Events

Pre-1600

• 954 The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom.

• 1028 Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.

• 1330 Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.

• 1439 Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

1601–1900

• 1835 Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.

• 1892 Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

• 1893 Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Raj.

1901–present

• 1905 Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.

• 1912 First Balkan War: King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.

• 1912 The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

• 1918 Dissolution of Austria-Hungary: Austria becomes a republic. After the proclamation, a coup attempt by the communist Red Guard is defeated by the social-democratic Volkswehr.

• 1920 The 1920 Cork hunger strike by Irish republicans ends after three deaths.

• 1920 Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.

• 1927 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

• 1928 sinks approximately off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.

• 1933 Nazi Germany uses a referendum to ratify its withdrawal from the League of Nations.

• 1936 In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.

• 1938 Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life prohibiting Jews from selling goods and services or working in a trade, totally segregating Jews from the German economy.

• 1940 World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.

• 1940 World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.

• 1941 World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.

• 1941 World War II: The is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.

• 1942 World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.

• 1944 World War II: The Royal Air Force sink the German battleship Tirpitz, moored off Tromsø, Norway.

• 1948 Aftermath of World War II: In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.

• 1954 Ellis Island ceases operations.

• 1956 Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.

• 1956 In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in Rafah by Israel Defense Force soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip.

• 1958 A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.

• 1961 Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the ketch Bluebelle.

• 1969 Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.

• 1970 The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.

• 1970 The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan, becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.

• 1971 Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, U.S. President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.

• 1971 Aeroflot Flight N-63 crashes on approach to Vinnytsia Airport, killing 48.

• 1975 The Comoros joins the United Nations.

• 1977 France conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests series.

• 1979 Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.

• 1980 The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.

• 1981 Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a crewed spacecraft is launched into space twice.

• 1982 USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.

• 1990 Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.

• 1990 Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

• 1991 Santa Cruz massacre: The Indonesian Army open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.

• 1995 Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful resolution to the Croatian War of Independence is reached.

• 1995 Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-74 to deliver the Mir Docking Module to the Russian space station Mir.

• 1996 A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349 in the deadliest mid-air collision to date.

• 1997 Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

• 1999 The 7.2 Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people are killed and almost 5,000 are injured.

• 2001 In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.

• 2001 War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.

• 2003 Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.

• 2003 Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record of for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.

• 2011 Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the Euro area crisis.

• 2011 A blast in Iran's Shahid Modarres missile base leads to the death of 17 of the Revolutionary Guards members, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.

• 2014 The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

• 2014 An Armenian Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter is shot down by Azerbaijani forces, killing all three people on board.

• 2015 Two suicide bombers detonate explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.

• 2017 The 7.3 Kermanshah earthquake shakes the northern IranIraq border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). At least 410 people are killed and over 7,000 are injured.

• 2020 The PlayStation 5 is released.

• 2021 The Los Angeles Superior Court formally ends the 14-year conservatorship to pop singer Britney Spears.

• 2022 A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra collide in mid-air over Dallas Executive Airport during an airshow, killing six.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1450 Jacques of Savoy, Count of Romont, Prince of Savoy (died 1486)

• 1492 Johan Rantzau, German general (died 1565)

• 1494 Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen, Princess of Anhalt by birth, by marriage Duchess of Saxony (died 1521)

• 1528 Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (died 1588)

• 1547 Claude of Valois, French princess (died 1575)

• 1579 Albrecht of Hanau-Münzenberg, German nobleman (died 1635)

1601–1900

• 1606 Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (died 1673)

• 1615 Richard Baxter, English minister, poet, and theologian (died 1691)

• 1627 Diego Luis de San Vitores, Spanish Jesuit missionary (died 1672)

• 1651 Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican nun, poet, and scholar (died 1695)

• 1655 Francis Nicholson, British Army general and colonial administrator (died 1727)

• 1684 Edward Vernon, English admiral and politician (died 1757)

• 1729 Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer (died 1811)

• 1755 Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War (died 1813)

• 1774 Charles Bell, Scottish surgeon and artist (died 1842)

• 1780 Piet Retief, South African ruler (died 1838)

• 1793 Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Livonian physician and botanist (died 1831)

• 1795 Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist (died 1856)

• 1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (died 1902)

• 1817 Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual leader, founded the Baháʼí Faith (died 1892)

• 1833 Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (died 1887)

• 1840 Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker (died 1917)

• 1842 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)

• 1848 Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Swiss Confederation (died 1919)

• 1850 Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (died 1908)

• 1866 Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (died 1925)

• 1872 William Fay, Irish actor and producer (died 1947)

• 1881 Olev Siinmaa, Estonian-Swedish architect (died 1948)

• 1881 Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (died 1954)

• 1886 Günther Dyhrenfurth, German geologist and mountaineer (died 1975)

• 1886 Ben Travers, English author and playwright (died 1980)

• 1889 DeWitt Wallace, American publisher and philanthropist, co-founded Reader's Digest (died 1981)

• 1890 Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (died 1974)

• 1892 Tudor Davies, Welsh tenor and actor (died 1958)

• 1894 Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and comparative psychologist (died 1976)

• 1895 Manuel Alonso Areizaga, Spanish tennis player (died 1984)

• 1895 Marguerite Henry, Australian zoologist (died 1982)

• 1895 Nima Yooshij, Iranian poet and academic (died 1960)

• 1896 Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist and author (died 1987)

• 1897 Karl Marx, German composer and conductor (died 1985)

• 1898 Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (died 1999)

• 1900 Stanley Graham, New Zealand mass murderer (died 1941)

1901–present

• 1901 James Luther Adams, American minister and theologian (died 1994)

• 1903 Jack Oakie, American actor (died 1978)

• 1904 Max Hoffman, Austrian-born car importer and businessman (died 1981)

• 1905 Louise Thaden, American pilot (died 1979)

• 1906 George Dillon, American soldier and poet (died 1968)

• 1908 Harry Blackmun, American lawyer and judge (died 1999)

• 1910 Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (died 1981)

• 1911 Buck Clayton, American trumpet player and academic (died 1991)

• 1915 Roland Barthes, French philosopher, theorist, and critic (died 1980)

• 1916 Paul Emery, English racing driver (died 1993)

• 1916 Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (died 2000)

• 1917 Jo Stafford, American singer (died 2008)

• 1919 France Štiglic, Slovenian film director and screenwriter (died 1993)

• 1920 Richard Quine, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1989)

• 1922 Tadeusz Borowski, Polish poet, author, and journalist (died 1951)

• 1922 Kim Hunter, American actress (died 2002)

• 1923 Ian Graham, English archaeologist and explorer (died 2017)

• 1923 Loriot, German humorist, actor, and director (died 2011)

• 1923 Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (died 2013)

• 1924 Sam Jones, American bassist, cellist, and composer (died 1981)

• 1926 Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, English lawyer and judge (died 2016)

• 1927 František Šťastný, Czech motorcycle racer and sportscaster (died 2000)

• 1927 Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician and theorist (died 1958)

• 1929 Michael Ende, German author and fiction writer (died 1995)

• 1929 Grace Kelly, American actress, later Princess Grace of Monaco (died 1982)

• 1930 Bob Crewe, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2014)

• 1934 Charles Manson, American cult leader (died 2017)

• 1934 John McGahern, Irish author and educator (died 2006)

• 1934 Vavá, Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2002)

• 1937 Ina Balin, American actress (died 1990)

• 1937 Richard H. Truly, NASA astronaut (died 2024)

• 1938 Delano Lewis, American diplomat (died 2023)

• 1938 Benjamin Mkapa, Tanzanian journalist and politician, 3rd President of Tanzania (died 2020)

• 1938 Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1991)

• 1939 Lucia Popp, Slovak soprano (died 1993)

• 1940 Michel Audet, Canadian economist and politician

• 1940 Amjad Khan, Indian actor & director (died 1992)

• 1940 Jürgen Todenhöfer, German judge and politician

• 1943 Errol Brown, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (died 2015)

• 1943 Brian Hyland, American pop singer

• 1943 Wallace Shawn, American actor, comedian and playwright

• 1943 Björn Waldegård, Swedish racing driver (died 2014)

• 1943 John Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)

• 1944 Ken Houston, American football player

• 1944 Booker T. Jones, American pianist, saxophonist, songwriter, and producer

• 1944 Al Michaels, American sportscaster

• 1945 Michael Bishop, American author and educator (died 2023)

• 1945 Judith Roitman, American mathematician and academic

• 1945 Neil Young, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1946 Alexandra Charles, Swedish businesswoman

• 1947 Buck Dharma, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1947 Patrice Leconte, French director and screenwriter

• 1948 Hassan Rouhani, Iranian lawyer and politician; 7th President of Iran

• 1949 Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1992)

• 1949 Jack Reed, American soldier and politician

• 1950 Barbara Fairchild, American country and gospel singer-songwriter

• 1953 Baaba Maal, Senegalese singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1954 Paul McNamee, Australian tennis player

• 1955 Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer (died 2021)

• 1957 Tim Samaras, American engineer, storm chaser (died 2013)

• 1957 Ivan Šuker, Croatian politician and economist (died 2023)

• 1958 Megan Mullally, American actress and singer

• 1958 Mykola Vynnychenko, Ukrainian race walker

• 1959 Vincent Irizarry, American actor

• 1959 Toshihiko Sahashi, Japanese composer

• 1960 Maurane, Belgian singer and actress (died 2018)

• 1961 Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast and coach

• 1961 Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer

• 1962 Mariella Frostrup, British journalist and actress

• 1962 Mark Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager

• 1962 Neal Shusterman, American author and poet

• 1962 – Naomi Wolf, American author and journalist

• 1964 Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2009)

• 1964 David Ellefson, American bass player and songwriter

• 1964 Wang Kuang-hui, Taiwanese baseball player and coach

• 1964 Barbara Stühlmeyer, German musicologist, church musician and writer

• 1965 Lex Lang, American voice actor and producer

• 1967 Bassim Al-Karbalaei, Iraqi Eulogy Reciter

• 1967 Disco Inferno, American wrestler and manager

• 1967 Iryna Khalip, Belarusian journalist

• 1967 Michael Moorer, American boxer

• 1967 Grant Nicholas, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1968 Kathleen Hanna, American singer-songwriter

• 1968 Sammy Sosa, Dominican-American baseball player

• 1969 Ian Bremmer, American political scientist and author

• 1969 Jason Cundy, English footballer and sportscaster

• 1969 Rob Schrab, American writer and artist

• 1970 Elektra, American wrestler, model, and dancer

• 1970 Tonya Harding, American figure skater

• 1970 Oscar Strasnoy, French-Argentine composer

• 1971 Chen Guangcheng, Chinese-American lawyer and activist

• 1971 Rebecca Wisocky, American actress

• 1972 Vasilios Tsiartas, Greek footballer

• 1973 Radha Mitchell, Australian actress

• 1973 Ethan Zohn, American pro soccer player and Survivor: Africa winner

• 1974 Tamala Jones, American actress

• 1975 Kiara Bisaro, Canadian mountain biker

• 1975 Jason Lezak, American swimmer

• 1976 Tevin Campbell, American R&B singer-songwriter and actor

• 1976 Judith Holofernes, German singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1976 Richelle Mead, American author and educator

• 1977 Benni McCarthy, South African footballer

• 1977 Lee Murray, English mixed martial artist

• 1978 Ashley Williams, American actress

• 1979 Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress

• 1979 Lucas Glover, American golfer

• 1980 Nur Fettahoğlu, German-Turkish journalist and actress

• 1980 Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor, producer and singer

• 1980 Charlie Hodgson, English rugby player

• 1981 Annika Becker, German pole vaulter

• 1981 DJ Campbell, English footballer

• 1982 Anne Hathaway, American actress

• 1983 Charlie Morton, American baseball player

• 1984 Jorge Masvidal, American Mixed Martial Artist

• 1984 Omarion, American singer, songwriter, actor and dancer

• 1984 Sandara Park, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress

• 1985 Adlène Guedioura, French-Algerian footballer

• 1987 Jason Day, Australian golfer

• 1987 Kengo Kora, Japanese actor

• 1987 Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1988 Russell Westbrook, American basketball player

• 1990 Florent Manaudou, French swimmer

• 1990 Marcell Ozuna, Dominican baseball player

• 1990 Harmeet Singh, Norwegian footballer

• 1990 Siim-Sander Vene, Estonian basketball player

• 1991 Cairo Santos, Brazilian gridiron football player

• 1991 Gijs Van Hoecke, Belgian cyclist

• 1992 Dāvis Bertāns, Latvian basketball player

• 1992 Trey Burke, American basketball player

• 1992 Adam Larsson, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1992 Luguelín Santos, Dominican sprinter

• 1993 Tomáš Hertl, Czech ice hockey player

• 1994 Guillaume Cizeron, French ice dancer

• 1994 Kseniya Alexandrova, Russian model (died 2025)

• 1995 Thomas Lemar, French footballer

• 1995 xQc, Canadian online streamer

• 1997 Dexter Lawrence, American football player

• 1998 Jules Koundé, French footballer

• 1998 Elias Pettersson, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1999 Choi Yoo-jung, South Korean singer, dancer, rapper, and actress

• 2001 Raffey Cassidy, English actress

• 2002 Paolo Banchero, Italian-American basketball player

• 2002 Tino Livramento, English footballer

• 2007 – Leonardo Puglisi, Australian journalist

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 607 Pope Boniface III

• 657 Livinus, Irish apostle (born c.580)

• 973 Burchard III, Frankish nobleman (born c.915)

• 975 Notker Physicus, Swiss painter

• 1035 Cnut the Great, Danish-English king (born c.995)

• 1087 William I, Count of Burgundy (born 1020)

• 1094 Duncan II of Scotland (born 1060)

• 1202 Canute VI of Denmark (born 1163)

• 1209 Philippe du Plessis, Grand Master of the Knights Templar (born 1165)

• 1218 Henry de Abergavenny, Prior of Abergavenny and Bishop of Llandaff

• 1347 John of Viktring, Austrian chronicler and political advisor (born c.1270)

• 1375 John Henry, Margrave of Moravia (born 1322)

• 1434 Louis III of Anjou (born 1403)

• 1555 Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and politician, English Secretary of State (born 1497)

• 1555 Yang Jisheng (born 1516), Ming dynasty official and Confucian martyr

• 1555 Zhang Jing, Ming Chinese general

• 1562 Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1500)

• 1567 Anne de Montmorency, French general and diplomat (born 1493)

• 1572 Henry of Stolberg, German nobleman (born 1509)

• 1595 John Hawkins, English admiral and shipbuilder (born 1532)

1601–1900

• 1623 Josaphat Kuntsevych, Lithuanian archbishop (born c. 1582)

• 1667 Hans Nansen, Danish politician (born 1598)

• 1671 Thomas Fairfax, English general and politician (born 1612)

• 1742 Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (born 1660)

• 1793 Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (born 1736)

• 1793 Lord George Gordon, English politician (born 1751)

• 1836 Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (born 1773)

• 1847 William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (born 1789)

• 1865 Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (born 1810)

• 1896 Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (born 1843)

1901–present

• 1902 William Henry Barlow, English engineer (born 1812)

• 1916 Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (born 1855)

• 1933 John Cady, American golfer (born 1866)

• 1933 F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (born 1864)

• 1939 Norman Bethune, Canadian physician and humanitarian (born 1890)

• 1942 Maurice O'Neill, executed Irish Republican

• 1946 Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (born 1875)

• 1946 Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian academic and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (born 1861)

• 1948 Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (born 1867)

• 1950 Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler (born 1883)

• 1950 Julia Marlowe, English-American actress (born 1865)

• 1955 Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect, designed the Grand Hotel Aranybika (born 1878)

• 1955 Tin Ujević, Croatian poet and translator (born 1891)

• 1955 Sarah Wambaugh, American political scientist, world authority on plebiscites (born 1882)

• 1958 Gustaf Söderström, Swedish shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (born 1865)

• 1962 Roque González Garza, Mexican general and acting president (1915) (born 1885)

• 1965 Many Benner, French painter (born 1873)

• 1965 Taher Saifuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (born 1888)

• 1969 Liu Shaoqi, Chinese politician, 2nd Chairman of the People's Republic of China (born 1898)

• 1971 Johanna von Caemmerer, German mathematician (born 1914)

• 1972 Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist and composer (born 1879)

• 1972 Tommy Wisdom, English racing driver and journalist (born 1906)

• 1976 Mikhail Gurevich, Russian engineer, co-founded Mikoyan (born 1893)

• 1976 Walter Piston, American composer and academic (born 1894)

• 1981 William Holden, American actor (born 1918)

• 1986 Minoru Yasui, American lawyer and activist (born 1916)

• 1990 Eve Arden, American actress and comedian (born 1908)

• 1991 Gabriele Tinti, Italian actor (born 1932)

• 1993 H. R. Haldeman, American diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (born 1926)

• 1994 Wilma Rudolph, American sprinter and educator (born 1940)

• 1997 Carlos Surinach, Spanish-American composer and conductor (born 1915)

• 1998 Roy Hollis, English footballer (born 1925)

• 1998 Sally Shlaer, American mathematician and engineer (born 1938)

• 2000 Franck Pourcel, French conductor and composer (born 1913)

• 2001 Albert Hague, German-American actor and composer (born 1920)

• 2001 Tony Miles, English chess player and theoretician (born 1955)

• 2003 Jonathan Brandis, American actor (born 1976)

• 2003 Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director and screenwriter (born 1986)

• 2003 Penny Singleton, American actress (born 1908)

• 2003 Tony Thompson, American drummer (born 1954)

• 2007 K. C. Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (born 1919)

• 2007 Ira Levin, American novelist, playwright, and songwriter (born 1929)

• 2008 Catherine Baker Knoll, American educator and politician, 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1930)

• 2008 Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (born 1947)

• 2010 Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (born 1933)

• 2012 Hans Hammarskiöld, Swedish photographer (born 1925)

• 2012 Sergio Oliva, Cuban-American bodybuilder (born 1941)

• 2012 Daniel Stern, American psychologist and theorist (born 1934)

• 2013 Steve Rexe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1947)

• 2013 Konrad Rudnicki, Polish astronomer and academic (born 1926)

• 2013 Aleksandr Serebrov, Russian engineer and astronaut (born 1944)

• 2013 John Tavener, English composer and educator (born 1944)

• 2013 Kurt Trampedach, Danish painter and sculptor (born 1943)

• 2014 Ravi Chopra, Indian director and producer (born 1946)

• 2014 Warren Clarke, English actor, director, and producer (born 1947)

• 2014 Marge Roukema, American educator and politician (born 1929)

• 2014 Valery Senderov, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1945)

• 2015 Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (born 1983)

• 2015 Jihadi John, terrorist (born 1988)

• 2016 Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (born 1910)

• 2016 Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Egyptian actor (born 1946)

• 2018 Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor, and publisher (born 1922)

• 2021 Chung-Yun Hse, wood scientist (born 1935)

• 2023 Don Walsh, American oceanographer (born 1931)

• 2024 Roy Haynes, American drummer and composer (born 1925)

• 2024 John Horgan, Canadian politician and diplomat, 36th Premier of British Columbia (born 1959)

• 2024 Song Jae-rim, South Korean actor and model (born 1985)

• 2024 Thomas E. Kurtz, American computer scientist and educator (born 1928)

• 2024 Timothy West, English actor (born 1934)

Holidays and observances

• Birth of Sun Yat-Sen, also Doctors' Day and Cultural Renaissance Day. (Republic of China)

Christian feast day:

• Arsatius

• Astrik (or Anastasius) of Pannonhalma

• Cumméne Fota

• Cunibert

• Emilian of Cogolla

• Imerius of Immertal

• Josaphat Kuntsevych (Roman Catholic Church, Greek Catholic Church)

• Lebuinus (Liafwine)

• Livinus of Ghent

• Machar

• Margarito Flores García

• Nilus of Sinai

• Patiens

• René d'Angers

• Theodore the Studite

• Ymar

• November 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Constitution Day (Azerbaijan)

• Father's Day (Indonesia)

• National Health Day (Indonesia)

• National Youth Day (East Timor)

• World Pneumonia Day

References

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