29th November — International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

On this day, 217 notable people were born on 29th November — spanning from 826 to 2009. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

29/11/2009

Salish Matter, American YouTuber

Salish Matter is an American social media personality, entrepreneur, and actress. She is the daughter of photographer Jordan Matter and his wife Lauren Matter, and has a sibling, Hudson Matter. She gained recognition through appearances on her father's YouTube channel before developing her own online following. In 2025, she was announced as a voice actor in The Angry Birds Movie 3 and launched the skincare brand Sincerely Yours in collaboration with Sephora.

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29/11/2002

Yunus Musah, American soccer player

Yunus Dimoara Musah is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder and wing-back for Serie A club Atalanta, on loan from AC Milan. He also plays for the United States national team.

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29/11/1998

MJ Melendez, American baseball player

Mervyl Samuel Melendez Jr. is an American professional baseball left fielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Kansas City Royals. He made his MLB debut in 2022.

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Ye Qiuyu, Chinese tennis player

Ye Qiuyu is a Chinese tennis player.

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Lovie Simone, American actress

Lovie Simone Taylor is an American actress, best known for her role as Zora Greenleaf in the drama series Greenleaf (2016–2020), and Keisha Clark in the critically acclaimed Netflix teen drama series Forever (2025).

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29/11/1997

Nick Richards, Jamaican basketball player

Nicholas Richards is a Jamaican professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats.

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29/11/1995

Laura Marano, American actress and singer

Laura Marie Marano is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Ally Dawson in the Disney Channel series Austin & Ally. Marano was one of the five original classmates in Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. She starred in Without a Trace for three seasons and Back to You. Marano starred in the indie film A Sort of Homecoming, the Disney Channel Original Movie Bad Hair Day, the fifth installment of the A Cinderella Story film series A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish, the Netflix original movie The Perfect Date, and the Netflix interactive romcom Choose Love (2023).

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Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, English swimmer

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor is a former English competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, the FINA World Aquatics Championships and the LEN European Aquatics Championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games. A specialist in the 200 metres individual medley, she is the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games champion in the event, and has won silver medals in the same event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, 2016 European Aquatics Championships, the 2014 World Short-Course Championships and the 2013 and 2015 European Short Course Championships – on each occasion behind World and Olympic champion Katinka Hosszú. With six Commonwealth Games medals in total from 2014, O'Connor was England's most decorated athlete at those Games.

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29/11/1994

Shaun Lane, Australian rugby league player

Shaun Lane is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a second-row forward for the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League.

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Julius Randle, American basketball player

Julius Deion Randle is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A three-time NBA All-Star and a two-time member of the All-NBA Team, he was awarded the NBA Most Improved Player Award in 2021.

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29/11/1993

Stefon Diggs, American football player

Stefon Marsean Diggs is an American professional football wide receiver who is a free agent. He played college football for the Maryland Terrapins and was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL draft.

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29/11/1992

Ben Nugent, English footballer

Ben William Nugent is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back who plays for Southern League Premier Division South club Gloucester City.

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29/11/1991

Becky James, Welsh cyclist

Rebecca Angharad James is a Welsh former professional racing cyclist specialising in track cycling. James was the 2013 world sprint and keirin champion. She is a 2016 Rio Olympics double silver medalist.

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29/11/1990

Diego Boneta, Mexican actor and singer

Diego Andrés González Boneta is a Mexican actor, producer and singer. He gained wider recognition after starring in Rock of Ages (2012) alongside Tom Cruise and in the Netflix biographical series Luis Miguel: The Series (2018). He also starred in the romantic comedy films Father of the Bride (2022), and At Midnight (2023).

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Sheldon Richardson, American football player

Sheldon Adam Richardson is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Missouri Tigers, and was selected by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft. Richardson has also played for the Seattle Seahawks, Cleveland Browns and Minnesota Vikings twice.

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Andrej Šustr, Czech ice hockey player

Andrej Šustr is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman who plays for Kalmar HC of HockeyAllsvenskan.

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Yacouba Sylla, French footballer

Yacouba Sylla is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder. Born in France, he represented France as a youth international before switching to Mali at senior level.

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29/11/1989

Adam Chapman, Northern Irish footballer

Adam Henry Chapman is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Retford FC.

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29/11/1988

Abby Bishop, Australian basketball player

Abby Bishop is an Australian former professional basketball player. She played in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) between 2005 and 2025 for the Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra Capitals, Dandenong Rangers, Adelaide Lightning, Townsville Fire and Southside Flyers. She played three seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), winning a WNBA championship in 2010 with the Seattle Storm. She was a member of the Australia women's national basketball team and won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Dana Brooke, American wrestler and bodybuilder

Ashley Mae Sebera is an American professional wrestler and former bodybuilder who is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where she performs under the ring name Ash by Elegance and is the leader of The Elegance Brand. She is a former TNA Knockouts World Champion and former TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champion. She is best known for her tenure in WWE from 2013 to 2023, where she performed under the name Dana Brooke.

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Damon Harrison, American football player

Damon Paul Harrison is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the William Penn Statesmen and was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2012. Harrison was also a member of the New York Giants, Detroit Lions, Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers. According to Pro Football Focus, he led the league in run-stop percentage between 2013 and 2016.

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Bradley Hudson-Odoi, Ghanaian footballer

Bradley Hudson-Odoi is a Ghanaian footballer who last played as a striker for National League South side, Woking.

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Russell Wilson, American football player

Russell Carrington Wilson is an American sportscaster and former professional football quarterback who played for 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Seattle Seahawks. With the Seahawks, Wilson was named to the Pro Bowl nine times and helped Seattle win their first Super Bowl championship in Super Bowl XLVIII. He is regarded as one of the greatest dual-threat quarterbacks of all time. He is also a former professional baseball player.

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29/11/1987

Wayne Ellington, American basketball player and coach

Wayne Robert Ellington Jr. is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is a player development coach for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Known for his shooting ability, he was nicknamed "the Man With The Golden Arm". He played for the University of North Carolina from 2006 to 2009. He chose to forgo his final season of college eligibility to declare for the 2009 NBA draft, and was drafted 28th overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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29/11/1986

Asa Hall, English footballer

Asa Philip Hall is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Southern League Division One South club Tiverton Town where he holds the role of player-manager.

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29/11/1985

Shannon Brown, American basketball player

Shannon Brown is an American former professional basketball player. He attended Proviso East High School in Maywood, Illinois, was named Illinois Mr. Basketball in 2003, and played college basketball for Michigan State University. He was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the 25th overall pick in the 2006 NBA draft. He played in the NBA for eight seasons, and won two championships, with the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 Los Angeles Lakers. He was known for his sensational athleticism and as one of the great leapers in the NBA.

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Dominic Roma, English footballer

Dominic Mark Roma is an English footballer and coach who plays as a defender for Northern Premier League Division One East club North Ferriby.

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29/11/1984

Ji Hyun-woo, South Korean actor and musician

Ji Hyun-woo, birth name Joo Hyung-tae (Korean: 주형태), is a South Korean actor and musician. He was formerly the lead guitarist for Korean indie rock band The Nuts and is best known for his leading roles in the cable TV series Queen and I (2012) and KBS2 weekend drama Young Lady and Gentleman (2021–22).

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29/11/1983

Franchesca Ramsey, American comedian

Franchesca Leigh Ramsey, also known as Chescaleigh, is an American comedian, activist, television and YouTube personality, and actress, who has appeared on MTV and MSNBC. She gained media fame quickly after her YouTube commentary on racial issues went viral, and she built a career as a writer, producer, and performer based on her unintended activism, being thrust into a role as an advisor or coach on social issues.

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Aylin Tezel, German actress

Aylin Tezel is a German actress, writer and director. She had her breakthrough with a main role in the film Almanya - Welcome to Germany which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011 and with the main role in the film Am Himmel der Tag, for which she received the Best Actress Award at the Torino Film Festival in 2012. In 2023 she released her directorial debut Falling Into Place which won the award of the International Federation of Film Critics, known as the FIPRESCI Prize, at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.

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Tanisha Wright, American basketball player and coach

Tanisha Lovely Wright is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Penn State Nittany Lions. She played college basketball at Penn State. During her junior season, Wright helped led her team to the Elite Eight, where they fell to the eventual national champion, Connecticut. She ranks fourth in school history in points scored with 1,995 points in 134 career games. She was selected 12th overall in the 2005 WNBA draft by the Seattle Storm. Wright played in the WNBA for 14 seasons with the Storm, New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx.

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29/11/1982

Lucas Black, American actor

Lucas York Black is an American actor. He plays Sean Boswell in the Fast & Furious films The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Furious 7 (2015), and F9 (2021). He also stars in various television series aired on CBS, including American Gothic (1995–1996) and NCIS: New Orleans (2014–2019). His other notable films include Cold Mountain (2003), Friday Night Lights (2004), Jarhead (2005), Legion (2010), and 42 (2013).

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Gemma Chan, English actress

Gemma Chan is a British actress and model. A graduate of Worcester College, Oxford, Chan began acting during the late 2000s, making her film debut in 2009. She rose to attention with her lead role in the Channel 4 science fiction series Humans (2015–2018), and gained prominence with her starring film roles as Astrid Leong in Crazy Rich Asians and as Elizabeth Hardwick in Mary Queen of Scots.

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29/11/1981

Fawad Khan, Pakistani actor, model and singer

Fawad Afzal Khan is a Pakistani actor, producer, screenwriter, songwriter and singer known for his work in films and Urdu television. Khan is a recipient of several accolades, including a Filmfare Award, two Lux Style Awards, and six Hum Awards.

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Jon Klassen, Canadian writer and illustrator

Jon Klassen is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books, and an animator. He is known for the 2012 picture book This Is Not My Hat, which won both the Caldecott Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal. This Is Not My Hat is a companion to Klassen's preceding picture book, I Want My Hat Back (2011), which was his first as both writer and illustrator. Both books were on the New York Times Best Seller list for more than 40 weeks; by April 2014 one or the other had been translated into 22 languages and they had jointly surpassed one million worldwide sales. Both books were recommended for children ages 5+ by the Greenaway judges. Klassen's Hat Trilogy was completed with the publication of We Found a Hat (2016).

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29/11/1980

Janina Gavankar, American actress and singer

Janina Zione Gavankar is an American actress and musician. She is trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist and majored in theatre at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her roles include Eva "Papi" Torres on Showtime's The L Word, Shiva on The League, Leigh Turner on The Gates, Luna Garza on HBO's True Blood, McKenna Hall on The CW's Arrow, and Diana Thomas on FOX's Sleepy Hollow as well as Qetsiyah/Tessa in The CW's The Vampire Diaries. Gavankar has also played the role of Ms. Dewey, a search engine and virtual assistant for Microsoft.

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Dean Howell, English footballer

Dean George Howell is an English former professional footballer, who played at left-back or left-midfield.

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29/11/1979

Adam Barrett, English footballer

Adam Nicholas Barrett is an English former professional footballer who played as a central defender. During his career, which lasted from 1998 to 2017, he made 647 appearances in the Football League, including 308 for Southend United. He is assistant head coach at Cambridge United.

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The Game, American rapper

Jayceon Terrell Taylor, better known by his stage name the Game or simply Game, is an American rapper and actor. Born in Compton, California, he initially released a series of mixtapes under the wing of fellow West Coast rapper JT the Bigga Figga. After releasing his debut album Untold Story independently in 2004, he was discovered by record producer Dr. Dre and signed to his Aftermath Records label imprint. The Game rose to prominence following the release of his major-label debut album The Documentary (2005), which peaked the Billboard 200 along with its sequel, Doctor's Advocate (2006). The former album received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and two Grammy Award nominations—Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for its single, "Hate It or Love It".

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29/11/1978

Lauren German, American actress

Lauren German is an American actress. She may be best known for her role as Chloe Decker in the six-season run of Lucifer (2016–2021), having previously been in the main cast for two seasons of Chicago Fire (2012–2014). Film roles include appearances in A Walk to Remember (2002), Born Killers (2005) and The Divide (2011).

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Dimitrios Konstantopoulos, Greek footballer

Dimitrios Konstantopoulos is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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29/11/1977

Andy Beshear, American attorney and politician, 63rd Governor of Kentucky

Andrew Graham Beshear is an American politician and attorney serving since 2019 as the 63rd governor of Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2016 to 2019 as the 50th attorney general of Kentucky. He is the son of former Kentucky governor Steve Beshear, who served from 2007 to 2015.

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Maria Petrova, Russian figure skater

Maria Igorevna Petrova is a Russian pair skater. With partner Alexei Tikhonov, she is the 2000 World champion and a two-time European champion

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29/11/1976

Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (died 2020)

Chadwick Aaron Boseman was an American actor and playwright. Through his two-decade career, he appeared in a number of projects spanning both blockbuster and independent films, and received various accolades, including an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award.

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Anna Faris, American actress

Anna Kay Faris is an American actress and comedian. She rose to prominence for her comedic roles, particularly the lead part of Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie films (2000–present). Her films as a leading actress have grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide.

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29/11/1975

Craig Ireland, Scottish footballer

Craig Robert Ireland is a Scottish retired professional footballer.

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Scott McCulloch, Scottish footballer

Scott Anderson James McCulloch is a Scottish former footballer.

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29/11/1974

Pavol Demitra, Slovak ice hockey player (died 2011)

Pavol Demitra was a Slovak professional ice hockey player. He played nineteen seasons of professional hockey, for teams in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League (CSL), National Hockey League (NHL), Slovak Extraliga (SVK), and Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). A skilled offensive player, Demitra was a top-line forward throughout his career.

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Sarah Jones, American actress and playwright

Sarah Jones is an American playwright, actress, film director, and podcast host. She is best known for her multi-character solo performances and her Tony Award-winning Broadway show Bridge & Tunnel (2006), which was produced by Meryl Streep. She is also the writer, director, and star of the 2022 hybrid documentary film Sell/Buy/Date, based on her critically acclaimed play of the same name.

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Jedediah Purdy, American legal scholar and cultural commentator

Jedediah Spenser Purdy is an American legal scholar and cultural commentator. In 2022 he became the Raphael Lemkin Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, where he teaches courses on Property and Past and Future of Capitalist Democracy. From 2018 to 2022 he was William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, teaching courses on American Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law and Democracy and its Crisis. He previously taught at Duke University School of Law from 2004 to 2018.

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29/11/1973

Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer and manager

Ryan Joseph Giggs is a Welsh football coach, co-owner of Salford City, and former player who played as a left midfielder or winger. Regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation, Giggs spent his entire professional career at Manchester United, where he also served as the club's interim player-manager and assistant manager. He is one of the most decorated footballers of all time, and is one of only 59 players to have made over 1,000 career appearances.

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Fredrik Norrena, Finnish ice hockey player

Fredrik Jan Elis Norrena is a Finnish former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played 100 games in the National Hockey League with the Columbus Blue Jackets between 2006 and 2008. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1992 to 2014, was spent in Europe where he played in the Finnish SM-liiga and Swedish Elitserien. Internationally Norrena played for the Finnish national team at five World Championships, winning one silver and one bronze medal, and the 2006 Winter Olympics, winning a silver medal.

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29/11/1972

Brian Baumgartner, American actor and producer

Brian Baumgartner is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Kevin Malone on the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013) and its related spin-off webisodes, which earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Daytime Emmy Award.

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Jamal Mashburn, American basketball player and sportscaster

Jamal Mashburn Sr. is an American entrepreneur and former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "the Monster Mash", Mashburn was a prolific scorer as a small forward in his 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), with a career scoring average of 19.1 points per game.

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29/11/1971

David E. Campbell, Canadian political scientist

David Edward Campbell is a Canadian political scientist and is the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame and the founding director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy. He is currently the Director of the Notre Dame Democracy Initiative.

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Steve May, American soldier and politician

Stephen Timothy May is an American politician who served in the Arizona House of Representatives. He was openly gay when he ran for and served in the legislature. He was nevertheless recalled to active duty in the military. He came to national attention in 1999 when the U.S. Army attempted to discharge him from the United States Army Reserve under the gay-exclusionary law known as "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT).

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Gena Lee Nolin, American actress and model

Gena Lee Nolin is an American actress. She is known for her television appearances on The Price Is Right and Baywatch in the 1990s. During the early 2000s she played the lead role in Sheena.

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29/11/1970

Larry Joe Campbell, American actor and director

Larry Joe Campbell is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Andy on the ABC sitcom According to Jim.

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Mark Pembridge, Welsh footballer and coach

Mark Anthony Pembridge is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a midfielder, and a current coach at the academy for Fulham.

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29/11/1969

Tomas Brolin, Swedish footballer

Per Tomas Brolin is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a forward and midfielder.

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Mariano Rivera, Panamanian-American baseball player

Mariano Rivera is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball player who was a pitcher for 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013. Nicknamed "Mo" and "Sandman", he spent most of his career as a relief pitcher and served as the Yankees' closer for 17 seasons. A 13-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, he is MLB's career leader in saves (652) and games finished (952). Rivera won five American League (AL) Rolaids Relief Man Awards and three Delivery Man of the Year Awards, and he finished in the top three in voting for the AL Cy Young Award four times. In 2019, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, and is to date the only player ever to be elected unanimously by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).

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29/11/1968

Dee Brown, American basketball player and executive

DeCovan Kadell "Dee" Brown is an American former professional basketball player who spent thirty years in the NBA, including twelve seasons as a player (1990–2002) in the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing for the Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors, and Orlando Magic, and as an executive with the Orlando Magic, Detroit Pistons, Sacramento Kings, and as Vice President of Holistic Player Performance with the Los Angeles Clippers. His daughter Lexie Brown plays for the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

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Jonathan Knight, American singer

Jonathan Rashleigh Knight-Rodriguez is an American-Canadian pop singer. He is best known for being a member of the boy band New Kids on the Block. The band also includes his younger brother Jordan, and members Donnie Wahlberg, Joey McIntyre, and Danny Wood. He is the oldest member of the band and the first to leave it in 1994 prior to their official split.

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Andy Melville, Welsh footballer

Andrew Roger Melville is a Welsh former international footballer. In the early years of his career, he played in midfield. He was later converted into a central defender.

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Iolanda Nanni, Italian politician (died 2018)

Iolanda Nanni was an Italian politician for Five Star Movement. Nanni graduated from the classical high school, before becoming a politician she worked as an employee in a private company.

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29/11/1967

Fernando Ramos da Silva, Brazilian actor (died 1987)

Fernando Ramos da Silva was a Brazilian actor who became known for his role in Hector Babenco's 1981 film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco, a documentary-style account of the street children of Brazil. Da Silva became a controversial figure after the film's release and found it hard to separate himself from his depiction as the street assailant Pixote.

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Charles Smith, American basketball player

Charles Edward Smith IV is an American former professional basketball player who played with the Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Smith was also a member of the bronze medal-winning 1988 United States Olympic team and was an All-American college player at Georgetown.

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Rebecca Wolff, American author and poet

Rebecca Wolff is a poet, fiction writer, and the editor and creator of both Fence Magazine and Fence Books.

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29/11/1966

John Layfield, American wrestler, football player, and news commentator

John Charles Layfield, better known by the ring name John "Bradshaw" Layfield, is an American professional wrestling color commentator, retired professional wrestler and former football player. He is signed to WWE, where he is an ambassador and commentator for the company.

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Dru Pagliassotti, American author

Dru Pagliassotti is an author of fantasy literature and the editor of The Harrow online magazine.

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Sophia Rosenfeld, American author

Sophia Rosenfeld is an American historian. She specializes in European intellectual and cultural history with an emphasis on the Enlightenment, the trans-Atlantic Age of Revolutions, and the legacy of the eighteenth century for modern democracy. In 2017, she was named the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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29/11/1965

Lauren Child, English author

Lauren Margot Peachy Child is an English children's author and illustrator. She is best known for the Charlie and Lola picture book series. Her influences include E. H. Shepard, Quentin Blake, Carl Larsson, and Ludwig Bemelmans.

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Ellen Cleghorne, American comedian and actress

Ellen Leslye Cleghorne (born November 29, 1965) is an American actress and comedian. Cleghorne is best known for her tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1995. She was the sketch comedy show's second African-American female repertory cast member, succeeding Danitra Vance in its eleventh season, and the first African-American female cast member to stay for more than one season. She returned for its 40th anniversary special on February 15, 2015. Cleghorne was ranked the 69th greatest Saturday Night Live cast member by Rolling Stone magazine.

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29/11/1964

Don Cheadle, American actor and producer

Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. is an American actor. Known for his roles in film and television, he has received multiple accolades including two Golden Globe Awards, two Grammy Awards, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and 11 Primetime Emmy Awards. He is one of a few actors to have received nominations for the EGOT.

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Ken Monkou, Dutch footballer

Kenneth John Monkou is a Dutch former professional footballer and pundit. Born in Suriname, he made an appearance for the Netherlands Olympic football team.

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29/11/1963

Will Downing, American singer-songwriter and producer

Wilfred "Will" Downing is an American R&B, soul, neo soul, and jazz singer and songwriter. He has released 22 studio albums.

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Lalit Modi, Indian businessman

Lalit Kumar Modi is an Indian businessman and former cricket administrator. He was the founder, first chairman and league commissioner of the Indian Premier League (IPL), and ran the tournament for three years until 2010. He also served as the Chairman of the Champions League from 2008 till 2010 and was Vice President of the BCCI from 2005 till 2010. He has also served as the President of the Rajasthan Cricket Association from 2005 till 2009 and then again from 2014 till 2015, and as the vice president of the Punjab Cricket Association from 2004 till 2012.

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29/11/1962

Ronny Jordan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)

Robert Laurence Albert Simpson, known professionally as Ronny Jordan was a British guitarist and part of the acid jazz movement at the end of the twentieth century. Jordan described his music as "urban jazz", a blend of jazz, hip-hop, and R&B.

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Andrew McCarthy, American actor and director

Andrew Thomas McCarthy is an American actor, travel writer, television director, and author. He is most known as a member of the Brat Pack, with roles in 1980s films such as St. Elmo's Fire (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), Mannequin (1987), and Weekend at Bernie's (1989). He is ranked No. 40 on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars of all time list. As a director, he is known for his work on Orange Is the New Black.

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29/11/1961

Kim Delaney, American actress

Kim Delaney is an American actress known for her starring role as Detective Diane Russell on the ABC drama television series NYPD Blue, for which she won an Emmy Award. Early in her career, she played the role of Jenny Gardner in the ABC daytime television drama All My Children. She later had leading roles in the short lived TV drama Philly, part of the first season of CSI: Miami, and the first six seasons of Army Wives. She also appeared in the second and third seasons as reporter Alex Devlin in Tour of Duty.

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Tom Sizemore, American actor (died 2023)

Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr. was an American actor. Born in Detroit, he started his career with supporting appearances in Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Lock Up (1989), and Blue Steel (1990). The appearances led to more prominent roles in films like Passenger 57 (1992), True Romance (1993), Striking Distance (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), Strange Days (1995), Heat (1995), and The Relic (1997).

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29/11/1960

Marco Bucci, Italian discus thrower (died 2013)

Marco Bucci was an Italian discus thrower. He won one medal, at senior level, at the 1983 Summer Universiade.

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Cathy Moriarty, American actress

Cathy Moriarty is an American actress whose career spans five decades. Born and raised in New York City, she made her acting debut opposite Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980), for which she received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, and the British Academy Film Award.

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29/11/1959

Richard Borcherds, South African-English mathematician and academic

Richard Ewen Borcherds is a British mathematician currently working in quantum field theory. He is known for his work in lattices, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras, for which he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998. He is well known for his proof of monstrous moonshine using ideas from string theory.

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Neal Broten, American ice hockey player

Neal LaMoy Broten is an American former professional ice hockey player. A member of the 1980 US Olympic hockey team that won the gold medal at Lake Placid in 1980, Broten was inducted into the US Hockey Hall of Fame in 2000 having appeared in 1,099 National Hockey League (NHL) regular season games from 1981 to 1997 with the Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars, New Jersey Devils and Los Angeles Kings. He is the older brother of Aaron and Paul Broten.

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Rahm Emanuel, American businessman and politician, 55th Mayor of Chicago

Rahm Israel Emanuel is an American politician and diplomat. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms. Emanuel was the White House chief of staff from 2009 to 2010 under President Barack Obama and served as mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019. He served as United States ambassador to Japan from 2022 to 2025.

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29/11/1958

Michael Dempsey, Zimbabwean-English bass player

Michael Stephen Dempsey is an English musician, best known as the bassist for the Cure and the Associates.

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John Dramani Mahama, Ghanaian historian and politician, 4th President of Ghana

John Dramani Mahama is a Ghanaian politician who has been the president of the Republic of Ghana since January 2025. A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), he previously served as president from 2012 to 2017.

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29/11/1957

Janet Napolitano, American politician, lawyer, and university administrator

Janet Ann Napolitano is an American politician and lawyer. She is on the faculty at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, since 2015.

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Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Belgian novelist, photographer and filmmaker

Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian novelist, photographer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir, the second volume of the « Cycle of Marie », a four-tome chronicle published over ten years and displaying the separation of Marie and her lover. His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie, third volume of the cycle, won the Prix Décembre.

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29/11/1956

Hinton Battle, German-American actor, dancer, and choreographer (died 2024)

Hinton Govorn Battle Jr. was an American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer. He won three Tony Awards, all in the category of Featured Actor in a Musical. He was the first to portray the Scarecrow in the stage version of The Wiz.

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Yvonne Fovargue, English lawyer and politician

Yvonne Helen Fovargue is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Makerfield from 2010 to 2024.

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29/11/1955

Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian, actor, and television host

Howard Michael Mandel is a Canadian comedian, television personality, actor, and producer. Mandel is known for voicing Gizmo in the 1984 film Gremlins and the 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch; playing rowdy emergency room resident Dr. Wayne Fiscus on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere; and creating and starring in the Fox children's cartoon Bobby's World. He has also been a judge on NBC's America's Got Talent since 2010, and Citytv's Canada's Got Talent since 2022. He hosted the American NBC and later CNBC game show Deal or No Deal, as well as the show's daytime and Canadian-English counterparts.

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Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Somali politician, 8th president of Somalia

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is a Somali politician who is serving as president of Somalia since 2022, his presidency being disputed since 2026. He previously held the office from 2012 to 2017.

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29/11/1954

Joel Coen, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker. Working alongside his brother Ethan, he has directed, written, edited and produced many feature films, the most acclaimed of which include Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Ladykillers (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), A Serious Man (2009), True Grit (2010), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).

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Chirlane McCray, American writer, editor, and activist

Chirlane Irene McCray is an American writer, editor, and activist. She is married to former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and had been described as de Blasio's "closest advisor." They separated in 2023, but have announced no plans to divorce. She chaired the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City and was appointed by her husband to lead a billion-dollar initiative called ThriveNYC. She has also published poetry and worked in politics as a speechwriter.

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29/11/1953

Alex Grey, American visual artist and author

Alex Grey is an American visual artist, author, teacher, and Vajrayana practitioner known for creating spiritual and psychedelic artwork such as his 21-painting Sacred Mirrors series. He works in multiple forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, visionary art, and painting. He is also on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and is the Chair of Wisdom University's Sacred Art Department. He and his wife Allyson Grey are the co-founders of The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM), a non-profit organization in Wappingers Falls, New York.

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Vlado Kreslin, Slovenian singer-songwriter

Vlado Kreslin is a Slovenian singer-songwriter and folk rock musician.

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Christine Pascal, French actress, writer and director (died 1996)

Christine Pascal was a French actress, writer, and director known for Le Petit Prince a dit, 1992.

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29/11/1952

John D. Barrow, English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician (died 2020)

John David Barrow was an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He served as Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College from 2008 to 2011. Barrow was also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright.

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Jeff Fahey, American actor and producer

Jeffrey David Fahey is an American actor. His notable roles include Duane Duke in Psycho III (1986), Pete Verill in Clint Eastwood's White Hunter Black Heart (1990), Jobe Smith in The Lawnmower Man (1992), and Captain Frank Lapidus on the ABC series Lost (2008–2010). He is also known for his collaborations with director Robert Rodriguez, appearing in his films Planet Terror (2007), Machete (2010), and Alita: Battle Angel (2019).

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29/11/1951

Barry Goudreau, American guitarist and songwriter

Barry Goudreau is an American musician. He was one of two original guitarists for the rock band Boston alongside founder Tom Scholz; both Scholz and Goudreau shared lead and rhythm guitar parts.

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Roger Troutman, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1999)

Roger Troutman, also known simply as Roger, was an American singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was the founder of the band Zapp who helped spearhead the funk movement and influenced West Coast hip-hop due to the scene's heavy sampling of his music.

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29/11/1950

Marie Laberge, Canadian actress, educator and writer

Marie Laberge is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.

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Kevin O'Donnell Jr., American author (died 2012)

Kevin O'Donnell Jr. was an American science fiction author.

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29/11/1949

Jerry Lawler, American wrestler and sportscaster

Jerry O'Neil Lawler, better known as Jerry "the King" Lawler, is an American retired color commentator and professional wrestler signed to WWE under a Legends contract.

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Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2016)

Garry Emmanuel Shandling was an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer.

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Steve Smith, American lawyer and politician (died 2014)

Steven Smith was a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing District 33A, which includes portions of Hennepin and Wright counties in the western Twin Cities metropolitan area. A Republican, he was an attorney by profession.

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29/11/1948

Yōichi Masuzoe, Japanese politician

Yōichi Masuzoe is a Japanese politician who was elected to the position of governor of Tokyo in 2014 and resigned in June 2016 due to the misuse of public funds. He was previously a member of the Japanese House of Councillors and served as the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare. Before entering politics, he became well known in Japan as a television commentator on political issues.

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29/11/1947

Petra Kelly, German activist and politician (died 1992)

Petra Karin Kelly was a German Green politician and ecofeminist activist. She was a founding member of the German Green Party, the first Green party to rise to prominence both nationally in Germany and worldwide. In 1982, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights."

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Ronnie Montrose, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2012)

Ronald Douglas Montrose was an American musician and guitarist who founded and led the rock bands Montrose and Gamma. He also performed and did session work with a variety of musicians, including Van Morrison, Herbie Hancock, Beaver & Krause, Boz Scaggs, Edgar Winter, Gary Wright, The Beau Brummels, Dan Hartman, Tony Williams, The Neville Brothers, Marc Bonilla and Sammy Hagar.

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29/11/1946

Suzy Chaffee, American skier

Suzanne Stevia Chaffee is an American former Olympic alpine ski racer and actress. Following her racing career, she modeled in New York with Ford Models and then became the pre-eminent freestyle ballet skier of the early 1970s. She was the first woman to serve on the board of the U.S. Olympic Committee. She is perhaps best known by the nickname "Suzy Chapstick", since the 1970s, when she was a spokesperson for ChapStick lip balm.

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Silvio Rodríguez, Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist

Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez is a Cuban musician, and leader of the Nueva Trova movement.

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29/11/1945

Csaba Pléh, Hungarian psychologist and linguist

Csaba Pléh is a Hungarian psychologist and linguist, professor at the Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

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29/11/1944

Felix Cavaliere, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

Felix Cavaliere is an American musician. He is best known for being the co-lead vocalist and keyboard player for The Young Rascals.

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29/11/1943

Bobbi Martin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2000)

Barbara Ann "Bobbi" Martin was an American country and pop music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She was raised and began her singing career in Baltimore, working her way up from local venues onto the national nightclub circuit.

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Sue Miller, American novelist and short story writer

Sue Miller is an American novelist and short story writer who has written a number of best-selling novels. She graduated from Radcliffe College.

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29/11/1942

Michael Craze, British actor (died 1998)

Michael Francis Craze was a British actor noted for his role of Ben Jackson, a companion of the Doctor, in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He played the part from 1966 to 1967 alongside both William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton.

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Ann Dunham, American anthropologist and academic (died 1995)

Stanley Ann Dunham was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. Born in Wichita, Kansas, she studied at the East–West Center and at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts (1967), a Master of Arts (1974), and a PhD (1992) in anthropology.

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John Grillo, English actor and playwright

John Martin Grillo is an English actor.

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29/11/1941

Bill Freehan, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2021)

William Ashley Freehan was an American catcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire 15-year career with the Detroit Tigers. The premier catcher in the American League for several years from the 1960s into the early 1970s, he was named an All-Star in 11 seasons, the most All-Star seasons for a player to not be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was the MVP runner-up for Tigers' 1968 World Series winning team, handling a pitching staff which included World Series MVP Mickey Lolich and regular season MVP Denny McLain, who that year became the first 30-game winner in the majors since 1934.

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29/11/1940

Denny Doherty, Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (died 2007)

Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty was a Canadian singer, songwriter and musician. A tenor, he was a founding member of the 1960s musical group the Mamas & the Papas for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

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Oscar Espinosa Chepe, Cuban-Spanish economist and journalist (died 2013)

Óscar Manuel Espinosa Chepe was a Cuban economist and dissident. He was one of approximately 75 dissidents arrested, tried and convicted in 2003 as part of a crackdown by the Cuban government nicknamed the "Black Spring". He was given a twenty-year sentence on a charge of "activities against the integrity and sovereignty of the State", causing Amnesty International to declare him as a prisoner of conscience.

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Chuck Mangione, American horn player and composer (died 2025)

Charles Frank Mangione was an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter, actor, and composer. He came to prominence as a member of Art Blakey's band in the 1960s, and later co-led the Jazz Brothers with his brother, Gap, achieving international success in 1978 with his jazz-pop single "Feels So Good". He released more than 30 albums, beginning in the 1960s. He also appeared in various television shows, including a recurring role on King of the Hill.

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Janet Smith, English lawyer and judge

Dame Janet Hilary Smith,, styled The Rt Hon. Lady Justice Smith, is an English barrister and former High Court Judge and President of the Council of The Inns of Court. She was the judge who prepared The Shipman Inquiry and the Dame Janet Smith Review.

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Henry T. Yang, Taiwanese/Chinese-American engineer and academic

Henry Tzu-Yow Yang is an American mechanical engineer who served as the 5th chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara from June 1994 to July 2025. With more than 31 years in office, he is the longest-serving chancellor in the history of the University of California. After leaving the chancellor's office, Yang continues to serve as distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at the UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering.

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29/11/1939

Peter Bergman, American comedian, actor and screenwriter (died 2012)

Peter Paul Bergman was an American comedian and writer, best known as the founder of the Firesign Theatre. He played Lt. Bradshaw in the Nick Danger series.

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Meco, American record producer and musician (died 2023)

Domenico Monardo, known as Meco, was an American record producer and musician, as well as the name of his band or production team. Meco is best known for his 1977 space disco version of the Star Wars theme from his album Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk; both the single and album were certified platinum in the US.

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29/11/1938

Johnny Crossan, Northern Irish footballer, author and sports analyst

John Andrew Crossan is a Northern Irish author, radio sports analyst, entrepreneur, and former footballer. His brother Eddie was also a player.

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29/11/1937

Eric Barnes, English footballer (died 2014)

Eric Barnes was an English professional footballer who played for Crewe Alexandra between 1957 and 1970.

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29/11/1936

Gregory Gillespie, American painter (died 2000)

Gregory Joseph Gillespie was an American magic realist painter.

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Bill Jenkins, American politician

William Lewis Jenkins is an American politician from the state of Tennessee. He represented the state's 1st congressional district, centered on the Tri-Cities, from 1997 until his successor was sworn in on January 3, 2007.

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29/11/1935

Thomas J. O'Brien, American bishop (died 2018)

Thomas Joseph O'Brien was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of Phoenix in Arizona from 1982 to 2003.

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29/11/1934

Willie Morris, American writer (died 1999)

William Weaks Morris was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi and raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Morris had a lyrical prose style which he lent to reflections on the American South, including Yazoo City and the Mississippi Delta. From 1967 to 1971 he was the editor of Harper's Magazine. He published more than 20 titles, works of both fiction and nonfiction, the best known of which are North Toward Home and My Dog Skip.

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29/11/1933

John Mayall, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2024)

John Brumwell Mayall was an English blues and rock musician, songwriter and producer. In the 1960s, he formed John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that has counted among its members some of the most famous blues and blues rock musicians of all time. A singer, guitarist, harmonica player, and keyboardist, he had a career that spanned nearly seven decades, remaining an active musician until his death aged 90. Mayall has often been referred to as the "godfather of the British blues", and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the musical influence category in 2024.

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James Rosenquist, American painter and illustrator (died 2017)

James Albert Rosenquist was an American artist and one of the proponents of the pop art movement. Drawing from his background working in sign painting, Rosenquist's pieces often explored the role of advertising and consumer culture in art and society, utilizing techniques he learned making commercial art to depict popular cultural icons and mundane everyday objects. While his works have often been compared to those from other key figures of the pop art movement, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist's pieces were unique in the way that they often employed elements of surrealism using fragments of advertisements and cultural imagery to emphasize the overwhelming nature of ads. He was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.

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29/11/1932

Ed Bickert, Canadian jazz guitarist (died 2019)

Edward Isaac Bickert, was a Canadian guitarist who played mainstream jazz and swing music. Bickert worked professionally from the mid-1950s to 2000, mainly in the Toronto area. His international reputation grew steadily from the mid-1970s onward as he recorded albums both as a bandleader and as a backing musician for Paul Desmond, Rosemary Clooney, and other artists, with whom he toured in North America, Europe and Japan.

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Jacques Chirac, French soldier and politician, 22nd President of France (died 2019)

Jacques René Chirac was a French politician who was President of France from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.

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John Gary, American singer and television host (died 1998)

John Gary was an American singer, recording artist, television host, and performer on the musical stage.

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Pierre Toubert, French historian (died 2025)

Pierre Toubert was a French historian. He was a professor of medieval history at the University of Paris and the Collège de France. Focusing on medieval history, his most monumental work is Les structures du Latium médiéval : Le Latium méridional et la Sabine du IXe siècle à la fin du XIIe siècle (1973), in which he outlines an influential, in-depth study of incastellamento in the Lazio region of Italy.

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29/11/1931

Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, director, and producer (died 1997)

Shintaro Katsu was a Japanese actor, singer, and filmmaker. He is known for starring in the Akumyo series, the Hoodlum Soldier series, the Hanzo the Razor series, and the Zatoichi series.

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29/11/1930

Shirley Porter, English politician, Lord Mayor of Westminster

Dame Shirley Porter, Lady Porter was a British politician who led Westminster City Council in London from 1983 to 1991, representing the Conservative Party. She was the daughter and heiress of Sir Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco supermarkets. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991 by John Major after delivering victory in Westminster for the Conservatives in the 1990 local elections.

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Vladimir Šenauer, Croatian footballer (died 2013)

Vladimir "Geza" Šenauer was a Croatian and Yugoslav professional footballer.

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Alan Lee Williams, English academic and politician

Alan Lee Williams OBE is a former president of the Atlantic Treaty Association, a British Labour Party politician, writer and visiting professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London.

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29/11/1929

Derek Jameson, English journalist and radio host (died 2012)

Derek Jameson was an English tabloid journalist and broadcaster. He began his career in the media in 1944 as a messenger at Reuters and worked his way up to become the editor of several British tabloid newspapers in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Woo Yong-gak, North Korean soldier (died 2012)

Woo Yong-gak was a North Korean commando who was released from incarceration in South Korea on 25 February 1999.

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29/11/1928

Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and educator (died 2021)

Tahir Salahov was a Soviet and Azerbaijani painter and draughtsman. He was First Secretary of the Artists' Union of the USSR (1973–1992), Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, member of over 20 academies and other creative organizations throughout the world, including the academies of art of France, Spain, Germany, and Austria. He was awarded the honorary titles People's Artist of the USSR (1973), and People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.

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Paul Simon, American soldier and politician, 39th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (died 2003)

Paul Martin Simon was an American author and politician from Illinois. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 and in the United States Senate from 1985 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he unsuccessfully ran for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.

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29/11/1927

Vin Scully, American sportscaster and game show host (died 2022)

Vincent Edward Scully was an American sportscaster, best known for his broadcast work in Major League Baseball. Scully was the play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers for 67 years, beginning in 1950 and ending in 2016.

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29/11/1926

Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisian lawyer and politician, President of Tunisia (died 2019)

Beji Caid Essebsi was a Tunisian politician who served as the fourth president of Tunisia from 2014 until his death in 2019. Previously, he served as minister of foreign affairs from 1981 to 1986 and prime minister from February to December 2011.

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29/11/1925

Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (died 2015)

Saturnino Orestes "Minnie" Armas Arrieta Miñoso, nicknamed "the Cuban Comet," was a Cuban professional baseball player. He began his baseball career in the Negro leagues in 1946 and became an All-Star third baseman with the New York Cubans. He was signed by the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB) after the 1948 season as baseball's color line fell. Miñoso went on to become an All-Star left fielder with the Indians and Chicago White Sox. The first Afro-Latino in the major leagues and the first black player in White Sox history, as a 1951 rookie, he was one of the first Latin Americans to play in an MLB All-Star Game.

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29/11/1923

Chuck Daigh, American race car driver (died 2008)

Charles George Daigh was an American racing car driver. He broke into Grand Prix racing through Lance Reventlow's Scarab team, by virtue of being one of the resident engineers. Born in Long Beach, California, he participated in six World Championship Formula One races, debuting on May 29, 1960, and scoring no championship points. He also participated in one non-Championship Formula One race.

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29/11/1922

Michael Howard, English-American historian, author, and academic (died 2019)

Sir Michael Eliot Howard was an English military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, and founder of the Department of War Studies, King's College London. In 1958, he co-founded the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

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29/11/1921

Jackie Stallone, American astrologer and wrestling promoter (died 2020)

Jacqueline Frances Stallone was an American astrologer, dancer and wrestling promoter. She was the mother of actor Sylvester Stallone, singer Frank Stallone, and actress Toni D'Alto, the last by her second husband Anthony Filiti.

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29/11/1920

Yegor Ligachyov, Russian engineer and politician (died 2021)

Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who was a high-ranking official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), and who continued an active political career in post-Soviet Russia. Originally an ally of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ligachev became a challenger to his leadership.

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Joseph Shivers, American chemist and academic, developed spandex (died 2014)

Joseph Clois Shivers Jr. was an American textile chemist who was based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, best known for his role in the structural development of Spandex, a thermoplastic elastomer, in the 1950s, while employed at DuPont.

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29/11/1919

Mildred Rebstock, American medicinal chemist (died 2011)

Mildred Catherine Rebstock was an American pharmaceutical chemist. She and her team were the first to fully synthesize chloromycetin, also known as chloramphenicol. This was the first instance of an antibiotic being fully synthesized. The World Health Organization classifies it as critically important for human medicine.

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Joe Weider, Canadian-American bodybuilder and publisher, co-founded the IFBB (died 2013)

Josef Weider was a Canadian publisher and entrepreneur who co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) alongside his brother Ben Weider. He was also the creator of Mr. Olympia, Ms. Olympia, and the Masters Olympia bodybuilding contests. He was the publisher of various bodybuilding and fitness-related magazines, most notably Muscle & Fitness, Flex, Men's Fitness, and Shape, and the manufacturer of a line of fitness equipment and fitness supplements. In 2014, he was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame.

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29/11/1918

Madeleine L'Engle, American author and poet (died 2007)

Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. L'Engle received the Newbery Medal for her 1962 children's book, A Wrinkle in Time. She also received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1998.

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29/11/1917

Pierre Gaspard-Huit, French director and screenwriter (died 2017)

Pierre Gaspard-Huit was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1963 film Shéhérazade, which starred Anna Karina. He was once married to actress Claudine Auger when she was 18, and he was 41 years old. She acted in several of his films.

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Merle Travis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1983)

Merle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, actor, and guitarist. Born in Rosewood, Kentucky, his songs' lyrics were often about the lives and the economic exploitation of American coal miners. Among his many well-known songs and recordings are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues", "I Am a Pilgrim", and "Dark as a Dungeon". He is best known today, though, for his unique guitar style, still called Travis picking by guitarists, as well as his interpretations of the rich musical traditions of his native Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Travis picking is a syncopated style of guitar fingerpicking rooted in ragtime music in which alternating chords and bass notes are plucked by the thumb, while melodies are plucked by the index finger. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977.

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29/11/1916

Fran Ryan, American actress and comedian (died 2000)

Frances Mary Ryan was an American character actress featured in television and films. She was born in Los Angeles, California.

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29/11/1915

Ludu Daw Amar, Burmese journalist and author (died 2008)

Ludu Daw Amar was a dissident writer and journalist based in Mandalay, Burma. She was married to fellow writer and journalist Ludu U Hla and was the mother of popular writer Nyi Pu Lay. She is best known for her outspoken anti-government views and left-wing journalism. She also produced work on traditional Burmese arts, including theatre, dance, and music, and translated several works from English, both fiction and non-fiction.

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Billy Strayhorn, American pianist and composer (died 1967)

William Thomas Strayhorn was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades. His compositions include "Take the 'A' Train", "Chelsea Bridge", "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing", and "Lush Life".

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29/11/1910

Elizabeth Choy, Malaysian-Singaporean educator and politician (died 2006)

Elizabeth Choy Su-Moi was a Singaporean educator and councillor who is regarded as a war heroine in Singapore. Along with her husband, Choy Khun Heng, she supplied medicine, money and messages to Far East prisoners of war and civilian internees held in Changi Prison during the Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II.

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Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian actor and director (died 1961)

Antanas Škėma was a Lithuanian writer, playwright, stage actor and director. His best known work is the novel Balta drobulė.

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29/11/1908

Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American pastor and politician (died 1972)

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971. He was the first African American to be elected to Congress from New York, as well as the first from any state in the Northeast. Re-elected for nearly three decades, Powell became a powerful national politician of the Democratic Party, and served as a national spokesman on civil rights and social issues. He also urged United States presidents to support emerging nations in Africa and Asia as they gained independence after colonialism.

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29/11/1906

Barbara C. Freeman, English writer and poet (died 1999)

Barbara Constance Freeman was an English writer and illustrator of books for children and young adults.

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29/11/1905

Marcel Lefebvre, French-Swiss archbishop and theologian (died 1991)

Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre was a French Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Dakar from 1955 to 1962. He was a major influence in modern traditionalist Catholicism, founding in 1970 the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) to train traditionalist seminarians. In 1988, Pope John Paul II declared that Lefebvre had been automatically excommunicated for consecrating four bishops that year without permission and despite the pope's express prohibition.

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29/11/1904

Margaret Barr, Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama (died 1991)

Margaret Barr was an Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama who worked in the United States, England, New Zealand and Australia. During a career of more than sixty years, she created over eighty works.

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29/11/1900

Mildred Gillars, American broadcaster, employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during WWII (died 1988)

Mildred Elizabeth Gillars was an American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate Axis propaganda during World War II. Following her capture in post-war Berlin, Gillars became the first woman to be convicted of treason against the United States. In March 1949, she was sentenced to ten to thirty years' imprisonment. Gillars was paroled in 1961. Along with Rita Zucca she was nicknamed "Axis Sally".

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29/11/1899

Andrija Artuković, Croatian Minister of Interior (died 1988)

Andrija Artuković was a Croatian lawyer, politician, and senior member of the fascist Ustaše movement, who served as the Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Justice in the Government of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II in Yugoslavia. He signed into law several racial laws against Serbs, Jews, and Roma, and was responsible for a string of concentration camps where civilians were tortured and murdered. He escaped to the United States after the war, where he lived until he was extradited to Yugoslavia in 1986. He was tried and found guilty of several mass killings in the NDH and was sentenced to death, but the sentence was not carried out due to his age and health. He died in custody in 1988.

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Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, oldest Italian person ever (died 2017)

Emma Martina Luigia Morano was an Italian supercentenarian. She was the world's oldest living person from 13 May 2016 until her death on 15 April 2017, aged 117 years and 137 days. She was also the last living person verified to have been born in the 1800s. She remains the oldest Italian person ever to be documented and the fourth-oldest European ever.

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29/11/1898

C. S. Lewis, British novelist, poet, and critic (died 1963)

Clive Staples Lewis was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles and The Problem of Pain.

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29/11/1895

Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (died 1976)

Berkeley William Enos, known professionally as Busby Berkeley, was an American film director and musical choreographer, best known for his collaboration with Warner Brothers in the early to mid-1930s. Berkeley devised elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns. His work used large numbers of showgirls and props as fantasy elements in kaleidoscopic on-screen performances.

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William Tubman, Liberian lawyer and politician, 19th President of Liberia (died 1971)

William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman was a Liberian politician. He was the 19th president of Liberia and the longest-serving president in the country's history, serving from his election in 1944 until his death in 1971.

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29/11/1891

Julius Raab, Austrian engineer and politician, 19th Chancellor of Austria (died 1964)

Julius Raab was an Austrian politician who served as Federal Chancellor of Austria from 1953 to 1961. Raab steered Allied-occupied Austria to independence, when he negotiated and signed the Austrian State Treaty in 1955. In internal politics Raab stood for a pragmatic "social partnership" and the "Grand coalition" of Austrian Conservatives and Social Democrats.

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29/11/1882

Henri Fabre, French pilot and engineer (died 1984)

Henri Fabre was a French aviator and the inventor of the first successful seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion.

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29/11/1881

Artur Phleps, Romanian-German general (died 1944)

Artur Gustav Martin Phleps was an Austro-Hungarian, Romanian and Nazi German army officer who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS in the Waffen-SS during World War II. An Austro-Hungarian Army officer before and during World War I, Phleps specialised in mountain warfare and logistics, and had been promoted to Oberstleutnant by the end of the war. During the interwar period he joined the Romanian Army, reaching the rank of General de divizie, and also became an adviser to King Carol. After he spoke out against the government, he was sidelined and asked to be dismissed from the army.

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29/11/1879

Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer (died 1963)

Jacob Thune Hansen Gade was a Danish violinist and composer, mostly of orchestral popular music. He is remembered today for a single tune, Jalousie.

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29/11/1876

Nellie Tayloe Ross, American educator and politician, 14th Governor of Wyoming (died 1977)

Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross was an American educator and politician who served as the 14th governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and as the 28th and first female director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953. She was the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state, and remains the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming. She was a Democrat and supported Prohibition.

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29/11/1874

Francis Dodd, Welsh-English painter and academic (died 1949)

Francis Edgar Dodd was a British portrait painter, landscape artist and printmaker.

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Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician and neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)

António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, known as simply Egas Moniz, was a Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern psychosurgery, having developed the surgical procedure leucotomy—​better known today as lobotomy—​for which he became the first Portuguese national to receive a Nobel Prize in 1949.

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29/11/1873

Suzan Rose Benedict, American mathematician and academic (died 1942)

Suzan Rose Benedict, sometimes spelled Susan Rose Benedict, was the first woman awarded a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and had a long teaching career at Smith College.

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29/11/1861

Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (died 1917)

Spyridon-Filiskos Samaras was a Greek composer particularly admired for his operas. His compositions were praised worldwide during his lifetime and he is arguably the most important composer of the Ionian School. Among his best-known works are the operas Flora mirabilis (1886) and Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle (1905). He also composed the music for the Olympic Hymn.

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29/11/1857

Theodor Escherich, German-Austrian pediatrician and academic (died 1911)

Theodor Escherich was a German-Austrian pediatrician and a professor at the University of Graz and the University of Vienna. He discovered and described the bacterium Escherichia coli.

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29/11/1856

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (died 1921)

Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann Hollweg was a German politician who was imperial chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917. He oversaw the German entry into World War I and played a key role during its first three years. He was replaced as chancellor in July 1917 due in large part to opposition to his policies by leaders in the military.

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29/11/1849

John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (died 1945)

Sir John Ambrose Fleming was a British electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the vacuum tube radio transmitter—with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made—and establishing the right-hand rule used in physics.

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29/11/1843

Gertrude Jekyll, British horticulturist and writer (died 1932)

Gertrude Jekyll was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1000 articles for magazines such as Country Life and William Robinson's The Garden. Jekyll has been described as "a premier influence in garden design" by British and American gardening enthusiasts.

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29/11/1835

Empress Dowager Cixi of China (died 1908)

Empress Dowager Cixi was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who periodically controlled the government of the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent from 1861 until her death in 1908.

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29/11/1832

Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet (died 1888)

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Alcott began writing from an early age.

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29/11/1831

Frederick Townsend Ward, American sailor and soldier (died 1862)

Frederick Townsend Ward was an American sailor and mercenary known for his military service in Imperial China during the Taiping Rebellion. He commanded the Ever Victorious Army, a joint Sino-foreign force, against the Taiping rebels. He remained in command of the Ever Victorious Army until his death in battle in 1862, after which leadership was taken over by Henry Andres Burgevine.

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29/11/1827

William Crichton, Scottish engineer and shipbuilder (died 1889)

William Crichton was a Scottish engineer and shipbuilder who spent most of his career in Turku, located in the Grand Duchy of Finland.

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29/11/1825

Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and psychologist (died 1893)

Jean-Martin Charcot was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He worked on groundbreaking work about hypnosis and hysteria, in particular with his hysteria patient Louise Augustine Gleizes. Charcot is known as "the founder of modern neurology", and his name has been associated with at least 15 medical eponyms, including various conditions sometimes referred to as Charcot diseases.

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29/11/1823

La Fayette Grover, American lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Oregon (died 1911)

La Fayette Grover was a Democratic politician and lawyer from the U.S. state of Oregon. He was the fourth governor of Oregon, represented Oregon in the United States House of Representatives, and served one term in the United States Senate.

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29/11/1818

George Brown, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 10th Premier of West Canada (died 1880)

George Brown was a Scottish Canadian journalist, politician, the founder of the town of Bothwell, and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He attended the Charlottetown and Quebec conferences. A noted Reform politician, he is best known as the founder and editor of the Toronto Globe, Canada's most influential newspaper at the time, and his leadership in the founding of the Liberal Party in 1867. He was an articulate champion of the grievances and anger of Upper Canada (Ontario). He played a major role in securing national unity. His career in active politics faltered after 1865, but he remained a powerful spokesman for the Liberal Party. He promoted westward expansion and opposed the policies of Conservative prime minister John A. Macdonald.

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29/11/1817

William Ellery Channing, American poet and author (died 1901)

William Ellery Channing II was an American Transcendentalist poet, nephew and namesake of the Unitarian preacher Dr. William Ellery Channing. His uncle was usually known as "Dr. Channing", while the nephew was commonly called "Ellery Channing", in print. The younger Ellery Channing was thought brilliant but undisciplined by many of his contemporaries. Amos Bronson Alcott famously said of him in 1871, "Whim, thy name is Channing." Nevertheless, the Transcendentalists thought his poetry among the best of their group's literary products.

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29/11/1816

Morrison Waite, American jurist and politician, 7th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1888)

Morrison Remick "Mott" Waite was an American attorney, jurist, and politician from Ohio who served as the seventh chief justice of the United States from 1874 until his death in 1888. During his tenure, the Waite Court took a narrow interpretation of federal authority related to laws and amendments that were enacted during the Reconstruction Era to expand the rights of freedmen and protect them from attacks by white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

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29/11/1803

Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and physicist (died 1853)

Christian Andreas Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. He formulated the principle – now known as the Doppler effect – that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer.

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Gottfried Semper, German architect and academic, designed the Semper Opera House (died 1879)

Gottfried Semper was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. He fled first to Zürich and later to London. He returned to Germany after the 1862 amnesty granted to the revolutionaries.

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29/11/1802

Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and author (died 1827)

Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist known for his stories and novels. Raised in Stuttgart and educated in Tübingen, he wrote fairy tales such as Der kleine Muck and Das kalte Herz, the historical romance Lichtenstein, and the parody Der Mann im Mond. He died of typhoid fever at age 24. Blending exotic and fantastic motifs with German settings, his tales remain popular in German-speaking countries.

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29/11/1799

Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher and academic (died 1888)

Amos Bronson Alcott was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a plant-based diet. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights.

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29/11/1798

Alexander Brullov, Russian painter and architect, designed the Pulkovo Observatory (died 1877)

Alexander Pavlovich Brullov, sometimes Brulloff, was a Russian artist associated with Russian Neoclassicism.

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Hamilton Rowan Gamble, American jurist and politician (died 1864)

Hamilton Rowan Gamble was an American jurist and politician who served as the Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court at the time of the Dred Scott case in 1852. Although his colleagues voted to overturn the 28-year precedent in Missouri of "once free always free," Gamble wrote a dissenting opinion. During the American Civil War, he was appointed as the 16th governor of Missouri by a Constitutional Convention after Union forces captured the state capital at Jefferson City and deposed the elected governor, Claiborne Jackson.

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29/11/1797

Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (died 1848)

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer of the early Romantic era, best known for his over 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century and a probable influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi. Donizetti was born in Bergamo in Lombardy. At an early age he was taken up by Simon Mayr who enrolled him with a full scholarship in a school which he had set up. There he received detailed musical training. Mayr was instrumental in obtaining a place for Donizetti at the Bologna Academy, where, at the age of 19, he wrote his first one-act opera, the comedy Il Pigmalione, which may never have been performed during his lifetime.

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29/11/1781

Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet and philosopher (died 1865)

Andrés de Jesús María y José Bello López was a Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist, whose political and literary works constitute an important part of Spanish American culture. Bello is featured on the old 2,000 Venezuelan bolívar and the 20,000 Chilean peso notes.

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29/11/1762

Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist (died 1833)

Pierre André Latreille was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare beetle species he found in the prison, Necrobia ruficollis.

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29/11/1752

The Public Universal Friend, American evangelist (died 1819)

The Public Universal Friend was an American preacher born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, to Quaker parents. After suffering a severe illness in 1776, the Friend claimed to have died and been reanimated as a genderless evangelist named the Public Universal Friend, and afterward shunned both birth name and all pronouns. In androgynous clothes, the Friend preached throughout the northeastern United States, attracting many followers who became the Society of Universal Friends.

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29/11/1705

Michael Christian Festing, English violinist and composer (died 1752)

Michael Christian Festing was an English violinist and composer. His reputation lies mostly on his work as a violin virtuoso.

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29/11/1690

Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (died 1747)

Christian Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst was a German prince of the House of Ascania, and the father of Catherine the Great of Russia.

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29/11/1627

John Ray, English biologist and botanist (died 1705)

John Ray was an English Christian naturalist and one of the earliest English parson-naturalists. Until 1670 he wrote his name as John Wray; from then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him". He published important works in the fields of botany, zoology and natural theology.

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29/11/1528

Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, English politician (died 1592)

Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, KB, PC was an English peer during the Tudor period. He was a staunch Roman Catholic, but unswervingly loyal to the Crown. Montagu was employed on diplomatic missions to the Pope in Rome and to Spain, and was 'highly esteemed for his prudence and wisdom' by Queen Elizabeth. In spite of his bold opposition to the Acts of Supremacy and Allegiance, which threatened the religious activities of the Roman Catholics, he never lost Queen Elizabeth's favour. He was one of the commissioners who tried Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587. In 1571 he was implicated in the Ridolfi Plot along with two of his Dacre brothers-in-law.

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29/11/1463

Andrea della Valle, Italian cardinal (died 1534)

Cardinal Andrea della Valle was an Italian clergyman and art collector.

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29/11/1422

Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont, English Baron (died 1460)

Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont was a scion of a leading noble family from northern England during the fifteenth century. Described by one historian as "quarrelsome, violent and contemptuous of all authority", Egremont was involved in numerous riots and disturbances in the northern localities, and became a leading figure in the internecine Percy–Neville feud. When the Wars of the Roses began mid-decade, Egremont fought for the king on the Lancastrian side, being killed five years later at the Battle of Northampton.

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29/11/1338

Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Belgian-English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1368)

Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence was an English prince, Earl of Ulster jure uxoris from 1347, Duke of Clarence from 1362, Guardian of England in 1345–46, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1361–66, Knight of the Garter from 1361, third son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. He was named after his birthplace, at Antwerp in the Duchy of Brabant.

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29/11/1310

John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, English Baron (died 1361)

John (II) de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray was the only son of John de Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray, by his first wife, Aline de Brewes, daughter of William de Braose, 2nd Baron Braose. He was born in Hovingham, Yorkshire.

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29/11/0826

William of Septimania, Frankish nobleman (died 850)

William of Septimania was the son of Bernard and Dhuoda. He was the count of Toulouse from 844 and count of Barcelona from 848.

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