What happened on November 23 ?

912 - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)

1221 - King Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)

1402 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)

1417 - William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)

1553 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)

1616 - John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)

1632 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)

1641 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)

1705 - Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766)

1715 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)

1719 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)

1749 - Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (d. 1800)

1760 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (d. 1797)

1804 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)

1820 - Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)

1837 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)

1860 - Billy the Kid, American bandit (d. 1881)

1860 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)

1861 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)

1864 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (d. 1936)

1869 - Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)

1875 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)

1876 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)

1887 - Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (d. 1943)

1887 - Boris Karloff, British actor (d. 1969)

1888 - Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)

1890 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)

1892 - Erté, French artist (d. 1990)

1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)

1897 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948)

1902 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)

1907 - Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)

1909 - Nigel Tranter, British historian and writer (d. 2000)

1920 - Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (d. 1970)

1921 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)

1922 - Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia

1923 - R.L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)

1923 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d. 1986)

1924 - Colin Macmillan Turnbull, British-born anthropologist (d. 1994)

1925 - Johnny Mandel, American songwriter

1925 - José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)

1926 - Sathya Sai Baba, Indian "God-man", widely believed to be Avatar of the age

1931 - Dervla Murphy, Irish traveller and author

1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer

1934 - Robert Towne, American writer, director, producer, and actor

1934 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)

1935 - Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)

1941 - Franco Nero, Italian actor

1943 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)

1943 - Sue Nicholls (The Honourable Susan Frances Harmer Nicholls), British actress

1944 - Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-born film producer and writer

1944 - James Toback, American writer and director

1945 - Steve Landesberg, American actor

1953 - Francis Cabrel, French singer

1954 - Bruce Hornsby, American musician

1955 - Steven Brust, American author

1955 - Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist

1956 - Steve Harvey, American actor and comedian

1959 - Maxwell Caulfield, British actor

1959 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)

1965 - Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian

1968 - Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer

1969 - Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer

1970 - Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter

1971 - Lisa Kushell, American actress

1974 - Jamie Sharper, American football player

1977 - Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver

1980 - David Britz, American nanotechnologist

1984 - Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer

1992 - Miley Cyrus, American child actress