Events

Pre-1600

• 1009 Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba in the Battle of Qantish.

• 1138 Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.

• 1499 The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.

• 1556 Second Battle of Panipat: Fighting begins between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and the forces of the Muslim emperor Akbar.

1601–1900

• 1605 Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.

• 1688 Prince William III of Orange lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham to challenge the rule of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland).

• 1757 Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.

• 1768 The Treaty of Fort Stanwix is signed, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.

• 1780 French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.

• 1811 Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.

• 1828 Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.

• 1834 Founding of the Free University of Brussels by Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen.

• 1862 American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.

• 1862 American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death. Thirty-eight are ultimately hanged and the others reprieved.

• 1872 Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.

• 1881 In New Zealand, 1600 armed volunteers and constabulary field forces led by Minister of Native Affairs John Bryce march on the pacifist Māori settlement at Parihaka, evicting upwards of 2000 residents, and destroying the settlement in the context of the New Zealand land confiscations.

• 1895 George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

• 1898 Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.

1901–present

• 1911 After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

• 1912 Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.

• 1913 King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.

• 1914 World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.

• 1916 The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

• 1916 The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.

• 1917 Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.

• 1925 Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

• 1940 World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser is sunk by the German pocket battleship .

• 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.

• 1943 World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.

• 1945 The three-day anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania commence.

• 1950 Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.

• 1955 After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.

• 1956 Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign.

• 1968 Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.

• 1970 The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).

• 1983 The Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.

• 1986 , and visit Qingdao, China; the first US naval visit to China since 1949.

• 1990 Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.

• 1991 Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine city of Ormoc, killing more than 4,900 people.

• 1995 André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.

• 1996 Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly.

• 1996 Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.

• 2006 Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.

• 2007 China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.

• 2007 The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.

• 2009 U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.

• 2010 JS Air Flight 201 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 aboard.

• 2013 India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.

• 2015 An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.

• 2015 Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

• 2017 Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

• 2021 The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized

• 2024 Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1271 Ghazan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (died 1304)

• 1436 Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville, Earl of Tankerville, 1450–1460 (died 1466)

• 1494 Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (died 1576)

• 1549 Philippe de Mornay, French theologian and author (died 1623)

• 1592 Charles Chauncy, English-American pastor, theologian, and academic (died 1672)

1601–1900

• 1607 Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch painter (died 1678)

• 1613 Isaac de Benserade, French poet and educator (died 1691)

• 1615 Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (died 1648)

• 1666 Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (died 1729)

• 1667 Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (died 1719)

• 1688 Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1757)

• 1701 Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter and educator (died 1785)

• 1705 Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer (died 1770)

• 1715 John Brown, English author and playwright (died 1766)

• 1722 William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (died 1798)

• 1739 Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (died 1819)

• 1742 Richard Cosway, English painter (died 1821)

• 1789 William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (died 1868)

• 1818 Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (died 1893)

• 1835 Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist and publisher (died 1902)

• 1846 Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1869)

• 1850 Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (died 1919)

• 1851 Charles Dupuy, French academic and politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (died 1923)

• 1854 Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and businessman, co-founded Desjardins Group (died 1920)

• 1854 Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)

• 1855 Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (died 1926)

• 1855 Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (died 1913)

• 1857 Ida Tarbell, American journalist, author, reformer, and educator (died 1944)

• 1870 Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1925)

• 1873 Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (died 1935)

• 1879 Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (died 1963)

• 1881 George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (died 1961)

• 1883 P Moe Nin, Burmese author and translator (died 1940)

• 1884 James Elroy Flecker, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1915)

• 1885 Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (died 1981)

• 1886 Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (died 1961)

• 1887 Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist and educator (died 1961)

• 1890 Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter and illustrator (died 1977)

• 1892 J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (died 1964)

• 1892 John Alcock, captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, copilot of the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight (died 1919)

• 1893 Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (died 1986)

• 1894 Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (died 1960)

• 1895 Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (died 1956)

• 1895 Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (died 1956)

• 1899 Margaret Atwood Judson, American historian and author (died 1991)

• 1900 Natalie Schafer, American actress (died 1991)

• 1900 Ethelwynn Trewavas, British ichthyologist, over a dozen fish species named in her honor (died 1993)

1901–present

• 1901 Etta Moten Barnett, American actress and singer (died 2004)

• 1901 Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer, judge and politician (died 1972)

• 1901 Eddie Paynter, English cricketer (died 1979)

• 1904 Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1985)

• 1905 Joel McCrea, American actor (died 1990)

• 1905 Louis Rosier, French racing driver (died 1956)

• 1905 Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (died 1973)

• 1906 Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (died 1944)

• 1906 Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (died 2004)

• 1910 John Hackett, Australian-English general and academic (died 1997)

• 1911 Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (died 2010)

• 1911 Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist and actor (died 1998)

• 1912 W. Allen Wallis, American economist and statistician (died 1998)

• 1913 Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter and cinematographer (died 2005)

• 1913 Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress (died 1967)

• 1913 John McGiver, American actor (died 1975)

• 1914 Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (died 2005)

• 1917 Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (died 2000)

• 1917 Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian activist and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (died 2007)

• 1917 James Lawton Collins Jr., American brigadier general (died 2002)

• 1917 Giuseppe Salvioli, Italian football player

• 1919 Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar and critic (died 1978)

• 1919 Myron Floren, American accordionist and pianist (died 2005)

• 1920 Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (died 2012)

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

• 1921 Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1994)

• 1921 Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (died 2013)

• 1922 Violet Barclay, American illustrator (died 2010)

• 1922 Yitzchok Scheiner, American-Israeli rabbi (died 2021)

• 1922 Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia (died 2008)

• 1923 Rudolf Augstein, German soldier and journalist, co-founder of Der Spiegel (died 2002)

• 1926 John Berger, English author, poet, painter and critic (died 2017)

• 1927 Hirotugu Akaike, Japanese statistician (died 2009)

• 1930 Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2016)

• 1930 Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (died 2015)

• 1931 Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist and academic (died 2013)

• 1931 Gil Hill, American actor, police officer and politician (died 2016)

• 1931 Harold McNair, Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (died 1971)

• 1931 Diane Pearson, British book editor and novelist (died 2017)

• 1931 Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (died 2007)

• 1932 Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (died 2001)

• 1933 Herb Edelman, American actor (died 1996)

• 1934 Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (died 2014)

• 1935 Lester Piggott, English flat racing jockey and trainer (died 2022)

• 1935 Christopher Wood, English author and screenwriter (died 2015)

• 1936 Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (died 2001)

• 1936 Uwe Seeler, German footballer (died 2022)

• 1936 Billy Sherrill, American record producer, songwriter and arranger (died 2015)

• 1937 Chan Sek Keong, Singaporean lawyer, judge and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore

• 1937 Harris Yulin, American actor (died 2025)

• 1938 Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (died 1980)

• 1938 Jim Steranko, American author and illustrator

• 1939 Lobsang Tenzin, Tibetan religious leader

• 1940 Ted Kulongoski, American soldier, lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Oregon

• 1940 Elke Sommer, German actress

• 1941 Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1941 Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director and screenwriter

• 1941 Bill Schlesinger, American baseball player (died 2023)

• 1942 Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2002)

• 1943 Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and author (died 2007)

• 1943 Percy Hobson, Australian high jumper (died 2022)

• 1943 Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (died 2017)

• 1945 Peter Pace, American general

• 1945 Aleka Papariga, Greek accountant and politician

• 1945 Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Russian fencer and coach

• 1946 Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1973)

• 1947 Quint Davis, American director and producer

• 1947 Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1947 Tonin Çobani, Albanian folklorist and writer.

• 1948 Bob Barr, American lawyer and politician

• 1948 Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

• 1948 Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and author

• 1948 William Daniel Phillips, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1949 Armin Shimerman, American actor

• 1949 Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (died 1984)

• 1950 Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Norway

• 1950 James Kennedy, American psychologist and author

• 1952 Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer and manager

• 1952 Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author

• 1952 Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster (died 2024)

• 1953 Joyce Maynard, American journalist, author and academic

• 1954 Vincenzo D'Amico, Italian footballer (died 2023)

• 1954 Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer and manager (died 2020)

• 1954 Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and academic

• 1955 Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist and academic

• 1955 Kris Jenner, American talent manager and businesswoman

• 1955 Nestor Serrano, American actor

• 1955 Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and author

• 1956 Rob Fisher, English keyboard player and songwriter (died 1999)

• 1956 John Harwood, American journalist

• 1956 Lavrentis Machairitsas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)

• 1956 Michael Sorridimi, Australian rugby league player

• 1956 Jeff Watson, American guitarist and songwriter

• 1957 Mike Score, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player

• 1958 Don Falcone, American keyboard player, songwriter and producer

• 1958 Mo Gaffney, American actress and screenwriter

• 1958 Robert Patrick, American actor

• 1959 Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor

• 1959 Tomo Česen, Slovenian mountaineer

• 1960 René Froger, Dutch singer-songwriter

• 1960 Tilda Swinton, English actress

• 1960 Mark West, American basketball player

• 1961 Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot and astronaut (died 2012)

• 1962 Turid Birkeland, Norwegian businesswoman and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture (died 2015)

• 1962 Michael Gaston, American actor

• 1962 Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer and manager

• 1962 Marcus J. Ranum, American computer scientist and author

• 1963 Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer and scout

• 1963 Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer

• 1963 Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author

• 1963 Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer and manager

• 1963 Brian Wheat, American bass player and songwriter

• 1965 Atul Gawande, American surgeon and journalist

• 1965 Angelo Moore, American singer and musician

• 1966 James Allen, English journalist and sportscaster

• 1966 Nayim, Spanish footballer and manager

• 1966 Urmas Kirs, Estonian footballer and manager

• 1967 Judy Reyes, American actress and producer

• 1968 Ricardo Fort, Argentinian actor, director and businessman (died 2013)

• 1968 Seth Gilliam, American actor

• 1968 Sam Rockwell, American actor

• 1969 Pat Kilbane, American actor, comedian, director and screenwriter

• 1970 Javy López, Puerto Rican-American baseball player

• 1971 Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player

• 1971 Jonny Greenwood, English guitarist and songwriter

• 1971 Rob Jones, Welsh-English footballer and coach

• 1971 Corin Nemec, American actor, producer and screenwriter

• 1971 Mårten Olander, Swedish golfer

• 1973 Johnny Damon, American baseball player

• 1973 Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player and manager

• 1974 Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1974 Angela Gossow, German singer-songwriter

• 1974 Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer and coach

• 1974 Taine Randell, New Zealand rugby player

• 1974 Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1975 Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter

• 1976 Sebastian Arcelus, American actor

• 1977 Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist

• 1977 Richard Wright, English footballer and coach

• 1978 Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (died 2011)

• 1978 Bubba Watson, American golfer

• 1979 Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress

• 1979 Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer

• 1979 Keith McLeod, American basketball player

• 1979 David Suazo, Honduran footballer and coach

• 1980 Luke Hemsworth, Australian actor

• 1980 Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman and politician

• 1981 Paul Chapman, Australian footballer

• 1982 Rob Swire, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

• 1983 Alexa Chung, English model and television host

• 1984 Jon Cornish, Canadian football player

• 1984 Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1984 Baruto Kaito, Estonian sumo wrestler

• 1984 Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan long-distance runner

• 1984 John Sutton, Australian rugby league player

• 1984 Nick Tandy, English racing driver

• 1984 Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player

• 1985 Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer-songwriter

• 1985 Annet Mahendru, American actress

• 1986 BoA, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and actress

• 1986 Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player

• 1986 Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer

• 1986 Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer

• 1987 Kevin Jonas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor

• 1987 Jason Kelce, American football player

• 1987 O. J. Mayo, American basketball player

• 1988 Yannick Borel, French fencer

• 1988 Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer

• 1989 D. J. Kennedy, American basketball player

• 1991 Flume, Australian DJ and producer

• 1991 Jon Gray, American baseball player

• 1991 Shōdai Naoya, Japanese sumo wrestler

• 1992 Odell Beckham Jr., American football player

• 1992 Marco Verratti, Italian footballer

• 1994 Astou Ndour-Fall, Senegalese-Spanish basketball player

• 1995 Trey Lyles, Canadian basketball player

• 1998 Takehiro Tomiyasu, Japanese footballer

• 2002 Matty Beniers, American ice hockey player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 425 Atticus, archbishop of Constantinople

• 964 Fan Zhi, chancellor of the Song Dynasty (born 911)

• 1011 Mathilde, Abbess of Essen (born 949)

• 1176 Diego Martínez de Villamayor, Castilian nobleman

• 1235 Elisabeth of Swabia, queen consort of Castile and León (born 1205)

• 1370 Casimir III the Great, Polish king (born 1310)

• 1450 John IV, Count of Armagnac (born 1396)

• 1459 John Fastolf, English soldier (born 1380)

• 1515 Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter and educator (born 1474)

• 1559 Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter and educator (born 1476)

1601–1900

• 1605 Nyaungyan Min, Birmese king (born 1555)

• 1660 Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (born 1591)

• 1660 Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (born 1599)

• 1701 Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (born 1659)

• 1714 Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (born 1633)

• 1752 Carl Andreas Duker, German scholar and jurist (born 1670)

• 1758 Hans Egede, Norwegian-Danish bishop and missionary (born 1686)

• 1807 Angelica Kauffman, painter (born 1741)

• 1872 Thomas Sully, English-American painter (born 1783)

• 1876 Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (born 1824)

• 1879 James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (born 1831)

1901–present

• 1923 Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (born 1880)

• 1928 Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general (born 1872)

• 1930 Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)

• 1930 Luigi Facta, Italian politician, journalist and Prime Minister of Italy (born 1861)

• 1931 Konrad Stäheli, Swiss target shooter (born 1866)

• 1933 Texas Guinan, American actress and businesswoman (born 1884)

• 1933 Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (born 1856)

• 1938 Thomas Dewing, American painter and educator (born 1851)

• 1939 Mary W. Bacheler, American physician and Baptist medical missionary (born 1860)

• 1941 Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (born 1905)

• 1942 George M. Cohan, American actor, singer, composer, author and theatre manager/owner (born 1878)

• 1944 Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1873)

• 1946 Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter (born 1877)

• 1950 Mary Harris Armor, American suffragist (born 1863)

• 1951 Reggie Walker, South African runner (born 1889)

• 1955 Maurice Utrillo, French painter (born 1883)

• 1956 Art Tatum, American pianist and composer (born 1909)

• 1960 Ward Bond, American actor (born 1903)

• 1960 Donald Grey Barnhouse, American pastor and theologian (born 1895)

• 1960 August Gailit, Estonian author and poet (born 1891)

• 1960 Johnny Horton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1925)

• 1960 Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1880)

• 1963 Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic (born 1902)

• 1964 Buddy Cole, American pianist and conductor (born 1916)

• 1964 Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (born 1893)

• 1971 Sam Jones, American baseball player (born 1925)

• 1972 Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter (born 1898)

• 1975 Edward Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1909)

• 1975 Lionel Trilling, American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (born 1905)

• 1977 René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (born 1926)

• 1977 Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (born 1902)

• 1977 Alexey Stakhanov, Russian-Soviet miner, the Stakhanovite movement has been named after him (born 1906)

• 1979 Al Capp, American cartoonist (born 1909)

• 1980 Louis Alter, American musician (born 1902)

• 1981 Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (born 1924)

• 1985 Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist and philologist (born 1898)

• 1985 Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1895)

• 1986 Adolf Brudes, German race car driver (born 1899)

• 1986 Claude Jutra, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1930)

• 1986 Bobby Nunn, American singer (born 1925)

• 1987 Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and television host (born 1922)

• 1989 Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (born 1903)

• 1991 Robert Maxwell, Czech-English captain, publisher, and politician (born 1923)

• 1991 Fred MacMurray, American actor and businessman (born 1908)

• 1992 Adile Ayda, Russian-Turkish engineer and diplomat (born 1912)

• 1992 Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (born 1903)

• 1992 Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1900)

• 1996 Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (born 1934)

• 1997 James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (born 1946)

• 1997 Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian, author, and academic (born 1909)

• 1997 Peter Jackson, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster (born 1964)

• 1999 James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (born 1931)

• 1999 Colin Rowe, English-American architect, theorist and academic (born 1920)

• 2000 Jimmie Davis, American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana (born 1899)

• 2000 Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (born 1926)

• 2001 Roy Boulting, English director and producer (born 1913)

• 2001 Milton William Cooper, American radio host, author, and activist (born 1943)

• 2003 Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)

• 2004 Donald Jones, American-Dutch actor, singer, and dancer (born 1932)

• 2005 John Fowles, English novelist (born 1926)

• 2005 Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (born 1912)

• 2005 Link Wray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1929)

• 2006 Bülent Ecevit, Turkish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1925)

• 2007 Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and manager (born 1922)

• 2009 Félix Luna, Argentinian lawyer, historian, and academic (born 1925)

• 2010 Jill Clayburgh, American actress and singer (born 1944)

• 2010 Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet, journalist, and politician (born 1943)

• 2010 Shirley Verrett, American soprano and actress (born 1931)

• 2011 Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer-songwriter, director, and poet (born 1926)

• 2012 Olympe Bradna, French-American actress and dancer (born 1920)

• 2012 Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (born 1908)

• 2012 Leonardo Favio, Argentinian actor, singer, director and screenwriter (born 1938)

• 2012 Bob Kaplan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Solicitor General of Canada (born 1936)

• 2012 Louis Pienaar, South African lawyer and diplomat, Minister of Internal Affairs (born 1926)

• 2013 Habibollah Asgaroladi, Iranian politician (born 1932)

• 2013 Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor and screenwriter (born 1934)

• 2013 Tony Iveson, English soldier and pilot (born 1919)

• 2013 Charles Mosley, English genealogist and author (born 1948)

• 2013 Charlie Trotter, American chef and author (born 1959)

• 2013 Stuart Williams, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1930)

• 2014 Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (born 1921)

• 2014 Lane Evans, American lawyer and politician (born 1951)

• 2014 Wally Grant, American ice hockey player (born 1927)

• 2014 Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tunisian-French author, poet, and scholar (born 1946)

• 2015 George Barris, American engineer and car designer (born 1925)

• 2015 Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (born 1923)

• 2015 Soma Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1939)

• 2015 Czesław Kiszczak, Polish general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (born 1925)

• 2015 Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (born 1930)

• 2020 Geoffrey Palmer, English actor (born 1927)

• 2021 Marília Mendonça, Brazilian singer (born 1995)

• 2022 Aaron Carter, American singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer and actor (born 1987)

• 2023 Pat E. Johnson, American martial artist and actor (born 1939)

• 2024 Ben Baldanza, American economist and business executive (born 1961)

• 2024 Elwood Edwards, American voice actor (born 1949)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• All Jesuit Saints and Blesseds

• Saint Domninus of Grenoble

• Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg

• Berthild of Chelles

• Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist

• Galation

• Blessed Gomidas Keumurdjian

• Blessed Guido Maria Conforti

• Blessed Hryhoriy Lakota

• November 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Bank Transfer Day (United States)

• Colón Day (Panama)

Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom, New Zealand and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), and its related observances:

• West Country Carnival (English West Country)

• Cinco de noviembre (Negros, Philippines)

• Kanakadasa Jayanthi (Karnataka, India)

References

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