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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
November 12 is the 316th day of the
year (317th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
49 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
954 – The
13-year-old Lothair III is
crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as
king of the West Frankish Kingdom.[1] ·
1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes
the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.[2] ·
1330 – Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian
Voievode Basarab I defeats
the Hungarian army by ambush.[3] ·
1439 – Plymouth becomes the first town
incorporated by the English Parliament. ·
1892 – Pudge Heffelfinger becomes
the first professional American football player
on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny
Athletic Association. ·
1893 – Abdur Rahman Khan accepts
the Durand Line as
the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj. ·
1905 – Norway
holds a
referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision
to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly
independent country.[4] ·
1912 – King George I of Greece makes
a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from
482 years of Ottoman rule. ·
1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and
his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.[5] ·
1918 – Austria becomes
a republic.[6] After the proclamation, a
coup attempt by the communist Red Guard is defeated by the
social-democratic Volkswehr.[7] ·
1920 – Italy and
the Kingdom of Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of
Rapallo. ·
1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist
Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of
the Soviet Union. ·
1928 – SS Vestris sinks
approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads,
Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and
children who die after the vessel is abandoned. ·
1936 – In California,
the San
Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.[8] ·
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French
Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces. ·
1940 – World War II: Soviet Foreign
Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives
in Berlin to discuss the possibility
of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers. ·
1941 – World War II:
Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 °C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against
the freezing German forces near the city. ·
1941 – World War II: The Soviet
cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during
the Battle of Sevastopol.[9] ·
1942 – World War
II: Naval Battle
of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins
near Guadalcanal. The
battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory. ·
1944 – World War II:
The Royal Air Force launches
29 Avro Lancaster bombers,
which sink the German battleship Tirpitz,
with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsř, Norway. ·
1948 – In Tokyo,
the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sentences
seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in
World War II. ·
1954 – Ellis Island ceased operations.[10] ·
1956 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations. ·
1956 – In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in Rafah by Israeli soldiers
following the invasion of the Gaza Strip. ·
1958 – A team of rock
climbers led by Warren Harding completes
the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. ·
1961 – Terry Jo
Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard
the Ketch Bluebelle. [11] ·
1969 – Vietnam War: Independent investigative
journalist Seymour Hersh breaks
the story of the My Lai Massacre. ·
1970 – The Oregon Highway
Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to
the now infamous "exploding
whale" incident. ·
1970 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes
landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest
tropical cyclone in history. ·
1971 – Vietnam War: As
part of Vietnamization,
US President Richard Nixon sets
February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American
troops from Vietnam. ·
1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations. ·
1977 – France conducts the Oreste nuclear
test as 14th in the group of 29, 1975–78
French nuclear tests series. ·
1979 – Iran hostage crisis:
In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all
petroleum imports into the United States from Iran. ·
1980 – The NASA space
probe Voyager I makes
its closest approach to Saturn and takes the
first images of its rings. ·
1981 – Space Shuttle
program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia,
marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice. ·
1982 – USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee,
succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev. ·
1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as
Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch. ·
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal
proposal for the World Wide Web. ·
1991 – Santa Cruz massacre:
Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili,
East Timor. ·
1995 – Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful
resolution to the Croatian War
of Independence was reached. ·
1996 – A Saudi Arabian
Airlines Boeing 747 and
a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo
plane collide
in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air
collision to date. ·
1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of
masterminding the 1993
World Trade Center bombing. ·
1999 – The 7.2 Mw Düzce earthquake shakes
northwestern Turkey with a
maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people were
killed and almost 5,000 were injured. ·
2001 – In New York
City, American
Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to
the Dominican Republic,
crashes minutes after takeoff from John
F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and
five on the ground. ·
2001 – War in
Afghanistan: Taliban forces
abandon Kabul,
ahead of advancing Afghan Northern
Alliance troops. ·
2003 – Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among
them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of
Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police
base. ·
2003 – Shanghai Transrapid sets
a new world
speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for
commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified
commercial rail vehicles. ·
2011 – Silvio Berlusconi tenders
his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in
large part to the European sovereign
debt crisis. ·
2011 – A blast in
Iran's Shahid Modarres missile base leads to the death of 17 of the Revolutionary
Guards members, including Hassan Tehrani
Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program. ·
2014 – The Philae lander,
deployed from the European Space
Agency's Rosetta probe,
reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. ·
2015 – Two suicide bombers detonated explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over
200 others. ·
2017 – The 7.3 Mw Kermanshah
earthquake shakes the northern Iran–Iraq border
with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VIII (Severe). At least 410 people were
killed and over 7,000 were injured. Births[edit]
·
1450 – Jacques
of Savoy, Count of Romont, Prince of Savoy (d. 1486) ·
1492 – Johan Rantzau, German general (d. 1565) ·
1494 – Margaret of
Anhalt-Köthen, Princess of Anhalt by birth, by marriage Duchess of
Saxony (d. 1521) ·
1528 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588) ·
1547 – Claude of Valois (d. 1575)[12] ·
1579 – Albrecht of
Hanau-Münzenberg, German nobleman (d. 1635) ·
1606 – Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse, founded
the Hôtel-Dieu de
Montréal (d. 1673) ·
1615 – Richard Baxter, English minister, poet, and
theologian (d. 1691) ·
1627 – Diego Luis de
San Vitores, Spanish Jesuit missionary (d. 1672) ·
1651 – Juana Inés de la
Cruz, Mexican nun, poet, and scholar (d. 1695) ·
1655 – Francis Nicholson,
British Army general and colonial administrator (d. 1727) ·
1684 – Edward Vernon, English admiral and
politician (d. 1757) ·
1729 – Louis
Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer (d. 1811) ·
1755 – Gerhard von
Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian
Minister of War (d. 1813) ·
1780 – Piet Retief, South African ruler (d. 1838) ·
1793 – Johann
Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Livonian physician and botanist (d.
1831) ·
1795 – Thaddeus William
Harris, American entomologist and botanist (d. 1856) ·
1815 – Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, American activist (d. 1902)[13] ·
1817 – Bahá'u'lláh,
Persian spiritual leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith (d.
1892)[14] ·
1833 – Alexander Borodin,
Russian composer and chemist (d. 1887) ·
1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and
illustrator, created The Thinker (d.
1917) ·
1842 – John
William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1919) ·
1848 – Eduard
Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 51st President
of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1919) ·
1850 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and
theoretician (d. 1908) ·
1866 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and
politician, 1st President
of the Republic of China (d. 1925)[15] ·
1872 – William Fay, Irish actor and producer (d.
1947) ·
1881 – Olev Siinmaa, Estonian-Swedish architect (d.
1948) ·
1881 – Maximilian von
Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954) ·
1886 – Günther Dyhrenfurth,
German geologist and mountaineer (d. 1975) ·
1886 – Ben Travers, English author and playwright
(d. 1980) ·
1889 – DeWitt Wallace, American publisher and
philanthropist, co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1981) ·
1890 – Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d.
1974) ·
1892 – Tudor Davies, Welsh tenor and actor (d.
1958) ·
1894 – Thorleif
Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and comparative psychologist
(d. 1976) ·
1895 – Manuel Alonso
Areizaga, Spanish tennis player (d. 1984) ·
1895 – Nima Yooshij, Iranian poet and academic (d.
1960) ·
1896 – Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist and author
(d. 1987) ·
1897 – Karl Marx,
German composer and conductor (d. 1985) ·
1898 – Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (d. 1999) ·
1900 – Stanley Graham, New Zealand mass murderer
(d. 1941) ·
1901 – James Luther Adams,
American minister and theologian (d. 1994) ·
1903 – Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978) ·
1904 – Max Hoffman, Austrian-born car importer and
businessman (d. 1981) ·
1905 – Louise Thaden, American pilot (d. 1979)[16] ·
1906 – George Dillon,
American soldier and poet (d. 1968) ·
1908 – Harry Blackmun, American lawyer and judge
(d. 1999) ·
1910 – Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (d.
1981) ·
1911 – Buck Clayton, American trumpet player and
academic (d. 1991) ·
1914 – Peter
Whitehead, English race car driver (d. 1958) ·
1915 – Roland Barthes, French philosopher,
theorist, and critic (d. 1980) ·
1916 – Paul Emery, English race car driver (d.
1993) ·
1916 – Jean
Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (d. 2000) ·
1917 – Jo Stafford, American singer (d. 2008) ·
1919 – France Štiglic,
Slovenian film director and screenwriter (d. 1993) ·
1920 – Richard Quine, American actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 1989) ·
1922 – Tadeusz Borowski, Polish poet, author, and
journalist (d. 1951) ·
1922 – Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002) ·
1923 – Ian Graham, English archaeologist and
explorer (d. 2017) ·
1923 – Rubén Bonifaz Nuńo,
Mexican poet and scholar (d. 2013) ·
1924 – Sam Jones,
American bassist, cellist, and composer (d. 1981) ·
1926 – Robert
Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, English lawyer and judge (d. 2016) ·
1927 – František
Šťastný, Czech motorcycle racer and sportscaster (d. 2000) ·
1927 – Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician and
theorist (d. 1958) ·
1929 – Michael Ende, German author and fiction
writer (d. 1995) ·
1929 – Grace Kelly, American actress, later
Princess Grace of Monaco (d. 1982)[17] ·
1930 – Bob Crewe, American singer-songwriter and
producer (d. 2014) ·
1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader (d. 2017) ·
1934 – John McGahern, Irish author and educator (d.
2006) ·
1934 – Vavá, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2002) ·
1938 – Denis DeJordy, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1938 – Benjamin Mkapa, Tanzanian journalist and
politician, 3rd President of
Tanzania ·
1938 – Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and
pianist (d. 1991) ·
1939 – Lucia Popp, Slovak soprano (d. 1993) ·
1940 – Amjad Khan,
Indian actor & director (d. 1992) ·
1940 – Michel Audet, Canadian economist and politician ·
1940 – Jürgen Todenhöfer,
German judge and politician ·
1943 – Errol Brown, Jamaican-English
singer-songwriter (d. 2015) ·
1943 – Brian Hyland, American pop singer ·
1943 – Wallace Shawn, American actor, comedian and
playwright ·
1943 – Björn Waldegĺrd,
Swedish race car driver (d. 2014) ·
1943 – John Walker,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011) ·
1944 – Booker T. Jones, American pianist,
saxophonist, songwriter, and producer ·
1944 – Al Michaels, American sportscaster ·
1945 – Michael Bishop,
American author and educator ·
1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1945 – Judith Roitman, American mathematician and
academic ·
1946 – Alexandra Charles,
Swedish businesswoman ·
1947 – Buck Dharma, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1947 – Patrice Leconte, French director and
screenwriter ·
1948 – Hassan Rouhani, Iranian lawyer and
politician; 7th President of Iran ·
1949 – Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (d. 1992) ·
1949 – Jack Reed,
American soldier and politician ·
1950 – Barbara Fairchild,
American country and gospel singer-songwriter ·
1953 – Baaba Maal, Senegalese singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1954 – Paul McNamee, Australian tennis player ·
1955 – Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer ·
1957 – Tim Samaras, American engineer, storm chaser
(d. 2013) ·
1958 – Megan Mullally, American actress and singer ·
1958 – Mykola
Vynnychenko, Ukrainian race walker ·
1959 – Vincent Irizarry, American actor ·
1959 – Toshihiko Sahashi,
Japanese composer ·
1960 – Maurane, Belgian singer and actress (d.
2018) ·
1961 – Nadia Comăneci,
Romanian gymnast and coach[18] ·
1961 – Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer ·
1962 – Kuniko Asagi, Japanese actress and
television host ·
1962 – Jon Dough, American porn actor, director,
and producer (d. 2006) ·
1962 – Mariella Frostrup,
Norwegian journalist and actress ·
1962 – Mark Hunter,
Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager ·
1962 – Neal Shusterman, American author and poet ·
1962 – Naomi Wolf, American author and activist ·
1964 – Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2009) ·
1964 – David Ellefson, American bass player and
songwriter ·
1964 – Wang Kuang-hui, Taiwanese baseball player
and coach ·
1964 – Barbara Stühlmeyer,
German musicologist, church musician and writer ·
1965 – Lex Lang, American voice actor and producer ·
1967 – Bassim Al-Karbalaei,
Iraqi Eulogy Reciter ·
1967 – Disco Inferno,
American wrestler and manager ·
1967 – Iryna Khalip, Belarusian journalist ·
1967 – Michael Moorer, American boxer ·
1967 – Grant Nicholas, Welsh singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1968 – Kathleen Hanna, American singer-songwriter ·
1968 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican-American baseball
player ·
1968 – Aaron Stainthorpe,
English-German singer-songwriter ·
1969 – Ian Bremmer, American political scientist
and author ·
1969 – Jason Cundy, English footballer and
sportscaster ·
1969 – Rob Schrab, American writer and artist ·
1970 – Elektra,
American wrestler, model, and dancer ·
1970 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater ·
1970 – Sarah Harmer, Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1970 – Oscar Strasnoy, French-Argentine composer ·
1971 – Chen Guangcheng, Chinese-American lawyer and
activist ·
1972 – Vassilios Tsiartas,
Greek footballer ·
1973 – Radha Mitchell, Australian actress ·
1974 – Alessandro
Birindelli, Italian footballer ·
1975 – Kiara Bisaro, Canadian mountain biker[19] ·
1975 – Jason Lezak, American swimmer ·
1976 – Tevin Campbell, American R&B
singer-songwriter and actor ·
1976 – Judith Holofernes,
German singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1976 – Richelle Mead, American author and educator ·
1976 – Mirosław
Szymkowiak, Polish footballer and journalist ·
1977 – Benni McCarthy, South African footballer ·
1977 – Lee Murray, English mixed martial artist ·
1978 – Alexandra Maria Lara,
Romanian-German actress ·
1978 – Mista,
Spanish footballer ·
1978 – Ashley Williams,
American actress ·
1979 – Matt Cappotelli, American wrestler and
trainer (d. 2018) ·
1979 – Chad Cornes, Australian footballer ·
1979 – Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress ·
1979 – Lucas Glover, American golfer ·
1979 – Corey Maggette, American basketball player
and sportscaster ·
1979 – Matt Stevic, Australian footballer and
umpire ·
1980 – Shaun Cooper,
American bass player ·
1980 – Nur Fettahoğlu,
German-Turkish journalist and actress ·
1980 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor, producer and
singer ·
1980 – Charlie Hodgson, English rugby player ·
1981 – Annika Becker, German pole vaulter ·
1981 – DJ Campbell, English footballer ·
1981 – Sergio Floccari, Italian footballer ·
1982 – Anne Hathaway, American actress ·
1982 – Mikele Leigertwood,
English footballer ·
1983 – Charlie Morton,
American baseball player ·
1984 – Sepp De Roover, Belgian footballer ·
1984 – Omarion, American singer, songwriter, actor
and dancer [20] ·
1984 – Jorge Masvidal, American mixed martial
artist ·
1984 – Sandara Park, South Korean singer, dancer,
and actress ·
1984 – Conrad Rautenbach,
Zimbabwean race car driver ·
1984 – Yan Zi, Chinese tennis player ·
1985 – Arianny Celeste, American model and actress ·
1985 – Adlčne Guedioura,
French-Algerian footballer ·
1986 – Ignazio Abate, Italian footballer ·
1986 – Nedum Onuoha, English footballer ·
1987 – Jason Day,
Australian golfer ·
1987 – Kengo Kora, Japanese actor ·
1987 – Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1988 – Russell Westbrook,
American basketball player ·
1989 – Hiroshi Kiyotake, Japanese footballer ·
1990 – Florent Manaudou, French swimmer ·
1990 – Harmeet Singh,
Norwegian footballer ·
1990 – Siim-Sander Vene, Estonian basketball player ·
1991 – Gijs Van Hoecke, Belgian cyclist ·
1992 – Trey Burke, American basketball player ·
1992 – Adam Larsson, Swedish ice hockey player[21] ·
1993 – Luguelín Santos,
Dominican sprinter[22] ·
1994 – Guillaume Cizeron,
French ice dancer[23] Deaths[edit]
·
607 – Pope Boniface III ·
657 – Livinus, Irish apostle (b.
c.580) ·
973 – Burchard III,
Frankish nobleman (b. c.915) ·
975 – Notker Physicus, Swiss painter ·
1035 – Cnut the Great, Danish-English king (b.
c.995) ·
1087 – William I,
Count of Burgundy (b. 1020) ·
1094 – Duncan II of
Scotland (b. 1060) ·
1202 – Canute VI of Denmark (b.
1163) ·
1209 – Phillipe de Plessis,
Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. 1165) ·
1218 – Henry de Abergavenny,
Prior of Abergavenny and Bishop of Llandaff ·
1347 – John of Viktring, Austrian chronicler and
political advisor (b. c.1270) ·
1375 – John
Henry, Margrave of Moravia (b. 1322)[24] ·
1434 – Louis III of Anjou (b.
1403) ·
1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and
politician, English
Secretary of State (b. 1497) ·
1555 – Yang Jisheng (b.
1516), Ming dynasty official and Confucian martyr[25] ·
1555 – Zhang Jing,
Ming Chinese general ·
1562 – Pietro Martire
Vermigli, Italian theologian (b. 1500) ·
1567 – Anne de Montmorency,
French general and diplomat (b. 1493) ·
1572 – Henry of Stolberg,
German nobleman (b. 1509) ·
1595 – John
Hawkins, English admiral and shipbuilder (b. 1532) ·
1623 – Josaphat Kuncevyc,
Lithuanian archbishop (b. c. 1582) ·
1667 – Hans Nansen, Danish politician (b. 1598) ·
1671 – Thomas Fairfax, English general and
politician (b. 1612) ·
1742 – Friedrich Hoffmann,
German physician and chemist (b. 1660) ·
1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly,
French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736) ·
1793 – Lord George Gordon,
English politician (b. 1751) ·
1836 – Juan Ramón Balcarce,
Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor
of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773) ·
1847 – William
Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first
organometallic compounds (b. 1789) ·
1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell,
English author (b. 1810) ·
1896 – Joseph James
Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b.
1843) ·
1902 – William Henry Barlow,
English engineer (b. 1812) ·
1916 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer,
mathematician, and author (b. 1855) ·
1933 – John Cady,
American golfer (b. 1866) ·
1933 – F. Holland Day, American photographer and
publisher (b. 1864) ·
1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian physician and
humanitarian (b. 1890) ·
1946 – Albert Bond Lambert,
American golfer and pilot (b. 1875) ·
1946 – Madan Mohan Malaviya,
Indian academic and politician, President
of the Indian National Congress (b. 1861) ·
1948 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867) ·
1950 – Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler (b. 1883) ·
1950 – Julia Marlowe, English-American actress (b.
1865) ·
1955 – Alfréd Hajós,
Hungarian swimmer and architect, designed the Grand Hotel
Aranybika (b. 1878) ·
1955 – Tin Ujević, Croatian poet and
translator (b. 1891) ·
1955 – Sarah Wambaugh, American political
scientist, world authority on plebiscites (b. 1882) ·
1958 – Gustaf Söderström,
Swedish shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (b. 1865) ·
1962 – Roque González Garza,
Mexican general and acting president (1915) (b. 1885)[26] ·
1965 – Taher Saifuddin, Indian spiritual leader,
51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (b.
1888) ·
1969 – Liu Shaoqi, Chinese politician, 2nd Chairman
of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898) ·
1971 – Johanna von Caemmerer, German mathematician
(d. 1971)[27] ·
1972 – Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist and
composer (b. 1879) ·
1972 – Tommy Wisdom, English race car driver and
journalist (b. 1906) ·
1976 – Mikhail
Gurevich, Russian engineer, co-founded Mikoyan (b. 1893) ·
1976 – Walter Piston, American composer and
academic (b. 1894) ·
1981 – William Holden, American actor (b. 1918) ·
1986 – Minoru Yasui, American lawyer and activist
(b. 1916) ·
1987 – Cornelis Vreeswijk,
Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (b. 1937) ·
1990 – Eve Arden, American actress and comedian (b.
1908) ·
1991 – Gabriele Tinti,
Italian actor (b. 1932) ·
1993 – H. R. Haldeman, American diplomat, 4th White House
Chief of Staff (b. 1926) ·
1994 – Wilma Rudolph, American sprinter and
educator (b. 1940) ·
1997 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish-American composer
and conductor (b. 1915) ·
1998 – Roy Hollis, English footballer (b. 1925) ·
1998 – Sally Shlaer, American mathematician and
engineer (b. 1938) ·
2000 – Franck Pourcel, French conductor and composer
(b. 1913) ·
2001 – Albert Hague, German-American actor and
composer (b. 1920) ·
2001 – Tony Miles, English chess player and
theoretician (b. 1955) ·
2003 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976) ·
2003 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director and
screenwriter (b. 1986) ·
2003 – Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908) ·
2003 – Tony Thompson,
American drummer (b. 1954) ·
2007 – K. C. Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (b. 1919) ·
2007 – Ira Levin, American novelist, playwright,
and songwriter (b. 1929) ·
2008 – Catherine Baker
Knoll, American educator and politician, 30th Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1930) ·
2008 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (b. 1947) ·
2010 – Henryk Górecki,
Polish composer (b. 1933) ·
2012 – Hans Hammarskiöld,
Swedish photographer (b. 1925) ·
2012 – Sergio Oliva, Cuban-American bodybuilder (b.
1941) ·
2012 – Daniel Stern,
American psychologist and theorist (b. 1934) ·
2013 – Steve Rexe, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (b. 1947) ·
2013 – Konrad Rudnicki, Polish astronomer and
academic (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Aleksandr Serebrov,
Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1944) ·
2013 – John Tavener, English composer and educator
(b. 1944) ·
2013 – Kurt Trampedach, Danish painter and sculptor
(b. 1943) ·
2014 – Ravi Chopra, Indian director and producer
(b. 1946) ·
2014 – Warren Clarke, English actor, director, and
producer (b. 1947) ·
2014 – Marge Roukema, American educator and
politician (b. 1929) ·
2014 – Valery Senderov, Russian mathematician and
academic (b. 1945) ·
2015 – Márton Fülöp,
Hungarian footballer (b. 1983) ·
2015 – Jihadi John, terrorist (b. 1988) ·
2016 – Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (b.
1910) ·
2016 – Mahmoud Abdel Aziz,
Egyptian Actor (b. 1946) ·
2018 – Stan Lee, American comic book writer,
editor, and publisher (b. 1922)[28] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Birth of Sun
Yat-Sen, also Doctors' Day and Cultural Renaissance Day. (Republic of China) ·
Christian feast day: o Arsatius o Astrik (or Anastasius) of Pannonhalma o Cunibert o Josaphat Kuntsevych (Roman Catholic
Church, Greek Catholic
Church) o Machar o Patiens o Ymar o November
12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Constitution
Day (Azerbaijan) ·
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Health Day (Indonesia) ·
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