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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
November 15 is the 319th day of the
year (320th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
46 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
655 – Battle of the
Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.[1] ·
1315 – Battle of Morgarten:
The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.[2] ·
1532 – Commanded
by Francisco Pizarro,
Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time
outside Cajamarca, arranging a
meeting on the city plaza the
following day. ·
1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives
in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire. ·
1705 – Battle of Zsibó: Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians). ·
1760 – The
secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with
the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows. ·
1777 – American
Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves
the Articles of
Confederation. ·
1806 – Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain
peak while near the Colorado foothills
of the Rocky Mountains.
(It is later named Pikes Peak.) ·
1864 – American Civil War:
Union General William Tecumseh
Sherman begins Sherman's
March to the Sea. ·
1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as
Emperor Pedro II is deposed
in a military coup. ·
1914 – Harry
Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related
injuries in the "Ohio League",
the direct predecessor to the National
Football League. ·
1920 – First assembly
of the League of Nations is
held in Geneva, Switzerland. ·
1920 – The Free City of Danzig is
established. ·
1922 – At least 300
are massacred during
a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.[3] ·
1926 – The NBC radio
network opens with 24 stations. ·
1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary
Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire
17-man crew. ·
1933 – Thailand has its first
election. ·
1939 – In Washington,
D.C., US President Franklin D.
Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial. ·
1942 – World War II: The Battle of
Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory. ·
1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same
level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". ·
1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for
assassinating Mahatma Gandhi. ·
1951 – Greek
resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance
members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial. ·
1955 – The first part
of Saint Petersburg
Metro is opened. ·
1959 – The murders of
the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas were discovered,
inspiring Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood. ·
1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's
final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. ·
1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes
near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board. ·
1967 – The only
fatality of the North American X-15 program
occurs during the 191st flight when
Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his
aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert. ·
1968 – The Cleveland
Transit System becomes the first transit system in the
western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its
major airport. ·
1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine
K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in
the Barents Sea. ·
1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C.,
250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful
demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March
Against Death". ·
1971 – Intel releases the world's first
commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. ·
1976 – René Lévesque and
the Parti Québécois take power to
become the first Quebec government of
the 20th century clearly in favor of independence. ·
1978 – A
chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka,
killing 183. ·
1979 – A package from
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins
smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C.,
forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. ·
1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares
independence. Recognized only by Turkey. ·
1985 – A research
assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of
Michigan professor explodes. ·
1985 – The Anglo-Irish
Agreement is signed at Hillsborough
Castle by British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and
Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald. ·
1987 – In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against
the communist regime of Nicolae
Ceaușescu. ·
1988 – In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes
its only space flight. ·
1988 – Israeli–Palestinian
conflict: An independent State of Palestine is
proclaimed by the Palestinian
National Council. ·
1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar,
is launched in the Netherlands. ·
1990 – Space Shuttle
program: Space
Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38. ·
1990 – The Communist People's
Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican
government is instituted. ·
2000 – A
chartered Antonov An-24 crashes
after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing
more than 40 people. ·
2000 – Jharkhand officially becomes the
28th state of India,
formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.[4] ·
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and
a new nine-member Politburo
Standing Committee is inaugurated. ·
2003 – The first day
of the 2003 Istanbul
bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues,
explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. ·
2006 – Al Jazeera English launches
worldwide. ·
2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing
an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans. ·
2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and
a new seven-member Politburo
Standing Committee is inaugurated. ·
2016 – Hong Kong's High
Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung
from the city's Parliament.[5] Births[edit]
·
459 – B'utz Aj Sak Chiik,
Mayan king (d. 501) ·
1316 – John I, king of France and Navarre (d. 1316) ·
1397 – Nicholas V, pope of the Catholic Church (d.
1455) ·
1498 – Eleanor of Austria,
queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558) ·
1511 – Johannes Secundus,
Dutch poet and author (d. 1536) ·
1556 – Jacques Davy
Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618) ·
1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry,
French author (d. 1701) ·
1660 – Hermann von der
Hardt, German historian and orientalist (d. 1746) ·
1661 – Christoph von
Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author (d. 1743) ·
1692 – Eusebius Amort, German poet and theologian
(d. 1775) ·
1708 – William
Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English soldier and politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778) ·
1738 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer
and composer (d. 1822) ·
1741 – Johann Kaspar
Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist (d. 1801) ·
1746 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian poet,
playwright, and composer (d. 1809) ·
1757 – Heinrich
Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and
academic (d. 1830) ·
1776 – José
Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and author (d.
1827) ·
1784 – Jérôme Bonaparte,
French husband of Catharina of
Württemberg (d. 1860) ·
1791 – Friedrich Ernst
Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1869) ·
1793 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and
academic (d. 1880) ·
1849 – Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and
educator (d. 1934) ·
1852 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (d. 1892) ·
1859 – Christopher Hornsrud,
Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister
of Norway (d. 1960) ·
1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann,
German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1946) ·
1865 – John
Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (d.
1932) ·
1867 – Emil Krebs, German polyglot (d. 1930) ·
1868 – Emil
Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer
(d. 1947) ·
1873 – Sara Josephine Baker,
American physician and academic (d. 1945) ·
1874 – Dimitrios Golemis,
Greek runner (d. 1941) ·
1874 – August Krogh, Danish zoologist and
physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1949) ·
1879 – Lewis Stone, American actor (d. 1953) ·
1881 – Franklin Pierce
Adams, American journalist and author (d. 1960) ·
1882 – Felix Frankfurter,
Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (d. 1965) ·
1886 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and
author (d. 1951) ·
1887 – Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and
translator (d. 1972) ·
1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe,
American painter and educator (d. 1986) ·
1888 – Artie Matthews, American pianist and
composer (d. 1958) ·
1890 – Richmal Crompton, English author and
educator (d. 1969) ·
1891 – W. Averell Harriman,
American businessman and politician, 11th United
States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1986) ·
1891 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944) ·
1892 – Naomi Childers, American actress (d. 1964) ·
1895 – Grand
Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918) ·
1895 – Antoni
Słonimski, Polish journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1976) ·
1896 – Leonard Lord, English businessman (d. 1967) ·
1897 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh journalist and
politician, Secretary
of State for Health (d. 1960) ·
1897 – Sacheverell Sitwell,
English author and critic (d. 1988) ·
1899 – Avdy Andresson, Estonian-American soldier
and diplomat, Estonian
Minister of War (d. 1990) ·
1903 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and
coach (d. 1974) ·
1905 – Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer
(d. 1980) ·
1906 – Curtis LeMay, American general and
politician (d. 1990) ·
1907 – Claus von
Stauffenberg, German colonel (d. 1944) ·
1908 – Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and
businessman, founded Abarth (d. 1979) ·
1912 – Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and
academic (d. 2010) ·
1912 – Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel (d. 1945) ·
1913 – Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach
(d. 2003) ·
1913 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet
(d. 2005) ·
1914 – V. R. Krishna Iyer,
Indian lawyer and judge (d. 2014) ·
1916 – Nita Barrow, Barbadian nurse and politician,
7th Governor-General
of Barbados (d. 1995) ·
1916 – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor,
animator, director, and producer (d. 2008) ·
1919 – Carol Bruce, American singer and actress (d.
2007) ·
1919 – Joseph Wapner, American lieutenant and judge
(d. 2017) ·
1920 – Vasilis
Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1999) ·
1922 – Francis Brunn, German juggler (d. 2004) ·
1922 – David Sidney
Feingold, American biochemist and academic (d. 2019) ·
1922 – Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter
(d. 2015) ·
1923 – Văn Cao, Vietnamese composer, poet, and
painter (d. 1995) ·
1923 – Samuel Klein,
Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia (d. 2014) ·
1924 – Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and
conductor (d. 2013) ·
1925 – Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician,
and diplomat, 12th White House
Chief of Staff (d. 2014) ·
1926 – Thomas Williams,
American author and academic (d. 1990) ·
1927 – Bill Rowling, New Zealand politician,
30th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1995) ·
1928 – C. W. McCall, American singer-songwriter and
politician ·
1928 – Seldon Powell, American saxophonist and
flute player (d. 1997) ·
1929 – Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer ·
1929 – Joe Hinton, American singer (d. 1968) ·
1930 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story
writer, and essayist (d. 2009) ·
1930 – Olene Walker, American lawyer and
politician, 15th Governor of Utah (d.
2015) ·
1931 – John Kerr,
American actor, singer, and lawyer (d. 2013) ·
1931 – Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and
politician, 3rd President of Kenya ·
1931 – Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician, President
of the Republic of the Congo (d. 2020) ·
1932 – Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and
actress ·
1932 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972) ·
1932 – Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher,
author, and academic ·
1933 – Gloria Foster, American actress (d. 2001) ·
1933 – Theodore Roszak,
American scholar and author (d. 2011) ·
1934 – Joanna Barnes, American actress and author ·
1934 – Peter
Dickinson, English pianist and composer ·
1935 – Nera White, American basketball player (d.
2016) ·
1936 – H. B. Bailey, American race car driver (d.
2003) ·
1936 – Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1936 – Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist
and publisher (d. 1998) ·
1937 – Little Willie John,
American singer-songwriter (d. 1968) ·
1939 – Terry Bradbury, English footballer and
manager ·
1939 – Rauni-Leena
Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (d. 2015) ·
1939 – Yaphet Kotto, American actor and
screenwriter ·
1940 – Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer ·
1940 – Tony Mendez, American CIA technical
operations officer (d. 2019) ·
1940 – Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor and screenwriter ·
1940 – Hank Wangford, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and physician ·
1940 – Sam Waterston, American actor ·
1941 – Rick Kemp, English singer-songwriter, bass
player, and producer ·
1941 – Daniel Pinkwater, American author and
illustrator ·
1942 – Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli
pianist and conductor ·
1945 – Roger Donaldson, Australian director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1945 – Bob Gunton, American actor and singer ·
1945 – Anni-Frid Lyngstad,
Norwegian-Swedish singer ·
1946 – Vassilis Goumas, Greek basketball player ·
1947 – Malcolm Ranjith, Sri Lankan cardinal ·
1947 – Bill Richardson, American politician and
diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations ·
1947 – Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and
sportscaster ·
1948 – Teodoro Locsin, Jr.,
Filipino journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat ·
1950 – Egon Vaupel, German lawyer and politician,
16th Mayor of Marburg ·
1951 – Beverly D'Angelo,
American actress, singer, and producer ·
1952 – Rick Atkinson, American journalist,
historian, and author ·
1952 – Randy Savage, American wrestler (d. 2011) ·
1953 – Alexander O'Neal,
American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger ·
1953 – James Widdoes, American actor, director, and
producer ·
1954 – Kevin S. Bright, American director and
producer ·
1954 – Emma Dent Coad, British politician ·
1954 – Aleksander
Kwaśniewski, Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland ·
1954 – Randy Thomas,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1954 – Tony Thompson,
American R&B, disco, and rock drummer (d. 2003) ·
1955 – Joe Leeway, English pop singer-songwriter
and percussionist ·
1956 – Michael Hampton, American guitarist and
producer ·
1957 – Gerry Connolly,
Australian comedian and actor ·
1957 – Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist and
composer ·
1957 – Harold Marcuse, American historian and
educator ·
1957 – Michael Woythe, German footballer and
manager ·
1958 – Lewis Fitz-Gerald,
Australian actor and director ·
1958 – Gu Kailai, Chinese lawyer and businesswoman ·
1958 – Lesley Laird, British politician ·
1959 – Tibor Fischer, English author ·
1960 – Dawn Airey, English broadcaster ·
1961 – Hugh McGahan, New Zealand rugby league
player ·
1962 – Mark Acres, American basketball player and
educator ·
1962 – Judy Gold, American comedian, actress, and
producer ·
1963 – Andrew Castle, English tennis player and
television host ·
1963 – Benny Elias, Lebanese-Australian rugby
league player and sportscaster ·
1963 – Kevin J.
O'Connor, American actor ·
1964 – Stelios Aposporis,
Greek footballer and manager ·
1964 – Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer, coach,
and manager (d. 2011) ·
1964 – Tiit Sokk, Estonian basketball player and
coach ·
1965 – Nigel Bond, English snooker player ·
1965 – Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer ·
1966 – Rachel True, American actress ·
1967 – Greg Anthony, American basketball player and
sportscaster ·
1967 – Cynthia Breazeal, American computer
scientist, roboticist, and academic ·
1967 – Pedro Borbón, Jr.,
Dominican baseball player ·
1967 – E-40,
American rapper and actor ·
1967 – Wayne
Harrison, English footballer (d. 2013) ·
1967 – François Ozon, French director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1967 – Gus Poyet, Uruguayan footballer and manager ·
1967 – Jon Preston, New Zealand rugby player ·
1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard,
American rapper and producer (d. 2004) ·
1968 – Fausto Brizzi, Italian director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1968 – Teodoro Casiño,
Filipino journalist and politician ·
1968 – Jennifer Charles, American
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1968 – Uwe Rösler, German footballer and manager ·
1970 – Ilija
Aračić, Croatian footballer and coach ·
1970 – Jack Ingram, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1970 – Alexander
Kvitashvili, Georgian-Ukrainian academic and politician,
19th Ukrainian
Minister of Healthcare ·
1970 – Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer ·
1971 – Jay Harrington, American actor ·
1971 – Martin Pieckenhagen,
German footballer ·
1972 – Jonny Lee Miller, English-American actor ·
1973 – Sydney Tamiia
Poitier, American actress ·
1973 – Alamgir Sheriyar, English cricketer ·
1974 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1975 – Scott Henshall, English fashion designer ·
1975 – Yannick
Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1975 – Boris Živković,
Croatian footballer ·
1976 – Brandon DiCamillo,
American comedian, actor, and stuntman ·
1976 – Virginie Ledoyen, French actress ·
1976 – Sule, Indonesian comedian and actor ·
1977 – Sean Murray,
American actor ·
1977 – Peter Phillips, English businessman ·
1977 – Robaire Smith, American football player ·
1978 – Floyd Womack, American football player ·
1979 – Brooks Bollinger, American football player
and coach ·
1979 – Josemi, Spanish footballer ·
1979 – Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist ·
1980 – Ace Young, American singer-songwriter and
actor ·
1981 – Drew Hodgdon, American football player ·
1981 – Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer ·
1982 – D. J. Fitzpatrick,
American football player ·
1982 – Rio Hirai, Japanese actress ·
1982 – Joe Kowalewski, American football player ·
1982 – Benjamin Krause, German rugby player ·
1982 – Giaan Rooney, Australian swimmer ·
1982 – Lofa Tatupu, American football player ·
1982 – Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer ·
1983 – Dominic Carroll, Gibraltarian runner ·
1983 – Sasha
Pavlović, Serbian basketball player ·
1983 – Fernando Verdasco,
Spanish tennis player ·
1984 – Asia Kate Dillon, American actor and
producer ·
1985 – Lily Aldridge, American model ·
1985 – Charron Fisher, American basketball player ·
1985 – Simon Spender, Welsh footballer ·
1986 – Coye Francies, American football player ·
1986 – Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player ·
1986 – Jerry Roush, American singer-songwriter ·
1987 – Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player[6] ·
1988 – Morgan Parra, French rugby player ·
1988 – Billy Twelvetrees,
English rugby player ·
1989 – Jonalyn Viray, Filipino singer ·
1991 – Maxime Colin, French footballer ·
1991 – Shailene Woodley, American actress ·
1992 – Sofia Goggia, Italian skier ·
1992 – Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer ·
1992 – Daniela Seguel, Chilean tennis player ·
1992 – Trevor Story, American baseball player ·
1992 – Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer ·
1993 – Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer ·
1993 – Saaya Irie, Japanese actress and singer ·
1994 – Bryce Cartwright, Australian rugby league
player ·
1995 – Blake Pieroni, American swimmer[7] ·
1995 – Karl-Anthony Towns,
Dominican-American basketball player ·
1997 – Catie Munnings, British rally driver[8] Deaths[edit]
·
165 BCE – Mattathias, Jewish resistance leader ·
621 – Malo, Breton bishop and saint ·
655 – Æthelhere,
king of East Anglia ·
655 – Penda of Mercia, king of Mercia ·
1037 – Odo II,
French nobleman (b. 983) ·
1136 – Leopold
III, margrave of Austria (b. 1073) ·
1194 – Margaret
I, countess of Flanders ·
1226 – Frederick of
Isenberg, German nobleman (b. 1193) ·
1280 – Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian,
and philosopher (b. 1193) ·
1347 – James I of Urgell,
Spanish nobleman (b. 1321) ·
1351 – Joanna of Pfirt, duchess of Austria ·
1379 – Otto V,
duke of Bavaria ·
1463 – Giovanni
Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian nobleman ·
1527 – Catherine of York,
English princess (b. 1479) ·
1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founder of
the Unitarian
Church of Transylvania (b. 1510) ·
1594 – Martin Frobisher, English seaman and
explorer ·
1628 – Roque
González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (b. 1576) ·
1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and
mathematician (b. 1571) ·
1670 – John Amos Comenius,
Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (b. 1592) ·
1691 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620) ·
1706 – Tsangyang, Tibetan dalai lama (b. 1683) ·
1712 – James
Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1658) ·
1712 – Charles
Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675) ·
1787 – Christoph
Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714) ·
1794 – John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister
and academic (b. 1723) ·
1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe
van Loo, French painter (b. 1719) ·
1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say,
French economist and businessman (b. 1767) ·
1845 – William Knibb, English Baptist minister and
Jamaican missionary (b. 1803) ·
1853 – Maria II,
Portuguese queen and regent (b. 1819) ·
1892 – Thomas Neill Cream,
Scottish-Canadian serial killer (b. 1850) ·
1897 – Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian
politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (b.
1810) ·
1908 – Cixi,
China empress dowager and regent (b. 1835)[9] ·
1910 – Wilhelm Raabe, German author (b. 1831) ·
1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz,
Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1846) ·
1917 – Émile Durkheim,
French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1858) ·
1919 – Mikhail
Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and
inventor (b. 1862) ·
1919 – Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and
politician (b. 1868) ·
1919 – Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1866) ·
1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris,
Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1866) ·
1922 – Petros
Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1854) ·
1922 – Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and
politician, 106th Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1872) ·
1941 – Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer (b.
1902) ·
1945 – Frank
Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864) ·
1949 – Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin
of Mahatma Gandhi (b.
1911) ·
1949 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910) ·
1951 – Frank Weston Benson,
American painter and educator (b. 1862) ·
1954 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer,
director, and screenwriter (b. 1878) ·
1956 – Emma Richter, German paleontologist (b. 1888)[10] ·
1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and
producer (b. 1914) ·
1959 – Charles
Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1869) ·
1960 – Robert Raymond Cook,
Canadian murderer (b. 1937) ·
1961 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883) ·
1961 – Johanna Westerdijk,
Dutch pathologist and academic (b. 1883) ·
1963 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor
(b. 1888) ·
1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos,
Greek weightlifter and wrestler (b. 1877) ·
1966 – William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor
and painter (b. 1887) ·
1967 – Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot,
and astronaut (b. 1930) ·
1970 – Konstantinos
Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician (b. 1884) ·
1971 – Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (b.
1903) ·
1976 – Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and
producer (b. 1904) ·
1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and
author (b. 1901)[11] ·
1980 – Bill Lee,
American actor and singer (b. 1916) ·
1981 – Steve Macko, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1954) ·
1981 – Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894) ·
1981 – Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (b.
1938) ·
1982 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and
Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee
(b. 1895) ·
1982 – Martín
de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1901) ·
1983 – John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and
songwriter (b. 1955) ·
1983 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1898) ·
1983 – John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912) ·
1985 – Méret Oppenheim,
German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (b. 1913) ·
1988 – Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and
composer (b. 1915) ·
1988 – Ieronymos I of
Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian (b. 1905) ·
1994 – Elizabeth George
Speare, American author (b. 1908) ·
1996 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat (b.
1904) ·
1997 – Saul Chaplin, American director and composer
(b. 1912) ·
1998 – Stokely Carmichael,
Trinidadian-American activist (b. 1941) ·
1998 – Ludvík Daněk,
Czech discus thrower (b. 1937) ·
2000 – Edoardo Agnelli, son of industrialist Gianni
Agnelli, converted to Shia Islam (b. 1954) ·
2003 – Ray
Lewis, Canadian runner (b. 1910) ·
2003 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer
(b. 1925) ·
2003 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman,
co-founded the Loews Corporation (b.
1923) ·
2003 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer
(b. 1924) ·
2004 – Elmer L. Andersen,
American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of
Minnesota (b. 1909) ·
2004 – John Morgan,
Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1930) ·
2005 – Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author
(b. 1931) ·
2005 – Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author
(b. 1959) ·
2006 – David K. Wyatt, American historian and
author (b. 1937) ·
2007 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and
sportscaster (b. 1928) ·
2008 – Grace Hartigan, American painter (b. 1922) ·
2009 – Serbian
Patriarch Pavle II (b. 1914) ·
2010 – Larry
Evans, American chess player and journalist (b. 1932) ·
2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b.
1944) ·
2010 – William Edwin Self,
American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921) ·
2011 – Oba Chandler, American murderer (b. 1946) ·
2012 – Théophile Abega,
Cameroonian footballer and politician (b. 1954) ·
2012 – Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer
(b. 1976) ·
2012 – Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (b.
1983) ·
2012 – K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian
Minister of Defence (b. 1931) ·
2012 – Frode Thingnæs,
Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (b. 1940) ·
2013 – Sheila Matthews
Allen, American actress and producer (b. 1929) ·
2013 – Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and
politician, 4th President of Cyprus (b.
1919) ·
2013 – Mike
McCormack, American football player and coach (b. 1930) ·
2014 – Jack Bridger Chalker,
English painter and academic (b. 1918) ·
2014 – Lucien Clergue, French photographer and
educator (b. 1934) ·
2014 – Valéry Mézague,
Cameroonian footballer (b. 1983) ·
2014 – Reg Withers, Australian soldier and
politician, Australian
Minister for the Capital Territory (b. 1924) ·
2015 – Gisèle Prassinos,
French author (b. 1920) ·
2015 – Herbert Scarf, American economist and
academic (b. 1930) ·
2015 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (b.
1929) ·
2016 – Mose Allison, American pianist and
songwriter (b. 1927) ·
2017 – Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (b.
1996) Holidays and observances[edit]
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America Recycles Day (United
States) ·
Christian feast day: o Francis Asbury and George Whitefield (Episcopal
Church) o Leopold III,
a public holiday in Lower Austria and Vienna. o Malo o Mechell o November
15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium (German-speaking
Community of Belgium) ·
Day of the
Imprisoned Writer (International
observance) ·
Earliest day on which Beaujolais Day can fall, while November
21 is the latest; observed on the third Thursday in November (International) ·
Earliest day on which Day of the
Revolution can fall, while November 21 is the latest;
celebrated on the third Monday in November (Mexico) ·
Earliest day on which Great American
Smokeout can fall, while November 21 is the latest;
celebrated on the third Thursday in November (United States) ·
Independence
Day, unilaterally declared in 1988. (Palestine) ·
King's Feast (Belgium) ·
National Tree Planting Day (Sri Lanka) ·
Peace Day (Ivory Coast) ·
Republic
Proclamation Day (Brazil) ·
Shichi-Go-San (Japan) ·
The beginning of Winter Lent (Eastern Orthodox) |
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