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Famous Birthdays in November
Who was born in November? Browse the best-known birthdays for every day of the month, then tap any date to see everyone famous born on that day.
Birthstone: Topaz · Star signs: Scorpio & Sagittarius
The most famous November birthdays848
1867–1934Marie Curie
Pioneer of radioactivity who discovered polonium and radium and became the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences
ScienceDied aged 66
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b. 1942Joe Biden
46th President of the United States, previously Barack Obama's vice president and a senator for Delaware for 36 years
PoliticsAge 83
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1483–1546Martin Luther
German monk whose Ninety-five Theses of 1517 sparked the Protestant Reformation and who translated the Bible into German
ReligionDied aged 62
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1874–1965Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister who led the country through the Second World War with defiant speeches, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature
MilitaryDied aged 90
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1821–1881Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist who explored guilt, faith and freedom in Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov
LiteratureDied aged 59
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1835–1910Mark Twain
American author and humorist who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
LiteratureDied aged 74
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AD 354–AD 430Augustine of Hippo
North African bishop and theologian whose Confessions and City of God deeply shaped Christian thought and Western philosophy
ReligionDied aged 75
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1890–1970Charles de Gaulle
French general who led the Free French in the Second World War, founded the Fifth Republic and served as its president
MilitaryWould be 135
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- November 1
- Aishwarya Rai (1973) · Indian actress who won Miss World in 1994 and starred in Devdas and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, a fixture at Cannes
- Edward Said (1935) · Palestinian-American scholar and founder of post-colonial studies
- Süleyman Demirel (1924) · Former President and seven-time Prime Minister of Turkey
- November 2
- James K. Polk (1795) · 11th US President who expanded the country with Texas, Oregon and California after the Mexican-American War
- Warren G. Harding (1865) · 29th US President whose administration was rocked by the Teapot Dome bribery scandal and who died in office
- Shah Rukh Khan (1965) · Indian actor known as the King of Bollywood, star of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Devdas and Pathaan
- November 3
- Kendall Jenner (1995) · American model and Keeping Up with the Kardashians star who was named the world's highest-paid model in 2017
- Amartya Sen (1933) · Indian economist and philosopher who showed how famines happen and won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1998
- André Malraux (1901) · French novelist and statesman who served as Minister of Cultural Affairs
- November 4
- Laura Bush (1946) · Former First Lady of the United States and education advocate
- Matthew McConaughey (1969) · Oscar-winning actor known for Dallas Buyers Club and Interstellar
- William III of England (1650) · Dutch prince who became King of England during the Glorious Revolution
- November 5
- Vivien Leigh (1913) · British actress famous for her role in Gone with the Wind
- Bryan Adams (1959) · Canadian rock musician known for several global number one hits
- Ibrahim I (1615) · Ottoman Sultan who succeeded his brother Murad IV
- November 6
- Suleiman the Magnificent (1494) · Longest-reigning Ottoman sultan, who expanded the empire into Hungary, besieged Vienna and reformed its laws
- Emma Stone (1988) · American actress who claimed two Best Actress Oscars for La La Land and Poor Things whilst forging collaborations with Yorgos Lanthimos
- Sally Field (1946) · Double Oscar-winning actress known for Norma Rae and Forrest Gump
- November 7
- Marie Curie (1867) · Pioneer of radioactivity who discovered polonium and radium and became the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences
- Albert Camus (1913) · French-Algerian writer of The Stranger and The Plague who explored the absurd and won the Nobel Prize in Literature at 44
- James Cook (1728) · British naval captain who led three voyages to the Pacific, charting New Zealand and Australia's east coast
- November 8
- Alain Delon (1935) · French actor of Purple Noon, Rocco and His Brothers and Le Samouraï, one of European cinema's great leading men
- Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) · Japanese-born British novelist of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- William the Conqueror (1028) · Duke of Normandy who invaded England, won the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and ordered the Domesday Book
- November 9
- Carl Sagan (1934) · American astronomer who presented the TV series Cosmos, wrote Pale Blue Dot and helped design the Voyager Golden Record
- Muhammad Iqbal (1877) · Poet and philosopher writing in Urdu and Persian whose 1930 call for a Muslim homeland made him the spiritual father of Pakistan
- Edward VII (1841) · Son of Queen Victoria who became King and Emperor of India in 1901, giving his name to the Edwardian era
- November 10
- Martin Luther (1483) · German monk whose Ninety-five Theses of 1517 sparked the Protestant Reformation and who translated the Bible into German
- Friedrich Schiller (1759) · German poet and playwright of The Robbers and William Tell, whose Ode to Joy was set to music in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
- Paracelsus (1493) · pioneering Renaissance medicine through observation-based practice, founding toxicology, and defying medical orthodoxy by burning ancient texts in public
- November 11
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821) · Russian novelist who explored guilt, faith and freedom in Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov
- Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) · American actor of Titanic, Inception and The Wolf of Wall Street who won the Oscar for The Revenant
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922) · American novelist of Slaughterhouse-Five, inspired by surviving the bombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war
- November 12
- Sun Yat-sen (1866) · Chinese revolutionary and physician who helped overthrow the Qing dynasty and is honoured as the father of modern China
- Auguste Rodin (1840) · French sculptor of The Thinker, The Kiss and The Gates of Hell, often seen as the founder of modern sculpture
- Hassan Rouhani (1948) · Iranian cleric and moderate who served as president from 2013 to 2021 and agreed the 2015 nuclear deal
- November 13
- Augustine of Hippo (AD 354) · North African bishop and theologian whose Confessions and City of God deeply shaped Christian thought and Western philosophy
- Huang Xianfan (1899) · Chinese historian and educator of Zhuang heritage who founded Zhuang studies and pioneered the study of ethnic minority history
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850) · Scottish author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde who died in Samoa
- November 14
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889) · Leader of India's independence movement who became the country's first prime minister and served from 1947 until 1964
- Charles III (1948) · King of the United Kingdom since 2022, previously the longest-serving Prince of Wales and a long-time environmental campaigner
- Claude Monet (1840) · French painter whose Impression, Sunrise gave Impressionism its name, famous for his water lilies and garden at Giverny
- November 15
- Gerhart Hauptmann (1862) · German dramatist of The Weavers, a pioneer of naturalist theatre, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912
- Erwin Rommel (1891) · German field marshal nicknamed the Desert Fox for his North African campaign, forced to take poison after the plot against Hitler
- William Herschel (1738) · German-born British astronomer and composer who discovered the planet Uranus in 1781 and detected infrared radiation
- November 16
- Guillermo Lasso (1955) · Banker and conservative politician who served as President of Ecuador from 2021 to 2023 before calling early elections
- José Saramago (1922) · Portuguese novelist of Blindness and The Gospel According to Jesus Christ who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717) · French mathematician and philosopher who co-edited the Encyclopédie with Diderot and solved the wave equation
- November 17
- Martin Scorsese (1942) · American director of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas who won an Oscar for The Departed
- Vespasian (AD 9) · Roman general who won the civil war of 69 AD, founded the Flavian dynasty and began building the Colosseum
- Cyril Ramaphosa (1952) · President of South Africa and leader of the anti-apartheid movement
- November 18
- Margaret Atwood (1939) · Canadian novelist and poet of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments who has won the Booker Prize twice
- Qaboos bin Said Al Said (1940) · Long-serving Sultan who transformed and modernised Oman
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786) · Composer who helped develop German Romantic opera
- November 19
- Indira Gandhi (1917) · India's first female prime minister, daughter of Nehru, who declared the Emergency of 1975 and was assassinated in 1984
- James A. Garfield (1831) · 20th US President, a former Union general, who was shot by an assassin months into his term in 1881
- Jodie Foster (1962) · American actress and director who won Oscars for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs after starting as a child star
- November 20
- Joe Biden (1942) · 46th President of the United States, previously Barack Obama's vice president and a senator for Delaware for 36 years
- Selma Lagerlöf (1858) · Swedish novelist of Gösta Berling's Saga and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Nadine Gordimer (1923) · South African novelist of Burger's Daughter and July's People who exposed apartheid and won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- November 21
- Benedict XV (1854) · Italian pope who led the Catholic Church through the First World War and tried in vain to broker peace
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903) · Polish-born American writer who wrote in Yiddish about Jewish life, including Gimpel the Fool, and won the Nobel Prize
- Björk (1965) · Icelandic singer, composer and actress who fronted the Sugarcubes and became one of pop's most experimental solo artists
- November 22
- Charles de Gaulle (1890) · French general who led the Free French in the Second World War, founded the Fifth Republic and served as its president
- Scarlett Johansson (1984) · dominating blockbuster cinema as Black Widow whilst earning critical acclaim for indie dramas, becoming one of cinema's highest-grossing actors
- André Gide (1869) · French author of The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters, who wrote frankly about sexuality and won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- November 23
- Franklin Pierce (1804) · 14th US President whose Kansas–Nebraska Act inflamed tensions over slavery in the years before the Civil War
- Miley Cyrus (1992) · American singer and actress who starred as Hannah Montana and later had hits including Wrecking Ball and Flowers
- Nicolás Maduro (1962) · Former bus driver and union leader who succeeded Hugo Chávez as President of Venezuela in 2013
- November 24
- Benedictus de Spinoza (1632) · Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish descent whose Ethics identified God with nature and helped lay the ground for the Enlightenment
- Zachary Taylor (1784) · Mexican-American War general nicknamed Old Rough and Ready who became the 12th US President and died after 16 months in office
- Dale Carnegie (1888) · Author of the influential self-help book How to Win Friends and Influence People
- November 25
- John XXIII (1881) · Italian pope known as Good Pope John, who called the Second Vatican Council and was later declared a saint
- Lope de Vega (1562) · Spanish Golden Age playwright of Fuenteovejuna who wrote hundreds of plays and reshaped Spanish theatre
- Augusto Pinochet (1915) · Chilean general who seized power in the 1973 coup and ruled as dictator until 1990, with widespread human-rights abuses
- November 26
- Tina Turner (1939) · American-born singer known as the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, star of Proud Mary and What's Love Got to Do with It
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857) · Swiss linguist whose Course in General Linguistics founded structuralism and the modern study of signs
- Eugène Ionesco (1909) · French-Romanian playwright and key figure of Theatre of the Absurd
- November 27
- Bruce Lee (1940) · Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor of Enter the Dragon who founded Jeet Kune Do and brought kung fu films to the world
- Jimi Hendrix (1942) · American guitarist who revolutionised rock with Purple Haze, All Along the Watchtower and his Woodstock Star-Spangled Banner
- Yulia Tymoshenko (1960) · Ukrainian politician and leader of the 2004 Orange Revolution who became the country's first female prime minister
- November 28
- Friedrich Engels (1820) · German thinker and industrialist's son who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx and edited Das Kapital
- William Blake (1757) · English poet, painter and printmaker of Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the words of the hymn Jerusalem
- Stefan Zweig (1881) · Austrian writer of Chess Story, Letter from an Unknown Woman and the memoir The World of Yesterday, among the most translated authors of his day
- November 29
- Jacques Chirac (1932) · French president who opposed the Iraq invasion, acknowledged Vichy collaboration in deporting Jews, and ended military conscription
- C. S. Lewis (1898) · Northern Irish scholar and writer of The Chronicles of Narnia and Christian works such as Mere Christianity
- Louisa May Alcott (1832) · American novelist of Little Women, based on her own family, who also served as a Civil War nurse
- November 30
- Winston Churchill (1874) · British Prime Minister who led the country through the Second World War with defiant speeches, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Mark Twain (1835) · American author and humorist who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Jonathan Swift (1667) · Anglo-Irish satirist and Dublin cleric who wrote Gulliver's Travels and the darkly ironic essay A Modest Proposal