11 November: today's birthdays

  • Gordon Allport - American psychologist. He was one of the first psychologists to understand the importance of the personality
  • Aleksandr Belov (Alexander Belov) - Former Russian basketball player
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - American actor. He starred in Titanic, The Aviator and The Wolf of Wall Street. He won the Oscar for Best Actor for The Revenant, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu
  • Fëdor Dostoevskij (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - Russian writer and philosopher. He wrote Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov.
  • Tom Dumoulin - Dutch racing cyclist
  • John Guillermin - British film director and producer. John Guillermin is best known for his films The Towering Inferno, King Kong and Death on the Nile.
  • Jimmy Iovine - American eecord producer, and film producer. He is best known as the co-founder of Beats Electronics, purchased by Apple in 2014
  • Philipp Lahm - German footballer
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger - German author, poet and translator, also known as Andreas Thalmayr and Linda Quilt.
  • Maniche - Nickname of Portuguese soccer player Nuno Ricardo Oliveira Ribeiro
  • Demi Moore - American actress, born Demi Guynes. She was married to Bruce Willis and Ashton Kutcher
  • Frankie Shaw - American actress, screenwriter, and filmmaker, born Rachel Frankes Shaw 
  • Paul Signac - French painter. He worked with Georges Seurat and helped develop Pointillism
  • Stanley Tucci - American actor, screenwriter, writer, and film director
  • Kurt Vonnegut - American writer and essayist. He wrote Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions 
  • Charles Walters - American film director and choreographer. He directed Esther Williams' musicals  
  • Georginio Wijnaldum - Dutch professional footballer, born Georginio Gregion Emile Wijnaldum
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