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Boris Becker also won 13 Masters titles, three year-end championships, an Olympic gold medal in men's doubles in 1992, and led Germany to two Davis Cup titles in 1988 and 1989.
Famous Birthdays on November 22
1967 — Boris Becker
German tennis player
November 22 has 232 recorded notable births across history, from 1428 to 2002. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on November 22
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- 1837 Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution. Source
- 1943 Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government. Source
- 1935 The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila. Source
- 1990 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Premiership. Source
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In 2023, he was posthumously conferred with Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award by the Government of India.
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Katherine McNamara portrayed Clary Fray on the 2016–2019 supernatural drama series Shadowhunters, receiving a Teen Choice Award and a People's Choice Award for her work.
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Jesse Colin Young was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s group the Youngbloods.
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Thomas Cook was a supporter of the temperance movement and his first foray into tourism was a railway excursion to Loughborough for members of the Leicester Temperance Society in 1841.
More major people born on November 22
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1939
Mulayam Singh Yadav
Indian politician, Indian Minister of Defence (died 2022)
Mulayam Singh Yadav was an Indian politician, schoolmaster, lecturer and a socialist figure and the founder of the Samajwadi Party.
1995
Katherine McNamara
American actress
Katherine Grace McNamara is an American actress. She portrayed Clary Fray on the 2016–2019 supernatural drama series Shadowhunters, receiving a Teen Choice Award and a People's Choice Award for her work.
1941
Jesse Colin Young
American singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2025)
Perry Miller, known professionally as Jesse Colin Young, was an American singer and songwriter. He was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s group the Youngbloods.
1808
Thomas Cook
English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group (died 1892)
Thomas Cook was the founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was born into a poor family in Derbyshire and left school at the age of ten to start work as a gardener's boy.
1602
Elisabeth of France (died 1644)
Elisabeth of France, also known as Isabel or Elisabeth of Bourbon was Queen of Spain from 1621 to her death and Queen of Portugal from 1621 to 1640, as the first spouse of King Philip IV & III.
1643
René-Robert Cavelier
Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (died 1687)
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was a French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and the Mississippi River.
1942
Guion Bluford
American astronaut
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. is an American aerospace engineer, retired United States Air Force (USAF) officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, in which capacity he became the first African American to go to…
1861
Ranavalona III of Madagascar (died 1917)
Ranavalona III was the last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar.
2001
Chenle
Chinese singer
Zhong Chenle, known mononymously as Chenle, is a Chinese singer and former child actor based in South Korea.
1917
Andrew Huxley
English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family.
1921
Brian Cleeve
Irish writer and broadcaster (died 2003)
Brian Brendon Talbot Cleeve was a writer, whose published works include twenty-one novels and over a hundred short stories. He was also a broadcaster on RTÉ television.
1906
Jørgen Juve
Norwegian football player and journalist (died 1983)
Jørgen Juve was a Norwegian football player, jurist, journalist, and non-fiction writer. For most of his career, he played as a striker for Lyn.
1914
Peter Townsend
British captain and pilot (died 1995)
Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend was a British Royal Air Force officer, flying ace, courtier, and author.
1967
Mark Ruffalo
American actor
Mark Alan Ruffalo is an American actor and producer who began his career in the late 1980s and first gained recognition for his work in Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth (1996) and drama film You Can Count on Me…
1890
Harry Pollitt
British politician and trade unionist, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (died 1960)
Harry Pollitt was a British communist who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) from July 1929 to September 1939 and again from 1941 until his death in 1960.
1868
John Nance Garner
American politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (died 1967)
John Nance Garner III, known among his contemporaries as "Cactus Jack", was the 32nd vice president of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1941 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1986
Oscar Pistorius
South African sprinter and convicted murderer
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius is a South African double amputee, former professional sprinter, and convicted murderer. He was the 10th athlete to compete at both the Paralympic Games and Olympic Games.
1819
George Eliot
English novelist and poet (died 1880)
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
1428
Richard Neville
16th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman, known as "the Kingmaker" (died 1471)
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, 6th Earl of Salisbury, known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was an English nobleman, administrator, landowner of the House of Neville fortune and military commander.