Events

Pre-1600

• 308 At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of the Tetrarchy.

• 1028 Constantine VIII dies, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years.

• 1100 Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside; Matilda is crowned on the same day.

• 1215 The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.

• 1500 Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.

• 1572 Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.

1601–1900

• 1620 The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.

• 1634 Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.

• 1673 Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.

• 1675 Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).

• 1724 Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.

• 1750 Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.

• 1750 The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.

• 1778 Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.

• 1805 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein: Eight thousand French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.

• 1813 War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.

• 1831 In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.

• 1839 The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.

• 1855 A powerful earthquake occurs in Edo, Japan, causing considerable damage in the Kantō region from the shaking and subsequent fires. It had a death toll of 7,000–10,000 people and destroyed around 14,000 buildings.

• 1865 Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

• 1869 The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.

• 1880 Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

• 1887 Four convicted anarchists were executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

• 1889 The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.

1901–present

• 1911 Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

• 1918 World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.

• 1918 Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland symbolic first day of Polish independence.

• 1918 Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.

• 1919 The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, ultimately resulting in the deaths of five people.

• 1919 Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

• 1921 The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by U.S. President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

• 1923 Adolf Hitler is arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.

• 1926 The United States Numbered Highway System is established.

• 1930 Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

• 1934 The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia.

• 1940 World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.

• 1940 World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan.

• 1942 World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.

• 1942 The Turkish parliament passes the Varlık Vergisi, a capital tax mostly levied on non-Muslim citizens with the unofficial aim to inflict financial ruin on them and end their prominence in the country's economy.

• 1949 The People's Liberation Army Air Force is founded.

• 1960 A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.

• 1961 Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.

• 1962 Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.

• 1965 Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.

• 1965 United Air Lines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43.

• 1966 NASA launches Gemini 12.

• 1967 Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.

• 1968 Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.

• 1972 Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

• 1975 Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.

• 1975 Independence of Angola.

• 1977 A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.

• 1981 Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.

• 1982 Space Shuttle Columbia launches from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-5, the first operational mission of the Space Shuttle program.

• 1992 The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

• 1993 A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

• 1999 The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.

• 2000 Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.

• 2001 Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.

• 2002 A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 19 people.

• 2002 Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posts the first of three preprint texts with his proof of the Poincaré conjecture. It remains the only of the Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics to be solved. He later refused both the prize money from Clay Mathematics Institute as well as the Fields Medal for his work.

• 2004 New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.

• 2004 The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

• 2006 Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

• 2011 A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico.

• 2012 A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.

• 2020 Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands, killing 67 people. The storm causes the worst floods in the region since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009.

• 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.

• 2024 A vehicle-ramming attack in Zhuhai, China, kills 38 people and injures 48.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1050 Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1106)

• 1154 Sancho I of Portugal (died 1212)

• 1155 Alfonso VIII of Castile (died 1214)

• 1220 Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (died 1271)

• 1430 Jošt of Rožmberk, Bishop of Breslau (died 1467)

• 1441 Charlotte of Savoy, French queen (died 1483)

• 1449 Catherine of Poděbrady, Hungarian queen (died 1464)

• 1491 Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (died 1551)

• 1493 Paracelsus, Swiss-German physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist (died 1541)

• 1512 Marcin Kromer, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (died 1589)

• 1569 Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and chemist (died 1611)

• 1579 Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (died 1657)

• 1599 Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (died 1655)

• 1599 Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (died 1656)

1601–1900

• 1633 George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1695)

• 1668 Johann Albert Fabricius, German author and scholar (died 1736)

• 1696 Andrea Zani, Italian violinist and composer (died 1757)

• 1743 Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist, entomologist, and psychologist (died 1828)

• 1748 Charles IV of Spain (died 1819)

• 1768 Sikandar Jah, (died 1829) 3rd Nizam of Hyderabad State

• 1791 Josef Munzinger, Swiss lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Swiss Confederation (died 1855)

• 1821 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (died 1881)

• 1836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and author (died 1907)

• 1852 Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (died 1925)

• 1855 Stevan Sremac, Serbian author and activist (died 1906)

• 1857 Janet Erskine Stuart, English nun and educator (died 1914)

• 1860 Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician, 12th Premier of Queensland (died 1898)

• 1863 Paul Signac, French painter and educator (died 1935)

• 1864 Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1921)

• 1866 Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (died 1956)

• 1867 Shrimad Rajchandra, a Jain philosopher, spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi (died 1901)

• 1868 Édouard Vuillard, French painter and academic (died 1940)

• 1869 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (died 1947)

• 1869 Gaetano Bresci, Italian anarchist assassin (died 1901)

• 1872 Maude Adams, American actress (died 1953)

• 1872 David I. Walsh, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1947)

• 1882 Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (died 1973)

• 1883 Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor and academic (died 1969)

• 1885 George S. Patton, American general (died 1945)

• 1887 Roland Young, English-American actor (died 1953)

• 1888 Abul Kalam Azad, Indian activist, scholar, and politician, Indian Minister of Education (died 1958)

• 1888 J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1982)

• 1891 Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (died 1954)

• 1891 Grunya Sukhareva, Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and university lecturer (died 1981)

• 1894 Beverly Bayne, American actress (died 1982)

• 1895 Wealthy Babcock, American mathematician and academic (died 1990)

• 1896 Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author, playwright, composer, and activist (died 1977)

• 1896 Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, Mexican-American historian (died 1958)

• 1898 René Clair, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1981)

• 1899 Pat O'Brien, American actor (died 1983)

• 1900 Maria Babanova, Russian stage and film actress (died 1983)

1901–present

• 1901 Sam Spiegel, American film producer (died 1985)

• 1901 F. Van Wyck Mason, American historian and author (died 1978)

• 1904 Alger Hiss, American lawyer and convicted spy (died 1996)

• 1904 J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician and academic (died 1960)

• 1906 Brother Theodore, German-American monologuist and comedian (died 2001)

• 1907 Orestis Laskos, Greek director, screenwriter, and poet (died 1992)

• 1909 Robert Ryan, American actor (died 1973)

• 1909 Piero Scotti, Italian race car driver (died 1976)

• 1911 Roberto Matta, Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (died 2002)

• 1912 Thomas C. Mann, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to El Salvador (died 1999)

• 1914 James Gilbert Baker, American astronomer, optician, and academic (died 2005)

• 1914 Daisy Bates, American activist (died 1999)

• 1914 Taslim Olawale Elias, Nigerian academic and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (died 1991)

• 1914 Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2003)

• 1914 Henry Wade, American soldier and lawyer (died 2001)

• 1915 William Proxmire, American soldier, journalist, and politician (died 2005)

• 1915 Anna Schwartz, American economist and author (died 2012)

• 1916 Robert Carr, English engineer and politician, Lord President of the Council (died 2012)

• 1918 Stubby Kaye, American entertainer (died 1997)

• 1919 Kalle Päätalo, Finnish soldier and author (died 2000)

• 1920 Roy Jenkins, British politician, President of the European Commission (died 2003)

• 1920 Walter Krupinski, German captain and pilot (died 2000)

• 1921 Terrel Bell, American sergeant, academic, and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Education (died 1996)

• 1922 Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 2007)

• 1925 John Guillermin, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)

• 1925 June Whitfield, English actress (died 2018)

• 1925 Jonathan Winters, American actor and screenwriter (died 2013)

• 1926 Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian race car driver (died 2016)

• 1926 Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1998)

• 1927 Mose Allison, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2016)

• 1927 Martin Špegelj, Croatian general and politician, 2nd Croatian Minister of Defence (died 2014)

• 1928 Ernestine Anderson, American singer (died 2016)

• 1928 Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist (died 2012)

• 1928 Edward Zorinsky, former mayor of Omaha, Nebraska (died 1987)

• 1929 LaVern Baker, American singer (died 1997)

• 1929 Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author and poet (died 2022)

• 1929 Martin Jacomb, English lawyer, businessman, and academic (died 2024)

• 1930 Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist and academic (died 2017)

• 1930 Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (died 1982)

• 1930 Vernon Handley, English conductor (died 2008)

• 1932 Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (died 2012)

• 1933 Martino Finotto, Italian race car driver (died 2014)

• 1933 Peter B. Lewis, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2013)

• 1935 Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (died 2019)

• 1936 Jack Keller, American songwriter and producer (died 2005)

• 1937 Vittorio Brambilla, Italian race car driver (died 2001)

• 1937 Rudy LaRusso, American basketball player (died 2004)

• 1937 Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat, 14th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2026)

• 1937 Alicia Ostriker, American poet and scholar

• 1939 Denise Alexander, American actress (died 2025)

• 1940 Barbara Boxer, American journalist and politician

• 1940 Dennis Coffey, American guitarist

• 1942 Jonathan Fenby, English journalist and businessman

• 1942 Roy Fredericks, Guyanese-American cricketer and politician (died 2000)

• 1942 K. Connie Kang, Korean American journalist and author (died 2019)

• 1942 Diane Wolkstein, American author and radio host (died 2013)

• 1943 Doug Frost, Australian swim coach

• 1945 Chris Dreja, English guitarist and songwriter (died 2025)

• 1945 Vince Martell, American singer and guitarist

• 1945 Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua

• 1946 Al Holbert, American race car driver (died 1988)

• 1948 Andrzej Czok, Polish mountaineer (died 1986)

• 1948 Robert John "Mutt" Lange, British-South African record producer and songwriter

• 1948 Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (died 2005)

• 1949 Ismail Petra of Kelantan (died 2019)

• 1949 Kathy Postlewait, American golfer

• 1950 Mircea Dinescu, Romanian journalist and poet

• 1950 Jim Peterik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1951 Kim Peek, American megasavant (died 2009)

• 1951 Marc Summers, American television host and producer

• 1951 Fuzzy Zoeller, American golfer (died 2025)

• 1953 Marshall Crenshaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1953 Andy Partridge, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer

• 1954 Steve Brain, English rugby player

• 1954 Mary Gaitskill, American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

• 1954 Jim Kabia, English footballer

• 1954 Roger Slifer, American author, illustrator, screenwriter, and producer (died 2015)

• 1955 Dave Alvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1955 Jigme Singye Wangchuk, King of Bhutan

• 1955 Teri York, Canadian diver

• 1956 Talat Aziz, Ghazal singer

• 1956 Ian Craig Marsh, English guitarist

• 1958 Luz Casal, Spanish singer-songwriter and actress

• 1958 Kazimieras Černis, Lithuanian astronomer and astrophysicist

• 1958 Carlos Lacámara, Cuban-American actor and playwright

• 1958 Kathy Lette, Australian-English author

• 1959 Lee Haney, American bodybuilder

• 1959 Richard Rowe, English jockey and trainer

• 1959 Christian Schwarzenegger, Swiss criminologist and academic

• 1959 Carl Williams, American boxer (died 2013)

• 1960 Colin Harvey, English author and critic (died 2011)

• 1960 Chuck Hernandez, American baseball player and coach

• 1960 Paquito Ochoa, Jr., Filipino lawyer and politician, 37th Executive Secretary of the Philippines

• 1960 Cristina Odone, Kenyan-Italian journalist and author

• 1960 Peter Parros, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1960 Stanley Tucci, American actor and director

• 1961 Yuri Milner, Russian-born entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist

• 1962 Mario Fenech, Maltese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

• 1962 Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (died 1997)

• 1962 Demi Moore, American actress, director, and producer

• 1962 James Morrison, Australian trumpet player and composer

• 1963 Billy Gunn, American wrestler and actor

• 1964 Margarete Bagshaw, American painter and potter (died 2015)

• 1964 Calista Flockhart, American actress

• 1964 Philip McKeon, American actor (died 2019)

• 1965 Max Mutchnick, American screenwriter and producer

• 1965 Kim Stockwood, Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1966 Benedicta Boccoli, Italian model and actress

• 1966 Vince Colosimo, Australian actor

• 1966 Alison Doody, Irish model and actress

• 1966 Peaches, Canadian musician and producer

• 1967 Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver (died 2023)

• 1967 David Doak, Northern Irish video game designer

• 1967 Frank John Hughes, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1968 Diego Fuser, Italian footballer and manager

• 1969 Carson Kressley, American fashion designer, television personality, and actor

• 1971 David DeLuise, American actor and director

• 1971 Tomas Pačėsas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach

• 1972 Adam Beach, Canadian actor

• 1973 Jason White, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1974 Jon B., American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1974 Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor and producer

• 1974 Static Major, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2008)

• 1974 Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer

• 1975 Daisuke Ohata, Japanese rugby player

• 1976 Jason Grilli, American baseball player

• 1976 Jesse F. Keeler, Canadian bass player

• 1977 Ben Hollioake, Australian-English cricketer (died 2002)

• 1977 Jill Vedder, American philanthropist, activist and fashion model

• 1977 Maniche, Portuguese footballer and manager

• 1977 Scoot McNairy, American actor and producer

• 1977 Marsha Mehran, Iranian-American author (died 2014)

• 1978 Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer

• 1980 Chris Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1980 Nicole Malliotakis, American politician

• 1980 Edmoore Takaendesa, Zimbabwean-German rugby player

• 1982 Gonzalo Canale, Argentinian-Italian rugby player

• 1983 Arouna Koné, Ivorian footballer

• 1983 Philipp Lahm, German footballer

• 1983 Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Japanese voice actor and singer

• 1984 Stephen Hunt, English footballer

• 1984 Birkir Már Sævarsson, Icelandic footballer

• 1985 Osvaldo Alonso, Cuban footballer

• 1985 Austin Collie, American football player

• 1985 Tiidrek Nurme, Estonian runner

• 1985 Jessica Sierra, American singer

• 1985 Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer

• 1986 Jon Batiste, American singer and pianist

• 1986 Victor Cruz, American football player

• 1986 Mark Sanchez, American football player

• 1986 François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player

• 1987 Vinny Guadagnino, American actor

• 1987 Chanelle Hayes, English model and singer

• 1988 David Depetris, Argentinian-Slovak footballer

• 1988 Mikako Komatsu, Japanese voice actress and singer

• 1988 Kyle Naughton, English footballer

• 1989 Nick Blackman, English-Israeli footballer

• 1989 Joe Ragland, American basketball player

• 1989 Adam Rippon, American figure skater

• 1989 Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer

• 1989 Lewis Williamson, Scottish race car driver

• 1990 Tom Dumoulin, Dutch road bicycle racer

• 1990 James Segeyaro, Papua New Guinean rugby league player

• 1990 Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch footballer

• 1991 Christa B. Allen, American actress

• 1991 Kaho Onodera, Japanese curler

• 1992 Sofía Luini, Argentine tennis player

• 1992 Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1993 Jamaal Lascelles, English footballer

• 1994 Lio Rush, American wrestler

• 1994 Sanju Samson, Indian cricketer

• 1994 Ellie Simmonds, English swimmer

• 1995 Josh Aloiai, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1995 Yuriko Miyazaki, British tennis player

• 1995 Shin Seung-ho, South Korean actor and model

• 1996 Tye Sheridan, American actor and producer

• 1998 Liudmila Samsonova, Russian tennis player

• 1999 X González, American activist

• 2004 Oakes Fegley, American actor

• 2005 Ben Gannon-Doak, Scottish footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 405 Arsacius of Tarsus, Tarsian archbishop (born 324)

• 683 Yazid I, Muslim caliph (born 647)

• 865 Petronas, Byzantine general

• 865 Antony the Younger, Byzantine monk and saint (born 785)

• 875 Teutberga, queen of Lotharingia

• 1028 Constantine VIII, Byzantine emperor (born 960)

• 1078 Udo of Nellenburg, Archbishop of Trier (during the siege of Tübingen)

• 1089 Peter Igneus, Italian Benedictine monk

• 1130 Teresa of León, Countess of Portugal, Portuguese regent (born 1080)

• 1189 King William II of Sicily ("the Good") (born 1153)

• 1285 King Peter III of Aragon (born 1239)

• 1331 Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (born c. 1285)

• 1561 Hans Tausen, Danish reformer (born 1494)

• 1583 Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel

1601–1900

• 1623 Philippe de Mornay, French theorist and author (born 1549)

• 1638 Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1562)

• 1724 Joseph Blake, English criminal (born 1700)

• 1812 Platon Levshin, Russian metropolitan (born 1737)

• 1831 Nat Turner, American slave and rebel leader (born 1800)

• 1855 Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, author, and poet (born 1813)

• 1861 Pedro V of Portugal (born 1837)

• 1862 James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War (born 1793)

• 1880 Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (born 1855)

• 1880 Lucretia Mott, American activist (born 1793)

• 1884 Alfred Brehm, German zoologist, author, and illustrator (born 1827)

• 1887 Haymarket affair defendants:

• 1887 George Engel, German-American businessman and activist (born 1836)

• 1887 Adolph Fischer, German-American printer and activist (born 1858)

• 1887 Albert Parsons, American journalist and activist (born 1848)

• 1887 August Spies, American journalist and activist (born 1855)

• 1888 Pedro Ñancúpel, Chilean pirate active in the fjords and channels of Patagonia. He was executed.

1901–present

• 1917 Liliuokalani of Hawaii (born 1838)

• 1918 - Henry Gunther, American soldier, believed to be the last man killed in World War I (born 1895)

• 1918 George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last casualty of the British Empire of World War I (born 1892)

• 1919 Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter and educator (born 1832)

• 1921 Léon Moreaux, French target shooter (born 1852)

• 1931 Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese businessman (born 1840)

• 1939 Bob Marshall, American author and activist (born 1901)

• 1940 Muhittin Akyüz, Turkish general and diplomat (born 1870)

• 1944 Munir Ertegun, Turkish diplomat (born 1883)

• 1945 Jerome Kern, American composer (born 1885)

• 1949 Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Foreign Minister (born 1878)

• 1950 Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1875)

• 1953 Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1866)

• 1961 Behiç Erkin, Turkish colonel and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (born 1876)

• 1962 Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (born 1878)

• 1965 Luis Arturo González López Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president (born 1900)

• 1968 Jeanne Demessieux, French pianist and composer (born 1921)

• 1972 Berry Oakley, American bass player (born 1948)

• 1973 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1895)

• 1973 Richard von Frankenberg, German race car driver and journalist (born 1922)

• 1974 Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist, composer, and academic (born 1894)

• 1976 Alexander Calder, American sculptor (born 1898)

• 1977 Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (born 1950)

• 1979 Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (born 1894)

• 1980 Vince Gair, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Queensland (born 1901)

• 1982 Marcel Paul, French communist politician and Holocaust survivor (born 1900)

• 1984 Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (born 1899)

• 1985 Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1959)

• 1985 Arthur Rothstein, American photographer and educator (born 1915)

• 1988 Charles Groves Wright Anderson, South African-Australian colonel and politician (born 1897)

• 1988 William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (born 1900)

• 1990 Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (born 1909)

• 1990 Sadi Irmak, Turkish physician and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1904)

• 1990 Alexis Minotis, Greek actor and director (born 1900)

• 1990 Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet and playwright (born 1909)

• 1993 Erskine Hawkins, American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1914)

• 1993 John Stanley, American author and illustrator (born 1914)

• 1994 John A. Volpe, American soldier and politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (born 1908)

• 1994 Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, historian, and publicist (born 1922)

• 1997 Rod Milburn, American hurdler and coach (born 1950)

• 1997 William Alland, American film producer and writer (born 1916)

• 1998 Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player and soldier (born 1913)

• 1998 Paddy Clancy, Irish singer and actor (born 1922)

• 1999 Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (born 1961)

• 1999 Jacobo Timerman, Argentinian journalist and author (born 1923)

• 2000 Sandra Schmitt, German skier (born 1981)

• 2001 Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (born 1920)

• 2002 Frances Ames, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist (born 1920)

• 2003 Miquel Martí i Pol, Catalan poet (born 1929)

• 2004 Dayton Allen, American comedian and voice actor (born 1919)

• 2004 Yasser Arafat, Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1929)

• 2004 Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (born 1948)

• 2005 Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (born 1930)

• 2005 Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (born 1939)

• 2005 Peter Drucker, Austrian-American author, theorist, and educator (born 1909)

• 2006 Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (born 1974)

• 2007 Delbert Mann, American director and producer (born 1920)

• 2008 Herb Score, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1933)

• 2008 Mustafa Şekip Birgöl, Turkish colonel (born 1903)

• 2010 Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (born 1911)

• 2011 Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (born 1966)

• 2012 Lam Adesina, Nigerian educator and politician, Governor of Oyo State (born 1939)

• 2012 Joe Egan, English rugby player and coach (born 1919)

• 2012 Rex Hunt, English lieutenant, pilot, and diplomat, Governor of the Falkland Islands (born 1926)

• 2012 Victor Mees, Belgian footballer (born 1927)

• 2012 Harry Wayland Randall, American photographer (born 1915)

• 2013 John Barnhill, American basketball player and coach (born 1938)

• 2013 Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (born 1917)

• 2013 Bob Beckham, American singer-songwriter (born 1927)

• 2013 John S. Dunne, American priest and theologian (born 1929)

• 2013 Atilla Karaosmanoğlu, Turkish economist and politician, 33rd Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1931)

• 2014 John Doar, American lawyer and activist (born 1921)

• 2014 Big Bank Hank, American rapper (born 1956)

• 2014 Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (born 1920)

• 2014 Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (born 1932)

• 2014 Carol Ann Susi, American actress (born 1952)

• 2015 Rita Gross, American theologian and author (born 1943)

• 2015 Nathaniel Marston, American actor and producer (born 1975)

• 2016 Victor Bailey, American singer and bass player (born 1960)

• 2016 Robert Vaughn, American actor (born 1932)

• 2017 Chiquito de la Calzada, Spanish singer, actor and comedian (born 1932)

• 2021 F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, former State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)

• 2024 Frank Auerbach, German-British painter (born 1931)

• 2024 John Robinson, American football player and coach (born 1935)

Holidays and observances

• Birthday of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (Bhutan)

• Children's Day (Croatia)

Christian feast day:

• Bartholomew of Grottaferrata

• Martin of Tours, and its related observances.

• Menas

• Mercurius (Coptic)

• Søren Kierkegaard (Lutheran Church)

• Theodore the Studite

• November 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

End of World War I-related observances:

• Armistice Day (France, Belgium and Serbia)

• National Independence Day (Poland), commemorates the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood in 1918

• Remembrance Day (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada)

• Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when it was rededicated to honor American military (Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force) veterans. (United States)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975.

• Independence of Cartagena (Colombia)

• Lāčplēsis Day, celebrates the victory over the Bermontians at the Battle of Riga in 1919. (Latvia)

• Opening of carnival ("Karneval"/"Fasching"), on 11-11, at 11:11. (Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries)

• National Education Day (India)

• Republic Day (Maldives)

• Singles' Day (China)

• St. Martin's Day (Sint Maarten, Kingdom of the Netherlands)

• Pepero Day (South Korea)

References

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