November 30

2024 Calendar

November 30 is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

30 BC – Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt (b. 69 BC)
1016 – Edmund II, King of England (b. 989)
1580 – Richard Farrant, English composer and playwright (b. 1530)
1600 – Nanda Bayin, King of Burma (b. 1535)
1626 – Thomas Weelkes, English organist and composer (b. 1576)
1703 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
1705 – Catherine of Braganza, Queen-Consort of King Charles II of England and Scotland (b. 1638)
1718 – King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
1873 – Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon, merchant and explorer (b. 1781)
1892 – Dimitrios Valvis, 69th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1814)
1894 – Joseph E. Brown, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1821)
1900 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)

1901 – 2000

1901 – Edward John Eyre, English explorer (b. 1815)
1908 – Nishinoumi Kajiro I, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1855)
1920 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian general (b. 1867)
1930 – Pannambalam Ramanathan, Ceylonese Tamil statesman (b. 1851)
1934 – Helene Boucher, French pilot (b. 1908)
1934 – Roy Turk, American songwriter (b. 1892)
1935 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
1938 – Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian leader of the far-right Iron Guard (b. 1898)
1939 – Bela Kun, Hungarian politician (b. 1886)
1944 – Paul Masson, French cyclist (b. 1876)
1947 – Ernst Lubitsch, German actor and director (b. 1892)
1953 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
1954 – Wilhelm Furtwangler, German conductor (b. 1886)
1957 – Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
1958 – Hubert Wilkins, Australian soldier, explorer and photographer (b. 1888)
1970 – Nina Ricci, Italian-French fashion designer (b. 1883)
1972 – Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist, actor and political activist (b. 1883)
1977 – Terence Rattigan, English playwright (b. 1911)
1979 – Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
1989 – Alfred Herrhausen, German banker (b. 1930)
1989 – Ahmadou Ahidjo, 1st President of Cameroon (b. 1924)
1994 – Guy Debord, French theorist and author (b. 1931)
1994 – Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
1995 – Stretch, American rapper, producer and actor (b. 1968)
1996 – Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
1999 – Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (b. 1925)

From 2001

2003 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2004 – Seung Sahn, South Korean spiritual leader (b. 1927)
2005 – Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
2005 – Nora Denney, American actress (b. 1927)
2007 – Evel Knievel, American daredevil and stuntman (b. 1938)
2008 – Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer and producer (b. 1958)
2009 – Milorad Pavic, Serbian writer (b. 1929)
2009 – Paul Naschy, Spanish actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1934)
2011 – Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Albanian royal and pretender (b. 1939)
2011 – Zdenek Miler, Czech animator (b. 1921)
2012 – I. K. Gujral, Prime Minister of India (b. 1919)
2013 – Jean Kent, English actress (b. 1921)
2013 – Yury Yakovlev, Russian actor (b. 1928)
2013 – Paul Walker, American actor (b. 1973)
2014 – Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (b. 1914)
2014 – Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter (b. 1932)
2014 – Fred Catherwood, English politician and writer (b. 1925)
2014 – Martin Litton, American environmentalist (b. 1917)
2014 – Jarbom Gamlin, Indian politician (b. 1950)
2015 – Eldar Ryazanov, Russian movie director (b. 1927)
2015 – Gerrit Holdijk, Dutch politician (b. 1944)
2015 – Greg Fisk, American politician (b. 1945)
2017 – Alfie Curtis, British actor (b. 1930)
2017 – Dick Gernert, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2017 – Colin Groves, British-Australian biologist and professor (b. 1942)
2017 – Jim Nabors, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1930)
2017 – Surin Pitsuwan, Thai politician and diplomat (b. 1949)
2017 – Marina Popovich, Soviet-Russian air force colonel, engineer and test pilot (b. 1931)
2017 – Vincent Scully, American architecture historian (b. 1920)
2018 – Palden Gyatso, Tibetan Buddhist monk (b. 1933)
2018 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (b. 1924)
2019 – Michael Howard, English historian (b. 1922)
2019 – Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (b. 1943)
2019 – Petr Málek, Czech sport shooter (b. 1961)
2019 – Harold Rahm, American-Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and humanitarian (b. 1919)
2019 – Milagrosa Tan, Filipina politician (b. 1958)
2019 – Brian Tierney, English historian (b. 1922)

Births

Up to 1800

539 – Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)
1327 – Andrew, Duke of Calabria (d. 1345)
1340 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
1427 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1492)
1466 – Andrea Doria, Genoese naval officer (d. 1560)
1498 – Andres de Urdaneta, Spanish friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
1508 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
1554 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier and writer (d. 1586)
1602 – Otto von Guericke, German politician, jurist, physicist and inventor (d. 1686)
1642 – Andrea Pozzo, Italian painter and architect (d. 1709)
1645 – Andreas Werckmeister, German organist, theorist and composer (d. 1706)
1667 – Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (d. 1745)
1670 – John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
1719 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
1723 – William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
1761 – Smithson Tennant, English chemist (d. 1815)
1768 – Jedrzej Sniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
1781 – Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon, merchant and explorer (d. 1873)
1791 – Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg, Austrian soldier and statesman (d. 1848)
1796 – Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)

1801 – 1900

1813 – Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
1813 – Claude-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)
1817 – Theodor Mommsen, German historian and writer (d. 1903)
1821 – Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
1825 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter (d. 1905)
1835 – Mark Twain, American writer (d. 1910)
1836 – Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
1847 – Afonso Augusto Moreira, 6th President of Brazil (d. 1909)
1858 – Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
1866 – Andrey Lyapchev, Bulgarian politician (d. 1933)
1869 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist (d. 1937)
1872 – John McCrae, Canadian poet (d. 1918)
1874 – Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
1874 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian writer (d. 1942)
1875 – Otto Strandman, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1941)
1887 – Andrej Gosar, Slovenian-Yugoslavian politician, economist and theorist (d. 1970)
1887 – Beatrice Kerr, Australian swimmer, diver and aquatic performer (d. 1971)
1889 – Edgar Douglas Adrian, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1977)

1901 – 1950

1904 – Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
1906 – John Dickson Carr, American author (d. 1977)
1907 – Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (d. 2012)
1909 – Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
1911 – Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
1912 – Gordon Parks, American photographer, musician, writer and movie director (d. 2006)
1915 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American physicist (d. 2005)
1918 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)
1920 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
1924 – Klaus Huber, Swiss composer (d. 2017)
1924 – Shirley Chisholm, American politician (d. 2005)
1926 – Andrew W. Schally, Polish-Canadian Nobel Prize winner in medicine
1927 – Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
1928 – Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician (d. 2014)
1928 – Karin Söder, Swedish politician (d. 2015)
1929 – Dick Clark, American entertainer (d. 2012)
1929 – Joan Ganz Cooney, American television presenter
1930 – G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate scandal operative and talk show host
1930 – Jacques Hamel, French priest (d. 2016)
1931 – Bruce C. Murray, American geologist (d. 2013)
1933 – Tsai Chin, Chinese-English actress
1936 – Dmitri Anosov, Russian mathematician (d. 2014)
1936 – Abbie Hoffman, American political and social activist (d. 1989)
1937 – Tom Simpson, English cyclist (d. 1967)
1937 – Ridley Scott, English movie director
1937 – Frank Ifield, English-Australian singer
1938 – Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and molecular geneticist (d. 2019)
1939 – Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese shortest-man-ever record holder (d. 2015)
1943 – Terrence Malick, American movie producer
1944 – George Graham, Scottish footballer
1945 – Hilary Armstrong, English politician
1945 – Roger Glover, Welsh bassist (Deep Purple)
1945 – Radu Lupu, Romanian pianist
1945 – Pita Paraone, New Zealand politician (d. 2019)
1947 – Stuart Baird, English movie editor, producer and director
1947 – David Mamet, American director and writer
1950 – Wolfgang Niersbach, German journalist and football official

1951 – 1975

1952 – Mandy Patinkin, American actor and musician
1952 – Keith Griffen, American comic book writer and artist
1953 – Shuggie Otis, American musician, composer and producer
1953 – June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (d. 2006)
1954 – Simonetta Stefanelli, Italian actress
1954 – Lawrence Summers, American economist and academic
1955 – Billy Idol, English musician
1955 – Richard Burr, American politician
1955 – Andy Gray, Scottish footballer
1957 – Richard Barbieri, English keyboardist and composer
1957 – Patrick McLoughlin, English politician
1957 – Colin Mochrie, Scottish-Canadian actor and comedian
1957 – Margaret Spellings, American politician
1957 – Gary Lewis, Scottish actor
1958 – Stacey Q, American singer, actress and dancer
1959 – Cherie Currie, American musician, singer, songwriter and actress
1959 – Lorraine Kelly, Scottish television presenter
1960 – Gary Lineker, English footballer
1960 – Bob Tewksbury, American baseball player
1961 – Innocent Egbunike, Nigerian sprinter and coach
1962 – Daniel Keys Moran, American computer programmer and author
1965 – Ben Stiller, American actor and comedian
1965 – Prince Akishino of Japan
1965 – Aldair, Brazilian footballer
1965 – David Laws, British politician
1966 – David Berkoff, American swimmer
1966 – John Bishop, English comedian
1966 – Mika Salo, Finnish racing driver
1968 – Des'ree, English R&B singer
1968 – Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist
1969 – Amy Ryan, American actress
1973 – Kate Fischer, Australian model and actress
1974 – Sébastien Tellier, French singer
1975 – Ben Thatcher, English-Welsh footballer
1975 – Mindy McCready, American country music singer (d. 2013)

From 1976

1976 – Josh Lewsey, English rugby player
1976 – Paul Nuttall, English politician, former leader of UKIP
1977 – Kozumi Saito, Japanese baseball player
1978 – Clay Aiken, American singer
1978 – Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor
1981 – Otto Fredrikson, Finnish footballer
1982 – Jason Pominville, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – David Carney, Australian footballer
1983 – Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
1984 – Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
1984 – Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
1984 – Francisco Sandaza, Spanish footballer
1985 – Kaley Cuoco, American actress
1985 – Chrissy Teigen, American model
1985 – Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2018)
1986 – Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
1987 – Dougie Poynter, English singer and musician (McFly)
1987 – Ian Hecox, American comedian
1987 – Naomi, American dancer, model, singer and professional wrestler
1987 – Victoria Thornley, Welsh cyclist
1988 – Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
1988 – Vitaliy Polyanskyi, Ukrainian footballer
1989 – Vladimir Weiss, Slovakian footballer
1990 – Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
1993 – Yuri Chinen, Japanese actor and singer
1994 – William Melling, English actor

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Barbados – Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1966)
Official end of the North Atlantic hurricane season
Saint Andrew's Day – Christian apostle, and patron saint (several countries including Scotland and Barbados)
Cities for Life Day
National Day (Benin)
Regina Mundi Day (South Africa)