Events

Pre-1600

• AD 25 Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.

• 176 Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.

• 395 Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.

• 511 King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve.

• 602 Byzantine Emperor Maurice is forced to watch as the usurper Phocas executes his five sons before Maurice is beheaded himself.

• 1095 Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.

• 1382 – Al-Salih Hajji, the last Qalawunid sultan, is deposed by Barquq, ending the long Turkic Bahri Mamluk period in general and particularly the Qalawunid dynasty, and beginning the reign of the Circassian Burji Mamluk.

• 1542 Palace plot of Renyin year: A group of Ming dynasty palace women fail to murder the Jiajing Emperor, and are executed by slow-slicing.

1601–1900

• 1727 The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.

• 1755 An earthquake in northern Morocco devastates the cities of Fes and Meknes.

• 1809 The Berners Street hoax is perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London.

• 1815 Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.

• 1830 Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition.

• 1835 James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.

• 1839 In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

• 1856 The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.

• 1863 American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.

• 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

• 1868 American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.

• 1879 War of the Pacific: Battle of Tarapacá: The confrontation between the Chilean Army and the Peruvian Army takes place in Tarapacá, the Peruvian victory is consummated with the death of the 2 generals and the capture the Chilean general in said place of battle, headed by the Peruvian victory of General Juan Buendía y Noregia.

• 1895 At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.

• 1896 Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.

1901–present

• 1901 The U.S. Army War College is established.

• 1912 Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.

• 1917 P. E. Svinhufvud becomes the chairman of his first senate, technically the first Prime Minister of Finland.

• 1918 The Makhnovshchina is established.

• 1924 In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

• 1940 In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents.

• 1940 World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.

• 1942 World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.

• 1944 World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.

• 1945 CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is founded to send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.

• 1954 Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

• 1965 Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.

• 1968 Penny Ann Early becomes the first woman to play in a major professional men's basketball league, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.

• 1971 The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.

• 1973 Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House will confirm him 387–35).

• 1975 The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.

• 1978 In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.

• 1978 The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the Turkish village of Fis.

• 1983 Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.

• 1984 Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agrees to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.

• 1985 Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-61-B, with Rodolfo Neri Vela becoming the first Mexican astronaut.

• 1989 Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel claimed responsibility for the attack.

• 1992 For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela.

• 1997 Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.

• 1999 The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female prime minister in New Zealand's history.

• 2001 A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

• 2004 Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

• 2004 Blackwater 61 crash: A CASA C-212 Aviocar crashes into the Koh-i-Baba mountain range in Afghanistan, killing six.

• 2006 The House of Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.

• 2008 XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.

• 2009 Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.

• 2015 An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shoots at least four police officers. One officer later dies. Two civilians are also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.

• 2020 Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated near Tehran.

• 2020 Days after the announcement of its discovery, the Utah monolith is removed by recreationists.

• 2024 Syrian rebel groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham launch a ground offensive into Syria.

Births

Pre-1600

• 111 Antinous, Greek favourite of Hadrian (died 130)

• 1127 Emperor Xiaozong of Song (died 1194)

• 1380 King Ferdinand I of Aragon (died 1416)

• 1422 Gaston IV, Count of Foix, French nobleman (died 1472)

• 1548 Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (died 1598)

• 1558 Mingyi Swa, Crown Prince of Burma (died 1593)

• 1576 Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyō (died 1638)

• 1582 Pierre Dupuy, French historian and scholar (died 1651)

• 1586 Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet, English politicians and Roundheads supporter (died 1655)

1601–1900

• 1630 Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria (died 1665)

• 1635 Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (died 1719)

• 1640 Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (died 1709)

• 1701 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (died 1744)

• 1710 Robert Lowth, English bishop and academic (died 1787)

• 1746 Robert R. Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary for Foreign Affairs (died 1813)

• 1746 Increase Sumner, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1799)

• 1754 Georg Forster, German-Polish ethnologist and journalist (died 1794)

• 1759 Franz Krommer, Czech violinist and composer (died 1831)

• 1779 Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (died 1865)

• 1798 Andries Pretorius, Boer leader after whom Pretoria was named, Prime Minister of the Natalia Republic (died 1853)

• 1804 Julius Benedict, German-English conductor and composer (died 1885)

• 1809 Fanny Kemble, English actress, playwright, and poet (died 1893)

• 1814 Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French politician and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (died 1886)

• 1820 Rachel Brooks Gleason, fourth woman to earn a medical degree in the United States (died 1905)

• 1823 James Service, Scottish-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Victoria (died 1899)

• 1833 Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (died 1897)

• 1841 Nikoline Harbitz, Norwegian author (died 1898)

• 1843 Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (died 1899)

• 1845 Frederic Crowninshield, American artist and author (died 1918)

• 1853 Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (died 1928)

• 1857 Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1952)

• 1859 William Bliss Baker, American painter (died 1886)

• 1862 Katherine Sleeper Walden, American environmental activist (died 1949)

• 1865 Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene priest, journalist, and politician (died 1917)

• 1867 Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator (died 1950)

• 1870 Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish academic and politician, 7th President of Finland (died 1956)

• 1871 Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer (died 1950)

• 1874 Charles A. Beard, American historian, author, and educator, co-founded The New School (died 1948)

• 1874 Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel (died 1952)

• 1875 Julius Lenhart, Austrian gymnast (died 1962)

• 1877 Katharine Anthony, American biographer (died 1965)

• 1878 Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian poet and critic (died 1948)

• 1878 Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (died 1969)

• 1885 Daniel Mendaille, French actor (died 1963)

• 1885 Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian author and playwright (died 1944)

• 1886 Tsuguharu Foujita, Japanese–French painter and printmaker (died 1968)

• 1887 Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (died 1946)

• 1888 Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian activist and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (died 1956)

• 1894 Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (died 1989)

• 1894 Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator (died 1977)

• 1894 Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian monk and saint (died 1971)

• 1898 Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (died 1981)

• 1900 Jovette Bernier, Canadian journalist, author, and radio show host (died 1981)

1901–present

• 1901 Ted Husing, American sportscaster (died 1962)

• 1903 Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)

• 1905 Astrid Allwyn, American actress (died 1978)

• 1907 Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet and author (died 2003)

• 1907 L. Sprague de Camp, American historian and author (died 2000)

• 1909 James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (died 1955)

• 1909 Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1967)

• 1911 Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and educator (died 2011)

• 1911 David Merrick, American director and producer (died 2000)

• 1912 Connie Sawyer, American actress (died 2018)

• 1916 Chick Hearn, American sportscaster and actor (died 2002)

• 1917 Buffalo Bob Smith, American actor and television host (died 1998)

• 1918 Stephen Elliott, American actor (died 2005)

• 1920 Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (died 1985)

• 1920 Buster Merryfield, English actor (died 1999)

• 1920 Cal Worthington, Automobile dealer and television personality (died 2013)

• 1921 Dora Dougherty Strother, American pilot and academic (died 2013)

• 1921 Alexander Dubček, Slovak soldier and politician (died 1992)

• 1922 Hall Bartlett, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1993)

• 1922 Nicholas Magallanes, American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet (died 1977)

• 1923 J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician (died 2011)

• 1925 Derroll Adams, American folk singer-songwriter and musician (died 2000)

• 1925 John Maddox, Welsh chemist, physicist, and journalist (died 2009)

• 1925 Marshall Thompson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1992)

• 1925 Ernie Wise, English actor, comedian, singer, and screenwriter (died 1999)

• 1926 Chae Myung-shin, South Korean general (died 2013)

• 1927 Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer and manager (died 1987)

• 1927 William E. Simon, American soldier and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 2000)

• 1928 Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor and director (died 2005)

• 1928 Josh Kirby, English painter and illustrator (died 2001)

• 1929 Alan Simpson, English screenwriter and producer (died 2017)

• 1930 Joe DeNardo, American meteorologist (died 2018)

• 1930 Dick Poole, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2025)

• 1930 Rex Shelley, Singaporean engineer and author (died 2009)

• 1932 Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (died 1983)

• 1933 Jacques Godbout, Canadian journalist, author, director, and screenwriter

• 1933 Gordon S. Wood, American historian and academic (died 2026)

• 1934 Ammo Baba, Iraqi footballer and manager (died 2009)

• 1934 Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 1975)

• 1934 Gilbert Strang, American mathematician and academic

• 1935 Les Blank, American director and producer (died 2013)

• 1935 Daniel Charles, French musicologist and philosopher (died 2008)

• 1935 Willie Pastrano, American boxer (died 1997)

• 1936 Gail Sheehy, American journalist and author (died 2020)

• 1938 John Ashworth, English biologist and academic (died 2025)

• 1938 Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan academic and politician, Prime Minister of Uganda (died 2019)

• 1939 Dave Giusti, American baseball player and manager (died 2026)

• 1939 Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Congolese politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (died 2001)

• 1939 Buzz Cason, American singer and songwriter (died 2024)

• 1940 Bruce Lee, American-Chinese actor, martial artist, and screenwriter (died 1973)

• 1941 Henry Carr, American football player and sprinter (died 2015)

• 1941 Aimé Jacquet, French footballer, coach, and manager

• 1941 Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1998)

• 1941 Louis van Dijk, Dutch pianist (died 2020)

• 1942 Marilyn Hacker, American poet and critic

• 1942 Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1970)

• 1943 Nicole Brossard, Canadian author and poet

• 1943 Jil Sander, German fashion designer

• 1944 Mickey Leland, American activist and politician (died 1989)

• 1945 James Avery, American actor (died 2013)

• 1945 Phil Bloom, Dutch model and actress

• 1945 Randy Brecker, American trumpeter and flugelhornist

• 1945 Alain de Cadenet, English race car driver (died 2022)

• 1945 Benigno Fitial, Mariana Islander businessman and politician, 7th Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands

• 1945 Simon Townsend, Australian journalist and television host (died 2025)

• 1946 Richard Codey, American politician, 53rd Governor of New Jersey (died 2026)

• 1946 Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Ethiopian-Djiboutian lawyer and politician, President of Djibouti

• 1947 Neil Rosenshein, American tenor and actor

• 1949 Jim Price, American basketball player and coach

• 1949 Masanori Sekiya, Japanese race car driver

• 1950 Gavyn Davies, English journalist and businessman

• 1951 Kathryn Bigelow, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1951 Vera Fischer, Brazilian actress, Miss Brasil 1969

• 1951 Gunnar Graps, Estonian singer and guitarist (died 2004)

• 1952 Sheila Copps, Canadian journalist and politician, 6th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada

• 1952 Bappi Lahiri, Indian singer-songwriter and producer (died 2022)

• 1952 Jim Wetherbee, American captain, engineer, and astronaut

• 1953 Curtis Armstrong, American actor, singer, and producer

• 1953 Steve Bannon, American media executive and political figure

• 1953 Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1953 Tarmo Kõuts, Estonian admiral and politician

• 1953 Lyle Mays, American keyboardist and composer (died 2020)

• 1953 Richard Stone, American composer (died 2001)

• 1954 Arthur Smith, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter

• 1955 Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1955 Bill Nye, American engineer, educator, and television host

• 1956 William Fichtner, American actor

• 1956 John McCarthy, English journalist and author

• 1956 Nazrin Shah of Perak, Sultan of Perak

• 1957 Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish race car driver

• 1957 Edda Heiðrún Backman, Icelandic actress, singer, director and artist (died 2016)

• 1957 Frank Boeijen, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1957 Caroline Kennedy, American lawyer and diplomat, 27th United States Ambassador to Australia, daughter of President John F. Kennedy

• 1957 Callie Khouri, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1957 Michael A. Stackpole, American game designer and author

• 1958 Tetsuya Komuro, Japanese singer-songwriter, and producer

• 1958 Mike Scioscia, American baseball player and manager

• 1959 Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and songwriter

• 1959 Viktoria Mullova, Russian violinist

• 1960 Kevin Henkes, American author and illustrator

• 1960 Ken O'Brien, American football player and coach

• 1960 Tim Pawlenty, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of Minnesota

• 1960 Michael Rispoli, American actor

• 1960 Maria Schneider, American composer and musician

• 1960 Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Ukraine

• 1960 Gianni Vernetti, Italian lawyer and politician

• 1961 Samantha Bond, English actress

• 1961 Steve Oedekerk, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1962 Charlie Benante, American drummer and songwriter

• 1962 Mike Bordin, American drummer

• 1962 Davey Boy Smith, English-Canadian wrestler (died 2002)

• 1963 Fisher Stevens, American actor, director, and producer

• 1964 Robin Givens, American actress

• 1964 Roberto Mancini, Italian footballer and manager

• 1964 Hisayuki Sasaki, Japanese golfer (died 2013)

• 1965 Danielle Ammaccapane, American golfer

• 1966 Andy Merrill, American television writer, producer and voice actor

• 1968 Al Barrow, English bass guitarist

• 1968 Michael Vartan, French-American actor

• 1969 El Chombo, Panamanian singer-songwriter

• 1969 Ruth George, English politician

• 1969 Damian Hinds, English politician

• 1969 Myles Kennedy, American singer-songwriter

• 1969 Elizabeth Marvel, American actress

• 1970 Kelly Loeffler, American politician and businesswoman

• 1970 Han Kang, South Korean writer

• 1970 Markus Vogl, Austrian politician

• 1971 Kirk Acevedo, American actor

• 1971 Larry Allen, American football player (died 2024)

• 1971 Iván Rodríguez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player

• 1971 Nick Van Exel, American basketball player and coach

• 1972 Shane Salerno, American screenwriter and producer

• 1973 Sharlto Copley, South African actor

• 1973 Samantha Harris, American model and television host

• 1973 Evan Karagias, American wrestler and actor

• 1973 Jin Katagiri, Japanese comedian, actor, sculptor, and potter

• 1973 Jon Runyan, American football player and politician

• 1973 Twista, American rapper and producer

• 1974 Wendy Houvenaghel, Northern Irish racing cyclist

• 1974 Alec Newman, Scottish actor

• 1975 Bad Azz, American rapper (died 2019)

• 1975 Martín Gramática, Argentine-American football player

• 1975 Rain Vessenberg, Estonian footballer

• 1976 Jean Grae, South African-American rapper and producer

• 1976 Chad Kilger, Canadian ice hockey player and firefighter

• 1976 Jaleel White, American actor and screenwriter

• 1977 Willie Bloomquist, American baseball player

• 1977 Bendor Grosvenor, British art historian

• 1977 Andy Panko, American basketball player

• 1978 Eszter Molnár, Hungarian tennis player

• 1978 Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player

• 1978 Mike Skinner, English rapper and producer

• 1978 Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player

• 1979 Ricky Carmichael, American motocross racer

• 1979 Hilary Hahn, American violinist

• 1979 Brendan Haywood, American basketball player

• 1979 Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer

• 1980 Jackie Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1980 Veronika Portsmuth, Estonian singer and conductor

• 1980 Michael Yardy, English cricketer

• 1981 Bruno Alves, Portuguese footballer

• 1981 Ryan Jimmo, Canadian mixed martial artist (died 2016)

• 1981 Matthew Taylor, English footballer

• 1982 David Bellion, French footballer

• 1982 Aleksandr Kerzhakov, Russian footballer

• 1982 Tommy Robinson, English activist, co-founded the English Defence League

• 1983 Professor Green, English rapper

• 1983 Henrik Karlsson, Swedish-Kazakhstani ice hockey player

• 1983 Donta Smith, American-Venezuelan basketball player

• 1984 Leslie Dewan, American entrepreneur

• 1984 Izumi Kitta, Japanese voice actress and singer

• 1984 Domata Peko, American football player

• 1985 Park Soo-jin, South Korean singer

• 1985 Alison Pill, Canadian actress

• 1985 Thilo Versick, German footballer

• 1986 Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer

• 1986 Steven Silva, American-Filipino footballer

• 1986 Xavi Torres, Spanish footballer

• 1986 Oritsé Williams, English singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer

• 1987 Luigi Datome, Italian basketball player

• 1987 Lashana Lynch, English actress

• 1989 Michael Floyd, American football player

• 1989 Freddie Sears, English footballer

• 1990 Josh Dubovie, English singer

• 1992 Ala Boratyn, Polish singer-songwriter

• 1992 Chanyeol, South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, actor and model

• 1992 Bradley Zimmer, American baseball player

• 1993 Aubrey Peeples, American actress and singer

• 1995 Suliasi Vunivalu, Fijian rugby league player

• 1996 Mike Williams, Dutch DJ and record producer

• 2001 Zoe Colletti, American actress

• 2003 Adéla Jergová, Slovak singer-songwriter

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 8 BC Horace, Roman soldier and poet (born 65 BC)

• 395 Rufinus, Roman politician (born 335)

• 450 Galla Placidia, Roman Empress (born 392)

• 511 Clovis I, king of the Franks

• 602 Maurice, Byzantine emperor (born 539)

• 639 Acarius, bishop of Doornik and Noyon

• 1198 Constance, Queen of Sicily (born 1154)

• 1252 Blanche of Castile (born 1188)

• 1346 Saint Gregory of Sinai (born c. 1260)

• 1382 Philip van Artevelde, Flemish patriot (born 1340)

• 1474 Guillaume Du Fay, French composer and music theorist (born 1397)

• 1570 Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1486)

• 1592 Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese commander (born 1568)

1601–1900

• 1620 Francis, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (born 1577)

• 1632 John Eliot, English politician (born 1592)

• 1703 Henry Winstanley, English painter and engineer (born 1644)

• 1754 Abraham de Moivre, French-English mathematician and theorist (born 1667)

• 1811 Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer, designed the threshing machine (born 1719)

• 1819 Gustavus Conyngham, Irish-born American merchant sea captain, an officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer.

• 1822 Old Billy, English barge horse, oldest recorded horse (born 1760)

• 1830 André Parmentier, Belgian-American architect (born 1780)

• 1852 Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1815)

• 1875 Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer and educator (born 1826)

• 1881 Theobald Boehm, German flute player and composer (born 1794)

• 1884 Fanny Elssler, Austrian ballerina (born 1810)

• 1890 Mahatma Phule, Indian Activist (born 1827)

• 1895 Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and playwright (born 1824)

• 1899 Constant Fornerod, Swiss academic and politician, 10th President of the Swiss Council of States (born 1819)

1901–present

• 1901 Clement Studebaker, American businessman, co-founded Studebaker (born 1831)

• 1908 Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and palaeontologist (born 1827)

• 1916 Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet and playwright (born 1855)

• 1919 Manuel Espinosa Batista, Panamanian pharmacist and politician (born 1857)

• 1920 Alexius Meinong, Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and author (born 1853)

• 1921 Douglas Cameron, Canadian contractor and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (born 1854)

• 1921 Mary Grant Roberts, Australian zoo owner (born 1841)

• 1930 Simon Kahquados, Potawatomi political activist (born 1851)

• 1931 Lya De Putti, Slovak-American actress (born 1899)

• 1934 Baby Face Nelson, American criminal (born 1908)

• 1936 Basil Zaharoff, Greek-French businessman and philanthropist (born 1849)

• 1940 Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (born 1871)

• 1943 Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian soldier and politician (born 1916)

• 1944 Leonid Mandelstam, Russian physicist and academic (born 1879)

• 1953 Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)

• 1955 Arthur Honegger, French-Swiss composer and academic (born 1892)

• 1958 Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian politician, Head of State of Bulgaria (born 1892)

• 1958 Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor (born 1892)

• 1960 Frederick Fane, Irish-English cricketer (born 1875)

• 1960 Dirk Jan de Geer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1870)

• 1962 August Lass, Estonian footballer (born 1903)

• 1967 Léon M'ba, Gabonese politician, 1st President of Gabon (born 1902)

• 1969 May Gibbs, English Australian children's author, illustrator, and cartoonist, (born 1877)

• 1970 Helene Madison, American swimmer and nurse (born 1913)

• 1973 Frank Christian, American trumpet player (born 1887)

• 1975 Alberto Massimino, Italian automotive engineer (born 1895)

• 1975 Ross McWhirter, English author and activist, co-founded the Guinness Book of Records (born 1925)

• 1977 Mart Laga, Estonian basketball player (born 1936)

• 1978 Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and politician (born 1930)

• 1978 George Moscone, American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of San Francisco (born 1929)

• 1980 F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, designed the Villa Vizcaya (born 1882)

• 1981 Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (born 1898)

• 1985 Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (born 1920)

• 1986 Steve Tracy, American actor (b, 1952)

• 1988 John Carradine, American actor (born 1906)

• 1988 Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player and author (born 1927)

• 1989 Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1908)

• 1990 David White, American actor (born 1916)

• 1990 Basilis C. Xanthopoulos, Greek physicist and academic (born 1951)

• 1992 Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (born 1914)

• 1994 Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor (born 1906)

• 1997 Buck Leonard, American baseball player and educator (born 1907)

• 1998 Barbara Acklin, American singer-songwriter (born 1943)

• 1998 Gloria Fuertes, Spanish poet and author of children's literature (born 1917)

• 1999 Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and trainer (born 1937)

• 1999 Alain Peyrefitte, French scholar and politician, French Minister of Justice (born 1925)

• 1999 Elizabeth Gray Vining, American author and librarian (born 1902)

• 2000 Malcolm Bradbury, English author and academic (born 1932)

• 2000 Uno Prii, Estonian-Canadian architect (born 1924)

• 2000 Len Shackleton, English footballer and journalist (born 1922)

• 2002 Billie Bird, American actress (born 1908)

• 2002 Shivmangal Singh Suman, Indian poet and academic (born 1915)

• 2005 Jocelyn Brando, American actress (born 1919)

• 2005 Joe Jones, American singer-songwriter (born 1926)

• 2006 Don Butterfield, American tuba player (born 1923)

• 2006 Bebe Moore Campbell, American author and educator (born 1950)

• 2006 Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (born 1951)

• 2007 Bernie Banton, Australian activist (born 1946)

• 2007 Robert Cade, American physician and academic, co-invented Gatorade (born 1927)

• 2007 Sean Taylor, American football player (born 1983)

• 2007 Bill Willis, American football player and coach (born 1921)

• 2008 V. P. Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of India (born 1931)

• 2009 Al Alberts, American singer-songwriter (born 1922)

• 2010 Irvin Kershner, American actor, director, and producer (born 1923)

• 2011 Len Fulford, English photographer and director (born 1928)

• 2011 Ken Russell, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1927)

• 2011 Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1969)

• 2012 Mickey Baker, American guitarist (born 1925)

• 2012 Ab Fafié, Dutch footballer and manager (born 1941)

• 2012 Érik Izraelewicz, French journalist and author (born 1954)

• 2012 Marvin Miller, American businessman and union leader (born 1917)

• 2012 Jack Wishna, American photographer and businessman, co-founded Rockcityclub (born 1958)

• 2013 Lewis Collins, English-American actor (born 1946)

• 2013 Herbert F. DeSimone, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Rhode Island (born 1929)

• 2013 Volker Roemheld, German physiologist and biologist (born 1941)

• 2013 Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (born 1925)

• 2013 Manuel F. Segura, Filipino colonel (born 1919)

• 2014 Wanda Błeńska, Polish physician and missionary (born 1911)

• 2014 Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (born 1988)

• 2014 P. D. James, English author (born 1920)

• 2014 Jack Kyle, Irish rugby player and humanitarian (born 1926)

• 2014 Fernance B. Perry, Portuguese-American businessman and philanthropist (born 1922)

• 2015 Mark Behr, Tanzanian-South African author and academic (born 1963)

• 2015 Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and diplomat (born 1929)

• 2015 Garrett Swasey, American figure skater and coach (born 1971)

• 2015 Philippe Washer, Belgian tennis player and golfer (born 1924)

• 2016 Ioannis Grivas, Greek statesman (born 1923)

• 2020 Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iranian nuclear scientist (born 1958)

• 2021 Apetor, Norwegian YouTuber (born 1964)

• 2024 Mary McGee, American motorcycle racer (born 1936)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Acarius of Tournai

• Barlaam and Josaphat

• Bilihildis of Altmünster

• Congar of Congresbury

• Facundus and Primitivus

• Humilis of Bisignano

• James Intercisus

• Leonard of Port Maurice

• Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Roman Catholic)

• Secundinus

• Siffredus of Carpentras

• Vergilius of Salzburg

• Clovis I

• November 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Lancashire Day (United Kingdom)

• Maaveerar Day (Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka)

• Naval Infantry Day (Russia)

• Teacher's Day (Spain)

References

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