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Ridley Scott has also been honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in 2018 and the Academy Honorary Award in 2026.
Famous Birthdays on November 30
1937 — Ridley Scott
English director, producer, and production designer
November 30 has 255 recorded notable births across history, from 539 to 2000. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on November 30
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- 1786 The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day). Source
- 883 Abu al Abbas celebrates a victory parade in Bagdhad following the surpression of the Zanj Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the Arab world. Source
- 1940 World War II: Signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1940 between the Empire of Japan and the newly formed Wang Jingwei-led Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China. This treaty was considered so unfair to China that it was compared to the Twenty-One Demands. Source
- 1782 American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris). Source
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As a screenwriter, Allen holds the record of most wins (3) and nominations (16) for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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John Bishop's first television appearance was in 2007 on the RTÉ topical-comedy show The Panel, where he was a regular panelist until 2008.
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In the 1980s, a revival of interest in figure painting led to a rediscovery of Bouguereau and his work.
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Christopher John Weitz is an American filmmaker and actor.
More major people born on November 30
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1935
Woody Allen
American actor, director, and screenwriter
Heywood "Woody" Allen is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning more than seven decades, he has written for film, television, and theater.
1966
John Bishop
English comedian, presenter, and actor
John Bishop is an English comedian, presenter, actor, and former semiprofessional footballer.
1825
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
French painter and educator (died 1905)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.
1969
Chris Weitz
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Christopher John Weitz is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for his work with his brother Paul on the comedy films American Pie and About a Boy; the latter earned the Weitz brothers a nomination for the…
1929
Joan Ganz Cooney
American screenwriter and producer, co-created Sesame Street
Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television writer and producer.
1847
Afonso Pena
Brazilian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Brazil (died 1909)
Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena was a Brazilian lawyer, professor, and politician who served as the sixth president of Brazil, from 1906 until his death in 1909.
1857
Bobby Abel
English cricketer (died 1936)
Robert Abel, nicknamed "The Guv'nor", was a Surrey and England opening batsman who was one of the most prolific run-getters in the early years of the County Championship.
1898
Firpo Marberry
American baseball player and manager (died 1976)
Frederick "Firpo" Marberry was an American right-handed starting and relief pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1923 to 1936, most notably with the Washington Senators.
1966
David Berkoff
American swimmer
David "Dave" Charles Berkoff is an American former competition Hall of Fame swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two events.
1887
Beatrice Kerr
Australian swimmer and diver (died 1971)
Beatrice Maude Williams, known professionally as Beatrice Kerr, was an Australian swimmer, diver, and aquatic performer.
1911
Carle Hessay
German-Canadian painter (died 1978)
Hans Karl Hesse, known in later life as Carle Hessay, was a German-born Canadian painter.
1965
Ben Stiller
American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
1858
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (died 1937)
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction.
1459
Mingyi Nyo
founder of Toungoo dynasty of Burma (died 1530)
Mingyi Nyo, was the founder of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma (Myanmar).
1924
Shirley Chisholm
American activist, educator and politician (died 2005)
Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress.
1874
Winston Churchill
English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
1975
Mindy McCready
American singer-songwriter (died 2013)
Malinda Gayle McCready was an American country music singer. Active from 1995 until her suicide in 2013, she recorded a total of five studio albums.
1976
Paul Nuttall
British politician
Paul Andrew Nuttall is a British politician who has been the Vice Chairman of Reform UK since July 2025. He served as Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2016 to 2017.
1990
Magnus Carlsen
Norwegian chess player
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, reigning six-time World Rapid Chess Champion, reigning nine-time World Blitz Chess Champion and the reigning FIDE…