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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
60 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul.
Emperor Valentinian I moves
to Paris to command the army and defend
the Gallic cities. ·
996 –
Emperor Otto III issues
a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest
known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German). ·
1009 – Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn
al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II of
Córdoba in the battle of Alcolea. ·
1141 – Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the
English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining
the title of 'King of England'. ·
1179 – Philip II is crowned as 'King of France'. ·
1214 –
The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks. ·
1348 –
The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks
the Jews of Murviedro on the
pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus
"royalists". ·
1503 – Pope Julius II is elected. ·
1512 –
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,
painted by Michelangelo, is
exhibited to the public for the first time. ·
1520 –
The Strait of Magellan,
the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the
Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by
European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during
the first recorded circumnavigation voyage. ·
1555 –
French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony
in present-day Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. ·
1570 –
The All Saints'
Flood devastates the Dutch coast. ·
1604 – William Shakespeare's
tragedy Othello is
performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London. ·
1611 –
Shakespeare's play The Tempest is
performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London. ·
1612 –
During the Time of Troubles,
Polish troops are expelled from Moscow's Kitay-gorod by Russian troops under the
command of Dmitry Pozharsky (22 October O.S.). ·
1683 –
The British Crown colony of New York is
subdivided into 12 counties. ·
1688 – William III of
Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to
seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of
England during the Glorious Revolution. ·
1755 –
In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by
a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between
60,000 and 90,000 people. ·
1765 –
The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in
order to help pay for British military operations in North America. ·
1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections
on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that
the French Revolution will
end in a disaster. ·
1800 – John Adams becomes the first President
of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed
the White House). ·
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the
Third Coalition. ·
1814 – Congress of Vienna opens
to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars. ·
1848 –
In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female
Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School
of Medicine), opens. ·
1861 – American Civil War:
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as
the commander of the Union Army,
replacing General Winfield Scott. ·
1870 –
In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather
Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast. ·
1884 –
The Gaelic
Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary. ·
1893 –
The Battle of Bembezi took
place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in
the First Matabele War of
1893. ·
1894 – Nicholas II becomes
the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after
his father, Alexander III,
dies. ·
1894
– Buffalo Bill, 15
of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were
filmed by Thomas Edison in
his Black Maria Studio in
West Orange, New Jersey. ·
1896 –
A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National
Geographic magazine for the first time. ·
1897 –
The first Library of Congress building
opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the
Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol. ·
1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon,
the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College,
in Richmond, Virginia. ·
1911 –
World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during
the Italo-Turkish War.
Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs. ·
1914 – World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with
Germany, the Battle of Coronel,
is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss
of HMS Good
Hope and HMS Monmouth. ·
1914
– World War I: The Australian
Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy
from Albany, Western
Australia bound for Egypt. ·
1916 –
In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers
in the State Duma the
famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of
the government of Boris Stürmer. ·
1918 – Malbone Street Wreck:
The worst rapid transit accident
in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102
deaths. ·
1918
– Western
Ukraine separates from Austria-Hungary. ·
1920 –
American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats
the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in
the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ·
1922 – Abolition
of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates. ·
1928 –
The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet. ·
1937 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg
and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community. ·
1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during
a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing. ·
1941 –
American photographer Ansel Adams takes
a picture
of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New
Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the
history of photography. ·
1942 – World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins
during the Guadalcanal Campaign and
ends three days later with an American victory. ·
1943 –
World War II: The 3rd Marine Division, United States
Marines, landing on Bougainville in
the Solomon Islands,
secures a beachhead, leading that night to a naval clash at the Battle of
Empress Augusta Bay. ·
1944 –
World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren. ·
1945 –
The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under
the name Chongro. ·
1948 –
Six thousand people die when a Chinese merchant
ship explodes and sinks off southern Manchuria. ·
1948
– Athenagoras
I, Ecumenical
Patriarch of Constantinople, is enthroned. ·
1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt
to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House. ·
1950
– Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when
he formally defines the dogma of
the Assumption of Mary. ·
1951 – Operation
Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are
exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes
in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary. ·
1952 – Nuclear weapons
testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at
the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a
yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent. ·
1954 –
The Front
de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War
of Independence. ·
1955 –
The Vietnam War begins. ·
1955
– The bombing of United
Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado,
killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner. ·
1956 –
The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are formally created under
the States
Reorganisation Act; Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu from Kerala. ·
1956
– Hungarian
Revolution: Imre Nagy announces
Hungary's neutrality and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. Soviet troops begin to re-enter
Hungary, contrary to assurances by the Soviet government. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich secretly
defect to the Soviets. ·
1956
– The Springhill
mining disaster in Springhill, Nova
Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued. ·
1957 –
The Mackinac Bridge,
the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens
to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. ·
1960 –
While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of
the Peace Corps. ·
1963 –
The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico,
with the largest radio telescope ever
constructed, officially opens. ·
1963
– The 1963 South Vietnamese
coup begins. ·
1968 –
The Motion
Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially
introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X. ·
1970 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont,
France kills 146 young people. ·
1973 – Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new
Watergate Special Prosecutor. ·
1973
– The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions
within Karunadu. ·
1979 –
In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional
government of Wálter Guevara. ·
1979
– Griselda Álvarez becomes
the first female governor of
a state of Mexico.[1] ·
1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gains
independence from the United Kingdom. ·
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian
automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of
its factory in Marysville, Ohio;
a Honda Accord is
the first car produced there. ·
1984 –
After the assassination
of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 31 October 1984, by
two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupt. ·
1987 – British Rail
Class 43 (HST) hits the record speed of 238 km/h for
rail vehicles with on-board fuel to generate electricity for traction motors. ·
1993 –
The Maastricht Treaty takes
effect, formally establishing the European Union. ·
2000 – Chhattisgarh officially becomes the
26th state of India,
formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh. ·
2000
– The Republic of Serbia
and Montenegro joins the United Nations. ·
2012 –
A fuel tank truck crashes and
explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, killing 26 people and injuring 135. Births[edit] ·
846 – Louis the Stammerer,
Frankish king (d. 879)[2] ·
1339 – Rudolf IV,
Duke of Austria (d. 1365)[3] ·
1351 – Leopold III,
Duke of Austria (d. 1386) ·
1419 – Albert
II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1485) ·
1498 – Giovanni Ricci,
Italian cardinal (d. 1574) ·
1499 – Rodrigo of Aragon,
Italian noble (d. 1512) ·
1522 – Andrew Corbet,
English landowner and politician (d. 1578) ·
1526 – Catherine Jagiellon,
queen of John III of Sweden (d.
1583) ·
1527 – William
Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, English noble and politician (d. 1597) ·
1530 – Étienne de La Boétie,
French philosopher and judge (d. 1563) ·
1539 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d.
1596)[4] ·
1550 – Henry of
Saxe-Lauenburg, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of
Osnabruck and Paderborn (d. 1585) ·
1567 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar,
Spanish academic and diplomat (d. 1626) ·
1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician,
physician, and astronomer (d. 1652) ·
1596 – Pietro da Cortona,
Italian painter (d. 1669) ·
1607 – Georg Philipp
Harsdörffer, German poet and translator (d. 1658) ·
1609 – Matthew Hale,
Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1676) ·
1611 – François-Marie,
comte de Broglie, Italian-French commander (d. 1656) ·
1625 – Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop and saint
(d. 1681) ·
1636 – Nicolas
Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711) ·
1643 – John Strype, English priest, historian, and
author (d. 1737) ·
1661 – Florent Carton
Dancourt, French actor and playwright (d. 1725) ·
1666 – James Sherard, English botanist and curator
(d. 1738) ·
1720 – Toussaint-Guillaume
Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791) ·
1727 – Ivan Shuvalov, Russian art collector and
philanthropist (d. 1797) ·
1752 – Józef Zajączek,
Polish general, politician (d. 1826) ·
1757 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor and
educator (d. 1822)[5] ·
1762 – Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812) ·
1769 – Garlieb Merkel, German author and activist
(d. 1850) ·
1778 – Gustav IV Adolf
of Sweden (d. 1837) ·
1782 – F.
J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, English politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859) ·
1808 – John Taylor,
English-American religious leader, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (d. 1887) ·
1831 – Harry Atkinson, English-New Zealand
politician, 10th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1892) ·
1838 – 11th Dalai Lama (d. 1856) ·
1839 – Ahmed Muhtar Pasha,
Ottoman general and politician, 227th Grand
Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1919) ·
1847 – Emma Albani, Canadian-English soprano and
actress (d. 1930) ·
1847
– Hiệp Hòa,
Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883) ·
1848 – Caroline Still
Anderson, African-American physician, educator and abolitionist
(d. 1919)[6] ·
1849 – William Merritt
Chase, American painter and educator (d. 1916) ·
1859 – Charles Brantley
Aycock, American educator, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of
North Carolina (d. 1912) ·
1862 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer
(d. 1941) ·
1864 – Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (d.
1918) ·
1871 – Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and
short story writer (d. 1900) ·
1872 – Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter (d.
1946) ·
1877 – Roger Quilter, English composer (d. 1953) ·
1878 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator
(d. 1925) ·
1878
– Carlos Saavedra
Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1959) ·
1880 – Sholem Asch, Polish-American author and
playwright (d. 1957) ·
1880
– Grantland Rice,
American journalist and poet (d. 1954) ·
1880
– Alfred Wegener,
German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930) ·
1881 – Perikles Ioannidis,
Greek admiral (d. 1965) ·
1886 – Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author and
poet (d. 1951) ·
1886
– Sakutarō
Hagiwara, Japanese poet and critic (d. 1942) ·
1887 – L.S. Lowry, English painter and illustrator
(d. 1976) ·
1888 – George Kenner, German-American painter and
illustrator (d. 1971) ·
1888
– Michał
Sopoćko, Polish cleric and academic (d. 1975) ·
1889 – Hannah Höch, German painter and photographer
(d. 1978) ·
1889
– Philip
Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English academic and
politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1982) ·
1896 – Edmund Blunden, English author, poet, and
critic (d. 1974) ·
1898 – Arthur Legat, Belgian race car driver (d.
1960) ·
1898
– Sippie Wallace,
American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1986) ·
1902 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian journalist, author,
poet, and playwright (d. 1943) ·
1902
– Eugen Jochum,
German conductor (d. 1987) ·
1903 – Max Adrian, Irish-born British actor (d.
1973) ·
1903
– Edward Greeves, Jr.,
Australian footballer (d. 1963) ·
1904 – Laura LaPlante, American silent film actress
(d. 1996) ·
1905 – Paul-Émile Borduas,
Canadian-French painter and educator (d. 1960) ·
1906 – Johnny Indrisano, American boxer (d. 1968) ·
1907 – Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer (d. 1976) ·
1909 – Hans Mork, South African-Australian rugby
league player (d. 1960) ·
1911 – Mingun Sayadaw, Burmese monk and scholar (d.
1993) ·
1911
– Henri Troyat,
French historian and author (d. 2007) ·
1912 – Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi and
author (d. 2012) ·
1914 – Moshe
Teitelbaum, Romanian-American rabbi (d. 2006) ·
1915
– Margaret
Taylor-Burroughs, American painter, poet, and educator, co-founded
the DuSable
Museum of African American History (d. 2010) ·
1917 – Zenna Henderson, American author (d.1983) ·
1917
– Clarence E. Miller,
American engineer and politician (d. 2011) ·
1918 – Ken Miles, English-American race car driver
(d. 1966) ·
1919 – Hermann Bondi, English-Austrian
mathematician and cosmologist (d. 2005) ·
1920 – James J. Kilpatrick,
American journalist and author (d. 2010) ·
1920
– Ted Lowe, English sportscaster (d. 2011) ·
1921 – John W. Peterson, American pilot and
songwriter (d. 2006) ·
1921
– Harald Quandt,
German businessman (d. 1967) ·
1922 – George S. Irving, American actor (d. 2016) ·
1923 – Victoria de los
Ángeles, Spanish soprano and actress (d. 2005) ·
1923
– Gordon R. Dickson,
Canadian-American author (d. 2001) ·
1923
– Menachem Elon,
German-Israeli academic and jurist (d. 2013) ·
1923
– Carlos Páez Vilaró,
Uruguayan painter and sculptor (d. 2014) ·
1924 – Süleyman Demirel,
Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (d.
2015) ·
1924
– Jean-Luc Pépin,
Canadian academic and politician, 19th Canadian
Minister of Labour (d. 1995) ·
1926 – Stephen Antonakos,
Greek-American sculptor (d. 2013) ·
1926
– Betsy Palmer,
American actress and game show panelist (d. 2015) ·
1927 – Vic Power,
Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach (d. 2005) ·
1927
– Marcel Ophüls,
German documentary filmmaker ·
1928 – James
Bradford, American weightlifter (d. 2013) ·
1929 – Nicholas Mavroules,
American lawyer and politician (d. 2003) ·
1930 – A. R. Gurney, American playwright and author
(d. 2017) ·
1930
– Russ Kemmerer,
American baseball player and coach (d. 2014) ·
1931 – Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestler and coach
(d. 1972) ·
1931
– Shunsuke Kikuchi,
Japanese composer ·
1931
– Arne Pedersen,
Norwegian footballer and manager (d. 2013) ·
1932 – Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (d. 2015) ·
1932
– Francis Arinze,
Nigerian cardinal ·
1933 – Antoine Kohn, Luxembourgian footballer and
manager (d. 2012) ·
1934 – Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-Italian businessman
and politician (d. 2004) ·
1934
– Gillian Knight,
English soprano and actress ·
1934
– William Mathias,
Welsh pianist and composer (d. 1992) ·
1935 – Gary Player, South African golfer and
sportscaster ·
1935
– Edward Said, Palestinian-American theorist,
author, and academic (d. 2003) ·
1936 – Katsuhisa Hattori,
Japanese composer and conductor ·
1936
– Shizuka Kamei,
Japanese lawyer and politician ·
1937 – Bill Anderson,
American country music singer-songwriter ·
1938 – Nicholasa Mohr, Puerto Rican American Nuyorican writer ·
1940
– Roger Kellaway,
American pianist and composer ·
1940 – Ramesh Chandra
Lahoti, Indian lawyer and jurist, 35th Chief Justice of
India ·
1940
– Bruce
Grocott, Baron Grocott, English academic and politician ·
1940
– Barry Sadler, American
sergeant, author, actor, and singer-songwriter (d. 1989) ·
1941 – Alfio Basile, Argentinian footballer and
manager ·
1941
– Robert Foxworth,
American actor and director ·
1941
– John Pullin, English rugby player ·
1942 – Larry Flynt, American publisher,
founded Larry Flynt
Publications ·
1942
– Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and
politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (d.
2013) ·
1942
– Marcia Wallace,
American actress and comedian (d. 2013) ·
1943 – Salvatore Adamo, Italian-Belgian
singer-songwriter ·
1943
– Jacques Attali,
French economist and civil servant ·
1944 – Kinky Friedman, American singer-songwriter
and author ·
1944
– Bobby Heenan,
American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2017) ·
1944
– Oscar Temaru,
French-Polynesian soldier and politician, President
of French Polynesia ·
1944
– Rafic Hariri,
Lebanese businessman and politician 60th Prime Minister
of Lebanon (d. 2005) ·
1945 – Narendra Dabholkar,
Indian author and activist, founded Maharashtra
Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (d. 2013) ·
1945
– John Williamson,
Australian singer-songwriter ·
1946 – Ric Grech, British rock musician (d. 1990) ·
1946
– Yuko Shimizu,
Japanese graphic designer, created Hello Kitty ·
1947 – Nick Owen, English journalist ·
1947
– Jim Steinman,
American songwriter and producer ·
1948 – Phil Myre, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1948
– Amani Abeid Karume,
Zanzibar accountant and politician, 6th President of Zanzibar ·
1948
– Bill Woodrow,
English sculptor and academic ·
1949 – David Foster, Canadian singer-songwriter,
keyboard player, and producer ·
1949
– Michael D. Griffin,
American physicist and engineer ·
1949
– Belita Moreno,
American actress and acting coach ·
1950 – Mitch Kapor, American computer programmer
and businessman, founded Lotus Software and Electronic
Frontier Foundation ·
1950
– Robert B. Laughlin,
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1950
– Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and
musician (d. 2011) ·
1951 – Ronald Bell,
American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer ·
1951
– Fabrice Luchini,
French actor and screenwriter ·
1951
– Craig Serjeant,
Australian cricketer and chemist ·
1953 – Jan Davis, American engineer and astronaut ·
1953
– Paul Wellings,
English ecologist and academic ·
1955 – Beth Leavel, American actress and singer ·
1955
– Mike Mendoza,
English radio host and politician ·
1957 – Lyle Lovett, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1957
– Murray Pierce,
New Zealand rugby player ·
1958 – Mark Austin,
English journalist ·
1958
– Robert Hart,
English singer-songwriter ·
1959 – Susanna Clarke, English author and educator ·
1960 – Tim Cook, American businessman and engineer,
current CEO of Apple Inc. ·
1960
– Fernando Valenzuela,
Mexican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster ·
1961 – Louise Boije af Gennäs,
Swedish author and screenwriter ·
1961
– Anne Donovan,
American basketball player and coach (d. 2018) ·
1961
– Calvin Johnson,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1961
– Heng Swee Keat,
Singaporean politician ·
1962 – Sharron Davies, English swimmer ·
1962
– Magne Furuholmen,
Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1962
– Anthony Kiedis,
American singer-songwriter[7] ·
1963 – Nita Ambani, Indian businesswoman ·
1963
– Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager ·
1963
– Big Kenny, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1964 – Sophie B. Hawkins,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1965 – Michael Daley, Australian politician ·
1965
– Patrik Ringborg,
Swedish conductor ·
1966 – Willie D, American rapper and entrepreneur ·
1966
– Mary Hansen, Australian singer and musician
(d. 2002) ·
1966
– Gary
Howell, American businessman and politician ·
1966
– Jeremy Hunt, English businessman and
politician, Secretary
of State for Health ·
1967 – Tina Arena, Australian singer-songwriter,
producer, and actress ·
1967
– Carla van de
Puttelaar, Dutch photographer ·
1969 – Tie Domi, Canadian ice hockey player and
sportscaster ·
1970 – Sherwin Campbell, Barbadian cricketer ·
1972 – Toni Collette, Australian actress[8] ·
1972
– Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer and manager ·
1972
– Jenny McCarthy,
American actress and model ·
1973 – Geoff Horsfield, English footballer and
manager ·
1973
– Aishwarya Rai Bachchan,
Indian model and actress. ·
1974 – V. V. S. Laxman, Indian cricketer ·
1975 – Bo Bice, American singer and musician ·
1975
– Keryn Jordan,
South African footballer (d. 2013) ·
1975
– Megan Wing, Canadian figure skater and coach ·
1976 – Sergei Artyukhin, Russian-Belarusian
wrestler (d. 2012) ·
1978 – Danny Koevermans, Dutch footballer and
manager ·
1978
– Helen Czerski,
English physicist and oceanographer ·
1979 – Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer ·
1979
– Alex Prager, American photographer and
director ·
1980 – Bilgin Defterli, Turkish footballer ·
1982 – Bradley Orr, English footballer ·
1982
– Warren Spragg,
English-Italian rugby player ·
1983 – Matt Moulson, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1983
– Yuko Ogura, Japanese model and singer ·
1983
– Jon Wilkin, English rugby player ·
1984 – Miloš Krasić,
Serbian footballer ·
1986 – Penn Badgley, American actor and television
personality ·
1986
– Ksenija Balta,
Estonian high jumper, sprinter, and heptathlete ·
1987 – Ileana D'Cruz, Indian film actress ·
1988 – Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player ·
1991 – Eyþór
Arnarson, Icelandic skier ·
1991
– Reece Brown, English footballer ·
1991
– Jiang Yuyuan,
Chinese gymnast ·
1994 – James Ward-Prowse,
English footballer ·
1995 – Margarita Mamun, Russian gymnast ·
1996 – Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (d.
2017) ·
1996
– Jeongyeon, Korean singer[9] Deaths[edit] ·
934 – Beornstan of
Winchester, English bishop ·
970 – Boso of Merseburg,
German bishop ·
1038 – Herman I,
Margrave of Meissen (b. c. 980) ·
1296 – Guillaume Durand, French bishop and
theologian (b. 1230) ·
1319 – Uguccione della
Faggiuola, Italian condottieri (b. c. 1250) ·
1324 – John de Halton, Bishop of Carlisle ·
1391 – Amadeus VII,
Count of Savoy (b. 1360) ·
1399 – John IV, Duke
of Brittany (b. 1339)[10] ·
1406 – Joanna,
Duchess of Brabant (b. 1322) ·
1423 – Nicholas
Eudaimonoioannes, Byzantine diplomat ·
1461 – David of Trebizond (b.
1408) ·
1496 – Filippo Buonaccorsi
(Filip Callimachus), Italian humanist writer (b. 1437) ·
1546 – Giulio Romano, Italian painter and architect
(b. 1499) ·
1588 – Jean Daurat, French poet and scholar (b.
1508) ·
1596 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b.
1539) ·
1597 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (b.
1555) ·
1629 – Hendrick ter
Brugghen, Dutch painter (b. 1588) ·
1642 – Jean Nicolet, French-Canadian explorer (b.
1598) ·
1676 – Gisbertus Voetius,
Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1589) ·
1678 – William Coddington,
American judge and politician, 1st Governor of
Rhode Island (b. 1601) ·
1700 – Charles II of Spain (b.
1661) ·
1814 – Alexander Samoylov,
Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1744) ·
1888 – Nikolay Przhevalsky,
Russian geographer and explorer (b. 1838) ·
1894 – Alexander III of
Russia (b. 1845) ·
1903 – Theodor Mommsen, German archaeologist,
journalist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1817) ·
1907 – Alfred Jarry, French author and playwright
(b. 1873) ·
1925 – Max Linder, French actor, director,
screenwriter, producer and comedian (b. 1883) ·
1938 – Charles Weeghman, American businessman (b.
1874) ·
1942 – Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and
conductor (b. 1908) ·
1952 – Dixie Lee, American singer (b. 1911) ·
1955 – Dale Carnegie, American author and educator
(b. 1888) ·
1958 – Yahya Kemal
Beyatlı, Turkish poet, author, and diplomat (b. 1884) ·
1962 – Ricardo
Rodríguez, Mexican race car driver (b. 1942) ·
1968 – Georgios Papandreou,
Greek economist and politician, 134th Prime
Minister of Greece (b. 1888) ·
1970 – Robert Staughton
Lynd, American sociologist and academic (b. 1892) ·
1972 – Waldemar Hammenhög,
Swedish author (b. 1902) ·
1972
– Robert MacArthur,
Canadian-American ecologist and academic (b. 1930) ·
1972
– Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (b.
1885) ·
1982 – James Broderick, American actor and director
(b. 1927) ·
1982
– King Vidor, American director, producer, and
screenwriter (b. 1894) ·
1983 – Anthony van Hoboken,
Dutch-Swiss musicologist and author (b. 1887) ·
1984 – Norman Krasna, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1909) ·
1985 – Arnold Pihlak, Estonian-English footballer
(b. 1902) ·
1985
– Phil Silvers,
American actor and comedian (b. 1911) ·
1986 – Serge Garant, Canadian composer and
conductor (b. 1929) ·
1987 – René Lévesque,
Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (b.
1922) ·
1993 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American biochemist
and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1905) ·
1993
– A. N. Sherwin-White,
English historian and scholar (b. 1911) ·
1994 – Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (b. 1913) ·
1996 – J. R. Jayewardene,
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri
Lanka (b. 1906) ·
1999 – Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy
(b. 1925) ·
1999
– Walter Payton,
American football player and race car driver (b. 1954)[11] ·
2000 – George
Armstrong, English footballer and manager (b. 1944) ·
2004 – Mac Dre, American rapper and producer,
founded Thizz Entertainment (b.
1970)[12] ·
2004
– Terry Knight,
American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1943)[13] ·
2005 – Skitch Henderson, American pianist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1918)[14] ·
2005
– Michael Piller,
American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)[15] ·
2006 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director,
and screenwriter (b. 1966)[16] ·
2006
– William Styron,
American novelist and essayist (b. 1925)[17] ·
2007 – S. Ali Raza, Indian director and
screenwriter (b. 1922)[18] ·
2007
– Paul Tibbets,
American general (b. 1915)[19] ·
2008 – Jacques Piccard, Swiss oceanographer and
engineer (b. 1922)[20] ·
2008
– Shakir Stewart,
American record producer (b. 1974)[21] ·
2008
– Yma Sumac, Peruvian-American soprano and
actress (b. 1922/1923)[22] ·
2009 – Esther Hautzig, Lithuanian-American author
(b. 1930)[23] ·
2009
– Endel Laas, Estonian scientist and academic
(b. 1915)[24] ·
2009
– Robert H. Rines,
American violinist and composer (b. 1922)[25] ·
2010 – Shannon Tavarez, American actress (b. 1999)[26] ·
2010
– Diana
Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (b. 1922)[27] ·
2011 – Cahit Aral, Turkish engineer and
politician, Turkish Minister of Industry and Commerce (b.
1927)[28] ·
2012 – Agustín García Calvo,
Spanish poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1926)[29] ·
2012
– Mitch Lucker,
American singer (b. 1984)[30] ·
2012
– Pascual Pérez,
Dominican baseball player (b. 1957)[31] ·
2013 – John Y. McCollister,
American lieutenant and politician (b. 1921)[32] ·
2013
– Piet Rietveld,
Dutch economist and academic (b. 1952)[33] ·
2014 – Joel Barnett,
Baron Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief
Secretary to the Treasury (b. 1923)[34] ·
2014
– Jackie Fairweather,
Australian runner and coach (b. 1967)[35] ·
2014
– Abednigo Ngcobo,
South African footballer (b. 1950)[36] ·
2014
– Jean-Pierre Roy,
Canadian-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1920)[37] ·
2014
– Wayne Static,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1965)[38] ·
2015 – Thomas R.
Fitzgerald, American lawyer and judge (b. 1941)[39] ·
2015
– Houston McTear,
American sprinter (b. 1957)[40] ·
2015
– Charles Duncan
Michener, American entomologist and academic (b. 1918)[41] ·
2015
– Günter Schabowski,
German journalist and politician (b. 1929)[42] ·
2015
– Fred Thompson,
American actor, lawyer, and politician (b. 1942)[43] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
All Saints' Day, a holy day of
obligation in some areas (a national holiday in many
historically Catholic countries),
and its related observance: o Day of the Innocents,
The first day of Day of the Dead or El
Dia de los Muertos celebration. (Mexico, Haiti) ·
Anniversary of
the Revolution (Algeria) ·
Chavang Kut (Mizo people of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Burma) ·
Chhattisgarh
Rajyotsava (Chhattisgarh, India)[44] ·
Christian feast day: o Santa Muerte (Folk Catholicism, Mexico and Southwestern
United States) o November
1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Coronation of
the fifth Druk Gyalpo (Bhutan) ·
Earliest
day on which Arbor Day can
fall, while 7 November is the latest; celebrated on the first Friday in
November. (Samoa) ·
Earliest
day on which Children's Day can
fall, while 7 November is the latest; celebrated on the first Saturday in
November. (South Africa) ·
Earliest
day on which Health Day can
fall, while 7 November is the latest; celebrated on the first Saturday in
November. (Turkmenistan) ·
Earliest
day on which National Bison Day can
fall, while 7 November is the latest; celebrated on the first Saturday in
November. (United States) ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the independence of Antigua and Barbuda from
the United Kingdom in 1981. ·
Karnataka Rajyotsava (Karnataka, India)[44] ·
Kerala Day (Kerala, India)[44] ·
Liberty Day (United
States Virgin Islands) ·
International
Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Awareness Day ·
National Brush Day (United States) ·
National
Awakening Day (Bulgaria) ·
Self-Defense Forces Commemoration
Day (Japan) ·
The
first day of winter observances: o Calan Gaeaf, celebrations start at sunset
of October 31. (Wales) o Samhain in the Northern Hemisphere
and Beltane in the Southern Hemisphere,
celebrations start at sunset of October 31 (Neopagan Wheel of the Year) |
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