Birthdays Date 1922 November | History by KabAstro

Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001)

Nov 8 South African cardiac surgeon who performed the 1st heart transplant, born in Beaufort West, Union of South Africa

Nov 9 Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (Porgy & Bess), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1965)
Nov 9 Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher, born in Debrecen, Hungary (d. 1974)
Nov 9 Raymond Devos, Belgian-French humorist, born in Mouscron, Belgium (d. 2006)

Nov 11 American author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan), born in Indianapolis, Indiana

Nov 12 Kim Hunter [Janet Cole], American actress (A Streetcar Named Desire; Planet of the Apes), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2002)
Nov 13 Jack Narz, American TV game show host (Dotto, Video Village), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2008)
Nov 13 Madeleine Sherwood, Canadian actress (Mother Superior - Flying Nun), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2016)
Nov 13 Oskar Werner [Bschließmayer], Austrian stage and screen actor an(The Spy Who Came In from the Cold; Ship of Fools; Fahrenheit 451), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1984)

Nov 14 Egyptian politician and 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992- 96), born in Cairo, Egypt

Nov 14 Marina Candael, Flemish dancer and choreography (Rhapsody in Blue), born in Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium (d. 2003)
Nov 14 Veronica Lake [Constance Ockleman], American actress (Sullivan's Travels, I Married a Witch), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1973)
Nov 15 Francesco Rosi, Italian director (Lucky Luciano), born in Naples, Kingdom of Italy (d. 2015)
Nov 15 Giorgio Manganelli, Italian writer and journalist (Gruppo 63 movement), born in Milan, Italy (d. 1990)
Nov 15 Paul Acket, Dutch publisher (Music Express) and impresario (North Sea Jazz Festival), born in Semarang, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) (d. 1992)
Nov 16 Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe, born in Flandreau, South Dakota (d. 2015)

Nov 16 Portuguese writer, novelist (Blindness, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ) and Nobel laureate, born in Azinhaga, Santarém, Portugal

Nov 16 Royal Dano, American actor (Red Badge of Courage, Cocaine Wars, House II), born in New York City (d. 1994)
Nov 17 Émile Noël, French European civil servant (helped bring about European Union), born in Istanbul, Turkey (d. 1996)
Nov 18 Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004)
Nov 18 Luis Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (1956-63), born in León, Nicaragua (d. 1967)
Nov 18 Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (Olympic gold 1936) (d. 1992)
Nov 18 Viktor Afanasyev, Soviet politician and editor (Pravda), born in Aktamysh, Tatar A.S.S.R., Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (d. 1994)
Nov 19 Stanley Keith Runcorn, British geophysicist (pioneering studies of paleomagnetism provided early evidence in support of the theory of continental drift), born in Southport, Lancashire, England (d. 1995)
Nov 19 Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (major role indeciphering Mayan script), born in Kharkov, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. (d. 1999)
Nov 20 Louis van Gasteren, Dutch actor and director (The House, De prijs van overleven), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2016)
Nov 21 Abe Lemons, American basketball coach (Oklahoma City Uni, Pan American Uni; NABC Coach of the Year 1978 Uni of Texas Austin), born in Ryan, Oklahoma (d. 2002)
Nov 21 Maria Casares [Pérez], Spanish-French actress (Orpheus, Lectrice), born in A Coruña, Spain (d. 1996)

Nov 22 American firearms designer and inventor of the M16, born in Gosport, Indiana

Nov 22 Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani-Soviet composer (Azerbaijan Capriccio, Shur), born in Ganja, Azerbaijan (d. 1984)
Nov 23 Manuel Fraga [Iribarne], Spanish politician, President of Spanish Galicia (1990-2005), born in Vilalba, Galaicia, Spain (d. 2012)
Nov 24 Stanford Robert Ovshinsky, American inventor and scientist (nickel-metal hydride battery), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 2012)
Nov 25 Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (Le tour de chant de Gloria Lasso), born in Vilafranca del Penedès, Catalonia (d. 2005)
Nov 25 Ilja Hurnik, Czech composer, born in Poruba (d. 2013)

Nov 26 American cartoonist (Peanuts), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Nov 26 Étienne Gailly, Belgian long distance runner (famous Olympic bronze finish 1948), born in Beringen, Belgium (d. 1971)
Nov 28 Helen Copley, American newspaper publisher (The San Diego Union-Tribune), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 2004)
Nov 29 Benjamin Smit, Curacaos architect (St Elizabeth Hospital), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2020)
Nov 29 Minnie Miñoso, Cuban Baseball HOF left-fielder (9 x MLB All Star; Gold Glove Award 1957, 59, 60; Chicago White Sox), born in Perico, Cuba (d. 2015)
Nov 30 Graham Crowden, Scottish stage, screen, and radio actor (O Lucky Man!; A Very Peculiar Practice), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2010)
Nov 30 Robert Evett, American composer, born in Loveland, Colorado (d. 1975)
Nov 30 Weston Noble, American music educator and conductor (Luther College, 1948-2005), born in Riceville, Iowa (d. 2016)