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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
November 17 is the 321st day of the
year (322nd in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
44 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
887 – Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the
Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt. His nephew Arnulf of Carinthia is
elected as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.[citation
needed] ·
1183 – Genpei War:
The Battle of Mizushima takes
place off the Japanese coast, where Minamoto no
Yoshinaka's invasion force is intercepted and defeated by
the Taira clan.[1] ·
1292 – John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.[2] ·
1405 – Sharif
ul-Hāshim establishes the Sultanate of Sulu. ·
1511 – Henry VIII of
England concludes the Treaty of
Westminster, a pledge of mutual aid against the French, with Ferdinand II of
Aragon. ·
1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies
and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of
England. ·
1603 – English
explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. ·
1777 – Articles of
Confederation (United States) are submitted to the states for
ratification. ·
1796 – French
Revolutionary Wars: Battle of
the Bridge of Arcole: French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy. ·
1800 – The United States
Congress holds its first session in
Washington, D.C. ·
1810 – Sweden declares
war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish
War, although no fighting ever takes place. ·
1811 – José Miguel Carrera,
Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of
the government of Chile. ·
1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first
American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is
later named after him.) ·
1831 – Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Gran Colombia. ·
1837 – An earthquake in
Valdivia, south-central Chile, causes a tsunami that leads to
significant destruction along Japan's coast.[3] ·
1839 – Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at
the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. ·
1856 – American Old West:
On the Sonoita River in
present-day southern Arizona, the United
States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in
order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase. ·
1858 – Modified Julian Day zero. ·
1858 – The city of Denver, Colorado is founded. ·
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins: Confederate forces
led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee,
under siege. ·
1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with
the Red Sea, is inaugurated. ·
1876 – Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere
performance in Moscow, Russia. ·
1878 – First
assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by
anarchist Giovanni Passannante,
who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an
arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked
the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg. ·
1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War:
The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins. ·
1894 – H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. ·
1896 – The Western
Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and
hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino. ·
1903 – The Russian
Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups:
The Bolsheviks (Russian for
"majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for
"minority"). ·
1911 – Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on
the campus of Howard University in
Washington, D.C. ·
1933 – The United
States recognizes the Soviet Union. ·
1939 – Nine Czech students are executed as a
response to anti-Nazi demonstrations
prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. All Czech universities are shut
down and more than 1,200 students sent to concentration camps.
Since this event, International
Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in
the Czech Republic. ·
1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implements
an anti-Communist loyalty oath. ·
1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser
Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century. ·
1950 – Lhamo Dondrub
is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama. ·
1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 89 relating
to the Palestine Question is adopted. ·
1953 – The remaining
human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the
mainland. ·
1957 – Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European
Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three
engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport.
The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are
no fatalities. ·
1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington
Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C.,
region. ·
1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports
that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells
the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting
greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." ·
1968 – British
European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service. ·
1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern
United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish
when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead,
prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S. ·
1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union
and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations
aimed at limiting the number of strategic
weapons on both sides. ·
1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for
the My Lai Massacre. ·
1970 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on
the Moon. This is the first roving
remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the
orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. ·
1973 – Watergate scandal:
In Orlando, Florida,
U.S. President Richard Nixon tells
400 Associated Press managing
editors "I am not a crook." ·
1973 – The Athens
Polytechnic uprising against the military
regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. ·
1978 – The Star Wars
Holiday Special airs on CBS,
receiving negative reception from critics, fans, and even Star Wars creator George Lucas. ·
1979 – Brisbane
Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is
commissioned. ·
1983 – The Zapatista
Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico. ·
1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins:
In Czechoslovakia, a
student demonstration in Prague is quelled by
riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist
government (it succeeds on December 29). ·
1990 – Fugendake, part
of the Mount Unzen volcanic
complex, Nagasaki Prefecture,
Japan, becomes active again and erupts. ·
1993 – United
States House of Representatives passes a resolution to
establish the North
American Free Trade Agreement. ·
1993 – In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government
of Ernest Shonekan in
a military coup. ·
1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside
the Temple of Hatshepsut,
known as Luxor massacre. ·
2000 – A
catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions
of SIT of
damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100
years. ·
2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office
as president of Peru. ·
2012 – At least 50
schoolchildren are killed in an accident at
a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt. ·
2013 – Fifty people
are killed when Tatarstan
Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia. ·
2013 – A rare late-season tornado
outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as
lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes
touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and
two EF4 tornadoes. ·
2019 – The first known
case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man
who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.[4] Births[edit]
·
AD 9 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (d. 79)[5] ·
1019 – Sima Guang, Chinese politician (d. 1086) ·
1412 – Zanobi Strozzi, Italian painter (d. 1468)[6] ·
1453 – Alfonso,
Asturian prince (d. 1468) ·
1493 – John
Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (d. 1543) ·
1503 – Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)[7] ·
1576 – Roque
González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and saint (d. 1628) ·
1587 – Joost van den Vondel,
Dutch poet and playwright (d. 1679)[8] ·
1602 – Agnes of Jesus, French Catholic nun (d.
1634) ·
1612 – Dorgon, Chinese prince and regent (d. 1650) ·
1681 – Pierre
François le Courayer, French theologian and author (d. 1776) ·
1685 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Canadian
commander and explorer (d. 1749) ·
1729 – Maria
Antonia Ferdinanda, Sardinian queen consort (d. 1785)[9] ·
1749 – Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning (d. 1841)[10] ·
1753 – Gotthilf
Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American pastor and botanist (d. 1815)[11] ·
1755 – Louis XVIII,
king of France (d. 1824) ·
1765 – Jacques MacDonald,
French general (d. 1840) ·
1769 – Charlotte Georgine, duchess of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818) ·
1790 – August Ferdinand
Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1868) ·
1793 – Charles Lock
Eastlake, English painter, historian, and academic (d. 1865) ·
1816 – August Wilhelm
Ambros, Austrian composer and historian (d. 1876) ·
1827 – Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian journalist and
poet (d. 1895) ·
1835 – Andrew L. Harris, American general and
politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (d.
1915) ·
1854 – Hubert Lyautey, French general and
politician, French
Minister of War (d. 1934) ·
1857 – Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and
academic (d. 1932) ·
1866 – Voltairine de Cleyre,
American author and activist (d. 1912)[12] ·
1868 – Korbinian Brodmann,
German neurologist and academic (d. 1918) ·
1877 – Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist
and businessman (d. 1943) ·
1878 – Grace Abbott, American social worker (d.
1939)[13] ·
1878 – Augustus Goessling,
American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1963) ·
1886 – Walter Terence Stace,
English-American philosopher, academic, and civil servant (d. 1967) ·
1887 – Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein,
English field marshal (d. 1976) ·
1891 – Lester Allen, American screen, stage,
vaudeville, circus actor, and film director (d. 1949) ·
1895 – Gregorio López,
Mexican journalist, author, and poet (d. 1966) ·
1896 – Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian
psychologist and philosopher (d. 1934) ·
1897 – Frank Fay,
American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1961) ·
1899 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American engineer
(d. 1971) ·
1901 – Walter Hallstein, German academic and
politician, 1st President
of the European Commission (d. 1982) ·
1901 – Lee Strasberg, Ukrainian-American actor and
director (d. 1982) ·
1902 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and
mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1995) ·
1904 – Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and
architect (d. 1988) ·
1905 – Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor (d.
1967) ·
1905 – Astrid of Sweden (d. 1935)[14] ·
1905 – Arthur Chipperfield,
Australian cricketer (d. 1987) ·
1906 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and
businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company (d.
1991) ·
1906 – Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d.
2007) ·
1907 – Israel Regardie, English occultist and
author (d. 1985) ·
1911 – Christian Fouchet,
French lawyer and politician, French
Minister of the Interior (d. 1974) ·
1916 – Shelby Foote, American historian and author
(d. 2005) ·
1917 – Ruth Aaronson Bari,
American mathematician (d. 2005)[15] ·
1919 – Kim Heungsou, Korean painter and educator
(d. 2014) ·
1920 – Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgian
singer-songwriter (d. 2005) ·
1920 – Gemini Ganesan, Indian actor and director
(d. 2002) ·
1921 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter and
illustrator (d. 2019) ·
1922 – Stanley Cohen,
American biochemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2020) ·
1922 – Jack Froggatt, English footballer (d. 1993) ·
1923 – Hubertus Brandenburg,
Swedish bishop (d. 2009) ·
1923 – Mike
Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986) ·
1923 – Aristides Pereira,
Cape Verdean politician, 1st President of Cape
Verde (d. 2011) ·
1923 – Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer and
coach (d. 2001) ·
1925 – Jean Faut, American baseball player and
bowler ·
1925 – Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985) ·
1925 – Charles Mackerras,
American-Australian oboe player and
conductor (d. 2010) ·
1927 – Robert Drasnin, American clarinet player and
composer (d. 2015) ·
1927 – Fenella Fielding, English actress (d. 2018) ·
1927 – Nicholas Taylor, Canadian geologist,
businessman, and politician ·
1928 – Arman, French-American painter and sculptor
(d. 2005) ·
1928 – Rance Howard, American actor, producer, and
screenwriter (d. 2017) ·
1928 – Colin
McDonald, Australian cricketer ·
1929 – Gorō Naya, Japanese actor and director
(d. 2013) ·
1929 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (d.
1999) ·
1930 – Bob Mathias, American decathlete, actor, and
politician (d. 2006) ·
1932 – Jeremy
Black, English admiral (d. 2015) ·
1933 – Dan Osinski, American baseball player (d.
2013) ·
1933 – Orlando Peña, Cuban-American baseball player
and scout ·
1934 – Jim Inhofe, American soldier and politician,
senior senator of Oklahoma ·
1934 – Anthony King,
Canadian-English psephologist and academic (d. 2017) ·
1934 – Terry Rand, American basketball player (d.
2014) ·
1935 – Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player ·
1935 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier and actor (d.
2009) ·
1936 – Crispian Hollis, English Roman Catholic
bishop ·
1937 – Peter Cook, English comedian, actor, and
screenwriter (d. 1995) ·
1938 – Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, Scottish
general ·
1938 – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1939 – Auberon Waugh, English journalist and author
(d. 2001) ·
1940 – Luke Kelly, Irish singer, folk musician and actor (d. 1984)[16] ·
1942 – Derek Clayton, English-Australian runner ·
1942 – Partha Dasgupta, Bangladeshi economist and
academic ·
1942 – Bob Gaudio, American singer-songwriter,
keyboard player, and producer ·
1942 – Lesley Rees, English endocrinologist and
academic ·
1942 – István Rosztóczy,
Hungarian-Japanese microbiologist and physician (d. 1993) ·
1942 – Martin Scorsese, American director,
producer, screenwriter, and actor ·
1943 – Lauren Hutton, American model and actress ·
1944 – Jim Boeheim, American basketball player and
coach ·
1944 – Malcolm Bruce, English-Scottish journalist,
academic, and politician ·
1944 – Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and
musician (The Byrds) (d. 1991) ·
1944 – Danny DeVito, American actor, director, and
producer ·
1944 – Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect and academic,
designed the Seattle Central
Library ·
1944 – Lorne Michaels, Canadian-American
screenwriter and producer, created Saturday Night Live ·
1944 – Tom Seaver, American baseball pitcher and
sportscaster (d. 2020) ·
1944 – Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights
activist (d. 1966) ·
1945 – Lesley Abdela, English journalist and
activist ·
1945 – Jeremy Hanley, English accountant and
politician, British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs ·
1945 – Elvin Hayes, American basketball player and
sportscaster ·
1945 – Roland Joffé, English-French director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1946 – Martin Barre, English guitarist and
songwriter ·
1946 – Terry Branstad, American soldier, lawyer,
and politician, 39th Governor of Iowa ·
1946 – Petra Burka, Dutch-Canadian figure skater
and coach ·
1947 – Rod Clements, British singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist (Lindisfarne) ·
1948 – Howard Dean, American physician and
politician, 79th Governor of Vermont ·
1948 – East Bay Ray, American guitarist ·
1949 – John Boehner, American businessman and
politician, 61st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ·
1949 – Nguyễn
Tấn Dũng, Vietnamese soldier and politician, 8th Prime
Minister of Vietnam ·
1949 – Michael Wenden, Australian swimmer ·
1950 – Roland Matthes, German swimmer (d. 2019) ·
1951 – Butch Davis, American football player and
coach ·
1951 – Werner Hoyer, German economist and
politician ·
1951 – Dean Paul Martin, American singer, actor,
and pilot (d. 1987) ·
1951 – Stephen Root, American actor ·
1951 – Jack Vettriano, Scottish painter and
philanthropist ·
1952 – David
Emanuel, Welsh fashion designer ·
1952 – Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player ·
1952 – Runa Laila, Bangladeshi singer ·
1952 – Cyril Ramaphosa, South African businessman
and politician, 7th Deputy
President of South Africa ·
1953 – Babis Tennes, Greek footballer and manager ·
1954 – Chopper Read, Australian criminal and author
(d. 2013) ·
1955 – Peter Cox,
English singer-songwriter (Go West) ·
1955 – Yolanda King, American actress and activist
(d. 2007)[17] ·
1955 – Dennis Maruk, Ukrainian-Canadian ice
hockey player ·
1956 – Angelika Machinek,
German glider pilot (d. 2006)[18] ·
1956 – Jim
McGovern, Scottish politician ·
1957 – Jim Babjak, American guitarist and
songwriter (The Smithereens) ·
1958 – Mary
Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer ·
1959 – Terry Fenwick, English footballer and
manager ·
1959 – William R. Moses, American actor and
producer ·
1959 – Jaanus Tamkivi, Estonian politician ·
1960 – Michael Hertwig, German footballer and
manager ·
1960 – Jonathan Ross, English actor and talk show
host ·
1960 – RuPaul, American drag queen performer, actor, and singer ·
1961 – Robert Stethem, American soldier (d. 1985) ·
1961 – Pat Toomey, American businessman and
politician ·
1962 – Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2000) ·
1963 – Daniel Scott,
American novelist and short story writer ·
1964 – Susan Rice, American academic and
politician, 24th United
States National Security Advisor ·
1964 – Mitch Williams, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1965 – Darren Beadman, Australian jockey ·
1965 – Amanda Brown,
Australian violinist and composer ·
1966 – Alvin Patrimonio, Filipino basketball player
and manager ·
1966 – Ben Allison, American bassist and composer ·
1966 – Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1997) ·
1966 – Kate Ceberano, Australian singer-songwriter
and actress ·
1966 – Richard Fortus, American guitarist,
songwriter, and producer ·
1966 – Daisy Fuentes, Cuban-American model and
actress ·
1966 – Sophie Marceau, French actress, director,
and screenwriter ·
1967 – Tab Benoit, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1967 – Ronnie DeVoe, American singer, producer, and
actor ·
1968 – Sean Miller, American basketball player and
coach ·
1969 – Ryōtarō
Okiayu, Japanese voice actor and singer ·
1969 – Jean-Michel Saive,
Belgian table tennis player ·
1969 – Rebecca Walker, American author ·
1970 – Paul Allender, English guitarist and
songwriter ·
1970 – Tania Zaetta, Australian actress ·
1971 – David Ramsey, American actor[19] ·
1972 – Kimya Dawson, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1972 – Joanne Goode, English badminton player ·
1972 – Lorraine Pascale, English model and chef ·
1972 – Leonard Roberts, American actor ·
1973 – Andreas Hedlund, Swedish singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1973 – Eli Marrero, Cuban-American baseball player,
coach, and manager ·
1973 – Bernd
Schneider, German footballer ·
1973 – Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater and
coach ·
1973 – Leslie Bibb, American actress and producer ·
1974 – Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean-French
heptathlete and long jumper ·
1974 – Berto Romero, Spanish comedian and actor ·
1975 – Kinga Baranowska, Polish mountaineer ·
1975 – Lee Carseldine, Australian cricketer ·
1975 – Jerome James, American basketball player ·
1976 – Diane Neal, American actress and director[20] ·
1977 – Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer ·
1978 – Glen Air, Australian rugby league player ·
1978 – Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress and stuntwoman ·
1978 – Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress ·
1978 – Reggie Wayne, American football player ·
1979 – Matthew Spring, English footballer ·
1980 – Jay Bradley, American wrestler ·
1980 – Isaac Hanson,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1981 – Sarah Harding, English singer-songwriter,
dancer, and actress ·
1981 – Doug Walker,
American actor, comedian, film critic, internet personality, and filmmaker ·
1982 – Katie
Feenstra-Mattera, American basketball player[21] ·
1982 – Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer ·
1982 – Hollie Smith, New Zealand singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1983 – Viva Bianca, Australian actress, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1983 – Ioannis Bourousis,
Greek basketball player ·
1983 – Ryan Bradley, American figure skater ·
1983 – Ryan Braun, American baseball player ·
1983 – Trevor Crowe, American baseball player ·
1983 – Jodie Henry, Australian swimmer ·
1983 – Harry Lloyd, English actor, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1983 – Nick Markakis, American baseball player ·
1983 – Scott Moore,
American baseball player ·
1983 – Christopher Paolini,
American author ·
1984 – Amanda Evora, American figure skater ·
1984 – Park Han-byul, South Korean model and
actress ·
1985 – Luis Aguiar, Uruguayan footballer ·
1985 – Sékou Camara, Malian footballer (d. 2013) ·
1985 – Carolina Neurath, Swedish journalist ·
1986 – Everth Cabrera, Nicaraguan baseball player ·
1986 – Fabio Concas, Italian footballer ·
1986 – Nani,
Portuguese footballer ·
1986 – Greg Rutherford, English long jumper ·
1987 – Craig Noone, English footballer ·
1987 – Gemma Spofforth, English swimmer ·
1987 – Justine Michelle
Cain, English actress ·
1988 – Durratun Nashihin
Rosli Malaysian rhythmic gymnast[22] ·
1989 – Ryan Griffin,
American football player ·
1989 – Roman Zozulya, Ukrainian football striker ·
1992 – Danielle Kettlewell,
Australian synchronised swimmer ·
1992 – Alex Sheedy, Australian basketball player ·
1993 – Taylor Gold, American snowboarder ·
1995 – Panashe Muzambe, Scottish rugby union player[23] Deaths[edit]
·
375 – Valentinian I, Roman emperor (b. 321)[24] ·
594 – Gregory of Tours, Roman bishop and saint (b.
538)[25] ·
641 – Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593) ·
885 – Liutgard of
Saxony (b. 845) ·
935 – Chen Jinfeng,
empress of Min (b.
893) ·
935 – Wang Yanjun, emperor of Min (Ten Kingdoms) ·
1104 – Nikephoros
Melissenos, Byzantine general (b. 1045) ·
1188 – Usama ibn Munqidh,
Arab chronicler (b. 1095) ·
1231 – Elizabeth of Hungary (b.
1207)[26] ·
1307 – Hethum II,
King of Armenia (b. 1266) ·
1307 – Leo III, King of
Armenia (b. 1289) ·
1326 – Edmund
FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285) ·
1417 – Gazi Evrenos, Ottoman general (b. 1288) ·
1492 – Jami,
Persian poet and saint (b. 1414) ·
1494 – Giovanni
Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher and author (b. 1463) ·
1525 – Eleanor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal (b.
1458) ·
1558 – Mary I of England (b.
1516) ·
1558 – Reginald Pole, English cardinal and academic
(b. 1500) ·
1558 – Hugh Aston, English composer (b. 1485) ·
1562 – Antoine of Navarre (b.
1518) ·
1592 – John III of Sweden (b.
1537) ·
1600 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese commander (b. 1542) ·
1624 – Jakob Böhme, German mystic (b. 1575) ·
1632 – Gottfried
Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594) ·
1643 – Jean-Baptiste
Budes, Comte de Guébriant, French general (b. 1602) ·
1648 – Thomas Ford,
English viol player, composer, and poet (b. 1580) ·
1665 – John Earle,
English bishop (b. 1601) ·
1668 – Joseph Alleine, English pastor and author
(b. 1634) ·
1690 – Charles
de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French general and politician
(b. 1610) ·
1708 – Ludolf Bakhuizen, German-Dutch painter (b.
1631) ·
1713 – Abraham van Riebeeck,
South African-Indonesian merchant and politician, Governor-General
of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653) ·
1747 – Alain-René Lesage,
French author and playwright (b. 1668) ·
1768 – Thomas
Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English lawyer and
politician, Prime
Minister of Great Britain (b. 1693) ·
1776 – James
Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1710) ·
1780 – Bernardo Bellotto,
Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1720) ·
1796 – Catherine the Great,
of Russia (b. 1729) ·
1808 – David Zeisberger, Czech-American pastor and
missionary (b. 1721) ·
1812 – John Walter,
English Insurance underwriter and founder of The Times newspaper (b. 1738/1739) ·
1818 – Charlotte
of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1744) ·
1835 – Carle Vernet, French painter and
lithographer (b. 1758) ·
1865 – James McCune Smith,
American physician and author (b. 1813) ·
1891 – José María Iglesias,
Mexican politician and interim President (1876-1877) (b. 1823)[27] ·
1897 – George Hendric
Houghton, American pastor and theologian (b. 1820) ·
1902 – Hugh Price Hughes,
Welsh theologian and educator (b. 1847) ·
1905 – Adolphe,
Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817) ·
1910 – Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886) ·
1917 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and
illustrator (b. 1840) ·
1922 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and
politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1847) ·
1923 – Eduard Bornhöhe,
Estonian author (b. 1862) ·
1924 – Gregory VII
of Constantinople (b. 1850) ·
1928 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and
politician (b. 1865) ·
1929 – Herman Hollerith, American statistician and
businessman (b. 1860) ·
1932 – Charles W. Chesnutt,
American lawyer, author, and activist (b. 1858) ·
1936 – Ernestine
Schumann-Heink, German-American singer (b. 1861) ·
1937 – Jack Worrall, Australian footballer,
cricketer, and coach (b. 1860) ·
1938 – Ante Trumbić, Croatian lawyer and
politician, 20th Mayor of Split (b.
1864) ·
1940 – Eric Gill, English sculptor and typeface
designer (b. 1882) ·
1940 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist and
academic (b. 1879) ·
1947 – Victor Serge, Russian historian and author
(b. 1890) ·
1954 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and
journalist (b. 1899) ·
1955 – James P. Johnson, American pianist and
composer (b. 1894) ·
1958 – Mort Cooper, American baseball player (b.
1913) ·
1959 – Heitor Villa-Lobos,
Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1887) ·
1968 – Mervyn Peake, English poet, author, and
illustrator (b. 1911) ·
1971 – Gladys Cooper, English actress (b. 1888) ·
1973 – Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual
leader (b. 1878) ·
1976 – Abdul Hamid
Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi scholar and politician (b. 1880) ·
1979 – John Glascock, English singer and bass
player (b. 1951) ·
1982 – Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and
conductor (b. 1905) ·
1986 – Georges Besse, French businessman (b. 1927) ·
1987 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (b.
1906) ·
1988 – Sheilah Graham
Westbrook, English-American actress, author, and journalist (b.
1904) ·
1989 – Costabile Farace, American criminal (b.
1960) ·
1990 – Robert Hofstadter,
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1915) ·
1992 – Audre Lorde, American poet, essayist,
memoirist, and activist (b. 1934) ·
1993 – Gérard D. Levesque,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Premier
of Quebec (b. 1926) ·
1995 – Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1945) ·
1998 – Kea Bouman, Dutch tennis player (b. 1903) ·
1998 – Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920) ·
2000 – Louis Néel, French physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1904) ·
2001 – Michael Karoli, German guitarist and
songwriter (b. 1948) ·
2001 – Harrison A. Williams,
American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1919) ·
2002 – Abba Eban, South African-Israeli soldier and
politician, 3rd Israeli
Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1915) ·
2002 – Frank McCarthy,
American painter and illustrator (b. 1924) ·
2003 – Surjit Bindrakhia,
Indian singer (b. 1962) ·
2003 – Arthur Conley, American-Dutch
singer-songwriter (b. 1946) ·
2004 – Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler and
manager (b. 1970) ·
2004 – Alexander Ragulin,
Russian ice hockey player (b. 1941) ·
2005 – Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor and director
(b. 1942) ·
2006 – Ruth Brown, American singer-songwriter and
actress (b. 1928) ·
2006 – Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and
manager (b. 1927) ·
2006 – Bo Schembechler, American football player
and coach (b. 1929) ·
2007 – Aarne Hermlin, Estonian chess player (b.
1940) ·
2008 – George Stephen
Morrison, American admiral (b. 1919) ·
2008 – Pete Newell, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1915) ·
2011 – Kurt Budke, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1961) ·
2012 – Ponty Chadha, Indian businessman and
philanthropist (b. 1957) ·
2012 – Armand Desmet, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931) ·
2012 – Lea Gottlieb, Hungarian-Israeli fashion
designer, founded the Gottex Company (b.
1918) ·
2012 – Freddy Schmidt, American baseball player (b.
1916) ·
2012 – Billy Scott,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1942) ·
2012 – Bal Thackeray, Indian cartoonist and
politician (b. 1926) ·
2012 – Margaret Yorke, English author (b. 1924) ·
2013 – Zeke Bella, American baseball player (b.
1930) ·
2013 – Alfred Blake, English colonel and lawyer (b.
1915) ·
2013 – Syd Field, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1935) ·
2013 – Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet,
playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1919) ·
2013 – Alex Marques, Portuguese footballer (b.
1993) ·
2013 – Mary Nesbitt Wisham,
American baseball player (b. 1925) ·
2014 – John T. Downey, American CIA agent
and judge (b. 1930) ·
2014 – Bill Frenzel, American lieutenant and
politician (b. 1928) ·
2014 – Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (b.
1940) ·
2014 – Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and
philosopher (b. 1922) ·
2015 – John Leahy,
English lawyer and diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia (b.
1928) ·
2015 – Rahim Moeini
Kermanshahi, Iranian poet and songwriter (b. 1926) ·
2019 – Tuka Rocha, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1982)[28] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Acisclus o Gennadius of
Constantinople (Greek Orthodox
Church) o Gregory of Tours (Roman Catholic
Church) o November
17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Martyrs' Day (Orissa, India) ·
Presidents
Day (Marshall Islands) ·
Struggle for
Freedom and Democracy Day (Czech
Republic and Slovakia) |
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