list, behind solo bike racers Michael Dunlop, Joey Dunlop and John McGuinness (23).
Nicollette Sheridan, English actress
Nicollette Sheridan is a British-born American actress. She began her career as a fashion model before landing a role in the short-lived ABC primetime soap opera Paper Dolls in 1984, as well as starring in the romantic comedy film The Sure Thing (1985). She rose to prominence as Paige Matheson on the CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1986–1993), for which she received two Soap Opera Digest Awards. Thereafter, Sheridan appeared in lead roles in numerous television films and miniseries, including Lucky Chances (1990), Virus (1995), and The People Next Door (1996). She also appeared in the feature films Noises Off (1992), Spy Hard (1996), Beverly Hills Ninja (1997), and Code Name: The Cleaner (2007).
21/11/1962
Steven Curtis Chapman, American Christian music singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, actor, author, and social activist
Steven Curtis Chapman is an American contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, author, and social activist.
Alan Smith, English football player
Alan Martin Smith is an English football commentator and former player who played as a striker. He played for Leicester City and Arsenal in a career that spanned over a decade. A co-commentator for Sky Sports, Smith has also provided his voice to the football video game series FIFA alongside Martin Tyler from 2011 until 2019.
21/11/1961
João Domingos Pinto, Portuguese footballer and manager
João Domingos da Silva Pinto is a Portuguese former footballer and manager. He spent his entire professional career with Porto.
21/11/1960
Mark Bailey, English rugby player, author, and educator
Mark David Bailey, is a British academic, headteacher and former rugby union player. Since 2020, he has been Professor of Late Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. In 2019, he delivered the James Ford Lectures in British History at Oxford University, which were later published as a book, After the Black Death: Economy, society, and the law in fourteenth-century England.
Brian McNamara, American actor, director, and producer
Brian McNamara is an American actor. His first major role was in the film The Flamingo Kid (1984). He then went on to appear in a few films, such as Short Circuit (1986), Caddyshack II (1988), Arachnophobia (1990) and Mystery Date (1991).
Brian Ritchie, American bass player and songwriter
Brian Taigan Ritchie is an American musician, best known as the bassist for the alternative rock band Violent Femmes. Ritchie was born and raised in the United States and is currently a dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia, with his full-time residence in Australia.
21/11/1959
Sergei Ratnikov, Estonian footballer and manager
Sergei Ratnikov is an Estonian professional football manager and former player. He last managed Levadia in Estonian Meistriliiga.
21/11/1956
Cherry Jones, American actress
Cherry Jones is an American actress. She started her career in theater as a founding member of the American Repertory Theater in 1980 before transitioning into film and television. Celebrated for her dynamic roles on stage and screen, she has received various accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for an Olivier Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
21/11/1955
Peter Koppes, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Peter Koppes is an Australian guitarist, best known as a founding and almost-continuous member of the independent rock band The Church. He is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing mandolin, drums, piano, and harmonica. He has also released various solo albums and various recordings with his group The Well (1989-1995). Koppes lives on the Australian Central Coast in NSW but sometimes spends time on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland where he sometimes produces albums and has previously conducted seasonal 'song writing' and 'performance for demo recording' short courses at Nambour TAFE, as well as offering private tuition in guitar, bass, drums and song writing. His daughters are Tatiana 'O' Koppes and Neige Koppes who had their own band, Rain Party but now have independent solo careers.
Cedric Maxwell, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
Cedric Bryan Maxwell is an American former professional basketball player now in radio broadcasting. Nicknamed "Cornbread", he played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and played a key role in two championships with the Boston Celtics.
Glenn Ridge, Australian radio and television host and producer
Glenn Daryl Ridge is an Australian television and radio presenter, and the owner and managing director of the Q Media Group, a production company making television specials and documentaries.
21/11/1954
Fiona Pitt-Kethley, English journalist, author, and poet
Fiona Pitt-Kethley is a British poet, novelist, travel writer and journalist, who is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose. She lived for many years in Hastings, East Sussex and moved to Spain in 2002 with her husband James Plaskett and their son, Alexander.
21/11/1953
Tina Brown, English-American journalist and author
Christina Hambley Brown, Lady Evans, is a British and American journalist, magazine editor, columnist, broadcaster, and author. She is the former editor in chief of Tatler (1979–1982), Vanity Fair (1984–1992), The New Yorker (1992–1998), and the founding editor in chief of The Daily Beast (2008–2013). From 1998–2002, Brown was chairman of Talk Media, which included Talk magazine and Talk Miramax Books. In 2010, she founded Women in the World, a live journalism platform to elevate the voices of women globally, with summits held through 2019. Brown is author of The Diana Chronicles (2007), The Vanity Fair Diaries (2017) and The Palace Papers (2022).
21/11/1952
Mervyn Davies, Baron Davies of Abersoch, Welsh banker and politician
Evan Mervyn Davies, Baron Davies of Abersoch, is a British former banker and was a Labour government minister until May 2010, as Minister of State for Trade, Investment and Small Business. Davies remains a UK government Trade Envoy for Sri Lanka.
Janne Kristiansen, Norwegian lawyer and jurist
Janne Kristiansen is a Norwegian jurist. She was the first head of the Criminal Cases Review Commission from 2004 to 2009. and head of the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) from 2009 to 2012, a position from which she resigned following a heavily politicized scandal.
Lorna Luft, American actress and singer
Lorna Luft is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of Judy Garland and Sidney Luft, the sister of Joey Luft and the half-sister of Liza Minnelli.
21/11/1950
Hisham Barakat, Egyptian lawyer and judge (died 2015)
Hisham Muhammad Zaki Barakat was Attorney General of Egypt from 2013 to 2015. During his term as state prosecutor, he was responsible of thousands of controversial prosecutions, including several widely deemed politically motivated resulting in death sentences for hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. He was assassinated in a car bombing on 29 June 2015.
Livingston Taylor, American singer-songwriter and musician
Livingston Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. Born in Boston and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he is the brother of singer-songwriter James Taylor, singer-songwriter Kate Taylor, singer Alex Taylor, and innkeeper and singer Hugh Taylor. Taylor is most notable for his Billboard hits "I Will Be In Love With You", "First Time Love", and "I'll Come Running".
21/11/1948
Alphonse Mouzon, American jazz drummer (died 2016)
Alphonse Lee Mouzon was an American musician and vocalist, most prominently known as a jazz fusion drummer. He was also a composer, arranger, producer, and actor. Mouzon gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was the owner of Tenacious Records, a label that primarily released Mouzon's recordings.
Michel Suleiman, Lebanese general and politician, 16th President of Lebanon
Michel Suleiman is a Lebanese politician who served as the 12th president of Lebanon from 2008 to 2014. Before becoming president, he served as commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces from 1998 to 2008.
21/11/1945
Vincent Di Fate, American artist
Vincent Di Fate is an American artist specializing in science fiction, fantasy and realistic space art illustration. He was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.
Goldie Hawn, American actress, singer, and producer
Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, producer, dancer, and singer. She achieved stardom and acclaim for playing lighthearted comedic roles in film and television. In a career spanning six decades, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
21/11/1944
Dick Durbin, American lawyer and politician
Richard Joseph Durbin is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from the state of Illinois, a seat he has held since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Durbin is in his fifth Senate term and has served since 2005 as the Senate Democratic Whip and since 2025 as the Senate minority whip. He is the longest-serving Democratic whip since the position was established in 1913. Durbin chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2021 to 2025, and led the Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court nomination hearings.
Earl Monroe, American basketball player
Vernon Earl Monroe is an American former professional basketball player. He played for two teams, the Baltimore Bullets and the New York Knicks, during his career in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Both teams have retired Monroe's number. Due to his on-court success and flashy style of play, Monroe was given the nicknames "Black Jesus" and "Earl the Pearl". Monroe was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990 and the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2013. In 1996, Monroe was named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, and in 2021, Monroe was named as one of the 75 greatest players in NBA history.
Harold Ramis, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
Harold Allen Ramis was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. His film acting roles include Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and as Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also co-wrote those films. As a director, his films include the comedies Caddyshack (1980), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Groundhog Day (1993), Analyze This (1999) and Analyze That (2002). Ramis was the original head writer of the television series SCTV, on which he also performed, as well as a co-writer of Groundhog Day and National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). The final film that he wrote, produced, directed, and acted in was Year One (2009).
21/11/1943
Phil Bredesen, American businessman and politician, 48th Governor of Tennessee
Philip Norman Bredesen Jr. is an American politician and businessman who served as the 48th governor of Tennessee from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected in 2002 with 50.6% of the vote and re-elected in 2006 with 68.6%. He served as the 66th mayor of Nashville from 1991 to 1999. Bredesen is the founder of the HealthAmerica Corporation, which he sold in 1986. He is the last Democrat to win and/or hold statewide office in Tennessee.
Jacques Laffite, French race car driver
Jacques-Henri Laffite is a French former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1974 to 1986. Laffite won six Formula One Grands Prix across 13 seasons.
21/11/1942
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German educator and politician
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul is a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 1965.
21/11/1941
Juliet Mills, English-American actress
Juliet Maryon Mills is an English and American actress. The daughter of actor Sir John Mills and older sister of actress Hayley Mills, she began her career as a child actress and was nominated at age 18 for a Tony Award for her stage performance in Five Finger Exercise in 1960. She progressed to film work and then to television, playing the lead role on the sitcom Nanny and the Professor in the early 1970s. She received Golden Globe Award nominations for her work in this series and for her role in the film Avanti! in 1972. She won an Emmy Award for her performance in the television miniseries QB VII.
David Porter, American songwriter, musician, and producer
David Porter is an American record producer, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
21/11/1940
Freddy Beras-Goico, Dominican comedian and television host (died 2010)
Freddy Reinaldo Antonio Beras-Goico, popularly known as "Freddy Beras" or just "Beras-Goico", was a Dominican comedian, TV presenter, writer and media personality for over 30 years. He hosted the TV show El Gordo de La Semana and he was a staple of primetime TV. He was one of the most recognized personalities in the Dominican Republic.
Terry Dischinger, American basketball player (died 2023)
Terry Gilbert Dischinger was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Dischinger was a three-time NBA All-Star and the 1963 NBA Rookie of the Year, after averaging 28 points per game in his three seasons at Purdue University.
Richard Marcinko, American commander and author (died 2021)
Richard Marcinko was a U.S. Navy SEAL commander and Vietnam War veteran. He was the first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six. After retiring from the United States Navy, he became an author, radio talk show host, military consultant, and motivational speaker.
Natalia Makarova, Russian ballerina, choreographer, and actress
Natalia Romanovna Makarova is a Russian prima ballerina and choreographer. The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that "her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation in the West."
21/11/1939
R. Budd Dwyer, American educator and politician, 30th Treasurer of Pennsylvania (died 1987)
Robert Budd Dwyer was an American politician who served as the 70th Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1981 until his suicide in 1987. He had previously served from 1965 to 1971 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and from 1971 to 1981 as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the state's 50th district. Dwyer committed suicide by gunshot during a press conference.
21/11/1937
John Kerin, Australian politician (died 2023)
John Charles Kerin was an Australian economist and Labor Party politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1993. He held a number of senior ministerial roles in both the Hawke and Keating governments, including six months as Treasurer of Australia and eight years as Minister for Primary Industries and Energy, holding the latter role for the longest period in Australian history.
Ingrid Pitt, Polish-English actress (died 2010)
Ingrid Pitt was a Polish-British actress and writer, best known for her work in British horror cinema of the 1970s.
Marlo Thomas, American actress, producer, and activist
Margaret Julia "Marlo" Thomas is an American actress, producer, author, and social activist. She is best known for starring as Ann Marie in a sitcom series That Girl (1966–1971) and her children's franchise Free to Be... You and Me. She has received three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Peabody Award for her work in television and was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. She also received a Grammy Award for her children's album Marlo Thomas and Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long. She was married to Irish-American television daytime talk show host presenter and writer Phil Donahue from May 1980 until his death in August 2024.
21/11/1936
Victor Chang, Chinese-Australian surgeon (died 1991)
Victor Peter Chang was a Chinese-born Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation in Australia.
21/11/1934
Laurence Luckinbill, American actor, director, and playwright
Laurence George Luckinbill is an American actor, playwright and director. He has worked in film, television and theatre, doing triple duty in the theatre by writing, directing and starring in stage productions. He is known for penning and starring in one-man shows based upon the lives of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, author Ernest Hemingway, and American defense attorney Clarence Darrow; starring in a one-man show based upon the life of U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson; and for his portrayal of Spock's half-brother Sybok in the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
Peter Philpott, Australian cricketer (died 2021)
Peter Ian Philpott was an Australian cricketer. He was a leg-spin bowler and middle order batsman who played for New South Wales and the national team in the 1960s. More recently, he was known as a coach.
21/11/1933
Henry Hartsfield, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 2014)
Henry Warren Hartsfield Jr. was a colonel in the United States Air Force and a NASA astronaut who logged over 480 hours in space. He was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2006.
Jean Shepard, American country music singer-songwriter (died 2016)
Ollie Imogene "Jean" Shepard, was an American country singer who was considered one of the genre's first significant female artists. Her commercial success ran from the 1950s to the 1970s while also being a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 60 years.
Etta Zuber Falconer, American educator and mathematician (died 2002)
Etta Zuber Falconer was an American educator and mathematician the bulk of whose career was spent at Spelman College, where she eventually served as department head and associate provost. She was one of the earlier African-American women to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics.
21/11/1932
Beryl Bainbridge, English author and screenwriter (died 2010)
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996, and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as a national treasure. In 2008, The Times named Bainbridge on their list of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (died 2016)
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen was a Danish composer.
21/11/1931
Lewis Binford, American archaeologist and academic (died 2011)
Lewis Roberts Binford was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic period. He is widely considered among the most influential archaeologists of the later 20th century, and is credited with fundamentally changing the field with the introduction of processual archaeology in the 1960s. Binford's influence was controversial, however, and most theoretical work in archaeology in the late 1980s and 1990s was explicitly construed as either a reaction to or in support of the processual paradigm. Recent appraisals have judged that his approach owed more to prior work in the 1940s and 50s than suggested by Binford's strong criticism of his predecessors.
Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian chemist and physicist (died 1985)
Revaz Dogonadze was a notable Georgian scientist, Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (GNAS) (1982), Doctor of Physical & Mathematical Sciences (1966), Professor (1972), one of the founders of quantum electrochemistry,
Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms, English businessman (died 2025)
Harold Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms was a British businessman who was the life president and chairman of Currys plc. In 1948 he joined Dixons, which was founded by his father Charles Kalms in 1937. He spent his whole career with the company, through its various mergers and acquisitions into Currys.
Malcolm Williamson, Australian pianist and composer (died 2003)
Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death. According to Grove Music Online, although Williamson's earlier compositions aligned with Serialist techniques, "he later modified his approach to composition in the search of a more inclusive musical language that was fundamentally tonal and, above all, lyrical. In the 1960s, he was commonly referred to as the most often commissioned composer in Britain, and over his lifetime he produced more than 250 works in a wide variety of genres."
21/11/1930
Marjan Rožanc, Slovenian journalist, author, and playwright (died 1990)
Marjan Rožanc was a Slovenian author, playwright, and journalist. He is mostly known for his essays, and is considered one of the foremost essayists in Slovene, along with Ivan Cankar, Jože Javoršek, and Drago Jančar, and as a great master of style.
21/11/1929
Marilyn French, American author and academic (died 2009)
Marilyn French was an American radical feminist author, most widely known for her second book and first novel, the 1977 work The Women's Room.
Laurier LaPierre, Canadian historian, journalist, and politician (died 2012)
Laurier L. LaPierre was a Canadian Senator, professor, broadcaster, journalist and author. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
21/11/1927
Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman (died 2008)
Georgia Frontiere was an American businesswoman and entertainer. She was the majority owner and chairperson of the Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams NFL team.
21/11/1926
Matti Ranin, Finnish actor (died 2013)
Matti Helge Ranin was a Finnish actor.
William Wakefield Baum, American cardinal (died 2015)
William Wakefield Baum was an American Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau in Missouri and archbishop of Washington in the District of Columbia. He then served in the Roman Curia as prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education and the major penitentiary.
21/11/1925
Veljko Kadijević, Croatian general and politician, 5th Federal Secretary of People's Defence (died 2014)
Veljko Kadijević was a Serbian general of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). He was the Minister of Defence in the Yugoslav government from 1988 until his resignation in 1992, which made him de facto commander-in-chief of the JNA during the Ten-Day War in Slovenia and the initial stages of the Croatian War of Independence.
21/11/1924
Joseph Campanella, American actor (died 2018)
Joseph Anthony Campanella was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 200 television and film roles from the early 1950s to 2009. Campanella was widely known for his roles as Joe Turino on Guiding Light from 1959 to 1962, Lew Wickersham on the detective series Mannix from 1967 to 1968, Brian Darrell on the legal drama The Bold Ones: The Lawyers from 1969 to 1972, Harper Deveraux on the soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1987 to 1992, co-host of Science International from 1976 to 1979, and his recurring role as Jonathan Young on The Bold and the Beautiful from 1996 to 2005.
Milka Planinc, Yugoslav politician, 28th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (died 2010)
Milka Planinc was a Croatian communist politician who served as Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986. She was the first and only woman to hold this office. Planinc was also the first female head of government of a diplomatically recognized socialist state in Europe.
Christopher Tolkien, English author and academic (died 2020)
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien was an English academic editor and writer. The son of the author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, he edited 24 volumes based on his father's posthumously published work, including The Silmarillion and the 12-volume series The History of Middle-Earth, a task that took 45 years. He drew the original maps for his father's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. He spent the second half of his life in France, becoming a French citizen.
21/11/1922
Abe Lemons, American basketball player and coach (died 2002)
A.E. "Abe" Lemons was an American college basketball player and coach. As a head coach at Oklahoma City University, Pan American University and the University of Texas at Austin, he compiled a record of 594–343 in 34 seasons.
21/11/1921
Donald Sheldon, American pilot (died 1975)
Donald Edward Sheldon was an Alaskan bush pilot who pioneered the technique of glacier landings on Denali during the 1950s and 1960s.
21/11/1920
Ralph Meeker, American actor (died 1988)
Ralph Meeker was an American film, stage, and television actor. He first rose to prominence for his roles in the Broadway productions of Mister Roberts (1948–1951) and Picnic (1953), the former of which earned him a Theatre World Award for his performance. In film, Meeker is known for his portrayal of Mike Hammer in Robert Aldrich's 1955 Kiss Me Deadly and as condemned infantryman Cpl. Philippe Paris in Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory.
Stan Musial, American baseball player and manager (died 2013)
Stanley Frank Musial, nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American professional baseball player. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent hitters in baseball history, Musial spent 22 seasons as an outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB), playing for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1944 and from 1946 to 1963. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969 in his first year of eligibility.
21/11/1919
Paul Bogart, American director and producer (died 2012)
Paul Bogart was an American television director and producer. Bogart directed episodes of the television series 'Way Out in 1961, Coronet Blue in 1967, Get Smart, The Dumplings in 1976, All in the Family from 1975 to 1979, Mama Malone in 1982, and four episodes of the first season of The Golden Girls in 1985. Among his films are Oh, God! You Devil, Torch Song Trilogy, Halls of Anger, Marlowe, Skin Game, and Class of '44. He won five Primetime Emmy Awards during his long career, from sixteen nominations. In 1991, he was awarded the French Festival Internationelle Programmes Audiovisuelle at the Cannes Film Festival.
21/11/1917
Chung Il-kwon, Korean politician, diplomat, and soldier (died 1994)
Chung Il-kwon was a South Korean politician, diplomat, and soldier. A general in the Republic of Korea Army, he served as foreign minister 1963 to 1964, and prime minister from 1964 to 1970. He was an ally of President Park Chung Hee.
21/11/1916
Sid Luckman, American football player and soldier (died 1998)
Sidney Luckman was an American professional football quarterback who played for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) from 1939 through 1950. During his 12 seasons with the Bears, he led them to four NFL championships in 1940, 1941, 1943, and 1946. He also played safety on defense for most of his career.
21/11/1915
Norm Smith, Australian footballer and coach (died 1973)
Norman Walter Smith was an Australian rules football player and coach in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After more than 200 games as a player with Melbourne and Fitzroy, Smith began a twenty-year coaching career, including a fifteen-year stint at Melbourne.
21/11/1914
Nusret Fişek, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (died 1990)
Hasan Nusret Fişek was a Turkish physician and Minister of Health.
Henri Laborit, French physician and philosopher (died 1995)
Henri Laborit was a French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher. In 1952, Laborit was instrumental in the development of the drug chlorpromazine, published his findings, and convinced three psychiatrists to test it on a patient, resulting in great success. Laborit was recognized for his work, but as a surgeon searching for an anesthetic, he came to be at odds with psychiatrists who made their own discoveries and competing claims.
21/11/1913
John Boulting, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1985)
John Edward Boulting and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting, known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, Charter Film Productions, which they founded in 1937.
Roy Boulting, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001)
John Edward Boulting and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting, known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, Charter Film Productions, which they founded in 1937.
Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician, author, and academic (died 1975)
Gunnar Kangro was an Estonian mathematician. He worked mainly on summation theory. He taught various courses on mathematical analysis, functional analysis and algebra in the University of Tartu and he has written several university textbooks.
21/11/1912
Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (died 1982)
Eleanor Torrey Powell was an American dancer and actress. Best remembered for her tap dance numbers in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s, she was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's top dancing stars during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Powell appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and most prominently, in a series of movie musical vehicles tailored especially to showcase her dance talents, including Born to Dance (1936), Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937), Rosalie (1937), and Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940). She retired from films in the mid-1940s but resurfaced for the occasional specialty dance scene in films such as Thousands Cheer. In the 1950s she hosted a Christian children's TV show and eventually headlined a successful nightclub act in Las Vegas. She died from cancer at 69. Powell is known as one of the most versatile and athletic female dancers of the Hollywood studio era.
21/11/1908
Leo Politi, Italian-American author and illustrator (died 1996)
Atiglio Leoni Politi was an American artist and author who wrote and illustrated some 20 children's books, as well as Bunker Hill, Los Angeles (1964), intended for adults. His works often celebrated cultural diversity, and many were published in both English and Spanish.
Elizabeth George Speare, American author and educator (died 1994)
Elizabeth George Speare was an American writer of children's historical fiction, including two Newbery Medal winners, recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". In 1989 she received the Children's Literature Legacy Award for her contributions to American children's literature and one of the Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors.
21/11/1907
Buck Ram, American songwriter and music producer (died 1991)
Samuel "Buck" Ram was an American songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger. He was one of BMI's top five songwriters/air play in its first 50 years, alongside Paul Simon, Kris Kristofferson, Jimmy Webb, and Paul McCartney. He is best known for his long association with The Platters and also wrote, produced and arranged for the Penguins, the Coasters, the Drifters, Ike and Tina Turner, Ike Cole, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others. He was also known as Ande Rand, Lynn Paul or Jean Miles.
21/11/1905
Georgina Battiscombe, British biographer (died 2006)
Georgina Battiscombe was a British biographer, specialising mainly in lives from the Victorian era.
21/11/1904
Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist and clarinet player (died 1969)
Coleman Randolph Hawkins, nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: "There were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn." Hawkins biographer John Chilton described the prevalent styles of tenor saxophone solos prior to Hawkins as "mooing" and "rubbery belches". Hawkins denied being first and noted his contemporaries Happy Caldwell, Stump Evans, and Prince Robinson, although he was the first to tailor his method of improvisation to the saxophone rather than imitate the techniques of the clarinet. Hawkins's virtuosic, arpeggiated approach to improvisation, with his characteristic rich, emotional, and vibrato-laden tonal style, was the main influence on a generation of tenor players that included Chu Berry, Charlie Barnet, Tex Beneke, Ben Webster, Vido Musso, Herschel Evans, Buddy Tate, and Don Byas, and through them the later tenormen, Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, Flip Phillips, Ike Quebec, Al Sears, Paul Gonsalves, and Lucky Thompson. While Hawkins became known with swing music during the big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.
21/11/1903
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).
21/11/1902
Foster Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster (died 1985)
Foster William Hewitt was a Canadian radio broadcaster most famous for his play-by-play calls for Hockey Night in Canada. He was the son of W. A. Hewitt, and the father of Bill Hewitt.
Mikhail Suslov, Russian soldier, economist, and politician (died 1982)
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov was a Soviet politician. In addition to serving as the Central Committee's longtime Secretary of Ideology, he held office as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965 until his death in 1982.
21/11/1899
Jobyna Ralston, American actress (died 1967)
Jobyna Ralston was an American stage and film actress. She had a featured role in Wings in 1927, and is remembered for her on-screen chemistry with Harold Lloyd, with whom she appeared in seven films.
Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian journalist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Odisha (died 1987)
Harekrushna Mahatab was a leader of the Indian National Congress, a notable figure in the Indian independence movement and the Chief Minister of Odisha from 1946 to 1950 and from 1956 to 1961. He was popularly known by the sobriquet "Utkal Keshari".
21/11/1898
René Magritte, Belgian painter (died 1967)
René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art.
21/11/1897
Mollie Steimer, Russian-American activist (died 1980)
Mollie Steimer was an anarchist activist. A Ukrainian Jew, she left Russia and settled in New York City in 1913. She quickly became involved in the local anarchist movement and was caught up in the case of Abrams v. United States. Charged with sedition, she was eventually deported to Soviet Russia, where she met her lifelong partner Senya Fleshin and agitated for the rights of anarchist political prisoners in the country. For her activities, she and Fleshin were again deported to western Europe, where they spent time organising aid for exiles and political prisoners, and took part in the debates of the international anarchist movement. Following the rise of the Nazis in Europe, she and Fleshin fled to Mexico, where they spent the rest of their lives working as photographers.
21/11/1894
Cecil M. Harden, American politician (died 1984)
Cecil Murray Harden was an American educator who became a Republican politician and an advocate of women's rights. She served five terms in the U.S. Representative representing Indiana's 6th congressional district. Harden was the only Republican woman elected to represent Indiana in the U.S. Congress until 2012.
21/11/1886
Harold Nicolson, English author and politician (died 1968)
Sir Harold George Nicolson was a British politician, writer, broadcaster and gardener. His wife was Vita Sackville-West.
21/11/1878
Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of Justice (died 1949)
Gustav Radbruch was a German legal scholar and politician. He served as Minister of Justice of Germany during the early Weimar period. Radbruch is also regarded as one of the most influential legal philosophers of the 20th century.
21/11/1877
Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer and educator (died 1933)
Sigfrid Theodor Karg-Elert was a German composer and organist who wrote prolifically for pipe and reed organs.
21/11/1876
Olav Duun, Norwegian author and educator (died 1939)
Olav Duun was a writer of Norwegian fiction. He is generally recognized to be one of the more outstanding writers in Norwegian literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-four times in fourteen years, and once lacked only one vote to receive the prize.
21/11/1870
Alexander Berkman, Lithuanian-American activist and author (died 1936)
Alexander Berkman was a Russian-American anarchist and author. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing.
Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and politician (died 1946)
Joseph Darling was an Australian cricketer who played 34 Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1894 and 1905. As captain, he led Australia in a total of 21 Tests, winning seven and losing four. In Test cricket, he scored 1,657 runs at an average of 28.56 per innings, including three centuries. Darling toured England four times with the Australian team—in 1896, 1899, 1902 and 1905; the last three tours as captain. He was captain of the Australian cricket team in England in 1902, widely recognised as one of the best teams in Australian cricket history.
Stanley Jackson, English cricketer and politician (died 1947)
Sir Francis Stanley Jackson, known as the Honourable Stanley Jackson during his playing career, was an English cricketer, soldier and Conservative Party politician. He played in 20 Test matches for the England cricket team between 1893 and 1905.
21/11/1866
Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Norwegian poet and author (died 1900)
Sigbjørn Obstfelder was a 19th-century Norwegian writer and poet.
Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (died 1914)
Konishiki Yasokichi I was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Musha District, Kazusa Province. He was the sport's 17th yokozuna.
21/11/1854
Pope Benedict XV (died 1922)
Pope Benedict XV was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I and its political, social, and humanitarian consequences in Europe.
21/11/1853
Hussein Kamel of Egypt (died 1917)
Hussein Kamel was the Sultan of Egypt from 19 December 1914 to 9 October 1917, during the British protectorate over Egypt. He was the first person to hold the title of Sultan of Egypt since the killing of Sultan Tuman II by the Ottomans in 1517 following their conquest of Egypt.
21/11/1852
Francisco Tárrega, Spanish guitarist and composer (died 1909)
Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. He is known for such pieces as Capricho Árabe, Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Gran Vals, the latter of which became the Nokia tune.
21/11/1851
Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Belgian cardinal and theologian (died 1926)
Désiré Félicien François Joseph Mercier was a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1906 until his death in 1926. A Thomist scholar, he had several of his works translated into other European languages. He was known for his book, Les origines de la psychologie contemporaine (1897). He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1907.
21/11/1840
Victoria, Princess Royal of England (died 1901)
Victoria, Princess Royal was German Empress and Queen of Prussia as the wife of Frederick III, German Emperor. She was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and was created Princess Royal in 1841. As the eldest child of the British monarch, she was briefly heir presumptive until the birth of her younger brother, the future Edward VII. She was the mother of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor.
21/11/1834
Hetty Green, American businesswoman and financier (died 1916)
Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age. Those who knew her well referred to her admiringly as the "Queen of Wall Street" due to her willingness to lend freely and at reasonable interest rates to financiers and city governments during financial panics. Her extraordinary discipline during such times enabled her to amass a fortune as a financier at a time when nearly all major financiers were men.
21/11/1818
Lewis H. Morgan, American lawyer, anthropologist, and theorist (died 1881)
Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 – December 17, 1881) was an American anthropologist and social theorist, who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois. Interested in what holds societies together, he proposed the concept that the earliest human domestic institution was the matrilineal clan, not the patriarchal family.
21/11/1811
Ludwik Gorzkowski, Polish politician, physicist, and revolutionary activist (died 1857)
Ludwik Jędrzej Gorzkowski (1811–1857) was a Polish politician, physicist and revolutionary activist, one of the organizers of the Kraków uprising, during which he was a member of the newly formed Polish National Government alongside Jan Tyssowski and Aleksander Grzegorzewski.
21/11/1787
Samuel Cunard, Canadian businessman, founded the Cunard Line (died 1865)
Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet, was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line, establishing the first scheduled steamship connection with North America. He was the son of a master carpenter and timber merchant who had fled the American Revolution and settled in Halifax.
21/11/1785
William Beaumont, American surgeon, "Father of Gastric Physiology" (died 1853)
William Beaumont was a surgeon in the U.S. Army who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" for his research on human digestion on Alexis St. Martin.
21/11/1768
Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian, philosopher, and scholar (died 1834)
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was a German Reformed theologian, pastor, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity. He also became influential in the evolution of higher criticism, and his work forms part of the foundation of the modern field of hermeneutics. Because of his profound effect on subsequent Christian thought, he is often called the "Father of Modern Liberal Theology" and is considered an early leader in liberal Christianity. The neo-orthodoxy movement of the twentieth century, typically seen to be spearheaded by Karl Barth, was in many ways an attempt to challenge his influence. As a philosopher he was a leader of German Romanticism.
21/11/1760
Joseph Plumb Martin, American sergeant (died 1850)
Joseph Plumb Martin was a soldier in the Connecticut Militia and Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and was mustered out as a 23-year-old Sergeant in a Sapper company. His published narrative of his experiences, re-discovered in the 1950s, has become a valuable resource for historians in understanding the conditions of a common soldier of that era, as well as the battles in which Martin participated.
21/11/1729
Josiah Bartlett, American physician and politician, 6th Governor of New Hampshire (died 1795)
Josiah Bartlett was an American Founding Father, physician, statesman, a delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, and a signatory to the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation. He was a member of the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States in 1787. He served as the fourth governor of New Hampshire and chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature, now the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
21/11/1718
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, German composer, critic, and theorist (died 1795)
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg was a German music critic, music theorist and composer. Described as "one of Germany's leading mid[18th-]century music critics," he was friendly and active with many figures of the Enlightenment.
21/11/1694
Voltaire, French writer and philosopher (died 1778)
François-Marie Arouet, known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
21/11/1692
Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet and academic (died 1768)
Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni was an Italian poet and librettist. As a poet Frugoni was one of the best of the school of the Arcadian Academy, and his lyrics and pastorals had great facility and elegance. His collected works were published at Parma in 10 volumes in 1799, and a more complete edition appeared at Lucca in the same year in 15 volumes.
21/11/1631
Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet (died 1669)
Catharina Questiers was a Dutch poet and dramatist. Along with Cornelia van der Veer and Katharyne Lescailje, she was the most successful female Dutch poet of the second half of the 17th century. Her brother David also achieved some note as a poet.
21/11/1567
Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (died 1621)
Anne de Xainctonge was a French religious sister who founded of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin. She was declared venerable by the Roman Catholic Church in 1991.
21/11/1495
John Bale, English bishop and historian (died 1563)
John Bale was an English churchman, historian controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory in Ireland. He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English, and developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time, just as the monastic libraries were being dispersed. His contention that Joseph of Arimathea had brought a proto-Protestant faith to Britain that was purer than Catholicism was to have far-reaching ramifications; but his unhappy disposition and habit of quarrelling earned him the nickname "bilious Bale".