Born on Sunday, 30th November – Famous Birthdays

30/11/2000

Jane Paknia, American musician

Jane Rosalyn Paknia is an American synthesizer player and composer from New York City. An accomplished trumpeter in her teenage years, her music in adulthood primarily focuses on dance-pop and electronic jazz. Her debut EP, Orchid Underneath, was released in 2024, and her second, Millions of Years of Longing, was released in 2025.

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30/11/1998

Grant Williams, American basketball player

Grant Dean Williams is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Williams played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers. He was drafted 22nd overall in the 2019 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics and reached the NBA Finals with the team in 2022. He has also played for the Dallas Mavericks.

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30/11/1995

Lancey Foux, British rapper and singer

Lance O. Omal, known professionally as Lancey Foux, is a British rapper and singer from Stratford, London. The Guardian credited Omal as "fundamental" to the development of the UK underground rap scene.

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30/11/1994

Sofia Araújo, Portuguese tennis player

Sofia Araújo is a Portuguese former professional tennis player and currently a professional padel player.

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Marko Daňo, Austrian-Slovak ice hockey player

Marko Daňo is an Austrian-born Slovak professional ice hockey right winger for HC Oceláři Třinec of the Czech Extraliga (ELH). He was originally drafted by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the first round, 27th overall, at the 2013 NHL Entry Draft and made his NHL debut in 2014. Before playing in the NHL, Daňo played professionally for Slovan Bratislava of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) for two seasons.

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30/11/1991

Agnatius Paasi, Tongan rugby league player

Agnatius Paasi is a Tongan professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for St Helens in the Super League and Tonga at international level.

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30/11/1990

Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, reigning six-time World Rapid Chess Champion, reigning nine-time World Blitz Chess Champion and the reigning FIDE Freestyle Chess World Champion. Carlsen has held the No. 1 position in the FIDE rankings since 1 July 2011, the longest consecutive period, and trails only Garry Kasparov in time spent as the highest-rated player in the world. Carlsen's peak rating of 2882 is the highest in history. He also holds the record for the longest unbeaten streak at the elite level in classical chess at 125 games.

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Antoine N'Gossan, Ivorian footballer

Jean-Etienne Antoine N'Gossan is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a midfielder.

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30/11/1989

Adelaide Clemens, Australian actress

Adelaide Clemens is an Australian actress. On television, she has played Harper on the W series Love My Way (2007), Valentine on the BBC/HBO series Parade's End (2012), Tawney on the Sundance TV series Rectify (2013–2016), and Blake on the CBS series Tommy (2020). In film, she has played Xandrie in Wasted on the Young (2010), Ladybird in Vampire (2011), Heather / Sharon in Silent Hill: Revelation (2012), Catherine in The Great Gatsby (2013), Hazel in To the Stars (2019), and Carey in The Swearing Jar (2022).

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Vladimír Weiss, Slovak footballer

Vladimír Weiss is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a winger or an attacking midfielder for Slovan Bratislava. The third Vladimír Weiss to play for his country, he comes from a footballing background with his grandfather and father both having played for the senior national team. He scored 8 goals in 77 national team appearances between 2009 and 2022.

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30/11/1988

Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (died 2014)

Phillip Joel Hughes was an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He was a left-handed opening batsman who played for two seasons with New South Wales before making his Test debut in 2009 at the age of 20. He made his ODI debut in 2013.

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Vitaliy Polyanskyi, Ukrainian footballer

Vitaliy Polyanskyi is a Ukrainian professional footballer, who lastly played for FK Utenis. He plays the position of defender. His former clubs include FC Olkom Melitopol, FC Pärnu Vaprus, FC Volyn Lutsk, FC Feniks-Illichovets Kalinine and Lithuanian side FK Mažeikiai.

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Rebecca Rittenhouse, American actress

Rebecca Rittenhouse is an American actress. She has played Cody LeFever in the ABC prime time soap opera Blood & Oil and Dr. Anna Ziev in the Hulu romantic comedy series The Mindy Project. In 2022, she played the title character in the comedy series Maggie, which was cancelled after 13 episodes and purged from the Hulu streaming service in 2023.

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Tomi Saarelma, Finnish footballer

Tomi Saarelma is a Finnish footballer who plays for Möhlin Riburg in the 6th highest level in Switzerland.

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30/11/1987

Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player

Vasilisa Alekseyevna Bardina is a Russian former professional tennis player.

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Christel Khalil, American actress

Christel Adnana Mina Khalil is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Lily Winters in The Young and the Restless, which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award in 2012. She is also known for providing the voice of Cornelia Hale in the animated adaptation of W.I.T.C.H..

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Naomi, American wrestler, model, and dancer

Trinity LaShawn Fatu is an American professional wrestler, dancer and actress. As of January 2024, she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Naomi.

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Daniel Noboa, Politician and businessman, President of Ecuador

Daniel Roy Gilchrist Noboa Azín is an Ecuadorian politician and businessman serving as the 48th and current president of Ecuador since 2023. Having first taken office at the age of 35, he is the second-youngest president in the country's history, after Juan José Flores, and the youngest to be elected.

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Dougie Poynter, English singer-songwriter and bass player

Dougie Lee Poynter is an English musician, songwriter, fashion model, aspiring clothing designer and children's author. He is the bassist of the pop rock band McFly. He won the eleventh series of the ITV reality series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.

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30/11/1986

Jordan Farmar, American basketball player

Jordan Robert Farmar is an American-Israeli former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In high school, he was named the Los Angeles Times High School Player of the Year in 2003–04. Playing college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, he was the Rivals.com National Freshman of the Year in 2004–05. Farmar was selected 26th overall in the first round of the 2006 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers. With the Lakers, he won two NBA championships in 2009 and 2010.

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Evgenia Linetskaya, Israeli tennis player

Evgenia Simonovna Linetskaya is an Israeli former professional tennis player.

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30/11/1985

Kaley Cuoco, American actress

Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American actress. She starred as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules (2002–2005), Penny on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019), and as the title character in the HBO Max comedic thriller The Flight Attendant (2020–2022). The lattermost earned her nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards.

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Hikari Mitsushima, Japanese actress and singer

Hikari Mitsushima is a Japanese actress, model and former singer. In 2017 she was the vocalist and dancer in Mondo Grosso's videos for "Labyrinth", which has garnered over 42 million views on YouTube as of December 2025, and "In this World".

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Chrissy Teigen, American model

Christine Diane Teigen is an American model, television personality, and author. She made her professional modeling debut in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, in 2010, and appeared on the 50th-anniversary cover alongside Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge, in 2014.

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Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player (died 2018)

Luis Adan Valbuena was a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder. He played eleven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 2008 through 2018, for the Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros, and Los Angeles Angels. While primarily a third baseman, Valbuena also played second base and first base. He was killed alongside José Castillo in a 2018 car crash in Venezuela caused by bandits in an attempted robbery.

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30/11/1984

Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer

Nigel de Jong is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He is currently the technical director of the KNVB, the national Dutch football federation. He has also worked as an English language pundit for beIN Sports covering Premier League and Champions League football as well as for ITV for Euro 2020 and the 2022 World Cup.

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Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer

Alan Hutton is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a right back.

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Olga Rypakova, Kazakhstani triple jumper

Olga Sergeyevna Rypakova ; 30 November 1984) is a former Kazakhstani track and field athlete. Originally a heptathlete, she switched to focus on the long jump and began to compete in the triple jump after 2007. Her first successes came in the combined events at Asian competitions – she won the women's pentathlon at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games and took the heptathlon gold at the 2006 Asian Games the following year.

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Francisco Sandaza, Spanish footballer

Francisco "Fran" José Sandaza Asensio is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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30/11/1983

Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer

Adrian Cristea is a former Romanian professional footballer who played as a winger.

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Vladislav Polyakov, Kazakhstani swimmer

Vladislav Vitalyevich Polyakov is a Kazakhstani swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. He swam for his native Kazakhstan at three Olympic Games, and eventually finished fifth in both 100 and 200 m breaststroke at his official Olympic debut in Athens. In total, he has won eight medals in major international tournaments, including his first career gold from the 2006 FINA World Short Course Championships in Shanghai, China. While residing in the United States, Polyakov is a five-time SEC champion, a double NCAA titleholder, and a two-time gold medalist at the national championships. He also earned a total of twelve All-American titles while playing for the Alabama Crimson Tide from 2003 to 2007.

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30/11/1982

Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress

Elisha Ann Cuthbert is a Canadian actress. As a child actress, she made her first televised appearance as an extra on Are You Afraid of the Dark? and co-hosted Popular Mechanics for Kids. She made her feature-film debut in the 1997 Canadian family drama Dancing on the Moon. Her first major lead role came in the 1998 drama film Airspeed alongside Joe Mantegna. In 2001, she starred in the movie Lucky Girl, for which she received her first award, the Gemini Awards.

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Jason Pominville, Canadian-American ice hockey player

Jason John Pominville is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey right winger. He played for the Buffalo Sabres and the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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30/11/1981

Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player

James Richard Harden is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, and Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball.

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30/11/1980

Cem Adrian, Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and director

Cem Filiz, better known by his stage name Cem Adrian, is a Turkish musician of Bosniak descent, singer-songwriter and record producer.

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Jamie Ashdown, English footballer

Jamie Lawrence Ashdown is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He spent a large part of his career at Portsmouth, for whom he made the majority of his professional appearances. He was an FA Cup finalist with Portsmouth in 2008 and 2010, and won the FA Vase with Ascot United in 2023.

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Shane Victorino, American baseball player

Shane Patrick Victorino, nicknamed "the Flyin' Hawaiian", is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He was primarily a switch-hitter until the 2013 season, when discomfort from various hamstring, back, and knee problems forced him to become an exclusively right-handed batter.

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30/11/1979

Chris Atkinson, Australian racing driver

Christopher James Atkinson is a professional rally driver. In the World Rally Championship (WRC), Atkinson drove for the Subaru World Rally Team between 2004 and 2008. His best finish on an individual WRC event is second, which he achieved at the 2008 Rally México and Rally Argentina. Other podium placings include third-place finishes at the 2005 Rally Japan and the 2008 Monte Carlo Rally.

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Andrés Nocioni, Italian-Argentine basketball player

Andrés Marcelo Nocioni is an Argentine former professional basketball player. He was a two-time All-EuroLeague selection before spending eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), from 2004 to 2012. Nocioni won a EuroLeague title in 2015, earning the EuroLeague Final Four MVP Award in the process.

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30/11/1978

Clay Aiken, American singer

Clayton Holmes Aiken is an American singer, television personality, actor and political activist. Aiken finished second place on the second season of American Idol in 2003, and his debut album, Measure of a Man, went multi-platinum. He released four more albums on the RCA label, Merry Christmas with Love (2004), A Thousand Different Ways (2006), the Christmas EP All is Well (2006), and On My Way Here (2008). Since then he has released two more albums, both with Decca Records: Tried and True (2010) and Steadfast (2012). Aiken has also had eleven tours in support of his albums. In all, he has sold over 5 million albums, and is the fourth-highest-selling American Idol alumnus.

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Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor and producer

Gael García Bernal is a Mexican actor and filmmaker. He is known for his performances in the films Amores perros (2000), Y tu mamá también (2001), Bad Education (2004), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Babel (2006), Coco (2017), Old (2021), Cassandro (2023) and Magellan (2025). On television, he portrayed music conductor Rodrigo De Souza in the series Mozart in the Jungle (2014–2018), and starred as the titular character in the Disney+ Marvel Studios Special Presentation Werewolf by Night (2022).

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Benjamin Lense, German footballer

Benjamin Lense is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. Lense made 64 appearances in the Bundesliga during his playing career.

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30/11/1977

Richard Elias Anderson, Canadian basketball player and coach

Richard Elias Anderson is a Canadian former professional basketball player who last played for the Halifax Rainmen at the center position. He is currently an assistant coach at Carleton University.

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Steve Aoki, American DJ and producer, founded Dim Mak Records

Steven Hiroyuki Aoki is an American DJ and record producer. In 2012, Pollstar designated Aoki as the highest-grossing electronic dance music artist in North America from tours. In 2024, Gold House recognized him as one of the Most Impactful Asians. He has collaborated with artists such as will.i.am, Alan Walker, Afrojack, LMFAO, Tini, Linkin Park, AGNEZ MO, Iggy Azalea, Grandson, Lil Jon, Blink-182, Taking Back Sunday, Laidback Luke, BTS, Monsta X, (G)I-dle, Louis Tomlinson, Backstreet Boys, Rise Against, Vini Vici, Lauren Jauregui, and Fall Out Boy and is known for his remixes of artists such as Kid Cudi.

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Iván Guerrero, Honduran footballer and manager

Mario Iván Guerrero Ramírez is a Honduran former footballer.

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Kazumi Saito, Japanese baseball player and coach

Kazumi Saito is a Japanese former professional baseball starting pitcher, and current fourth squad manager for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He was a two-time winner of the Eiji Sawamura Award, but did not pitch in a regular season game after October 2007 due to various shoulder injuries.

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Olivier Schoenfelder, French ice dancer and coach

Olivier Schoenfelder is a French retired ice dancer and coach. With partner Isabelle Delobel, he is the 2008 World champion, the 2007 European and the 2008 Grand Prix Final champion.

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30/11/1976

Marta Burgay, Italian astronomer

Marta Burgay is an Italian radio astronomer. Her initial claim to fame was being the discoverer of PSR J0737-3039, the first double pulsar, through using the 64-metre Parkes radio telescope in Australia.

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Marco Castro, Peruvian-American director and cinematographer

Marco Castro is a Peruvian make-up artist, film director, and entrepreneur.

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Andres Lacson, Filipino politician

Andres "Andy" David Lacson is a Filipino politician. He was a mayor of Concepcion, Tarlac and former Vice Chairman of Aksyon Demokratiko.

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Josh Lewsey, English rugby player

Owen Joshua Lewsey MBE is an English former rugby union player who represented England and the British and Irish Lions. Lewsey is a former British Army Officer.

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Paul Nuttall, British politician

Paul Andrew Nuttall is a British politician who has been the Deputy Chairman of Reform UK since July 2025. He served as Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2016 to 2017. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate, and served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England until 2019, sitting in the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group. He left UKIP in December 2018, criticising the party's association with far-right activist Tommy Robinson, and joined the Brexit Party, later Reform UK, in 2019.

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30/11/1975

Mark Blount, American basketball player

Mark D. Blount is an American former professional basketball center with four teams in the National Basketball Association between 2000 and 2009.

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Mindy McCready, American singer-songwriter (died 2013)

Malinda Gayle McCready was an American country music singer. Active from 1995 until her suicide in 2013, she recorded a total of five studio albums. Her debut album, 1996's Ten Thousand Angels, was released on BNA Records and was certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA, while 1997's If I Don't Stay the Night was certified Gold. 1999's I'm Not So Tough, her final album for BNA, was less successful, and she left the label. A self-titled fourth album followed in 2002 on Capitol Records. McCready's fifth and final studio album, I'm Still Here, was released in March 2010 on Iconic Records.

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Ben Thatcher, English footballer

Benjamin David Thatcher is a former professional footballer who played as a left-back.

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30/11/1973

Christian Cage, Canadian wrestler, actor, and podcaster

William Jason Reso is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under the ring name Christian Cage.

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30/11/1972

Christophe Beck, Canadian television and film score composer and conductor

Jean-Christophe Beck is a Canadian television and film score composer. He is best known for his collaborations with Disney and its subsidiaries, which include composing the soundtracks of The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Frozen (2013) and Frozen 2 (2019), the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) as well as the TV miniseries WandaVision (2021), Hawkeye (2021), and Agatha All Along (2024) for Marvel Studios, and Free Guy (2021) for 20th Century Studios, as well as Disney's 100th anniversary logo.

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Dan Jarvis, English soldier and politician

Daniel Owen Woolgar Jarvis is a British politician and former Army officer who has served as Minister of State for Security since 2024, and as Minister of State in the Cabinet Office since 2025. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley North, formerly Barnsley Central, since 2011. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, he was Mayor of South Yorkshire, formerly Sheffield City Region, from 2018 to 2022. Jarvis served as an officer in the Parachute Regiment from 1997 to 2011.

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Stanislav Kitto, Estonian footballer

Stanislav Kitto is a former professional footballer, who last played in Estonian Meistriliiga, for JK Trans Narva. He played the position of midfielder. His former clubs include FC TVMK Tallinn and FK Rīga.

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Abel Xavier, Portuguese footballer and manager

Abel Luís da Silva Costa Xavier is a Portuguese football manager and former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

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30/11/1971

Ray Durham, American baseball player

Ray Durham is an American former Major League Baseball second baseman. He is a 14-year major league veteran owning a .277 lifetime batting average with 1,249 runs scored, 2,054 hits, 440 doubles, 79 triples, 192 home runs, 875 run batted in (RBIs) and 273 stolen bases in 1,975 career games.

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30/11/1970

Phil Babb, English footballer and manager

Philip Andrew Babb is a sports television pundit and former professional football player and manager.

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Walter Emanuel Jones, American actor and dancer

Walter Emanuel Jones, also known as Tre Emanuel, is an American actor, martial artist, singer and dancer, known for playing the role of Zack Taylor, the first Black Ranger on the hit television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

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Natalie Williams, American basketball player and executive

Natalie Jean Williams is an American basketball executive and former player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Williams was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. She was also an accomplished volleyball player at UCLA. From 2022 to 2024, Williams served as the General Manager of the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces.

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30/11/1969

Marc Forster, German-Swiss director, producer, and screenwriter

Marc Forster is a German-Swiss filmmaker. He is best known for directing the feature films Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Stranger than Fiction, Quantum of Solace, World War Z, and Christopher Robin, and has additionally directed numerous television commercials. He is a British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Globe Awards, and Film Independent Spirit Awards nominee.

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Marc Goossens, Belgian racing driver

Marc Goossens, nicknamed "the Goose", is a Belgian professional racing driver that currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, priorly driving the No. 14 Chevrolet Camaro for SpeedHouse in the EuroNASCAR PRO class. He is now driving the No. 56 Chevrolet Camaro for CAAL Racing in the EuroNascar PRO class. He also currently manages 2022 and 2023 World Rally Champion Kalle Rovanperä in his road racing exploits.

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Chris Weitz, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Christopher John Weitz is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his work with his brother Paul on the comedy films American Pie and About a Boy; the latter earned the Weitz brothers a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Among his other main works, Weitz was one of the lead actors in the Mike White-directed film Chuck & Buck, directed the film adaptation of the novel The Golden Compass and the film adaptation of New Moon from the series of Twilight books, wrote the screenplay for Disney's 2015 live-action adaptation of Cinderella, and co-wrote Rogue One with Tony Gilroy and Antz with Todd Alcott and Paul.

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30/11/1968

Des'ree, English R&B singer-songwriter

Desirée Annette Weekes, known by her stage name Des'ree, is a British pop and soul recording artist and songwriter, who rose to prominence during the 1990s. Known for her distinctive contralto voice and uplifting lyrics, Des'ree's biggest hits include the singles "Feel So High", "You Gotta Be", and "Life", as well as the ballad "Kissing You", which featured on the soundtrack of the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet. She was named Best British Female at the 1999 Brit Awards. Her other accolades include an Ivor Novello Award, a World Music Award, and four BMI Awards.

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Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist and sportscaster

Laurent Jalabert is a French former professional road racing cyclist, from 1989 to 2002. Despite neither denying nor admitting using EPO in his notorious cycling teams throughout the 1990s, French Senate investigation proved his EPO use in 2013.

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30/11/1967

Joseph Corré, English fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Agent Provocateur

Joseph Ferdinand Corré is a British activist and businessman, who co-founded Agent Provocateur in 1994.

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Rajiv Dixit, Indian author and activist (died 2010)

Rajiv Dixit was an Indian social activist who founded the Azadi Bachao Andolan. His organisation promoted a message of swadeshi-economics that opposed globalisation and neo-liberalism. In alliance with Ramdev, he formed the Bharat Swabhiman Andolan and its political offshoot, which combined the economic message with promotion of yoga and Ayurveda.

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Richard Harry, Australian rugby player

Richard Lewis Lloyd Harry is an Australian former rugby union player who played as a prop.

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30/11/1966

Nigel Adams, English businessman and politician

Nigel Adams is a British former politician who served as Minister of State without Portfolio at the Cabinet Office from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Selby and Ainsty from 2010 until his resignation in 2023.

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David Berkoff, American swimmer

David "Dave" Charles Berkoff is an American former competition Hall of Fame swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two events. Berkoff was a backstroke specialist who won a total of four medals during his career at the Olympic Games in 1988 and 1992. He is best known for breaking the world record for the 100-meter backstroke three times, beginning at the 1988 Olympic trial preliminaries, becoming the first swimmer to go under 55 seconds for the event. He is also remembered for his powerful underwater backstroke start, the eponymous "Berkoff Blastoff" which after a strong push-off from the side of the pool used a horizontal body position with locked arms outstretched overhead and an undulating or wavelike aerodynamic dolphin kick to provide thrust and build speed.

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John Bishop, English comedian, presenter, and actor

John Bishop is an English comedian, presenter, actor, and former semiprofessional footballer. His first television appearance was in 2007 on the RTÉ topical-comedy show The Panel, where he was a regular panelist until 2008. He subsequently appeared in series three and four of the E4 teen drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish. He has also hosted his own shows, such as John Bishop's Britain (2010–2011), John Bishop's Only Joking (2013), and two versions of The John Bishop Show. He also has played the companion Dan Lewis of the Thirteenth Doctor in Doctor Who from 2021 to 2022. He had a regular Sunday slot on Liverpool radio station Radio City called Bishop's Sunday Service. He is also known for his charity work, most notably raising £4.2 million for Sport Relief 2012.

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Philippe Bozon, French ice hockey player

Philippe Bozon is a French former professional ice hockey player who played for the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League (NHL) between the 1991–92 and 1994-95 seasons. He is the first of only seven French-born and trained players to appear in the NHL, the other six being Cristobal Huet, Stéphane Da Costa, Antoine Roussel, Pierre-Édouard Bellemare, Yohann Auvitu, and Alexandre Texier. He is currently the head coach for Boxers de Bordeaux of the Ligue Magnus. His international playing career was recognized with induction into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2008.

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David Nicholls, English author and screenwriter

David Alan Nicholls is a British novelist and screenwriter. Initially an actor after graduating from college, he became a screenwriter, notably creating the television series Rescue Me (2002) and adaptations of novels, plays, and memoirs. He is the author of six novels.

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Mika Salo, Finnish racing driver

Mika Juhani Salo is a Finnish former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1994 to 2002. In sportscar racing, Salo won the 2007 American Le Mans Series title, as well as winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2008 and 2009 in the GT2 class. He also won the 2014 Bathurst 12 Hour.

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30/11/1965

Aldair, Brazilian footballer

Aldair Nascimento dos Santos, known simply as Aldair, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a centre back, and who was part of the Brazil national team that won the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

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Fumihito, Prince Akishino, Japanese royal (younger brother of Emperor Naruhito and first in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne)

Fumihito, Crown Prince Akishino is the heir presumptive to the Japanese throne. He is the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, and the younger son of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko. Since his marriage in June 1990, he has had the title Prince Akishino and has headed the Akishino branch of the Imperial House of Japan.

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David Laws, English banker and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury

David Anthony Laws is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Yeovil from 2001 to 2015. A member of the Liberal Democrats, in his third parliament he served at the outset as a Cabinet Minister, in 2010, as Chief Secretary to the Treasury; as well as later concurrently as Minister of State for Schools and Minister Assisting the Deputy Prime Minister – an office where he worked cross-departmentally on implementing the coalition agreement in policies - from 2012 to 2015.

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Ben Stiller, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter

Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. Known for his blend of slapstick humor and sharp wit, Stiller rose to fame through comedies such as There's Something About Mary (1998), Zoolander (2001), and Tropic Thunder (2008). Stiller is also known for his work in franchises such as the Meet the Parents films (2000–present), the Madagascar franchise (2005–2012), and the Night at the Museum films (2006–2014). His films have grossed more than $2.6 billion in Canada and the United States, with an average of $79 million per film. His awards and honors include an Emmy Award, a Directors Guild of America Award, a Britannia Award and a Teen Choice Award.

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30/11/1964

Jushin Thunder Liger, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist

Keiichi Yamada , better known as Jushin Liger and later Jushin Thunder Liger , is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) as a trainer. He is the longest-tenured member of the NJPW roster, having worked for the company since his professional wrestling debut in 1984. Throughout his career, which spanned three-and-a-half decades, he wrestled over 4,000 matches and performed in major events for various promotions across the globe.

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30/11/1962

Jimmy Del Ray, American wrestler and manager (died 2014)

David Everett Ferrier was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Gigolo" Jimmy Del Ray. Del Ray was best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as one half of the Heavenly Bodies with his tag team partner, Tom Prichard.

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Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player

Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson is an American former professional baseball and football player. He is the only professional athlete in history to have been named an All-Star in two major American sports. Jackson's achievements at the elite levels of multiple sports have given him a reputation as one of the greatest athletes of all time.

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Daniel Keys Moran, American computer programmer and author

Daniel Keys Moran, also known by his initials DKM, is an American computer programmer and science fiction writer.

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30/11/1961

Innocent Egbunike, Nigerian sprinter and coach

Innocent Ejima Egbunike is a former sprinter from Nigeria.

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Ian Morris, Trinidadian footballer and sprinter

Ian "Frinty" Morris is a retired male track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 400 metres. A former soccer player for the Siparia Angels in South Trinidad, he did not take up athletics until the age of 23. He occasionally ran the 200 metres, and even competed in the 800 metres at the 1987 World Indoor Championships. He is now a member of the Siparia Rhythm Section.He is also the Coach of the Siparia Athletics Club.

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30/11/1960

Bill Halter, American scholar, activist, and politician, 14th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas

William A. Halter Jr is an American politician who served as the 18th lieutenant governor of Arkansas from 2007 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to succeed the late Republican Winthrop Paul Rockefeller in 2006, defeating Republican challenger Jim Holt.

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Gary Lineker, English footballer and sportscaster

Gary Winston Lineker is an English sports broadcaster and former professional footballer who played as a striker. Regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one of England's greatest players, Lineker is the only player to have been the top goalscorer in England with three clubs: Leicester City, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. He also played for Barcelona in Spain, and won 80 caps for England. His media career began with the BBC, where he presented the flagship football programme Match of the Day from 1999 until 2025, the longest tenure of any MOTD presenter. Lineker was also the BBC's lead presenter for live football matches, including coverage of international tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup. He has also worked for Al Jazeera Sports, Eredivisie Live, NBC Sports Network, and BT Sport's coverage of the UEFA Champions League.

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Michael O'Connor, Australian rugby player

Michael David O'Connor is an Australian former rugby league and rugby union footballer who represented Australia in both codes. He played for the Wallabies in 13 Tests from 1979 to 1982 and then the Kangaroos in 17 Tests from 1985 to 1990. O'Connor played club football in the NSWRL Premiership for the St. George Dragons from 1983 until 1986, and later the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles from 1987 until his retirement at the end of 1992, becoming captain of Manly in 1990, as well as winning the 1987 Winfield Cup with the Sea Eagles.

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Bob Tewksbury, American baseball player and coach

Robert Alan Tewksbury is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres and the Minnesota Twins.

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Ron Simons, American theatre producer and actor (died 2024)

Ronald Keith Simons was an American actor and producer. He was a four-time Tony Award winner.

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30/11/1959

Cherie Currie, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress

Cherie Currie is an American singer, musician, actress, and artist. Currie was the lead vocalist of the Runaways, a rock band from Los Angeles, in the mid-to-late 1970s. She later became a solo artist. Currie and her identical twin sister, Marie Currie, released the album Messin' With The Boys in 1980 as Cherie & Marie Currie. Their duet "Since You Been Gone" reached number 95 on US charts. She is also known for her role in the 1980 film Foxes.

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Lorraine Kelly, Scottish journalist and actress

Lorraine Kelly is a Scottish television presenter. She has presented various television shows for ITV and STV, including Good Morning Britain (1988–1992), GMTV (1993–2010), This Morning, Daybreak (2012–2014), The Sun Military Awards (2016–present), STV Children's Appeal (2016–present), and her eponymous programme Lorraine (2010–present).

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Hugo Swire, English soldier and politician, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

Hugo George William Swire, Baron Swire, is a British politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Devon from 2001 until 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he has had several ministerial roles, most recently as Minister of State for Europe and the Americas, a role he held until July 2016. Swire is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council. He retired from the House of Commons at the 2019 general election. Since 2022 he has been a member of the House of Lords.

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30/11/1958

Stacey Q, American pop singer-songwriter, dancer and actress

Stacey Lynn Swain, known by her stage name Stacey Q, is an American pop singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. Her best-known single, "Two of Hearts", released in 1986, reached number one in Canada, number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the top ten in five other countries.

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30/11/1957

John Ashton, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer

John Geza Ashton is an English musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer, with a career spanning more than 40 years. He is best known as the guitarist of the Psychedelic Furs.

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Richard Barbieri, English keyboard player and songwriter

Richard Barbieri is an English musician, composer and sound designer. Originally a member of new wave band Japan, he became the keyboard player in the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree in 1993. Besides its founder Steven Wilson, he is the longest tenured member of Porcupine Tree.

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Joël Champetier, Canadian author and screenwriter (died 2015)

Joël Champetier was a French-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author.

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Thomas McElwee, Irish Republican and hunger striker (died 1981)

Thomas McElwee was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer who participated in the 1981 hunger strike. From Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, he died at the age of 23 after 62 days on hunger strike.

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Patrick McLoughlin, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Transport

Patrick Allen McLoughlin, Baron McLoughlin, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he first became the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Derbyshire following the 1986 by-election. The constituency became the Derbyshire Dales for the 2010 general election; McLoughlin remained the seat's MP until 2019.

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Colin Mochrie, Scottish-Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter

Colin Andrew Mochrie is a Scottish-born Canadian actor and improv comedian, best known for his appearances on the British and American versions of the improvisational TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, having appeared on every American Whose Line? episode throughout both its runs.

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Margaret Spellings, American educator and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Education

Margaret M. LaMontagne Spellings is an American government and non-profit executive who serves as president and CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center. She previously served as the eighth United States secretary of education from 2005 to 2009. After leaving the government, Spellings served as president of the University of North Carolina System, overseeing the seventeen campus system from 2016 to 2019. She then served as president and CEO of Texas 2036 from 2019 to 2023.

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30/11/1955

Michael Beschloss, American historian and author

Michael Richard Beschloss is an American historian specializing in the United States presidency. He is the author of nine books on the presidency.

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Richard Burr, American businessman, academic, and politician

Richard Mauze Burr is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from North Carolina from 2005 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Burr was previously a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2005.

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Kevin Conroy, American actor (died 2022)

Kevin Conroy was an American actor. He appeared in a variety of stage performances, television series, and television films. Conroy earned fame for voicing the DC Comics superhero Batman in various animated media, beginning with Batman: The Animated Series in 1992. Conroy went on to voice the character for dozens of animated television series, feature films, and video games over the next three decades.

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Andy Gray, Scottish footballer and sportscaster

Andrew Mullen Gray is a Scottish football broadcaster and former player.

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Billy Idol, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

William Michael Albert Broad, known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English rock singer. He achieved fame in the 1970s on the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of Generation X. He later embarked on a solo career which led to international recognition and made him a lead artist during the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" in America.

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30/11/1954

Wayne Bartholomew, Australian surfer

Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew is an Australian world champion surfer, surf sports innovator, community advocate and politician. Bartholomew is the former CEO and president of the Association of Surfing Professionals and the creator of the Dream Tour format of professional competition surfing.

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Lawrence Summers, American economist and academic

Lawrence Henry Summers is an American economist. He served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001, the 27th president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006, and the eighth director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He was the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard Kennedy School until his resignation in February 2026.

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30/11/1953

Shuggie Otis, American singer-songwriter and musician

Johnny Shuggie Otis is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist.

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June Pointer, American singer and actress (died 2006)

June Antoinette Pointer was an American singer, best known as the youngest of the founding members of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters.

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David Sancious, American rock and jazz keyboard player and guitarist

David Sancious is an American musician. He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, the E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums, and again on Human Touch (1992), Tracks (1998), and Western Stars (2019). Sancious is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known as a keyboard player and guitarist. He left the E Street Band in 1974 to form his own band, Tone, and released several albums. He subsequently became a popular session and touring musician, most notably for Stanley Clarke, Narada Michael Walden, Zucchero Fornaciari, Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Jack Bruce, and Sting among many others. In 2014, Sancious was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band.

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30/11/1952

Semyon Bychkov, Russian-American conductor

Semyon Mayevich Bychkov is a Soviet-born American conductor. He is the chief conductor and artistic director of the Czech Philharmonic.

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Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer

Mandel Bruce Patinkin is an American actor and singer in musical theatre, television, and film. As a Broadway performer, he has collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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30/11/1951

Daniel Petrie, Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter

Daniel Mannix Petrie Jr. is a Canadian-American producer, writer, and director of film and television. He is best known for pioneering the sub-genres of action comedy and buddy cop films through films like Beverly Hills Cop and Turner & Hooch. He served as President of the Writers Guild of America, West between 1997 and 1999, and then again between 2004 and 2005. He currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors at the Writers Guild Foundation.

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30/11/1950

Patricia Ann Tracey, American Naval Vice Admiral

Patricia Ann Tracey is a retired United States naval officer and the first woman to be promoted to the rank of vice admiral in the United States Navy. She held the positions of chief of naval education and training (CNET) (1996–98), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy (1998–2001), and director of navy staff from 2001 until the time of her retirement on October 1, 2004. At that time, she was also the all-time senior-ranking female officer in the United States military.

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Paul Westphal, American basketball player and coach (died 2021)

Paul Douglas Westphal was an American basketball player and coach.

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30/11/1949

Jim Chones, American basketball player

James Bernett "Bunny" Chones is an American former professional basketball player, and current radio analyst for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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Matthew Festing, 79th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (died 2021)

Fra' Robert Matthew Festing GCStJ OBE TD DL was an English Roman Catholic official who was the Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 2008 until his resignation on 28 January 2017, following a dispute with the Vatican.

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Jimmy London, Jamaican singer-songwriter

Jimmy London is a Jamaican reggae singer who first recorded in the late 1960s, and achieved chart success both in Jamaica and the United Kingdom in the early and mid-1970s.

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Matti Caspi, Israeli singer-songwriter (died 2026)

Matti Caspi was an Israeli composer, musician, singer, arranger and lyricist. He has been hailed as one of Israel's most beloved and prolific musicians.

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30/11/1947

Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean-Swedish poet and translator

Sergio Badilla Castillo is a Chilean poet who is the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry. He is considered the Latin American poet with the broadest Nordic influence, from the Finnish poets, Edith Södergran, Elmer Diktonius, Paavo Haavikko, Pentti Saarikoski and the Swedes Gunnar Ekelöf, Tomas Tranströmer and Lars Gustafsson.

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David Mamet, American playwright, screenwriter, and director

David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, author, and filmmaker. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of 1970s off-Broadway plays: The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo. His plays Race and The Penitent, respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017.

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30/11/1946

George Duffield, English jockey and trainer

George Duffield MBE is an English retired flat racing jockey.

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30/11/1945

Hilary Armstrong, Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Hilary Jane Armstrong, Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top,, is a British Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Durham from 1987 to 2010.

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Roger Glover, Welsh bass player, songwriter, and producer

Roger David Glover is a Welsh bassist, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as a member of the hard rock bands Deep Purple and Rainbow. As a member of Deep Purple, Glover was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2016.

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Vani Jairam, Indian playback singer (died 2023)

Vani Jairam was an Indian playback singer in Indian cinema. She is referred to as the "Meera of modern India" Vani's career started in 1971 and has spanned over five decades. She did playback for over one thousand Indian movies recording over 20,000 songs. In addition, she recorded thousands of devotionals and private albums and also participated in numerous solo concerts in India and abroad.

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John R. Powers, American author and playwright (died 2013)

John R. Powers was an American novelist and playwright.

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30/11/1944

George Graham, Scottish footballer and manager

George Graham is a Scottish former football player and manager.

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30/11/1943

Norma Alarcón, American author and professor

Norma Alarcón is a Chicana author and publisher in the United States. She is the founder of Third Woman Press and a major figure in Chicana feminism. She is Professor Emerita of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Terrence Malick, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Terrence Frederick Malick is an American filmmaker. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood generation of filmmakers and received numerous accolades, including the Palme d'Or and the Golden Bear, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a DGA Award, and a WGA Award.

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30/11/1941

Phil Willis, Baron Willis of Knaresborough, English politician

George Philip Willis, Baron Willis of Knaresborough is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrogate and Knaresborough from 1997 until retiring at the 2010 general election. Up to that date he was the chair of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.

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30/11/1940

Kevin Phillips, American political analyst and author (died 2023)

Kevin Price Phillips was an American writer and commentator on politics, economics, and history. He emerged as a Republican Party strategist who helped devise its Southern Strategy in the 1960s. Phillips became disaffected with the party by the 1990s, subsequently leaving it to become an independent and staunch critic of the Republicans. He was a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, Harper's Magazine, and National Public Radio, and was a political analyst on PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers.

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Dan Tieman, American basketball player and coach (died 2012)

Daniel Theodore Tieman was an American basketball player, coach, and teacher.

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30/11/1938

Jean Eustache, French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1981)

Jean Eustache was a French film director and editor. During his short career, he completed numerous short films, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, The Mother and the Whore, is considered a key work of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema.

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John M. Goldman, English haematologist and oncologist (died 2013)

John M. Goldman was a British haematologist, oncologist and medical researcher. A specialist in chronic myeloid leukaemia, Goldman conducted pioneering research into leukaemia treatment – he was instrumental in the development of bone marrow transplantation as a clinical method, and later in the development of the drug imatinib. He was also a prolific author of scientific papers, was involved with numerous medical charities and had a decades-long surgical career at Hammersmith Hospital, London.

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30/11/1937

Jimmy Bowen, American record producer, songwriter, and pop singer

James Albert Bowen is an American record producer and former rockabilly singer. Bowen brought Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood together, and introduced Sinatra to Mel Tillis for their album, Mel & Nancy.

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Praveen Chaudhari, Indian-American physicist and academic (died 2010)

Praveen Chaudhari was an Indian American physicist who has contributed to the field of material physics. His research focused on structure and properties of amorphous solids, defects in solids, mechanical properties of thin films, superconductivity, quantum transport in disordered systems, liquid crystal alignment on substrates, and the magnetic monopole experiment. He published numerous papers and filed 22 patents, most notably one for the erasable read-write compact discs which are commonly used to burn music.

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Frank Ifield, English-Australian singer and guitarist (died 2024)

Francis Edward Ifield was an Australian country music singer and guitarist who often incorporated yodelling into his music.

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Luther Ingram, American R&B/soul singer-songwriter (died 2007)

Luther Thomas Ingram was an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter. His most successful record, "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right", reached No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart and No. 3 on the Hot 100 in 1972.

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Ridley Scott, English director, producer, and production designer

Sir Ridley Scott is an English filmmaker. His work includes science fiction, crime, and historical epic films, with an atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. He ranks among the highest-grossing directors, with his films grossing a cumulative $5 billion worldwide. He has received many accolades, including the BAFTA Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in 2018, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003, and appointed a Knight Grand Cross by King Charles III in 2024.

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Tom Simpson, English cyclist (died 1967)

Thomas Simpson was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. He was born in Haswell, County Durham, and later moved to Harworth, Nottinghamshire. Simpson began road cycling as a teenager before taking up track cycling, specialising in pursuit races. He won a bronze medal for track cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.

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Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese-American physician and author

Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲) is a Chinese-American author and physician. She grew up in Tianjin, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and is known for her autobiography Falling Leaves.

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30/11/1936

Dmitri Anosov, Russian mathematician and academic (died 2014)

Dmitri Victorovich Anosov was a Russian mathematician active during the Soviet Union. He is best known for his contributions to dynamical systems theory.

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Abbie Hoffman, American activist and author, co-founded the Youth International Party (died 1989)

Abbot Howard Hoffman was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven. He was also a leading proponent of the Flower Power movement.

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30/11/1935

Woody Allen, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Heywood "Woody" Allen is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning eight decades, he has written for film, television, and theater. Allen has received many accolades, including the most wins and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has won four Academy Awards, ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Allen has also received numerous honors, including an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

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30/11/1934

Marcel Prud'homme, Canadian politician (died 2017)

Marcel Prud'homme, was a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Senate and the House of Commons of Canada.

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30/11/1933

Norman Deeley, English footballer and manager (died 2007)

Norman Victor Deeley was an English professional footballer, who spent the majority of his league career with Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored two goals in the 1960 FA Cup Final, in a performance that won him the Man of the Match award. He also won the league title three times with Wolves and was capped twice by England.

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Sam Gilliam, American painter and educator (died 2022)

Sam Gilliam was an American abstract painter, sculptor, and arts educator. Born in Mississippi and raised in Kentucky, Gilliam spent his entire adult life in Washington, D.C., eventually being described as the "dean" of the city's arts community. Originally associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington-area artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s, Gilliam moved beyond the group's core aesthetics of flat fields of color in the mid-60s by introducing both process and sculptural elements to his paintings.

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30/11/1932

Bob Moore, American bassist (died 2021)

Bob Loyce Moore was an American session musician, orchestra leader, and double bassist who was a member of the Nashville A-Team during the 1950s and 1960s. He performed on over 17,000 documented recording sessions, backing popular acts such as Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison. Bob was also the father of multi-instrumentalist R. Stevie Moore, who pioneered lo-fi/DIY music. The New York Times called him "an architect of the Nashville Sound of the 1950s and '60s" in his obituary.

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Cho Nam-chul, South Korean Go player (died 2006)

Cho Namchul was a professional Go player. He died of natural causes in Seoul at the age of 83.

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30/11/1931

Vivian Lynn, New Zealand artist (died 2018)

Vivian Isabella Lynn was a New Zealand artist.

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Bill Walsh, American football player and coach (died 2007)

William Ernest Walsh was an American professional and college football coach. He served as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense. After retiring from the 49ers, Walsh worked as a sports broadcaster for several years and then returned as head coach at Stanford for three seasons.

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Margot Zemach, American author and illustrator (died 1989)

Margot Zemach was an American illustrator of more than forty children's books, some of which she also wrote. Many were adaptations of folk tales from around the world, especially Yiddish and other Eastern European stories. She and her husband Harvey Fischtrom, writing as Harve Zemach, collaborated on several picture books including Duffy and the Devil for which she won the 1974 Caldecott Medal.

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30/11/1930

G. Gordon Liddy, American lawyer, radio host, television actor and criminal (died 2021)

George Gordon Battle Liddy was an American lawyer and FBI agent who was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration.

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30/11/1929

Dick Clark, American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (died 2012)

Richard Wagstaff Clark was an American television and radio personality and television producer who hosted American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989. He also hosted five incarnations of the Pyramid game show from 1973 to 1988 and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which broadcast New Year's Eve celebrations in New York City's Times Square.

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Joan Ganz Cooney, American screenwriter and producer, co-created Sesame Street

Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television writer and producer. She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop, the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street, which was co-created by her. Cooney grew up in Phoenix and earned a Bachelor of Arts in education from the University of Arizona in 1951. After working for the State Department in Washington, D.C., and as a journalist in Phoenix, she worked as a publicist for television and production companies in New York City. In 1961, she became interested in working for educational television, and became a documentary producer for New York's first educational TV station WNET. Many of the programs she produced won local Emmys.

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30/11/1928

Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician 68th Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan (died 2014)

Takako Doi was a Japanese politician. She was leader of the Japan Socialist Party from 1986 to 1991 and its successor party the Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2003. In the former role, she became the first female leader of a major Japanese political party, and the country's first female opposition leader. Doi's leadership and the result of the 1989 Upper House elections are considered watershed moments for female political participation in Japan.

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Joe B. Hall, American basketball player and coach (died 2022)

Joe Beasman Hall was an American college basketball coach. He was the head coach at the University of Kentucky from 1972 to 1985, leading the Wildcats to a national championship in 1978.

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Steele Hall, Australian politician, 36th Premier of South Australia (died 2024)

Raymond Steele Hall was an Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970. He also served in the federal Parliament as a senator for South Australia from 1974 to 1977 and federal member for the Division of Boothby from 1981 to 1996.

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Andres Narvasa, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (died 2013)

Andres dela Rosa Narvasa was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from December 1, 1991, to November 30, 1998.

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Elmira Nazirova, Azerbaijani composer (died 2014)

Elmira Mirza Rza-kyzy Nazirova was an Azerbaijani composer. Born to a Georgian Jewish family, she was a child prodigy who excelled at music and trained at the Azerbaijan State Conservatory for several years. At 14, she became one of the youngest members of the Composers Union of Azerbaijan. Nazirova performed abroad, where her talent was recognised by prominent musicians, and she pursued an education at the Moscow Conservatory. Through her education there, she met and became lifelong friends with Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich, having significant impact on his work, particularly his Tenth Symphony.

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30/11/1927

Robert Guillaume, American actor and singer (died 2017)

Robert Guillaume was an American actor and singer. He played Benson DuBois in the ABC television series Soap and its spin-off, Benson. He also voiced the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King, and played Isaac Jaffe in Aaron Sorkin's dramedy Sports Night.

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30/11/1926

Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, Bolivian architect and art historian (died 2018)

Teresa Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa was a Bolivian architect and art historian. She specialized in the history of the Andean region.

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Richard Crenna, American actor, director, and producer (died 2003)

Richard Donald Crenna was an American actor and television director.

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Andrew Schally, Polish-American endocrinologist (died 2024)

Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally was a Polish-American endocrinologist who was a co-recipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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30/11/1925

Maryon Pittman Allen, American journalist and politician (died 2018)

Maryon Allen was an American journalist who served as United States Senator from Alabama for five months in 1978, after her husband, Senator James B. Allen, died in office. She held no public office prior to her appointment to her husband's old senate seat. She was appointed by Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace.

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William H. Gates, Sr., American lawyer and philanthropist (died 2020)

William Henry Gates II, better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader. He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates, and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. He was the father of Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft.

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30/11/1924

Elliott Blackstone, American police officer and activist (died 2006)

Elliott R. Blackstone was a sergeant in the San Francisco Police Department, known as a longtime advocate for the lesbian, gay and transgender community in that city.

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Shirley Chisholm, American activist, educator and politician (died 2005)

Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Throughout her career, she was known for taking "a resolute stand against economic, social, and political injustices", as well as being a strong supporter of black civil rights and women's rights.

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Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian, singer, producer, and screenwriter (died 1973)

Allan Sherman was an American musician, comedian, and television producer who became known as a song parodist in the early 1960s. His first album, My Son, the Folk Singer (1962), became the fastest-selling record album up to that time. His biggest hit was "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", a comic song in which a boy describes his summer camp experiences to the tune of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours.

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30/11/1920

Virginia Mayo, American actress (died 2005)

Virginia Mayo was an American actress. She was in a series of popular comedy films with Danny Kaye and was Warner Bros.' biggest box-office draw in the late 1940s. She is also known for her roles in the war drama The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), the film noir White Heat (1949), and the war adventure Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951).

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30/11/1919

Jane C. Wright, American oncologist and cancer researcher (died 2013)

Jane Cooke Wright, also known as Jane Jones, was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon noted for her contributions to chemotherapy. In particular, Wright is credited with developing the technique of using human tissue culture rather than laboratory mice to test the effects of potential drugs on cancer cells. She also pioneered the use of the drug methotrexate to treat breast cancer and skin cancer.

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30/11/1918

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (died 2014)

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was an American actor and theatre producer. Known for his "mellifluous voice and air of sophistication," he was known to television audiences for his starring roles on the crime drama series 77 Sunset Strip (1958–64) and The F.B.I. (1965–74), his recurring role as "Dandy Jim" Buckley on Maverick (1957–58), and as the voice of Alfred Pennyworth in the DC Animated Universe. He also appeared in numerous films and on the Broadway stage. He was a Golden Globe Award winner and a two-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee.

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30/11/1916

Dena Epstein, American musicologist and author (died 2013)

Dena Julia Polacheck Epstein was an American music librarian, author, and musicologist.

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Michael Gwynn, English actor (died 1976)

Michael Gwynn was an English actor whose career spanned 40 years, across a variety of stage, film, and television roles.

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30/11/1915

Brownie McGhee, American folk-blues singer and guitarist (died 1996)

Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee was an American folk and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.

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Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)

Henry Taube was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the second Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and remains the only Saskatchewanian-born Nobel laureate. Taube completed his undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. After finishing graduate school, Taube worked at Cornell University, the University of Chicago and Stanford University.

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30/11/1912

Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator (died 1966)

Jaan (Joann) Hargel was an Estonian conductor, music teacher, oboe and flute player.

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Gordon Parks, American photographer and director (died 2006)

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s, for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree.

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30/11/1911

Carle Hessay, German-Canadian painter (died 1978)

Hans Karl Hesse, known in later life as Carle Hessay, was a German-born Canadian painter. Although much remains uncertain of his early years, he immigrated to Canada in 1927, and later studied at art academies in Paris and Dresden. Hessay served as a Canadian soldier in World War II. After the establishment of peace, he moved to British Columbia, eventually settling in the town of Langley, where he took up art again in the 1950s. Some of his early paintings were done in the manner of Romantic realism. The influence of Expressionism soon became significant, with Hessay drawing on both the European and American movements, together with aspects of Emily Carr and the Group of Seven.

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Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (died 1953)

Jorge Alberto Negrete Moreno was a Mexican singer and actor. He specialized in the musical genre of ranchera. His posthumous album "Fiesta Mexicana Volumen II" has been ranked No. 163 by critics on their list of the greatest Latin albums of all time.

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30/11/1909

Robert Nighthawk, American singer and guitarist (died 1967)

Robert Lee McCollum was an American blues musician who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. He was the father of the blues musician Sam Carr. Nighthawk was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1983.

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30/11/1907

Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (died 2012)

Jacques Martin Barzun was a French-born American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a philosopher of education. In the book Teacher in America (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States.

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30/11/1906

John Dickson Carr, American author and playwright (died 1977)

John Dickson Carr was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn.

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Andrés Henestrosa, Mexican poet, linguist, and politician (died 2008)

Andrés Henestrosa Morales was a Mexican writer and politician. In addition to his prose and poetry, Henestrosa was elected to the federal legislature, serving three terms in the Chamber of Deputies, and as a senator for the state of Oaxaca from 1982 to 1988. He was born in Ixhuatán, Oaxaca.

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30/11/1904

Clyfford Still, American painter and educator (died 1980)

Clyfford Still was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of abstract expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II, and is credited as one of the movement’s pioneers. His shift from representational to abstract painting occurred between 1938 and 1942, earlier than his colleagues like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, who continued to paint in figurative-surrealist styles well into the 1940s.

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30/11/1898

Firpo Marberry, American baseball player and manager (died 1976)

Frederick "Firpo" Marberry was an American right-handed starting and relief pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1923 to 1936, most notably with the Washington Senators. The sport's first prominent reliever, he has been retroactively credited as having been the first pitcher to record 20 saves in a season, the first to make 50 relief appearances in a season or 300 in a career, and the only pitcher to lead the major leagues in saves six times. Since relief pitching was still seen as a lesser calling in a time when starters were only removed when clearly ineffective, Marberry also started 187 games in his career, posting a 94–52 record as a starter for a .644 winning percentage. He pitched in later years for the Detroit Tigers (1933–1935) and New York Giants (1936) before ending his career in Washington.

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30/11/1889

Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977)

Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves.

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Reuvein Margolies, Ukrainian-Israeli author and scholar (died 1971)

Reuben Margolies was an Israeli author, Talmudic scholar and head of the Rambam library.

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30/11/1888

Harry Altham, English cricketer and coach (died 1965)

Harry Surtees Altham was an English first-class cricketer who became an important figure in the game as an administrator, historian and coach. He was born in Camberley in November 1888. Shortly after completing his education in 1908, Altham played first-class cricket for Surrey, prior to his matriculation to Trinity College, Oxford. There, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club from 1909 to 1912, gaining two blues.

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30/11/1887

Andrej Gosar, Slovenian economist, lawyer, and politician (died 1970)

Andrej Gosar was a Slovenian and Yugoslav politician, sociologist, economist and political theorist.

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Beatrice Kerr, Australian swimmer and diver (died 1971)

Beatrice Maude Williams, known professionally as Beatrice Kerr, was an Australian swimmer, diver, and aquatic performer. Born in Melbourne, Kerr learnt to swim at Albert Park Lake, and won medals at both the Victorian and Australasian championships in 1905, at the age of 17. Early the following year, she toured South Australia and Western Australia, winning every race she entered. From there, Kerr went to England, giving swimming exhibitions in Bradford, Liverpool, London, and Manchester, being billed as "Australia's Champion Lady Swimmer and Diver". She returned to Australia in October 1911, living the rest of her life in Sydney, New South Wales. Although often compared to Annette Kellerman, another Australian swimmer, Kerr's repeated challenges to Kellerman to race went unanswered.

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30/11/1883

Gustav Suits, Estonian-Swedish poet and politician (died 1956)

Gustav Suits is considered one of the greatest Estonian poets. He was also an early leader of the literary movement group Noor-Eesti.

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30/11/1875

Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (died 1936)

Myron Frederick "Moose" Grimshaw was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1905 through 1907 for the Boston Americans. Listed at 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), 173 lb., Grimshaw was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. He was born in St. Johnsville, New York, but was raised in Canajoharie, New York.

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Otto Strandman, Estonian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (died 1941)

Otto August Strandman was an Estonian politician, who served as Prime Minister (1919) and State Elder of Estonia (1929–1931).

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30/11/1874

Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery, English-Canadian author and poet (died 1942)

Lucy Maud Montgomery, published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.

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30/11/1873

Božena Benešová, Czech author and poet (died 1936)

Božena Benešová, née Zapletalová, was a Czech author and poet whose work is considered to have been at the forefront of psychological prose. The greater part of her youth was spent in Uherské Hradiště and Napajedla, where in 1896 she married a railway clerk named Josef Beneš. In 1908 she and her husband moved to Prague.

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30/11/1872

John McCrae, Canadian physician, soldier, and poet (died 1918)

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament.

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30/11/1869

Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)

Nils Gustaf Dalén was a Swedish engineer and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys".

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James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Northern Ireland (died 1953)

James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, styled Marquess of Hamilton between 1885 and 1913, was a British peer and Unionist politician. He was the first Governor of Northern Ireland, a post he held between 1922 and 1945.

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30/11/1866

Andrey Lyapchev, Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (died 1933)

Andrey Tasev Lyapchev (Tarpov) (Bulgarian: Андрей Тасев Ляпчев (Tърпов); 30 November 1866 – 6 November 1933) was a Bulgarian Prime Minister in three consecutive governments.

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30/11/1863

Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino activist and politician, co-founded Katipunan (died 1897)

Andrés Bonifacio was a Filipino revolutionary leader. He is often called "The Father of the Philippine Revolution", considered a national hero of the Philippines.

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30/11/1858

Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (died 1937)

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction. He was a pioneer in the investigation of radio microwave optics, made significant contributions to botany, and was a major force behind the expansion of experimental science on the Indian subcontinent. Bose is considered the father of Bengali science fiction. A crater on the Moon was named in his honour. He founded the Bose Institute, a premier research institute in India and also one of its oldest. Established in 1917, the institute was the first interdisciplinary research centre in Asia. He served as the Director of Bose Institute from its inception until his death.

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30/11/1857

Bobby Abel, English cricketer (died 1936)

Robert Abel, nicknamed "The Guv'nor", was a Surrey and England opening batsman who was one of the most prolific run-getters in the early years of the County Championship. He was the first England player to "carry his bat" – opening the batting and remaining not out at the end of an innings – through a Test innings, and the first player to score 2000 runs in consecutive seasons – which he did each season from 1895 to 1902. In 1899 for Surrey against Somerset at The Oval, Abel carried his bat through an innings of 811, the highest total for which this feat has been achieved. His 357* in that innings remains a Surrey record, and was the highest score made at The Oval until Len Hutton scored 364 in 1938. Abel also played a record number of first-class matches in a season – 41 in 1902.

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30/11/1847

Afonso Pena, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Brazil (died 1909)

Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena was a Brazilian lawyer, professor, and politician who served as the sixth president of Brazil, from 1906 until his death in 1909. Pena was elected in 1906, the chosen successor of president Rodrigues Alves. Pena was the first politician from Minas Gerais to win the presidency, ending the series of politicians from São Paulo who had held the presidency since 1894. Before his presidency, he served as the 4th vice president of Brazil, under Rodrigues Alves (1903–1906) after the death of Silviano Brandão. Pena was a monarchist. He was the only member of Emperor Pedro II's cabinet to become president of Brazil and the first Brazilian president to die in office.

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30/11/1843

Martha Ripley, American physician (died 1912)

Martha George Rogers Ripley was an American physician, suffragist, and professor of medicine. Founder of the Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ripley was one of the most outspoken activists for disadvantaged female rights. A prominent leader in the American Woman Suffrage Association, Ripley also served six years as president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association.

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30/11/1840

Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Birks & Mayors (died 1928)

Henry Birks was a Canadian businessman and founder of Henry Birks and Sons, a chain of high-end Canadian jewellery stores.

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30/11/1836

Lord Frederick Cavendish, Anglo-Irish soldier and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (died 1882)

Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish was a British Liberal politician and protégé of the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Cavendish was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in May 1882 but was killed along with Thomas Henry Burke in what came to be known as the Phoenix Park Murders only hours after his arrival in Dublin, a victim of the Irish National Invincibles organisation.

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30/11/1835

Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (died 1910)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner. The novelist Ernest Hemingway claimed that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

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30/11/1832

James Dickson, English-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Queensland (died 1901)

Sir James Robert Dickson, was an Australian politician and businessman, the 13th Premier of Queensland and a member of the first federal ministry.

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30/11/1825

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter and educator (died 1905)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life, he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received top prices for his work. As the quintessential salon painter of his generation, he was reviled by the Impressionist avant-garde. By the early twentieth century, Bouguereau and his art fell out of favor with the public, due in part to changing tastes. In the 1980s, a revival of interest in figure painting led to a rediscovery of Bouguereau and his work. He finished 822 known paintings, but the whereabouts of many are still unknown.

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30/11/1821

Frederick Temple, English archbishop and academic (died 1902)

Frederick Temple was an English academic, teacher and churchman, who served as Bishop of Exeter (1869–1885), Bishop of London (1885–1896) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1896–1902).

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30/11/1817

Theodor Mommsen, German jurist, historian, and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1903)

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature for his historical writings, including The History of Rome, after having been nominated by 18 members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He was also a prominent German politician, as a member of the Prussian and German parliaments. His works on Roman law and on the law of obligations had a significant impact on the German civil code.

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30/11/1813

Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet and author (died 1890)

Louise-Victorine Ackermann was a French Parnassian poet.

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Charles-Valentin Alkan, French pianist and composer (died 1888)

Charles-Valentin Alkan was a French composer and virtuoso pianist. At the height of his fame in the 1830s and 1840s he was, alongside his friends and colleagues Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt, among the leading pianists in Paris, a city in which he spent virtually his entire life.

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30/11/1810

Oliver Winchester, American businessman and politician, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (died 1880)

Oliver Fisher Winchester was an American businessman and politician, best known as being the founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.

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30/11/1796

Carl Loewe, German singer, composer, and conductor (died 1869)

Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, usually called Carl Loewe, was a German composer, tenor singer and conductor from the late Classical and early Romantic periods. In his lifetime, his songs ("Balladen") were well enough known for some to call him the "Schubert of North Germany", and Hugo Wolf came to admire his work. He is less known today, but his ballads and songs, which number over 400, are occasionally performed.

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30/11/1791

Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg, Austrian field marshal and politician (died 1848)

Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg was an Austrian soldier, statesman, journalist and writer, who held the military rank of field marshal. He had a short but important role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

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30/11/1781

Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon, merchant, and explorer (died 1873)

Alexander Berry was a Scottish-born colonist and merchant who, in 1822, was given a large land grant of 10,000 acres (40 km2) with 100 convicts to establish an estate on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.

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30/11/1768

Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish physician, chemist, and biologist (died 1838)

Jędrzej Śniadecki was a Polish writer, physician, chemist, biologist and philosopher. His achievements include being the first person who linked rickets to lack of sunlight. He also created modern Polish terminology in the field of chemistry.

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30/11/1764

Franz Xaver Gerl, Austrian singer and composer (died 1827)

Franz Xaver Gerl was a bass singer and composer of the classical era. He sang the role of Sarastro in the premiere of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.

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30/11/1756

Ernst Chladni, German physicist and author (died 1827)

Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni was a German physicist and musician. His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled the father of acoustics, included research on vibrating plates and the calculation of the speed of sound for different gases. He also undertook pioneering work in the study of meteorites and is regarded by some as the father of meteoritics.

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30/11/1748

Joachim Albertini, Italian-Polish composer (died 1838)

Joachim Albertini or Gioacchino Albertini was an Italian-born composer, who spent most of his life in Poland. His opera Don Juan albo Ukarany libertyn was performed in the 1780s with both Italian and Polish libretti.

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30/11/1723

William Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of New Jersey (died 1790)

William Livingston was an American politician and lawyer who served as the first governor of New Jersey (1776–1790) during the American Revolutionary War. As a New Jersey representative in the Continental Congress, he signed the Continental Association and the United States Constitution. He is one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a founding father of New Jersey.

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30/11/1719

Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (died 1772)

Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was Princess of Wales by marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son and heir apparent of King George II. She never became queen consort, as Frederick predeceased his father in 1751. Augusta's eldest son succeeded her father-in-law as George III in 1760. After her spouse died, Augusta was the presumptive regent of Great Britain in the event of a regency, until her son reached majority in 1756.

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30/11/1699

King Christian VI of Denmark (died 1746)

Christian VI was King of Denmark and Norway from 1730 to 1746. The eldest surviving son of Frederick IV and Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, he is considered one of Denmark-Norway's more anonymous kings, but he was a skilled politician, best known for his authoritarian regime. He was the first king of the Oldenburg dynasty to refrain from entering in any war. During his reign both compulsory confirmation (1736) and a public, nationwide school system (1739) were introduced. His chosen motto was "Deo et populo".

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30/11/1683

Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (died 1744)

Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, Graf von Frankenburg-Aichleberg was a prominent Austrian field marshal.

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30/11/1670

John Toland, Irish philosopher and author (died 1722)

John Toland was an Irish rationalist philosopher and freethinker, and occasional satirist, who wrote numerous books and pamphlets on political philosophy and philosophy of religion, which are early expressions of the philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment. Born in Ireland, he was educated at the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leiden and Oxford and was influenced by the philosophy of John Locke.

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30/11/1667

Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist and essayist (died 1745)

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.

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30/11/1645

Andreas Werckmeister, German organist, composer, and theorist (died 1706)

Andreas Werckmeister was a German organist, music theorist, and composer of the Baroque era. He was responsible for a temperament that resulted in all tonalities sounding acceptable on the keyboard. This important step toward equal temperament was highly influential to the harmonic basis underlying much of subsequent Western music.

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30/11/1642

Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit Brother, architect and painter (died 1709)

Andrea Pozzo was an Italian Jesuit brother, Baroque painter, architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician.

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30/11/1637

Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian and author (died 1698)

Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont was a French ecclesiastical historian.

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30/11/1625

Jean Domat, French scholar and jurist (died 1696)

Jean Domat, or Daumat was a French jurist.

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30/11/1614

William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford (died 1680)

William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, FRS was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, and his wife, the former Alethea Talbot. A Fellow of the Royal Society from 1665, he was a Royalist supporter before being falsely implicated by Titus Oates in the later discredited "Popish Plot", and executed for treason. He was beatified as a Catholic martyr by Pope Pius XI in 1929.

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30/11/1599

Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (died 1661)

Andrea Sacchi was an Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculptors Alessandro Algardi and François Duquesnoy, and the contemporary biographer Giovanni Bellori.

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30/11/1594

John Cosin, English bishop and academic (died 1672)

John Cosin was an English bishop.

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30/11/1573

Aubert Miraeus, Belgian historian (died 1640)

Aubert le Mire, Latinized Aubertus Miraeus was an ecclesiastical historian in the Spanish Netherlands.

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30/11/1554

Philip Sidney, English soldier, courtier, and poet (died 1586)

Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.

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30/11/1549

Sir Henry Savile, English scholar and mathematician (died 1622)

Sir Henry Savile was an English scholar and mathematician, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton. He endowed the Savilian chairs of Astronomy and of Geometry at Oxford University, and was one of the scholars who translated the New Testament from Greek into English. He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Bossiney in Cornwall in 1589, and Dunwich in Suffolk in 1593.

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30/11/1508

Andrea Palladio, Italian architect and theoretician, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and Teatro Olimpico (died 1580)

Andrea Palladio was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of the most influential individuals in the history of architecture. While he designed churches and palaces, he was best known for country houses and villas. His teachings, summarized in the architectural treatise, The Four Books of Architecture, gained him wide recognition.

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30/11/1485

Veronica Gambara, Italian poet and stateswoman (died 1550)

Veronica Gambara was an Italian poet and politician. She was the ruler of the County of Correggio from 1518 until 1550.

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30/11/1466

Andrea Doria, Italian admiral (died 1560)

Andrea Doria, Prince of Melfi was an Italian statesman, condottiero and admiral, who played a key role in the Republic of Genoa during his lifetime.

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30/11/1459

Mingyi Nyo, founder of Toungoo dynasty of Burma (died 1530)

Min-gyi Nyo, also anglicized as Minn-Jee-Neo, was the founder of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). Under his 45-year leadership (1485–1530), Toungoo (Taungoo), grew from a remote backwater vassal state of Ava Kingdom to a small but stable independent kingdom. In 1510, he declared Toungoo's independence from its nominal overlord Ava. He skillfully kept his small kingdom out of the chaotic warfare plaguing Upper Burma. Toungoo's stability continued to attract refugees from Ava fleeing the repeated raids of Ava by the Confederation of Shan States (1490s–1527). Nyo left a stable, confident kingdom that enabled his successor Tabinshwehti to contemplate taking on larger kingdoms on his way to founding the Toungoo Empire.

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30/11/1427

Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (died 1492)

Casimir IV was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 until his death in 1492. He was one of the most active Polish-Lithuanian rulers; under him, Poland defeated the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years' War and recovered Pomerania.

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30/11/1426

Johann IV Roth, Roman Catholic bishop (died 1506)

Johann Roth was Bishop of Lavant from 1468 to 1482 and Prince-Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau) from 1482 until his death. He was known as a brilliant speaker, humanist and supporter of the arts and learning.

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30/11/1364

John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, Scottish soldier (died 1390)

John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, 2nd Baron Maltravers jure matris, also called John de Arundel, of Buckland, Surrey, was the son and heir of John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel by his wife Eleanor Maltravers, the grand-daughter and eventual heiress of John Maltravers, 1st Baron Maltravers.

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30/11/1340

John, Duke of Berry (died 1416)

John of Berry or John the Magnificent was Duke of Berry and Auvergne and Count of Poitiers and Montpensier. His brothers were King Charles V of France, Duke Louis I of Anjou and Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy. He was Regent of France from 1380 to 1388 during the minority of his nephew Charles VI.

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30/11/1310

Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (died 1349)

Frederick II was the margrave of Meissen from 1323 until his death.

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30/11/0539

Gregory of Tours, French bishop and saint (probable; (died 594)

Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian period and is known as the "father of French history".

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