Events

Pre-1600

• 887 Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt, leading his nephew, Arnulf of Carinthia, to declare himself king of the East Frankish Kingdom in late November.

• 1183 Genpei War: The Battle of Mizushima takes place off the Japanese coast, where Minamoto no Yoshinaka's invasion force is intercepted and defeated by the Taira clan.

• 1292 John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.

• 1405 Sharif ul-Hāshim establishes the Sultanate of Sulu.

• 1494 French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy.

• 1511 Henry VIII of England concludes the Treaty of Westminster, a pledge of mutual aid against the French, with Ferdinand II of Aragon.

• 1558 Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I.

1601–1900

• 1603 English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.

• 1775 The city of Kuopio, Finland (belonging to Sweden at this time) is founded by King Gustav III of Sweden.

• 1777 Articles of Confederation (United States) are submitted to the states for ratification.

• 1796 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Bridge of Arcole: French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.

• 1800 The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.

• 1810 Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.

• 1811 José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.

• 1820 Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)

• 1831 Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Gran Colombia.

• 1837 An earthquake in Valdivia, south-central Chile, causes a tsunami that leads to significant destruction along Japan's coast.

• 1856 American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.

• 1858 Modified Julian Day zero.

• 1858 The city of Denver, Colorado is founded.

• 1863 American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins: During the Knoxville campaign, Confederate forces under General James Longstreet besiege the city of Knoxville, Tennessee and its Union defenders led by General Ambrose Burnside.

• 1869 In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.

• 1878 First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.

• 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.

• 1894 H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.

• 1896 The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.

1901–present

• 1903 The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

• 1939 Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. All Czech universities are shut down and more than 1,200 students sent to concentration camps. Since this event, International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.

• 1940 The Tartu Art Museum is established in Tartu, Estonia.

• 1947 The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.

• 1947 American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.

• 1950 Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.

• 1950 United Nations Security Council Resolution 89 relating to the Palestine Question is adopted.

• 1953 The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.

• 1957 Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.

• 1962 President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.

• 1967 Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."

• 1968 British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.

• 1968 Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.

• 1969 Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weaponss on both sides.

• 1970 Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.

• 1970 Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.

• 1973 Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."

• 1973 The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.

• 1983 The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.

• 1986 The flight crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 are involved in a UFO sighting incident while flying over Alaska.

• 1989 Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).

• 1990 Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.

• 1993 United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement.

• 1993 In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.

• 1997 In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.

• 2000 A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.

• 2000 Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.

• 2003 Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger's tenure as the governor of California begins.

• 2012 At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.

• 2013 Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.

• 2013 A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.

• 2019 The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

Births

Pre-1600

• AD 9 Vespasian, Roman emperor (died 79)

• 1019 Sima Guang, Chinese politician (died 1086)

• 1412 Zanobi Strozzi, Italian painter (died 1468)

• 1453 Alfonso, Asturian prince (died 1468)

• 1493 John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (died 1543)

• 1503 Bronzino, Italian painter (died 1572)

• 1576 Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and saint (died 1628)

• 1587 Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet and playwright (died 1679)

1601–1900

• 1602 Agnes of Jesus, French Catholic nun (died 1634)

• 1612 Dorgon, Chinese prince and regent (died 1650)

• 1681 Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian and author (died 1776)

• 1685 Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Canadian commander and explorer (died 1749)

• 1729 Maria Antonia Ferdinanda, Sardinian queen consort (died 1785)

• 1749 Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning (died 1841)

• 1753 Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American pastor and botanist (died 1815)

• 1755 Louis XVIII, king of France (died 1824)

• 1765 Jacques MacDonald, French general (died 1840)

• 1769 Charlotte Georgine, duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1818)

• 1790 August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1868)

• 1793 Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter, historian, and academic (died 1865)

• 1816 August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer and historian (died 1876)

• 1827 Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian journalist and poet (died 1895)

• 1835 Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (died 1915)

• 1854 Hubert Lyautey, French general and politician, French Minister of War (died 1934)

• 1857 Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (died 1932)

• 1866 Voltairine de Cleyre, American author and activist (died 1912)

• 1868 Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic (died 1918)

• 1877 Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist and businessman (died 1943)

• 1878 Grace Abbott, American social worker (died 1939)

• 1878 Augustus Goessling, American swimmer and water polo player (died 1963)

• 1886 Walter Terence Stace, English-American philosopher, academic, and civil servant (died 1967)

• 1887 Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (died 1976)

• 1891 Lester Allen, American screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director (died 1949)

• 1896 Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian psychologist and philosopher (died 1934)

• 1897 Frank Fay, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1961)

• 1897 Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican journalist, author, and poet (died 1966)

• 1899 Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American engineer (died 1971)

1901–present

• 1901 Walter Hallstein, German academic and politician, first President of the European Commission (died 1982)

• 1901 Lee Strasberg, Ukrainian-American actor and director (died 1982)

• 1902 Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)

• 1904 Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and architect (died 1988)

• 1905 Astrid of Sweden (died 1935)

• 1905 Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor (died 1967)

• 1905 Arthur Chipperfield, Australian cricketer (died 1987)

• 1906 Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company (died 1991)

• 1906 Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (died 2007)

• 1907 Israel Regardie, English occultist and author (died 1985)

• 1911 Christian Fouchet, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of the Interior (died 1974)

• 1916 Shelby Foote, American historian and author (died 2005)

• 1917 Ruth Aaronson Bari, American mathematician (died 2005)

• 1919 Kim Heungsou, Korean painter and educator (died 2014)

• 1920 Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgian singer-songwriter (died 2005)

• 1920 Gemini Ganesan, Indian actor and director (died 2002)

• 1921 Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter and illustrator (died 2019)

• 1922 Stanley Cohen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)

• 1922 Jack Froggatt, English footballer (died 1993)

• 1923 Hubertus Brandenburg, Swedish bishop (died 2009)

• 1923 Mike Garcia, American baseball player (died 1986)

• 1923 Aristides Pereira, Cape Verdean politician, first President of Cape Verde (died 2011)

• 1923 Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer and coach (died 2001)

• 1925 Jean Faut, American baseball player and bowler (died 2023)

• 1925 Rock Hudson, American actor (died 1985)

• 1925 Charles Mackerras, American-Australian oboe player and conductor (died 2010)

• 1927 Robert Drasnin, American clarinet player and composer (died 2015)

• 1927 Fenella Fielding, English actress (died 2018)

• 1927 Nicholas Taylor, Canadian geologist, businessman, and politician (died 2020)

• 1928 Arman, French-American painter and sculptor (died 2005)

• 1928 Rance Howard, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2017)

• 1928 Colin McDonald, Australian cricketer (died 2021)

• 1929 Gorō Naya, Japanese actor and director (died 2013)

• 1929 Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (died 1999)

• 1930 Bob Mathias, American decathlete, actor, and politician (died 2006)

• 1932 Jeremy Black, English admiral (died 2015)

• 1933 Dan Osinski, American baseball player (died 2013)

• 1933 Orlando Peña, Cuban-American baseball player and scout

• 1934 Jim Inhofe, American soldier and politician, senior senator of Oklahoma (died 2024)

• 1934 Anthony King, Canadian-English Psephologist and academic (died 2017)

• 1934 Terry Rand, American basketball player (died 2014)

• 1935 Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player

• 1935 Toni Sailer, Austrian skier and actor (died 2009)

• 1935 Masatoshi Sakai, Japanese record producer (died 2021)

• 1936 Crispian Hollis, English Roman Catholic bishop

• 1937 Peter Cook, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 1995)

• 1938 Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, Scottish general (died 2025)

• 1938 Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)

• 1939 Auberon Waugh, English journalist and author (died 2001)

• 1940 Luke Kelly, Irish singer, folk musician and actor (died 1984)

• 1942 Derek Clayton, English-Australian runner

• 1942 Partha Dasgupta, Bangladeshi economist and academic

• 1942 Bob Gaudio, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer

• 1942 Lesley Rees, English endocrinologist and academic

• 1942 István Rosztóczy, Hungarian-Japanese microbiologist and physician (died 1993)

• 1942 Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor

• 1943 Lauren Hutton, American model and actress

• 1944 Jim Boeheim, American basketball player and coach

• 1944 Malcolm Bruce, English-Scottish journalist, academic, and politician

• 1944 Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1991)

• 1944 Danny DeVito, American actor, director, and producer

• 1944 Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect and academic, designed the Seattle Central Library

• 1944 Lorne Michaels, Canadian-American screenwriter and producer, created Saturday Night Live

• 1944 Tom Seaver, American baseball pitcher (died 2020)

• 1944 Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights activist (died 1966)

• 1945 Lesley Abdela, English journalist and activist

• 1945 Jeremy Hanley, English accountant and politician, British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

• 1945 Elvin Hayes, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1945 Roland Joffé, English-French director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1945 Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Algerian politician, 8th President of Algeria

• 1946 Martin Barre, English guitarist and songwriter

• 1946 Terry Branstad, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th Governor of Iowa and U.S. Ambassador to China (2017-2020)

• 1946 Petra Burka, Dutch-Canadian figure skater and coach

• 1947 Rod Clements, British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist

• 1948 Howard Dean, American physician and politician, 79th Governor of Vermont

• 1948 East Bay Ray, American guitarist

• 1948 Howard Fineman, American journalist and television commentator (died 2024)

• 1949 John Boehner, American businessman and politician, 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

• 1949 Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Vietnamese soldier and politician, eighth Prime Minister of Vietnam

• 1949 Michael Wenden, Australian swimmer

• 1950 Roland Matthes, German swimmer (died 2019)

• 1951 Butch Davis, American football player and coach

• 1951 Werner Hoyer, German economist and politician

• 1951 Dean Paul Martin, American singer, actor, and pilot (died 1987)

• 1951 Stephen Root, American actor

• 1951 Jack Vettriano, Scottish painter and philanthropist (died 2025)

• 1952 David Emanuel, Welsh fashion designer

• 1952 Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player

• 1952 Runa Laila, Bangladeshi singer

• 1952 Cyril Ramaphosa, South African businessman and politician, fifth President of South Africa

• 1953 Babis Tennes, Greek footballer and manager

• 1954 Chopper Read, Australian criminal and author (died 2013)

• 1955 Peter Cox, English singer-songwriter

• 1955 Yolanda King, American actress and activist (died 2007)

• 1955 Dennis Maruk, Ukrainian-Canadian ice hockey player

• 1956 Angelika Machinek, German glider pilot (died 2006)

• 1956 Jim McGovern, Scottish politician

• 1957 Jim Babjak, American guitarist and songwriter

• 1958 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer

• 1959 Terry Fenwick, English footballer and manager

• 1959 William R. Moses, American actor and producer

• 1959 Jaanus Tamkivi, Estonian politician

• 1960 Michael Hertwig, German footballer and manager

• 1960 Jonathan Ross, English actor and talk show host

• 1960 RuPaul, American drag queen performer, actor, and singer

• 1960 Steve Stipanovich, American basketball player

• 1961 Robert Stethem, American soldier (died 1985)

• 1961 Pat Toomey, American businessman and politician

• 1962 Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2000)

• 1963 Adrian Branch, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1963 Daniel Scott, American novelist and short story writer

• 1963 Dylan Walsh, American actor

• 1964 Susan Rice, American academic and politician, 24th United States National Security Advisor

• 1964 Mitch Williams, American baseball player and sportscaster

• 1965 Darren Beadman, Australian jockey

• 1965 Pam Bondi, American politician and attorney, 87th U.S. Attorney General

• 1965 Amanda Brown, Australian violinist and composer

• 1966 Ben Allison, American bassist and composer

• 1966 Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1997)

• 1966 Kate Ceberano, Australian singer-songwriter and actress

• 1966 Richard Fortus, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

• 1966 Daisy Fuentes, Cuban-American model and actress

• 1966 Sophie Marceau, French actress, director, and screenwriter

• 1966 Alvin Patrimonio, Filipino basketball player and manager

• 1967 Tab Benoit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1967 Ronnie DeVoe, American singer, producer, and actor

• 1968 Sean Miller, American basketball player and coach

• 1969 Ryōtarō Okiayu, Japanese voice actor and singer

• 1969 Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player

• 1969 Rebecca Walker, American author

• 1970 Paul Allender, English guitarist and songwriter

• 1970 Tania Zaetta, Australian actress

• 1971 David Ramsey, American actor

• 1971 Tonje Sagstuen, Norwegian handball player, journalist, newspaper editor, and gambling executive

• 1972 Kimya Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1972 Joanne Goode, English badminton player

• 1972 Lorraine Pascale, English model and chef

• 1972 Leonard Roberts, American actor

• 1973 Andreas Hedlund, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer

• 1973 Eli Marrero, Cuban baseball player, coach, and manager

• 1973 Bernd Schneider, German footballer

• 1973 Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater and coach

• 1973 Leslie Bibb, American actress and producer

• 1974 Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean-French heptathlete and long jumper

• 1974 Berto Romero, Spanish comedian and actor

• 1975 Kinga Baranowska, Polish mountaineer

• 1975 Lee Carseldine, Australian cricketer

• 1975 Jerome James, American basketball player

• 1976 Brandon Call, American actor

• 1976 Diane Neal, American actress and director

• 1977 Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer

• 1978 Glen Air, Australian rugby league player

• 1978 Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress and stuntwoman

• 1978 Tom Ellis, Welsh actor

• 1978 Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress

• 1978 Reggie Wayne, American football player

• 1979 Matthew Spring, English footballer

• 1980 Jay Bradley, American wrestler

• 1981 Sarah Harding, English singer, dancer, and actress (died 2021)

• 1981 Doug Walker, American actor, comedian, film critic, internet personality, and filmmaker

• 1982 Katie Feenstra-Mattera, American basketball player

• 1982 Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer

• 1982 Hollie Smith, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1983 Viva Bianca, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter

• 1983 Ioannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player

• 1983 Ryan Bradley, American figure skater

• 1983 Ryan Braun, American baseball player

• 1983 Trevor Crowe, American baseball player

• 1983 Jodie Henry, Australian swimmer

• 1983 Harry Lloyd, English actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1983 Nick Markakis, American baseball player

• 1983 Scott Moore, American baseball player

• 1983 Christopher Paolini, American author

• 1984 Amanda Evora, American figure skater

• 1984 Park Han-byul, South Korean model and actress

• 1985 Luis Aguiar, Uruguayan footballer

• 1985 Sékou Camara, Malian footballer (died 2013)

• 1985 Carolina Neurath, Swedish journalist

• 1986 Everth Cabrera, Nicaraguan baseball player

• 1986 Fabio Concas, Italian footballer

• 1986 Aaron Finch, Australian cricketer

• 1986 Nani, Portuguese footballer

• 1986 Greg Rutherford, English long jumper

• 1987 Justine Michelle Cain, English actress

• 1987 Craig Noone, English footballer

• 1987 Gemma Spofforth, English swimmer

• 1988 Justin Cooper, American actor

• 1989 Ryan Griffin, American football player

• 1989 Seth Lugo, American baseball player

• 1989 Roman Zozulya, Ukrainian footballer

• 1990 Elías Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1992 Damiris Dantas, Brazilian basketball player

• 1992 Katarzyna Kawa, Polish tennis player

• 1992 Danielle Kettlewell, Australian synchronised swimmer

• 1993 Taylor Gold, American snowboarder

• 1994 Raquel Castro, American actress and singer

• 1994 Rose Ayling-Ellis, British actress

• 1995 Elise Mertens, Belgian tennis player

• 1995 Panashe Muzambe, Scottish rugby union player

• 1996 Minkah Fitzpatrick, American football player

• 1996 Jamayne Taunoa-Brown, Australian rugby league player

• 1996 – Roope Hintz, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1997 Dragan Bender, Croatian basketball player

• 1997 Julian Ryerson, Norwegian footballer

• 1997 Yugyeom, South Korean singer

• 1999 Gabi Gonçalves, Brazilian politician

• 2000 Joanne Züger, Swiss tennis player

• 2001 Kate Douglass, American swimmer

• 2004 Linda Nosková, Czech tennis player

• 2005 Anna Tanaka, Japanese singer and model

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 375 Valentinian I, Roman emperor (born 321)

• 594 Gregory of Tours, Roman bishop and saint (born 538)

• 641 Emperor Jomei of Japan (born 593)

• 885 Liutgard of Saxony (born 845)

• 935 Chen Jinfeng, empress of Min (born 893)

• 935 Wang Yanjun, emperor of Min (Ten Kingdoms)

• 1104 Nikephoros Melissenos, Byzantine general (born 1045)

• 1188 Usama ibn Munqidh, Arab chronicler (born 1095)

• 1231 Elizabeth of Hungary (born 1207)

• 1307 Hethum II, King of Armenia (born 1266)

• 1307 Leo III, King of Armenia (born 1289)

• 1326 Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (born 1285)

• 1417 Gazi Evrenos, Ottoman general (born 1288)

• 1492 Jami, Persian poet and saint (born 1414)

• 1494 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher and author (born 1463)

• 1525 Eleanor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal (born 1458)

• 1558 Mary I of England (born 1516)

• 1558 Reginald Pole, English cardinal and academic (born 1500)

• 1558 Hugh Aston, English composer (born 1485)

• 1562 Antoine of Navarre (born 1518)

• 1592 John III of Sweden (born 1537)

• 1600 Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese commander (born 1542)

1601–1900

• 1624 Jakob Böhme, German mystic (born 1575)

• 1632 Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (born 1594)

• 1643 Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, French general (born 1602)

• 1648 Thomas Ford, English viol player, composer, and poet (born 1580)

• 1665 John Earle, English bishop (born 1601)

• 1668 Joseph Alleine, English pastor and author (born 1634)

• 1690 Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French general and politician (born 1610)

• 1708 Ludolf Bakhuizen, German-Dutch painter (born 1631)

• 1713 Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Indonesian merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (born 1653)

• 1747 Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (born 1668)

• 1768 Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1693)

• 1776 James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (born 1710)

• 1780 Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter and illustrator (born 1720)

• 1796 Catherine the Great, of Russia (born 1729)

• 1808 David Zeisberger, Czech-American pastor and missionary (born 1721)

• 1812 John Walter, English Insurance underwriter and founder of The Times newspaper (born 1738/1739)

• 1818 Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland, Electress/Queen of Hanover (born 1744)

• 1835 Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (born 1758)

• 1865 James McCune Smith, American physician and author (born 1813)

• 1897 George Hendric Houghton, American pastor and theologian (born 1820)

1901–present

• 1902 Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (born 1847)

• 1905 Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (born 1817)

• 1910 Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (born 1886)

• 1917 Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (born 1840)

• 1922 Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1847)

• 1923 Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (born 1862)

• 1924 Gregory VII of Constantinople (born 1850)

• 1928 Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (born 1865)

• 1929 Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman (born 1860)

• 1936 Ernestine Schumann-Heink, German-American singer (born 1861)

• 1937 Jack Worrall, Australian footballer, cricketer, and coach (born 1860)

• 1938 Ante Trumbić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 20th Mayor of Split (born 1864)

• 1940 Eric Gill, English sculptor and typeface designer (born 1882)

• 1940 Raymond Pearl, American biologist and academic (born 1879)

• 1947 Victor Serge, Russian historian and author (born 1890)

• 1954 Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and journalist (born 1899)

• 1955 James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (born 1894)

• 1958 Mort Cooper, American baseball player (born 1913)

• 1959 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (born 1887)

• 1962 Olivia Dahl (born 1955), daughter of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal

• 1968 Mervyn Peake, English poet, author, and illustrator (born 1911)

• 1968 Abdul Wahed Bokainagari, Bengali politician (born 1876)

• 1971 Gladys Cooper, English actress (born 1888)

• 1973 Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (born 1878)

• 1976 Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi scholar and politician (born 1880)

• 1979 John Glascock, English singer and bass player (born 1951)

• 1982 Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (born 1905)

• 1986 Georges Besse, French businessman (born 1927)

• 1987 Paul Derringer, American baseball player (born 1906)

• 1988 Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, author, and journalist (born 1904)

• 1989 Costabile Farace, American criminal (born 1960)

• 1990 Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)

• 1992 Audre Lorde, American poet, essayist, memoirist, and activist (born 1934)

• 1993 Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian lawyer and politician, fifth Deputy Premier of Quebec (born 1926)

• 1995 Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)

• 1998 Kea Bouman, Dutch tennis player (born 1903)

• 1998 Esther Rolle, American actress (born 1920)

• 2000 Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)

• 2001 Michael Karoli, German guitarist and songwriter (born 1948)

• 2001 Harrison A. Williams, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (born 1919)

• 2002 Abba Eban, South African-Israeli soldier and politician, third Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1915)

• 2002 Frank McCarthy, American painter and illustrator (born 1924)

• 2003 Surjit Bindrakhia, Indian singer (born 1962)

• 2003 Arthur Conley, American-Dutch singer-songwriter (born 1946)

• 2004 Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler and manager (born 1970)

• 2004 Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (born 1941)

• 2005 Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor and director (born 1942)

• 2006 Ruth Brown, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1928)

• 2006 Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1927)

• 2006 Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (born 1929)

• 2007 Aarne Hermlin, Estonian chess player (born 1940)

• 2008 George Stephen Morrison, American admiral (born 1919)

• 2008 Pete Newell, American basketball player and coach (born 1915)

• 2011 Kurt Budke, American basketball player and coach (born 1961)

• 2012 Ponty Chadha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (born 1957)

• 2012 Armand Desmet, Belgian cyclist (born 1931)

• 2012 Lea Gottlieb, Hungarian-Israeli fashion designer, founded the Gottex Company (born 1918)

• 2012 Freddy Schmidt, American baseball player (born 1916)

• 2012 Billy Scott, American singer-songwriter (born 1942)

• 2012 Bal Thackeray, Indian cartoonist and politician (born 1926)

• 2012 Margaret Yorke, English author (born 1924)

• 2013 Zeke Bella, American baseball player (born 1930)

• 2013 Alfred Blake, English colonel and lawyer (born 1915)

• 2013 Syd Field, American screenwriter and producer (born 1935)

• 2013 Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919)

• 2013 Alex Marques, Portuguese footballer (born 1993)

• 2013 Mary Nesbitt Wisham, American baseball player (born 1925)

• 2014 John T. Downey, American CIA agent and judge (born 1930)

• 2014 Bill Frenzel, American lieutenant and politician (born 1928)

• 2014 Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (born 1940)

• 2014 Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and philosopher (born 1922)

• 2015 John Leahy, English lawyer and diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia (born 1928)

• 2015 Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, Iranian poet and songwriter (born 1926)

• 2019 Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver (born 1982)

• 2021 Young Dolph, American rapper (born 1985)

• 2024 Macoto Takahashi, Japanese manga artist (born 1934)

Holidays and observances

• Athens Polytechnic Uprising Remembrance Day (Greece)

Christian feast days:

• Acisclus

• Aignan of Orleans

• Elizabeth of Hungary

• Gennadius of Constantinople (Greek Orthodox Church)

• Gregory of Tours (Roman Catholic Church)

• Gregory Thaumaturgus

• Hilda of Whitby

• Hugh of Lincoln

• November 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• International Students' Day

• Martyrs' Day (Odisha, India)

• Presidents Day (Marshall Islands)

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