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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
November 24 is the 328th day of the
year (329th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
37 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus,
or formal entry, into Constantinople.[1] ·
1190 – Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon
his marriage to Isabella I of
Jerusalem.[2] ·
1227 – Gąsawa massacre:
At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and
others are attacked by assassins while bathing.[3] ·
1248 – An overnight
landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical
rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.[4] ·
1359 – Peter I of Cyprus ascends
the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus,
abdicates. ·
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité. ·
1542 – Battle of Solway
Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near
the River
Esk in Dumfries and
Galloway. ·
1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European
to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later
renamed Tasmania). ·
1750 – Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for
refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa. ·
1832 – South Carolina passes the Ordinance of
Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were
null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis.[5] ·
1835 – The Texas
Provincial Government authorizes
the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas
Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger
Division of the Texas
Department of Public Safety). ·
1850 – Danish
troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force
in the town of Lottorf,
Schleswig-Holstein. ·
1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of
Species. ·
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of
Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga,
Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break
the Confederate siege
of the city led by General Braxton Bragg. ·
1877 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. ·
1906 – A 13–6 victory
by the Massillon Tigers over
their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs,
for the "Ohio League"
Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in
professional American football. ·
1917 – In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee
Police Department are killed
by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police
history until the September 11 attacks in 2001. ·
1922 – Nine Irish Republican
Army members are executed by
an Irish Free State firing
squad. Among them is author Erskine
Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver. ·
1932 – In Washington,
D.C., the FBI Scientific
Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. ·
1935 – The Senegalese
Socialist Party holds its second congress. ·
1940 – World War II: The First Slovak
Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining
the Axis powers. ·
1941 – World War II:
The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces. ·
1943 – World War II:
At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome
Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men. ·
1944 – World War II:
The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches
the first attack on Tokyo from
the Northern Mariana
Islands. ·
1962 – Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist
Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist
Unity Party of West Berlin. ·
1962 – The influential British satirical
television programme That Was the
Week That Was is first broadcast. ·
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald,
the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby. ·
1965 – Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in
the Democratic
Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he
renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until
being overthrown by rebels in 1997. ·
1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia,
killing all 82 people on board. ·
1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down
safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the
Moon. ·
1971 – During a severe
thunderstorm over Washington state,
a hijacker calling
himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest
Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has
never been found. ·
1973 – A national
speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of
the 1973 oil crisis.
The speed limit lasts only four months. ·
1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover
the 40% complete Australopithecus
afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy"
(after The Beatles song
"Lucy in the
Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. ·
1976 – The Çaldıran–Muradiye
earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000
people. ·
1992 – China
Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin
Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.[6] ·
2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people. ·
2013 – Iran signs
an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in
exchange for reduced sanctions. ·
2015 – A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot
down by the Turkish Air Force over
the Syria–Turkey border,
killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a
subsequent rescue effort. ·
2015 – A terrorist
attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people
and injures 12 others. ·
2015 – An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian
Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead. ·
2016 – The government
of Colombia and the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal,
bringing an end to the country's more
than 50-year-long civil war. Births[edit]
·
1273 – Alphonso, Earl
of Chester (d. 1284) ·
1394 – Charles, Duke of
Orléans (d. 1465) ·
1427 – John
Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (d. 1473) ·
1472 – Pietro Torrigiano,
Italian sculptor (d. 1528) ·
1583 – Juan
Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (d. 1641) ·
1583 – Philip Massinger, English dramatist (d.
1640) ·
1594 – Henry Grey,
10th Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (d. 1651) ·
1603 – John, Count
of Nassau-Idstein (1629–1677) (d. 1677) ·
1615 – Philip
William, Elector Palatine (d. 1690) ·
1630 – Étienne Baluze,
French scholar and academic (d. 1718) ·
1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and
scholar (d. 1677) ·
1655 – Charles XI of Sweden (d.
1697) ·
1690 – Charles
Theodore Pachelbel, German organist and composer (d. 1750) ·
1712 – Charles-Michel
de l'Épée, French priest and educator (d. 1789) ·
1712 – Ali II ibn Hussein,
Tunisian ruler (d. 1782) ·
1713 – Junípero Serra,
Spanish priest and missionary (d. 1784) ·
1713 – Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and
clergyman (d. 1768) ·
1724 – Maria Amalia of
Saxony (d. 1760) ·
1729 – Alexander Suvorov,
Russian field marshal (d. 1800) ·
1745 – Maria Luisa of Spain (d.
1792) ·
1774 – Thomas Dick,
Scottish minister, author, and educator (d. 1857) ·
1784 – Zachary Taylor, American general and
politician, 12th President
of the United States (d. 1850) ·
1801 – Ludwig Bechstein, German author and poet (d.
1860) ·
1806 – William Webb Ellis,
English priest, created Rugby football (d. 1872) ·
1811 – Ulrich Ochsenbein,
Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (d.
1890) ·
1812 – Xavier Hommaire
de Hell, French geographer and engineer (d. 1848) ·
1826 – Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author
(d. 1890) ·
1840 – John Alfred Brashear,
American scientist, telescope maker and educator (d. 1920) ·
1849 – Frances Hodgson
Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (d. 1924) ·
1851 – John Indermaur, British lawyer (d. 1925) ·
1857 – Miklós Kovács,
Hungarian-Slovene poet and songwriter (d. 1937) ·
1859 – Cass Gilbert, American architect, designed
the United
States Supreme Court Building and Woolworth Building (d.
1934) ·
1864 – Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (d. 1901) ·
1868 – Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer
(d. 1917) ·
1869 – Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and
politician, 11th President of
Portugal (d. 1951) ·
1873 – Julius Martov, Russian politician (d. 1923) ·
1873 – Herbert Roper
Barrett, English tennis player (d. 1943) ·
1874 – Charles William
Miller, Brazilian footballer and referee (d. 1953) ·
1876 – Walter Burley
Griffin, American architect and urban planner, designed Canberra (d. 1937) ·
1877 – Alben W. Barkley, American lawyer and
politician, 35th Vice
President of the United States (d. 1956) ·
1877 – Kavasji
Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (d. 1941) ·
1879 – Wylie Cameron Grant,
American tennis player (d. 1968) ·
1881 – Al Christie, Canadian-American director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 1951) ·
1882 – Nikolai Janson, Russian politician (d. 1938) ·
1884 – Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Ukrainian-Israeli historian
and politician, 2nd President of Israel (d.
1963) ·
1885 – Theodor Altermann,
Estonian actor, director, and producer (d. 1915) ·
1885 – Christian Wirth, German SS officer
(d. 1944) ·
1886 – Margaret
Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (d.
1973) ·
1887 – Raoul Paoli, French boxer and rower (d.
1960) ·
1887 – Erich von Manstein,
German field marshal (d. 1973) ·
1888 – Dale Carnegie, American author and educator
(d. 1955) ·
1888 – Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist and
author (d. 1972) ·
1891 – Vasil Gendov, Bulgarian actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 1970) ·
1893 – Charles F. Hurley,
American soldier and politician, 54th Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1946) ·
1894 – Herbert Sutcliffe,
English cricketer and businessman (d. 1978) ·
1895 – Esther Applin, American geologist and
paleontologist (d. 1972) ·
1897 – Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mob boss (d.
1962) ·
1897 – Dorothy
Shepherd-Barron, English tennis player (d. 1953) ·
1899 – Ward Morehouse, American author, playwright,
and critic (d. 1966) ·
1904 – Albert Ross Tilley,
Canadian captain and surgeon (d. 1988) ·
1908 – Libertad Lamarque,
Argentinian actress and singer (d. 2000) ·
1910 – Larry Siemering, American football player
and coach (d. 2009) ·
1911 – Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985) ·
1911 – Joe Medwick, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1975) ·
1912 – Bernard Delfgaauw,
Dutch philosopher and academic (d. 1993) ·
1912 – Garson Kanin, American director and
screenwriter (d. 1999) ·
1912 – Joan Sanderson, English actress (d. 1992) ·
1912 – Charles Schneeman,
American soldier and illustrator (d. 1972) ·
1912 – Teddy Wilson, American pianist and educator
(d. 1986) ·
1913 – Howard Duff, American actor, director, and
producer (d. 1990) ·
1913 – Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Irish-American actress (d. 2005) ·
1914 – Lynn Chadwick, English sculptor (d. 2003) ·
1914 – Bessie Blount
Griffin, American physical therapist, inventor and forensic
scientist (d. 2009) ·
1916 – Forrest J Ackerman,
American soldier and author (d. 2008) ·
1917 – Shabtai Rosenne, English-Israeli academic,
jurist, and diplomat (d. 2010) ·
1919 – David Kossoff, English actor and
screenwriter (d. 2005) ·
1921 – John Lindsay, American lawyer and
politician, 103rd Mayor of New York
City (d. 2000) ·
1922 – Claus Moser,
Baron Moser, German-English statistician and academic (d. 2015) ·
1924 – Eileen Barton, American singer (d. 2006) ·
1924 – Lorne Munroe, Canadian-American cellist and
educator ·
1925 – William F.
Buckley, Jr., American publisher and author, founded the National Review (d. 2008) ·
1925 – Simon van der Meer,
Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2011) ·
1926 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1927 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian-French author and
playwright (d. 2003) ·
1927 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999) ·
1927 – Kevin Skinner,
New Zealand rugby player (d. 2014) ·
1929 – Franciszek Kokot, Polish nephrologist and
endocrinologist ·
1929 – George Moscone, American soldier, lawyer,
and politician, 37th Mayor of San
Francisco (d. 1978) ·
1930 – Ken Barrington, English cricketer (d. 1981) ·
1930 – Bob Friend, American baseball player and
politician (d. 2019) ·
1931 – Tommy Allsup, American guitarist (d. 2017) ·
1931 – Arthur Chaskalson,
South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief
Justice of South Africa (d. 2012) ·
1932 – Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist ·
1932 – Fred Titmus, English cricketer and coach (d.
2011) ·
1933 – John
Sheridan, English rugby player and coach (d. 2012) ·
1934 – Alfred Schnittke, German-Russian journalist
and composer (d. 1998) ·
1935 – Khalifa bin
Salman Al Khalifa, Bahraini politician, Prime Minister
of Bahrain ·
1935 – Ron Dellums, American soldier and
politician, 48th Mayor of Oakland (d.
2018) ·
1935 – Mordicai Gerstein,
American author, illustrator, and director (d. 2019) ·
1938 – Willy Claes, Belgian conductor and
politician, 8th Secretary
General of NATO ·
1938 – Oscar Robertson, American basketball player
and sportscaster ·
1938 – Charles Starkweather,
American spree killer (d. 1959) ·
1940 – Marshall Berman, American philosopher and
Marxist humanist writer (d. 2013) ·
1940 – Paul Tagliabue, American lawyer and
businessman, 5th Commissioner of the National
Football League ·
1940 – Eric Wilson,
Canadian author and educator ·
1941 – Pete Best, Indian-English drummer and
songwriter ·
1941 – Donald
"Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, and
producer (d. 2012) ·
1941 – Wayne Jackson,
American trumpeter (d. 2016) ·
1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor ·
1942 – Marlin Fitzwater, American soldier and
journalist, 17th White House
Press Secretary ·
1942 – Jean Ping, Gabonese politician and diplomat ·
1942 – Andrew Stunell, English minister and
politician ·
1943 – Dave Bing, American basketball player and
politician, 70th Mayor of Detroit ·
1943 – Richard Tee, American singer-songwriter and
keyboard player (d. 1993) ·
1943 – Robin Williamson, Scottish singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1943 – Margaret E. M.
Tolbert, American chemist and academic ·
1944 – Bev Bevan, English drummer ·
1944 – Candy Darling, American model and actress
(d. 1974) ·
1944 – Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian academic and
diplomat, 9th Nigerian
Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1944 – Dan Glickman, American businessman and
politician, 26th United
States Secretary of Agriculture ·
1945 – Nuruddin Farah, Somali novelist[7] ·
1945 –Lee Michaels, American singer-songwriter and
musician ·
1946 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989) ·
1946 – Tony Clarkin, English guitarist and
songwriter ·
1946 – Penny Jordan, English author (d. 2011) ·
1947 – Dwight Schultz, American actor ·
1947 – Dave Sinclair, English keyboard player ·
1948 – Spider Robinson, American-Canadian author
and critic ·
1948 – Rudy Tomjanovich, American basketball player
and coach ·
1948 – Steve Yeager, American baseball player and
coach ·
1949 – Shane Bourne, Australian comedian, actor,
and television host ·
1949 – Ewen
Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, English politician ·
1949 – Sally Davies,
English hematologist and academic ·
1950 – Bob Burns,
American drummer and songwriter (d. 2015) ·
1950 – Stanley Livingston,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1951 – Mimis Androulakis,
Greek author and politician ·
1951 – Chet Edwards, American businessman and
politician ·
1951 – Margaret Mountford,
Northern Irish-British lawyer and businesswoman ·
1951 – Graham Price, Egyptian-Welsh rugby player ·
1952 – Parveen Shakir, Pakistani Urdu poet (d.
1994) ·
1952 – Rachel Chagall, American actress ·
1952 – Norbert Haug, German journalist and
businessman ·
1952 – Thierry Lhermitte,
French actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1952 – Jim Sheridan,
Scottish politician ·
1952 – Ken Wilson,
Australian rugby league player ·
1954 – Emir Kusturica, Serbian actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1954 – Margaret Wetherell,
English psychologist and academic ·
1955 – Ian Botham, English cricketer, footballer,
and sportscaster ·
1955 – Clem Burke, American drummer ·
1955 – Scott Hoch, American golfer ·
1955 – Lena Adelsohn
Liljeroth, Swedish politician, Swedish
Minister for Culture ·
1955 – Najib Mikati, Lebanese businessman and
politician, 31st Prime Minister
of Lebanon ·
1955 – Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer and author ·
1956 – Ruben
Santiago-Hudson, American actor, playwright, and director ·
1957 – Denise Crosby, American actress and producer ·
1957 – Edward
Stourton, English journalist and author ·
1958 – Roy Aitken, Scottish footballer and manager ·
1958 – Margaret Curran, Scottish academic and
politician ·
1958 – Nick Knight,
British photographer ·
1959 – Todd Brooker, Canadian skier and
sportscaster ·
1960 – Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer ·
1961 – Carlos Carnero, Spanish lawyer and
politician ·
1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist,
recipient of Booker Prize ·
1962 – John Kovalic, English author and illustrator ·
1962 – John Squire, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1962 – Paul Thorburn, German-Welsh rugby player and
manager ·
1962 – Ioannis Topalidis,
Greek footballer and manager ·
1962 – Tracey Wickham, Australian swimmer ·
1963 – Neale Cooper, Scottish footballer (d. 2018) ·
1964 – Garret Dillahunt, American actor ·
1964 – Brad Sherwood, American actor and game show
host ·
1965 – Shirley Henderson,
Scottish actress ·
1965 – Dawn Robinson, American singer and actress ·
1966 – Russell Watson, English tenor and actor ·
1967 – Henrik Brockmann, Danish singer-songwriter ·
1967 – Cal Eldred, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1967 – Jon Hein, American radio personality ·
1968 – Bülent Korkmaz,
Turkish footballer and manager ·
1969 – David Adeang, Nauruan lawyer and politician ·
1969 – Romesh Kaluwitharana,
Sri Lankan cricketer ·
1969 – Rob Nicholson,
American bass player and songwriter ·
1970 – Doug Brien, American football player ·
1970 – Julieta Venegas, American-Mexican
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1970 – Ashley Ward, English footballer and
businessman ·
1971 – Cosmas Ndeti, Kenyan runner ·
1971 – Keith Primeau, Canadian-American ice hockey
player and coach ·
1972 – Marek Lemsalu, Estonian footballer ·
1972 – Ruxandra Dragomir,
Romanian tennis player ·
1973 – Alejandro Ávila,
Mexican telenovela actor ·
1974 – Stephen Merchant, English actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1974 – Machel Montano, Trinidadian
singer-songwriter and producer ·
1974 – Tarō Yamamoto, Japanese actor and
politician ·
1974 – Amy Faye Hayes, American boxing ring
announcer and model ·
1975 – Thomas Kohnstamm, American author ·
1976 – Christian Laflamme,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1976 – Chen Lu,
Chinese figure skater ·
1976 – Mona Hanna-Attisham British-American
pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate ·
1977 – Colin Hanks, American actor ·
1977 – Celaleddin Koçak,
German-Turkish footballer ·
1978 – Katherine Heigl, American actress and
producer ·
1979 – Joseba Llorente, Spanish footballer ·
1980 – Kabir Ali, English cricketer ·
1980 – Beth Phoenix, American wrestler ·
1982 – Ryan Fitzpatrick, American football player ·
1982 – Sean O'Loughlin, English rugby player ·
1983 – Dean Ashton, English footballer ·
1983 – Lars Eckert, German rugby player ·
1983 – André Laurito, German footballer ·
1983 – Gwilym Lee, Welsh actor ·
1983 – José López,
Venezuelan baseball player ·
1983 – Karine Vanasse, Canadian actress and
producer ·
1984 – Maria Höfl-Riesch,
German skier ·
1985 – Julia Alexandratou,
Greek model, actress, and singer ·
1985 – Tony Hunt,
American football player ·
1986 – Pedro León, Spanish footballer ·
1986 – Mohamed Massaquoi,
American football player ·
1990 – Sarah Hyland, American actress ·
1990 – Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter ·
1990 – Michael
Oldfield, Australian rugby league player ·
1990 – Mario Gaspar, Spanish footballer ·
1992 – Sergei Kulbach, Ukrainian figure skater ·
1993 – Ivi Adamou, Cypriot-Greek singer-songwriter ·
1993 – Joe Pigott, English footballer ·
1994 – Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer Deaths[edit]
·
654 – Emperor Kōtoku of
Japan (b. 596) ·
1072 – Bagrat IV of Georgia (b.
1018) ·
1227 – Leszek I the White, High Duke of Poland (b.
c. 1186) ·
1265 – Magnús Óláfsson,
King of Mann and the Isles ·
1326 – Hugh Despenser
the Younger, English courtier (b. 1296) ·
1426 – Elizabeth
of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter, (b. c. 1363) ·
1468 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402) ·
1492 – Loys of Gruuthuse,
Earl of Winchester (b.
c. 1427) ·
1530 – Mingyi Nyo, Burmese ruler (b. 1459) ·
1531 – Johannes
Oecolampadius, German theologian and reformer (b. 1482) ·
1572 – John Knox, Scottish pastor and theologian
(b. 1510) ·
1583 – René de Birague,
French cardinal (b. 1506) ·
1615 – Sethus Calvisius, German composer and
theorist (b. 1556) ·
1642 – Walatta Petros, saint in the Ethiopian
Orthodox Tewahedo Church (b. 1592) ·
1650 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese organist and
composer (b. 1566) ·
1675 – Guru Tegh Bahadur,
Indian guru (b. 1621) ·
1722 – Johann Adam Reincken,
Dutch-German organist and composer (b. 1623) ·
1741 – Ulrika
Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (b. 1688) ·
1770 – Charles-Jean-François
Hénault, French historian and author (b. 1685) ·
1775 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader,
18th Superior
General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1703) ·
1781 – James Caldwell,
American minister (b. 1734) ·
1793 – Clément
Charles François de Laverdy, French lawyer and politician, French
Minister of Finance (b. 1723) ·
1801 – Franz Moritz von
Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725) ·
1801 – Philip Hamilton, Oldest son of Alexander
Hamilton (b. 1782) ·
1807 – Joseph Brant, American tribal leader (b.
1742) ·
1848 – William
Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, English politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779) ·
1870 – Comte de Lautréamont,
Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1846) ·
1885 – Nicolás Avellaneda,
Argentinian journalist and politician, 8th President of
Argentina (b. 1837) ·
1890 – August Belmont, German-American banker and
politician, 16th United
States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1816) ·
1895 – Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (b. 1823)[8] ·
1916 – Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer,
invented the Maxim gun (b.
1840) ·
1920 – Lado
Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian actor and director (b. 1857) ·
1920 – Alexandru Macedonski,
Romanian author and poet (b. 1854) ·
1922 – Erskine
Childers, Irish soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1870) ·
1929 – Georges Clemenceau,
French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime
Minister of France (b. 1841) ·
1943 – Doris Miller, American soldier and
chef, Medal of Honor recipient
(b. 1919) ·
1948 – Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (b. 1864) ·
1954 – Mamie Dillard, African American educator,
clubwoman and suffragist (b. 1874)[9] ·
1956 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920) ·
1957 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and sculptor
(b. 1886) ·
1958 – Robert
Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and
politician, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1864) ·
1959 – Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player,
cricketer, and sailor (b. 1883) ·
1960 – Grand
Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882) ·
1961 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress (b. 1892) ·
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald,
American assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939) ·
1965 – Abdullah
III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1895) ·
1968 – D. A. Levy, American poet and publisher (b.
1942) ·
1973 – John Neihardt, American author and poet (b.
1881) ·
1980 – Herbert Agar, American journalist and
historian (b. 1897) ·
1980 – George Raft, American actor and dancer (b.
1901) ·
1980 – Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator (b. 1922)[10] ·
1980 – Henrietta Hill Swope,
American astronomer and academic (b. 1902) ·
1982 – Barack Obama, Sr.,
Kenyan economist and academic, father of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United
States (b. 1936) ·
1987 – Jehane Benoît, Canadian journalist and
author (b. 1904) ·
1990 – Juan Manuel Bordeu,
Argentinian race car driver (b. 1934) ·
1990 – Fred Shero, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (b. 1925)[11] ·
1990 – Dodie Smith, English author and playwright
(b. 1896) ·
1990 – Marion Post Wolcott,
American photographer (b. 1910) ·
1990 – Bülent Arel, Turkish-American composer and
educator (b. 1919) ·
1991 – Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English
singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of Queen, and producer (b. 1946) ·
1991 – Eric Carr, American drummer of KISS (b. 1950) ·
1993 – Albert Collins, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1932) ·
1995 – Eduard Ole, Estonian-Swedish painter (b.
1898) ·
1996 – Sorley MacLean, Scottish soldier and poet
(b. 1911) ·
1997 – Barbara, French singer-songwriter and
actress (b. 1930) ·
2002 – John Rawls, American philosopher, author,
and academic (b. 1921) ·
2003 – Warren Spahn, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1921) ·
2004 – Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian journalist
and author (b. 1920) ·
2004 – Joseph Hansen,
American author and poet (b. 1923) ·
2004 – James Wong,
Chinese actor and songwriter (b. 1940) ·
2005 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932) ·
2006 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer-songwriter
(b. 1950) ·
2006 – George W. S. Trow,
American author, playwright, and critic (b. 1943) ·
2006 – Zdeněk
Veselovský, Czech zoologist and ethologist (b. 1938) ·
2007 – Casey
Calvert, American guitarist (b. 1981) ·
2008 – Kenny MacLean, Scottish-Canadian bass player
and songwriter (b. 1956) ·
2008 – Cecil H. Underwood,
American educator and politician, 25th Governor of
West Virginia (b. 1922) ·
2009 – Abe Pollin, American businessman and
philanthropist (b. 1923) ·
2009 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician,
25th Prime Minister
of Thailand (b. 1935) ·
2009 – Jun Ross, Filipino basketball player (b.
1949) ·
2010 – Huang Hua, Chinese translator and
politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (b.
1913) ·
2012 – Héctor Camacho,
Puerto Rican-American boxer (b. 1962) ·
2012 – Antoine Kohn, Luxembourgian footballer and
manager (b. 1933) ·
2012 – Jimmy Stewart,
American baseball player and manager (b. 1939) ·
2012 – Nicholas Turro, American chemist and
academic (b. 1938) ·
2012 – Ernie Warlick, American football player and
sportscaster (b. 1932) ·
2013 – Matthew Bucksbaum,
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded General Growth
Properties (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Arnaud Coyot, French cyclist (b. 1980) ·
2013 – Lou Hyndman, Canadian lawyer and politician
(b. 1935) ·
2013 – June Keithley, Filipino actress and
journalist (b. 1947) ·
2013 – Jean King, American politician, 6th Lieutenant
Governor of Hawaii (b. 1925) ·
2013 – Robin
Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, English banker and
politician, Governor
of the Bank of England (b. 1927) ·
2014 – Jorge Herrera
Delgado, Mexican engineer and politician (b. 1961) ·
2014 – Murli Deora, Indian politician, Indian
Minister of Corporate Affairs (b. 1937) ·
2014 – Peter
Henderson, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1926) ·
2014 – Nenad
Manojlović, Serbian water polo player and manager (b. 1957) ·
2014 – Viktor
Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930) ·
2015 – Robert
Ford, English general (b. 1923) ·
2015 – John Forrester,
English historian and philosopher (b. 1949) ·
2015 – Quincy Monk, American football player (b.
1979) ·
2015 – Heinz Oberhummer, Austrian physicist,
astronomer, and academic (b. 1941) ·
2015 – Douglas W.
Shorenstein, American businessman (b. 1955) ·
2016 – Paul Futcher, English footballer (b. 1956) ·
2016 – Florence Henderson,
American actress, singer and television personality (b. 1934) ·
2019 – Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress
(b. 1991) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast days: o Andrew
Dũng-Lạc, Pierre
Dumoulin-Borie, and other Vietnamese Martyrs o Chrysogonus (Roman Catholic
Church) o Colmán of Cloyne (Roman Catholic
Church) o Eanflæd o Firmina (Roman Catholic
Church) o Flavian of Ricina (Roman Catholic
Church) o Jehu Jones (Lutheran) o November
24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest day on which Harvest Day can fall, while November 30
is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in November. (Turkmenistan) ·
Earliest day on which Mother's Day can fall, while November
30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in November. (Russia) ·
Evolution Day (International
observance) ·
Lachit Divas (Assam) ·
Martyrdom of Guru Tegh
Bahadur (India) ·
Teachers' Day (Turkey) |
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