1901 – (John) Morton Downey, American pop tenor, known as “The Irish Nightengale”, songwriter, radio and television host, born in Wallingford, Connecticut (d. 1985)
1927 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (M*A*S*H, 1972-75 – “Col. Henry Blake”; Hello Larry), born in Normal, Illinois (d. 1996)
1928 – Kathleen Hughes [Elizabeth von Gerkan], American actress (It Came From Outer Space; Bracken’s World), born in Hollywood, California (d. 2025)
1930 – Ornelio Martina, Antillian author, and politician , born in Curacao
1949 – Leonard Zeskind, American researcher and expert on white nationalist movements (Blood and Politics), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2025)
1966 – Petra Roßner, German track cyclist (Olympic gold FRG 3km pursuit 1992; World C’ship gold 1991), born in Leipzig, Germany
1968 – Lionel Simmons, American basketball forward (NCAA Player of the Year 1990, La Salle Uni; Sacramento Kings), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1972 – Douglas Payne, Scottish rock bassist (Travis – “Why Does It Always Rain On Me”; “Sing”), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1979 – Tobin Esperance, American rock bassist (Papa Roach), born in Vacaville, California
1979 – Mavie Hörbiger, German-Austrian actress (Arme Millionäre, The Ground Beneath My Feet), born in Munich, West Germany
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Famous Birthdays for 13th November 2025
1710 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist, born in Paris (d. 1792)
1714 – William Shenstone, English poet, born in Leasowes, England (d. 1763)
1879 – Maurice Delage, French pianist, and composer (Ragamalika; Seven Haikais), born in Paris, France (d. 1961)
1886 – Mary Wigman, German dancer, choreographer, and teacher, born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1973)
1894 – Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley], American stage and silent film actress (Blood and Sand; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), born in New York City (d. 1961)
1935 – Thomas Augustine Martin, Irish academic, born in Ballinamore, County Leitrim (d. 1995)
1943 – André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician, born in Granby, Canada (d. 1977)
1954 – Chris Noth, American actor (Law and Order, The Good Wife), born in Madison, Wisconsin
1963 – Vinny Testaverde, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1986, U of Miami; Pro Bowl 1996, 98; Tampa Bay Bucs, NY Jets), born in Brooklyn, New York
1971 – Noah Hathaway, American actor (Troll, The NeverEnding Story), born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Birthdays for 12th November 2025
1755 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussia general and Minister of War (1808-10) who reformed the Prussian army, born in Bordenau, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1813)
1886 – Ben Travers, British playwright known for his farces and “The Bed Before Yesterday”, born in London (d. 1980)
1897 – Karl Marx, German composer and conductor, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1985)
1898 – Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (Olympic gold, 1924,1928; World Championship gold, 1922, 1926), born in Novo Mesto, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia) (d. 1999)
1927 – Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician, known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture, born in Kisai, Japan (d. 1958)
1929 – Grace Kelly, American actress (Rear Window) and Princess of Monaco, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1982)
1959 – Vincent Irizarry, American actor (Guiding Light; Santa Barbara), born in Queens, New York
1969 – Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter, born in Portland, Oregon
1970 – Harvey Stephens, British child actor (Damien in “The Omen”), born in Putney, London
1984 – Sepp De Roover, Belgian soccer right back (2 caps; FC Eindhoven, Sparta Rotterdam, FC Groningen, SC Lokeren, NAC Breda), born in Geel, Belgium
Famous Birthdays for 11th November 2025
1636 – Yan Ruoqu, Chinese scholar of Qing dynasty, born in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China (d. 1704)
1696 – Andrea Zani, Italian composer and violinist, born in Casalmaggiore, Cremona Province, Republic of Venice (d. 1757)
1785 – Diponegoro, Javanese prince who opposed Dutch colonial rule and Indonesian national hero, born in Yogyakarta Sultanate (d. 1855)
1907 – Joseph G. Hamilton, American physician who was a pioneer of using radioactive isotopes in disease treatment and diagnosis, born in Waverley, Massachusetts (d. 1957)
1944 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (Saban the Cow,), born in Istanbul, Turkey (d. 2000)
1953 – Marshall Crenshaw, American rock singer-songwriter, and guitarist (“Someday, Someway”, “Cynical Girl”), born in Detroit, Michigan
1972 – Jack Jackson, NFL/CFL wide receiver (Chicago Bears, Toronto Argonauts), born in Moss Point, Mississippi
1976 – Jason Grilli, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Royal Oak, Michigan
1976 – Jesse Keeler, Canadian musician (Death From Above; MSTRKRFT), born in Toronto, Ontario
1982 – Brittny Gastineau, American socialite (Brüno), born in New York City
Famous Birthdays for 10th November 2025
1935 – Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2004)
1941 – John Geoghegan, U.S. Army infantry lieutenant and Silver Star recipient, born in Pelham, New York (d. 1965)
1942 – Michel Tabachnik, Swiss composer and conductor, born in Geneva, Switzerland
1944 – Silvestre Reyes, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas 1997-2013), born in Canutillo, Texas
1948 – Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist known for “World News Now” and as a CNN reporter during 9/11, born in Hopkins, Minnesota (d. 2024)
1951 – Morris Hatalsky, American golfer (4 x PGA Tour titles, 3 x PGA Tour Champions titles), born in San Diego, California
1969 – Arjan van der Laan, Dutch soccer player (Sparta), born in Nieuwkoop, Netherlands
1971 – Kate Slatter, Australian rower (Olympic gold coxless pair 1996; World C’ship gold 1995), born in Adelaide, Australia
1976 – Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer, born in Oslo, Norway
1984 – Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player (Boston Celtics), born in Nederland, Texas
Famous Birthdays for 9th November 2025
1833 – Sally Louisa Tompkins, American nurse and philanthropist, only woman commissioned in Confederate army during US Civil War, born in Mathews City, Virginia (d. 1916)
1877 – Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet, born in Sialkot, Punjab Province, British India (d. 1938)
1909 – Robert Douglas, English actor (The Adventures of Don Juan), born in Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England (d. 1999)
1918 – Howard Shanet, American conductor (Night of the Tropics), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2006)
1923 – Alice Coachman, American athlete (Olympic gold high jump 1948), born in Albany, Georgia (d. 2014)
1926 – Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1996)
1940 – Sergio Cervetti, Uruguayan composer (The Bottom of the Iceberg; Lucet in Tenebris), born in Dolores, Uruguay
1962 – Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress (Stargate SG-1), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer, born in Conegliano, Italy
1995 – Daniel Naroditsky, American chess grandmaster, author, and commentator, born in San Mateo, California (d. 2025)
Famous Birthdays for 8th November 2025
1863 – René Viviani, French historian and 61st Prime Minister of France (1914-15), born in Sidi Bel Abbès, French Algeria (d. 1925)
1912 – June Havoc [Ellen Evangeline Hovick], Canadian-born American stage and screen actress, born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2010)
1918 – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (Palatino and Optima), born in Nuremberg (d. 2015)
1931 – Darla Hood, American child actress (Little Rascals, The Bat), born in Leedey, Oklahoma (d. 1979)
1945 – Judith Lang Zaimont, American pianist and composer (“Reflective Rag”), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1956 – Richard Curtis, British screenwriter (Blackadder, Four Wedding and a Funeral), born in Wellington, New Zealand
1957 – Yohan Gunasekera, Sri Lankan cricketer (2 Tests for Sri Lanka 1983), born in Colombo, Sri Lanka
1966 – Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality, born in Johnstone, Scotland
1968 – Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer, born in Milan, Italy
1982 – Mika Kallio, Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer, born in Valkeakoski, Finland
Famous Birthdays for 7th November 2025
1598 – Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter, born in Fuente de Cantos, Spain (d. 1664)
1728 – James Cook, British explorer, navigator and cartographer who was the first European to explore much of Australia, the Pacific Islands and New Zealand, born in Marton, Yorkshire, England (d. 1779)
1846 – Ignaz Brull, Moravain-born composer, born in Prostějov, Moravia (d. 1907)
1847 – (Charlotte) “Lotta” Crabtree, American stage actress, comedian (Little Nell and the Marchioness), and philanthropist, born in New York City (d. 1924)
1876 – Ted Arnold, English cricketer (England all-rounder in 10 Tests 1903-05), born in Withycombe Raleigh, Devon (d. 1942)
1933 – Ernie Michie, Scottish rugby union lock (15 caps; 2 caps British and Irish Lions; Barbarians FC; London Scottish RUFC, Leicester Tigers RUFC), born in Aberdeen, Scotland (d. 2021)
1942 – Jean Shrimpton, British model and actress (Privilege; Beaton by Bailey; Something Nice to Eat), and the world’s first supermodel, born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
1964 – Gill Holland, Norwegian-American producer (Hurricane Streets), born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1966 – Murphy Su’a, New Zealand cricket pace bowler (NZ left-arm of Samoan parents), born in Whanganui, New Zealand
1980 – Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast (Olympic gold 2000, 2004), born in Premià de Mar, Barcelona
Famous Birthdays for 6th November 2025
1566 – Julien Perrichon, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1600)
1878 – Ernest Irving, English film score composer, born in Godalming, Surrey, England (d. 1953)
1897 – Jack O’Connor, English cricket all-rounder (4 Tests, 1 x 50; Derbyshire CCC), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1977)
1919 – Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese poet and children’s author (The Sea Girl), born in Oporto, Portugal (d. 2004)
1941 – Ray Perkins, American football coach (New York Giants, University of Alabama, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Arkansas State University), born in Mount Olive, Mississippi (d. 2020)
1949 – Joseph C. Wilson, American diplomat and businessman (investigation over Saddam Hussein effort to buy Uranium), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut
1963 – Laurene Powell Jobs, American businesswoman and philanthropist (Emerson Collective, widow of Steve Jobs), born in West Milford, New Jersey
1964 – Corey Glover, American rock guitarist and singer (Living Colour), born in Brooklyn, New York City
1964 – Kerry Conran, American filmmaker (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), born in Flint, Michigan
1988 – Conchita Wurst [Thomas Neuwirth], Austrian singer and drag queen (Eurovision Song Contest winner: 2014), born in Gmunden, Austria
Famous Birthdays for 5th November 2025
1876 – Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire), born in Damville, Eure, France (d. 1918)
1893 – Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer, born in Paris (d. 1986)
1900 – Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas), born in Colorado City, Texas (d. 1972)
1946 – Herman Brood, Dutch painter and pianist (Sleepin’ Bird), born in Zwolle, Netherlands (d. 2001)
1947 – Oļegs Antropovs, Latvian volleyball player (Olympic gold 1968), born in Shymkent, Kazakh SSR
1960 – Ken Coomer, American drummer and producer (Uncle Tupelo; Wilco), born in Nashville, Tennessee
1968 – Bob Dahl, American NFL guard (Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns), born in Chicago, Illinois
1971 – Erick Walder, American triple jumper, born in Mobile, Alabama
1987 – Kevin Jonas, American guitarist (The Jonas Brothers), born in Teaneck, New Jersey
2002 – Jawsh 685 [Joshua Nanai], Samoan-New Zealander dance mixer and music producer (“Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)”, with Jason Derulo), born in Aukland, New Zealand