Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death. He is remembered for his resolution of the Black Sox Scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests. His iron rule over baseball in the near quarter-century of his commissionership is generally credited with restoring public confidence in the game.

20 November 1866

Born on the same birth date (20 November 1866): Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta

Born on the same birth day (20 November): Augusto Weberbauer • Berryz Kobo • Charles E. Osgood • Eiko Koike • Estelle Parsons • Jacob Pitts • Jean-François de La Harpe • John MacLean (ice hockey) • Josiah Royce • Kyle Snyder (wrestler) • Leo Falcam • Slobodan Medojević • Stéphane Houdet • Tatiana Turanskaya

Born in the same month (November 1866): Abraham Flexner • Andrey Lyapchev • Cornelia Sorabji • Harry Staley • Henry Bacon • Henry Daglish • Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin • Konishiki Yasokichi I • Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta • Martha Annie Whiteley • Sigbjørn Obstfelder • Sun Yat-sen • Voltairine de Cleyre