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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
November 16 is the 320th day of the
year (321st in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
45 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
534 – Justinian I, who was an Eastern Roman (Byzantine) emperor in Constantinople, approves and publishes the
second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus ·
951 – Emperor Li Jing sends
a Southern Tang expeditionary
force of 10,000 men under Bian Hao to conquer Chu. Li
Jing removes the ruling family to his own capital in Nanjing, ending the Chu Kingdom. ·
1272 – While
travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes
King of England upon Henry III of England's
death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the
throne. ·
1491 – An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa
outside of Ávila, concludes
the case of the Holy Child of La
Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects. ·
1532 – Francisco Pizarro and
his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca. ·
1776 – American
Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort
Washington from the Patriots. ·
1776 – American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize
the independence of the United States. ·
1793 – French Revolution:
Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes. ·
1797 – The Prussian
heir apparent, Frederick William, becomes King of Prussia as Frederick
William III. ·
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of
Schöngrabern: Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by
French troops under Joachim Murat. ·
1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail. ·
1828 – Greek War of
Independence: The London Protocol entails
the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty,
encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades. ·
1849 – A Russian court
sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to
death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group;
his sentence is later commuted to hard labor. ·
1852 – The English
astronomer John Russell Hind discovers
the asteroid 22 Kalliope. ·
1855 – David Livingstone becomes
the first European to see the Victoria Falls in
what is now Zambia-Zimbabwe. ·
1857 – Second relief of Lucknow: Twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most
in a single day. ·
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of
Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee: Confederate troops
unsuccessfully attack Union forces. ·
1871 – The National Rifle
Association receives its charter from New York State. ·
1885 – Canadian rebel
leader of the Métis and
"Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason. ·
1904 – English
engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives
a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum
tube). ·
1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join
to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S.
state. ·
1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania,
sister ship of RMS Lusitania,
sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City. ·
1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of
the United States officially
opens. ·
1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as
Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited. ·
1933 – The United
States and the Soviet Union establish
formal diplomatic
relations. ·
1938 – LSD is
first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the
Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.[1] ·
1940 – World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the
German Luftwaffe two
days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg. ·
1940 – The Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world. ·
1940 – New York City's "Mad
Bomber" George Metesky places
his first bomb at a Manhattan office
building used by Consolidated Edison. ·
1943 – World War II:
American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility
and heavy water factory
in German-controlled Vemork, Norway. ·
1944 – World War
II: Operation Queen,
the costly Allied thrust to the Rur,
is launched. ·
1944 – World War II: Düren, Germany, is destroyed by Allied bombers. ·
1965 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches
the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of
another planet. ·
1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral,
Florida for an 84-day mission. ·
1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska
Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the
construction of the Alaska Pipeline. ·
1974 – The Arecibo message is broadcast from
the Arecibo Radio
Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current
location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years
away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since
the cluster will have changed position. ·
1979 – The first line
of Bucharest Metro (Line
M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania. ·
1988 – The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian
Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but
stops short of declaring independence. ·
1988 – In the first open election in more
than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect
populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to
be Prime Minister
of Pakistan. ·
1989 – El Salvadoran
army troops kills
six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon
Canas University. ·
1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of
their Grammy Award because
the duo did not sing at all on the Girl
You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the
vocals. ·
1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk. ·
1997 – After nearly 18
years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident,
from jail for medical reasons. Births[edit]
·
42 BC – Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37 AD)[2] ·
1436 – Leonardo Loredan, Italian ruler (d. 1521)[3] ·
1457 – Beatrice of Naples,
Hungarian queen (d. 1508)[4] ·
1466 – Francesco
Cattani da Diacceto, Florentine philosopher (d. 1522) ·
1483 – Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Landgravine of Hesse,
German noble (d. 1522) ·
1528 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)[5] ·
1531 – Anna d'Este, Duchess consort of Nemours (d.
1607)[6] ·
1538 – Saint Turibius of
Mongrovejo, Spanish Grand Inquisitioner, Archbishop of Lima (d.
1606) ·
1540 – Princess
Cecilia of Sweden (d. 1627)[7] ·
1566 – Anna Juliana Gonzaga,
Archduchess of Austria and nun (d. 1621) ·
1569 – Paul Sartorius,
German organist and composer (d. 1609) ·
1603 – Augustyn Kordecki,
Polish monk (d. 1673) ·
1643 – Jean Chardin, French-English jeweler and
explorer (d. 1703) ·
1648 – Charles
Duncombe, English banker and politician (d. 1711) ·
1715 – Girolamo Abos, Maltese-Italian composer and
educator (d. 1760) ·
1717 – Jean le Rond
d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d.
1793) ·
1720 – Carlo Antonio
Campioni, French-Italian composer (d. 1788) ·
1750 – Edward
Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, English lawyer, judge, and politician
(d. 1818) ·
1753 – James McHenry, Irish-American surgeon and
politician (d. 1816) ·
1758 – Peter Andreas
Heiberg, Danish philologist and author (d. 1841) ·
1774 – Georg von Cancrin,
German-Russian Minister of Finance (d. 1845) ·
1793 – Francis Danby, Irish painter of the Romantic
era (d. 1861) ·
1806 – Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, American author and educator (d. 1887) ·
1807 – Jónas Hallgrímsson,
Icelandic poet, author and naturalist (d. 1845) ·
1811 – John Bright, English academic and politician
(d. 1889) ·
1836 – Kalākaua of Hawaii (d. 1891) ·
1839 – Louis-Honoré
Fréchette, Canadian poet, author, and politician (d. 1908) ·
1841 – Jules Violle, French physicist and academic
(d. 1923) ·
1847 – Edmund James Flynn,
Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1927) ·
1851 – Minnie Hauk, American-Swiss soprano and
actress (d. 1929) ·
1856 – Jürgen Kröger,
German architect (d. 1928) ·
1861 – Luigi Facta, Italian politician and
journalist (d. 1930) ·
1862 – Charles
Turner, Australian cricketer (d. 1944) ·
1873 – W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and
composer (d. 1958) ·
1874 – Alexander Kolchak,
Russian admiral and explorer (d. 1920) ·
1883 – Emil Breitkreutz, American runner and coach
(d. 1972) ·
1888 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet,
Uruguayan pianist and composer (d. 1957) ·
1889 – George S. Kaufman,
American director, producer, and playwright (d. 1961) ·
1889 – Dietrich Kraiß,
German general (d. 1944) ·
1890 – Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of the
Philippines (d. 1956) ·
1892 – Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and
poet (d. 1978) ·
1892 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver and
motorcycle racer (d. 1953) ·
1894 – Bobby Cruickshank,
American golfer (d. 1975) ·
1894 – Richard
von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian philosopher and politician (d.
1972) ·
1895 – Paul Hindemith, German violinist, composer,
and conductor (d. 1963)[8] ·
1896 – Joan Lindsay, Australian author and critic
(d. 1984)[9] ·
1896 – Oswald Mosley, English fascist leader and
politician (d. 1980) ·
1896 – Lawrence Tibbett, American actor and singer
(d. 1960) ·
1897 – Choudhry Rahmat Ali,
Indian-Pakistani academic (d. 1951) ·
1899 – Mary Margaret
McBride, American radio host (d. 1976) ·
1900 – Eliška Junková,
Czechoslovakian race car driver (d. 1994) ·
1904 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1st President of Nigeria (d.
1996) ·
1905 – Eddie Condon, American guitarist and banjo
player (d. 1973) ·
1907 – Burgess Meredith, American actor, singer,
director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997) ·
1909 – Mirza Nasir Ahmad,
Indian-Pakistani religious leader (d. 1982) ·
1912 – George O. Petrie, American actor and
director (d. 1997) ·
1912 – W. E. D. Ross, Canadian actor, playwright,
and author (d. 1995) ·
1913 – Ellen Albertini Dow,
American actress (d. 2015) ·
1914 – Eddie Chapman, English spy (d. 1997) ·
1915 – Jean Fritz, Chinese-American author (d.
2017) ·
1916 – Harold Baigent, New Zealand actor and
director (d. 1996) ·
1916 – Daws Butler, American voice actor and singer
(d. 1988) ·
1916 – Al Lucas,
Canadian-American bassist (d. 1983) ·
1922 – Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist,
physicist, and engineer (d. 2015) ·
1922 – José Saramago, Portuguese novelist (d. 2010) ·
1924 – Sam Farber, American businessman (d. 2013) ·
1924 – Mel Patton, American sprinter and coach (d.
2014) ·
1927 – Dolo Coker, American pianist and composer
(d. 1983) ·
1928 – Clu Gulager, American actor and director ·
1929 – Peter Boizot, English businessman (d. 2018) ·
1930 – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, and
critic (d. 2013) ·
1930 – Paul Foytack, American baseball player ·
1930 – Salvatore Riina, Italian mob boss (d. 2017) ·
1931 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian author and
illustrator (d. 2006) ·
1931 – Hubert Sumlin, American singer and guitarist
(d. 2011) ·
1933 – Garnet Mimms, American R&B singer ·
1935 – Elizabeth Drew, American journalist and
author ·
1935 – Mohammad
Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-Lebanese cleric, educator, and author (d.
2010) ·
1935 – Magdi Yacoub, Egyptian-English surgeon and
academic ·
1936 – John
Moore, Australian businessman and politician ·
1937 – Alan Budd, English economist and academic ·
1938 – Ahmed Bouanani, Moroccan filmmaker (d. 2011) ·
1938 – Kang Ning-hsiang, Taiwanese politician ·
1938 – Walter Learning, Canadian actor (d. 2020) ·
1938 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher, author,
and academic (d. 2002) ·
1938 – Troy Seals, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist. ·
1939 – Michael
Billington, English author and critic ·
1940 – Donna McKechnie, American actress, singer,
and dancer ·
1941 – Angelo Gilardino, Italian guitarist,
composer, and musicologist ·
1941 – Gerry Marshall, English race car driver (d.
2005) ·
1941 – Dan Penn, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1942 – Willie Carson, Scottish jockey and
sportscaster ·
1942 – Joanna Pettet, English-Canadian actress ·
1944 – Oliver Braddick, English psychologist and
academic ·
1945 – Teenie Hodges, American guitarist and
songwriter (d. 2014) ·
1945 – Lynn Hunt, American historian, author, and academic ·
1946 – Colin Burgess,
Australian drummer and songwriter ·
1946 – Barbara Smith, African American writer[10] ·
1946 – Beverly Smith, African American writer[10] ·
1946 – Jo Jo White, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2018) ·
1947 – Omar Ruiz Hernández,
Cuban journalist and activist ·
1948 – Tihomir
"Pop" Asanović, Croatian jazz-rock keyboardist and
composer ·
1948 – Horst Bertram, German footballer and manager ·
1948 – Chi Coltrane, American singer-songwriter and
pianist ·
1948 – Bonnie Greer, American-English playwright
and critic ·
1948 – Ken James,
Australian actor ·
1950 – Manuel Zamora, Filipino farmer and
politician ·
1951 – Andy Dalton,
New Zealand rugby player ·
1952 – Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game
designer ·
1953 – Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, actor, and
author ·
1954 – Andrea Barrett, American novelist and short
story writer[11] ·
1954 – Dick Gross, Australian lawyer and politician ·
1955 – Pierre Larouche, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1955 – Héctor Cúper,
Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager ·
1955 – Jun Kunimura, Japanese actor ·
1956 – Terry Labonte, American race car driver and
businessman ·
1957 – Jacques Gamblin, French actor ·
1958 – Marg Helgenberger,
American actress ·
1958 – Boris
Krivokapić, Serbian author and academic ·
1959 – Glenda Bailey, English journalist ·
1959 – Francis M. Fesmire,
American cardiologist and physician (d. 2014) ·
1961 – Frank Bruno, English boxer ·
1962 – Darwyn Cooke, Canadian writer and artist (d.
2016) ·
1962 – Mani, English bass player ·
1963 – Steve Argüelles,
English drummer and producer ·
1963 – William
Bonner, Brazilian newscaster, publicist and journalist ·
1963 – Zina Garrison, American tennis player ·
1964 – Waheed Alli,
Baron Alli, English businessman and politician ·
1964 – Valeria Bruni
Tedeschi, Italian-French actress, director, and screenwriter ·
1964 – Dwight Gooden, American baseball player[12] ·
1964 – Diana Krall, Canadian singer-songwriter and
pianist ·
1964 – Maeve Quinlan, American actress ·
1965 – Mika Aaltonen, Finnish footballer ·
1966 – Joey Cape, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1966 – Stephen Critchlow,
English actor ·
1966 – Dave Kushner, American guitarist ·
1966 – Christian Lorenz, German keyboard player ·
1966 – Dean McDermott, Canadian-American actor and
producer ·
1966 – Tahir Shah, English journalist, author, and
explorer ·
1967 – Craig Arnold, American poet and academic (d.
2009) ·
1967 – Lisa Bonet, American actress and director ·
1968 – Shobha Nagi Reddy,
Indian politician (d. 2014) ·
1968 – Melvin Stewart, American swimmer ·
1970 – Logan Mader, Canadian-American guitarist and
producer ·
1970 – Martha Plimpton, American actress ·
1971 – Tanja Damaske, German javelin thrower and
shot putter ·
1971 – Mustapha Hadji, Moroccan footballer and
manager ·
1971 – Annely Peebo, Estonian soprano and actress ·
1971 – Alexander Popov,
Russian swimmer and coach ·
1971 – Waqar Younis, Pakistani cricketer and coach ·
1972 – Missi Pyle, American actress and singer ·
1973 – Christian Horner, English race car driver
and manager ·
1973 – Brendan Laney, New Zealand-Scottish rugby
player and sportscaster ·
1974 – Maurizio Margaglio,
Italian ice dancer and coach ·
1974 – Paul Scholes, English footballer and
sportscaster ·
1975 – Julio Lugo, Dominican baseball player ·
1975 – Yuki Uchida, Japanese actress, model, and
singer ·
1976 – Dan Black, English singer-songwriter ·
1976 – Juha Pasoja, Finnish footballer ·
1976 – Martijn Zuijdweg, Dutch swimmer ·
1977 – Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian-American figure
skater ·
1977 – Gigi Edgley, Australian singer-songwriter
and actress ·
1977 – Maggie Gyllenhaal,
American actress and singer ·
1977 – Mauricio Ochmann, Mexican actor and producer ·
1978 – Kip Bouknight, American baseball player ·
1978 – Mehtap
Doğan-Sızmaz, Turkish runner ·
1978 – Takashi Nagayama, Japanese actor ·
1978 – Gary Naysmith, Scottish footballer and
manager ·
1978 – Carolina Parra, Brazilian guitarist and
drummer ·
1979 – Tony Frias, American soccer player ·
1979 – Bruce Irons,
American surfer ·
1980 – Moris Carrozzieri,
Italian footballer ·
1980 – Kayte Christensen,
American basketball player ·
1980 – Nicole Gius, Italian skier ·
1980 – Carol Huynh, Canadian wrestler ·
1980 – Hasan Üçüncü,
Turkish footballer ·
1981 – Fernando
Cabrera, Puerto Rican baseball player ·
1981 – Allison Crowe, Canadian singer-songwriter ·
1981 – Caitlin Glass, American voice actress,
singer, and director ·
1981 – Kate Miller-Heidke,
Australian singer-songwriter ·
1981 – Osi Umenyiora, English-American football
player ·
1982 – Nonito Donaire, Filipino-American boxer ·
1982 – Jannie du Plessis,
South African rugby player ·
1982 – Ronald Pognon, French sprinter ·
1982 – Amar'e Stoudemire,
American basketball player ·
1983 – Chris Gocong, American football player ·
1983 – Kool A.D., American rapper ·
1983 – Kari Lehtonen, Finnish ice hockey player ·
1983 – Britta Steffen, German swimmer ·
1983 – Janette Manrara, American professional
dancer and choreographer[13] ·
1984 – Gemma Atkinson, English model and actress ·
1984 – Mark Bunn,
English footballer ·
1984 – Tamawashi Ichiro, Mongolian sumo wrestler ·
1985 – Aditya Roy Kapur, Indian film actor ·
1986 – Aleksei
Anatolyevich Kozlov, Russian footballer ·
1986 – Maxime Médard, French rugby player ·
1987 – Eitan Tibi, Israeli footballer ·
1987 – Jordan Walden, American baseball player ·
1989 – Iamsu!, American rapper and producer ·
1990 – Arjo Atayde, Filipino actor ·
1990 – Dénes Dibusz, Hungarian football player ·
1991 – Tomomi Kasai, Japanese actress and singer ·
1992 – George Akpabio, Nigerian footballer ·
1992 – Matthew Allwood, Australian rugby league
player ·
1993 – Pete Davidson, American comedian and actor ·
1994 – Brandon Larracuente,
American actor ·
1994 – Yoshiki Yamamoto, Japanese football player ·
1995 – Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor and pianist ·
2006 – Mason Ramsey, American singer-songwriter Deaths[edit]
·
897 – Gu Yanhui, Chinese warlord ·
987 – Shen Lun, Chinese scholar-official[14] ·
1005 – Ælfric of Abingdon, Archbishop of
Canterbury ·
1093 – Saint Margaret
of Scotland (b. 1045)[15] ·
1131 – Dobrodeia of Kiev,
Rus princess and author of medical books[16] ·
1240 – Edmund Rich, English archbishop and saint
(b. 1175) ·
1240 – Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher (b.
1165) ·
1272 – Henry III of England (b.
1207)[17] ·
1264 – Emperor Lizong of Song China ·
1322 – Nasr, Sultan of Granada (b.
1287)[18] ·
1328 – Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shōgun (b.
1276) ·
1464 – John,
Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (b. 1406) ·
1494 – Theda Ukena, German noble (b. 1432) ·
1580 – Marie of
Baden-Sponheim, German Noblewoman (b. 1507 ·
1601 – Charles
Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland (b. 1542) ·
1603 – Pierre Charron, French Catholic theologian
and philosopher (b. 1541) ·
1613 – Trajano Boccalini,
Italian author and educator (b. 1556) ·
1625 – Sofonisba Anguissola,
Italian painter (b. c. 1532) ·
1628 – Paolo Quagliati, Italian organist and
composer (b. 1555) ·
1688 – Bengt Gottfried
Forselius, Swedish-Estonian scholar and author (b. 1660) ·
1695 – Pierre Nicole, French philosopher and author
(b. 1625) ·
1724 – Jack Sheppard, English criminal (b. 1702)[19] ·
1745 – James
Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish general and politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1665) ·
1773 – John Hawkesworth,
English journalist and author (b. 1715) ·
1779 – Pehr Kalm, Finnish botanist and explorer (b.
1716) ·
1790 – Daniel of
St. Thomas Jenifer, American politician (b. 1723) ·
1797 – Frederick
William II of Prussia (b. 1744) ·
1802 – André Michaux, French botanist and explorer
(b. 1746) ·
1806 – Moses Cleaveland, American general, lawyer,
and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754) ·
1808 – Mustafa IV, Ottoman sultan (b. 1779) ·
1836 – Christiaan
Hendrik Persoon, South African-French mycologist and academic (b.
1761) ·
1878 – Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (b.
1874) ·
1884 – František Chvostek,
Czech-Austrian soldier and physician (b. 1835) ·
1885 – Louis Riel, Canadian lawyer and politician
(b. 1844) ·
1903 – Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (b.
1895) ·
1907 – Robert I, Duke of
Parma (b. 1848) ·
1908 – Henri-Gustave
Joly de Lotbinière, French-Canadian lawyer and politician,
4th Premier of Quebec (b.
1829) ·
1911 – A. A. Ames, American physician and
politician, 9th Mayor of Minneapolis (b.
1842) ·
1911 – Lawrence Feuerbach,
American shot putter (b. 1879) ·
1913 – George Barham, English businessman,
founded Express
County Milk Supply Company (b. 1836) ·
1922 – Max Abraham, Polish-German physicist and
academic (b. 1875) ·
1939 – Pierce Butler,
American lawyer and jurist (b. 1866) ·
1941 – Eduard Eelma, Estonian footballer (b. 1902) ·
1941 – Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1864) ·
1947 – Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and
politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (b.
1877) ·
1950 – Bob Smith,
American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (b.
1879) ·
1956 – Ōtori
Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (b. 1887) ·
1960 – Clark Gable, American actor and singer (b.
1901) ·
1961 – Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician,
48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b.
1882) ·
1964 – Donald C. Peattie,
American botanist and author (b. 1898) ·
1971 – Edie Sedgwick, American model and actress
(b. 1943) ·
1972 – Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress
(b. 1889) ·
1973 – Alan Watts, English-American philosopher,
author, and educator (b. 1915) ·
1974 – Walther Meissner, German physicist and
engineer (b. 1882) ·
1976 – Jack Foster,
English cricketer (b. 1905) ·
1982 – Pavel Alexandrov, Russian mathematician and
academic (b. 1896) ·
1984 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906) ·
1986 – Siobhán McKenna,
Irish actress (b. 1923) ·
1987 – Jim Brewer, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1937) ·
1989 – Jean-Claude Malépart,
Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1938) ·
1990 – Ege Bagatur, Turkish politician (b. 1937) ·
1993 – Lucia Popp, Slovak-German soprano (b. 1939) ·
1993 – Achille Zavatta, Tunisia-born French clown
(b. 1915) ·
1994 – Chet Powers, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1943) ·
1999 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1928) ·
2000 – Robert Earl Davis,
American hip-hop artist (b. 1971) ·
2000 – Ahmet Kaya, Turkish-French singer-songwriter
(b. 1957) ·
2001 – Tommy Flanagan, American pianist and
composer (b. 1930) ·
2005 – Ralph Edwards, American radio and television
host and producer (b. 1913) ·
2005 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1915) ·
2005 – Donald Watson, English activist, founded
the Vegan Society (b.
1910) ·
2006 – Milton Friedman, American economist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1912) ·
2006 – Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist and
political scientist (b. 1930) ·
2007 – Harold Alfond, American businessman (b.
1914) ·
2007 – Grethe Kausland, Norwegian actress and
singer (b. 1947) ·
2007 – Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian actor and
screenwriter (b. 1946) ·
2007 – Vernon Scannell, English boxer, poet, and
author (b. 1922) ·
2008 – Jan Krugier; Polish-Swiss art dealer (b.
1928) ·
2008 – Reg Varney, English actor and screenwriter
(b. 1916) ·
2009 – Antonio de Nigris,
Mexican footballer (b. 1978) ·
2009 – Sergei Magnitsky, Ukrainian-Russian
accountant and lawyer (b. 1972) ·
2009 – Edward Woodward, English actor (b. 1930) ·
2010 – Britton Chance, American biologist and
sailor (b. 1913) ·
2010 – Ronni Chasen, American publicist (b. 1946) ·
2010 – Wyngard Tracy, Filipino DJ and talent
manager (b. 1952) ·
2012 – John Chapman,
Australian evangelist and academic (b. 1930) ·
2012 – Subhash Dutta, Bangladeshi actor and
director (b. 1930) ·
2012 – Patrick Edlinger, French mountaineer (b.
1960) ·
2012 – Aliu Mahama, Ghanaian engineer and politician,
3rd Vice President of
Ghana (b. 1946) ·
2012 – Eliyahu Nawi, Iraqi-Israeli lawyer, judge,
and politician (b. 1920) ·
2012 – Bob Scott,
New Zealand rugby player (b. 1921) ·
2013 – Robert Conley,
American journalist (b. 1928) ·
2013 – Billy Hardwick, American bowler (b. 1941) ·
2013 – William McDonough
Kelly, Canadian lieutenant and politician (b. 1925) ·
2013 – Tanvir Ahmad Khan,
Indian-Pakistani diplomat, 19th Foreign
Secretary of Pakistan (b. 1932) ·
2013 – Oscar Lanford, American mathematician and
academic (b. 1940) ·
2013 – Arne Pedersen, Norwegian footballer and
manager (b. 1931) ·
2013 – Louis D. Rubin, Jr.,
American author, critic, and academic (b. 1923) ·
2013 – Charles
Waterhouse, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (b. 1924) ·
2014 – Charles Champlin, American historian,
author, and critic (b. 1926) ·
2014 – Jovan Ćirilov, Serbian poet and
playwright (b. 1931) ·
2014 – Ian Craig, Australian cricketer (b. 1935) ·
2014 – Juan Joseph, American football player and
coach (b. 1987) ·
2014 – Jadwiga
Piłsudska, Polish soldier, pilot, and architect (b. 1920) ·
2014 – Carl Sanders, American soldier, pilot, and
politician, 74th Governor of Georgia (b.
1925) ·
2015 – David Canary, American actor (b. 1938) ·
2015 – Michael C. Gross, American graphic designer
and producer (b. 1945) ·
2015 – Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach (b. 1926) ·
2015 – Alton D. Slay, American general (b. 1924) ·
2016 – Jay Wright Forrester,
American computer engineer (b. 1918) ·
2016 – Melvin Laird, American politician and writer
(b. 1922) ·
2016 – Daniel Prodan, Romanian football player (b.
1972) ·
2017 – Hiromi Tsuru, Japanese actress (b. 1960) ·
2017 – Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (b. 1934) ·
2018 – William Goldman, American novelist,
playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1931) ·
2019 – John Campbell Brown,
Scottish astronomer (b. 1947) ·
2019 – Terry
O'Neill, British photographer (b. 1938) Holidays and observances[edit]
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Christian feast day: o Africus o Gertrude the Great (Roman Catholic
Church) o Gobrain o Matthew the
Evangelist (Eastern Christianity) o Othmar o Our Lady of
the Gate of Dawn o Roch
Gonzalez, Juan de Castillo, and Alonso Rodriguez, SJ o November
16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of
Declaration of Sovereignty (Estonia) ·
Earliest day on which Day of Repentance and
Prayer can fall, while November 22 is the latest; celebrated
11 days before Advent Sunday (Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and United Protestant
churches, Saxony, Bavaria),
and its related observance: o Volkstrauertag (Germany) ·
Icelandic Language
Day or Dagur íslenskrar tungu (Iceland) ·
International
Day for Tolerance (United Nations) ·
Statia Day in Sint Eustatius (Caribbean
Netherlands) |
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