What happened on November 22 ?

1428 - Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, English politician (d. 1471)

1458 - Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)

1515 - Marie of Guise, Queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)

1564 - Henry Brooke, 8th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)

1602 - Elisabeth of France, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)

1635 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)

1643 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)

1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)

1721 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman (d. 1824)

1722 - Hryhori Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet, philosopher and composer (d. 1794)

1767 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian patriot (d. 1810)

1787 - Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist and philologist (d. 1823)

1808 - Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)

1819 - George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)

1849 - Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)

1852 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)

1856 - Heber J. Grant, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945)

1868 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (d. 1967)

1869 - André Gide, French writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)

1877 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)

1890 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970)

1893 - Harley J. Earl, automobile designer (d. 1969)

1897 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)

1899 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)

1899 - Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)

1901 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)

1902 - Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Governor of Rhodesia (d. 1990)

1904 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)

1913 - Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)

1917 - Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1918 - Claiborne Pell, U.S. Senator

1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (d. 2004)

1921 - Brian Cleeve, Irish author and broadcaster (d. 2003)

1923 - Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director

1923 - Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor

1924 - Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)

1932 - Robert Vaughn, American actor

1936 - James Burke, British science historian and writer

1940 - Terry Gilliam, American/British comedian and director

1941 - Tom Conti, British actor

1943 - Billie Jean King, American tennis player

1946 - Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Jamaican musician, original member of The Wailers Band

1950 - Lyman Bostock, baseball player (d. 1978)

1950 - Steve Van Zandt, American musician

1950 - Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club)

1950 - Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer

1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress

1961 - Mariel Hemingway, American actress

1961 - Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer

1962 - Victor Pelevin, Russian writer

1963 - Scoop Jackson, American sports journalist

1966 - Richard Stanley, South African director and screenwriter

1967 - Boris Becker, German tennis player

1967 - Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater

1970 - Stel Pavlou, British novelist and screenwriter

1970 - Bruce Payne, English actor

1974 - David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater

1976 - Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)

1976 - Torsten Frings, German footballer

1977 - Michael Preston, English footballer

1978 - Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

1981 - Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish football (soccer) player

1982 - Aiyegbeni Yakubu, Nigerian footballer

1984 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress