Famous people born on 23 November

• Franklin PiercePresident of the United States from 1853 to 1857 · 1804–1869
  64 yrs
• Johannes Diderik van der WaalsDutch physicist · 1837–1923
  85 yrs
• Joan FusterSpanish writer · 1922–1992
  69 yrs
• Nicholas VPope of the Catholic Church from 1447 to 1455 · 1397–1455
  57 yrs
• Sathya Sai BabaIndian spiritual guru · 1926–2011
  84 yrs
• Hjalmar Branting ↗Prime Minister of Sweden · 1860–1925
  64 yrs
• Anatoly Lunacharsky ↗Russian Soviet revolutionary, politician and writer · 1875–1933
  58 yrs
• Paul Celan ↗French-Romanian poet and translator · 1920–1970
  49 yrs
• Klement Gottwald ↗5th President of Czechoslovakia · 1896–1953
  56 yrs
• Krzysztof Penderecki ↗Polish composer and conductor · 1933–2020
  86 yrs
• John I of France ↗King of France in 1316 · 1316–1316
  0 yrs
• Boris Karloff ↗British actor · 1887–1969
  81 yrs
• François-Noël Babeuf ↗French political agitator and journalist · 1760–1797
  36 yrs
• Henry Moseley ↗English physicist · 1887–1915
  27 yrs
• Manuel de Falla ↗Spanish composer · 1876–1946
  69 yrs
• Ali Shariati ↗Iranian writer, scholar of Islam, and political activist · 1933–1977
  43 yrs
• Michael Gough ↗English actor · 1916–2011
  94 yrs
• José Clemente Orozco ↗Mexican artist · 1883–1949
  65 yrs
• Betti Alver ↗Estonian novelist and poet · 1906–1989
  82 yrs
• Marie Bashkirtseva ↗Ukrainian-French artist · 1860–1884
  23 yrs
• Alexander ↗Byzantine emperor from 912 to 913 · AD 872–913
  40 yrs
• Harpo Marx ↗American comedian · 1888–1964
  75 yrs
• Angelo Sodano ↗Cardinal of the Catholic Church · 1927–2022
  94 yrs
• Albert VII, Archduke of Austria ↗Austrian cardinal and governor of the Netherlands · 1559–1621
  61 yrs
• Jonas Basanavičius ↗Lithuanian activist · 1851–1927
  75 yrs
• Frank Caprio ↗American lawyer and politician · 1936–2025
  88 yrs
• Vladislav Volkov ↗Soviet cosmonaut · 1935–1971
  35 yrs
• Ernest King ↗United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations · 1878–1956
  77 yrs
• John Rabe ↗German businessman · 1882–1950
  67 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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