Famous People Born on November 22
Famous people born on November 22 include Charles de Gaulle (1890), Billie Jean King (1943) and Scarlett Johansson (1984).
BORN ON THIS DAY
Charles de Gaulle
Leader of Free France, French President
Billie Jean King
Tennis champion, gender equality advocate
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Scarlett Johansson
American actress (born 1984)
André Gide
French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)
George Eliot
English novelist and poet (1819–1880)
Mark Ruffalo
American actor (born 1967)
Abigail Adams
First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801
Paolo Gentiloni
Italian politician (born 1954)
Terry Gilliam
American-born British filmmaker (born 1940)
Jamie Lee Curtis
American actress and author (born 1958)
Boris Becker
German tennis player, coach, and commentator (born 1967)
Louis Néel
French physicist (1904–2000)
Mads Mikkelsen
Danish actor (born 1965)
Oscar Pistorius
South African sprinter and convicted murderer (born 1986)
Benjamin Britten
English composer and pianist (1913–1976)
Enver Pasha
Turkish general and politician (1881–1922)
Marjane Satrapi
French and Iranian author and director (1969–2026)
DIED ON THIS DAY
Aldous Huxley
Author of the dystopian novel Brave New World
C. S. Lewis
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia
John F. Kennedy
35th US President, Space Race
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Jack London
American author, journalist, and social activist (1876–1916)
Mae West
American actress and singer (1893–1980)
Anthony Burgess
English writer and composer (1917–1993)
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882–1944)
Ahmed I
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617
Kim Young-sam
President of South Korea from 1993 to 1998
Blackbeard
English pirate (c. 1680–1718)
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Youngest child of Joseph Stalin (1926–2011)
Lynn Margulis
American evolutionary biologist (1938–2011)
Maurice Béjart
French-born Swiss ballet dancer and choreographer (1927–2007)
Sources
- November 22 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
- Billie Jean King — Wikipedia
- Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
- C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
- John F. Kennedy — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths