Famous Birthdays In November - 22
1450 Jacob Obrecht, composer
1458 Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
1515 Marie Guise, French wife of king James V of Scotland
1535 John, the Old, earl of Nassau/tribal father Neth royal family
1564 Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
1579 Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, Dutch lawyer/pastor/lyricist
1602 Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
1606 Pieter II de Jode, Flemish engraver/publisher
1635 Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
1643 René R Cavelier sieur de La Salle, French explorer
1690 Francois Collin de Blamont, composer
1698 Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
1709 Frantisek Benda, composer
1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of JS Bach (Sinfonias 64)
1721 Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
1722 Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
1767 Andreas Hofer, Tirol nationalist
1771 Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/St-Eustatius/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies
1780 Conradin Kreutzer, composer
1780 Jose Cecilio del Valle, Honduran Politician (d. 1834)
1805 Benjamin Hugur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1808 Thomas Cook, founder (Cook travel bureau)
1814 Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
1838 Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer
1842 Anna S Barbiers, actress (Uncle Tom)
1849 Friedrich von Bernhardi, Ger historian (Germany & the Next War)
1849 Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
1852 Paul H B d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist
1856 Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th pres of Mormon church
1857 George Gissing, English author (Thyrza, Crown of Life)
1868 John Nance Garner, (D) 32nd VP (1933-41)
1869 Andre Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947)
1870 Howard Brockway, composer
1873 Johnny Tyldesley, cricketer (brother of Ernest, 31 Tests for England)
1873 Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India)
