David Watkins (86)
November 30th, 1939

Artist, jeweler, and designer of Olympic medal – David Watkins was born in Wolverhampton (City in the West Midlands, England, United Kingdom) on November 30th, 1939 and is 86 years old today.

Other personalities born on November 30

82

Rolf Edling

Swedish fencer

*November 30th, 1943, Mumbai

76

Dawson Mathis

American politician (1940-2017)

*November 30th, 1940, Nashville †April 17th, 2017, Tifton

93

Trude Dothan

Austrian-Israeli archaeologist

*November 30th, 1922, Vienna †January 28th, 2016, Jerusalem

70

Lars Brygmann

Danish actor

*November 30th, 1955, Copenhagen

73

Charles Hawtrey

English film actor (1914-1988)

*November 30th, 1914, Hounslow †October 27th, 1988, Deal

56

Nahed Hattar

Jordanian writer

*November 30th, 1959, Amman †September 25th, 2016, Amman

26

David Kushner

American singer-songwriter

*November 30th, 1999, Chicago

88

Ridley Scott

British film director and producer (born 1937)

*November 30th, 1937, South Shields

89

Tsai Chin

Chinese-born British actress

*November 30th, 1936, Shanghai

57

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881-1938)

*November 30th, 1880, Thessaloniki †November 10th, 1938, Dolmabahçe Palace

29

Tom Simpson

Professional cyclist (1937-1967)

*November 30th, 1937, Haswell †July 13th, 1967, Mont Ventoux

84

Andrew Morgan

Film director

*November 30th, 1941, Somerset

78

Ricardo Senabre

Spanish university professor

*November 30th, 1936, Alcoy †February 5th, 2015, Alicante

38

Simon Zöchbauer

Austrian trumpeter

*November 30th, 1987, Herzogenburg

87

Christiane Klapisch-Zuber

French historian & scholar

*November 30th, 1936, Thann †November 29th, 2024

77

Eduard Limonov

Russian writer (1943-2020)

*November 30th, 1942, Dzerzhinsk †March 17th, 2020, Moscow

93

Win Min Than

Burmese actress

*November 30th, 1932, Yangon

85

Yves Brunier

French puppeteer

*November 30th, 1940, Lyon

80

Margarita Salas

Spanish biochemist (1938-2019)

*November 30th, 1938, Caneiru †November 7th, 2019, Madrid

84

Pauli Nevala

Finnish athletics competitor (1940-2025)

*November 30th, 1940, Pojo †June 20th, 2025

86

Claude Arrieu

French composer

*November 30th, 1903, 8th arrondissement of Paris †March 7th, 1990, 19th arrondissement of Paris

Also born in 1939

87

Helga Piur

German actress and voice actress

*May 24th, 1939, Berlin

87

Hans Kloft

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 10th, 1939, Düsseldorf

83

Tina Turner

American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)

*November 26th, 1939, Brownsville †May 24th, 2023, Küsnacht

83

Hans-Christian Ströbele

German lawyer and politician (1939–2022)

*June 7th, 1939, Halle (Saale) †August 29th, 2022, Moabit

77

Dudley Storey

New Zealand rower

*November 27th, 1939, Wairoa †March 6th, 2017, Auckland

77

Bill White

Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach (1939-2017)

*August 26th, 1939, Toronto †May 21st, 2017, Toronto

78

Oscar Fulloné

Argentine association football player and manager (1939-2017)

*April 4th, 1939, La Plata †May 22nd, 2017, Casablanca

84

Heinrich Messner

Austrian alpine skier

*September 1st, 1939, Obernberg am Brenner †October 19th, 2023

86

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor

*November 18th, 1939, Ottawa

87

Yves Meyer

French mathematician

*July 19th, 1939, Paris

87

Monika von Starck

German painter and sculptor

*February 3rd, 1939, Cologne

70

Dixie Carter

American actress (1939–2010)

*May 25th, 1939, McLemoresville †April 10th, 2010, Houston

74

Karen Black

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

*July 1st, 1939, Park Ridge †August 8th, 2013, Santa Monica

78

Irio De Paula

Brazilian composer (1939–2017)

*May 10th, 1939, Rio de Janeiro †May 23rd, 2017, Rome

59

Dusty Springfield

British singer (1939–1999)

*April 16th, 1939, London †March 2nd, 1999, Henley-on-Thames

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

80

Karel Gott

Czech singer and actor

*July 14th, 1939, Plzeň †October 1st, 2019, Prague

86

Brenda Vaccaro

American actress

*November 18th, 1939, Brooklyn

86

Amanda Lear

French singer, actress, television presenter

*November 18th, 1939, Ho Chi Minh City

86

Jane Alexander

American actress (b. 1939)

*October 28th, 1939, Boston

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

*August 22nd, 1939, Suffern †August 30th, 2019, Los Angeles

87

Tommy Tune

American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer

*February 28th, 1939, Wichita Falls

87

Francis Ford Coppola

American filmmaker

*April 7th, 1939, Detroit

87

Ian McKellen

British actor (born 1939)

*May 25th, 1939, Burnley

86

Joaquim Chissano

2nd President of Mozambique

*October 22nd, 1939, Gaza Province

87

Beate Klarsfeld

Franco-German journalist, Nazi hunter, and historian

*February 13th, 1939, Berlin

87

Ariane Mnouchkine

French theater and film director, theater director and author

*March 3rd, 1939, Boulogne-Billancourt

80

Sid Haig

American actor (1939–2019)

*July 14th, 1939, Fresno †September 21st, 2019, Los Angeles

80

Ginger Baker

British drummer (1939–2019)

*August 19th, 1939, Lewisham †October 6th, 2019, Canterbury

87

Gro Harlem Brundtland

29th Prime Minister of Norway

*April 20th, 1939, Bærum Municipality

David Watkins