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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
November 23 is the 327th day of the
year (328th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
38 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first
recorded actor to portray a character on stage.[1] ·
1174 – Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain. ·
1248 – Conquest of Seville by Christian troops
under King Ferdinand III of
Castile. ·
1499 – Pretender to
the throne Perkin Warbeck is
hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England
in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of
King Edward IV of England. ·
1531 – The Second War of Kappel results
in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland. ·
1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.[2] ·
1733 – The start of
the 1733
slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies. ·
1808 – French and
Poles defeat the Spanish at Battle of Tudela. ·
1810 – Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House. ·
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of
Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops
at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops. ·
1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are
hanged in Manchester, England,
for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish
Republican Brotherhood members from custody.[3] ·
1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear
Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in
New York City after being captured in Spain. ·
1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the
Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. ·
1890 – King William
III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special
law is passed to allow his daughter Princess
Wilhelmina to succeed him. ·
1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes
the last person to be
executed in Sweden. ·
1914 – Mexican Revolution:
The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz,
occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. ·
1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ·
1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is
actually another island galaxy far
outside of our own Milky Way, is first
published in The New York Times. ·
1934 – An
Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison
at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to
the Abyssinia Crisis. ·
1936 – Life magazine is
reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success. ·
1939 – World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by
the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. ·
1940 – World War
II: Romania becomes
a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining
the Axis powers. ·
1943 – World War II:
The Deutsche Opernhaus on
Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will
eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called
the Deutsche Oper Berlin. ·
1943 – World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces. ·
1946 – French naval
bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians. ·
1953 – Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert
Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior. ·
1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the
control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.[4] ·
1959 – French President Charles de Gaulle declares
in a speech in Strasbourg his
vision for "Europe, from the
Atlantic to the Urals". ·
1963 – The BBC
broadcasts An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the
first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world's
longest running science fiction drama.[5] ·
1968 – 1968
Yale vs. Harvard football game: Harvard Crimson rallies
to tie Yale Bulldogs 29–29
at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts. ·
1971 – Representatives
of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United
Nations Security Council, for the first time. ·
1972 – The Soviet
Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket.[6] ·
1974 – Sixty Ethiopian
politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the
provisional military government. ·
1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach
a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.[7] ·
1978 – Cyclone kills
about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka. ·
1978 – The Geneva
Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of
Europe's longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.[8] ·
1980 – The 6.9 Mw Irpinia
earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,483–4,900, and
injuring 7,700–8,934. ·
1981 – Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret
National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central
Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and
support Contra rebels in Nicaragua. ·
1985 – Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en
route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft,
but 60 people die in the raid. ·
1992 – The first
smartphone, the IBM Simon, is
introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. ·
1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the
£20,000 Turner Prize award
for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art
award for the worst artist of the year. ·
1996 – Ethiopian
Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian
Ocean off the coast of Comoros after
running out of fuel, killing 125. ·
2001 – The Convention on
Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary. ·
2003 – Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections. ·
2004 – The Holy
Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building
in Georgia, is
consecrated. ·
2005 – Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and
becomes the first woman to lead an African country. ·
2006 – A series
of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others
in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest
sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003. ·
2007 – MS Explorer,
a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south
of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland
Islands. There are no fatalities. ·
2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs
in Ampatuan,
Maguindanao, Philippines. ·
2010 – Bombardment of
Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and
two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. ·
2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen,
Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs
a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal
immunity. ·
2015 – Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the
first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a
controlled, vertical landing. Births[edit]
·
870 – Alexander,
Byzantine emperor (d. 913) ·
912 – Otto I, Holy
Roman Emperor (d. 973)[9] ·
1190 – Pope Clement IV (d. 1268) ·
1221 – Alfonso X of Castile (d.
1284) ·
1402 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468) ·
1417 – William
FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487) ·
1496 – Clément Marot, French poet (d. 1544)[10] ·
1508 – Francis,
Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, youngest son of Henry the Middle (d.
1549) ·
1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and
botanist (d. 1617)[11] ·
1632 – Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholar (d.
1707) ·
1641 – Anthonie Heinsius,
Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1720) ·
1687 – Jean Baptiste
Senaillé, French violinist and composer (d. 1730) ·
1705 – Thomas Birch, English historian and author
(d. 1766) ·
1715 – Pierre Charles
Le Monnier, French astronomer and author (d. 1799) ·
1719 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777) ·
1749 – Edward Rutledge, American captain and
politician, 39th Governor of
South Carolina (d. 1800) ·
1760 – François-Noël Babeuf,
French journalist and activist (d. 1797) ·
1781 – Theodor Valentin
Volkmar, German lawyer and politician, 1st Mayor of
Marburg (d. 1847) ·
1785 – Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior-General
of the Society of Jesus (d. 1853) ·
1803 – Theodore Dwight Weld,
American author and activist (d. 1895) ·
1804 – Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer,
and politician, 14th President
of the United States (d. 1869) ·
1820 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and
author (d. 1884) ·
1837 – Johannes
Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1923) ·
1838 – Stephanos Skouloudis,
Greek banker and politician, 97th Prime Minister
of Greece (d. 1928) ·
1858 – Albert Ranft, Swedish actor and director (d.
1938) ·
1860 – Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and
politician, 16th Prime Minister
of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1925) ·
1864 – Henry Bourne Joy, American businessman (d.
1936) ·
1868 – Mary Brewster
Hazelton, American painter (d. 1953) ·
1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942) ·
1871 – William
Watt, Australian accountant and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (d.
1946) ·
1875 – Anatoly Lunacharsky,
Russian journalist and politician (d. 1933) ·
1876 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and
composer (d. 1946) ·
1878 – Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman
(d. 1941) ·
1883 – José Clemente Orozco,
Mexican painter (d. 1949) ·
1886 – Eduards
Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director (d. 1966) ·
1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969)[12] ·
1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist
(d. 1915) ·
1888 – Harpo Marx, American comedian and musician
(d. 1964)[13] ·
1889 – Harry Sunderland, Australian-English
journalist and businessman (d. 1964) ·
1890 – El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and
architect (d. 1941) ·
1892 – Erté, Russian-French illustrator and
designer (d. 1990) ·
1896 – Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak
politician, President of
the Czechoslovak
Socialist Republic (d. 1953) ·
1896 – Tsunenohana Kan'ichi,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (d. 1960) ·
1897 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri,
British-Indian historian, author, and critic (d. 1999) ·
1897 – Karl Gebhardt, German physician and war
criminal (d. 1948) ·
1899 – Manuel dos Reis
Machado, Brazilian martial artist and educator (d. 1974) ·
1901 – Bennie Osler, South African rugby player (d.
1962) ·
1902 – Aaron Bank, American colonel (d. 2004) ·
1902 – Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (d.
1982) ·
1903 – Joe Nibloe, Scottish footballer (d. 1976)[14] ·
1905 – K. Alvapillai, Sri Lankan civil servant (d.
1979) ·
1906 – Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (d.
1989) ·
1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician and neurosurgeon
(d. 1986) ·
1907 – Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman
and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (d.
2014) ·
1908 – Nelson S. Bond, American author and
playwright (d. 2006) ·
1909 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author
(d. 2000) ·
1912 – George O'Hanlon, American actor and
screenwriter (d. 1989) ·
1914 – Donald Nixon, American businessman (d. 1987) ·
1914 – Wilson Tucker, American projectionist and
author (d. 2006) ·
1915 – John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992) ·
1915 – Marc Simont, French-American illustrator (d.
2013) ·
1915 – Anne Burns, British aeronautical engineer
and glider pilot (d. 2001) ·
1916 – Michael Gough, Malaysian-English actor (d.
2011) ·
1916 – P. K. Page, English-Canadian author and poet
(d. 2010) ·
1920 – Paul Celan, Romanian-French poet and
translator (d. 1970) ·
1921 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor
(d. 1960) ·
1922 – Manuel Fraga
Iribarne, Spanish politician, 3rd President
of the Xunta of Galicia (d. 2012) ·
1922 – Võ Văn Kiệt,
Vietnamese soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister
of Vietnam (d. 2008) ·
1923 – Daniel Brewster, American colonel, lawyer,
and politician (d. 2007) ·
1923 – Billy Haughton, American harness racer and
trainer (d. 1986) ·
1923 – Julien J.
LeBourgeois, American admiral (d. 2012) ·
1923 – Gloria Whelan, American author and poet[15] ·
1924 – Irvin J. Borowsky,
American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2014) ·
1924 – Josephine D'Angelo,
American baseball player and educator (d. 2013) ·
1924 – Paula Raymond, American model and actress
(d. 2003) ·
1924 – Colin Turnbull, English-American
anthropologist and author (d. 1994) ·
1925 – José Napoleón Duarte,
Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El
Salvador (d. 1990) ·
1925 – Johnny Mandel, American composer and
conductor[16] ·
1925 – Elaine Horseman, English author and educator
(d. 1999) ·
1926 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher
(d. 2011) ·
1926 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2005) ·
1927 – John Cole,
Irish-English journalist and author (d. 2013) ·
1927 – Guy Davenport, American author and scholar
(d. 2005) ·
1927 – Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal[17] ·
1928 – Jerry Bock, American composer (d. 2010) ·
1928 – John
Coleman, Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 1973) ·
1928 – Elmarie Wendel, American actress and singer
(d. 2018) ·
1929 – Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and author[citation
needed] ·
1929 – Gloria Lynne, American singer (d. 2013) ·
1930 – Geeta Dutt, Indian singer and actress (d.
1972) ·
1930 – Robert Easton,
American actor (d. 2011) ·
1930 – Jack McKeon, American baseball player and
manager[18] ·
1932 – Michel David-Weill,
French-American banker[19] ·
1932 – Kunie Tanaka, Japanese actor ·
1933 – Krzysztof Penderecki,
Polish composer and conductor[20] (d. 2020) ·
1933 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and activist
(d. 1977) ·
1934 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994) ·
1934 – Robert Towne, American actor, director, and
screenwriter[21] ·
1935 – Ken Eastwood, Australian cricketer[22] ·
1935 – Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and
astronaut (d. 1971) ·
1936 – Robert Barnard, English author, critic, and
educator (d. 2013) ·
1936 – Frank Caprio,
American judge[citation
needed] ·
1936 – Steve Landesberg, American actor and screenwriter
(d. 2010) ·
1936 – Mats Traat, Estonian poet and author[citation
needed] ·
1937 – Graham Hearne, English lawyer and
businessman[citation
needed] ·
1938 – Patrick
Kelly, English archbishop[23] ·
1938 – Donald Roller Wilson,
American artist[citation
needed] ·
1939 – Betty Everett, American singer and pianist
(d. 2001) ·
1940 – Luis Tiant, Cuban-American baseball player
and coach[24] ·
1941 – Alan Mullery, English footballer and manager[25] ·
1941 – Franco Nero, Italian actor and producer[26] ·
1942 – Susan Anspach, American actress (d. 2018)[27] ·
1943 – Andrew Goodman,
American activist (d. 1964) ·
1943 – Sue Nicholls, English actress[28] ·
1943 – David Nolan,
American activist and politician (d. 2010) ·
1943 – Petar Skansi, Croatian basketball player and
coach[29] ·
1944 – Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American
screenwriter and producer[30] ·
1944 – Peter Lindbergh, German-French photographer
and director[31] ·
1944 – James Toback, American actor, director, and
screenwriter[32] ·
1945 – Assi Dayan, Israeli actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 2014) ·
1945 – Jim Doyle, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of
Wisconsin[33] ·
1945 – Keith Hampshire, English-Canadian
singer-songwriter and radio host[citation
needed] ·
1945 – Jerry Harris,
American sculptor[citation
needed] ·
1945 – Tony Pond, English race car driver (d. 2002) ·
1946 – Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer and manager[citation
needed] ·
1946 – Diana Quick, English actress[34] ·
1946 – Bobby Rush, American activist and politician[35] ·
1947 – Jean-Pierre Foucault,
French radio and television host[36] ·
1948 – Bruce Vilanch, American actor and screenwriter[37] ·
1948 – Frank Worthington,
English footballer and manager[38] ·
1949 – Alan Paul, American singer-songwriter and
actor[39] ·
1949 – Sandra Stevens, English singer[40] ·
1950 – Nrisingha Prasad
Bhaduri, Indian indologist, author, and academic[41] ·
1950 – Carlos Eire, Cuban-born American author and
academic[42] ·
1950 – Charles Schumer, American lawyer and politician[43] ·
1950 – Paul
Wilson, Scottish footballer (d. 2017)[44] ·
1951 – Maik Galakos, Greek footballer and manager[45] ·
1952 – Bill Troiano, American tuba player and
educator[citation
needed] ·
1953 – Rick Bayless, American chef and author[46] ·
1953 – Francis Cabrel, French singer-songwriter and
guitarist[47] ·
1953 – Johan de Meij, Dutch trombonist, composer,
and conductor[48] ·
1953 – Martin Kent, Australian cricketer [49] ·
1954 – Pete Allen,
English clarinet player and saxophonist [50] ·
1954 – Glenn Brummer, American baseball player[51] ·
1954 – Bruce Hornsby, American singer-songwriter
and pianist[52] ·
1954 – Aavo Pikkuus, Estonian cyclist[53] ·
1955 – Steven Brust, American singer-songwriter,
drummer, and author[54] ·
1955 – Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and
composer[55] ·
1955 – Dinos Kouis, Greek footballer and coach[citation
needed] ·
1955 – Mary Landrieu, American politician[56] ·
1956 – Bruce Edgar, New Zealand cricketer[57] ·
1956 – Shane Gould, Australian swimmer and coach[58] ·
1956 – Karin Guthke, German diver[59] ·
1958 – Martin Snedden, New Zealand cricketer and
lawyer[60] ·
1959 – Maxwell Caulfield,
English-American actor[61] ·
1960 – Robin Roberts,
American sportscaster and journalist[62] ·
1961 – Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author[63] ·
1961 – Nicolas Bacri, French composer[64] ·
1961 – Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer[65] ·
1961 – Peter Stanford, English journalist and author[66] ·
1962 – Lance King, American singer-songwriter and
producer[citation
needed] ·
1962 – Nicolás Maduro,
Venezuelan union leader and politician, President
of Venezuela[67] ·
1963 – Gwynne Shotwell, American businesswoman,
President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX[68] ·
1964 – Lorna Jane Clarkson,
Australian fashion designer, entrepreneur, and author[citation
needed] ·
1964 – Marilyn Kidd, Australian rower[69] ·
1964 – Frank Rutherford, Bahamian triple jumper[70] ·
1965 – Jennifer Michael
Hecht, American historian, author, and poet[71] ·
1966 – Vincent Cassel, French actor and producer[72] ·
1966 – Kevin Gallacher, Scottish footballer and
sportscaster[73] ·
1966 – Jerry Kelly, American golfer[74] ·
1967 – Steve Deacon, Australian rugby league player[citation
needed] ·
1967 – Gary Kirsten, South African cricketer and
coach[75] ·
1967 – Salli Richardson, American actress,
director, and producer[76] ·
1968 – Robert Denmark, English runner and coach[77] ·
1968 – Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer,
linguist, and academic[citation
needed] ·
1968 – Mark Soden, Australian rugby league player[citation
needed] ·
1968 – Anthony Sullivan, English rugby league and union
player[78] ·
1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish journalist[79] ·
1969 – Olivier Beretta, Monégasque race car driver[80] ·
1969 – Mike Lünsmann, German footballer[citation
needed] ·
1969 – Robin Padilla, Filipino actor, martial
artist, and screenwriter[81] ·
1969 – Jonathan Seet, Singaporean-Canadian singer-songwriter
and producer[citation
needed] ·
1970 – Zoë Ball, English radio and television host[82] ·
1970 – Oded Fehr, Israeli-American actor[83] ·
1970 – Danny Hoch, American actor and screenwriter[84] ·
1970 – Karsten Müller,
German chess player and author[85] ·
1971 – Khaled Al-Muwallid,
Saudi Arabian footballer[86] ·
1971 – Lisa Arch, American actress[87] ·
1971 – Vin Baker, American basketball player and
coach[88] ·
1971 – Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor,
producer, and television host[89] ·
1972 – Christopher James
Adler, American drummer[90] ·
1974 – Juventud Guerrera,
Mexican wrestler and sportscaster[citation
needed] ·
1974 – Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player[91] ·
1974 – Malik Rose, American basketball player and
sportscaster[citation
needed] ·
1974 – Jamie Sharper, American football player[citation
needed] ·
1976 – Cüneyt Çakır,
Turkish footballer and referee[citation
needed] ·
1976 – Page Kennedy, American actor and rapper[citation
needed] ·
1976 – Tony Renna, American race car driver (d.
2003) ·
1976 – Murat Salar, German-Turkish footballer and
manager ·
1976 – Kohei Suwama, Japanese wrestler[92] ·
1977 – Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver[93] ·
1977 – Adam Eaton,
American baseball player[94] ·
1977 – David Lucas,
English footballer[citation
needed] ·
1978 – Ali Güneş, German-Turkish footballer[citation
needed] ·
1978 – Tommy Marth, American saxophonist (d. 2012) ·
1978 – Alison Mosshart, American singer-songwriter[citation
needed] ·
1978 – Kayvan Novak, English actor, director, and
screenwriter[citation
needed] ·
1979 – Kelly Brook, English model and actress[95] ·
1979 – Nihat Kahveci, Turkish footballer and
manager[citation
needed] ·
1979 – Ivica Kostelić,
Croatian skier[96] ·
1980 – Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean child soldier
and American author[97] ·
1980 – David Britz, American nanotechnologist and
engineer[citation
needed] ·
1980 – Jonathan Papelbon,
American baseball player[98] ·
1982 – Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player[99] ·
1982 – Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby league
player[citation
needed] ·
1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter[100] ·
1983 – Nasser Al-Shamrani,
Saudi Arabian footballer[citation
needed] ·
1983 – Fatih
Yiğituşağı, Turkish footballer[101] ·
1984 – Amruta Khanvilkar,
Indian actress and dancer[102] ·
1984 – Justin Turner, American baseball player[103] ·
1985 – Viktor An, South Korean speed skater[104] ·
1987 – Nicklas Bäckström,
Swedish ice hockey player[105] ·
1990 – Shaun Hutchinson, English footballer[106] ·
1990 – Eddy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and
guitarist[107] ·
1990 – Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater[108] ·
1990 – Christopher Quiring,
German footballer[109] ·
1991 – Ahmed Shehzad, Pakistani cricketer[110] ·
1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and
actress [111] ·
1992 – Gabriel Landeskog,
Swedish ice hockey player[112] ·
1994 – Wes Burns, Welsh footballer[113] ·
1995 – Kelly Rosen, Estonian footballer[114] ·
1996 – Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer[115] Deaths[edit]
·
386 – Jin Feidi,
emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 342) ·
947 – Berthold, Duke
of Bavaria (b. 900) ·
955 – Eadred, English king (b. 923) ·
1161 – Adam, Abbot of Ebrach ·
1183 – William
Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (b. 1116) ·
1407 – Louis I, Duke of
Orléans (b. 1372) ·
1457 – Ladislaus the
Posthumous, Hungarian king (b. 1440) ·
1464 – Blessed
Margaret of Savoy (b. 1390) ·
1499 – Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English
throne (b. c. 1474) ·
1503 – Bona of Savoy (b. 1449) ·
1503 – Margaret of York (b. 1446) ·
1572 – Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (b. 1503) ·
1585 – Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. c.1505) ·
1616 – Richard Hakluyt, English priest and author
(b. 1552) ·
1682 – Claude Lorrain, French-Italian painter and
engraver (b. 1604) ·
1763 – Friedrich
Heinrich von Seckendorff, German field marshal and diplomat (b.
1673) ·
1769 – Constantine
Mavrocordatos, Greek prince (b. 1711) ·
1803 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (b.
1719) ·
1804 – Richard Graves, English minister and author
(b. 1715) ·
1804 – Ivan Mane
Jarnović, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1747) ·
1807 – Jean-François
Rewbell, French lawyer and politician (b. 1747) ·
1814 – Elbridge Gerry, American merchant and
politician, 5th Vice President of the United States of America (b.
1744) ·
1833 – Jean-Baptiste
Jourdan, French general and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b.
1762) ·
1890 – William
III of the Netherlands (b. 1817) ·
1899 – Thomas Henry Ismay,
English businessman, founded White Star Line (b. 1837) ·
1905 – John
Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist and academic (b. 1828) ·
1910 – Hawley Harvey
Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862) ·
1927 – Miguel Pro, Mexican priest and martyr (b.
1891) ·
1934 – Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895) ·
1937 – Jagadish Chandra
Bose, Bangladeshi-Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and
archaeologist (b. 1858) ·
1937 – George Albert
Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (b. 1858) ·
1937 – Miklós Kovács,
Hungarian-Slovene cantor and poet (b. 1857) ·
1940 – Stanley Argyle, Australian politician,
32nd Premier of Victoria (b.
1867) ·
1943 – Ernie
Jones, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1869) ·
1948 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b.
1900) ·
1958 – Nikolaos Georgantas,
Greek discus thrower (b. 1880) ·
1958 – Johnston McCulley,
American author and screenwriter (b. 1883) ·
1966 – Seán T. O'Kelly,
Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (b.
1882) ·
1970 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean journalist and
politician, 1st President of
Singapore (b. 1910) ·
1972 – Marie
Wilson, American actress (b. 1916) ·
1973 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor, director,
and producer (b. 1889) ·
1974 – notable victims
of the Massacre of the
Sixty: o Abiye Abebe, Ethiopian general and
politician (b. 1918) o Aman Andom, Ethiopian general and
politician, President
of Ethiopia (b. 1924) o Aklilu Habte-Wold,
Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister
of Ethiopia (b. 1912) o Asrate Kassa, Ethiopian commander (b. 1922) o Endelkachew Makonnen,
Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister
of Ethiopia (b. 1927) ·
1974 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist
and author (b. 1920) ·
1976 – André Malraux, French theorist and author
(b. 1901) ·
1979 – Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress and
singer (b. 1911) ·
1979 – Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1944) ·
1982 – Grady Nutt, American minister and author (b.
1934) ·
1983 – Juhan Muks, Estonian painter (b. 1899) ·
1983 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, producer, and
screenwriter (b. 1938) ·
1984 – Leonard Baker, American historian and author
(b. 1931) ·
1990 – Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and
screenwriter (b. 1916) ·
1990 – Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b.
1953) ·
1991 – Klaus Kinski, German-American actor and
director (b. 1926) ·
1992 – Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and
fiddler (b. 1903) ·
1992 – Jean-François
Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922) ·
1994 – Art Barr, American wrestler (b. 1966) ·
1994 – Irwin Kostal, American songwriter,
screenwriter, and publisher (b. 1911) ·
1995 – Louis Malle, French-American director,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932) ·
1995 – Junior Walker, American singer and
saxophonist (b. 1931) ·
1996 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and
journalist (b. 1943) ·
1996 – Art Porter, Jr., American saxophonist and
songwriter (b. 1961) ·
1997 – Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuban-American businessman
(b. 1939) ·
2000 – Brian Rawlinson, English actor and
playwright (b. 1931) ·
2001 – Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b.
1936) ·
2001 – Mary Whitehouse, English educator and
activist (b. 1910) ·
2002 – Roberto Matta, Chilean-Italian painter and
sculptor (b. 1911) ·
2004 – Pete Franklin, American radio host (b. 1928) ·
2005 – Constance Cummings,
American-English actress (b. 1910) ·
2005 – Frank Gatski, American football player and
soldier (b. 1919) ·
2006 – Jesús Blancornelas,
Mexican journalist, co-founded Zeta Magazine (b. 1936) ·
2006 – Nick Clarke, English journalist (b. 1948) ·
2006 – Betty Comden, American actress, singer, and
screenwriter (b. 1917) ·
2006 – Alexander Litvinenko,
Russian spy and defector (b. 1962) ·
2006 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930) ·
2006 – Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919) ·
2006 – Willie Pep, American boxer and referee (b.
1922) ·
2007 – Joe Kennedy,
American baseball player (b. 1979) ·
2007 – Óscar Carmelo
Sánchez, Bolivian footballer and manager (b. 1971) ·
2007 – Robert Vesco, American-Cuban financier (b.
1935) ·
2007 – Pat Walsh,
New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1936) ·
2009 – José Arraño Acevedo,
Chilean journalist and historian (b. 1921) ·
2010 – Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter and
sculptor (b. 1914) ·
2010 – Joyce Howard, English-American actress (b.
1922) ·
2011 – Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (b.
1928) ·
2012 – José Luis Borau,
Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929) ·
2012 – Chuck Diering, American baseball player (b.
1923) ·
2012 – Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and
producer (b. 1931) ·
2012 – Diana Isaac, English-New Zealand businesswoman
and philanthropist (b. 1921) ·
2013 – Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1932) ·
2013 – Jay Leggett, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1963) ·
2013 – Peter B. Lewis, American businessman and
philanthropist (b. 1933) ·
2013 – Wayne Mills,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1969) ·
2013 – Costanzo Preve, Italian philosopher and
theorist (b. 1943) ·
2014 – Marion Barry, American lawyer and
politician, 2nd Mayor
of the District of Columbia (b. 1936) ·
2014 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (b.
1916) ·
2014 – Metropolitan
Mikhail of Asyut (b. 1921) ·
2014 – Murray Oliver, Canadian-American ice hockey
player and coach (b. 1937) ·
2014 – Clive Palmer,
English banjo player (b. 1943) ·
2014 – Pat Quinn,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1943) ·
2015 – Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright,
and critic (b. 1925) ·
2015 – Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian lawyer and
politician (b. 1980) ·
2015 – Dan Fante, American author and playwright
(b. 1944) ·
2015 – Douglass North, American economist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1920) ·
2015 – Jim Sochor, American football player and
coach (b. 1938) ·
2016 – Rita Barberá Nolla,
Spanish politician (b. 1948) ·
2016 – Ralph Branca, American baseball player (b.
1926) ·
2016 – Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (b.
1930) ·
2016 – Joe Esposito,
road manager for Elvis Presley (b. 1938) ·
2017 – Stela Popescu, Romanian actress (b. 1935) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Alexander Nevsky (Repose, Russian Orthodox
Church) o Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro –
one of Saints of the
Cristero War (Roman Catholic
Church and the Lutheran Church) o Pope Clement I (Roman Catholic
Church, the Anglican Communion,
and the Lutheran Church) o November
23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest day on which Black Friday can
fall, while November 29 is the latest; observed on the day after Thanksgiving (United
States), and its related observances: o Buy Nothing Day (North America, Great
Britain, Sweden) ·
Labor Thanksgiving
Day (Japan) ·
Repudiation Day (Frederick
County, Maryland, United States) ·
Rudolf Maister Day (Slovenia) ·
St George's Day
(Georgia) or Giorgoba (Georgia) |
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