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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
November 26 is the 330th day of the
year (331st in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
35 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to
prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus. ·
1161 – Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval
engagement with Jin dynasty ships
on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars. ·
1476 – Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab
Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and
becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the
third time. ·
1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European
to visit Maui. ·
1789 – A
national Thanksgiving
Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by
President George Washington at
the request of Congress. ·
1805 – Official
opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte
Aqueduct. ·
1812 – The Battle of Berezina begins
during Napoleon's retreat from Russia. ·
1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New
York, a group of college students form the Kappa Alpha Society,
the first college social fraternity. ·
1842 – The University of
Notre Dame is founded. ·
1863 – United States
President Abraham Lincoln proclaims
November 26 as a national Thanksgiving
Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November.
Following the Franksgiving controversy
from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and
subsequent years. ·
1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is
defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile. ·
1914 – HMS Bulwark was
destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness. ·
1917 – The Manchester Guardian publishes the
1916 secret Sykes-Picot
Agreement between the United Kingdom and France. ·
1917 – The National Hockey
League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa
Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams. ·
1918 – The
Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes
for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the
Kingdom of Serbia. ·
1922 – Howard Carter and Lord
Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. ·
1922 – The Toll of the Sea debuts
as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf
Between was the first film to do so, but it was not
widely distributed.) ·
1939 – Shelling of Mainila:
The Soviet Army orchestrates
an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days
later. ·
1941 – World War II:
Japan's 1st Air Fleet departs
the Kuril Islands to strike Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. ·
1942 – World War
II: Yugoslav Partisans convene
the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of
Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia. ·
1942 – Casablanca,
the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York
City. ·
1943 – World War
II: HMT Rohna is sunk by
the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north
of Béjaïa, Algeria. ·
1944 – World War II:
A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in
London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people. ·
1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium. ·
1949 – The Constituent
Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented
by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. ·
1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People's
Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean
and United Nations forces
(Battle of
the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of
Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the
conflict. ·
1965 – France
launches Astérix,
becoming the third nation to put an object in orbit using its own booster. ·
1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air
Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army
Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded
the Medal of Honor. ·
1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of
rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded. ·
1976 – "Anarchy in the U.K.",
the debut single of the Sex Pistols, is released, heralding the
arrival of punk rock ·
1977 – An unidentified
hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be
the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over
Britain's Southern Television for
six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm. ·
1983 – Brink's-Mat robbery:
In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat
vault at Heathrow Airport. ·
1986 – Iran–Contra affair:
U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces
the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission. ·
1986 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war
crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka
extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.[1] ·
1991 – National
Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh
Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities
back to their original names. ·
1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland. ·
1998 – The Khanna rail disaster takes
212 lives in Khanna, Ludhiana, India. ·
1999 – The 7.5 Mw Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami
follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured. ·
2000 – George W. Bush is certified the winner
of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United
States presidential election, despite losing in the national
popular vote. ·
2003 – The Concorde makes its final flight,
over Bristol, England.[2] ·
2004 – Ruzhou School
massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds
another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China. ·
2004 – The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper)
dies of avian malaria in
the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed,
making the species in all probability extinct. ·
2008 – Mumbai attacks,
a series of terrorist attacks killing
approximately 166 citizens by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation, and
the ship, Queen Elizabeth 2 is
out of service, and docks in Dubai. ·
2011 – NATO attack in
Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani check post
in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others. ·
2011 – The Mars Science
Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.[3] ·
2018 – The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars. ·
2019 – A magnitude 6.4
earthquake strikes western Albania leaving at least 52 people dead and over
1000 injured. This was the second deadliest earthquake to strike Albania in
recorded history, and the deadliest in 168 years.[4] Births[edit]
·
907 – Rudesind, Galician bishop (d. 977) ·
1288 – Go-Daigo, Japanese emperor (d. 1339) ·
1401 – Henry
Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (d. 1418) ·
1436 – Catherine of
Portugal (d. 1463) ·
1466 – Edward
Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, English noble (d. 1506) ·
1518 – Guido
Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora, Catholic cardinal (d. 1564) ·
1534 – Henry
Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley (d. 1613) ·
1552 – Seonjo of Joseon, King of Joseon (d. 1608) ·
1594 – James Ware,
Irish genealogist (d. 1666) ·
1604 – Johannes Bach, German organist and composer
(d. 1673) ·
1607 – John Harvard,
English minister and philanthropist (d. 1638) ·
1609 – Henry Dunster, English-American clergyman
and academic (d. 1659) ·
1657 – William Derham, English minister and
philosopher (d. 1735) ·
1678 – Jean-Jacques
d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (d. 1771) ·
1703 – Theophilus Cibber,
English actor and playwright (d. 1758) ·
1727 – Artemas Ward, American general and
politician (d. 1800) ·
1731 – William Cowper, English poet and hymnwriter
(d. 1800) ·
1792 – Sarah Moore Grimké,
American author and activist (d. 1873) ·
1817 – Charles Adolphe
Wurtz, Alsatian-French chemist (d. 1884) ·
1827 – Ellen G. White, American religious leader
and author, co-founded the Seventh-day
Adventist Church (d. 1915) ·
1828 – Robert Battey, American surgeon and academic
(d. 1895) ·
1828 – René Goblet, French journalist and
politician, 52nd Prime Minister
of France (d. 1905) ·
1832 – Rudolph Koenig, German-French physicist and
academic (d. 1901) ·
1832 – Mary Edwards Walker,
American surgeon and activist, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1919) ·
1837 – Thomas Playford II,
English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of
South Australia (d. 1915) ·
1853 – Bat Masterson, American police officer and
journalist (d. 1921) ·
1857 – Ferdinand de
Saussure, Swiss linguist and author (d. 1913) ·
1858 – Katharine Drexel, American nun and saint (d.
1955) ·
1864 – Edward Higgins, English 3rd General of
the Salvation Army (d. 1947) ·
1869 – Maud of Wales (d. 1938) ·
1870 – Sir Hari Singh Gour, founder and
Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Sagar (d. 1949) ·
1873 – Fred Herd, Scottish golfer (d. 1954) ·
1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer,
invented air conditioning (d.
1950) ·
1878 – Major Taylor, American cyclist (d. 1932) ·
1885 – Heinrich Brüning,
German lieutenant, economist, and politician, Chancellor
of Germany (d. 1970) ·
1888 – Ford Beebe, American director and
screenwriter (d. 1978) ·
1889 – Albert Dieudonné,
French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1976) ·
1891 – Scott Bradley,
American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1977) ·
1894 – James Charles
McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (d. 1974) ·
1894 – Norbert Wiener, American-Swedish
mathematician and philosopher (d. 1964) ·
1895 – Bill W., American activist, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (d.
1971) ·
1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist and
engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1973) ·
1899 – Richard Hauptmann,
German-American murderer (d. 1936) ·
1900 – Anna Maurizio, Swiss biologist, known for
her study of bees (d. 1993) ·
1901 – William Sterling
Parsons, American admiral (d. 1953) ·
1902 – Maurice McDonald, American businessman,
co-founded McDonald's (d.
1971) ·
1903 – Alice Herz-Sommer,
Czech-English pianist and educator (d. 2014) ·
1904 – Armand Frappier, Canadian physician and
microbiologist (d. 1991) ·
1904 – K. D. Sethna, Indian poet, scholar, writer,
philosopher, and cultural critic (d. 2011) ·
1905 – Bob Johnson,
American baseball player (d. 1982) ·
1907 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist (d. 2013) ·
1908 – Charles Forte,
Baron Forte, Italian-Scottish businessman, founded Forte Group (d. 2007) ·
1908 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1989) ·
1909 – Fritz Buchloh, German footballer and manager
(d. 1998) ·
1909 – Frances Dee, American actress and singer (d.
2004) ·
1909 – Eugène Ionesco,
Romanian-French playwright and critic (d. 1994) ·
1910 – Cyril Cusack, South African-born Irish actor
(d. 1993) ·
1911 – Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-American chess
player and author (d. 1992) ·
1912 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992) ·
1915 – Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor
(d. 2016) ·
1915 – Earl Wild, American pianist and composer (d.
2010) ·
1917 – Nesuhi Ertegun, Turkish-American record producer
(d. 1989) ·
1918 – Patricio Aylwin, Chilean lawyer and
politician, 31st President of Chile (d.
2016) ·
1919 – Ryszard Kaczorowski,
Polish soldier and politician, 6th President
of the Republic of Poland (d. 2010) ·
1919 – Frederik Pohl, American journalist and
author (d. 2013) ·
1919 – Ram Sharan Sharma,
Indian historian and academic (d. 2011) ·
1920 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian-American director
and producer (d. 2004) ·
1921 – Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer and
businessman, founded Amul (d. 2012) ·
1922 – Charles M. Schulz,
American cartoonist, created Peanuts (d. 2000) ·
1923 – V. K. Murthy, Indian cinematographer (d.
2014) ·
1924 – Jasu Patel, Indian cricketer (d. 1992) ·
1924 – George Segal,
American painter and sculptor (d. 2000) ·
1925 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003) ·
1925 – Gregorio Conrado
Álvarez, Uruguayan dictator (d. 2016) ·
1926 – Rabi Ray, Indian activist and politician,
10th Speaker of the
Lok Sabha (d. 2017) ·
1927 – Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian television
host (d. 2001) ·
1928 – Nishida Tatsuo, Japanese linguist and academic
(d. 2012) ·
1929 – Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian singer-songwriter
and accordion player (d. 2015) ·
1929 – Betta St. John, American actress, singer and
dancer ·
1930 – Berthold Leibinger,
German engineer and philanthropist, founded Berthold
Leibinger Stiftung (d. 2018) ·
1931 – Adolfo Pérez
Esquivel, Argentinian painter, sculptor, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1931 – Adrianus
Johannes Simonis, Dutch cardinal ·
1933 – Robert Goulet, American-Canadian singer and
actor (d. 2007) ·
1933 – Richard Holloway, Scottish bishop and radio
host ·
1933 – Stanley Long, English director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2012) ·
1933 – Jamshid Mashayekhi,
Iranian actor (d. 2019) ·
1933 – Tony Verna, American director and producer,
invented instant replay (d.
2015) ·
1934 – Cengiz Bektaş, Turkish architect,
engineer, and journalist ·
1934 – Jerry Jameson, American director and
producer ·
1935 – Marian Mercer, American actress and singer
(d. 2011) ·
1936 – Margaret Boden, English computer scientist
and psychologist ·
1937 – Bob Babbitt, American bass player (d. 2012) ·
1937 – John
Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, English businessman and
politician, Secretary
of State for Health (d. 2019) ·
1937 – Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and
astronaut (d. 1994) ·
1938 – Porter Goss, American soldier and
politician, 19th Director of the CIA ·
1938 – Rodney Jory, Australian physicist and
academic ·
1938 – Rich Little, Canadian-American comedian,
actor, and singer ·
1939 – Abdullah Ahmad
Badawi, Malaysian civil servant and politician, 5th Prime Minister
of Malaysia ·
1939 – Wayland Flowers, American actor and
puppeteer (d. 1988) ·
1939 – John Gummer, English politician, Secretary
of State for the Environment ·
1939 – Grey
Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, Irish-Scottish politician, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster ·
1939 – Art Themen, English saxophonist and surgeon ·
1939 – Tina Turner, American-Swiss
singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress ·
1940 – Enrico Bombieri, Italian mathematician and
academic ·
1940 – Davey Graham, English guitarist and
songwriter (d. 2008) ·
1940 – Kotozakura Masakatsu,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (d. 2007) ·
1940 – Quentin Skinner, English historian, author,
and academic ·
1941 – Susanne Marsee, American soprano and
educator ·
1942 – Maki Carrousel, Japanese actor ·
1942 – Olivia Cole, American actress (d. 2018) ·
1942 – Đặng
Thùy Trâm, Vietnamese physician and author (d. 1970) ·
1943 – Paul Burnett, English radio host ·
1943 – Bruce Paltrow, American director and
producer (d. 2002) ·
1943 – Marilynne Robinson,
American novelist and essayist ·
1943 – Dale Sommers, American radio host (d. 2012) ·
1944 – Jean Terrell, American singer ·
1944 – Joyce Quin,
Baroness Quin, English academic and politician, Minister of
State for Europe ·
1945 – Daniel Davis, American actor ·
1945 – John McVie, English-American bass player ·
1945 – Jim Mullen, Scottish guitarist ·
1945 – Michael Omartian, American
singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer ·
1945 – Björn von Sydow,
Swedish academic and politician, 27th Swedish
Minister for Defence ·
1946 – Raymond Louis
Kennedy, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer (d.
2014) ·
1946 – Art Shell, American football player and
coach ·
1946 – Itamar Singer, Romanian-Israeli historian
and author (d. 2012) ·
1947 – Roger Wehrli, American football player ·
1948 – Elizabeth Blackburn,
Australian-American biologist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
1948 – Claes Elfsberg, Swedish journalist ·
1948 – Marianne
Muellerleile, American actress ·
1948 – Galina Prozumenshchikova,
Ukrainian-Russian swimmer and journalist (d. 2015) ·
1948 – Peter Wheeler,
English rugby player ·
1949 – Mari Alkatiri, East Timorese geographer and
politician, 1st Prime
Minister of East Timor ·
1949 – Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1949 – Martin Lee,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1949 – Vincent A. Mahler,
American political scientist and academic ·
1949 – Ivan Patzaichin, Romanian canoe world and
oliympic champion ·
1951 – Ilona Staller, Hungarian-Italian porn
actress, singer, and politician ·
1951 – Sulejman Tihić,
Bosnian lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 2014) ·
1952 – Elsa Salazar Cade,
Mexican-American science teacher and entomologist ·
1952 – Julien Temple, English director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1952 – Wendy Turnbull, Australian tennis player ·
1953 – Hilary Benn, English politician, Secretary of State for International Development ·
1953 – Shelley Moore Capito,
American politician ·
1953 – Harry Carson, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1953 – Jacki MacDonald, Australian television host
and actress ·
1953 – Desiré Wilson, South African race car driver ·
1954 – Roz Chast, American cartoonist ·
1954 – Velupillai
Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (d. 2009) ·
1955 – Jelko Kacin, Slovenian politician and a
former Member of the European Parliament ·
1955 – Gisela Stuart, German-English academic and
politician ·
1956 – Dale Jarrett, American race car driver and
sportscaster ·
1956 – Don Lake, Canadian actor, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1956 – Keith Vaz, Indian-English lawyer and
politician, Minister of
State for Europe ·
1957 – Félix
González-Torres, Cuban-American sculptor (d. 1996) ·
1958 – Michael
Skinner, English rugby player ·
1959 – Dai Davies Welsh
politician and independent MP[5] ·
1959 – Gabriella
Gutiérrez y Muhs, American author and academic ·
1959 – Jerry Schemmel, American sportscaster ·
1960 – Chuck Eddy, American journalist ·
1960 – Harold Reynolds, American baseball player
and sportscaster ·
1961 – Karan
Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, Indian-English businessman,
co-founded Cobra Beer ·
1961 – Tom Carroll,
Australian surfer ·
1961 – Ivory, American wrestler and trainer ·
1962 – Fernando Bandeirinha,
Portuguese footballer and manager ·
1962 – Chuck Finley, American baseball player ·
1963 – Mario Elie, American basketball player and
coach ·
1963 – Matt Frei, German-English journalist and
author ·
1963 – Joe Lydon,
English rugby player and coach ·
1964 – Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier ·
1965 – Scott Adsit, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1965 – Dougray Scott, Scottish actor and producer ·
1965 – Des Walker, English footballer ·
1966 – Garcelle Beauvais,
Haitian-American actress and singer ·
1966 – Fahed Dermech, Tunisian footballer ·
1967 – Ridley Jacobs, Antiguan cricketer ·
1968 – Edna Campbell, American basketball player,
sportscaster, and nurse ·
1968 – Haluk Levent, Turkish singer ·
1969 – Shawn Kemp, American basketball player ·
1969 – Kara Walker, American painter and
illustrator ·
1970 – John Amaechi, American-English basketball
player and sportscaster ·
1970 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian and radio
host ·
1971 – Vicki Pettersson, American author ·
1971 – Winky Wright, American boxer and actor ·
1972 – Chris Osgood, Canadian ice hockey player and
sportscaster ·
1972 – Arjun Rampal, Indian actor and producer ·
1973 – Peter Facinelli, American actor, director,
and producer ·
1974 – Line Horntveth, Norwegian tuba player,
composer, and producer ·
1974 – Roman Šebrle, Czech decathlete and high
jumper ·
1975 – DJ Khaled, American rapper and producer ·
1975 – Patrice Lauzon, Canadian figure skater ·
1976 – Andreas Augustsson,
Swedish footballer ·
1976 – Maven Huffman, American wrestler ·
1976 – Brian Schneider, American baseball player
and manager ·
1977 – Ivan Basso, Italian cyclist ·
1977 – Paris Lenon, American football player ·
1977 – Campbell Walsh, Scottish canoe racer ·
1978 – Jun Fukuyama, Japanese voice actor and
singer ·
1980 – Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer ·
1980 – Jackie Trail, American tennis player ·
1981 – Stephan Andersen, Danish footballer ·
1981 – Natasha Bedingfield,
English singer-songwriter and producer ·
1981 – Natalie Gauci, Australian singer and pianist ·
1981 – Gina Kingsbury, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1981 – Jon Ryan, Canadian football player ·
1982 – Keith Ballard, American ice hockey player ·
1983 – Chris Hughes, American publisher and
businessman, co-founded Facebook ·
1983 – Emiri Katō, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
1984 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007) ·
1985 – Matt Carpenter,
American baseball player ·
1986 – Konstadinos
Filippidis, Greek pole vaulter ·
1986 – Bauke Mollema, Dutch cyclist ·
1986 – Alberto Sgarbi, Italian rugby player ·
1987 – Georgios Tzavellas,
Greek footballer ·
1988 – Blake Harnage, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1988 – Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese model and actress ·
1989 – Junior Stanislas, English footballer ·
1989 – Angeline Quinto, Filipina singer and actress ·
1990 – Avery Bradley, American basketball player ·
1990 – Chip, English rapper ·
1990 – Rita Ora, Kosovan-English singer-songwriter
and actress ·
1990 – Danny Welbeck, English footballer ·
1991 – Manolo Gabbiadini,
Italian footballer ·
1995 – James Guy,
English swimmer[6] Deaths[edit]
·
399 – Siricius, pope of the Catholic Church (b.
334) ·
946 – Li Congyan, Chinese general (b. 898) ·
975 – Conrad of Constance,
German bishop and saint (b.c. 900) ·
1014 – Swanehilde of Saxony,
margravine of Meissen ·
1236 – Al-Aziz Muhammad ibn Ghazi, Ayyubid emir
of Aleppo (b. 1216) ·
1267 – Sylvester Gozzolini,
Italian founder of the Sylvestrines (b. 1177) ·
1473 – Diego Fernández de la Cueva, 1st Viscount of Huelma ·
1504 – Isabella I,
queen of Castile and León (b.
1451) ·
1621 – Ralph Agas, English surveyor and
cartographer (b. 1540) ·
1639 – John Spottiswoode,
Scottish archbishop and theologian (b. 1565) ·
1651 – Henry Ireton, English-Irish general and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1611) ·
1661 – Luis Méndez de Haro,
Spanish general and politician (b. 1598) ·
1688 – Philippe Quinault,
French playwright and composer (b. 1635) ·
1689 – Marquard Gude, German archaeologist and
scholar (b. 1635) ·
1717 – Daniel Purcell, English organist and
composer (b. 1664) ·
1719 – John Hudson,
English librarian and scholar (b. 1662) ·
1780 – James Steuart,
Scottish economist and educator (b. 1712) ·
1829 – Thomas Buck Reed, American lawyer and
politician (b. 1787) ·
1836 – John Loudon McAdam,
Scottish engineer (b. 1756) ·
1851 – Jean-de-Dieu Soult,
French general and politician, 12th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1769) ·
1855 – Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet and playwright
(b. 1798) ·
1857 – Joseph
Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet and author (b. 1788) ·
1860 – Benjamin Greene, English brewer,
founded Greene King (b.
1780) ·
1872 – Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and
politician (b. 1788) ·
1882 – Otto Theodor
von Manteuffel, Prussian lawyer and politician, Minister
President of Prussia (b. 1805) ·
1883 – Sojourner Truth, American activist (b. 1797) ·
1885 – Thomas Andrews,
Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1813) ·
1892 – Charles Lavigerie,
French cardinal and academic (b. 1825) ·
1895 – George Edward Dobson,
Irish zoologist, photographer, and surgeon (b. 1848) ·
1896 – Coventry Patmore, English poet and critic
(b. 1823) ·
1912 – Joachim III
of Constantinople (b. 1834) ·
1917 – Elsie Inglis, Scottish surgeon and
suffragette (b. 1864)[7] ·
1919 – Felipe Ángeles,
Mexican general (b. 1868) ·
1926 – John Browning, American weapons designer,
founded the Browning Arms
Company (b. 1855) ·
1928 – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (b. 1863) ·
1929 – John
Cockburn, Scottish-Australian politician, 18th Premier of
South Australia (d. 1929) ·
1934 – Mykhailo Hrushevsky,
Ukrainian historian and politician (b. 1866) ·
1936 – Şükrü Naili
Gökberk, Turkish general (b. 1876) ·
1938 – Flora Call Disney,
American mother of Walt Disney (b.
1868) ·
1941 – Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 18th Canadian
Minister of Justice (b. 1876) ·
1943 – Edward O'Hare, American lieutenant and pilot
(b. 1914) ·
1943 – Helen Maud Merrill,
American litterateur and poet (b. 1865) ·
1950 – Hedwig
Courths-Mahler, German writer (b. 1867) ·
1952 – Sven Hedin, Swedish geographer and explorer
(b. 1865) ·
1954 – Bill Doak, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1891) ·
1956 – Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, trumpet
player, and composer (b. 1905) ·
1959 – Albert Ketèlbey,
English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1875) ·
1962 – Albert Sarraut, French lawyer and
politician, 106th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1872) ·
1963 – Amelita Galli-Curci,
Italian soprano (b. 1882) ·
1971 – Giacomo Alberione,
Italian priest and publisher (b. 1884) ·
1973 – John Rostill, English bass player and
songwriter (b. 1942) ·
1974 – Cyril Connolly, English author and critic
(b. 1903) ·
1977 – Yoshibayama
Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (b. 1920) ·
1978 – Ford Beebe, American director and
screenwriter (b. 1888) ·
1978 – Frank Rosolino, American trombonist (b.
1926) ·
1981 – Pete DePaolo, American race car driver (b.
1898) ·
1981 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician,
and author (b. 1901) ·
1982 – Juhan Aavik, Estonian composer and conductor
(b. 1884) ·
1985 – Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic
(b. 1910) ·
1986 – Betico Croes, Aruban activist and politician
(b. 1938) ·
1987 – Thomas George
Lanphier, Jr., American colonel and pilot (b. 1915) ·
1987 – J. P. Guilford, American psychologist and
academic (b. 1897) ·
1987 – Peter Hujar, American photographer (b. 1934) ·
1989 – Ahmed Abdallah, Comorian politician, President
of Comoros (b. 1919) ·
1991 – Ed Heinemann, American engineer (b. 1908) ·
1991 – Bob
Johnson, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1931) ·
1993 – César Guerra-Peixe,
Brazilian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1914) ·
1994 – David Bache, English car designer (b. 1925) ·
1994 – Arturo Rivera y
Damas, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1923) ·
1996 – Michael Bentine, English actor and
screenwriter (b. 1922) ·
1996 – Paul Rand, American art director and graphic
designer (b. 1914) ·
1997 – Marguerite Henry, American author (b. 1902) ·
1998 – Jonathan Kwitny, American journalist and
author (b. 1941) ·
2001 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää,
Finnish author, poet, and painter (b. 1943) ·
2002 – Polo Montañez, Cuban singer-songwriter (b.
1955) ·
2002 – Verne Winchell, American businessman,
founded Winchell's Donuts (b.
1915) ·
2003 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1977) ·
2003 – Stefan Wul, French surgeon and author (b.
1922) ·
2004 – Philippe de Broca,
French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1933) ·
2004 – C. Walter Hodges, English author and
illustrator (b. 1909) ·
2005 – Takanori Arisawa, Japanese composer and
conductor (b. 1951) ·
2005 – Stan Berenstain,
American author and illustrator, co-created the Berenstain Bears (b. 1923) ·
2005 – Mark Craney, American drummer (b. 1952) ·
2006 – Mário
Cesariny de Vasconcelos, Portuguese painter and poet (b. 1923) ·
2006 – Dave Cockrum, American author and
illustrator (b. 1943) ·
2006 – Isaac Gálvez, Spanish cyclist (b. 1975) ·
2006 – Raúl Velasco, Mexican television host and
producer (b. 1933) ·
2007 – Silvestre S. Herrera,
Mexican-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1917) ·
2007 – Mel Tolkin, Russian-Canadian screenwriter
and producer (b. 1913) ·
2007 – Herb McKenley, Jamaican sprinter (b. 1922) ·
2010 – Leroy Drumm, American songwriter (b. 1936) ·
2011 – Manon Cleary, American painter and academic
(b. 1942) ·
2012 – Celso Advento
Castillo, Filipino actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1943) ·
2012 – Peter Marsh,
Australian table tennis player (b. 1948) ·
2012 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon and
soldier, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1919) ·
2012 – M. C. Nambudiripad,
Indian author and translator (b. 1919) ·
2013 – Arik Einstein, Israeli singer-songwriter (b.
1939) ·
2013 – Jane Kean, American actress and singer (b.
1923) ·
2013 – Saul Leiter, American photographer and
painter (b. 1923) ·
2013 – Tony Musante, American actor and
screenwriter (b. 1936) ·
2014 – Mary Hinkson, American dancer and
choreographer (b. 1925) ·
2014 – Gilles
Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1938) ·
2014 – Peter
Underwood, English parapsychologist and author (b. 1932) ·
2015 – Amir Aczel, Israeli-American mathematician,
historian, and academic (b. 1950) ·
2015 – Guy Lewis, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1922) ·
2016 – Fritz Weaver, American actor (b. 1926) ·
2018 – Stephen Hillenburg,
American animator, voice actor, and marine science educator (b. 1961) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast days: o Stylianos of
Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodoxy) o Isaac Watts (Episcopal Church
(USA)) o November
26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Constitution
Day (Abkhazia, Georgia) ·
Republic Day (Mongolia) |
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