Events

Pre-1600

• 284 Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.

• 762 During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.

• 1194 Palermo is conquered by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.

• 1407 John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later.

• 1441 The Peace of Cremona ends the war between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan, after the victorious Venetian enterprise of military engineering of the Galeas per montes.

1601–1900

• 1695 Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.

• 1739 Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.

• 1776 American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.

• 1789 New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

• 1805 Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.

• 1815 The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by troops of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia for several more years.

• 1820 An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this incident.)

• 1845 Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.

• 1861 American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.

• 1873 Garnier Expedition: French forces under Lieutenant Francis Garnier captured Hanoi from the Vietnamese.

• 1900 The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She talked about her impending tour with a troupe of more than 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in Hamlet.

1901–present

• 1910 Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.

• 1917 World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.

• 1936 José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.

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

• 1943 World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.

• 1945 Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.

• 1946 Indonesian National Revolution: 96 Indonesian including I Gusti Ngurah Rai were killed during the Battle of Margarana with Dutch forces.

• 1947 The Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen) marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.

• 1959 The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.

• 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

• 1968 A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.

• 1969 Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.

• 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.

• 1974 The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.

• 1974 The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.

• 1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

• 1979 Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6,000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French special forces to put down the uprising.

• 1980 Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.

• 1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released.

• 1989 Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.

• 1990 Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.

• 1991 An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan.

• 1992 In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50million worth of damage.

• 1993 Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

• 1993 North Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs when Avioimpex Flight 110, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Ohrid Airport, killing all 116 people on board.

• 1994 The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)

• 1996 A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.

• 1998 A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

• 1998 The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

• 2003 After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.

• 2015 Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are killed in Bamako, Mali.

• 2016 Jimmie Johnson wins his seventh NASCAR Cup Series championship to tie Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the most all-time.

• 2022 The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar. This is the first time the tournament was held in the Middle East.

Births

Pre-1600

• 270 Maximinus II, Roman emperor (died 313)

• 939 Emperor Taizong of Song (died 997)

• 1545 Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania (died 1592)

1601–1900

• 1602 Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (died 1686)

• 1603 Fasilides, Ethiopian emperor (died 1667)

• 1620 Avvakum, Russian priest and saint (died 1682)

• 1625 Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (died 1654)

• 1629 Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (died 1698)

• 1660 Daniel Ernst Jablonski, Czech-German theologian and reformer (died 1741)

• 1688 Gyeongjong of Joseon, 20th king of the Joseon Dynasty (died 1724)

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

• 1717 George (Konissky), Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian (died 1795)

• 1726 Oliver Wolcott, American politician (died 1797)

• 1733 Philip Schuyler, American general and senator (died 1804)

• 1737 José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, Spanish-Mexican scientist and cartographer (died 1799)

• 1739 Jean-François de La Harpe, French writer and literary critic (died 1803)

• 1748 Jean-François de Bourgoing, French diplomat, writer and translator (died 1811)

• 1750 Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (died 1799)

• 1752 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (died 1770)

• 1753 Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince of Wagram (died 1815)

• 1755 Stanisław Kostka Potocki, Polish noble, politician and writer (died 1821)

• 1761 Pope Pius VIII (died 1830)

• 1776 Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Austrian violinist (died 1830)

• 1781 Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German captain and jurist (died 1854)

• 1781 Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (died 1835)

• 1782 Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, Dutch painter (died 1861)

• 1783 Georgios Sinas, Greek entrepreneur and banker (died 1856)

• 1784 Marianne von Willemer, Austrian actress and dancer (died 1860)

• 1787 Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, German firearms inventor and manufacturer (died 1867)

• 1788 Félix Varela, Cuban-born Roman Catholic priest (died 1853)

• 1794 Eduard Rüppell, German naturalist and explorer (died 1884)

• 1801 Mungo Ponton, Scottish inventor (died 1880)

• 1808 Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein, French orientalist (died 1887)

• 1813 Franz Miklosich, Slovenian linguist and philologist (died 1891)

• 1830 Mikhail Dragomirov, Russian general (1905)

• 1834 Franjo Kuhač, Croatian conductor and composer (died 1911)

• 1841 Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (died 1901)

• 1841 François Denys Légitime, Haitian general (died 1935)

• 1841 Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1919)

• 1850 Joseph Samuel Bloch, Austrian rabbi and deputy (died 1923)

• 1850 Charlotte Garrigue, wife of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (died 1923)

• 1851 Mikhail Albov, Russian writer (died 1911)

• 1851 John Merle Coulter, American botanist (died 1928)

• 1851 Margherita of Savoy, Italian Queen consort (died 1926)

• 1853 Oskar Potiorek, Austro-Hungarian Army officer (died 1933)

• 1855 Josiah Royce, American philosopher (died 1916)

• 1857 Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (died 1938)

• 1858 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)

• 1860 José Figueroa Alcorta, President of Argentina, (died 1931)

• 1861 Camillo Laurenti, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1938)

• 1862 Georges Palante, French philosopher and sociologist (died 1925)

• 1862 Edvard Westermarck, Finnish philosopher and sociologist (died 1939)

• 1864 Percy Cox, British Indian Army officer (died 1937)

• 1866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (died 1944)

• 1866 Maria Letizia Bonaparte, daughter of Prince Napoléon Bonaparte (died 1926)

• 1867 Patrick Joseph Hayes, American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1938)

• 1867 Gustav Giemsa, German chemist and bacteriologist (died 1948)

• 1869 Zinaida Gippius, Russian writer and editor (died 1945)

• 1869 Josaphata Hordashevska, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun (died 1919)

• 1871 William Heard Kilpatrick, American pedagogue (died 1965)

• 1871 Augusto Weberbauer, German naturalist (died 1948)

• 1873 Ramón Castillo, Argentine politician (died 1944)

• 1873 William Coblentz, American physicist (died 1962)

• 1873 Georges Caussade, French composer (died 1936)

• 1873 Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer and music critic (died 1953)

• 1874 James Michael Curley, American lawyer, politician, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts, and criminal (died 1958)

• 1875 Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat (died 1944)

• 1876 Rudolf Koch, German designer (died 1934)

• 1877 Herbert Pitman, English sailor (died 1961)

• 1880 Walter Brack, German swimmer (died 1919)

• 1881 Irakli Tsereteli, Georgian politician (died 1959)

• 1882 Ernestas Galvanauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician (died 1967)

• 1883 Edwin August, American actor and director (died 1964)

• 1883 Tony Gaudio, Italian American cinematographer (died 1951)

• 1884 Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (died 1968)

• 1885 George Holley, English footballer (died 1942)

• 1885 Kaarlo Vasama, Finnish gymnast (died 1926)

• 1886 Robert Hunter, American golfer (died 1971)

• 1886 Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982)

• 1886 Alexandre Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (died 1934)

• 1887 Jean Ducret, French footballer (died 1975)

• 1888 Dennis Fenton, American sports shooter (died 1954)

• 1889 Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (died 1953)

• 1890 Robert Armstrong, American actor (died 1973)

• 1890 Harald Madsen, Danish actor (died 1949)

• 1890 Lauri Tanner, Finnish gymnast (died 1950)

• 1891 Reginald Denny, English actor (died 1967)

• 1892 James Collip, Canadian biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin (died 1965)

• 1893 André Bloch, French mathematician (died 1948)

• 1893 Grace Darmond, Canadian-American actress (died 1963)

• 1894 Johann Nikuradse, Georgian-born German engineer and physicist (died 1979)

• 1895 Pierre Cot, French politician (died 1977)

• 1896 Chiyono Hasegawa, Japanese supercentenarian (died 2011)

• 1896 Carl Mayer, Austrian-Jewish screenplay writer (died 1944)

• 1897 Germaine Krull, German photographer and political activist (died 1985)

• 1898 Richmond Landon, American high jumper (died 1971)

• 1898 Adrian Piotrovsky, Russian dramaturge (died 1937)

• 1899 Alicja Kotowska, Polish nun (died 1939)

• 1900 Florieda Batson, American Olympic hurdler (died 1996)

• 1900 Helen Bradley, English painter (died 1979)

• 1900 Chester Gould, American cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy (died 1985)

1901–present

• 1901 José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (died 1957)

• 1902 Gianpiero Combi, Italian footballer (died 1956)

• 1902 Erik Eriksen, Danish politician (died 1972)

• 1902 Heini Meng, Swiss ice hockey player (died 1982)

• 1902 Jean Painlevé, French photographer and filmmaker (died 1989)

• 1902 Philipp Schmitt, German officer of the Schutzstaffel (died 1950)

• 1903 Alexandra Danilova, Russian-American ballerina and choreographer (died 1997)

• 1903 Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator (died 1981)

• 1904 Arnold Gartmann, Swiss bobsledder (died 1980)

• 1905 Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1998)

• 1906 Vera Tanner, English swimmer (died 1971)

• 1907 Fran Allison, American entertainer (died 1989)

• 1907 Mihai Beniuc, Romanian writer (died 1988)

• 1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director, screenwriter and producer (died 1977)

• 1907 Anni Rehborn, German swimmer (died 1987)

• 1908 Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (died 1968)

• 1908 Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (died 2004)

• 1908 Jenő Vincze, Hungarian footballer (died 1988)

• 1909 John Berger, Swiss cross-country skier (died 2002)

• 1909 Vicente Feola, Brazilian football manager and coach (died 1975)

• 1909 Piero Gherardi, Italian costume and set designer (died 1971)

• 1909 Samand Siabandov, Soviet Red Army writer (died 1989)

• 1910 Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician, pilot, and academic (died 1944)

• 1910 Pauli Murray, American civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, Episcopal priest, and author (died 1985)

• 1911 Eduard Kainberger, Austrian footballer (died 1974)

• 1911 David Seymour, Polish photographer (died 1956)

• 1911 Jean Shiley, American high jumper (died 1998)

• 1911 Rupert Weinstabl, Austrian sprint canoeist (died 1953)

• 1911 Paul Zielinski, German footballer (died 1966)

• 1912 Enrique Garcia, Argentine footballer (died 1969)

• 1912 Otto von Habsburg, the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary (died 2011)

• 1913 Franz Berghammer, Austrian field handballer (died 1944)

• 1913 Charles Berlitz, American linguist (died 2003)

• 1913 Charles Bettelheim, French Marxian economist and historian (died 2006)

• 1913 Judy Canova, American actress and comedian (died 1983)

• 1913 Kostas Choumis, Greek footballer (died 1981)

• 1913 Russell Rouse, American screenwriter, director and producer (died 1987)

• 1913 Libertas Schulze-Boysen, German opponent of the Nazis (died 1942)

• 1913 Yakov Zak, Soviet pianist (died 1976)

• 1914 Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer and politician (died 1992)

• 1914 Kurt Lundqvist, Swedish high jumper (died 1976)

• 1915 Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)

• 1915 Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (died 1989)

• 1916 Charles E. Osgood, American psychologist (died 1991)

• 1916 Michael J. Ingelido, American general (died 2015)

• 1916 Evelyn Keyes, American actress (died 2008)

• 1916 Donald T. Campbell, American social scientist (died 1996)

• 1917 Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (died 2010)

• 1917 Leonard Jimmie Savage, American mathematician (died 1971)

• 1917 Erich Leo Lehmann, American statistician (died 2009)

• 1917 Bobby Locke, South African golfer (died 1987)

• 1918 Corita Kent, American nun, illustrator, and educator (died 1986)

• 1918 Dora Ratjen, German high jumper (died 2008)

• 1919 Alan Brown, English race car driver (died 2004)

• 1919 Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (died 2012)

• 1920 Douglas Dick, American actor and psychologist (died 2015)

• 1921 Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (died 1992)

• 1923 Gunnar Åkerlund, Swedish sprint canoer (died 2006)

• 1923 Danny Dayton, American actor and director (died 1999)

• 1923 Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer (died 2005)

• 1923 Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)

• 1924 Bill Borthwick, Australian politician (died 2001)

• 1924 Timothy Evans, Welshman wrongfully convicted of murder (died 1950)

• 1924 Karen Harup, Danish swimmer (died 2009)

• 1924 Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (died 2010)

• 1924 Michael Riffaterre, French literary critic and theorist (died 2006)

• 1924 Henk Vredeling, Dutch agronomist and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence (died 2007)

• 1925 June Christy, American singer (died 1990)

• 1925 Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (died 1968)

• 1925 Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (died 2015)

• 1926 John Gardner, English soldier and author (died 2007)

• 1926 Tôn Thất Đính, Vietnamese general (died 2013)

• 1926 Édouard Leclerc, French businessman and entrepreneur (died 2012)

• 1926 Miroslav Tichý, Czech photographer (died 2011)

• 1927 Vakhtang Balavadze, Georgian wrestler (died 2018)

• 1927 Ed Freeman, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2008)

• 1927 Estelle Parsons, American actress and director

• 1927 Wolfgang Schreyer, German writer (died 2017)

• 1927 Mikhail Ulyanov, Soviet and Russian actor (died 2007)

• 1928 Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2017)

• 1928 Franklin Cover, American actor (died 2006)

• 1928 Pedro Ferrándiz, Spanish basketball coach (died 2022)

• 1928 John Disley, Welsh athlete (died 2016)

• 1928 Pete Rademacher, American boxer (died 2020)

• 1928 Genrikh Sapgir, Russian writer (died 1999)

• 1929 Jerry Hardin, American actor

• 1929 Raymond Lefèvre, French composer (died 2008)

• 1929 Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian footballer (died 2020)

• 1929 Ron Willey, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2004)

• 1930 Christine Arnothy, French writer (died 2015)

• 1930 Aarón Hernán, Mexican actor (died 2020)

• 1930 Bernard Horsfall, English-Scottish actor (died 2013)

• 1930 Choe Yong-rim, North Korean Premier

• 1931 Wayne Moore, American swimmer (died 2015)

• 1932 Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (died 2012)

• 1932 Yorozuya Kinnosuke, Japanese kabuki actor (died 1997)

• 1932 Sándor Mátrai, Hungarian footballer (died 2002)

• 1932 Paulo Valentim, Brazilian footballer (died 1984)

• 1932 Colville Young, Governor-General of Belize

• 1934 Paco Ibáñez, Spanish singer and musician

• 1934 Lev Polugaevsky, Soviet Chess Grandmaster (died 1995)

• 1935 Leo Falcam, Micronesian politician and 5th President of Micronesia (died 2018)

• 1935 Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (died 2011)

• 1936 Hans van Abeelen, Dutch geneticist (died 1998)

• 1936 Don DeLillo, American novelist, essayist, and playwright

• 1936 Luciano Fabro, Italian sculptor and artist (died 2007)

• 1936 Charles R. Larson, American admiral (died 2014)

• 1937 René Kollo, German tenor

• 1937 Ruth Laredo, American pianist and educator (died 2005)

• 1937 Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier (died 2013)

• 1937 Bruno Mealli, Italian cyclist (died 2023)

• 1937 Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian author and screenwriter

• 1938 Colin Fox, Canadian actor (died 2025)

• 1939 Jerry Colangelo, American businessman

• 1939 Copi, Argentine writer and artist (died 1987)

• 1939 Dick Smothers, American actor and comedian

• 1939 Jan Szczepański, Polish boxer (died 2017)

• 1940 Wendy Doniger, American indologist

• 1940 Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)

• 1940 Ediz Hun, Turkish actor and politician

• 1940 Arieh Warshel, Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist

• 1941 Oliver Sipple, U.S. Marine and Vietnam War veteran (died 1989)

• 1941 Dr. John, American singer and songwriter (died 2019)

• 1942 Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States

• 1942 Bob Einstein, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019)

• 1942 Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1942 Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer

• 1942 Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul (died 2008)

• 1943 David Douglas-Home, British businessman and politician (died 2022)

• 1943 Veronica Hamel, American actress and model

• 1943 Ivan Hrdlička, Slovak footballer

• 1943 Suze Rotolo, American artist (died 2011)

• 1944 Louie Dampier, American basketball player and coach

• 1944 Wayne Maki, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1974)

• 1944 Anthea Stewart, Zimbabwean field hockey player

• 1945 Deborah Eisenberg, American writer, actress and teacher

• 1946 Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1971)

• 1946 Algimantas Butnorius, Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (died 2017)

• 1946 Patriarch Kirill of Moscow

• 1946 Samuel E. Wright, American actor, voice actor and singer (died 2021)

• 1947 Nurlan Balgimbayev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (died 2015)

• 1947 Eli Ben Rimoz, Israeli footballer

• 1947 Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

• 1948 John R. Bolton, American lawyer and diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations

• 1948 Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)

• 1948 Barbara Hendricks, American-Swedish soprano and actress

• 1948 Richard Masur, American actor and director

• 1948 Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (died 1978)

• 1948 Kenjiro Shinozuka, Japanese race car driver (died 2024)

• 1949 Jeff Dowd, American film producer and activist

• 1949 Thelma Drake, American politician

• 1949 Ulf Lundell, Swedish writer and composer

• 1949 Juha Mieto, Finnish cross-country skier

• 1949 Nené, Portuguese footballer

• 1950 Jacqueline Gourault, French politician

• 1950 Gary Green, British musician

• 1951 Rodger Bumpass, American actor and singer

• 1951 León Gieco, Argentine folk rock singer and interpreter

• 1951 Aleksey Spiridonov, Soviet hammer thrower (died 1998)

• 1951 David Walters, American businessman and politician, 24th Governor of Oklahoma

• 1952 John Van Boxmeer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1953 Fábio Jr., Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor

• 1953 Greg Gibson, American wrestler

• 1953 Halid Bešlić, Bosnian musician and singer (died 2025)

• 1953 Nirmal Selvamony, Indian Tamil academician and ecocritic

• 1954 Richard Brooker, English actor and stuntman (died 2013)

• 1954 Antonina Koshel, Soviet artistic gymnast

• 1954 Frank Marino, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter

• 1954 Bin Shimada, Japanese voice actor

• 1955 Angela Finocchiaro, Italian actress

• 1955 Toshio Matsuura, Japanese footballer

• 1955 Ray Ozzie, American software industry entrepreneur

• 1956 Bo Derek, American actress and producer

• 1957 Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (died 1985)

• 1957 John Eriksen, Danish footballer (died 2002)

• 1957 Jean-Marc Furlan, French football manager

• 1957 Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria

• 1958 Rickson Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial artist and choreographer

• 1959 Diane James, British politician

• 1959 Mario Martone, Italian director and screenwriter

• 1959 Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, German prelate of the Catholic Church and theologian

• 1959 Sean Young, American actress and dancer

• 1960 Ye Jiangchuan, Chinese chess player

• 1961 Pierre Hermé, French pastry chef and chocolatier

• 1962 Živko Budimir, Bosnian politician

• 1962 Rajkumar Hirani, Indian director

• 1962 Peng Liyuan, wife of Xi Jinping

• 1962 Gerardo Martino, Argentine footballer and manager

• 1963 Tim Gavin, Australian rugby player

• 1963 Timothy Gowers, English mathematician and academic

• 1963 Beezie Madden, American show jumper

• 1963 Ming-Na Wen, Chinese-American actress

• 1964 Boris Dežulović, Croatian journalist and author

• 1964 Andriy Kalashnykov, Ukrainian wrestler

• 1964 John MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1965 Mike D, American rapper and drummer

• 1965 Nigel Gibbs, English footballer and coach

• 1965 Yehuda Glick, American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi

• 1965 Jimmy Vasser, American race car driver

• 1965 Yoshiki, Japanese musician

• 1966 Neil Broad, British tennis player

• 1966 Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1996)

• 1966 Terry Lovejoy, Australian information technologist

• 1966 Jill Thompson, American author and illustrator

• 1967 Teoman, Turkish singer

• 1968 James Dutton, American astronaut

• 1968 Andrei Kharlov, Russian chess player

• 1968 David Einhorn, American hedge fund manager

• 1969 Kristian Ghedina, Italian alpine ski racer

• 1969 Chris Harris, New Zealand cricketer

• 1969 Callie Thorne, American actress and producer

• 1970 Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates

• 1970 Matt Blunt, American lieutenant and politician, 54th Governor of Missouri

• 1970 Phife Dawg, American rapper (died 2016)

• 1970 Delia Gonzalez, American boxer

• 1970 Stéphane Houdet, French wheelchair tennis player

• 1970 Geoffrey Keezer, American pianist and educator

• 1971 Joey Galloway, American football player and sportscaster

• 1971 Joel McHale, American comedian, actor, and producer

• 1972 Ed Benes, Brazilian comic book artist

• 1972 Corinne Niogret, French biathlete

• 1972 Tatiana Turanskaya, Transnistrian politician

• 1973 Angelica Bridges, American actress and singer

• 1973 Neil Hodgson, English motorcycle racer and sportscaster

• 1974 Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, German speed skater

• 1974 Drew Ginn, Australian rower

• 1975 Mengke Bateer, Chinese Inner Mongolian basketball player

• 1975 Dierks Bentley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1975 J. D. Drew, American baseball player

• 1975 Davey Havok, American singer-songwriter

• 1976 Mohamed Barakat, Egyptian footballer

• 1976 DeJuan Collins, American basketball player

• 1976 Dominique Dawes, American gymnast and actress

• 1976 Tusshar Kapoor, Indian Bollywood actor and producer

• 1976 Pascal Roller, German basketball player

• 1976 Nebojša Stefanović, Serbian politician

• 1976 Doug Viney, New Zealand boxer

• 1976 Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer

• 1977 Mikhail Ivanov, Russian cross-country skier

• 1977 Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer and producer

• 1977 Josh Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

• 1978 Kéné Ndoye, Senegalese track and fielder

• 1979 Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player

• 1979 Kateryna Burmistrova, Ukrainian wrestler

• 1979 Naide Gomes, Portuguese heptathlete and long jumper

• 1979 Joseph Hallman, American composer and academic

• 1979 Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Russian sprint athlete

• 1979 Hassan Mostafa, Egyptian footballer

• 1979 Shalini, Indian actress

• 1979 Arpad Sterbik, Serbian handball player

• 1980 Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, Thai boxer

• 1981 Carlos Boozer, American basketball player

• 1981 Yuko Kavaguti, Japanese ice skater

• 1981 Andrea Riseborough, English actress

• 1981 Kimberley Walsh, English singer-songwriter and actress

• 1982 Dương Hồng Sơn, Vietnamese footballer

• 1982 Rémi Mathis, French historian and curator

• 1982 Shermine Shahrivar, Iranian model

• 1983 Future, American rapper

• 1983 Mónika Kovacsicz, Hungarian handballer

• 1984 Jeremy Jordan, American actor

• 1984 Moe Meguro, Japanese curler

• 1984 Florencia Mutio, Argentine field hockey player

• 1984 Monique van der Vorst, Dutch cyclist

• 1984 Lee Yun-yeol, South Korean gamer

• 1985 Greg Holland, American baseball player

• 1985 Maria Mukhortova, Russian skater

• 1985 Aaron Yan, Taiwanese actor and singer

• 1986 Ashley Fink, American actress and singer

• 1986 Kōhei Horikoshi, Japanese manga artist

• 1986 Oliver Sykes, English singer-songwriter

• 1987 Amelia Rose Blaire, American actress

• 1987 Mylène Lazare, French swimmer

• 1987 Nathan Lyon, Australian cricketer

• 1987 Joëlle Numainville, Canadian cyclist

• 1988 Marie-Laure Brunet, French biathlete

• 1988 Aya Medany, Egyptian modern pentathlete.

• 1988 Max Pacioretty, American ice hockey player

• 1988 Dariga Shakimova, Kazakhstani boxer

• 1988 Dušan Tadić, Serbian footballer

• 1988 Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor and director

• 1989 Babita Kumari, Indian wrestler

• 1989 Cody Linley, American actor and singer

• 1989 Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian ballet dancer

• 1989 Eduardo Vargas, Chilean footballer

• 1990 Haley Anderson, American swimmer

• 1990 Mark Christian, Manx cyclist

• 1990 Aleksandra Król, Polish snowboarder

• 1991 Irene Esser, Venezuelan actress and model

• 1991 Grant Hanley, Scottish footballer

• 1992 Amit Guluzade, Azerbaijani footballer

• 1992 Zoltán Harcsa, Hungarian boxer

• 1992 Kristiina Mäkelä, Finnish triple jumper

• 1992 Jenna Prandini, American track and field athlete

• 1993 Anna Prugova, Russian ice hockey player

• 1994 Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle-distance runner

• 1995 Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete

• 1995 Shaolin Sándor Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater

• 1995 Kyle Snyder, American wrestler

• 1996 Blaž Janc, Slovenian handballer

• 1996 Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer

• 1997 Levi Garcia, Trinidadian footballer

• 2000 Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter

• 2001 Caty McNally, American tennis player

• 2001 Adrien Truffert, French footballer

• 2002 Madisyn Shipman, American actress

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 284 Numerian, Roman emperor

• 763 Domnall Midi, High King of Ireland (born 743)

• 811 Li Fan, Chinese chancellor (born 754)

• 855 Theoktistos, Byzantine courtier

• 869 Edmund the Martyr, English king (born 841)

• 927 Xu Wen, Chinese general (born 862)

• 996 Richard I, duke of Normandy (born 932)

• 1008 Geoffrey I, duke of Brittany (born 980)

• 1022 Bernward of Hildesheim, German bishop (born c. 960)

• 1314 Albert II, German nobleman (born 1240)

• 1316 John I, king of France and Navarra (born 1316)

• 1400 Elisabeth of Moravia, margravine of Meissen

• 1480 Eleanor of Scotland, Scottish princess (born 1433)

• 1518 Pierre de la Rue, Belgian singer and composer (born 1452)

• 1559 Lady Frances Brandon, English noblewoman and claimant to the throne of England (born 1517)

• 1591 Christopher Hatton, English academic and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1540)

• 1593 Hans Bol, Flemish painter (born 1534)

1601–1900

• 1606 John Lyly, English poet and courtier

• 1612 John Harington, English courtier and author (born 1561)

• 1651 Mikołaj Potocki, Polish nobleman (born 1595)

• 1662 Leopold Wilhelm, Austrian duke and governor (born 1614)

• 1678 Karel Dujardin, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1622)

• 1684 Pedro Benedit Horruytiner, governor of Spanish Florida (1646–48, and 1651–54) (born 1613)

• 1695 Zumbi, Brazilian king (born 1655)

• 1704 Charles Plumier, French botanist and painter (born 1646)

• 1737 Caroline of Ansbach, queen of England and Ireland (born 1683)

• 1742 Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal and poet (born 1661)

• 1758 Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish violinist and composer (born 1694)

• 1764 Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician and theorist (born 1690)

• 1773 Charles Jennens, English landowner and patron of the arts

• 1778 Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (born 1726)

• 1824 Carl Axel Arrhenius, Swedish chemist (born 1757)

• 1856 Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (born 1775)

• 1864 Albert Newsam, American painter and illustrator (born 1809)

• 1866 Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist (born 1815)

• 1880 Léon Cogniet, French painter (born 1794)

• 1882 Henry Draper, American doctor and astronomer (born 1837)

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

• 1889 August Ahlqvist, Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic (born 1826)

• 1894 Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1829)

• 1898 Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (born 1817)

1901–present

• 1903 Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, French race car driver (born 1867)

• 1903 Tom Horn, American scout, cowboy, soldier

• 1907 Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (born 1876)

• 1908 Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor (born 1829)

• 1908 Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (born 1868)

• 1910 Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (born 1828)

• 1918 John Bauer, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1882)

• 1923 Allen Holubar, American actor and director

• 1923 Denny Barry Irish Republican, died on hunger Strike 1923 Irish hunger strikes (born 1883)

• 1924 Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the father of the Football Association and modern football (born 1831)

• 1925 Alexandra of Denmark, Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (born 1844)

• 1930 Bill Holland, American track and field athlete (born 1874)

• 1933 Augustine Birrell, British politician (born 1815)

• 1934 Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1872)

• 1935 John Jellicoe, Royal Navy officer and First Sea Lord (born 1859)

• 1936 Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish mechanic and activist (born 1896)

• 1936 José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician (born 1903)

• 1938 Maud of Wales, queen of Norway (born 1869)

• 1938 Edwin Hall, American physicist (born 1855)

• 1940 Arturo Bocchini, Chief of Police under the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini (born 1880)

• 1940 Tim Coleman, English footballer (born 1881)

• 1940 Robert Lane, Canadian soccer player (born 1882)

• 1941 Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author (born 1901)

• 1944 Maria Jacobini, Italian actress (born 1892)

• 1945 Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)

• 1946 – I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Indonesian officer (born 1917)

• 1947 Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (born 1921)

• 1950 Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (born 1866)

• 1952 Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and politician (born 1866)

• 1954 Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and engineer, founded the Cessna Aircraft Corporation (born 1879)

• 1957 Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter and illustrator (born 1875)

• 1959 Sylvia Lopez, French model and actress (born 1933)

• 1960 Ya'akov Cahan, Israeli writer and translator (born 1881)

• 1972 Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer and journalist (born 1910)

• 1973 Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian, and producer (born 1924)

• 1975 Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1892)

• 1976 Martin D'Arcy, English Jesuit priest (born 1888)

• 1976 Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (born 1898)

• 1978 Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and sculptor (born 1888)

• 1978 Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian soldier and poet (born 1890)

• 1980 John McEwen, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1900)

• 1981 Frank Sheed, Australian-British Catholic writer and apologist (born 1981)

• 1983 Marcel Dalio, French actor and playwright (born 1900)

• 1983 Richard Loo, Chinese-American actor (born 1903)

• 1984 Carlo Campanini, Italian actor, singer and comedian (born 1904)

• 1984 Kristian Djurhuus, Faroese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1895)

• 1984 Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Pakistani journalist and poet (born 1911)

• 1989 Lynn Bari, American actress (born 1913)

• 1992 Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (born 1920)

• 1994 Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (born 1930)

• 1995 Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (born 1967)

• 1995 Robie Macauley, American editor, novelist and critic (born 1919)

• 1997 Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (born 1926)

• 1997 Robert Palmer, American saxophonist, producer, and author (born 1945)

• 1998 Roland Alphonso, Jamaican saxophonist (born 1931)

• 1998 Galina Starovoytova, Russian ethnographer and politician (born 1946)

• 1999 Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (born 1908)

• 2000 Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (born 1958)

• 2000 Kalle Päätalo, Finnish author (born 1919)

• 2000 Barbara Sobotta, Polish athlete (born 1936)

• 2002 Kakhi Asatiani, Georgian footballer (born 1947)

• 2003 Robert Addie, English actor (born 1960)

• 2003 David Dacko, African educator and politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (born 1930)

• 2003 Eugene Kleiner, American businessman, co-founded Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (born 1923)

• 2004 Ancel Keys, American physiologist (born 1904)

• 2005 Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (born 1931)

• 2005 James King, American tenor (born 1925)

• 2005 Chris Whitley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1960)

• 2006 Robert Altman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)

• 2006 Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician and academic (born 1950)

• 2006 Donald Hamilton, American author (born 1916)

• 2007 Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, NASA manager (born 1919)

• 2007 Ian Smith, Rhodesian lieutenant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (born 1919)

• 2009 Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (born 1925)

• 2010 Chalmers Johnson, American author and scholar (born 1931)

• 2012 Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (born 1975)

• 2012 William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (born 1914)

• 2012 Pete La Roca, American jazz drummer (born 1938)

• 2012 Ivan Kušan, Croatian writer (born 1933)

• 2013 Sylvia Browne, American author (born 1936)

• 2013 Dieter Hildebrandt, Polish-German actor and screenwriter (born 1927)

• 2014 Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (born 1926)

• 2015 Keith Michell, Australian actor (born 1926)

• 2015 Jim Perry, American-Canadian singer and game show host (born 1933)

• 2015 Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (born 1953)

• 2016 Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer (born 1984)

• 2016 Gene Guarilia, American basketball player (born 1937)

• 2016 Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Greek statesman (born 1926)

• 2016 William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer (born 1928)

• 2017 Peter Berling, German actor, film producer and writer (born 1934)

• 2018 James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress (born 1929)

• 2018 Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

• 2019 Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (born 1923)

• 2020 Jan Morris, Welsh historian, author and travel writer (born 1926)

• 2024 Ursula Haverbeck, German Holocaust denier (born 1928)

• 2024 Andy Paley, American songwriter (born 1952)

• 2024 John Prescott, British sailor and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1938)

• 2024 Jodi Rell, American politician, 87th Governor of Connecticut (born 1946)

Holidays and observances

• 20-N (Spain)

• Africa Industrialization Day (international)

• Black Awareness Day (Brazil)

• Children's Day (World Children's Day)

Christian feast day:

• Agapius

• Ambrose Traversari

• Ampelus and Caius

• Blessed Anacleto González Flores, José Sánchez del Río, and companions (Martyrs of Cristero War)

• Bernward of Hildesheim

• Dasius of Durostorum

• Edmund the Martyr

• Felec (or Felix) of Cornwall

• Gregory of Dekapolis

• Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)

• Solutor, Octavius, and Adventor

• Theonestus of Vercelli

• November 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Earliest day on which the Feast of Christ the King can fall, while November 26 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday before Advent. (Roman Catholic Church)

• National Sovereignty Day (Argentina)

• Day of the Mexican Revolution (Mexico)

• Royal Thai Navy Day (Thailand)

• Saint Verhaegen (Brussels)

• Teachers' Day or Ngày nhà giáo Việt Nam (Vietnam)

• Transgender Day of Remembrance (LGBTQ community)

References

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