Born on Monday, 24th November – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 241 notable people were born on 24th November — spanning from 1273 to 1998. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Monday, 24th November 2025, marks the birthday of numerous individuals across sports, entertainment, and public life. Among those born on this date is Tom Odell, the English singer-songwriter who emerged as a significant figure in contemporary music following the release of his debut album in 2013. Another notable figure is Arundhati Roy, the Indian writer and activist born in 1961, whose acclaimed novel The God of Small Things established her as a prominent voice in contemporary literature. The date also coincides with birthdays of athletes including Jeremy Swayman, an American ice hockey player, and Mario Gaspar, a Spanish footballer who has maintained a lengthy career in professional sport.
The entertainment industry claims several individuals born on this date as well. Sarah Hyland, an American actress known for her role in the television series Modern Family, was born on 24th November 1990. Her career has extended across both television and film production, establishing her as a versatile performer in the industry. Additionally, Stephen Merchant, an English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, shares this birthday, having been born in 1974.
Historical and cultural figures also feature prominently among those born on 24th November. Billy Connolly, the Scottish comedian and actor recognised for his distinctive stand-up performances and film roles, was born in 1942. The date encompasses births spanning multiple centuries, from Pietro Torrigiano, an Italian sculptor born in 1472, through to contemporary athletes and entertainers. This diversity underscores how 24th November has consistently produced notable figures across various disciplines and professions.
On Monday, 24th November 2025, the weather will be overcast with temperatures around 8 degrees Celsius. The moon will be in its waning gibbous phase, and the zodiac sign for this date is Sagittarius. DayAtlas provides comprehensive information about weather conditions, historical events, notable births, and deaths for any chosen date and location.
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24/11/1998
Jeremy Swayman, American ice hockey player
Jeremy Rion Swayman, nicknamed "Sway" or "Bulldog", is an American professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Bruins selected him in the fourth round, 111th overall, of the 2017 NHL entry draft.
24/11/1995
Marcus Bontempelli, Australian footballer
Marcus Bontempelli is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). He has served as Western Bulldogs captain since the 2020 season, and was previously the vice-captain from 2018 to 2019.
24/11/1994
Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer
Nabil Bentaleb is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ligue 1 club Lille. Born in France, he plays for the Algeria national team.
24/11/1993
Ivi Adamou, Cypriot-Greek singer-songwriter
Ivi Adamou is a Greek Cypriot singer. Born and raised in Agia Napa, she rose to recognition in Greece and Cyprus following her participation in the second season of the Greek version of The X Factor, where she was under the mentorship of Giorgos Theofanous. Right after her elimination from the X Factor, Adamou secured a recording contract with Sony Music Greece. She gained further recognition from her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, where she represented Cyprus with the song "La La Love".
Joe Pigott, English footballer
Joseph David Wozencroft Pigott is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Folkestone Invicta.
24/11/1992
Sergei Kulbach, Ukrainian figure skater (died 2023)
Sergei Kulbach was a Ukrainian pair skater. He won national titles with former partners Elizaveta Usmantseva and Natalja Zabijako. With Zabijako, he also competed at the 2011 World Championships, placing 16th.
24/11/1990
Mario Gaspar, Spanish footballer
Mario Gaspar Pérez Martínez is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back.
Sarah Hyland, American actress
Sarah Jane Hyland is an American actress and singer. Born in Manhattan, she attended the Professional Performing Arts School before having minor roles in the films Private Parts (1997), Annie (1999) and Blind Date (2007).
Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter
Thomas Peter Odell is an English singer-songwriter. His debut extended play Songs from Another Love was released in 2012, earning him a BRITs Critics' Choice Award. He has won an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year in 2014. His debut studio album, Long Way Down, was released on 24 June 2013, and was followed by his second album, Wrong Crowd, on 10 June 2016. Odell went on to release Jubilee Road (2018) and Monsters (2021), both through Columbia Records. In 2022, he became an independent artist and released two more studio albums: Best Day of My Life (2022) and Black Friday (2024), the latter featuring the breakout track "Black Friday" which became one of his most successful singles to date. Most recently, he has brought out the album A Wonderful Life (2025).
Michael Oldfield, Australian rugby league player
Michael Oldfield is a Tongan international rugby league footballer who last played as a winger and centre for the Parramatta Eels in the NRL.
24/11/1988
Jarrod Parker, American baseball player
Jarrod Parker is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks as the 9th overall pick in the 2007 Major League Baseball draft from Norwell High School in Ossian, Indiana. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Diamondbacks and the Oakland Athletics.
24/11/1986
Asim Chaudhry, British comedian and actor
Asim Chaudhry is a British comedian, writer, director, rapper and actor best known for playing Chabud "Chabuddy G" Gul in the BBC mockumentary series People Just Do Nothing, which he co-created. For this role, he won a Royal Television Society Award and was nominated for two British Academy Television Awards.
Jimmy Graham, American football player
Jimmy Graham is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played only one year of college football for the Miami Hurricanes after playing four years of basketball. Graham was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the third round of the 2010 NFL draft. He also played for the Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers, and Chicago Bears.
Pedro León, Spanish footballer
Pedro León Sánchez Gil, known as León, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Real Murcia.
24/11/1985
Julia Alexandratou, Greek model, actress, and singer
Julia Alexandratou is a Greek socialite, media personality, glamour model, singer, actress, and pornographic actress. In 2002, at age 16, she won the beauty pageant title "Miss Young" in Greece. Four years later, Alexandratou won the title "Miss Greece International 2006" at the Miss Star Hellas beauty pageant. In 2010, a controversial celebrity sex tape featuring Alexandratou was released. She later admitted that she was paid for her participation in the film. In 2011, Alexandratou attracted controversy again, after the release of a second pornographic video.
24/11/1984
David Booth, American ice hockey player
David Jonathan Booth is an American professional ice hockey player. He is a forward currently playing for the Fife Flyers of the Elite Ice Hockey League.
Maria Höfl-Riesch, German skier
Maria Höfl-Riesch is a German former alpine ski racer. She is a three-time Olympic champion, two-time World champion, an overall World Cup champion and five-time World junior champion.
24/11/1983
Dean Ashton, English footballer
Dean Ashton is an English former professional footballer. He made over 240 appearances as a forward in the Football League and Premier League for Crewe Alexandra, Norwich City and West Ham United, and was capped by England. He was highly praised as a talented centre forward, but had a career frustrated by injury. He retired on 11 December 2009, aged 26, after failing to recover from a long-term ankle injury sustained during international duty with England.
Lars Eckert, German rugby player
Lars Eckert is a German international rugby union player, playing for the SC Neuenheim in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.
André Laurito, German footballer
André Laurito is a German footballer who plays for Bayernliga club SV Donaustauf.
Gwilym Lee, Welsh actor
Gwilym Lee is a British actor. He is best known for his roles in Midsomer Murders (2013–2016), A Song for Jenny (2015), Jamestown (2017), Top End Wedding (2019), The Great (2020–2023), and for playing guitarist Brian May in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
José López, Venezuelan baseball player
José Celestino López Echevarria is a Venezuelan former professional baseball infielder. López played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, Florida Marlins, Cleveland Indians, and Chicago White Sox, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants and Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
Shavlik Randolph, American basketball player
Ronald Shavlik Randolph is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils after a decorated high school career. After going undrafted in the 2005 NBA draft, Randolph played parts of eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Karine Vanasse, Canadian actress and producer
Karine Vanasse is a Canadian actress, who had roles in the films Polytechnique, Séraphin: Heart of Stone , Switch and Set Me Free (Emporte-moi). Internationally she is best known for her roles as Colette Valois in Pan Am, Margaux LeMarchal in Revenge and Lise Delorme in Cardinal. She is also the host of the Canadian reality television series, The Traitors Canada, as well as its French counterpart, Les Traîtres.
24/11/1982
Ryan Fitzpatrick, American football player
Ryan Joseph Fitzpatrick is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons. He started at quarterback for nine teams, the most in league history. Fitzpatrick is also the only NFL player to have a passing touchdown with eight different teams. Since retiring, he has served as an analyst for Thursday Night Football on NFL on Prime Video.
Sean O'Loughlin, English rugby player
Sean O'Loughlin is an English professional rugby league coach who is an assistant coach at the Wigan Warriors in the Super League and former professional rugby league footballer.
24/11/1980
Kabir Ali, English cricketer
Kabir Ali is an English former cricketer. A right-arm seam bowler and useful lower-order right-handed batsman, he played one Test match for England in 2003, while also earning 14 ODI caps between 2003 and 2006.
Brandon Hunter, American basketball player (died 2023)
Brandon Hunter was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Beth Phoenix, American wrestler
Elizabeth Copeland, better known as Beth Phoenix, is an American professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she is a former WWE Divas Champion and a three-time WWE Women's Champion.
Branko Radivojevič, Slovak ice hockey player
Branko Radivojevič is a Slovak former professional ice hockey forward who began and finished his career playing for HK Dukla Trenčín of the Slovak Extraliga. He also played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers and Minnesota Wild from 2002 to 2008, and other leagues in Europe during his career, which lasted from 1998 to 2019.
24/11/1979
Joseba Llorente, Spanish footballer
Joseba Llorente Etxarri is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a centre-forward.
Carmelita Jeter, American sprinter "fastest woman alive".
Carmelita Jeter is a retired American sprinter, who competed in the 60 metres, 100 m and 200 m. For over a decade, between 2009 and 2021, Jeter was called the "Fastest woman alive" after running a 100 m personal best of 10.64 seconds at the 2009 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix. In the 100 m, she was the 2011 world champion and the 2012 Olympic silver medalist.
Horacio Ramírez, Mexican-American baseball player
Horacio Ramírez is a Mexican-American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and in the KBO League for the Kia Tigers.
24/11/1978
Katherine Heigl, American actress and producer
Katherine Heigl is an American actress and model. She portrayed Dr. Izzie Stevens on the ABC television medical drama Grey's Anatomy from 2005 to 2010, a role that brought her recognition and accolades, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2007.
24/11/1977
Colin Hanks, American actor
Colin Lewes Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as Gus Grimly on the FX crime series Fargo (2014–2015), which earned him nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Critics' Choice Television Award.
Celaleddin Koçak, German-Turkish footballer
Celaleddin Koçak is a Turkish footballer.
24/11/1976
Mona Hanna-Attisha, British-American pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate
Mona Hanna, formerly known as Mona Hanna-Attisha, is a pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate whose research exposed the Flint water crisis. She is the author of the 2018 book What the Eyes Don't See, which The New York Times named as one of the 100 most notable books of the year.
Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice hockey player
Christian Lucien Laflamme is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played parts of eight seasons in the National Hockey League between 1996 and 2004.
Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
Chen Lu is a Chinese former figure skater. She is the 1994 and 1998 Olympic bronze medalist and the 1995 World Champion. Chen won the first ever Olympic medal in figure skating for China.
24/11/1975
Thomas Kohnstamm, American author
Thomas Kohnstamm is an American author from Seattle, Washington.
24/11/1974
Amy Faye Hayes, American boxing ring announcer and model
Amy Hayes is an American ring announcer and model. She is a regular aunnancer on Fox Sports Net, and in 2001 was the exclusive ring announcer on Fox Sport's networks "Sunday Night Fights" series under promoter Dan Goossen.
Stephen Merchant, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Stephen James Merchant is an English comedian, writer, director, and actor. He was the co-writer and co-director of the British TV comedy series The Office (2001–2003), and co-writer, co-director, and co-star of both Extras (2005–2007) and Life's Too Short (2011–2013) alongside Ricky Gervais. With Gervais and Karl Pilkington, he hosted The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio, podcast, audiobook, and television formats; the radio version won a bronze Sony Award. He also provided the voice of the robotic Wheatley in the video games Portal 2 (2011) and Lego Dimensions (2015). Merchant co-developed the Sky One travel documentary series An Idiot Abroad (2010–2012) and co-created Lip Sync Battle (2015–2019).
Machel Montano, Trinidadian singer-songwriter and producer
Machel Montano is a Trinidadian singer, songwriter and record producer. He is widely regarded for globalising and pioneering the Soca music genre. Known for his high-energy, fast-paced, and often unpredictable performances, Montano is one of Trinidad and Tobago’s most popular musicians.
Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor and politician
Tarō Yamamoto is a Japanese politician and former actor, who is the founder and current leader of the anti-establishment political party Reiwa Shinsengumi. Yamamoto served in the House of Councillors representing Tokyo until his resignation in 2026, and previously served in the House of Representatives from 2021 to 2022. He unsuccessfully ran in the 2020 Tokyo gubernatorial election as a candidate under Reiwa.
24/11/1973
Alejandro Ávila, Mexican actor
Alejandro Ávila is a Mexican telenovela actor.
Danielle Nicolet, American actress
Danielle Nicolet is an American actress known for roles on 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), Second Time Around (2004–05), The Starter Wife (2008), Family Tools (2013), Born Again Virgin (2015–16), and The Flash (2015–23).
24/11/1972
Ruxandra Dragomir, Romanian tennis player
Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie is a retired tennis player from Romania.
Marek Lemsalu, Estonian footballer
Marek Lemsalu is an Estonian former professional footballer. He played as a centre-back for Pärnu KEK, Sport Tallinn, Pärnu Kalakombinaat/MEK, Flora, Mainz 05, Kuressaare, Strømsgodset, Tulevik, Start, Bryne and Levadia.
24/11/1971
Lola Glaudini, American actress
Lola Glaudini is an American actress. She is known for her portrayal of Elle Greenaway on CBS's Criminal Minds and for her role as Deborah Ciccerone-Waldrup on HBO's The Sopranos.
Cosmas Ndeti, Kenyan runner
Cosmas Ndeti is a three-time winner of the Boston Marathon. He was the winner of the 1993, 1994, and 1995 races. He set the course record in 1994 with a time of 2:07:15, which was also the best marathon performance in 1994. That course record stood for 12 years until it was broken by one second when Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, a fellow Kenyan, won the 2006 race.
Keith Primeau, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
Keith David Primeau is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes and Philadelphia Flyers.
24/11/1970
Doug Brien, American football player
Douglas Robert Zachariah Brien is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears and was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the third round of the 1994 NFL draft. Brien played in the NFL for seven teams: San Francisco, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Tampa Bay, Minnesota, New York Jets, and Chicago. After retiring from the NFL, Brien co-founded the real estate investment firms Waypoint Homes and Mynd.
Julieta Venegas, American-Mexican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Julieta Venegas Percevault is a Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer who specializes in pop-rock-indie music in Spanish. She embarked on her musical journey by joining several bands, including the Mexican ska band Tijuana No!. Venegas is proficient in playing 17 instruments, including the acoustic guitar, accordion, and keyboard.
Ashley Ward, English footballer and businessman
Ashley Ward is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre forward.
24/11/1969
David Adeang, Nauruan lawyer and politician
David Ranibok Waiau Adeang is a Nauruan politician, currently serving as President of Nauru. Adeang is the former Speaker of the Parliament of Nauru, and Nauru's Minister of Finance and Justice, as well as the Minister Assisting the President of Nauru.
Romesh Kaluwitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer
Deshabandu Romesh Shantha Kaluwitharana is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who represented the Sri Lanka national cricket team from 1990 to 2004. He was a key member and wicketkeeper for the 1996 Cricket World Cup winning team and renowned for his aggressive batting style.
Rob Nicholson, American bass player and songwriter
Rob Nicholson also known as Blasko, is an American bassist, musician and manager. He is the bassist and backing vocalist of Rob Zombie and former bassist for Ozzy Osbourne, and is also a manager for Black Veil Brides. He is also the former bassist of Cryptic Slaughter and live bassist for Danzig.
24/11/1968
Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer and manager
Bülent Korkmaz, colloquially known by his given nicknames "Büyük Kaptan" and "Cengaver", is a Turkish football coach and former professional player.
Scott Krinsky, American actor and comedian
Scott Krinsky is an American actor and comic best known for his role as Jeffrey "Jeff" Barnes on the hit TV series Chuck and his role as Darryl on The O.C.
Dawn Robinson, American singer and actress
Dawn Sherrese Robinson is an American singer and actress best known as a founding member of the R&B/pop group En Vogue, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Following her departure from En Vogue, Robinson joined Lucy Pearl and released their self-titled debut album Lucy Pearl in 2000, which went platinum worldwide and produced the successful singles "Dance Tonight" and "Don't Mess with My Man".
24/11/1967
Henrik Brockmann, Danish singer-songwriter
Henrik Brockmann is a Danish heavy metal singer. He started singing at the age of 13 in local school bands. He released his first album 1992 with the Danish band Royal Hunt and was replaced 1994 by DC Cooper.
Jon Hein, American radio personality
Jon Hein is an American radio personality and former webmaster. He created the website jumptheshark.com and works for The Howard Stern Show. Hein has written three books, Jump the Shark: When Good Things Go Bad as well as Fast Food Maniac: From Arby’s to White Castle, One Man’s Supersized Obsession with America’s Favorite Food. Hein also wrote, Jump the Shark: TV Edition. He is an alumnus of the University of Michigan where he appeared in the sketch comedy troupe Comedy Company with Jon Glaser. The two also were a part of the comedy troupe Just Kidding along with Craig Neuman, Matt Schlein, Kristin Sobditch, Sara Mathison, H. Anthony Lehv.
24/11/1966
Russell Watson, English tenor and actor
Russell Watson is an English crossover and popular singer, almost in the tenor range, who has released singles and albums of both quasi-operatic-style and pop songs.
24/11/1965
Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress. Henderson's film roles include Gail in Trainspotting (1996) and its 2017 sequel, Jude in the Bridget Jones films (2001–2025), and Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). Her other notable credits include Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), Intermission (2003), American Cousins (2003), Frozen (2005), Marie Antoinette (2006), Anna Karenina (2012), Filth (2013), and Stan & Ollie (2018).
24/11/1964
Garret Dillahunt, American actor
Garret Lee Dillahunt is an American actor. He is best known for his work in television, including the roles Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott in Deadwood, and John Dorie in Fear the Walking Dead. He has also appeared in The 4400, ER, Against the Sun, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Burn Notice, Justified, and The Mindy Project. He starred in the Amazon Studios drama series Hand of God (2014–2017).
Conleth Hill, Northern Irish actor
Conleth Seamus Eoin Croiston Hill is a Northern Irish actor. He has performed on stage in productions in the UK, Ireland, Canada and the US. He has won two Laurence Olivier Awards and received two Tony Award nominations. He is best known for his role as Varys in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2019).
Brad Sherwood, American actor and game show host
Bradley Sherwood is an American actor, singer, comedian, game show host and writer. He is best known for his work on the British and American versions of comedy improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
24/11/1963
Neale Cooper, Scottish footballer (died 2018)
Neale James Cooper was a Scottish football player and coach. He played as a midfielder during the 1980s and 1990s, most prominently for the Aberdeen team managed by Alex Ferguson, and later played for Aston Villa, Rangers, Reading, Dunfermline Athletic and Ross County. Cooper then became a coach, and worked as a manager in England with Hartlepool United (twice) and Gillingham, and in Scotland with Ross County and Peterhead.
24/11/1962
John Kovalic, English author and illustrator
John Kovalic is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and writer.
John Squire, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Jonathan Thomas Squire is an English musician, songwriter and painter. He was the guitarist for The Stone Roses, a rock band in which he formed a songwriting partnership with singer Ian Brown. Squire has been described as one of the most accomplished and influential British rock guitarists of the late 1980s and early 1990s, known for his chiming melodies, spiralling riffs and live solos.
Paul Thorburn, German-Welsh rugby player and manager
Paul Thorburn (born 24 November 1962 in Rheindahlen, West Germany) is a former Neath RFC and international Wales rugby union player who played at full back and also featured in the Welsh international team.
Ioannis Topalidis, Greek footballer and manager
Ioannis Topalidis is a Greek professional football manager and former player.
Tracey Wickham, Australian swimmer
Tracey Lee Wickham is an Australian former middle distance swimmer. Wickham was the World Champion for the 400 m and 800 m freestyle in 1978, and won gold in both events at the 1978 and 1982 Commonwealth Games. She is a former world record holder for the 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m freestyle. Despite her success in the pool, Wickham has battled hardship and personal tragedy throughout her life.
24/11/1961
Carlos Carnero, Spanish lawyer and politician
Carlos Carnero González is a Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1994. On 7 December 2006, he was appointed a member of the presidency of the Party of European Socialists (PES).
Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She was the winner of the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, given by English PEN, and she named imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the "Writer of Courage" with whom she chose to share the award.
24/11/1960
Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer
Edgar Meyer is an American bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. He has won seven Grammy Awards and been nominated ten times.
24/11/1959
Todd Brooker, Canadian skier and sportscaster
Todd Brooker is a former alpine ski racer member Crazy Canucks and a ski commentator on television.
24/11/1958
Roy Aitken, Scottish footballer and manager
Robert Sime "Roy" Aitken is a Scottish former football player and manager. He made over 480 league appearances for Celtic, and later played for Newcastle United, St Mirren and Aberdeen. Aitken also made 57 international appearances for Scotland. His playing position was either in midfield or defence.
Margaret Curran, Scottish academic and politician
Margaret Patricia Curran, Baroness Curran, is a Scottish Labour Party politician. She served in the House of Commons as the member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow East from 2010 and 2015, and was Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland from 2011 until 2015.
Nick Knight, British photographer
Nicholas David Gordon Knight is a British fashion photographer and founder and director of SHOWstudio.com. He is an honorary professor at University of the Arts London and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the same university. He has produced books of his work including retrospectives Nicknight (1994) and Nick Knight (2009). In 2016, Knight's 1992 campaign photograph for fashion brand Jil Sander was sold by Phillips auction house at the record-breaking price of HKD 2,360,000.
24/11/1957
Denise Crosby, American actress and producer
Denise Michelle Crosby is an American actress and model known for portraying Security Chief Tasha Yar mainly in season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Yar's daughter, the half-Romulan Commander Sela, in subsequent seasons. She is also known for her numerous film and television roles and for starring in and producing the 1997 film Trekkies.
Edward Stourton, English journalist and author
Edward John Ivo Stourton is a British broadcaster and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme Sunday, and was a frequent contributor to the Today programme, where for ten years he was one of the main presenters. He is the author of eight books, most recently Confessions (2023).
24/11/1956
Terry Lewis, American musician, producer, and songwriter
James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III and Terry Steven Lewis are an American R&B/pop songwriting and record production team. Their productions have received commercial success since the 1980s with various artists, most extensively Janet Jackson. They have written 31 top ten hits in the UK and 41 in the US. In 2022, the duo were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Musical Excellence category.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, American actor, playwright, and director
Ruben Santiago-Hudson is an American actor, playwright, and director who has won national awards for his work in all three categories. In 1996 he won a Tony Award for his performance in Seven Guitars. He is best known for his role of Captain Roy Montgomery from 2009 to 2011 on ABC's Castle. In November 2011, he appeared on Broadway in Lydia R. Diamond's play Stick Fly. In 2013, he starred in the TV series Low Winter Sun, a police drama set in Detroit. In 2021, he was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film version of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
24/11/1955
Ian Botham, English cricketer, footballer, and sportscaster
Ian Terence Botham, Baron Botham is an English cricket commentator, member of the House of Lords, a former cricketer who has been chairman of Durham County Cricket Club since 2017, and a charity fundraiser. A genuine all-rounder, Botham represented England in both Test and One-Day International cricket. He was a part of the English squads which finished as runners-up at the 1979 and 1992 Cricket World Cups.
Scott Hoch, American golfer
Scott Mabon Hoch is an American professional golfer, who represented his country in the Ryder Cup in 1997 and 2002.
Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for Culture
Lena Elisabeth Adelsohn Liljeroth is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Culture and Sports from 2006 to 2014. A member of the Moderate Party, she was an MP of the Swedish Riksdag from 2002 to 2014.
Najib Mikati, Lebanese businessman and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Lebanon
Najib Azmi Mikati is a Lebanese politician and businessman who served as the 52nd prime minister of Lebanon from 2021 to 2025. He also served in this post as the 48th and 45th prime minister from 2011 to 2014 and in 2005, after holding the post of Minister of Public Works and Transport from December 1998 to 2003.
Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer and author
Takashi Yuasa is a Japanese lawyer and television personality. He belongs to the Horipro talent agency.
24/11/1954
Clem Burke, American drummer (died 2025)
Clement Anthony Burke was an American musician best known as the drummer for the band Blondie. He joined the band shortly after its formation in 1975 and remained with Blondie throughout the band's entire career until his death in 2025. He appeared on all of the band's albums with two of the founding members, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. He was drummer for the Ramones for a brief time in 1987 under the name Elvis Ramone, and played on albums by other artists, including Eurythmics, Bob Dylan and Iggy Pop. He was a member of the Romantics from 1990 until 2004.
Emir Kusturica, Serbian actor, director, and screenwriter
Emir Kusturica is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, film producer and musician. Kusturica has been an active filmmaker since the 1980s.
Margaret Wetherell, English psychologist and academic
Margaret Wetherell is a prominent academic in the area of discourse analysis.
24/11/1952
Rachel Chagall, American actress
Rachel Chagall is an American actress, best known for roles as Gaby in the film Gaby: A True Story (1987), for which she was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and as Val Toriello on The Nanny (1993–1999).
Norbert Haug, German journalist and businessman
Norbert Friedrich Haug is a German journalist and the former vice president of Mercedes-Benz motorsport activity, including Formula One, Formula 3 and DTM. Under his direction, Mercedes-Benz enjoyed considerable success in all categories, winning multiple races and championships.
Thierry Lhermitte, French actor, producer, and screenwriter
Thierry Michel Lhermitte is a French actor, director, writer and producer, best known for his comedic roles. He was a founder of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, and Michel Blanc. The group adapted a number of its stage hits for the cinema, and scored major successes with films such as Les Bronzés (1978), Les Bronzés font du ski (1979), Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982) and Un indien dans la ville (1994).
Parveen Shakir, Pakistani Urdu poet (died 1994)
Parveen Shakir was a Pakistani poet and civil servant of the government of Pakistan. She is best known for her poems, which brought a distinctive feminine voice to Urdu literature.
Jim Sheridan, Scottish politician (died 2022)
James Sheridan was a British Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, formerly Renfrewshire West, from 2001 to 2015.
Ken Wilson, Australian rugby league player (died 2022)
Ken Wilson, nicknamed Squeaker, was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s.
24/11/1951
Mimis Androulakis, Greek author and politician
Dimitris (Mimis) Androulakis is a Greek author and politician.
Chet Edwards, American businessman and politician
Thomas Chester Edwards is an American politician who was a United States representative from Texas, representing a district based in Waco, from 1991 to 2011. Previously, he served in the Texas Senate from 1983 to 1990. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Edwards was on Barack Obama's vice presidential shortlist in 2008.
Margaret Mountford, Northern Irish-British lawyer and businesswoman
Margaret Rose Mountford is a British lawyer, businesswoman, academic and television personality from Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, best known for her role in the BBC reality TV series The Apprentice.
Graham Price, Egyptian-Welsh rugby player
Graham Price MBE is a former Welsh rugby union player, who was a member of the famous Pontypool RFC front row known as the "Viet Gwent". He won 41 caps for Wales, and a record 12 for the British and Irish Lions as a prop forward
24/11/1950
Bob Burns, American drummer and songwriter (died 2015)
Robert Lewis Burns Jr. was an American drummer who was in the original lineup of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Stanley Livingston, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Stanley Bernard Livingston is an American actor.
24/11/1949
Henry Bibby, American basketball player and coach
Charles Henry Bibby is an American former professional basketball player who played for the New York Knicks, New Orleans Jazz, Philadelphia 76ers, and San Diego Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also spent a season as a player-assistant coach for the Lancaster Lightning of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA).
Shane Bourne, Australian comedian, actor, and television host
Shane Jerome Bourne is an Australian stand-up comedian, actor, musician, and television host.
Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, English politician
Ewen James Hanning Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, is a British farmer, landowner and life peer who sits as a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
Sally Davies, English hematologist and academic
Dame Sally Claire Davies is a British physician. She was the Chief Medical Officer from 2010 to 2019 and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health from 2004 to 2016. She worked as a clinician specialising in the treatment of diseases of the blood and bone marrow. She is now Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, appointed on 8 February 2019, with effect from 8 October 2019. She is one of the founders of the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
24/11/1948
Spider Robinson, American-Canadian author and critic
Spider Robinson is an American-Canadian science fiction author. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction and humorous stories, including the Hugo Award 1977 and 1983, and another Hugo with his co-author and wife Jeanne Robinson in 1978.
Rudy Tomjanovich, American basketball player and coach
Rudolph Tomjanovich Jr. is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He won two NBA Championships with the Houston Rockets and coached Team USA to the gold medal in men's basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Steve Yeager, American baseball player and coach
Stephen Wayne Yeager is an American former professional baseball catcher. Yeager spent 14 of the 15 seasons of his Major League Baseball career, from 1972 through 1985, with the Los Angeles Dodgers. His last year, 1986, he played for the Seattle Mariners. From 2012 to 2018, Yeager was the catching coach for the Dodgers. He was co-MVP of the 1981 World Series.
24/11/1947
Dwight Schultz, American actor
William Dwight Schultz is an American television, film and voice actor.
Dave Sinclair, English keyboard player
David Sinclair is a British keyboardist associated with the psychedelic/progressive rock Canterbury Scene since the late 1960s. He became famous with the band Caravan and was responsible as a songwriter for creating some of their best-known tracks: "For Richard", "Nine Feet Underground", "The Dabsong Conshirtoe", "Proper Job/Back to Front".
24/11/1946
Ted Bundy, American serial killer (died 1989)
Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls between 1974 and 1978. His modus operandi typically consisted of convincing his target that he was in need of assistance or duping them into believing he was an authority figure. He would then lure his victim to his vehicle, at which point he would bludgeon them unconscious, then restrain them with handcuffs before driving them to a remote location to be sexually assaulted and killed.
Tony Clarkin, English guitarist and songwriter (died 2024)
Anthony Michael Clarkin was an English musician, best known as the guitarist of the rock band Magnum. He was the sole songwriter throughout Magnum's history, writing all of the material on their 23 studio albums as well as on two studio albums by Magnum spin-off group Hard Rain. He also produced most of Magnum's albums.
Penny Jordan, English author (died 2011)
Penelope Halsall was a prolific English writer of over 200 romance novels. She started writing regency romances as Caroline Courtney, and wrote contemporary romances as Penny Jordan and historical romances as Annie Groves. She also wrote novels as Melinda Wright and Lydia Hitchcock. Her books have sold over 70 million copies worldwide and have been translated into many languages.
Roberto Chale, Peruvian footballer (died 2024)
Roberto Carlos Chale Olarte was a Peruvian footballer, recognized as one of Peru's most important midfielders.
24/11/1945
Nuruddin Farah, Somali novelist
Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist. His first novel, From a Crooked Rib, was published in 1970 and has been described as "one of the cornerstones of modern East African literature today". Farah has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s, he has lived and taught in numerous countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa.
Lee Michaels, American singer-songwriter and musician
Lee Eugene Michaels is an American rock musician who sings and accompanies himself on organ, piano, or guitar. He is best known for his 1971 Top 10 US hit single, "Do You Know What I Mean". In 1988 he founded the Marina del Rey, California-based restaurant chain Killer Shrimp which he and his family continue to operate to this day.
24/11/1944
Bev Bevan, English drummer
Beverley "Bev" Bevan is an English rock musician who was the drummer and one of the original members of the Move and Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). After the end of ELO in 1986, he founded ELO Part II.
Candy Darling, American model and actress (died 1974)
Candy Darling was an American actress. Best known as a Warhol superstar, she was a pioneer for transgender visibility.
Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian academic and diplomat, 9th Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, CFR ; born 24 November 1944), is a Nigerian academic and diplomat who served as Chief of Staff to the President of Nigeria from 2020 to 2023.
Dan Glickman, American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Agriculture
Daniel Robert Glickman is an American politician, lawyer, lobbyist, and nonprofit leader. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001 in the Bill Clinton administration. He previously represented Kansas's 4th congressional district as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives for 18 years.
24/11/1943
Dave Bing, American basketball player and politician, 70th Mayor of Detroit
David Bing is an American former professional basketball player, businessman and politician who served as the 74th mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 2009 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Richard Tee, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 1993)
Richard Edward Tee was an American jazz fusion pianist, studio musician, singer and arranger. Tee had several hundred studio credits and played on such hits as "I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow " (1967), "Until You Come Back To Me" (1974), "The Hustle" (1975), "Slip Slidin' Away" (1977), "Just the Two of Us" (1981), "Tell Her About It" (1983), and "In Your Eyes" (1986).
Margaret E. M. Tolbert, American chemist and academic
Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert is a biochemist who worked as a professor and director of the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee University, and was an administrative chemist at British Petroleum. From 1996 to 2002 she served as director of the New Brunswick Laboratory, becoming the first African American and the first woman in charge of a Department of Energy lab.
Robin Williamson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Robin Duncan Harry Williamson is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and storyteller who was a founding member of the Incredible String Band, as well as having a solo career.
24/11/1942
Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor
Sir William Connolly is a Scottish actor, musician, television presenter, artist and retired stand-up comedian. He is sometimes known by the Scots nickname the Big Yin. Known for his idiosyncratic and often improvised observational comedy, frequently including strong language, Connolly has topped many UK polls as the greatest stand-up comedian of all time. In 2017, he was knighted at Buckingham Palace for services to entertainment and charity. In 2022, he received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Marlin Fitzwater, American soldier and journalist, 17th White House Press Secretary
Max Marlin Fitzwater is an American writer-journalist who served as White House Press Secretary for six years under U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, making him one of the longest-serving press secretaries in history. He is the only U.S. Press Secretary to be appointed by two different U.S. Presidents.
Jean Ping, Gabonese politician and diplomat
Jean Ping is a Gabonese diplomat and politician who served as Chair of the African Union Commission from 2008 to 2012. Born to a Chinese father and Gabonese mother, he is the first individual of Chinese descent to lead the executive branch of the African Union.
Andrew Stunell, English minister and politician (died 2024)
Robert Andrew Stunell, Baron Stunell, was a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament for Hazel Grove from 1997 until he stood down in 2015, and then as a member of the House of Lords from 2015.
24/11/1941
Pete Best, Indian-English drummer and songwriter
Randolph Peter Best is a British retired musician who was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962. He was dismissed shortly before the band attained global fame and is one of several people referred to as a fifth Beatle.
Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (died 2012)
Donald "Duck" Dunn was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter. Dunn was notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a session bassist for Stax Records. At Stax, Dunn played on thousands of records, including hits by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, William Bell, Eddie Floyd, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King, Bill Withers, Elvis Presley, and many others. In 1992, he was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s. In 2017, he was ranked 40th on Bass Player magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Bass Players of All Time".
Wayne Jackson, American trumpeter (died 2016)
Wayne Lamar Jackson was an American soul and R&B musician, playing the trumpet in The Mar-Keys, in the house band at Stax Records and later as one of The Memphis Horns, described as "arguably the greatest soul horn section ever".
24/11/1940
Marshall Berman, American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer (died 2013)
Marshall Howard Berman was an American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer. He was a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, teaching political philosophy and urbanism.
Paul Tagliabue, American lawyer and businessman, 5th Commissioner of the National Football League (died 2025)
Paul John Tagliabue was an American lawyer who was the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL). He took the position in 1989 and served until September 1, 2006. He had previously served as a lawyer for the NFL.
Eric Wilson, Canadian author and educator
Eric Hamilton Wilson is a Canadian author of young adult fiction. His detective novels follow the adventures of Tom and Liz Austen, young sleuths in Canada. Wilson has taught elementary and secondary school in White Rock, British Columbia, and has a B.A. from the University of British Columbia.
24/11/1938
Willy Claes, Belgian conductor and politician, 8th Secretary General of NATO
Willem Werner Hubert Claes is a Belgian politician who served as the eighth Secretary General of NATO, from 1994 to 1995. Claes was forced to resign from his NATO position after he was found guilty of corruption, which was uncovered during the investigation into André Cools' death. Claes was a member of the Flemish Socialist Party.
Oscar Robertson, American basketball player and sportscaster
Oscar Palmer Robertson, nicknamed "the Big O", is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a 12-time All-Star, 11-time member of the All-NBA Team, and winner of the 1964 MVP, Robertson is considered to be one of the greatest point guards of all time. In 1962, he became the first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for a season. In the 1970–71 NBA season, he was a key player on the team that brought the Bucks their first NBA title. His playing career, especially during high school and college, was plagued by racism.
Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (died 1959)
Charles Raymond Starkweather was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between November 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old. He killed ten of his victims between January 21 and January 29, 1958, the date of his arrest. During his spree in 1958, Starkweather was accompanied by his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
24/11/1935
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahraini politician, Prime Minister of Bahrain (died 2020)
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa was a Bahraini royal and politician who served as the prime minister of Bahrain from 10 January 1970 until his death in 2020. He took office over a year before Bahrain's independence on 15 August 1971. At the time of his death, he was the longest-serving prime minister in the world. Under the 2002 Constitution he lost some of his powers, with the King now having the authority to appoint and dismiss ministers.
Ron Dellums, American soldier and politician, 48th Mayor of Oakland (died 2018)
Ronald Vernie Dellums was an American politician who served as Mayor of Oakland from 2007 to 2011. He had previously served thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 9th congressional district, in office from 1971 to 1998, after which he worked as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
Mordicai Gerstein, American author, illustrator, and director (died 2019)
Mordicai Gerstein was an American artist, writer, and film director, best known for illustrating and writing children's books. He illustrated the comic mystery fiction series Something Queer is Going On.
24/11/1934
Alfred Schnittke, German-Russian journalist and composer (died 1998)
Alfred Garrievich Schnittke was a Soviet and Russian composer. Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, he is described by musicologist Ivan Moody as a "composer who was concerned in his music to depict the moral and spiritual struggles of contemporary man in [...] depth and detail."
24/11/1933
John Sheridan, English rugby player and coach (died 2012)
John Sheridan was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s, and coached in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Lock Lane ARLFC, and Castleford (captain), as a centre, or loose forward, and coached at club level for Castleford, Leeds and Doncaster.
24/11/1932
Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (died 2019)
Claudio Benjamín Naranjo Cohen was a Chilean psychiatrist who is considered a pioneer in integrating psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions. He was one of the three successors named by Fritz Perls, a student of Oscar Ichazo who originally developed the Enneagram of Personality, and a founder of the Seekers After Truth Institute. He was also an elder statesman of the US and global human potential movement and the spiritual renaissance of the late 20th century. Naranjo authored several books.
Fred Titmus, English cricketer and coach (died 2011)
Frederick John Titmus was an English cricketer, whose first-class career, mostly for Middlesex with a short stint for Surrey, spanned five decades. He was the fourth man after W.G. Grace, Wilfred Rhodes and George Hirst to take 2,500 wickets and make 20,000 runs in first-class cricket. Although he was best known for his off-spin, he was an accomplished lower-order batsman who deserved to be called an all-rounder, even opening the batting for England on six occasions. Outside cricket, Titmus was also a footballer; at one stage he was contracted to Watford as a professional, having earlier played for amateur club Leytonstone, and then for Chelsea as a junior.
24/11/1931
Tommy Allsup, American guitarist (died 2017)
Thomas Douglas Allsup was an American country music, rockabilly and Western swing musician.
Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa (died 2012)
Arthur Chaskalson SCOB, was President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2001 and Chief Justice of South Africa from 2001 to 2005. Chaskalson was a member of the defence team in the Rivonia Trial of 1963.
24/11/1930
Ken Barrington, English cricketer (died 1981)
Kenneth Frank Barrington, was an English international cricketer who played for the England cricket team and Surrey County Cricket Club in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a right-handed batsman and occasional leg-spin bowler, known for his jovial good humour and long, defensive innings "batting with bulldog determination and awesome concentration". He is widely regarded as one of the best English batsmen of all time.
Bob Friend, American baseball player and politician (died 2019)
Robert Bartmess Friend was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher between 1951 and 1966, most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. A four-time All-Star, Friend was an integral member of the Pirates team that defeated the New York Yankees in the 1960 World Series. He played for the New York Yankees and New York Mets in his final season of 1966. As of 2019, he still held Pirates records for career innings pitched and strikeouts. He was the first man to lead the league in ERA while pitching for a last place team.
24/11/1929
Franciszek Kokot, Polish nephrologist and endocrinologist (died 2021)
Franciszek Kokot was a Polish nephrologist and endocrinologist. He was known as a pioneer of nephrology in Eastern Europe. Kokot was a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, having previously served as its rector.
George Moscone, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th Mayor of San Francisco (died 1978)
George Richard Moscone was an American attorney and politician who served as the 37th mayor of San Francisco from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978.
24/11/1927
Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian-French author and playwright (died 2003)
Ahmadou Kourouma was an Ivorian novelist.
Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (died 1999)
Alfredo Kraus Trujillo was a distinguished Spanish tenor from the Canary Islands, particularly known for the artistry he brought to opera's bel canto roles. He was also considered an outstanding interpreter of the title role in Massenet's opera Werther, and especially of its famous aria "Pourquoi me réveiller?"
Emma Lou Diemer, American composer (died 2024)
Emma Lou Diemer was an American composer.
Kevin Skinner, New Zealand rugby player (died 2014)
Kevin Lawrence Skinner was a rugby union player from New Zealand who won 20 full caps for the All Blacks, two of them as captain. He was also a heavyweight boxer, winning the New Zealand championship in 1947.
24/11/1926
Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
Tsung-Dao Lee was a Chinese-American physicist known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars. He was a university professor emeritus at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.
24/11/1925
William F. Buckley Jr., American publisher and author, founded the National Review (died 2008)
William Frank Buckley Jr. was an American conservative writer, public intellectual, political commentator and novelist.
Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)
Simon van der Meer was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, the two fundamental communicators of the weak interaction.
24/11/1924
Eileen Barton, American singer (died 2006)
Eileen Barton was an American singer best known for her 1950 hit song, "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake."
Lorne Munroe, Canadian-American cellist and educator (died 2020)
Lorne Munroe was an American cellist. He was principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1951 to 1964 and principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic from 1964 to 1996. He was a featured soloist more than 150 times during the 32 seasons he played for the New York Philharmonic. His last performance with the orchestra as a member of the ensemble was on February 27, 1996; although he later returned as a guest artist.
24/11/1922
Claus Moser, Baron Moser, German-English statistician and academic (died 2015)
Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, was a British statistician who made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service. He prided himself rather on being a non-mathematical statistician, and said that the thing that frightened him most in his life was when Maurice Kendall asked him to teach a course on analysis of variance at the LSE.
24/11/1921
John Lindsay, American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City (died 2000)
John Vliet Lindsay was an American politician and lawyer. During his political career, Lindsay was a U.S. congressman, the mayor of New York City, and a candidate for U.S. president. He was also a regular guest host of Good Morning America. Lindsay served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from January 1959 to December 1965 and as mayor of New York from January 1966 to December 1973.
24/11/1919
David Kossoff, English actor and screenwriter (died 2005)
David Kossoff was a British actor. In 1954 he won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for his appearance as Geza Szobek in The Young Lovers. He played Alf Larkin in TV sitcom The Larkins and Professor Kokintz in The Mouse that Roared (1959) and its sequel The Mouse on the Moon (1963).
24/11/1917
Shabtai Rosenne, English-Israeli academic, jurist, and diplomat (died 2010)
Shabtai Rosenne was a Professor of International Law and an Israeli diplomat. Rosenne was awarded the 1960 Israel Prize for Jurisprudence, the 1999 Manley O. Hudson Medal for International Law and Jurisprudence, the 2004 Hague Prize for International Law and the 2007 Distinguished Onassis Scholar Award. He was the leading scholar of the World Court - the PCIJ and ICJ and had a widely recognized expertise in treaty law, state responsibility, self-defence, UNCLOS and other issues of international law.
24/11/1916
Forrest J Ackerman, American soldier and author (died 2008)
Forrest James Ackerman was an American magazine editor; science fiction writer, and literary agent; a founder of science fiction fandom; a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films; a prominent advocate of the Esperanto language; and one of the world's most avid collectors of genre books and film memorabilia. He was based in Los Angeles, California.
24/11/1914
Lynn Chadwick, English sculptor (died 2003)
Lynn Russell Chadwick, was an English sculptor and artist. Much of his work is semi-abstract sculpture in bronze or steel. His work is in the collections of MoMA in New York, the Tate in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Bessie Blount Griffin, American physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist (died 2009)
Bessie Virginia Griffin, better known as Bessie Blount, was an African American writer, nurse, physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist. Blount was known for her groundbreaking work in assistive technologies and forensic sciences
24/11/1913
Howard Duff, American actor, director, and producer (died 1990)
Howard Green Duff was an American actor. He started in radio during World War II before appearing in many Hollywood features and television programs from 1947 to 1990. He also directed for television. His career was marked by accusations of disloyalty during the red scare of the 1950s.
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (died 2005)
Geraldine Mary Wilma Fitzgerald was an Irish American actress. She received the Daytime Emmy Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. She was a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2020 she was listed at number 30 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
24/11/1912
Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher and academic (died 1993)
Bernardus Maria Ignatius "Bernard" Delfgaauw was a Dutch philosopher. He studied Dutch language and (thomistic) philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In 1947 he earned his doctoral degree on the French metaphysician Louis Lavelle. In 1961 he became a professor in philosophy at the University of Groningen.
Garson Kanin, American director and screenwriter (died 1999)
Garson Kanin was an American writer, director, actor and musician. He wrote and directed a number of plays and films and was nominated for three Academy Awards and three Tony Awards for his work.
Joan Sanderson, English actress (died 1992)
Joan Sanderson was an English actress. During a long career on stage and screen, her tall and commanding disposition led to her playing mostly dowagers, spinsters and matrons, as well as intense Shakespearean roles. Her television work included appearances in the comedy series Please Sir! (1968–72), Rising Damp (1978), Fawlty Towers, Ripping Yarns, and Me and My Girl (1984–88).
Charles Schneeman, American soldier and illustrator (died 1972)
Charles Schneeman was an American illustrator of science fiction.
Teddy Wilson, American pianist and educator (died 1986)
Theodore Shaw Wilson was an American jazz pianist. Described by critic Scott Yanow as "the definitive swing pianist", Wilson's piano style was gentle, elegant, and virtuosic. His style was highly influenced by Earl Hines and Art Tatum. His work was featured on the records of many of the biggest names in jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald. With Goodman, he was one of the first black musicians to perform prominently alongside white musicians. In addition to his extensive work as a sideman, Wilson also led his own groups and recording sessions from the late 1920s to the 1980s.
24/11/1911
Kirby Grant, American actor (died 1985)
Kirby Grant, born Kirby Grant Hoon Jr., was an American actor, mostly remembered for having played the title role in the Western-themed adventure television series Sky King. Between 1949 and 1954, Grant starred in 10 Mounted-Police adventures, usually in the role of Corporal Rod Webb.
Joe Medwick, American baseball player and manager (died 1975)
Joseph Michael Medwick, nicknamed "Ducky", "Muscles", and "Mickey", was an American professional baseball left fielder. He played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, and Boston Braves from 1932 to 1948, including during the Cardinals' "Gashouse Gang" era of the 1930s. Medwick is the last National League player to win the Triple Crown award (1937).
24/11/1910
Larry Siemering, American football player and coach (died 2009)
Lawrence Edwin Siemering was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of San Francisco and professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Boston Redskins in 1935 and 1936. Siemering served as the head football coach at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California from 1947 to 1951 and at Arizona State University in 1951, compiling a career college football coached record of 41–8–4. He also was the head coach of the Canadian Football League's Calgary Stampeders in 1954. In all, Siemering's football career as a player and coach lasted more than forty years. At the time of his death, he was the oldest surviving professional football player at 98 years of age.
24/11/1908
Libertad Lamarque, Argentinian actress and singer (died 2000)
Libertad Lamarque Bouza was an Argentine-born Mexican actress and singer, who became one of the most iconic stars of the Golden Age of cinema in both Argentina and Mexico. She achieved fame throughout Latin America, and became known as "La Novia de América". By the time she died in 2000, she had appeared in 65 films and six telenovelas, had recorded over 800 songs and had made innumerable theatrical appearances.
24/11/1904
Albert Ross Tilley, Canadian captain and surgeon (died 1988)
Albert Ross Tilley, was a Canadian plastic surgeon who pioneered the treatment of burned airmen during the Second World War.
24/11/1899
Ward Morehouse, American author, playwright, and critic (died 1966)
Ward Morehouse was an American theater critic, newspaper columnist, playwright, and author.
24/11/1897
Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mob boss (died 1962)
Charles "Lucky" Luciano was an Italian gangster who operated mainly in the United States. He started his criminal career in the Five Points Gang and was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate. Luciano is considered the father of the Italian-American Mafia for the establishment of the Commission in 1931, after he abolished the boss of bosses title held by Salvatore Maranzano following the Castellammarese War. He was also the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family.
Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, English tennis player (died 1953)
Dorothy Shepherd-Barron was a tennis player from Great Britain who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
24/11/1895
Esther Applin, American geologist and paleontologist (died 1972)
Esther Applin was an American geologist and paleontologist. She completed her undergraduate degree in 1919 from the University of California, Berkeley. Later, she completed a master's degree which was focused on microfossils. She was a leading figure in the use of microfossils to determine the age of rock formation for use in oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico region. Her job was to examine microfossils collected in drill holes to determine the age of the rock into which the company was drilling. Applin's discoveries were crucial to successful drilling operations across the entire oil industry. Additionally, her contribution to geology and the study of micropaleontology was pivotal in earning women geologists respect in the field.
24/11/1894
Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer and businessman (died 1978)
Herbert Sutcliffe was an English professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. Apart from one match in 1945, his first-class career spanned the period between the two world wars. His first-class debut was delayed by the First World War until 1919 and his career was effectively terminated in August 1939 when he was called up for military service in the imminent Second World War. He was the first cricketer to score 16 centuries in Test match cricket. He is most famous for being the partner of Jack Hobbs and the partnership between the two, Hobbs and Sutcliffe, is widely regarded as the greatest partnership of all time.
24/11/1893
Charles F. Hurley, American soldier and politician, 54th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1946)
Charles Francis Hurley was an American attorney and the 54th Governor of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and one of its first Irish-American governors.
24/11/1891
Vasil Gendov, Bulgarian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1970)
Vasil Gendov was a Bulgarian film and stage actor, film director and screenwriter. Gendov wrote, directed and had a starring role as an actor in the first feature-length film released in Bulgaria; the 1915 silent film comedy Bulgaran is Gallant. Gendov also produced Bulgaria's first sound film The Slave's Revolt in 1933.
24/11/1888
Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (died 1955)
Dale Carnegie was an American writer and teacher of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), a bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), Lincoln the Unknown (1932), and several other books.
Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist and author (died 1972)
Dr. Fredrick Arthur Willius was an American cardiologist and medical historian. He earned both his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the University of Minnesota before joining the Mayo Clinic in 1917. At Mayo, Willius collaborated with Henry Stanley Plummer, through whom he was introduced to the emerging field of electrocardiography. This area would become central to Willius’s professional contributions.
24/11/1887
Raoul Paoli, French boxer and rower (died 1960)
Jacques Marie Lucien Raoul Simonpaoli was a French athlete, boxer, wrestler, rower and actor. Aged 12, he served as a coxswain in the French coxed pair and won a bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics. He competed in the shot put at the 1912, 1920, 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics with the best result of ninth place in 1924. In 1912 he also took part in the Greco-Roman wrestling contest and served as the Olympic flag bearer for France, and in 1928 he finished 29th in the discus throw.
Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (died 1973)
Erich von Manstein was a German military officer who served as a Generalfeldmarschall in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was subsequently convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment.
24/11/1886
Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (died 1973)
Margaret Caroline Anderson was the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, which published a collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. The periodical is most noted for introducing many prominent American and British writers of the 20th century, such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, in the United States and publishing the first thirteen chapters of James Joyce's then-unpublished novel Ulysses.
24/11/1885
Theodor Altermann, Estonian actor, director, and producer (died 1915)
Theodor Altermann was an actor, theatre director and producer in the Russian Empire.
Christian Wirth, German SS officer (died 1944)
Christian Wirth was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and leading Holocaust perpetrator who was one of the primary architects of the program to exterminate the Jewish people of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard. His nicknames included Christian the Cruel, Stuka, and The Wild Christian due to the extremity of his behaviour among the SS and Trawniki guards and to the camp inmates and victims.
24/11/1884
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Ukrainian-Israeli historian and politician, 2nd President of Israel (died 1963)
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, ethnologist, and Labor Zionist who was the second president of Israel from 1952 until his death in 1963. Ben-Zvi is Israel's longest-serving president.
24/11/1882
Nikolai Janson, Russian politician (died 1938)
Nikolay Mikhailovich Janson was an Estonian revolutionary, Soviet politician and statesman.
24/11/1881
Al Christie, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1951)
Charles Herbert Christie and Alfred Ernest Christie were Canadian motion picture entrepreneurs.
Ye Gongchuo, Chinese politician, poet, and calligrapher (died 1968)
Ye Gongchuo was a Chinese politician, calligrapher, poet, and art patron. Born in Panyu County, Guangdong, to the family of a Qing dynasty official, Ye passed the imperial examination and joined the Ministry of Posts and Communications. He rose through the ministry rapidly, then allied himself with Sun Yat-sen's anti-Qing movement in the 1911 Revolution. During the first decades of the Republic of China, Ye occupied several ministerial positions as a member of the Communications Clique, at times working with the Beiyang government and other times siding with the Kuomintang.
24/11/1879
Wylie Cameron Grant, American tennis player (died 1968)
Wylie Cameron Grant was an American tennis champion.
24/11/1877
Alben W. Barkley, American lawyer and politician, 35th Vice President of the United States (died 1956)
Alben William Barkley was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. In 1905, he was elected to local offices and in 1912 as a U.S. representative. Serving in both houses of Congress, he was a liberal Democrat, supporting President Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom domestic agenda and foreign policy.
Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (died 1941)
Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara was the first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police in 1928. He was in charge of the Crime Branch division and was noted for his intelligence network. A decorated officer, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), Companion of the Indian Empire (CIE) and awarded the King's Police Medal (KPM). Petigara was also awarded the Imperial Service Order (ISO) and used the honorific title "Khan Bahadur". He joined the police force as a sub-inspector at the CID, and gradually rose through the ranks. In 1928, he was promoted to the Indian Police Service rank, one that very few Indians achieved in those days.
24/11/1876
Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and urban planner, designed Canberra (died 1937)
Walter Burley Griffin was an American architect and landscape architect. He designed Canberra, Australia's capital city, the New South Wales towns of Griffith and Leeton, and the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag.
24/11/1874
Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer and referee (died 1953)
Charles William Miller was a Brazilian sportsman, who is considered to be the father of football in Brazil. Miller founded São Paulo Athletic Club (SPAC), one of the oldest sports clubs in Brazil, and founded the Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball, current Campeonato Paulista, Brazil's first football league. He is also considered the father of Rugby union in Brazil.
24/11/1873
Julius Martov, Russian politician (died 1923)
Yuliy Osipovich Tsederbaum, better known as Julius Martov, was a Russian Marxist theorist, revolutionary, and a leader of the Mensheviks, the minority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). A close friend and collaborator of Vladimir Lenin in the early years of their revolutionary careers, he became his chief rival after the RSDLP split at its Second Congress in 1903.
Herbert Roper Barrett, English tennis player (died 1943)
Herbert Roper Barrett, KC was a tennis player from Great Britain.
24/11/1869
Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (died 1951)
António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona a Portuguese army officer and politician who served as president of Portugal from 1926 until his death in 1951. Before his presidency, he served as prime minister of Portugal from 1926 to 1928, he previously served as minister of war in late 1923 and in 1926, and as minister of foreign affairs in 1926.
24/11/1868
Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer (died 1917)
Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime", he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became the genre's first and most influential hit, later being recognized as the quintessential rag. Joplin considered ragtime to be a form of classical music meant to be played in concert halls and largely disdained the performance of ragtime as honky tonk music most common in saloons.
24/11/1864
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (died 1901)
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa, known as Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator. His immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce popular works of art from decadent affairs.
24/11/1859
Cass Gilbert, American architect, designed the United States Supreme Court Building and Woolworth Building (died 1934)
Cass Gilbert was an American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers, his works include the Woolworth Building, the United States Supreme Court building, the state capitols of Minnesota, Arkansas, and West Virginia, the Detroit Public Library, the Saint Louis Art Museum and Public Library. His public buildings in the Beaux Arts style reflect the optimistic American sense that the nation was heir to Greek democracy, Roman law and Renaissance humanism. Gilbert's achievements were recognized in his lifetime; he served as president of the American Institute of Architects in 1908–09.
24/11/1857
Miklós Kovács, Hungarian-Slovene poet and songwriter (died 1937)
Miklós Kovács was a Hungarian Slovene cantor and writer.
24/11/1851
John Indermaur, British lawyer (died 1925)
John Indermaur was a British lawyer and legal writer, with his writing focus was on common law. He is known for having written An Epitome of Leading Common Law Cases in 1875, Principles of Common Law in 1876, and The Student's Guide to Trusts and Partnerships in 1885.
24/11/1849
Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (died 1924)
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
24/11/1840
John Alfred Brashear, American scientist, telescope maker and educator (died 1920)
John Alfred Brashear was an American astronomer and instrument builder.
24/11/1826
Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (died 1890)
Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.
24/11/1812
Xavier Hommaire de Hell, French geographer and engineer (died 1848)
Ignace Xavier Morand Hommaire de Hell, often known as Xavier Hommaire de Hell, was a French geographer, engineer and traveller who carried out research in Turkey, southern Russia and Iran.
24/11/1811
Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (died 1890)
Johann Ulrich Ochsenbein, colloquially Ulrich Ochsenbein was a Swiss jurist, military officer, politician who most notably served on the Federal Council (Switzerland) from 1848 to 1854. He previously also served on the National Council (Switzerland) briefly in 1848.
24/11/1806
William Webb Ellis, English priest, created Rugby football (died 1872)
William Webb Ellis was an English Anglican clergyman who, by tradition, has been credited as the inventor of rugby football while a pupil at Rugby School. According to legend, Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823, thus creating the "rugby" style of play. Although the story has become firmly entrenched in the sport's folklore, it is not supported by first-hand evidence, and is discounted by most rugby historians as an origin myth.
24/11/1801
Ludwig Bechstein, German author and poet (died 1860)
Ludwig Bechstein was a German writer and collector of folk fairy tales.
24/11/1784
Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (died 1850)
Zachary Taylor was an American military officer and politician who was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850. Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the Mexican–American War. As a result, he won election to the White House despite his vague political beliefs. His top priority as president was to preserve the Union. He died 16 months into his term from a stomach disease. Taylor had the third-shortest presidential term in U.S. history.
24/11/1774
Thomas Dick, Scottish minister, author, and educator (died 1857)
Reverend Thomas Dick, was a British church minister, science teacher and writer, known for his works on astronomy and practical philosophy, combining science and Christianity, and arguing for a harmony between the two.
24/11/1745
Maria Luisa of Spain (died 1792)
Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the spouse of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor.
24/11/1729
Alexander Suvorov, Russian field marshal (died 1800)
Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy was a Russian general and military theorist in the service of the Russian Empire.
24/11/1724
Maria Amalia of Saxony (died 1760)
Maria Amalia was Queen of Spain from 10 August 1759 until her death in 1760 as the wife of King Charles III. Previously, she had been Queen of Naples and Sicily since marrying Charles on 19 June 1738. She was born a princess of Poland and Saxony, daughter of King Augustus III of Poland and Princess Maria Josepha of Austria. Maria Amalia and Charles had thirteen children, of whom seven survived into adulthood. A popular consort, Maria Amalia oversaw the construction of the Caserta Palace outside Naples as well as various other projects, and she is known for her influence upon the affairs of state.
24/11/1713
Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (died 1784)
Junípero Serra Ferrer, popularly known simply as Junipero Serra, was a Spanish Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Order. He is credited with establishing the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He founded a mission in Baja California and established eight of the 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then Spanish-occupied Alta California in the Province of Las Californias of New Spain.
Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (died 1768)
Laurence Sterne was a British novelist and Anglican cleric. He is best known for his comic novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767) and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768).
24/11/1712
Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French priest and educator (died 1789)
Charles-Michel de l'Épée was an 18th-century French Catholic priest and philanthropic educator who advocated for sign language as the preferred method of teaching deaf people, and has become known as the "Father of the Deaf". He founded the Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris, the first public school for the deaf, in 1760.
Ali II ibn Hussein, Tunisian ruler (died 1782)
Ali II ibn Hussein, commonly referred to as Ali II Bey or Ali Pacha Bey II was the fourth leader of the Husainid dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia from 1759 until his death in 1782. He was the son of Al-Husayn I ibn Ali. He was succeeded in turns by his sons Hammuda ibn Ali and Uthman ibn Ali.
24/11/1690
Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German organist and composer (died 1750)
Charles Theodore Pachelbel was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist of the late Baroque era. He was the son of the more famous Johann Pachelbel, composer of the popular Canon in D. He was one of the first European composers to take up residence in the American colonies, and was the most famous musical figure in early Charleston, South Carolina.
24/11/1655
Charles XI of Sweden (died 1697)
Charles XI or Carl was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death in 1697.
24/11/1632
Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (died 1677)
Baruch (de) Spinoza, also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, who was born and lived in the Dutch Republic. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture, establishing himself as one of the most important and radical philosophers of the early modern period. Influenced by Stoicism, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, Ibn Tufayl, and heterodox Christians, Spinoza was a leading philosopher of the Dutch Golden Age.
24/11/1630
Étienne Baluze, French scholar and academic (died 1718)
Étienne Baluze, known also as Stephanus Baluzius, was a French scholar and historiographer.
24/11/1615
Philip William, Elector Palatine (died 1690)
Philip William of Neuburg, Elector Palatine was Count Palatine of Neuburg from 1653 to 1690, Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1653 to 1679 and Elector of the Palatinate from 1685 to 1690. He was the son of Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg and Magdalene of Bavaria.
24/11/1603
John, Count of Nassau-Idstein (1629–1677) (died 1677)
Count John of Nassau-Idstein was Count of Nassau and Protestant Regent of Idstein.
24/11/1594
Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (died 1651)
Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, known as Lord Ruthin from 1639 to 1643, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and succeeded to the title Earl of Kent in 1643.
24/11/1583
Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (died 1641)
Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar was a Spanish poet, scholar and painter in the Siglo de Oro.
Philip Massinger, English dramatist (died 1640)
Philip Massinger was an English dramatist. His plays, including A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam, and The Roman Actor, are noted for their satire and realism, and their political and social themes.
24/11/1472
Pietro Torrigiano, Italian sculptor (died 1528)
Pietro Torrigiano was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, who had to flee the city after breaking Michelangelo's nose. He then worked abroad, and died in prison in Spain. He was important in introducing Renaissance art to England, but his career was adversely affected by his violent temperament.
24/11/1427
John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (died 1473)
John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire KG, KB was an English nobleman, the youngest son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham. In 1461 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath.
24/11/1394
Charles I, Duke of Orléans (died 1465)
Charles I was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans. He was also Duke of Valois, Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise and of Blois, Lord of Coucy, and the inheritor of Asti in Italy via his mother Valentina Visconti.
24/11/1273
Alphonso, Earl of Chester (died 1284)
Alphonso or Alfonso, also called Alphonsus and Alphonse and styled Earl of Chester, was an heir apparent to the English throne who never became king.