Events That Happened on November 20

The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar. This is the first time the tournament was held in the Middle East.

Jimmie Johnson wins his seventh NASCAR Cup Series championship to tie Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the most all-time.

Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are killed in Bamako, Mali.

After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.

A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.

The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)

Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

North Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs when Avioimpex Flight 110, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Ohrid Airport, killing all 116 people on board.

In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.

An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan.

Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.

Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.

Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released.

Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.

Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6,000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French special forces to put down the uprising.

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.

The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.

Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.

Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.

A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.

Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.

The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.

Indonesian National Revolution: 96 Indonesian including I Gusti Ngurah Rai were killed during the Battle of Margarana with Dutch forces.

Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.

World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.

World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.

José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.

World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.

Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She talked about her impending tour with a troupe of more than 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in Hamlet.

Garnier Expedition: French forces under Lieutenant Francis Garnier captured Hanoi from the Vietnamese.

American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.

Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.

An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this incident.)

The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by troops of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia for several more years.

Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.

New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.

Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.

Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.

The Peace of Cremona ends the war between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan, after the victorious Venetian enterprise of military engineering of the Galeas per montes.

John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later.

Palermo is conquered by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.

During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.

Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.

Youssoufa Moukoko, German footballer

Madisyn Shipman, American actress

Caty McNally, American tennis player

Adrien Truffert, French footballer

Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter

Levi Garcia, Trinidadian footballer

Jack Harrison, English professional footballer

Blaž Janc, Slovenian handballer

Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer

Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete

Iván Garcia, Spanish cyclist

Shaolin Sándor Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater

Kyle Snyder, American wrestler

Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle-distance runner

Junior Paulo, New Zealand rugby league player

Sanjin Prcić, Bosnian footballer

Anna Prugova, Russian ice hockey player

Amit Guluzade, Azerbaijani footballer

Zoltán Harcsa, Hungarian boxer

Maiha Ishimura, Japanese singer and actress

Kristiina Mäkelä, Finnish triple jumper

Gaku Matsuda, Japanese actor

Jenna Prandini, American track and field athlete

Brayan Ramirez, Colombian cyclist

Frédéric Veseli, Albanian footballer

Irene Esser, Venezuelan actress and model

Grant Hanley, Scottish footballer

Anthony Knockaert, French footballer

Yvonne Leuko, Cameroonian footballer

Kim Se-yong, South Korean singer and actor

Tim Simona, New Zealand rugby league player

Haley Anderson, American swimmer

Mark Christian, Manx cyclist

Aleksandra Król, Polish snowboarder

Slobodan Medojević, Serbian footballer

Nzuzi Toko, Congolese footballer

Artak Dashyan, Armenian footballer

Babita Kumari, Indian wrestler

Cody Linley, American actor and singer

Agon Mehmeti, Swedish footballer

Jonas Mendes, Bissau-Guinean footballer

Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian ballet dancer

Eduardo Vargas, Chilean footballer

Dmitry Zhitnikov, Russian handballer

Marie-Laure Brunet, French biathlete

Aya Medany, Egyptian modern pentathlete.

Max Pacioretty, American ice hockey player

Roberto Rosales, Venezuelan footballer

Dariga Shakimova, Kazakhstani boxer

Dušan Tadić, Serbian footballer

Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor and director

Amelia Rose Blaire, American actress

Andrew Driver, English footballer

Ben Hamer, English footballer

Mylène Lazare, French swimmer

Kou Lei, Ukrainian table tennis player

Nathan Lyon, Australian cricketer

Joëlle Numainville, Canadian cyclist

Christoph Pfingsten, German cyclist

Valdet Rama, Albanian footballer

Gina Stechert, German alpine skier

Josh Carter, American basketball player

Edder Delgado, Honduran footballer

Ashley Fink, American actress and singer

Kōhei Horikoshi, Japanese manga artist

Özer Hurmacı, Turkish footballer

William Fernando da Silva, Brazilian footballer

Oliver Sykes, English singer-songwriter

Bartolomé Salvá Vidal, Spanish tennis player

Koudai Tsukakoshi, Japanese race car driver

Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentinian race car driver

Eric Boateng, British basketball player

Dan Byrd, American actor

Muhamed Demiri, Macedonian footballer

Greg Holland, American baseball player

Maria Mukhortova, Russian skater

Heinrich Schmidtgal, Kazakhstani footballer

Themistoklis Tzimopoulos, Greek New Zealander footballer

Aaron Yan, Taiwanese actor and singer

Ali, South Korean singer

Halley Feiffer, American actress and playwright

Kévin Hecquefeuille, French ice hockey player

Justin Hoyte, English footballer

Jeremy Jordan, American actor

Cartier Martin, American basketball player

Nelson Sebastián Maz, Uruguayan footballer

Sherjill MacDonald, Dutch footballer

Moe Meguro, Japanese curler

Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian race car driver

Florencia Mutio, Argentine field hockey player

Stéphane N'Guéma, Gabonese footballer

Naoya Tamura, Japanese footballer

Monique van der Vorst, Dutch cyclist

Lee Yun-yeol, South Korean gamer

Future, American rapper

Dele Aiyenugba, Nigerian footballer

Mónika Kovacsicz, Hungarian handballer

Stephen Ademolu, Canadian soccer player

Dương Hồng Sơn, Vietnamese footballer

Rémi Mathis, French historian and curator

Shermine Shahrivar, Iranian model

Gregor Urbas, Slovenian figure skater

Israel Villaseñor, Mexican footballer

Carlos Boozer, American basketball player

Yuko Kavaguti, Japanese ice skater

Ye Li, Chinese basketball player

Andrea Riseborough, English actress

İbrahim Toraman, Turkish footballer

Orsolya Tóth, Hungarian actress

Kimberley Walsh, English singer-songwriter and actress

Dilnaz Akhmadieva, Kazakhstani singer and actress

James Chambers, English footballer

Eiko Koike, Japanese actress

Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, Thai boxer

Marek Krejčí, Slovak footballer (died 2007)

Ana Caterina Morariu, Romanian-Italian actress

Christian Obrist, Italian middle-distance runner

Eoin Reddan, Irish rugby union player

Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player

Dmitri Bulykin, Russian footballer

Kateryna Burmistrova, Ukrainian wrestler

Naide Gomes, Portuguese heptathlete and long jumper

Joseph Hallman, American composer and academic

Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Russian sprint athlete

Hassan Mostafa, Egyptian footballer

Jacob Pitts, American actor

Shalini, Indian actress

Arpad Sterbik, Serbian handball player

Jean-François Bedenik, French footballer and coach

Freya Lim, Taiwanese-Malaysian singer and radio host

Kéné Ndoye, Senegalese track and fielder

Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model

Rudy Charles, American wrestling referee

Mikhail Ivanov, Russian cross-country skier

Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer and producer

Josh Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Mohamed Barakat, Egyptian footballer

Beto, Brazilian footballer

DeJuan Collins, American basketball player

Dominique Dawes, American gymnast and actress

Laura Harris, Canadian actress

Adrián Hernán González, Argentine footballer

Harold Jamison, American basketball player

Tusshar Kapoor, Indian Bollywood actor and producer

Pascal Roller, German basketball player

Francisco Rufete, Spanish footballer

Nebojša Stefanović, Serbian politician

Doug Viney, New Zealand boxer

Atsushi Yoneyama, Japanese footballer

Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer

Mengke Bateer, Chinese Inner Mongolian basketball player

Dierks Bentley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Ryan Bowen, American basketball player and coach

J. D. Drew, American baseball player

Joshua Gomez, American actor

Sébastien Hamel, French footballer

Davey Havok, American singer-songwriter

Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, German speed skater

Jason Faunt, American actor

Florian David Fitz, German actor, screenwriter and director

Drew Ginn, Australian rower

Claudio Husain, Argentine footballer

Jon Knudsen, Norwegian footballer

Angelica Bridges, American actress and singer

Fabio Galante, Italian footballer

Neil Hodgson, English motorcycle racer and sportscaster

Masaya Honda, Japanese footballer

Johan Åkerman, Swedish ice hockey player

Jérôme Alonzo, French footballer

Ed Benes, Brazilian comic book artist

Corinne Niogret, French biathlete

Skander Souayah, Tunisian footballer

Tatiana Turanskaya, Transnistrian politician

Mike Dunn, English snooker player

Joey Galloway, American football player and sportscaster

Joel McHale, American comedian, actor, and producer

Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates

Matt Blunt, American lieutenant and politician, 54th Governor of Missouri

Phife Dawg, American rapper (died 2016)

Delia Gonzalez, American boxer

Stéphane Houdet, French wheelchair tennis player

Geoffrey Keezer, American pianist and educator

Sabrina Lloyd, American actress

Jimmy Blandon, Ecuadorian footballer

Kristian Ghedina, Italian alpine ski racer

Chris Harris, New Zealand cricketer

Wolfgang Stark, German football referee

Callie Thorne, American actress and producer

James Dutton, American astronaut

Andrei Kharlov, Russian chess player

Paul Scheuring, American screenwriter and director

David Einhorn, American hedge fund manager

Jeff Tarango, American tennis player

Chris Childs, American basketball player

Stuart Ripley, English footballer

Teoman, Turkish singer

Neil Broad, British tennis player

Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1996)

Terry Lovejoy, Australian information technologist

Štefan Svitek, Slovak basketball coach

Jill Thompson, American author and illustrator

Mike D, American rapper and drummer

Nigel Gibbs, English footballer and coach

Yehuda Glick, American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi

Amos Mansdorf, Israeli tennis player

Takeshi Kusao, Japanese actor and singer

Jimmy Vasser, American race car driver

Yoshiki, Japanese musician

Katharina Böhm, Austrian actress

Boris Dežulović, Croatian journalist and author

Andriy Kalashnykov, Ukrainian wrestler

John MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Tim Gavin, Australian rugby player

Timothy Gowers, English mathematician and academic

Beezie Madden, American show jumper

Ming-Na Wen, Chinese-American actress

Živko Budimir, Bosnian politician

Polona Dornik, Yugoslav and Slovenian basketball player

Rajkumar Hirani, Indian director

Abderrazak Khairi, Moroccan footballer

Peng Liyuan, wife of Xi Jinping

Gerardo Martino, Argentine footballer and manager

Pierre Hermé, French pastry chef and chocolatier

Petra Wenzel, Liechtenstein alpine skier

Ye Jiangchuan, Chinese chess player

Ozell Jones, American basketball player (died 2006)

Diane James, British politician

Mario Martone, Italian director and screenwriter

Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, German prelate of the Catholic Church and theologian

Sean Young, American actress and dancer

Rickson Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial artist and choreographer

Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (died 1985)

John Eriksen, Danish footballer (died 2002)

Jean-Marc Furlan, French football manager

Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria

Bo Derek, American actress and producer

Angela Finocchiaro, Italian actress

Toshio Matsuura, Japanese footballer

Ray Ozzie, American software industry entrepreneur

Richard Brooker, English actor and stuntman (died 2013)

Antonina Koshel, Soviet artistic gymnast

Frank Marino, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter

Bin Shimada, Japanese voice actor

Fábio Jr., Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor

Greg Gibson, American wrestler

Halid Bešlić, Bosnian musician and singer

Nirmal Selvamony, Indian Tamil academician and ecocritic

John Van Boxmeer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Rodger Bumpass, American actor and singer

León Gieco, Argentine folk rock singer and interpreter

Aleksey Spiridonov, Soviet hammer thrower (died 1998)

David Walters, American businessman and politician, 24th Governor of Oklahoma

Jacqueline Gourault, French politician

Gary Green, British musician

Jeff Dowd, American film producer and activist

Thelma Drake, American politician

Ulf Lundell, Swedish writer and composer

Juha Mieto, Finnish cross-country skier

Nené, Portuguese footballer

John R. Bolton, American lawyer and diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)

Barbara Hendricks, American-Swedish soprano and actress

Richard Masur, American actor and director

Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (died 1978)

Kenjiro Shinozuka, Japanese race car driver (died 2024)

Nurlan Balgimbayev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (died 2015)

Eli Ben Rimoz, Israeli footballer

Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1971)

Algimantas Butnorius, Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (died 2017)

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow

Samuel E. Wright, American actor, voice actor and singer (died 2021)

Deborah Eisenberg, American writer, actress and teacher

Louie Dampier, American basketball player and coach

Wayne Maki, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1974)

Anthea Stewart, Zimbabwean field hockey player

David Douglas-Home, British businessman and politician (died 2022)

Veronica Hamel, American actress and model

Ivan Hrdlička, Czechoslovak footballer

Suze Rotolo, American artist (died 2011)

Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States

Bob Einstein, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019)

Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer

Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul (died 2008)

Oliver Sipple, U.S. Marine and Vietnam War veteran (died 1989)

Dr. John, American singer and songwriter (died 2019)

Wendy Doniger, American indologist

Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)

Ediz Hun, Turkish actor and politician

Arieh Warshel, Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist

Jerry Colangelo, American businessman

Copi, Argentine writer and artist (died 1987)

Dick Smothers, American actor and comedian

Jan Szczepański, Polish boxer (died 2017)

Colin Fox, Canadian actor

René Kollo, German tenor

Ruth Laredo, American pianist and educator (died 2005)

Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier (died 2013)

Bruno Mealli, Italian cyclist (died 2023)

Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian author and screenwriter

Hans van Abeelen, Dutch geneticist (died 1998)

Don DeLillo, American novelist, essayist, and playwright

Luciano Fabro, Italian sculptor and artist (died 2007)

Charles R. Larson, American admiral (died 2014)

Leo Falcam, Micronesian politician and 5th President of Micronesia (died 2018)

Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (died 2011)

Paco Ibáñez, Spanish singer and musician

Lev Polugaevsky, Soviet Chess Grandmaster (died 1995)

Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (died 2012)

Yorozuya Kinnosuke, Japanese kabuki actor (died 1997)

Sándor Mátrai, Hungarian footballer (died 2002)

Paulo Valentim, Brazilian footballer (died 1984)

Colville Young, Governor-General of Belize

Wayne Moore, American swimmer (died 2015)

Christine Arnothy, French writer (died 2015)

Aarón Hernán, Mexican actor (died 2020)

Bernard Horsfall, English-Scottish actor (died 2013)

Choe Yong-rim, North Korean Premier

Jerry Hardin, American actor

Raymond Lefèvre, French composer (died 2008)

Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian footballer (died 2020)

Ron Willey, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2004)

Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2017)

Franklin Cover, American actor (died 2006)

Pedro Ferrándiz, Spanish basketball coach (died 2022)

John Disley, Welsh athlete (died 2016)

Pete Rademacher, American boxer (died 2020)

Genrikh Sapgir, Russian writer (died 1999)

Vakhtang Balavadze, Georgian wrestler (died 2018)

Ed Freeman, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2008)

Estelle Parsons, American actress and director

Wolfgang Schreyer, German writer (died 2017)

Mikhail Ulyanov, Soviet and Russian actor (died 2007)

John Gardner, English soldier and author (died 2007)

Tôn Thất Đính, Vietnamese general (died 2013)

Édouard Leclerc, French businessman and entrepreneur (died 2012)

Miroslav Tichý, Czech photographer (died 2011)

June Christy, American singer (died 1990)

Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (died 1968)

Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (died 2015)

Bill Borthwick, Australian politician (died 2001)

Timothy Evans, Welshman wrongfully convicted of murder (died 1950)

Karen Harup, Danish swimmer (died 2009)

Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (died 2010)

Michael Riffaterre, French literary critic and theorist (died 2006)

Henk Vredeling, Dutch agronomist and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence (died 2007)

Gunnar Åkerlund, Swedish sprint canoer (died 2006)

Danny Dayton, American actor and director (died 1999)

Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer (died 2005)

Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)

Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (died 1992)

Douglas Dick, American actor and psychologist (died 2015)

Alan Brown, English race car driver (died 2004)

Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (died 2012)

Corita Kent, American nun, illustrator, and educator (died 1986)

Dora Ratjen, German high jumper (died 2008)

Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (died 2010)

Leonard Jimmie Savage, American mathematician (died 1971)

Erich Leo Lehmann, American statistician (died 2009)

Bobby Locke, South African golfer (died 1987)

Charles E. Osgood, American psychologist (died 1991)

Michael J. Ingelido, American general (died 2015)

Evelyn Keyes, American actress (died 2008)

Donald T. Campbell, American social scientist (died 1996)

Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)

Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (died 1989)

Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer and politician (died 1992)

Kurt Lundqvist, Swedish high jumper (died 1976)

Franz Berghammer, Austrian field handballer (died 1944)

Charles Berlitz, American linguist (died 2003)

Charles Bettelheim, French Marxian economist and historian (died 2006)

Judy Canova, American actress and comedian (died 1983)

Kostas Choumis, Greek footballer (died 1981)

Russell Rouse, American screenwriter, director and producer (died 1987)

Libertas Schulze-Boysen, German opponent of the Nazis (died 1942)

Yakov Zak, Soviet pianist (died 1976)

Enrique Garcia, Argentine footballer (died 1969)

Otto von Habsburg, the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary (died 2011)

Eduard Kainberger, Austrian footballer (died 1974)

David Seymour, Polish photographer (died 1956)

Jean Shiley, American high jumper (died 1998)

Rupert Weinstabl, Austrian sprint canoeist (died 1953)

Paul Zielinski, German footballer (died 1966)

Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician, pilot, and academic (died 1944)

Pauli Murray, American civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, Episcopal priest, and author (died 1985)

John Berger, Swiss cross-country skier (died 2002)

Vicente Feola, Brazilian football manager and coach (died 1975)

Piero Gherardi, Italian costume and set designer (died 1971)

Samand Siabandov, Soviet Red Army writer (died 1989)

Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (died 1968)

Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (died 2004)

Jenő Vincze, Hungarian footballer (died 1988)

Fran Allison, American entertainer (died 1989)

Mihai Beniuc, Romanian writer (died 1988)

Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director, screenwriter and producer (died 1977)

Anni Rehborn, German swimmer (died 1987)

Vera Tanner, English swimmer (died 1971)

Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1998)

Arnold Gartmann, Swiss bobsledder (died 1980)

Alexandra Danilova, Russian-American ballerina and choreographer (died 1997)

Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator (died 1981)

Gianpiero Combi, Italian footballer (died 1956)

Erik Eriksen, Danish politician (died 1972)

Heini Meng, Swiss ice hockey player (died 1982)

Jean Painlevé, French photographer and filmmaker (died 1989)

Philipp Schmitt, German officer of the Schutzstaffel (died 1950)

José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (died 1957)

Florieda Batson, American Olympic hurdler (died 1996)

Helen Bradley, English painter (died 1979)

Chester Gould, American cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy (died 1985)

Alicja Kotowska, Polish nun (died 1939)

Richmond Landon, American high jumper (died 1971)

Adrian Piotrovsky, Russian dramaturge (died 1937)

Germaine Krull, German photographer and political activist (died 1985)

Chiyono Hasegawa, Japanese supercentenarian (died 2011)

Carl Mayer, Austrian-Jewish screenplay writer (died 1944)

Pierre Cot, French politician (died 1977)

Johann Nikuradse, Georgian-born German engineer and physicist (died 1979)

André Bloch, French mathematician (died 1948)

Grace Darmond, Canadian-American actress (died 1963)

James Collip, Canadian biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin (died 1965)

Reginald Denny, English actor (died 1967)

Robert Armstrong, American actor (died 1973)

Harald Madsen, Danish actor (died 1949)

Lauri Tanner, Finnish gymnast (died 1950)

Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (died 1953)

Dennis Fenton, American sports shooter (died 1954)

Jean Ducret, French footballer

Robert Hunter, American golfer (died 1971)

Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982)

Alexandre Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (died 1934)

George Holley, English footballer (died 1942)

Kaarlo Vasama, Finnish gymnast (died 1926)

Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (died 1968)

Edwin August, American actor and director (died 1964)

Tony Gaudio, Italian American cinematographer (died 1951)

Ernestas Galvanauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician (died 1967)

Irakli Tsereteli, Georgian politician (died 1959)

Walter Brack, German swimmer (died 1919)

Herbert Pitman, English sailor (died 1961)

Rudolf Koch, German designer (died 1934)

Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat (died 1944)

James Michael Curley, American lawyer, politician, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts, and criminal (died 1958)

Ramón Castillo, Argentine politician (died 1944)

William Coblentz, American physicist (died 1962)

Georges Caussade, French composer (died 1936)

Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer and music critic (died 1953)

William Heard Kilpatrick, American pedagogue (died 1965)

Augusto Weberbauer, German naturalist (died 1948)

Zinaida Gippius, Russian writer and editor (died 1945)

Josaphata Hordashevska, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun (died 1919)

Patrick Joseph Hayes, American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1938)

Gustav Giemsa, German chemist and bacteriologist (died 1948)

Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (died 1944)

Maria Letizia Bonaparte, daughter of Prince Napoléon Bonaparte (died 1926)

Percy Cox, British Indian Army officer (died 1937)

Georges Palante, French philosopher and sociologist (died 1925)

Edvard Westermarck, Finnish philosopher and sociologist (died 1939)

Camillo Laurenti, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1938)

José Figueroa Alcorta, President of Argentina, (died 1931)

Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)

Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (died 1938)

Josiah Royce, American philosopher (died 1916)

Oskar Potiorek, Austro-Hungarian Army officer (died 1933)

Mikhail Albov, Russian writer (died 1911)

John Merle Coulter, American botanist (died 1928)

Margherita of Savoy, Italian Queen consort (died 1926)

Joseph Samuel Bloch, Austrian rabbi and deputy (died 1923)

Charlotte Garrigue, wife of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (died 1923)

Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (died 1901)

François Denys Légitime, Haitian general (died 1935)

Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1919)

Franjo Kuhač, Croatian conductor and composer (died 1911)

Mikhail Dragomirov, Russian general (1905)

Franz Miklosich, Slovenian linguist and philologist (died 1891)

Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein, French orientalist (died 1887)

Mungo Ponton, Scottish inventor (died 1880)

Eduard Rüppell, German naturalist and explorer (died 1884)

Félix Varela, Cuban-born Roman Catholic priest (died 1853)

Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, German firearms inventor and manufacturer (died 1867)

Marianne von Willemer, Austrian actress and dancer (died 1860)

Georgios Sinas, Greek entrepreneur and banker (died 1856)

Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, Dutch painter (died 1861)

Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German captain and jurist (died 1854)

Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (died 1835)

Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Austrian violinist (died 1830)

Pope Pius VIII (died 1830)

Stanisław Kostka Potocki, Polish noble, politician and writer (died 1821)

Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince of Wagram (died 1815)

Thomas Chatterton, English poet (died 1770)

Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (died 1799)

Jean-François de Bourgoing, French diplomat, writer and translator (died 1811)

Jean-François de La Harpe, French writer and literary critic (died 1803)

José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, Spanish-Mexican scientist and cartographer (died 1799)

Philip Schuyler, American general and senator (died 1804)

Oliver Wolcott, American politician (died 1797)

George (Konissky), Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian (died 1795)

Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (died 1799)

Gyeongjong of Joseon, 20th king of the Joseon Dynasty (died 1724)

Daniel Ernst Jablonski, Czech-German theologian and reformer (died 1741)

Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (died 1698)

Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (died 1654)

Avvakum, Russian priest and saint (died 1682)

Fasilides, Ethiopian emperor (died 1667)

Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (died 1686)

Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania (died 1592)

Emperor Taizong of Song (died 997)

Maximinus II, Roman emperor (died 313)

Ursula Haverbeck, German Holocaust denier (born 1928)