22 November: today's birthdays

• Endre Ady - Hungarian poet and journalist. He was influenced by Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine poetry 
• Boris Becker - Former German tennis player
• Edward Bernays - Austrian-American journalist and one of the founders of public relations
• Hoagy Carmichael - American composer, pianist and singer
• Jamie Lee Curtis - American actress. She is the daughter of American actor Tony Curtis
• Charles de Gaulle - French politician, 18th President of the French Republic, born Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle 
• George Eliot - Pen name of the British writer Mary Anne or Marian Evans.
• Adèle Exarchopoulos - French actress
• Paolo Gentiloni - Italian politician from the PD (Partito Democratico)
• André Gide - French writer, born André Paul Guillaume Gide. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. He wrote The Immoralist, The Fruits of the Earth, The Counterfeiters, Strait Is the Gate, and Si le grain ne meurt
• Terry Gilliam - American actor, film director and screenwriter
• George Gissing - English novelist. He wrote The Nether World, New Grub Street and The Odd Women 
• Scarlett Johansson - American actress, born Scarlett Ingrid Johansson. She starred in Lost in Translation, Girl with a Pearl Earring, A Love Song for Bobby Long, and Match Point
• Dora Maar - French photographer, poet and painter, born Henriette Dora Markovitch
• Mads Mikkelsen - Danish actor
• Oscar Pistorius - South African sprint runner
  
• Irina Privalova - Russian athlete
• Mark Ruffalo - American actor and film director, born Mark Alan Ruffalo
• Marjane Satrapi - Iranian-born French cartoonist, screenwriter, and film director. She directed the animated film Persepolis with Vincent Paronnaud
• Chad Trujillo - American astronomer