Events

Pre-1600

• 534 BC Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character on stage.

• 1248 Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.

• 1499 Seven days after being convicted of treason, Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the throne of England, is hanged for attempting to escape from the Tower of London; his supporter John Atwater is executed with him.

1601–1900

• 1644 John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

• 1733 The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.

• 1808 French and Poles defeat the Spanish at Battle of Tudela.

• 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.

• 1867 The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.

• 1876 Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.

• 1890 King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.

1901–present

• 1910 Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

• 1914 Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.

• 1921 Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, signs the Willis–Campbell Act into law, prohibiting doctors from prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.

• 1923 Thousands of Irish Republicans end the 1923 Irish hunger strikes, five die from starvation.

• 1924 Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

• 1934 An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.

• 1939 World War II: is sunk by the German battleships and .

• 1940 World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.

• 1943 World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

• 1943 World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.

• 1944 World War II: The Lotta Svärd Movement is disbanded under the terms of the armistice treaty in Finland after the Continuation War.

• 1946 French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians.

• 1955 The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.

• 1959 French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".

• 1963 The first episode of Doctor Who ("An Unearthly Child") is broadcast by the BBC, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.

• 1971 Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.

• 1972 The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at launching the N1 rocket.

• 1974 Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.

• 1976 Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of undersea without breathing equipment.

• 1978 Cyclone kills about 1,000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.

• 1978 The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.

• 1980 The 6.9 Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,483–4,900, and injuring 7,700–8,934.

• 1981 Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

• 1985 Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.

• 1991 Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury announces in a statement that he is HIV-positive. He dies the following day.

• 1992 The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.

• 1996 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

• 2001 The Budapest Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.

• 2002 Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-113 to the International Space Station carrying the Expedition 6 crew and the P1 truss.

• 2003 Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.

• 2004 The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.

• 2005 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.

• 2006 A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.

• 2007 , a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.

• 2009 The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Philippines; 58 opponents of Andal Ampatuan Jr. are kidnapped and killed.

• 2010 Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea.

• 2011 Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.

• 2015 Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.

• 2018 Founders of Italian fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana issue an apology following a series of offensive advertisements on social media promoting a fashion show in Shanghai, China, which was canceled.

• 2019 The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia, Imam, dies, making the species officially extinct in the country.

Births

Pre-1600

• 870 Alexander, Byzantine emperor (died 913)

• 912 Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 973)

• 1190 Pope Clement IV (died 1268)

• 1221 Alfonso X of Castile (died 1284)

• 1402 Jean de Dunois, French soldier (died 1468)

• 1417 William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (died 1487)

• 1496 Clément Marot, French poet (died 1544)

• 1508 Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, youngest son of Henry the Middle (died 1549)

• 1553 Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (died 1617)

1601–1900

• 1632 Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholar (died 1707)

• 1641 Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch lawyer and politician (died 1720)

• 1687 Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French violinist and composer (died 1730)

• 1705 Thomas Birch, English historian and author (died 1766)

• 1715 Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer and author (died 1799)

• 1719 Spranger Barry, Irish actor (died 1777)

• 1749 Edward Rutledge, American captain and politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina (died 1800)

• 1760 François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist and activist (died 1797)

• 1781 Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German lawyer and politician, 1st Mayor of Marburg (died 1847)

• 1785 Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (died 1853)

• 1803 Theodore Dwight Weld, American author and activist (died 1895)

• 1804 Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (died 1869)

• 1820 Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (died 1884)

• 1837 Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1923)

• 1838 Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1928)

• 1858 Albert Ranft, Swedish actor and director (died 1938)

• 1860 Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1925)

• 1864 Henry Bourne Joy, American businessman (died 1936)

• 1868 Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (died 1953)

• 1869 Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (died 1942)

• 1869 Johan Scharffenberg, Norwegian psychiatrist (died 1965)

• 1871 Signe Salén, Swedish doctor (died 1963)

• 1871 William Watt, Australian accountant and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (died 1946)

• 1875 Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (died 1933)

• 1876 Sara Prinsep, British salon organiser (died 1959)

• 1876 Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer (died 1946)

• 1878 Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman (died 1941)

• 1883 José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (died 1949)

• 1886 Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director (died 1966)

• 1887 Boris Karloff, English actor (died 1969)

• 1887 Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist (died 1915)

• 1888 Harpo Marx, American comedian and musician (died 1964)

• 1889 Harry Sunderland, Australian-English journalist and businessman (died 1964)

• 1890 El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (died 1941)

• 1892 Erté, Russian-French illustrator and designer (died 1990)

• 1896 Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak politician, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (died 1953)

• 1896 Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (died 1960)

• 1897 Nirad C. Chaudhuri, British-Indian historian, author, and critic (died 1999)

• 1897 Karl Gebhardt, German physician and war criminal (died 1948)

• 1899 Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist and educator (died 1974)

1901–present

• 1901 Bennie Osler, South African rugby player (died 1962)

• 1902 Aaron Bank, American colonel (died 2004)

• 1902 Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (died 1982)

• 1903 Joe Nibloe, Scottish footballer (died 1976)

• 1905 K. Alvapillai, Sri Lankan civil servant (died 1979)

• 1906 Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (died 1989)

• 1907 Lars Leksell, Swedish physician and neurosurgeon (died 1986)

• 1907 Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (died 2014)

• 1908 Nelson S. Bond, American author and playwright (died 2006)

• 1909 Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (died 2000)

• 1912 George O'Hanlon, American actor and screenwriter (died 1989)

• 1914 Donald Nixon, American businessman (died 1987)

• 1914 Wilson Tucker, American projectionist and author (died 2006)

• 1915 Anne Burns, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot (died 2001)

• 1915 John Dehner, American actor (died 1992)

• 1915 Marc Simont, French-American illustrator (died 2013)

• 1916 Michael Gough, Malaysian-English actor (died 2011)

• 1916 P. K. Page, English-Canadian author and poet (died 2010)

• 1920 Paul Celan, Romanian-French poet and translator (died 1970)

• 1921 Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (died 1960)

• 1921 Elyakim Schlesinger, Austrian-born British Orthodox rabbi (died 2026)

• 1922 Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician, 3rd President of the Xunta of Galicia (died 2012)

• 1922 Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vietnam (died 2008)

• 1923 Daniel Brewster, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (died 2007)

• 1923 Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (died 2012)

• 1923 Gloria Whelan, American author and poet

• 1924 Irvin J. Borowsky, American publisher and philanthropist (died 2014)

• 1924 Josephine D'Angelo, American baseball player and educator (died 2013)

• 1924 Paula Raymond, American model and actress (died 2003)

• 1924 Colin Turnbull, English-American anthropologist and author (died 1994)

• 1925 José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (died 1990)

• 1925 Johnny Mandel, American composer and conductor (died 2020)

• 1925 William Tebeau, African-American engineer (died 2013)

• 1926 Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher (died 2011)

• 1926 R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2005)

• 1927 John Cole, Irish-English journalist and author (died 2013)

• 1927 Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (died 2005)

• 1927 Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal (died 2022)

• 1928 Jerry Bock, American composer (died 2010)

• 1928 John Coleman, Australian rules footballer and coach (died 1973)

• 1928 Elmarie Wendel, American actress and singer (died 2018)

• 1928 Brendan Pereira, Indian advertising executive (died 2024)

• 1929 Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer (died 2024)

• 1930 Geeta Dutt, Indian singer and actress (died 1972)

• 1930 Jack McKeon, American baseball player and manager

• 1932 Renato Martino, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (died 2024)

• 1932 Michel David-Weill, French-American banker (died 2022)

• 1933 Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor (died 2020)

• 1933 Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and activist (died 1977)

• 1934 Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (died 1994)

• 1934 Robert Towne, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2024)

• 1934 James R. Hogg, American admiral (died 2025)

• 1935 Ken Eastwood, Australian cricketer

• 1935 Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 1971)

• 1938 Patrick Kelly, English archbishop

• 1939 Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (died 2001)

• 1940 Luis Tiant, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (died 2024)

• 1941 Alan Mullery, English footballer and manager

• 1941 Franco Nero, Italian actor and producer

• 1942 Susan Anspach, American actress (died 2018)

• 1943 Andrew Goodman, American activist (died 1964)

• 1943 Sue Nicholls, English actress

• 1943 David Nolan, American activist and politician (died 2010)

• 1943 Petar Skansi, Croatian basketball player and coach (died 2022)

• 1944 Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer

• 1944 Peter Lindbergh, German-French photographer and director (died 2019)

• 1944 James Toback, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1945 Assi Dayan, Israeli actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2014)

• 1945 Jim Doyle, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of Wisconsin

• 1945 Tony Pond, English racing driver (died 2002)

• 1946 Diana Quick, English actress

• 1946 Bobby Rush, American activist and politician

• 1947 Jean-Pierre Foucault, French radio and television host

• 1948 Bård Breivik, Norwegian sculptor and art instructor (died 2016)

• 1948 Bruce Vilanch, American actor and screenwriter

• 1948 Frank Worthington, English footballer and manager (died 2021)

• 1949 Alan Paul, American singer-songwriter and actor

• 1949 Sandra Stevens, English singer

• 1950 Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Indian indologist, author, and academic

• 1950 Carlos Eire, Cuban-born American author and academic

• 1950 Charles Schumer, American lawyer and politician

• 1950 Paul Wilson, Scottish footballer (died 2017)

• 1951 Maik Galakos, Greek footballer and manager

• 1953 Rick Bayless, American chef and author

• 1953 Francis Cabrel, French singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1953 Johan de Meij, Dutch trombonist, composer, and conductor

• 1953 Martin Kent, Australian cricketer

• 1954 Pete Allen, English clarinet player and saxophonist

• 1954 Glenn Brummer, American baseball player

• 1954 Bruce Hornsby, American singer-songwriter and pianist

• 1954 Aavo Pikkuus, Estonian cyclist

• 1955 Steven Brust, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and author

• 1955 Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and composer

• 1955 Mary Landrieu, American politician

• 1956 Bruce Edgar, New Zealand cricketer

• 1956 Shane Gould, Australian swimmer and coach

• 1956 Karin Guthke, German diver

• 1957 Andrew Toney, American basketball player

• 1958 Martin Snedden, New Zealand cricketer and lawyer

• 1959 Maxwell Caulfield, English-American actor

• 1960 Robin Roberts, American sportscaster and journalist

• 1961 Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author

• 1961 Nicolas Bacri, French composer

• 1961 Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer

• 1961 Peter Stanford, English journalist and author

• 1962 Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan union leader and politician, President of Venezuela

• 1963 Arto Heiskanen, Finnish professional hockey player (died 2023)

• 1963 Gwynne Shotwell, American businesswoman, President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX

• 1964 Steve Alford, American basketball player and coach

• 1964 Marilyn Kidd, Australian rower

• 1964 Frank Rutherford, Bahamian triple jumper

• 1965 Jennifer Michael Hecht, American historian, author, and poet

• 1966 Vincent Cassel, French actor and producer

• 1966 Kevin Gallacher, Scottish footballer and sportscaster

• 1966 Michelle Gomez, Scottish actress

• 1966 Jerry Kelly, American golfer

• 1966 Mark Robinson, English cricketer and coach

• 1967 Gary Kirsten, South African cricketer and coach

• 1967 Salli Richardson, American actress, director, and producer

• 1968 Miloš Babić, Serbian basketball player

• 1968 Robert Denmark, English runner and coach

• 1968 Anthony Sullivan, English rugby league and union player

• 1968 Kirsty Young, Scottish journalist

• 1969 Olivier Beretta, Monégasque racing driver

• 1969 Mike Lünsmann, German footballer

• 1969 Robin Padilla, Filipino actor, martial artist, and screenwriter

• 1970 Zoë Ball, English radio and television host

• 1970 Oded Fehr, Israeli-American actor

• 1970 Danny Hoch, American actor and screenwriter

• 1970 Karsten Müller, German chess player and author

• 1971 Khaled Al-Muwallid, Saudi Arabian footballer

• 1971 Ashraf Amaya, American basketball player

• 1971 Vin Baker, American basketball player and coach

• 1971 Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor, producer, and television host

• 1972 Christopher James Adler, American drummer

• 1972 Alf-Inge Haaland, Norwegian footballer

• 1972 Kurupt, American rapper and producer

• 1972 Helen Luz, Brazilian basketball player

• 1974 Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1974 Malik Rose, American basketball player, sportscaster, and executive

• 1976 Page Kennedy, American actor and rapper

• 1976 Tony Renna, American race car driver (died 2003)

• 1976 Murat Salar, German-Turkish footballer and manager

• 1976 Kohei Suwama, Japanese wrestler

• 1977 Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver

• 1977 Adam Eaton, American baseball player

• 1979 Kelly Brook, English model and actress

• 1979 Ivica Kostelić, Croatian skier

• 1980 Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean child soldier and American author

• 1980 Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player

• 1980 Kirk Penney, New Zealand basketball player

• 1982 Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1982 Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter

• 1983 Fatih Yiğituşağı, Turkish footballer

• 1984 Hilton Armstrong, American basketball player

• 1984 Lucas Grabeel, American actor, singer, and songwriter

• 1984 Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress and dancer

• 1984 Justin Turner, American baseball player

• 1985 Viktor An, South Korean speed skater

• 1987 Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1987 Snooki, American reality television personality

• 1990 Shaun Hutchinson, English footballer

• 1990 Eddy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1990 Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater

• 1990 Christopher Quiring, German footballer

• 1991 Christian Cueva, Peruvian footballer

• 1991 Willian José, Brazilian footballer

• 1991 Ahmed Shehzad, Pakistani cricketer

• 1992 Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress

• 1992 Gabriel Landeskog, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1994 Wes Burns, Welsh footballer

• 1995 Kelly Rosen, Estonian footballer

• 1996 Alexis Ren, American social media personality, model, and actress

• 1996 James Maddison, English footballer

• 1996 Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer

• 1998 Caoimhín Kelleher, Irish footballer

• 1999 Boubacar Kamara, French footballer

• 2001 Tino Anjorin, English footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 386 Jin Feidi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (born 342)

• 947 Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (born 900)

• 955 Eadred, English king (born 923)

• 1161 Adam, Abbot of Ebrach

• 1183 William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (born 1116)

• 1407 Louis I, Duke of Orléans (born 1372)

• 1457 Ladislaus the Posthumous, Hungarian king (born 1440)

• 1464 Blessed Margaret of Savoy (born 1390)

• 1499 Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne (born c. 1474)

• 1503 Bona of Savoy (born 1449)

• 1503 Margaret of York (born 1446)

• 1534 Beatriz Galindo, Spanish Latinist and educator (born c. 1465)

• 1572 Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (born 1503)

• 1585 Thomas Tallis, English composer (born c.1505)

1601–1900

• 1616 Richard Hakluyt, English priest and author (born 1552)

• 1682 Claude Lorrain, French-Italian painter and engraver (born 1604)

• 1763 Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff, German field marshal and diplomat (born 1673)

• 1769 Constantine Mavrocordatos, Greek prince (born 1711)

• 1803 Roger Newdigate, English politician (born 1719)

• 1804 Richard Graves, English minister and author (born 1715)

• 1804 Ivan Mane Jarnović, Italian violinist and composer (born 1747)

• 1807 Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician (born 1747)

• 1814 Elbridge Gerry, American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States (born 1744)

• 1844 Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer (born 1798)

• 1833 Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1762)

• 1890 William III of the Netherlands (born 1817)

• 1896 Ichiyō Higuchi, Japanese writer (born 1872)

• 1899 Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded White Star Line (born 1837)

1901–present

• 1905 John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist and academic (born 1828)

• 1907 Naimuddin, Bengali writer and Islamic scholar (born 1832)

• 1910 Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (born 1862)

• 1923 Andy O'Sullivan, Irish Republican died on hunger strike

• 1934 Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (born 1895)

• 1937 Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (born 1858)

• 1937 George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (born 1858)

• 1940 Stanley Argyle, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria (born 1867)

• 1958 Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (born 1880)

• 1966 Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (born 1882)

• 1970 Yusof Ishak, Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore (born 1910)

• 1972 Marie Wilson, American actress (born 1916)

• 1973 Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor, director, and producer (born 1889)

1974 Notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:

• Abiye Abebe, Ethiopian general and politician (born 1918)

• Aman Andom, Ethiopian general and politician, President of Ethiopia (born 1924)

• Aklilu Habte-Wold, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (born 1912)

• Asrate Kassa, Ethiopian commander (born 1922)

• Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (born 1927)

• 1974 Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author (born 1920)

• 1976 André Malraux, French theorist and author (born 1901)

• 1979 Merle Oberon, Indian-born British actress (born 1911)

• 1979 Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)

• 1982 Grady Nutt, American minister and author (born 1934)

• 1983 Juhan Muks, Estonian painter (born 1899)

• 1983 Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1938)

• 1984 Leonard Baker, American historian and author (born 1931)

• 1990 Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (born 1916)

• 1991 Klaus Kinski, German-American actor and director (born 1926)

• 1992 Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (born 1903)

• 1992 Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (born 1922)

• 1994 Art Barr, American wrestler (born 1966)

• 1994 Irwin Kostal, American songwriter, screenwriter, and publisher (born 1911)

• 1995 Louis Malle, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1932)

• 1995 Junior Walker, American singer and saxophonist (born 1931)

• 1996 Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (born 1943)

• 1996 Art Porter, Jr., American saxophonist and songwriter (born 1961)

• 1996 Idries Shah, Indian author, thinker and teacher in the Sufi tradition.

• 1997 Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuban-American businessman (born 1939)

• 2001 Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (born 1936)

• 2001 Mary Whitehouse, English educator and activist (born 1910)

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

• 2004 Pete Franklin, American radio host (born 1928)

• 2005 Constance Cummings, American-English actress (born 1910)

• 2005 Frank Gatski, American football player and soldier (born 1919)

• 2006 Jesús Blancornelas, Mexican journalist, co-founded Zeta Magazine (born 1936)

• 2006 Nick Clarke, English journalist (born 1948)

• 2006 Betty Comden, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (born 1917)

• 2006 Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy and defector (born 1962)

• 2006 Philippe Noiret, French actor (born 1930)

• 2006 Anita O'Day, American singer (born 1919)

• 2006 Willie Pep, American boxer and referee (born 1922)

• 2007 Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (born 1979)

• 2007 Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer and manager (born 1971)

• 2007 Robert Vesco, American-Cuban financier (born 1935)

• 2007 Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby union player (born 1936)

• 2009 José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (born 1921)

• 2010 Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter and sculptor (born 1914)

• 2010 Joyce Howard, English-American actress (born 1922)

• 2011 Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (born 1928)

• 2012 José Luis Borau, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1929)

• 2012 Chuck Diering, American baseball player (born 1923)

• 2012 Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (born 1931)

• 2012 Diana Isaac, English-New Zealand businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1921)

• 2013 Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1932)

• 2013 Costanzo Preve, Italian philosopher and theorist (born 1943)

• 2014 Marion Barry, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (born 1936)

• 2014 Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (born 1916)

• 2014 Murray Oliver, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1937)

• 2014 Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1943)

• 2015 Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (born 1925)

• 2015 Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1980)

• 2015 Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)

• 2016 Rita Barberá Nolla, Spanish politician (born 1948)

• 2016 Ralph Branca, American baseball player (born 1926)

• 2016 Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (born 1930)

• 2016 Joe Esposito, road manager for Elvis Presley (born 1938)

• 2017 Stela Popescu, Romanian actress (born 1935)

• 2020 Tarun Gogoi, Indian Chief Minister of Assam (born 1934)

• 2024 Rico Carty, Dominican baseball player (born 1939)

• 2024 Fred R. Harris, American politician (born 1930)

• 2024 Chuck Woolery, American game show host and television personality (born 1941)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Alexander Nevsky (Repose, Russian Orthodox Church)

• Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro – one of Saints of the Cristero War (Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church)

• Columbanus

• Felicitas of Rome

• Paulinus of Wales

• Pope Clement I (Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church)

• Trudo (or Trond)

• Wilfetrudis (or Vulfetrude)

• November 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Labor Thanksgiving Day (Japan)

• Repudiation Day (Frederick County, Maryland, United States)

• St George's Day (Georgia) or Giorgoba (Georgia)

References

External links