Anniversaries 22 November

Birth

Abigail Adams40

2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801) 1744–1818

Dugald Stewart6

Scottish philosopher and mathematician 1753–1828

Gilbert Wakefield1

English scholar 1756–1801

Jose Cecilio del Valle7

Honduran politician- 1777–1996

Sophie Swetchine4

Russian salon-holder 1782–1857

Linn Boyd1

American politician 1800–1859

George Eliot300

English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

Fritz Mauthner1

Austrian writer 1849–1923

Heber J. Grant5

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1856–1945

George Gissing18

English novelist 1857–1903

John Nance Garner2

American politician 1868–1967

André Gide74

French novelist and essayist 1869–1951

Ralph George Hawtrey11

British economist 1879–1975

İsmail Enver15

Turkish military officer and a leader of the Young Turk rev… 1881–1922

Charles de Gaulle46

eighteenth President of the French Republic 1890–1970

Edward Bernays28

American public relations consultant, marketing pioneer 1891–1995

Lionel Robbins3

British economist 1898–1984

Hoagy Carmichael3

American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader 1899–1981

Louis Eugène Félix Néel1

French physicist 1904–2000

James Burnham16

American philosopher 1905–1987

Benjamin Britten1

English composer, conductor, and pianist 1913–1976

Andrew Huxley1

English physiologist and biophysicist 1917–2012

Rodney Dangerfield54

American actor and comedian 1921–2004

Eugene Stoner1

American firearms designer 1922–1997

John du Pont1

American heir to the Du Pont family fortune, ornothologist,… 1938–2010

Terry Gilliam21

American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator… 1940

John Henry Schwarz5

American theoretical physicist 1941

Michael Malone3

American screenwriter, novelist 1942

Billie Jean King2

American tennis player 1943

Ian Morison1

astrophysicist 1943

Lucio Russo9

Italian historian and scientist 1944

Liu Yandong5

Chinese politician 1945

Yaroslav Alexandrovich Evdokimov6

Russian singer 1946

Cecilia L. Ridgeway2

American sociologist 1947

Chip Berlet5

American political analyst 1949

Godfrey Bloom6

UK EU parliament member 1949

Stephen S. Morse1

American virologist and epidemiologist 1951

Katharine Weber1

American novelist 1955

Paul Gosar6

American politician and dentist 1958

Jamie Lee Curtis3

actress, author 1958

Mariel Hemingway1

American actress and author 1961

Victor Pelevin1

Russian author 1962

Chuck Hustmyre5

American journalist 1963

Mark Ruffalo1

American actor 1967

Rakesh Khurana4

American business academic 1967

Rasmus Lerdorf17

Danish programmer and creator of PHP 1968

Marjane Satrapi22

Artist 1969

Stel Pavlou1

British writer 1970

Alon Mizrahi5

Israeli footballer 1971

Syksy Räsänen1

1973

Ville Valo3

Finnish rock musician 1976

Scarlett Johansson3

American actress, model, and singer 1984

Фуад Алекперов2

1988

Death

John Tillotson2

Archbishop of Canterbury 1630–1694

Walerian Krasiński1

historian 1795–1855

Edwin Ransford1

British opera singer 1805–1876

Henry Wilson8

Union Army officer, Vice president, politician, historian 1812–1875

Arthur Kekewich19

British judge 1832–1907

Arthur Sullivan6

English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1842–1900

Mahmud Tarzi5

Afghan writer 1865–1933

Jack London77

American author, journalist, and social activist 1876–1916

Arthur Stanley Eddington105

British astrophysicist 1882–1944

Andrei Vyshinsky1

Soviet politician 1883–1954

Kurt Koffka12

German psychologist 1886–1941

Mae West24

American actress and sex symbol 1893–1980

Richard Connell3

American author and journalist 1893–1949

Aldous Huxley290

English writer 1894–1963

Lorenz Hart7

lyricist 1895–1943

Clive Staples Lewis272

Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

Luis Barragán5

Mexican architect 1902–1988

Viola Spolin9

American academic and acting theorist 1906–1994

Ilya Bolotowsky1

artist 1907–1981

Leonard Wibberley3

Irish-American author 1915–1983

Fiorenzo Angelini1

Catholic cardinal 1916–2014

John F. Kennedy469

35th president of the United States of America 1917–1963

Anthony Burgess297

English writer 1917–1993

Mary Kay Ash12

Entrepreneur 1918–2001

Erich Fried2

Austrian writer 1921–1988

Emil Zátopek5

Czech Olympic long-distance runner 1922–2000

Svetlana Alliluyeva4

daughter of Joseph Stalin 1926–2011

Kim Young-sam3

South Korean politician 1927–2015

Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon1

Indian physicist 1928–2016

M. Balamuralikrishna17

Carnatic vocalist, instrumentalist and playback singer 1930–2016

Bryce Courtenay15

Australian novelist 1933–2012

Jasper Griffin2

Public Orator and Professor of Classical Literature 1937–2019

Lynn Margulis24

American evolutionary biologist 1938–2011

Fred Thompson22

American politician and actor 1942–2015

Jose Peralta11

American politician 1971–2018