Events

Pre-1600

• 655 Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.

• 1315 Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morgarten.

• 1532 Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day.

• 1533 Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.

1601–1900

• 1705 Rákóczi's War of Independence: The Habsburg Empire and Denmark win a military victory over the Kurucs from Hungary in the Battle of Zsibó.

• 1760 The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.

• 1777 American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

• 1806 Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is later named Pikes Peak in his honor.

• 1842 A slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation commences.

• 1849 Boilers of the steamboat Louisiana explode as she pulls back from the dock in New Orleans, killing more than 150 people.

• 1864 American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea through Georgia towards the city of Savannah.

• 1884 The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 met on 15 November 1884, and after an adjournment concluded on 26 February 1885, with the signature of a General Act, regulating the European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.

• 1889 Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

• 1899 Second Boer War: Battle of Chieveley, a British armored train is ambushed and partially derailed. British lose the battle, with 80 soldiers captured, along with war correspondent Winston Churchill.

1901–present

• 1917 Eduskunta declares itself the supreme state power of Finland, prompting its declaration of independence and secession from Russia.

• 1920 The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.

• 1920 The Free City of Danzig is established.

• 1922 At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

• 1928 The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsizes in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.

• 1933 Thailand holds its first election.

• 1938 Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.

• 1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.

• 1943 The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration campss".

• 1951 Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 comrades, is sentenced to death for attempting to reestablish the Communist Party of Greece.

• 1955 The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.

• 1957 Short Solent 3 crashes near Chessell.

• 1959 Four members of the Clutter family are murdered near Holcomb, Kansas, by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, a crime later detailed by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.

• 1965 Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601mph (966.574km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

• 1966 Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

• 1967 The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

• 1968 The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.

• 1969 Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.

• 1969 Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000–500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".

• 1971 Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

• 1976 René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.

• 1978 A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.

• 1979 A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

• 1983 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence; it is only recognized by Turkey.

• 1985 A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.

• 1985 The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.

• 1987 In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.

• 1987 Continental Airlines Flight 1713 crashes during takeoff from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, killing 25.

• 1988 In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.

• 1988 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.

• 1988 The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.

• 1990 The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.

• 1990 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-38, a classified mission for the Department of Defense.

• 1994 A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to high.

• 2000 A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.

• 2000 Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.

• 2001 Microsoft launches the Xbox game console in North America.

• 2002 Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

• 2003 The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, kill 25 people and wound 300 more.

• 2006 Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.

• 2007 Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.

• 2010 A fire in a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai, China kills 58 people.

• 2012 Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

• 2016 Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.

• 2017 A flood a few miles outside of Athens results in the death of 25 people.

• 2020 Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.

• 2022 The world population reached eight billion.

• 2025 Anti-government demonstrations are held across Mexico following the assassination of Carlos Manzo earlier that month.

Births

Pre-1600

• 459 Bʼutz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king (died 501)

• 1316 John I, king of France and Navarre (died 1316)

• 1397 Nicholas V, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1455)

• 1498 Eleanor of Austria, queen of Portugal and France (died 1558)

• 1511 Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet and author (died 1536)

• 1556 Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (died 1618)

1601–1900

• 1607 Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (died 1701)

• 1660 Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and orientalist (died 1746)

• 1661 Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author (died 1743)

• 1692 Eusebius Amort, German poet and theologian (died 1775)

• 1708 William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1778)

• 1738 William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (died 1822)

• 1741 Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist (died 1801)

• 1746 Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer (died 1809)

• 1757 Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (died 1830)

• 1776 José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and author (died 1827)

• 1784 Jérôme Bonaparte, French husband of Catharina of Württemberg (died 1860)

• 1791 Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (died 1869)

• 1793 Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (died 1880)

• 1849 Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator (died 1934)

• 1852 Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (died 1892)

• 1859 Christopher Hornsrud, Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway (died 1960)

• 1862 Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1946)

• 1865 John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (died 1932)

• 1866 Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (died 1954)

• 1867 Emil Krebs, German polyglot (died 1930)

• 1868 Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (died 1947)

• 1873 Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic (died 1945)

• 1874 Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (died 1941)

• 1874 August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)

• 1879 Lewis Stone, American actor (died 1953)

• 1881 Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (died 1960)

• 1882 Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (died 1965)

• 1886 René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (died 1951)

• 1887 Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and translator (died 1972)

• 1887 Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator (died 1986)

• 1888 Artie Matthews, American pianist and composer (died 1958)

• 1890 Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (died 1969)

• 1891 W. Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1986)

• 1891 Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (died 1944)

• 1892 Naomi Childers, American actress (died 1964)

• 1895 Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918)

• 1895 Antoni Słonimski, Polish journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1976)

• 1896 Leonard Lord, English businessman (died 1967)

• 1897 Aneurin Bevan, Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health (died 1960)

• 1897 Sacheverell Sitwell, English author and critic (died 1988)

• 1899 Avdy Andresson, Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War (died 1990)

1901–present

• 1903 Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (died 1974)

• 1905 Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer (died 1980)

• 1906 Curtis LeMay, American general and politician (died 1990)

• 1907 Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel (died 1944)

• 1908 Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (died 1979)

• 1912 Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (died 2010)

• 1912 Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel (died 1945)

• 1913 Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (died 2003)

• 1913 Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (died 2005)

• 1914 V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge (died 2014)

• 1916 Nita Barrow, Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados (died 1995)

• 1916 Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (died 2008)

• 1919 Carol Bruce, American singer and actress (died 2007)

• 1919 Joseph Wapner, American judge and television personality (died 2017)

• 1920 Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1999)

• 1922 Francis Brunn, German juggler (died 2004)

• 1922 David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic (died 2019)

• 1922 Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2015)

• 1923 Văn Cao, Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter (died 1995)

• 1923 Samuel Klein, Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia (died 2014)

• 1924 Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor (died 2013)

• 1925 Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (died 2014)

• 1926 Thomas Williams, American author and academic (died 1990)

• 1927 Bill Rowling, New Zealand politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1995)

• 1929 Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer (died 2021)

• 1929 Joe Hinton, American singer (died 1968)

• 1930 J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 2009)

• 1930 Olene Walker, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (died 2015)

• 1931 Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya (died 2022)

• 1931 Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (died 2020)

• 1932 Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress

• 1932 Clyde McPhatter, American singer (died 1972)

• 1932 Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher, author, and academic

• 1933 Gloria Foster, American actress (died 2001)

• 1933 Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author (died 2011)

• 1934 Joanna Barnes, American actress and author (died 2022)

• 1935 Nera White, American basketball player (died 2016)

• 1935 Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian politician

• 1936 Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1936 Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (died 1998)

• 1937 Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter (died 1968)

• 1939 Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter (died 2021)

• 1939 Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (died 2015)

• 1939 Enzo Staiola, Italian child actor (died 2025)

• 1940 Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer (died 2024)

• 1940 Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor and screenwriter

• 1940 Sam Waterston, American actor

• 1942 Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor

• 1945 Roger Donaldson, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1945 Bob Gunton, American actor and singer

• 1945 Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer

• 1946 Vassilis Goumas, Greek basketball player

• 1947 Bob Dandridge, American basketball player

• 1947 Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2023)

• 1947 Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and sportscaster

• 1948 Jimmy Choo, Malaysian fashion designer

• 1948 Teodoro Locsin, Jr., Filipino journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat

• 1950 Egon Vaupel, German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg

• 1951 Beverly D'Angelo, American actress, singer, and producer

• 1952 Randy Savage, American wrestler (died 2011)

• 1953 Alexander O'Neal, American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger

• 1953 James Widdoes, American actor, director, and producer

• 1954 Kevin S. Bright, American director and producer

• 1954 Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland

• 1954 Randy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1954 Tony Thompson, American R&B, disco, and rock drummer (died 2003)

• 1956 Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer

• 1957 Gerry Connolly, Australian comedian and actor

• 1957 Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist and composer

• 1957 Harold Marcuse, American historian and educator

• 1957 Michael Woythe, German footballer and manager

• 1958 Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Australian actor and director

• 1958 Gu Kailai, Chinese lawyer and businesswoman

• 1958 Lesley Laird, British politician

• 1959 Tibor Fischer, English author

• 1960 Dawn Airey, English broadcaster

• 1961 Hugh McGahan, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1962 Judy Gold, American comedian, actress, and producer

• 1963 Benny Elias, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

• 1964 Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer and manager

• 1964 Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2011)

• 1965 Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer

• 1966 Rachel True, American actress

• 1967 Greg Anthony, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1967 Cynthia Breazeal, American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic

• 1967 E-40, American rapper and actor

• 1967 François Ozon, French director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1967 Gus Poyet, Uruguayan footballer and manager

• 1967 Jon Preston, New Zealand rugby player

• 1968 Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper and producer (died 2004)

• 1968 Fausto Brizzi, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1968 Uwe Rösler, German footballer and manager

• 1970 Jack Ingram, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1970 Alexander Kvitashvili, Georgian-Ukrainian academic and politician, 19th Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare

• 1970 Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer

• 1971 Jay Harrington, American actor

• 1971 Martin Pieckenhagen, German footballer

• 1972 Jonny Lee Miller, English-American actor

• 1973 Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress

• 1973 Alamgir Sheriyar, English cricketer

• 1974 Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1975 Boris Živković, Croatian footballer

• 1976 Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian, actor, and stuntman

• 1976 Virginie Ledoyen, French actress

• 1977 Richard Lintner, Slovak ice hockey player

• 1977 Steven Miles, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Queensland

• 1977 Sean Murray, American actor

• 1977 Peter Phillips, English businessman

• 1979 Josemi, Spanish footballer

• 1979 Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist

• 1981 Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer

• 1982 Rio Hirai, Japanese actress

• 1982 Benjamin Krause, German rugby player

• 1982 Giaan Rooney, Australian swimmer

• 1982 Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer

• 1983 Dominic Carroll, Gibraltarian runner

• 1983 Sophia Di Martino, English actress

• 1983 Aleksandar Pavlović, Serbian basketball player

• 1983 Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player

• 1983 John Heitinga, Dutch footballer and coach

• 1984 Asia Kate Dillon, American actor and producer

• 1985 Lily Aldridge, American model

• 1985 Charron Fisher, American basketball player

• 1985 Simon Spender, Welsh footballer

• 1986 Winston Duke, Tobagonian-American actor

• 1986 Coye Francies, American football player

• 1986 Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player

• 1986 Jerry Roush, American singer-songwriter

• 1987 Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player

• 1988 B.o.B, American rapper, songwriter, and producer

• 1988 Quanitra Hollingsworth, American-Turkish basketball player

• 1988 Morgan Parra, French rugby player

• 1988 Billy Twelvetrees, English rugby player

• 1989 Jona Viray, Filipino singer

• 1991 Maxime Colin, French footballer

• 1991 Shailene Woodley, American actress

• 1992 Dylan Bundy, American baseball player

• 1992 Sofia Goggia, Italian skier

• 1992 Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer

• 1992 Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer

• 1993 Arik Armstead, American football player

• 1993 Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer

• 1993 – Melitina Staniouta, Belarusian rhythmic gymnast

• 1994 Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russian tennis player

• 1994 Emma Dumont, American actress and model

• 1994 Bryce Cartwright, Australian rugby league player

• 1994 Alejandro Saab, American voice actor, YouTuber, and VTuber

• 1995 Blake Pieroni, American swimmer

• 1995 Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player

• 1996 Kim Min-jae, South Korean footballer

• 1997 Paula Badosa, Spanish tennis player

• 2001 TyTy Washington Jr., American basketball player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 165 BCE Mattathias, Jewish resistance leader

• 621 Malo, Breton bishop and saint

• 655 Æthelhere, king of East Anglia

• 655 Penda of Mercia, king of Mercia

• 1037 Odo II, French nobleman (born 983)

• 1136 Leopold III, margrave of Austria (born 1073)

• 1194 Margaret I, countess of Flanders

• 1226 Frederick of Isenberg, German nobleman (born 1193)

• 1280 Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (born 1193)

• 1347 James I of Urgell, Spanish nobleman (born 1321)

• 1351 Joanna of Pfirt, duchess of Austria

• 1379 Otto V, duke of Bavaria

• 1463 Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian nobleman

• 1527 Catherine of York, English princess (born 1479)

• 1579 Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (born 1510)

1601–1900

• 1628 Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (born 1576)

• 1630 Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1571)

• 1670 John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (born 1592)

• 1691 Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (born 1620)

• 1706 Tsangyang, Tibetan dalai lama (born 1683)

• 1712 James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (born 1658)

• 1712 Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (born 1675)

• 1787 Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (born 1714)

• 1794 John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (born 1723)

• 1795 Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (born 1719)

• 1832 Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman (born 1767)

• 1836 Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and saint (born 1750s)

• 1845 William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (born 1803)

• 1853 Maria II, Portuguese queen and regent (born 1819)

• 1892 Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (born 1850)

• 1897 Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (born 1810)

1901–present

• 1908 Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (born 1835)

• 1910 Wilhelm Raabe, German author (born 1831)

• 1916 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)

• 1917 Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (born 1858)

• 1919 Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (born 1862)

• 1919 Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician (born 1868)

• 1919 Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)

• 1921 Tadhg Barry, veteran Irish republican and leading trade unionist (born 1880)

• 1922 Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1866)

• 1922 Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1854)

• 1922 Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1872)

• 1941 Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer (born 1902)

• 1942 Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Swiss author and photographer (born 1908)

• 1945 Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (born 1864)

• 1949 Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (born 1911)

• 1949 Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (born 1910)

• 1951 Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (born 1862)

• 1954 Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (born 1878)

• 1956 Emma Richter, German paleontologist (born 1888)

• 1958 Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1914)

• 1959 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)

• 1960 Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (born 1937)

• 1961 Elsie Ferguson, American actress (born 1883)

• 1961 Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (born 1883)

• 1963 Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (born 1888)

• 1966 Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler (born 1877)

• 1966 William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (born 1887)

• 1967 Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (born 1930)

• 1970 Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician (born 1884)

• 1971 Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (born 1903)

• 1976 Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and producer (born 1904)

• 1978 Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (born 1901)

• 1980 Bill Lee, American actor and singer (born 1916)

• 1981 Steve Macko, American baseball player and coach (born 1954)

• 1981 Enid Markey, American actress (born 1894)

• 1981 Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (born 1938)

• 1982 Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (born 1895)

• 1982 Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver (born 1901)

• 1983 John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and songwriter (born 1955)

• 1983 Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and manager (born 1898)

• 1983 John Le Mesurier, English actor (born 1912)

• 1984 Baby Fae, American infant, who received baboon heart (born 1984)

• 1985 Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (born 1913)

• 1988 Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (born 1915)

• 1988 Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian (born 1905)

• 1994 Elizabeth George Speare, American author (born 1908)

• 1996 Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat (born 1904)

• 1997 Saul Chaplin, American director and composer (born 1912)

• 1998 Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (born 1941)

• 1998 Ludvík Daněk, Czech discus thrower (born 1937)

• 2000 Edoardo Agnelli, son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli (born 1954)

• 2003 Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (born 1910)

• 2003 Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (born 1925)

• 2003 Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (born 1923)

• 2003 Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (born 1924)

• 2004 Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (born 1909)

• 2004 John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1930)

• 2005 Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (born 1931)

• 2005 Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (born 1959)

• 2006 David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (born 1937)

• 2007 Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1928)

• 2008 Grace Hartigan, American painter (born 1922)

• 2009 Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (born 1914)

• 2010 Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (born 1932)

• 2010 Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (born 1944)

• 2010 William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer (born 1921)

• 2011 Oba Chandler, American murderer (born 1946)

• 2012 Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (born 1954)

• 2012 Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (born 1976)

• 2012 Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (born 1983)

• 2012 K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (born 1931)

• 2012 Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (born 1940)

• 2013 Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (born 1929)

• 2013 Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (born 1919)

• 2013 Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (born 1930)

• 2014 Jack Bridger Chalker, English painter and academic (born 1918)

• 2014 Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator (born 1934)

• 2014 Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (born 1983)

• 2014 Reg Withers, Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory (born 1924)

• 2015 Gisèle Prassinos, French author (born 1920)

• 2015 Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (born 1930)

• 2015 Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (born 1929)

• 2016 Mose Allison, American pianist and songwriter (born 1927)

• 2017 Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (born 1996)

• 2023 Žarko Laušević, Serbian actor (born 1960)

• 2024 Celeste Caeiro, Portuguese pacifist (born 1933)

• 2024 Béla Károlyi, Romanian-American gymnastics coach (born 1942)

• 2024 Jon Kenny, Irish comedian and actor (born 1957)

• 2024 Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Japanese princess (born 1923)

Holidays and observances

• America Recycles Day (United States)

Christian feast day:

• Abibus of Edessa

• Albert the Great

• Blessed Caius of Korea

• Didier of Cahors

• Francis Asbury and George Whitefield (Episcopal Church)

• Blessed Hugh Faringdon

• Leopold III, a public holiday in Lower Austria and Vienna.

• Malo

• Mechell

• November 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium (German-speaking Community of Belgium)

• Day of the Imprisoned Writer (International observance)

• Independence Day, unilaterally declared in 1988. (Palestine)

• King's Feast (Belgium)

• National Tree Planting Day (Sri Lanka)

• Peace Day (Ivory Coast)

• Republic Proclamation Day (Brazil)

• Shichi-Go-San (Japan)

• Republic Day (Northern Cyprus)

• The beginning of Nativity Fast (Eastern Orthodox)

References

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