Tuesday, 25th November 2025 in Lisbon

On this day, 202 notable people were born on 25th November — spanning from 902 to 2002. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

25/11/2002

Pedri, Spanish footballer

Pedro González López, more commonly known as Pedri, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team. Pedri is considered one of the best midfielders in the world.

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25/11/2000

Talen Horton-Tucker, American basketball player

Talen Jalee Horton-Tucker is an American professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. Horton-Tucker played college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones.

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Kaja Juvan, Slovenian tennis player

Kaja Juvan is a Slovenian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 58 in singles and No. 97 in doubles. Juvan won her maiden WTA Tour doubles title at the 2021 Winners Open in Cluj-Napoca, partnering with Natela Dzalamidze.

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25/11/1997

Dennis Smith Jr., American basketball player

Dennis Cliff Smith Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the NC State Wolfpack and earned second-team all-conference honors in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) as a freshman as well as ACC Rookie of the Year.

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25/11/1993

Danny Kent, English motorcycle racer

Danny Ray Kent is an English motorcycle racer, best known for winning the 2015 Moto3 World Championship. In doing so he became Great Britain's first Grand Prix solo motorcycle world champion since Barry Sheene in 1977, as well as the first British lightweight class champion since Dave Simmonds in 1969.

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25/11/1992

Ana Bogdan, Romanian tennis player

Ana Bogdan is a Romanian professional tennis player. Having made her tour debut in 2009, she peaked at No. 39 in the WTA rankings in July 2023.

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25/11/1991

Philipp Grubauer, German ice hockey player

Philipp Grubauer is a German professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Washington Capitals in the fourth round, 112th overall, of the 2010 NHL entry draft.

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25/11/1990

Stephanie Hsu, American actress

Stephanie Ann Hsu is an American actress and singer. She received critical acclaim for her dual role as Joy Wang and Jobu Tupaki in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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25/11/1988

Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (died 2010)

Nodar Kumaritashvili was a Georgian luge athlete who suffered a fatal crash during a training run for the 2010 Winter Olympics competition in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, on the day of the opening ceremony. He became the fourth athlete to die during preparations for a Winter Olympics, and the eighth athlete to die as a result of Olympic competition or during practice at their sport's venue at an Olympic Games.

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Jay Spearing, English footballer

Jay Francis Spearing is an English professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder. He is a player-coach at the Liverpool FC academy.

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25/11/1987

Trevor Booker, American basketball player

Trevor Fitzgerald Booker is an American former professional basketball player who played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted 23rd overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2010 NBA draft, but was immediately traded to the Washington Wizards. Booker primarily played the power forward position.

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25/11/1986

Katie Cassidy, American actress

Katherine Evelyn Anita Cassidy is an American actress. Following several minor television roles, she came to attention as a scream queen after starring in the horror films When a Stranger Calls (2006), as Kelli Presley in Black Christmas (2006) and as Ruby in the third season of the horror series Supernatural (2007–2008). Following a supporting role in the action film Taken (2008), Cassidy played leading roles in the slasher series Harper's Island (2009) and the remake of the drama series Melrose Place (2009–2010). She starred as Kris Fowles in the slasher film remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) and had a recurring role as Juliet Sharp during the fourth season of the teen drama Gossip Girl (2010–2012).

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25/11/1985

Remona Fransen, Dutch pentathlete

Remona Fransen is a Dutch athlete, specialising in multi-eventing disciplines.

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25/11/1984

Peter Siddle, Australian cricketer

Peter Matthew Siddle is an Australian cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast-medium bowler who played mostly for Victoria in first-class and List A cricket, then also spent two seasons at Tasmania. In the Big Bash League, he was a foundation member of the Melbourne Stars, although he never played a game for them. He then had a short stint for cross town rivals the Melbourne Renegades, before a significant stint with the Adelaide Strikers. Siddle returned to play for the Renegades in the 2023-24 season. Since the 2024-25 BBL, Siddle has been playing with the Stars. He played Test cricket for Australia over an eight-year period from 2008 to 2016, before being recalled for the Test series against Pakistan in 2018. He retired from international cricket in December 2019. Siddle was part of the winning Australia team in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy.

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Gaspard Ulliel, French actor (died 2022)

Gaspard Thomas Ulliel was a French actor and model. He was known for having portrayed the young Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising (2007), fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic Saint Laurent (2014), and for being the face of Chanel men's fragrance Bleu de Chanel for twelve years. He also voiced Jack Frost in the French version of Rise of the Guardians (2012), and portrayed Anton Mogart in the Disney+ miniseries Moon Knight (2022).

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25/11/1983

Jhulan Goswami, Indian cricketer

Jhulan Goswami is an Indian former cricketer. She played for the India women's national cricket team from 2002 to 2022.

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25/11/1982

Michael Garnett, Canadian ice hockey player

Michael Garnett is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Nottingham Panthers of the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL). Garnett previously played for the National Hockey League's Atlanta Thrashers, who drafted him in the 3rd round of the 2001 NHL entry draft.

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25/11/1981

Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer

Xabier Alonso Olano is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who will become the manager of Premier League club Chelsea on 1 July 2026. Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, he was known for his exceptional passing range and long-distance shooting. Alonso is also currently considered to be one of the best young managers in the world.

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Lee Bum-ho, South Korean baseball player

Lee Bum-ho is a South Korean former professional baseball third baseman. He played in the KBO League for the Hanwha Eagles and Kia Tigers, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. He bats and throws right-handed.

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Barbara Pierce Bush, American activist

Barbara Pierce Bush is an American activist and author. She co-founded and is the chair of the board of the nonprofit organization Global Health Corps. She and her fraternal twin sister, Jenna, are the daughters of the 43rd U.S. president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush. She is also a granddaughter of the 41st U.S. president, George H. W. Bush, and former first lady Barbara Bush, after whom she is named.

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Jenna Bush Hager, American journalist

Jenna Welch Bush Hager is an American news personality, author, and journalist. She is the co-host of Today with Jenna & Sheinelle, the fourth hour of NBC's morning news program, Today. Hager and her fraternal twin sister, Barbara, are the daughters of the 43rd U.S. president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush.

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Jared Jeffries, American basketball player

Jared Scott Carter Jeffries is an American former professional basketball player. Jeffries was drafted with the 11th overall pick of the 2002 NBA draft by the Washington Wizards. He also played for the New York Knicks, Houston Rockets, and Portland Trail Blazers before retiring in 2013. In college, Jeffries played for the Indiana Hoosiers; during his sophomore year, he was an integral part of the Hoosiers' Cinderella run to the 2002 NCAA Championship game, was named Big Ten Player of the Year, and was a consensus second-team All-American. At 6'11", he mainly played at both forward positions.

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25/11/1980

John-Michael Liles, American ice hockey player

John-Michael Liles is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Colorado Avalanche, Toronto Maple Leafs, Carolina Hurricanes and Boston Bruins. In addition to his playing career, Liles is a minority owner of the Indiana Ice of the United States Hockey League (USHL).

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Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer

Teboho Aaron Mokoena is a South African former footballer. He is currently the assistant coach of Cape Town City.

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Alviro Petersen, South African cricketer

Alviro Nathan Petersen is a South African former cricketer who played for the Highveld Lions and for Lancashire until 2016 when he was banned from cricket for two years by Cricket South Africa for not correctly reporting the match fixing saga during the 2015–16 Ram Slam T20 Challenge. A right-handed batsman, he has represented South Africa in Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 cricket. He was the captain of the Highveld Lions in South African domestic cricket, and also captained Glamorgan County Cricket Club, The South African National Cricket Academy, and South Africa 'A'

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Nick Swisher, American baseball player

Nicholas Thompson Swisher is an American professional baseball analyst and former outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was a switch hitter who threw left-handed, and played for the Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves. He won the 2009 World Series with the Yankees and was an All-Star in 2010. A power hitter with excellent plate discipline, Swisher hit at least 20 home runs in each of nine consecutive seasons from 2005 to 2013, and reached 75 bases on balls on seven occasions in that span.

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Steffen Thier, German rugby player

Steffen Thier is a German international rugby union player, playing for the RG Heidelberg in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.

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25/11/1979

Jerry Ferrara, American actor

Jerry Ferrara is an American actor. He is known for his role as Turtle on the HBO comedy series Entourage, and starred on the Starz drama series Power as Joe Proctor.

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Joel Kinnaman, Swedish actor

Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman is a Swedish-American actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in the 2010 Swedish film Easy Money and the Johan Falk crime series. Kinnaman is known internationally for his television roles as Detective Stephen Holder in AMC's The Killing, Takeshi Kovacs in the first season of Altered Carbon, and Governor Will Conway in the American version of House of Cards. He has also played Alex Murphy in the 2014 RoboCop remake, and Rick Flag in the DC Comics superhero films Suicide Squad (2016) and The Suicide Squad (2021). From 2019 to 2026, he starred as NASA astronaut Ed Baldwin in the Apple TV+ science fiction drama series For All Mankind.

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25/11/1978

Ringo Sheena, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer

Yumiko Shiina , known by her stage name Ringo Sheena , is a Japanese singer, songwriter and musician. She is also the founder and lead vocalist of the band Tokyo Jihen.

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25/11/1977

Guillermo Cañas, Argentinian tennis player

Guillermo "Willy" Ignacio Cañas is an Argentine former professional tennis player and coach. He was ranked world No. 8 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in June 2005. Cañas won seven singles titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2002 Canada Masters, and reached the quarterfinals of the French Open three times. He was suspended in August 2005 for a doping violation, returning to the circuit in September 2006.

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Jill Flint, American actress

Jill Flint is an American television and film actress, best known for her role of Jill Casey in the USA Network TV series Royal Pains, and as the popular character Lana Delaney on CBS' award-winning series The Good Wife. She also played one of the lead characters, Dr. Jordan Alexander, in the NBC medical drama The Night Shift, and had a recurring role on Bull as Diana Lindsay.

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Marcus Marshall, Australian racing driver

Marcus John Marshall is a former Champ Car driver from Australia.

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25/11/1976

Clint Mathis, American soccer player and coach

Clint Mathis is an American former professional soccer player who played as a forward or midfielder. He appeared at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, scoring one goal. He also played in Major League Soccer for the MetroStars, where he scored five goals during a game in August 2000, a league record.

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Donovan McNabb, American football player and sportscaster

Donovan Jamal McNabb is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football for the Syracuse Orange, winning Big East Offensive Player of the Year three times and receiving four first-team All-Big East honors. McNabb was selected second overall in the 1999 NFL draft by the Eagles, where he spent 11 seasons. He also spent a year each with the Washington Redskins and Minnesota Vikings.

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Olena Vitrychenko, Ukrainian gymnast and coach

Olena Ihorivna Vitrychenko, also known as Elena or Yelena Vitrichenko, is a Ukrainian former rhythmic gymnast who primarily competed as an individual. She is the 1996 Olympics bronze medalist, the 1997 World all-around champion, and the 1997 European all-around champion. She now coaches in the United States.

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25/11/1975

Kristian Nairn, Northern Irish actor and DJ

Kristian Nairn is an actor and DJ from Lisburn, Northern Ireland. He is best known for his portrayal of Hodor in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones. He also played Wee John Feeney on the HBO Max series Our Flag Means Death (2022–2023).

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25/11/1974

Kenneth Mitchell, Canadian actor (died 2024)

Kenneth Alexander Mitchell was a Canadian actor. He was known for his role as Eric Green in the CBS television series Jericho (2006–2008) and for portraying various characters in Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2021). In film, he appeared as Ralph Cox in the sports biopic Miracle (2004) and as Joseph Danvers in Captain Marvel (2019).

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25/11/1973

Steven de Jongh, Dutch cyclist

Steven de Jongh is a Dutch former road bicycle racer.

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Octavio Dotel, Dominican baseball player

Octavio Eduardo Dotel Diaz was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for 13 major league teams, the second-most of any player in history. Dotel spent most of his career as a relief pitcher, including several stints as a closer, during which he recorded 109 saves. Dotel's longest tenure with a single team was the five seasons he spent with the Houston Astros. On June 11, 2003, he combined with five other Astros pitchers to throw a no-hitter.

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Eddie Steeples, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Eddie Steeples is an American actor known for his roles as the "Rubberband Man" in an advertising campaign for OfficeMax, Cal in Would You Rather, Darnell Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, and Eddie on The Guest Book.

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25/11/1972

Gerard King, American basketball player

Gerard King is an American former professional basketball player. He was a member of the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Wizards in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Deepa Marathe, Indian cricketer

Deepa Madhukar Marathe is an Indian former cricket all-rounder who played domestically for Air India, Railways and internationally for the India women's national team.

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Petteri Nummelin, Finnish ice hockey player

Timo Petteri Nummelin is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League for the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets. He was drafted by the Columbus Blue Jackets as their fifth-round pick, #133 overall, in the 2000 NHL entry draft. Internationally, he played for the Finland men's national ice hockey team, and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2024.

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25/11/1971

Christina Applegate, American actress

Christina Applegate is a retired American actress. She gained recognition in the late 1980s for playing Kelly Bundy in the Fox sitcom Married... with Children (1987–1997). Her titular role in the sitcom Jesse (1998–2000), earned her first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. For her guest role in the NBC sitcom Friends (2002–2003), she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. She received additional Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her roles in the television sitcom Samantha Who? (2007–2009), starred in a short-lived sitcom Up All Night (2011–2012), and the dark tragicomedy series Dead to Me (2019–2022). Applegate served as a producer of all three aforementioned projects.

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Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach

Magnus Karl Olof Arvedson is a Swedish former professional ice hockey left winger who played seven seasons in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators and Vancouver Canucks. He also competed in the men's ice hockey tournament at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

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Göksel Demirpençe, Turkish singer-songwriter

Göksel Demirpençe is a Turkish singer-songwriter.

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25/11/1969

Anthony Peeler, American basketball player

Anthony Eugene Peeler is an American former professional basketball player, having played for a number of National Basketball Association (NBA) teams from 1992 to 2005. He was most commonly known for his defense and athleticism. He later became an assistant coach at NCAA Division II Virginia Union University.

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25/11/1968

Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress and singer

Jill Hennessy is a Canadian actress and musician. She is best known for her roles on the American television series Law & Order, on which she played prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons, and Crossing Jordan, on which she played the lead character, Jordan Cavanaugh, for six seasons. She has also acted in films such as RoboCop 3 and Most Wanted, and the independent films Chutney Popcorn and The Acting Class, the latter of which she also wrote and co-directed.

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Erick Sermon, American rapper and producer

Erick Sermon is an American rapper and producer. He is best known as one-third—alongside Parrish Smith & DJ Scratch—of 1980s/1990s hip hop group EPMD and for his production work.

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25/11/1967

Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer

Anthony Conrad Nesty is a former competition swimmer from Suriname who was an Olympic gold medallist in the 100-metre butterfly event in 1988. He is currently the head coach of the Florida Gators men's and women's swimming team at the University of Florida, where he attended school.

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Gregg Turkington, Australian comedian and singer

Gregg Turkington is an American comedian, entertainer, actor, musician and writer. He is known for his performances as Neil Hamburger, a stand-up comedian persona he developed in the 1990s. Alongside Tim Heidecker, Turkington also stars as a fictionalized version of himself on the comedic web series On Cinema (2011–). In addition, he formed one-half of the band Zip Code Rapists and has collaborated on numerous projects with musicians including Trey Spruance.

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25/11/1966

Billy Burke, American actor

William Albert Burke is an American actor. Burke is known for his role as Charlie Swan in The Twilight Saga. In 2011, he played Cesaire in Red Riding Hood. In 2012, he was cast as one of the lead characters, Miles Matheson, in the NBC science-fiction series Revolution. From 2015 to 2017, he starred in the CBS series Zoo. He has also appeared in the supernatural horror film Lights Out (2016) and the thriller Breaking In (2018).

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Stacy Lattisaw, American R&B singer

Stacy Lattisaw Jackson is an American R&B singer from Washington, D.C..

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25/11/1965

Cris Carter, American football player, coach, and sportscaster

Graduel Christopher Darwin Carter is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles (1987–1989), the Minnesota Vikings (1990–2001) and the Miami Dolphins (2002). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wide receivers of all time.

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25/11/1964

Mark Lanegan, American singer-songwriter (died 2022)

Mark William Lanegan was an American singer and songwriter. First becoming prominent as the lead singer for the early grunge band Screaming Trees, he was also known as a member of Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins. He released twelve solo studio albums as well as three collaboration albums with Isobel Campbell and two with Duke Garwood. He was known for his baritone voice, which was described as being "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather" and has been compared to Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave.

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25/11/1963

Kevin Chamberlin, American actor and director

Seth Kevin Chamberlin is an American actor and singer. He is known for his theatre roles such as Dimas in Triumph of Love, Horton in Seussical, and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family. For his theatre work, he was nominated for three Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards. On television, he starred as Bertram Winkle in the Disney Channel Original Series sitcom Jessie from 2011 to 2015. From 2018 to 2019, he starred as The Wizard of Oz in Wicked on Broadway.

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Holly Cole, Canadian singer and actress

Holly Cole is a Canadian jazz singer and actress. For many years she performed with her group The Holly Cole Trio.

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Chip Kelly, American football player and coach

Charles Edward Kelly is an American football coach who is the offensive coordinator for Northwestern. He came to prominence as a college football head coach for the University of Oregon from 2009 to 2012, leading them to the 2011 BCS National Championship Game. Kelly's success led to a stint in the NFL, where he coached for four seasons, three with the Philadelphia Eagles (2013–2015) and one with the San Francisco 49ers (2016). After the NFL, Kelly returned to college in 2018 as the head football coach for UCLA, coaching for six seasons before leaving in 2024 to join Ohio State as their offensive coordinator. Kelly was hired by the NFL team, the Las Vegas Raiders, to be their offensive coordinator in 2025, but was fired after Week 12 following a 2–9 start to the season. He returned again to the collegiate ranks in 2026 with Northwestern.

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25/11/1962

Gilbert Delorme, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Gilbert Delorme is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who was a defenceman for five NHL teams. He played for the Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Quebec Nordiques, Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins. Delorme was born in Boucherville, Quebec.

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Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japanese videogame designer

Hironobu Sakaguchi is a Japanese game designer, director, producer, and writer. Originally working for Square from 1983 to 2003, he departed the company and founded independent studio Mistwalker in 2004. He is known as the creator of the Final Fantasy franchise, in addition to other titles during his time at Square. At Mistwalker, he is known for creating the Blue Dragon and Terra Battle series among several standalone titles like Lost Odyssey, as well as later moving away from home consoles and creating titles for mobile platforms.

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25/11/1961

Tarzan Basaruddin, Indonesian professor of computer science

Tarzan "Chan" Basaruddin is an Indonesian higher education quality and management official and professor of computer science at the University of Indonesia (UI). He is currently serving advisor to the Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Technology for higher education affairs. Prior to his appointment in the ministry, Basaruddin was the dean of the UI's faculty of computer sciences and the director of the executive board of the National Accreditation Board for Higher Education. He specializes in numerical computation and high-performance computing.

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25/11/1960

Amy Grant, American singer-songwriter

Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She began her music career in contemporary Christian music (CCM) before crossing over to pop music in the mid-1980s. Grant has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop". Grant was formerly married to fellow Christian musician Gary Chapman; after their divorce in 1999, she married country music singer Vince Gill in 2000.

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John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer, journalist, and publisher (died 1999)

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., also referred to as JFK Jr., was an American businessman, attorney, magazine publisher, and journalist. He was the son of the 35th U.S. president John F. Kennedy, and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

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25/11/1959

Charles Kennedy, Scottish journalist and politician (died 2015)

Charles Peter Kennedy was a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1999 to 2006, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ross, Skye and Lochaber from 1983 to 2015.

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25/11/1958

Naomi Oreskes, American historian of science

Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science. After 15 years as Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego., she became professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University in 2013, and in 2020 was also named the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science. She has worked on studies of geophysics, environmental issues such as global warming, and the history of science. In 2010, Oreskes co-authored Merchants of Doubt, which identified significant parallels between the climate change debate and earlier public controversies, notably the tobacco industry's campaign to obscure the link between smoking and serious disease.

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25/11/1957

Bob Ehrlich, American lawyer and politician, 60th Governor of Maryland

Robert Leroy Ehrlich Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 60th governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican, Ehrlich represented Maryland's 10th legislative district in the House of Delegates from 1987 to 1995 and Maryland's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003.

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25/11/1955

Don Hahn, American director and producer

Donald Paul Hahn is an American film producer. He served as a producer for the Disney films Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King (1994), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and The Haunted Mansion (2003).

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Kurt Niedermayer, German footballer and manager

Kurt Niedermayer is a German former footballer, now a coach. Niedermayer, who played in defence or midfield, played for Karlsruher SC, FC Bayern Munich, VfB Stuttgart, FC Locarno and SC Pfullendorf. He won one cap for West Germany in 1980. He managed SV Wacker Burghausen from 1992 until 2000 and was later a youth coach at Bayern Munich.

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Connie Palmen, Dutch author

Aldegonda Petronella Huberta Maria "Connie" Palmen is a Dutch author.

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Bruno Tonioli, Italian dancer and choreographer

Bruno Tonioli is an Italian television personality, choreographer and dancer. He has judged on the British television talent shows Strictly Come Dancing (2004–2019), DanceX (2007) and Britain's Got Talent (2023–2025), and the American television talent shows Dancing with the Stars (2005–present) and Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (2008).

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25/11/1953

Graham Eadie, Australian rugby league player and coach

Graham "Wombat" Eadie, is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He has been named amongst Australia's finest of the 20th century. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative fullback, he played in Australia during Manly-Warringah's dominance of the NSWRFL competition during the 1970s. He won four premierships with them and his 1,917 points in first grade and 2,070 points in all grades were both records at the time of his retirement. Eadie also played in England for Halifax, winning the Challenge Cup Final of 1987 with them. He also won World Cups with Australia and collected awards such as the Rothmans Medal and Lance Todd Trophy.

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Mark Frost, American author, screenwriter, and producer

Mark Frost is an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He is best known as the co-creator of the surrealist mystery horror drama television series Twin Peaks which won a Golden Globe Award in 1990. He was also a writer and executive story editor of the police drama series Hill Street Blues (1982–1985). He also directed the 1992 film Storyville. He has also published novels beginning with The List of Seven (1993) as well as several non-fiction works, including The Greatest Game Ever Played (2002), which was adapted as a 2005 film.

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Jeffrey Skilling, American businessman

Jeffrey Keith Skilling is an American businessman who in 2006 was convicted of federal felony charges relating to the Enron scandal. Skilling, who was CEO of Enron during the company's collapse, was eventually sentenced to 24 years in prison, of which he served 12 after multiple appeals.

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25/11/1952

John Lynch, American businessman and politician, 80th Governor of New Hampshire

John Hayden Lynch is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 80th governor of New Hampshire from 2005 to 2013. Lynch was first elected governor in 2004, defeating first-term Republican incumbent Craig Benson – the first time a first-term incumbent New Hampshire governor was defeated for re-election in 80 years. Lynch won re-election in landslide victories in 2006 and 2008, and comfortably won a fourth term in 2010.

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Gabriele Oriali, Italian footballer and manager

Gabriele "Lele" Oriali is an Italian former professional footballer who primarily played as a defensive midfielder but also played as a right-back, who is currently sports coordinator at Serie A club Napoli.

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25/11/1951

Charlaine Harris, American author and poet

Jean Charlaine Harris Schulz is an American author who specializes in mysteries. She is best known for her book series The Southern Vampire Mysteries, which was adapted as the TV series True Blood. The television show was a critical and financial success for HBO, running seven seasons, from 2008 through 2014.

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Bill Morrissey, American singer-songwriter (died 2011)

Bill Morrissey was a Grammy-nominated American folk singer-songwriter based in New Hampshire.

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Spanish author and journalist

Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE for 21 years (1973–1994). His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was published in 1986.

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Johnny Rep, Dutch footballer and manager

John Nicholaas Rep is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a right winger. He holds the all-time record for FIFA World Cup goals for the Netherlands with 7.

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25/11/1950

Chris Claremont, English-American author

Christopher Simon Claremont is an American comic book writer and novelist. Claremont worked for 16 years on Uncanny X-Men from 1975 to 1991, longer than that of any other writer, during which he is credited with developing strong female characters as well as introducing complex literary themes into superhero narratives, turning the once underachieving comic into one of Marvel's most popular series. During his tenure, X-Men was the best-selling comic book in the world.

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Giorgio Faletti, Italian author, screenwriter, and actor (died 2014)

Giorgio Faletti was an Italian writer, musician, actor and comedian. Born in Asti, Piedmont, he lived on Elba Island. His books have been translated into 25 languages and published with great success in Europe, South America, China, Japan, Russia and the United States.

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Alexis Wright, Australian author

Alexis Wright is an Australian writer. She is best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel Carpentaria and 2024 novel Praiseworthy. She was the first writer to win the Stella Prize twice, in 2018 for her "collective memoir" of Leigh Bruce "Tracker" Tilmouth and in 2024 for the novel Praiseworthy. She was the first person to win the Stella Prize and Miles Franklin Award in the same year.

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25/11/1949

Kerry O'Keeffe, Australian cricketer and sportscaster

Kerry James O'Keeffe is an Australian former cricketer and a current cricket commentator for Fox Sports. O'Keeffe played 24 Test matches and two One Day Internationals between 1971 and 1977. Due to his comedic anecdotes and unique mannerisms, he has emerged as a popular commentator among fans.

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25/11/1948

Jacques Dupuis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Deputy Premier of Quebec

Jacques P. Dupuis is a Canadian politician and lawyer. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party and former MNA for Saint-Laurent in the Montreal region, Dupuis is also a former Quebec Minister of Justice and was Minister of Public Security until 2010.

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25/11/1947

Jonathan Kaplan, French-American director and producer (died 2025)

Jonathan Kaplan was an American film producer and director. His film The Accused (1988) earned actress Jodie Foster the Oscar for Best Actress and was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. His film Love Field (1992) earned actress Michelle Pfeiffer an Oscar nomination for Best Actress and was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. Kaplan received five Emmy nominations for his roles directing and producing the television series ER.

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John Larroquette, American actor

John Bernard Larroquette is an American actor. He is known for his starring roles in the NBC military drama series Baa Baa Black Sheep (1976–1978), the NBC sitcom Night Court for which he received four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards wins for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series during the earlier incarnation, the NBC sitcom The John Larroquette Show (1993–1996), the David E. Kelley legal drama series The Practice (1997–2002), the ABC legal comedy-drama series Boston Legal (2004–2008), and the TNT series The Librarians (2014–2018).

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25/11/1946

Mike Doyle, English footballer (died 2011)

Michael Doyle was an English footballer, who spent most of his career with Manchester City and also played for Stoke City, Bolton Wanderers and Rochdale.

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25/11/1945

Gail Collins, American journalist and author

Gail Collins is an American journalist, op-ed columnist and author, most recognized for her work with The New York Times. Joining the Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board, she served as the paper's Editorial Page Editor from 2001 to 2007 and was the first woman to attain that position.

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25/11/1944

Ben Stein, American actor, television personality, game show host, lawyer, and author

Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American writer, lawyer, actor, comedian, and commentator on political and economic issues. He began his career as a speechwriter for U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford before entering the entertainment field as an actor, comedian, and game show host. His screen roles include the economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, being the host of Win Ben Stein's Money, and as Dr. Arthur Neuman in The Mask and Son of the Mask. Stein also co-wrote and starred in the controversial 2008 film Expelled which was widely criticized for promoting pseudoscientific intelligent design creationist claims. Stein is the son of economist and writer Herbert Stein, who worked at the White House under President Nixon. As an actor, he is known for his droning, monotonous delivery. In comedy, Stein is known for his deadpan delivery.

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Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya (died 2003)

Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa was a renowned Kenyan politician who at the time of his death was serving as the eighth Vice-President of Kenya.

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25/11/1943

Jerry Portnoy, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player

Jerry Portnoy is an American harmonica blues musician, who has toured with Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton.

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25/11/1942

Naomi Stadlen was a British therapist and writer (died 2025)

Naomi Stadlen was a British therapist and writer. She was known for writing What Mothers Do: Especially When it Looks Like Nothing.

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Bob Lind, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Robert Neale Lind is an American playwright, novelist, and singer-songwriter who helped define the 1960s folk rock movement in the U.S. and UK. Lind is notable for his transatlantic hit record "Elusive Butterfly", which reached number 5 on both the US and UK charts in 1966. Many musicians have recorded songs by Lind, who continues to write, record and perform.

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Mimis Papaioannou, Greek footballer and manager (died 2023)

Dimitrios "Mimis" Papaioannou was a Greek professional footballer, who played as a forward, mostly for AEK Athens and a manager. Widely regarded as the greatest Greek footballer of his generation and one of the best players of all time in Greece, as he was named the best Greek footballer of the 20th century by the IFFHS.

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25/11/1941

Christos Papanikolaou, Greek pole vaulter

Christos Papanikolaou is a Greek retired pole vaulter. On 25 October 1970, he set the world record at 5.49 m, significant to Americans as the first man to pole vault 18 feet. He competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and finished in 18th, 4th and 11th place, respectively. He won a silver medal at the 1966 European Championships. He was a two-time champion at the Mediterranean Games. He was named the Greek Athlete of the Year, for the years 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1970.

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Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani spiritual leader and author

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi is a Sufi leader and founder of the spiritual groups RAGS International and Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam.

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25/11/1940

Reinhard Furrer, Austrian-German physicist and astronaut (died 1995)

Reinhard Alfred Furrer was a German physicist and astronaut.

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Joe Gibbs, American football coach and auto racing executive

Joe Jackson Gibbs is an American former football coach who is an auto racing team owner. He served as the head coach of the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) from 1981 to 1992 and then 2004 to 2007, leading them to nine playoff appearances, four NFC Championship titles, and three Super Bowl wins over 16 seasons.

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Karl Offmann, Mauritian politician, 3rd President of Mauritius (died 2022)

Karl Auguste Offmann was a Mauritian politician who briefly served as the president of Mauritius from 2002 to 2003.

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Shyamal Kumar Sen, Indian jurist and politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal

Shyamal Kumar Sen is an Indian jurist who served as a chief justice of the Allahabad High Court and also as a Governor of West Bengal. He was appointed governor in May 1999 following the resignation of A R Kidwai and served until December 1999.

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Percy Sledge, American singer (died 2015)

Percy Tyrone Sledge was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. He is best known for the song "When a Man Loves a Woman", a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, gold-certified disc from the RIAA.

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25/11/1939

Martin Feldstein, American economist and academic (died 2019)

Martin Stuart Feldstein was an American economist. He was the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as president and chief executive officer of the bureau from 1978 to 2008. From 1982 to 1984, Feldstein served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and as chief economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Feldstein was also a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body the Group of Thirty from 2003.

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25/11/1938

Erol Güngör, Turkish sociologist and psychologist (died 1983)

Erol Güngör was a Turkish social psychologist and writer. His work focused on the socially derived nature of language, morality, and values. Güngör wrote extensively on nationalism and culture at a time when Turkey was attempting to develop a national democratic identity.

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Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress (died 2009)

Rosanna Schiaffino was an Italian film actress. She appeared on the covers of Italian, German, French, British and American magazines.

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25/11/1936

Trisha Brown, American dancer and choreographer (died 2017)

Trisha Brown was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement. Brown's dance/movement method, with which she and her dancers train their bodies, remains pervasively impactful within international postmodern dance.

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25/11/1935

Robert Berner, American geologist and academic (died 2015)

Robert Arbuckle Berner was an American scientist known for his contributions to the modeling of the carbon cycle. He taught Geology and Geophysics from 1965 to 2007 at Yale University, where he latterly served as Professor Emeritus until his death. His work on sedimentary rocks led to the co-founding of the BLAG model of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which takes into account both geochemical and biological contributions to the carbon cycle.

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25/11/1933

Kathryn Crosby, American actress and singer (died 2024)

Olive Kathryn Crosby was an American actress and singer who performed in films, primarily under the stage name Kathryn Grant. She married Bing Crosby in 1957 and subsequently appeared on television with him and hosted a talk show, The Kathryn Crosby Show, on which he occasionally appeared, before returning to acting after his death.

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25/11/1931

Nat Adderley, American cornet and trumpet player (died 2000)

Nathaniel Carlyle Adderley was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. He was the younger brother of saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, with whom he played for many years.

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25/11/1929

Judy Crichton, American director and producer (died 2007)

Judy Crichton was an American television news and documentary producer.

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25/11/1926

Poul Anderson, American author (died 2001)

Poul William Anderson was an American fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until his death in 2001. Anderson also wrote historical novels. He won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times, and was nominated many more times for awards.

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Jeffrey Hunter, American actor and producer (died 1969)

Jeffrey Hunter was an American film and television actor and producer known for his roles in films such as The Searchers and King of Kings. On television, Hunter is known for his 1965 role as Captain Christopher Pike in the original pilot episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.

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Ranganath Misra, Indian lawyer and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (died 2012)

Ranganath Misra was an Indian jurist, who served as the 21st Chief Justice of India, from 25 September 1990 to 24 November 1991. He was also the first chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of India. He also served as Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from the Congress Party between 1998 and 2004. He is the second Supreme Court judge to become a Rajya Sabha member after Baharul Islam who was also elected as Indian National Congress member.

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25/11/1924

Paul Desmond, American saxophonist and composer (died 1977)

Paul Desmond was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer and proponent of cool jazz. He was a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet and composed the group's biggest hit, "Take Five". The song remains the best-selling jazz song of all time.

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Sybil Stockdale, American activist, co-founded the National League of Families (died 2015)

Sybil Elizabeth Stockdale was an American campaigner for families of Americans missing in South East Asia.

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Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic (died 2012)

Takaaki Yoshimoto , also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto, was a Japanese poet, philosopher, and literary critic. As a philosopher, he is remembered as a founding figure in the emergence of the New Left in Japan, and as a critic, he was at the forefront of a movement to force writers to confront their responsibility as wartime collaborators.

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25/11/1923

Mauno Koivisto, Finnish banker and politician, 9th President of Finland (died 2017)

Mauno Henrik Koivisto was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1982 to 1994. He also served as the country's prime minister twice, from 1968 to 1970 and again from 1979 to 1982. He was also the first member of the Social Democratic Party to be elected as President of Finland.

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Art Wall Jr., American golfer (died 2001)

Arthur Jonathan Wall Jr. was an American professional golfer, best known for winning the Masters Tournament in 1959.

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25/11/1922

Ilja Hurník, Czech composer and playwright (died 2013)

Ilja Hurník was a Czech composer and essayist.

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25/11/1920

Shelagh Fraser, English actress (died 2000)

Sheila Mary Fraser was an English actress. She is best known for her roles in the television serial A Family at War (1970–1971) and as Luke Skywalker's Aunt Beru in Star Wars (1977).

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Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (died 2009)

Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino was a Mexican and American film and television actor. Montalbán's career spanned seven decades, during which he became widely known for performances in genres from crime and drama to musicals and comedy.

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Noel Neill, American actress (died 2016)

Noel Darleen Neill was an American actress, pin-up girl, and model. She played Lois Lane in the film serials Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950), as well as the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman. She appeared in 80 films and television series in her career.

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25/11/1919

Norman Tokar, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1979)

Norman Tokar was an American director, actor and occasional writer and producer of serial television and feature films, who directed many of the early episodes of Leave it to Beaver, and found his greatest success directing over a dozen films for Walt Disney Productions, spanning the 1950s to the 1970s.

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25/11/1917

Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (died 2010)

Luigi Poggi was an Italian Catholic prelate, nuncio, and spymaster who led The Entity, the foreign intelligence service of the Holy See.

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Alparslan Türkeş, Cypriot-Turkish colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (died 1997)

Alparslan Türkeş was a Turkish politician, who was the founder and president of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the Grey Wolves (Ülkü Ocakları). He ran the Grey Wolves training camps from 1968 to 1978. He represented the far-right of the Turkish political spectrum. He was and still is called Başbuğ ("Leader") by his devotees.

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25/11/1916

Peg Lynch, American actress and screenwriter (died 2015)

Margaret Frances "Peg" Lynch was an American writer, actress, and sitcom creator. The BBC dubbed her, “the woman who invented sitcom”.

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25/11/1915

Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile (died 2006)

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean army officer and military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. He led the military junta that overthrew President Salvador Allende in 1973 and established his dictatorship. He was proclaimed President of Chile in 1974 and served until 1990, when he stepped down to pave the way for democratic elections. Throughout his presidency, thousands of political opponents were tortured or executed. Pinochet is the longest-serving head of state in the history of Chile.

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Armando Villanueva, Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (died 2013)

Armando Villanueva del Campo was a Peruvian politician who was the leader of the Peruvian American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. Born in Lima, his parents were Pedro Villanueva Urquijo, a gynecologist in the city, and Carmen Rosa Portal del Campo. His only legitimate sibling was his older brother Ing. Pedro Villanueva del Campo Portal.

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25/11/1914

Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (died 1999)

Joseph Paul DiMaggio, nicknamed "Joltin' Joe", "the Yankee Clipper" and "Joe D.", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. Born to Italian immigrants in California, he is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time and set the record for the longest hitting streak.

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Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist (died 1995)

Léon Zitrone was a Russian-born French journalist and television presenter.

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25/11/1913

Lewis Thomas, American physician, etymologist, and educator (died 1993)

Lewis Thomas was an American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and biologist. He was a longtime contributor to The New England Journal of Medicine, and his essays were collected in several books. He received National Book Award in Arts and Letters and The Sciences for The Lives of a Cell.

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25/11/1911

Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter and photographer (died 1984)

Roelof Frankot was a Dutch painter.

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25/11/1909

P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator (died 1986)

Philip Dey Eastman was an American screenwriter, children's author, and illustrator.

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25/11/1908

Natyaguru Nurul Momen, Bangladeshi playwright, author, educator, director and media personality (died 1990)

Nurul Momen was a Bangladeshi playwright, educator, director, broadcast personality, orator, humorist, dramatist, academician, satirist, belletrist, essayist, columnist, translator and poet. He served as a faculty member in the capacities of professor and dean at the Faculty of Law in the University of Dhaka. He also served as a lawyer. He is called "Father of Bangladeshi theatre" and "Natyaguru" of Bangladesh. He was awarded the Bangla Academy Award in 1961. He was also honoured by the People's Republic of Bangladesh with the Ekushey Padak in 1978.

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25/11/1907

John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (died 1938)

John Stuart Hindmarsh was an English racing driver and aviator.

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25/11/1906

Alice Ambrose, American philosopher and logician (died 2001)

Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz was an American philosopher, logician, and author.

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25/11/1905

Samiha Ayverdi, Turkish mystic and author (died 1993)

Samiha Ayverdi was a Turkish writer.

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25/11/1904

Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower and shot putter (died 1964)

Lillian Copeland, née Lillian Drossin, was an American track and field Olympic champion athlete, who excelled in discus, javelin throwing, and shot put, setting multiple world records. She has been called "the most successful female discus thrower in U.S. history". She also held multiple titles in shot put and javelin throwing. She won a silver medal in discus at the 1928 Summer Olympics, a gold medal in discus at the 1932 Summer Olympics, and gold medals in discus, javelin, and shot put at the 1935 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine.

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Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor (died 2000)

Antonio "Toni" Ortelli was an Italian alpinist, conductor and composer from the Veneto.

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25/11/1902

Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (died 1985)

Edward William Shore was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, principally for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, and the longtime owner of the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League. Iconic for his aggressiveness, toughness and defensive skill, he was called both "Old Blood and Guts" and "the Edmonton Express". In 2017, Shore was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.

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25/11/1901

Arthur Liebehenschel, German SS officer, commandant of Auschwitz and later Majdanek, convicted war criminal (died 1948)

Arthur Liebehenschel was a German commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps during the Holocaust. Following the war, he was convicted of war crimes by the Polish government and executed in 1948.

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25/11/1900

Rudolf Höss, German SS officer, commandant of Auschwitz, convicted war criminal (died 1947)

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he lived under a false name until discovered by the British, who then turned him over to Polish authorities. Höss was convicted in Poland and executed for war crimes committed on the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp and for his role in the Holocaust.

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Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician (died 1980)

Helen Gahagan Douglas was an American actress and politician.

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25/11/1898

Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1971)

Debaki Bose (1898–1971), also known as Debaki Kumar Bose, was an Indian director, writer, and actor who is recognized for his contribution to Hindi and Bengali cinema. He was born on 25 November 1898 in Akalposh,, Burdwan, Bengal Presidency, British India. He died on 17 November 1971 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He is known for his innovative use of sound and music in Indian Cinema. He worked first under the banner of British Dominion Films of Dhiren Ganguly and later with Pramathesh Barua's Barua Pictures and finally joined the New Theatres banner in 1932. He started his own production company, Debaki Productions, in 1945.

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Aarne Viisimaa, Estonian tenor and director (died 1989)

Aarne Viisimaa was an Estonian operatic tenor and opera director. He was notably the director of the Estonian National Opera from 1927 to 1944. As an opera singer, he performed such roles as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Lenski in Eugene Onegin, Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Tamino in The Magic Flute, and the title roles in Faust and Lohengrin among others. He is buried in the Metsakalmistu cemetery in Tallinn, Estonia.

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25/11/1896

Albertus Soegijapranata, Indonesian archbishop (died 1963)

Albertus Soegijapranata, better known by his birth name Soegija, was a Jesuit priest who became the Apostolic Vicar of Semarang and later its archbishop. He was the first native Indonesian bishop and known for his pro-nationalistic stance, often expressed as "100% Catholic 100% Indonesian".

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Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (died 1989)

Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".

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25/11/1895

Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (died 1991)

Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff was a German pianist, teacher and composer. Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, recording the complete sonatas of both composers. He is considered to have been one of the chief exponents of the Germanic tradition during the 20th century.

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Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (died 1978)

Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union. As a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1923 to 1976, he was the only Soviet politician who remained in power from Lenin, through the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, to his retirement under Brezhnev. His longevity inspired the popular Russian saying "from Ilyich [Lenin] to Ilyich [Brezhnev] without heart attack and paralysis".

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Helen Hooven Santmyer, American poet and author (died 1986)

Helen Hooven Santmyer was an American writer, educator, and librarian. She is primarily known for her best-selling epic "...And Ladies of the Club", published when she was in her 80s.

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Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (died 1979)

Ludvík Svoboda was a Czech general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he was regarded as a national hero, and he later served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1975.

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25/11/1893

Joseph Wood Krutch, American author and critic (died 1970)

Joseph Wood Krutch was an American author, critic, and naturalist who wrote nature books on the American Southwest. He is known for developing a pantheistic philosophy.

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25/11/1891

Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (died 1941)

Ōnishiki Uichirō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 26th yokozuna. On 2 November 1922, he became the first yokozuna to perform the yokozuna dohyō-iri at the Meiji Shrine.

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25/11/1890

Isaac Rosenberg, English soldier and poet (died 1918)

Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet and artist. His Poems from the Trenches are recognized as some of the most outstanding poetry written during the First World War.

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25/11/1889

Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright (died 1956)

Reşat Nuri Güntekin was a Turkish novelist, storywriter, and playwright. His best known novel, Çalıkuşu is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia. This work is translated into Persian by Seyyed Borhan Ghandili. His other significant novels include Dudaktan Kalbe, and Yaprak Dökümü. Many of his novels have been adapted to cinema and television. Because he visited Anatolia with his duty as an inspector, he knew Anatolian people closely. In his works he dealt with life and social problems in Anatolia; reflects people in the human-environment relationship.

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25/11/1887

Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist (died 1943)

Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants. His research focused on improvement of wheat, maize and other cereal crops.

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25/11/1883

Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author (died 1939)

Harvey Spencer Lewis was an American Rosicrucian writer, mystic and the founder of AMORC. He led AMORC as its first leader (imperator) from its creation in 1915 until his death.

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25/11/1881

Jacob Fichman, Romanian-Israeli poet and critic (died 1958)

Jacob Fichman, also transliterated as Yakov Fichman, was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.

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Pope John XXIII (died 1963)

Pope John XXIII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963.

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25/11/1880

John Flynn, Australian minister and pilot, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service (died 1951)

John Flynn was an Australian Presbyterian minister who founded the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) which later separated into Frontier Services and the Presbyterian Inland Mission, as well as founding what became the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the world's first air ambulance.

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Elsie J. Oxenham, English author (died 1960)

Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley, was an English girls' story writer, who took the name Oxenham as her pseudonym when her first book, Goblin Island, was published in 1907. Her Abbey Series of 38 titles are her best-known and best-loved books. In her lifetime she had 87 titles published and another two have since been published by her niece, who discovered the manuscripts in the early 1990s. She is considered a major figure among girls' story writers of the first half of the twentieth century, being one of the 'Big Three' with Elinor Brent-Dyer and Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Angela Brazil is as well-known - perhaps more so - but did not write her books in series about the same group of characters or set in the same place or school, as did the Big Three.

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25/11/1877

Harley Granville-Barker, British actor, director and playwright (died 1946)

Harley Granville-Barker was an English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist. After early success as an actor in the plays of George Bernard Shaw, he increasingly turned to directing and was a major figure in British theatre in the Edwardian and inter-war periods. As a writer his plays, which tackled difficult and controversial subject matter, met with a mixed reception during his lifetime but have continued to receive attention.

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25/11/1876

Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1936)

Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 1894 to 1901 as the wife of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and Consort of the Head of the House of Romanov as the wife of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia from 1924 until her death. She was the daughter of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, and a granddaughter of both Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Emperor Alexander II of Russia.

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25/11/1874

Joe Gans, American boxer (died 1910)

Joe Gans was an American professional boxer. Gans was rated the greatest lightweight boxer of all time by boxing historian and Ring Magazine founder Nat Fleischer. Known as the "Old Master," Gans became the first African-American world boxing champion of the 20th century, reigning continuously as world lightweight champion from 1902 to 1908, defending the title 15 times against 13 other boxers. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.

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25/11/1873

Albert Henry Krehbiel, American painter and illustrator (died 1945)

Albert Henry Krehbiel, was the most decorated American painter ever at the French Academy, winning the Prix De Rome, four gold medals and five cash prizes. He was born in Denmark, Iowa and taught, lived and worked for many years in Chicago. His masterpiece is the programme of eleven decorative wall and two ceiling paintings / murals for the Supreme and Appellate Court Rooms in Springfield, Illinois (1907–1911). Although educated as a realist in Paris, which is reflected in his neoclassical mural works, he is most famously known as an American Impressionist. Later in his career, Krehbiel experimented in a more modernist manner.

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25/11/1872

Robert Maysack, American gymnast and triathlete (died 1960)

Robert Emil Maysack was an American gymnast and track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He died in Highlands County, Florida.

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25/11/1870

Winthrop Ames, American director, producer, and playwright (died 1937)

Winthrop Ames was an American theatre director and producer, playwright and screenwriter.

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Maurice Denis, French painter of Les Nabis movement (died 1943)

Maurice Denis was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer. An important figure in the changing world of late 19th-century European art, Denis is associated with Les Nabis, Symbolism, and later Neo-classicism. His theories contributed to the foundations of Cubism, Fauvism, and abstraction. After World War I, Denis founded the Ateliers d'Art Sacré, decorated the interiors of churches, and worked for a revival of religious art.

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25/11/1869

Ben Lindsey, American lawyer and judge (died 1934)

Benjamin Barr Lindsey was an American judge and social reformer based in Denver during the Progressive Era. He is best known for developing a juvenile court system that for youth in trouble.

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25/11/1868

Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (died 1937)

Ernest Louis was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 1892 until 1918.

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25/11/1867

Talaat Harb, Egyptian economist, founded the Banque Misr (died 1941)

Mohamed Talaat Harb Pacha was a leading Egyptian entrepreneur and founder of Banque Misr, and its group of companies, in May 1920.

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25/11/1865

Kate Gleason, American engineer, businesswoman, and philanthropist (died 1933)

Catherine Anselm Gleason was an American engineer and businesswoman known for her accomplishments in the field of engineering and for her philanthropy. Starting at a young age, she managed several roles in the family-owned Gleason Works in Rochester, New York, and later used her experience to launch a successful career in finance and construction. Through a combination of formal education and work experience with the Gleason Works, she earned recognition as an engineer and was elected to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1914 as their first woman member. Gleason is the namesake of the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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25/11/1862

Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (died 1901)

Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin was an American pianist and composer.

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Gustaf Söderström, Swedish tug of war competitor, shot putter, and discus thrower (died 1958)

Gustaf Fredrik "Jotte" Söderström was a Swedish athlete and tug of war competitor.

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25/11/1858

Alfred Capus, French journalist, author, and playwright (died 1922)

Alfred Capus was a French journalist and playwright, who was born in Aix-en-Provence and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

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25/11/1846

Carrie Nation, American activist (died 1911)

Caroline Amelia Nation, often referred to as Carrie, Carry Nation, Carrie A. Nation, or Hatchet Granny, was a radical of the American temperance movement, which opposed alcohol consumption before the advent of Prohibition. Nation is noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments with a hatchet. She was previously known by her birth name Carrie Moore, then as Carrie Gloyd upon her first marriage in 1867, before she married David Nation in 1874.

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25/11/1845

José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese-French journalist and author (died 1900)

José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Queirós is generally considered to have been the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. In the London Observer, Jonathan Keates ranked him alongside Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy.

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25/11/1844

Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (died 1929)

Carl Friedrich Benz was a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent-Motorwagen from 1885 is considered the first practical, modern automobile and the first car to be put into series production. He received a patent for the motorcar in 1886, the same year he first publicly drove the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.

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25/11/1843

Henry Ware Eliot, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1919)

Henry Ware Eliot was an American industrialist and philanthropist who lived in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the father of poet T. S. Eliot.

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25/11/1841

Ernst Schröder, German mathematician and academic (died 1902)

Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ernst Schröder was a German mathematician mainly known for his work on algebraic logic. He is a major figure in the history of mathematical logic, by virtue of summarizing and extending the work of George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, Hugh MacColl, and especially Charles Peirce. He is best known for his monumental Vorlesungen über die Algebra der Logik, in three volumes, which prepared the way for the emergence of mathematical logic as a separate discipline in the twentieth century by systematizing the various systems of formal logic of the day.

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25/11/1835

Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1919)

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late-19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.

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25/11/1817

John Bigelow, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to France (died 1911)

John Bigelow Sr. was an American lawyer, diplomat, and historian who edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin and the first autobiography of Franklin taken from Franklin's previously lost original manuscript. He played a central role in the founding of the New York Public Library in 1895 and served as the first president of the New York Law School Board of Trustees. During the American Civil War, "[a]s consul to Paris, then as minister to France, he did more than any other man to ward off dreaded French intervention on behalf of the Confederacy...."

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25/11/1815

William Sawyer, Canadian merchant and politician (died 1904)

William Sawyer was a lumber merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented Compton in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1871 to 1886 as a Conservative.

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25/11/1814

Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (died 1878)

Julius Robert von Mayer was a German physician, chemist, and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics. He is best known for enunciating in 1841 one of the original statements of the conservation of energy or what is now known as one of the first versions of the first law of thermodynamics, namely that "energy can be neither created nor destroyed". In 1842, Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature. He also proposed that plants convert light into chemical energy.

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25/11/1787

Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist and composer (died 1863)

Franz Xaver Gruber was an Austrian primary school teacher, church organist and composer in the village of Arnsdorf, who is best known for composing the music to "Stille Nacht".

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25/11/1778

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author and activist (died 1856)

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck was a British writer in the anti-slavery movement.

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25/11/1758

John Armstrong, Jr., American general and politician, 7th United States Secretary of War (died 1843)

John Armstrong Jr. was an American soldier, diplomat and statesman who was a delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Senator from New York, and United States Secretary of War under President James Madison. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Armstrong was United States Minister to France from 1804 to 1810.

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25/11/1753

Robert Townsend, American spy (died 1838)

Robert Townsend was a member of the Culper Ring during the American Revolution. He operated in New York City with the aliases "Samuel Culper, Jr." and "723" and gathered information as a service to General George Washington. He is one of the least-known operatives in the spy ring and once demanded that Abraham Woodhull never tell his name to anyone, even Washington.

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25/11/1752

Johann Friedrich Reichardt, German composer and critic (died 1814)

Johann Friedrich Reichardt was a German composer, writer and music critic.

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25/11/1703

Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (died 1784)

Jean-François Séguier was a French archaeologist, epigraphist, astronomer and botanist from Nîmes.

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25/11/1666

Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Italian violin maker (died 1740)

Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, better known as Giuseppe filius Andrea Guarneri was a violin maker from the prominent Guarneri family of luthiers who lived in Cremona, Italy.

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25/11/1638

Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1705)

Catherine of Braganza was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland during her marriage to King Charles II, which lasted from 21 May 1662 until his death on 6 February 1685. She was the daughter of John IV of Portugal, who became the first king from the House of Braganza in 1640, after overthrowing the 60-year rule of the Spanish Habsburgs over Portugal. Catherine served as the regent of Portugal during the absence of her brother Peter II in 1701, and again in 1704–1705, after her return to her homeland as a widow.

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25/11/1609

Henrietta Maria of France, Queen Consort of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1669)

Henrietta Maria of France was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until his execution on 30 January 1649. She was the mother of Charles II and James II and VII. Under a decree of her husband, she was known in England as Queen Mary, but she did not like this name and signed her letters "Henriette" or "Henriette Marie".

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25/11/1587

Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet, English politician (died 1666)

Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet, K.B. was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1666. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.

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25/11/1577

Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch admiral (died 1629)

Piet Pieterszoon Hein was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War. Hein was the first and the last to capture a large part of a Spanish treasure fleet which transported huge amounts of gold and silver from Spanish America to Spain. The amount of silver taken was so large that it resulted in the rise of the price of silver worldwide and the near bankruptcy of Spain.

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25/11/1566

John Heminges, English actor (died 1630)

John Heminges was an English actor in the King's Men, the playing company for which William Shakespeare wrote. Along with Henry Condell, he was an editor of the First Folio, the collected plays of Shakespeare, published in 1623. He was also the financial manager for the King's Men.

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25/11/1562

Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright and poet (died 1635)

Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature. In the literature of Spain, Lope de Vega is often considered second only to Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes said that Lope de Vega was “The Phoenix of Wits” and “Monster of Nature”.

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25/11/1493

Osanna of Cattaro, Dominican visionary and anchoress (died 1565)

Osanna of Cattaro, TOSD was a Catholic visionary and anchoress from Cattaro, Montenegro. She was a convert from Orthodoxy and was of Serbian descent. She became a Dominican tertiary and was first venerated in Kotor. She was later beatified in 1934.

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25/11/1467

Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, Knight of Henry VIII of England (died 1525)

Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre of Gilsland was the son of Humphrey Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre of Gilsland and Mabel Parr, daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal by his wife, Alice Tunstall. Mabel was the first of the Parr family to marry into the peerage but she was surpassed by her great-niece, Katherine Parr, who became the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII.

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25/11/1454

Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (died 1510)

Catherine Cornaro was the last monarch of the Kingdom of Cyprus, also holding the titles of Queen of Jerusalem and Queen of Armenia. She became queen consort of Cyprus by marriage to James II of Cyprus, and then regent of Cyprus during the minority of her son James III of Cyprus in 1473–1474, and finally queen regnant of Cyprus upon his death. She reigned from 26 August 1474 to 26 February 1489 and was declared a "Daughter of Saint Mark" in order that the Republic of Venice could claim control of Cyprus after the death of her husband.

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25/11/1075

Emperor Taizong of Jin (died 1135)

Emperor Taizong of Jin, personal name Wuqimai, sinicised name Wanyan Sheng, was the second emperor of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty of China. His era name was "Tianhui" (天會). During his reign, the Jin dynasty conquered the Khitan-led Liao dynasty. He then led the Jin in their campaigns against the Song dynasty, captured the Northern Song capital in 1127 and went on to rule most of northern China. After his death, he was posthumously honoured with the temple name Taizong by his successor, Emperor Xizong.

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25/11/0902

Emperor Taizong of Liao (died 947)

Emperor Taizong of Liao, personal name Yaogu, sinicised name Yelü Deguang, courtesy name Dejin, was the second emperor of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty of China.

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