Events

Pre-1600

• 498 After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.

• 845 The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.

• 1210 The Castle of Termes falls to Simon de Montfort after a four-month siege during the Albigensian Crusade.

• 1220 Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Honorius III.

• 1307 Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.

• 1574 Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.

1601–1900

• 1635 Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.

• 1718 Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself.

• 1837 Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.

• 1855 In Birmingham, England, Albert, Prince Consort lays the foundation stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute.

• 1869 In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched.

• 1873 The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.

1901–present

• 1908 The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

• 1921 During The Troubles in Ulster (1920–1922), 15 Irish Nationalists are killed in Belfast in one day.

• 1935 The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.

• 1940 World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.

• 1942 World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.

• 1943 World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

• 1943 Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government.

• 1952 A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes into Mount Gannet, Alaska, killing all 52 aboard.

• 1955 The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.

• 1963 U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.

• 1963 Five Indian generals are killed in a helicopter crash, due to collision with two parallel lines of telegraph cables.

• 1967 UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.

• 1968 Japan Air Lines Flight 2 accidentally ditches in San Francisco Bay while on approach to San Francisco International Airport. No one is injured.

• 1971 In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.

• 1975 Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco two days earlier.

• 1987 The Max Headroom signal hijacking incident takes place, in which a pirate broadcast interrupts television broadcasts in Chicago.

• 1989 NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-33, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.

• 1990 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Premiership.

• 1994 A Trans World Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and Cessna 441 Conquest II aircraft collide on the runway at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Bridgeton, Missouri, killing two people and injuring eight.

• 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.

• 2004 The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.

• 2010 During the Cambodian water festival, a stampede in Koh Pich, Phnom Penh, kills 347 people.

• 2014 While playing with a toy gun in Cleveland, 12-year-old African American Tamir Rice is killed by a white police officer.

• 2022 A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves seven workers dead, including the shooter, and four others injured.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1428 Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman, known as "the Kingmaker" (died 1471)

• 1515 Mary of Guise, Queen of Scots (died 1560)

• 1519 Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, German humanist and physician (died 1585)

• 1533 Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble (died 1597)

• 1564 Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kent (died 1619)

1601–1900

• 1602 Elisabeth of France (died 1644)

• 1635 Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (died 1672)

• 1643 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (died 1687)

• 1690 François Colin de Blamont, French composer (died 1760)

• 1698 Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-American politician, Governor of Louisiana (died 1778)

• 1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (died 1784)

• 1728 Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (died 1811)

• 1744 Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (died 1818)

• 1780 Conradin Kreutzer, German composer (died 1849)

• 1780 José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran journalist, lawyer, and politician, Foreign Minister of Mexico (died 1834)

• 1787 Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist, philologist, and scholar (died 1832)

• 1808 Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group (died 1892)

• 1819 George Eliot, English novelist and poet (died 1880)

• 1820 Katherine Plunket, Irish supercentenarian (died 1932)

• 1849 Christian Rohlfs, German painter and printmaker (died 1938)

• 1852 Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1924)

• 1857 George Gissing, English novelist (died 1903)

• 1859 Cecil Sharp, English folk song scholar (died 1924)

• 1861 Ranavalona III of Madagascar (died 1917)

• 1861 Cyrus Edwin Dallin, American sculptor (died 1944)

• 1868 John Nance Garner, American politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (died 1967)

• 1869 André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1951)

• 1870 Howard Brockway, American composer (died 1951)

• 1870 Harry Graham, Australian cricketer (died 1911)

• 1873 Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (died 1955)

• 1873 Johnny Tyldesley, English cricketer (died 1930)

• 1876 Emil Beyer, American gymnast and triathlete (died 1934)

• 1877 Endre Ady, Hungarian journalist and poet (died 1919)

• 1877 Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer, founded FC Barcelona (died 1930)

• 1881 Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (died 1922)

• 1884 C. J. "Jack" De Garis, Australian entrepreneur (died 1926)

• 1890 Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, President of France (died 1970)

• 1890 Harry Pollitt, British politician and trade unionist, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (died 1960)

• 1891 Edward Bernays, American publicist (died 1995)

• 1893 Harley Earl, American industrial designer (died 1969)

• 1893 Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician (died 1991)

• 1898 Wiley Post, American pilot (died 1935)

• 1899 Hoagy Carmichael, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (died 1981)

1901–present

• 1901 Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1971)

• 1901 Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (died 1999)

• 1902 Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (died 1947)

• 1902 Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist (died 1942)

• 1904 Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and illustrator (died 1957)

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

• 1904 Fumio Niwa, Japanese author (died 2005)

• 1906 Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (died 1983)

• 1910 Mary Jackson, American actress (died 2005)

• 1911 Ralph Guldahl, American golfer (died 1987)

• 1912 Doris Duke, American heiress and philanthropist (died 1993)

• 1913 Benjamin Britten, English pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1976)

• 1913 Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player (died 2016)

• 1914 Peter Townsend, British captain and pilot (died 1995)

• 1915 Oswald Morris, British cinematographer (died 2014)

• 1917 Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright (died 2010)

• 1917 Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)

• 1917 Mick Shann, Australian diplomat (died 1988)

• 1918 Claiborne Pell, American politician (died 2009)

• 1919 Máire Drumm, Irish politician (died 1976)

• 1920 Anne Crawford, British actress (died 1956)

• 1920 Baidyanath Misra, Indian economist (died 2019)

• 1921 Brian Cleeve, Irish writer and broadcaster (died 2003)

• 1921 Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, rapper, and screenwriter (died 2004)

• 1922 Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer, designed the AR-15 rifle (died 1997)

• 1923 Dennis Wrong, Canadian-born American sociologist (2018)

• 1923 Arthur Hiller, Canadian-American director (died 2016)

• 1923 Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (died 2006)

• 1924 Les Johnson, Australian politician (died 2015)

• 1924 Geraldine Page, American actress and singer (died 1987)

• 1925 Jerrie Mock, American pilot (died 2014)

• 1925 Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (died 2015)

• 1926 Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (died 2007)

• 1927 Steven Muller, American academic administrator (died 2013)

• 1928 Tim Beaumont, English priest and politician (died 2008)

• 1928 Mel Hutchins, American basketball player (died 2018)

• 1929 Staughton Lynd, American lawyer, historian, author, and activist (died 2022)

• 1930 Peter Hall, English director (died 2017)

• 1930 Peter Hurford, English organist and composer (died 2019)

• 1931 Alison Palmer, American priest and diplomat

• 1932 Robert Vaughn, American actor and director (died 2016)

• 1933 Merv Lincoln, Australian Olympic athlete (died 2016)

• 1934 Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (died 1999)

• 1935 Ludmila Belousova, Soviet ice skater (died 2017)

• 1936 John Bird, English actor, writer and satirist (died 2022)

• 1937 Zenon Jankowski, Polish pilot and military officer

• 1937 Nikolai Kapustin, Soviet pianist and composer (died 2020)

• 1938 John Eleuthère du Pont, American convicted murderer (died 2010)

• 1939 Tom West, American technologist (died 2011)

• 1939 Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Defence (died 2022)

• 1940 Terry Gilliam, American-English actor, director, animator, and screenwriter

• 1940 Roy Thomas, American author

• 1940 Andrzej Żuławski, Polish director and screenwriter (died 2016)

• 1941 Tom Conti, Scottish actor and director

• 1941 Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1941 Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter (died 1996)

• 1941 Jesse Colin Young, American singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2025)

• 1942 Guion Bluford, American astronaut

• 1942 Floyd Sneed, Canadian drummer (died 2023)

• 1943 Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1943 Billie Jean King, American tennis player

• 1943 Mushtaq Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer

• 1945 Buzz Potamkin, American director and producer, founded Buzzco Associates (died 2012)

• 1945 Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (died 2010)

• 1946 – Gary Hilton, American serial killer

• 1947 Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive

• 1947 Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (died 2005)

• 1947 Nevio Scala, Italian footballer and manager

• 1947 Salt Walther, American race car driver (died 2012)

• 1947 Valerie Wilson Wesley, American journalist and author

• 1948 Radomir Antić, Serbian footballer and manager (died 2020)

• 1948 Saroj Khan, Indian dance choreographer, known as "The Mother of Dance/Choreography in India" (died 2020)

• 1948 Mick Rock, English photographer (died 2021)

• 1949 Richard Carmona, American physician and politician, Surgeon General of the United States

• 1950 Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (died 1978)

• 1950 Jim Jefferies, Scottish footballer and manager

• 1950 Steven Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

• 1950 Tina Weymouth, American singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1951 Kent Nagano, American conductor

• 1953 Wayne Larkins, English cricketer

• 1954 Denise Epoté, Cameroonian journalist at the head of the Africa management of TV5 Monde

• 1954 Paolo Gentiloni, Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy

• 1954 Carol Tomcala, Australian sports shooter

• 1955 George Alagiah, British journalist (died 2023)

• 1955 James Edwards, American basketball player

• 1956 Lawrence Gowan, Scottish-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player

• 1956 Richard Kind, American actor

• 1957 Donny Deutsch, American businessman and television host

• 1957 Alan Stern, American engineer and planetary scientist

• 1958 Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress

• 1958 Lee Guetterman, American baseball player

• 1958 Ibrahim Ismail of Johor, Sultan of Johor and the 17th and current Yang Di Pertuan Agong or the King of Malaysia

• 1958 Jason Ringenberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1959 Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer

• 1959 Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist

• 1960 Leos Carax, French actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1961 Mariel Hemingway, American actress

• 1961 Stephen Hough, English-Australian pianist and composer

• 1962 Sumi Jo, South Korean soprano

• 1962 Victor Pelevin, Russian author

• 1963 Hugh Millen, American football player

• 1963 Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager

• 1963 Kennedy Polamalu, Samoan-American football player and coach

• 1963 Brian Robbins, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1964 Apetor, Norwegian YouTuber (died 2021)

• 1964 Benoit Benjamin, American basketball player

• 1964 Stephen Geoffreys, American actor

• 1964 Robbie Slater, English-Australian footballer and sportscaster

• 1965 Valeriya Gansvind, Estonian chess player

• 1965 Olga Kisseleva, Russian artist

• 1965 Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor

• 1966 Mark Pritchard, English politician

• 1966 Nicholas Rowe, British actor

• 1966 Michael K. Williams, American actor (died 2021)

• 1967 Boris Becker, German tennis player

• 1967 Tom Elliott, Australian investment banker

• 1967 Mark Ruffalo, American actor

• 1967 Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-Belgian speed skater and coach

• 1968 Daedra Charles, American basketball player and coach (died 2018)

• 1968 Sidse Babett Knudsen, Danish actress

• 1969 Byron Houston, American basketball player

• 1969 Marjane Satrapi, Iranian author and illustrator (died 2026)

• 1970 Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer

• 1970 Chris Fryar, American drummer

• 1970 Stel Pavlou, English author and screenwriter

• 1971 Cath Bishop, English rower

• 1971 Kyran Bracken, Irish-English rugby player

• 1972 Olivier Brouzet, French rugby player

• 1972 Russell Hoult, English footballer

• 1972 Jay Payton, American baseball player

• 1973 Sharin Foo, Danish musician and singer

• 1973 Andrew Walker, Australian rugby player

• 1974 Joe Nathan, American baseball player

• 1974 David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater and coach

• 1976 Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer

• 1976 Torsten Frings, German footballer and coach

• 1976 Regina Halmich, German boxer

• 1976 Ville Valo, Finnish singer-songwriter

• 1977 Kerem Gönlüm, Turkish basketball player

• 1978 Colin Best, Australian rugby league player

• 1979 Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer

• 1980 David Artell, English footballer and coach

• 1980 Shawn Fanning, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Napster

• 1980 Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian high jumper

• 1981 Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player

• 1982 Xavier Doherty, Australian cricketer

• 1982 Derrick Johnson, American football player

• 1982 Yakubu, Nigerian footballer

• 1983 Tyler Hilton, American actor and singer-songwriter

• 1983 Peter Ramage, English footballer

• 1984 Scarlett Johansson, American actress

• 1985 Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer

• 1985 Dieumerci Mbokani, Congolese footballer

• 1985 Mandy Minella, Luxembourgian tennis player

• 1985 Adam Ottavino, American baseball player

• 1985 James Roby, English rugby league player

• 1986 Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter and convicted murderer

• 1987 Martti Aljand, Estonian swimmer

• 1987 Elias, American wrestler

• 1987 Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer

• 1988 Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor, singer, and model

• 1988 Drew Pomeranz, American baseball player

• 1988 Austin Romine, American baseball player

• 1989 Alden Ehrenreich, American actor

• 1989 Candice Glover, American singer

• 1989 Chris Smalling, English footballer

• 1989 Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer

• 1990 Brock Osweiler, American football player

• 1990 Jang Dong-woo, South Korean singer and actor

• 1991 Tarik Black, American basketball player

• 1991 Gab Pangilinan, Filipino actress and singer

• 1992 Natalie Achonwa, Canadian basketball player

• 1992 Carles Gil, Spanish footballer

• 1992 Vladislav Namestnikov, Russian ice hockey player

• 1994 Samantha Bricio, Mexican volleyball player

• 1994 Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor

• 1994 Nicolás Stefanelli, Argentine footballer

• 1994 Keiji Tanaka, Japanese figure skater

• 1995 Katherine McNamara, American actress

• 1996 Hailey Bieber, American model

• 1996 Mackenzie Lintz, American actress

• 1996 JuJu Smith-Schuster, American football player

• 1996 Woozi, South Korean singer, songwriter, record producer, member of boy band Seventeen

• 1999 Trey McBride, American football player

• 1999 Dwight McNeil, English footballer

• 2000 [[Aulii Cravalho]], American actress and singer

• 2001 Chenle, Chinese singer

• 2002 Brandon Miller, American basketball player

• 2002 Owen Power, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 365 Antipope Felix II

• 950 Lothair II of Italy (born 926)

• 1249 As-Salih Ayyub, ruler of Egypt

• 1286 Eric V of Denmark (born 1249)

• 1318 Mikhail of Tver (born 1271)

• 1538 John Lambert, English Protestant martyr

1601–1900

• 1617 Ahmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam (born 1590)

• 1694 John Tillotson, English archbishop (born 1630)

• 1697 Libéral Bruant, French architect and academic, designed Les Invalides (born c. 1635)

• 1718 Blackbeard, English pirate (born 1680)

• 1758 Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (born 1680)

• 1774 Robert Clive, English general, politician and first British governor of Bengal (born 1725)

• 1813 Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (born 1759)

• 1819 John Stackhouse, English botanist (born 1742)

• 1871 Oscar James Dunn, African American activist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868-1871 (born 1826)

• 1875 Henry Wilson, American politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (born 1812)

• 1886 Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (born 1823)

• 1896 George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, invented the Ferris wheel (born 1859)

• 1900 Arthur Sullivan, English composer (born 1842)

1901–present

• 1902 Walter Reed, American physician and entomologist (born 1851)

• 1913 Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shōgun (born 1837)

• 1916 Jack London, American novelist and journalist (born 1876)

• 1919 Francisco Moreno, Argentinian explorer and academic (born 1852)

• 1921 Edward J. Adams, American serial/spree killer and bank robber (born 1887)

• 1923 Andy O'Sullivan, Irish Republican died in the 1923 Irish hunger strikes

• 1941 Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (born 1913)

• 1943 Lorenz Hart, American composer (born 1895)

• 1944 Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and astronomer (born 1882)

• 1946 Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Justice (born 1889)

• 1955 Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (born 1895)

• 1956 Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American actor, ballet dancer, and choreographer (born 1882)

• 1963 Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (born 1894)

• 1963 John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States (born 1917)

• 1963 C. S. Lewis, British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian (born 1898)

• 1963 J. D. Tippit, American police officer (born 1924)

• 1966 Herbert Wilkinson Ayre, English footballer (born 1882)

• 1966 Émile Drain, French actor (born 1890)

• 1980 Jules Léger, Canadian journalist and politician, Governor General of Canada (born 1913)

• 1980 Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (born 1901)

• 1980 Mae West, American stage and film actress (born 1893)

• 1981 Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)

• 1986 Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (born 1910)

• 1988 Luis Barragán, Mexican architect and engineer (born 1902)

• 1989 René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (born 1925)

• 1991 Tadashi Imai, Japanese director (born 1912)

• 1992 Sterling Holloway, American actor (born 1905)

• 1993 Anthony Burgess, English novelist, playwright, and critic (born 1917)

• 1993 Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva, Soviet pianist, composer, and teacher (born 1924)

• 1996 Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (born 1936)

• 1997 Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (born 1960)

• 1998 Stu Ungar, American poker player (born 1953)

• 2000 Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1927)

• 2001 Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay, Inc. (born 1918)

• 2001 Theo Barker, English historian and academic (born 1923)

• 2001 Norman Granz, American record producer, founded Verve Records (born 1918)

• 2002 Parley Baer, American actor (born 1914)

• 2002 Rafał Gan-Ganowicz, Polish mercenary and journalist (born 1932)

• 2005 Bruce Hobbs, American jockey and trainer (born 1920)

• 2006 Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (born 1917)

• 2006 Pat Dobson, American baseball player and coach (born 1942)

• 2007 Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1927)

• 2007 Verity Lambert, English television producer (born 1935)

• 2010 Jean Cione, American baseball player (born 1928)

• 2010 Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (born 1914)

• 2011 Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author (born 1926)

• 2011 Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-Austrian soprano (born 1921)

• 2011 Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (born 1938)

• 2011 Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (born 1931)

• 2012 Bryce Courtenay, South African-Australian author (born 1933)

• 2013 Tom Gilmartin, Irish businessman (born 1935)

• 2013 Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (born 1926)

• 2013 Alec Reid, Irish priest and activist (born 1931)

• 2015 Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (born 1949)

• 2015 Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Bangladeshi politician (born 1948)

• 2015 Kim Young-sam, South Korean soldier and politician, President of South Korea (born 1927)

• 2016 M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian vocalist and singer (born 1930)

• 2017 George Avakian, American music producer (born 1919)

• 2017 Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian operatic baritone (born 1962)

• 2017 Tommy Keene, American singer-songwriter (born 1958)

• 2020 Otto Hutter, Austrian-born British physiologist (born 1924)

• 2022 John Y. Brown Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 55th Governor of Kentucky (born 1933)

• 2022 Raşit Küçük, Turkish Islamicist (born 1947)

• 2024 Serge Vohor, Vanuatuan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (born 1955)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Cecilia

• Pedro Esqueda Ramírez

• Philemon and Apphia

• Pragmatius of Autun

• Blessed Salvatore Lilli

• November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Good Spouses Day (いい夫婦の日) celebrates married couples in Japan.

• Independence Day celebrates the independence of Lebanon from France in 1943.

Notes

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