Born on November 26

American mathematician (1894-1964), founder of cybernetics, the science of communication and control in living systems and machines. His work laid the theoretical foundations of computing, automation, and artificial intelligence.

Roland Moisan (1907-1987) was a French humorous cartoonist and caricaturist. He is famous for his long career at the Canard enchaîné, where he sketched the political figures of the Fourth and Fifth Republics.

Franco-Romanian playwright (1909–1994), Eugène Ionesco is one of the founders of the Theatre of the Absurd. His plays, marked by humor, absurdity, and a critique of mass society, revolutionized contemporary theatre.

Born Anna Mae Bullock in 1939 in Tennessee, Tina Turner is one of the greatest rock and soul singers of the 20th century. After surviving an abusive marriage to Ike Turner, she made a triumphant solo comeback in the 1980s.

Elizabeth Blackburn is an Australian-American molecular biologist born in 1948 in Tasmania. She discovered telomerase, the enzyme that protects the ends of chromosomes, which earned her the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009.

Kara Walker is an African American artist born in 1969, famous for her cut-out black paper silhouettes that stage, with violence and irony, the history of slavery and racism in the United States. Her work questions memory, power, and racial representations.