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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
November 25 is the 329th day of the
year (330th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
36 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
571 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. ·
1034 – Máel Coluim
mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies. His grandson, Donnchad,
son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld,
inherits the throne. ·
1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England.[1] ·
1177 – Baldwin IV of
Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.[2] ·
1343 – A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in
the Tyrrhenian Sea,
devastates Naples and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other
places. ·
1487 – Elizabeth of York is
crowned Queen of England.[3] ·
1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with
the Treaty of Granada. ·
1510 – Portuguese
conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command
of Afonso de
Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate,
resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule. ·
1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people. ·
1678 – Trunajaya rebellion:
After a long and logistically challenging march, the allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully
assaulted the rebel stronghold of Kediri. ·
1755 – King Ferdinand VI of
Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compańia
de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of
the Virgin Mary. ·
1758 – French and Indian
War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will
be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh. ·
1759 – An earthquake hits
the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000. ·
1783 – American
Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York
City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris. ·
1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanisław
August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced
to abdicate and is exiled to Russia. ·
1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives
in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy. ·
1833 – A massive
undersea earthquake,
estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2, rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast. ·
1839 – A cyclone slams
into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge destroying the port city
of Coringa (which
has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with
it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted
from the disaster. ·
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of
Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by
routing Confederate troops
under General Braxton Bragg. ·
1864 – American Civil
War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate
Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in
an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City. ·
1874 – The United
States Greenback Party is
established as a political party consisting
primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873. ·
1876 – American Indian Wars:
In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of
the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of
the Powder River. ·
1905 – Prince Carl of
Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of
Norway. ·
1908 – A fire breaks
out on SS Sardinia as
it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour,
resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.[4] ·
1915 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general
relativity to the Prussian
Academy of Sciences. ·
1917 – World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese
army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the
border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania. ·
1918 – Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown
land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia. ·
1926 – The deadliest
November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills
76 people and injures more than 400. ·
1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact,
agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common
interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The
pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories. ·
1940 – World War II: First flights of both
the de Havilland
Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder. ·
1941 – HMS Barham is sunk by a
German torpedo during World War II. ·
1943 – World War II:
Statehood of Bosnia and
Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ·
1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood
movie studios. ·
1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of
Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative
control by the United Kingdom. ·
1950 – The Great
Appalachian Storm of November 1950 impacts 22 American
states, killing 353 people, injuring over 160, and causing US$66.7 million in
damages (1950 dollars). ·
1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors
Theatre in London. It will become the longest
continuously-running play in history. ·
1952 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting,
the Battle of
Triangle Hill ends with Chinese victory, American and South
Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle". ·
1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as
a self-governing member of the French Community. ·
1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are
assassinated. ·
1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington
National Cemetery in Arlington
County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.; his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald,
is buried on the same day in Fort Worth, Texas. ·
1970 – In Japan,
author Yukio Mishima and
one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup
attempt. ·
1973 – Georgios
Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of
the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led
by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis. ·
1975 – Suriname gains independence from the
Netherlands. ·
1977 – Former
Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr.,
is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No.
2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad. He is later assassinated in
1983. ·
1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith. ·
1984 – Thirty-six top
musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know
It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. ·
1986 – Iran–Contra affair:
U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces
that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were
illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua. ·
1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is
officially opened in the Persian Gulf. ·
1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels
the Philippines with category
5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that destroys entire
villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm. ·
1992 – The Federal
Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into
the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993. ·
1996 – An ice storm strikes the central U.S.,
killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over
90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers. ·
1999 – A 5-year-old
Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez,
is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida
coast. ·
2000 – The 2000 Baku earthquake,
with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest
earthquake in the region in 158 years. ·
2008 – Cyclone Nisha strikes
northern Sri Lanka, killing
15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest
rainfall in nine decades. ·
2009 – Jeddah floods:
Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an ongoing Hajj
pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the
torrents, with 350 others missing. Births[edit]
·
902 – Emperor Taizong
of Liao (d. 947) ·
1075 – Emperor Taizong of
Jin (d. 1135) ·
1454 – Catherine Cornaro,
Queen of Cyprus (d. 1510)[5] ·
1467 – Thomas
Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, Knight of Henry VIII of England (d. 1525) ·
1493 – Osanna of Cattaro,
Dominican visionary and anchoress (d. 1565) ·
1562 – Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright and poet
(d. 1635) ·
1566 – John Heminges, English actor (d. 1630) ·
1577 – Piet Pieterszoon
Hein, Dutch admiral (d. 1629) ·
1587 – Sir
Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1666) ·
1609 – Henrietta Maria
of France (d. 1669) ·
1638 – Catherine of
Braganza (d. 1705) ·
1666 – Giuseppe
Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Italian violin maker (d. 1740) ·
1703 – Jean-François
Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784) ·
1752 – Johann
Friedrich Reichardt, German composer and critic (d. 1814) ·
1753 – Robert Townsend,
American spy (d. 1838) ·
1758 – John Armstrong, Jr.,
American general and politician, 7th United
States Secretary of War (d. 1843) ·
1778 – Mary Anne
Schimmelpenninck, English author and activist (d. 1856) ·
1787 – Franz Xaver Gruber,
Austrian organist and composer (d. 1863) ·
1814 – Julius Robert von
Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878) ·
1815 – William
Sawyer, Canadian merchant and politician (d. 1904) ·
1817 – John Bigelow, American lawyer and
politician, United
States Ambassador to France (d. 1911) ·
1835 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American
businessman and philanthropist (d. 1919) ·
1841 – Ernst Schröder,
German mathematician and academic (d. 1902) ·
1843 – Henry Ware Eliot, American businessman and
philanthropist (d. 1919) ·
1844 – Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman,
founded Mercedes-Benz (d.
1929) ·
1845 – José Maria
de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese-French journalist and author (d.
1900) ·
1846 – Carrie Nation, American activist (d. 1911) ·
1858 – Alfred Capus, French journalist, author, and
playwright (d. 1922) ·
1862 – Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and
composer (d. 1901) ·
1862 – Gustaf Söderström,
Swedish tug of war competitor,
shot putter, and discus thrower (d. 1958) ·
1865 – Kate Gleason, American engineer,
businesswoman, and philanthropist (d. 1933) ·
1867 – Talaat Harb, Egyptian economist, founded
the Banque Misr (d.
1941) ·
1868 – Ernest
Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1937) ·
1869 – Ben Lindsey,
American lawyer and judge (d. 1934) ·
1870 – Winthrop Ames, American director, producer,
and playwright (d. 1937) ·
1870 – Maurice Denis, French painter of Les Nabis movement (d. 1943) ·
1872 – Robert Maysack, American gymnast and
triathlete (d. 1960) ·
1873 – Albert Henry
Krehbiel, American painter and illustrator (d. 1945) ·
1874 – Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910) ·
1876 – Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d.
1936) ·
1877 – Harley
Granville-Barker, British actor, director and playwright (d. 1946) ·
1880 – John Flynn,
Australian minister and pilot, founded the Royal
Flying Doctor Service of Australia (d. 1951) ·
1880 – Elsie J. Oxenham, English author (d. 1960) ·
1881 – Jacob Fichman, Romanian-Israeli poet and
critic (d. 1958) ·
1881 – Pope John XXIII (d. 1963) ·
1883 – Harvey Spencer Lewis,
American mystic and author (d. 1939) ·
1887 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and
geneticist (d. 1943) ·
1889 – Reşat Nuri
Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright (d. 1956) ·
1890 – Isaac Rosenberg, English soldier and poet
(d. 1918) ·
1891 – Ōnishiki
Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (d. 1941) ·
1893 – Joseph Wood Krutch,
American author and critic (d. 1970) ·
1895 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer
(d. 1991) ·
1895 – Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician, Chairman of
the Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (d. 1978) ·
1895 – Helen Hooven
Santmyer, American poet and author (d. 1986) ·
1895 – Ludvík Svoboda,
Czech general and politician, 8th President of
Czechoslovakia (d. 1979) ·
1896 – Albertus
Soegijapranata, Indonesian archbishop (d. 1963) ·
1896 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic
(d. 1989) ·
1898 – Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 1971) ·
1898 – Aarne Viisimaa, Estonian tenor and director
(d. 1989) ·
1900 – Rudolf Höss, German SS officer
(d. 1947) ·
1900 – Helen Gahagan
Douglas, American actress and politician (d. 1980) ·
1901 – Arthur Liebehenschel,
German SS officer (d. 1948) ·
1902 – Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey
player and coach (d. 1985) ·
1904 – Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower
and shot putter (d. 1964) ·
1904 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor
(d. 2000) ·
1905 – Samiha Ayverdi, Turkish mystic and author
(d. 1993) ·
1906 – Alice Ambrose, American philosopher and
logician (d. 2001) ·
1907 – John Stuart
Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (d. 1938) ·
1908 – Natyaguru Nurul Momen, Bangladeshi playwright, author,
educator, director and media personality (d. 1990) ·
1909 – P. D. Eastman, American author and
illustrator (d. 1986) ·
1911 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter and
photographer (d. 1984) ·
1913 – Lewis Thomas, American physician,
etymologist, and educator (d. 1993) ·
1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and
coach (d. 1999)[6] ·
1914 – Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist (d.
1995) ·
1915 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and
politician, 30th President of Chile (d.
2006) ·
1915 – Armando Villanueva,
Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of
Peru (d. 2013) ·
1916 – Peg Lynch, American actress and screenwriter
(d. 2015) ·
1917 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (d. 2010) ·
1917 – Alparslan Türkeş,
Cypriot-Turkish colonel and politician, Deputy
Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 1997) ·
1919 – Norman Tokar, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 1979) ·
1920 – Ricardo Montalbán,
Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (d. 2009) ·
1920 – Noel Neill, American actress (d. 2016) ·
1922 – Shelagh Fraser, English actress (d. 2000) ·
1922 – Ilja Hurník, Czech composer and playwright
(d. 2013) ·
1922 – Fernance B. Perry,
Portuguese-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2014) ·
1923 – Mauno Koivisto, Finnish banker and
politician, 9th President of Finland (d.
2017) ·
1923 – Art Wall Jr., American golfer (d. 2001) ·
1924 – Paul Desmond, American saxophonist and
composer (d. 1977) ·
1924 – Sybil Stockdale, American activist,
co-founded the National
League of Families (d. 2015) ·
1924 – Takaaki Yoshimoto,
Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 2012) ·
1926 – Poul Anderson, American author (d. 2001) ·
1926 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor and producer
(d. 1969) ·
1926 – Ranganath Misra, Indian lawyer and jurist,
21st Chief Justice of
India (d. 2012) ·
1927 – John K. Cooley, American journalist and
author (d. 2008) ·
1929 – Judy Crichton, American director and
producer (d. 2007) ·
1931 – Nat Adderley, American cornet and trumpet
player (d. 2000) ·
1932 – Takayo Fischer, American actress and singer ·
1933 – Kathryn Crosby, American actress and singer ·
1935 – Robert Berner, American geologist and
academic (d. 2015) ·
1936 – Trisha Brown, American dancer and
choreographer (d. 2017) ·
1936 – Phoebe S. Leboy, American biochemist (d.
2012) ·
1938 – Erol Güngör, Turkish sociologist and
psychologist (d. 1983) ·
1938 – Rosanna Schiaffino,
Italian actress (d. 2009) ·
1939 – Martin Feldstein, American economist and
academic (d. 2019) ·
1940 – Reinhard Furrer, Austrian-German physicist
and astronaut (d. 1995) ·
1940 – Joe Gibbs, American football player and
coach ·
1940 – Jan Jongbloed, Dutch footballer and coach ·
1940 – Karl Offmann, Mauritian politician,
3rd President
of Mauritius ·
1940 – Shyamal Kumar Sen,
Indian jurist and politician, 21st Governor of West
Bengal ·
1940 – Percy Sledge, American singer (d. 2015) ·
1941 – Christos
Papanikolaou, Greek pole vaulter ·
1941 – Gerald Seymour, English journalist and
author ·
1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar
Shahi, Pakistani spiritual leader and author ·
1942 – Bob Lind, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1942 – Mimis Papaioannou,
Greek footballer and manager ·
1943 – Jerry Portnoy, American singer-songwriter
and harmonica player ·
1944 – Ben Stein, American actor, television
personality, game show host, lawyer, and author ·
1944 – Michael Kijana
Wamalwa, Kenyan lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of
Kenya (d. 2003) ·
1945 – Gail Collins, American journalist and author ·
1945 – Patrick Nagel, American painter and
illustrator (d. 1984) ·
1945 – George
Webster, American football player (d. 2007) ·
1946 – Marc Brown,
American author and illustrator ·
1946 – Mike Doyle,
English footballer (d. 2011) ·
1947 – Jonathan Kaplan, French-American director
and producer ·
1947 – John Larroquette, American actor ·
1948 – Jacques
Dupuis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Deputy Premier
of Quebec ·
1948 – Lars Eighner, American author ·
1949 – Kerry O'Keeffe, Australian cricketer and
sportscaster ·
1950 – Chris Claremont, English-American author ·
1950 – Giorgio Faletti, Italian author, screenwriter,
and actor (d. 2014) ·
1950 – Alexis Wright, Australian author ·
1951 – Bucky Dent, American baseball player and
manager ·
1951 – Charlaine Harris, American author and poet ·
1951 – Bill Morrissey, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2011) ·
1951 – Arturo Pérez-Reverte,
Spanish author and journalist ·
1951 – Johnny Rep, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1952 – Crescent Dragonwagon,
American author and educator ·
1952 – John Lynch,
American businessman and politician, 80th Governor of New
Hampshire ·
1952 – Gabriele Oriali, Italian footballer and
manager ·
1953 – Graham Eadie, Australian rugby league player
and coach ·
1953 – Mark Frost, American author, screenwriter,
and producer ·
1953 – Jeffrey Skilling, American businessman ·
1955 – Don Hahn, American director and producer ·
1955 – Kurt Niedermayer, German footballer and
manager ·
1955 – Connie Palmen, Dutch author ·
1955 – Bruno Tonioli, Italian dancer and
choreographer ·
1957 – Bob Ehrlich, American lawyer and politician,
60th Governor of Maryland ·
1958 – Naomi Oreskes, American historian of science ·
1959 – Charles Kennedy, Scottish journalist and
politician (d. 2015) ·
1959 – Steve Rothery, English guitarist and
songwriter ·
1960 – Amy Grant, American singer-songwriter ·
1960 – John F. Kennedy Jr.,
American lawyer, journalist, and publisher (d. 1999) ·
1961 – Paul Comstive, English footballer (d. 2013) ·
1962 – Scott Cam, Australian carpenter and
television host ·
1962 – Gilbert Delorme, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1962 – Hironobu Sakaguchi,
Japanese videogame designer ·
1962 – Jimon Terakado, Japanese comedian and actor ·
1963 – Kevin Chamberlin, American actor and
director ·
1963 – Holly Cole, Canadian singer and actress ·
1963 – Chip Kelly, American football player and
coach ·
1963 – Bernie Kosar, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1964 – Mark Lanegan, American singer-songwriter ·
1965 – Tim Armstrong, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1965 – Cris Carter, American football player,
coach, and sportscaster ·
1966 – Stacy Lattisaw, American R&B singer ·
1967 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer ·
1967 – Gregg Turkington, Australian comedian and
singer ·
1968 – Jacqueline Hennessy,
Canadian actress and journalist ·
1968 – Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress and singer ·
1968 – Erick Sermon, American rapper and producer ·
1969 – Kim Ofstad, Norwegian drummer and composer ·
1971 – Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player
and coach ·
1971 – Göksel Demirpençe,
Turkish singer-songwriter ·
1972 – Deepa Marathe, Indian cricketer ·
1973 – Steven de Jongh, Dutch cyclist ·
1973 – Octavio Dotel, Dominican baseball player ·
1973 – Erick Strickland, American basketball player ·
1973 – Eddie Steeples, American actor, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1974 – Kenneth Mitchell,
Canadian actor ·
1975 – Abdelkader Benali,
Moroccan-Dutch journalist and author ·
1976 – Clint Mathis, American soccer player and
coach ·
1976 – Donovan McNabb, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1976 – Olena Vitrychenko,
Ukrainian gymnast and coach ·
1977 – Guillermo Cańas,
Argentinian tennis player ·
1977 – Marcus Marshall, Australian race car driver ·
1978 – Ringo Sheena, Japanese singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1979 – Michael Lehan, American football player ·
1980 – John-Michael Liles,
American ice hockey player ·
1980 – Josh Mathews, American wrestler and
sportscaster ·
1980 – Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer ·
1980 – Alviro Petersen, South African cricketer ·
1980 – Nick Swisher, American baseball player ·
1980 – Steffen Thier, German rugby player ·
1981 – Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer ·
1981 – Lee Bum-ho, South Korean baseball player ·
1981 – Barbara Pierce
Bush, American activist ·
1981 – Jenna Bush Hager, American journalist ·
1981 – Jared Jeffries, American basketball player ·
1981 – Chevon Troutman, American basketball player ·
1982 – Mitchell Claydon, Australian-English
cricketer ·
1983 – Kirsty
Crawford, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress ·
1983 – Jhulan Goswami, Indian cricketer ·
1984 – Peter Siddle, Australian cricketer ·
1985 – Remona Fransen, Dutch pentathlete ·
1986 – Katie Cassidy, American actress ·
1986 – Craig Gardner, English footballer ·
1988 – Nodar Kumaritashvili,
Georgian luger (d. 2010) ·
1988 – Jay Spearing, English footballer ·
1989 – Tom Dice, Belgian singer-songwriter ·
1990 – Rye Rye, American rapper, dancer, and
actress ·
1990 – Everton Heleno
dos Santos, Brazilian footballer ·
1991 – Kyler Fackrell, American football player ·
1991 – Jamie Grace, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actress ·
1991 – Philipp Grubauer, German ice hockey player ·
1991 – Luca Tremolada, Italian footballer ·
1991 – Kevin Woo, American-South Korean singer and
dancer ·
1992 – Ana Bogdan, Romanian tennis player ·
1993 – Danny Kent, English motorcycle racer Deaths[edit]
·
311 – Pope Peter I
of Alexandria ·
734 – Bilge Khagan, Turkic emperor (b. 683) ·
1034 – Malcolm II of
Scotland (b. 954) ·
1120 – William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (sinking
of the White Ship) (b. 1103) ·
1185 – Pope Lucius III (b. 1097) ·
1326 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shōgun (b.
1264) ·
1374 – Philip II,
Prince of Taranto (b. 1329) ·
1456 – Jacques Cśur, French merchant and banker (b.
1395) ·
1560 – Andrea Doria, Italian admiral (b. 1466) ·
1565 – Hu Zongxian, Chinese general (b. 1512) ·
1626 – Edward Alleyn, English actor, founded Dulwich College (b. 1566) ·
1694 – Ismaël Bullialdus,
French astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605) ·
1700 – Stephanus Van
Cortlandt, American lawyer and politician, 10th Mayor of New York
City (b. 1643) ·
1748 – Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter and
theologian (b. 1674) ·
1755 – Johann Georg
Pisendel, German violinist and composer (b. 1687) ·
1785 – Richard Glover,
English poet and politician (b. 1712) ·
1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar
(b. 1821) ·
1884 – Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic
(b. 1818) ·
1885 – Thomas A. Hendricks,
American lawyer and politician, 21st Vice
President of the United States (b. 1819) ·
1885 – Alfonso XII of Spain (b.
1857) ·
1909 – Edward P. Allen, American lawyer and
politician (b. 1839) ·
1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-American race car
driver and businessman (b. 1892) ·
1925 – Vajiravudh, Siam king (b. 1880) ·
1934 – N. E. Brown, English plant taxonomist and
authority on succulents (b. 1849) ·
1944 – Kenesaw Mountain
Landis, American lawyer and judge (b. 1866) ·
1948 – Kanbun Uechi, Japanese martial artist,
founded Uechi-ryū (b.
1877) ·
1949 – Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (b.
1878) ·
1950 – Mao Anying, Chinese general (b. 1922) ·
1950 – Johannes V. Jensen,
Danish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1873) ·
1950 – Gustaf John Ramstedt,
Finnish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873) ·
1956 – Alexander Dovzhenko,
Ukrainian-Russian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894) ·
1957 – Prince
George of Greece and Denmark (b. 1869) ·
1959 – Gérard Philipe,
French actor (b. 1922) ·
1961 – Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (b. 1866) ·
1963 – Alexander Marinesko,
Russian lieutenant (b. 1913) ·
1965 – Myra Hess, English pianist and educator (b.
1890) ·
1968 – Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic,
and essayist (b. 1878) ·
1968 – Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer
(b. 1908) ·
1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, actor, and
director (b. 1925) ·
1972 – Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer,
designed the Coandă-1910 (b.
1886) ·
1973 – Laurence Harvey, Lithuania-born English
actor (b. 1928) ·
1974 – Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1948) ·
1974 – U Thant, Burmese lawyer and diplomat,
3rd Secretary-General
of the United Nations (b. 1909) ·
1980 – Herbert Flam, American tennis player (b.
1928)[7] ·
1981 – Jack Albertson, American actor and singer
(b. 1907) ·
1983 – Saleem
Raza (Pakistani singer), Pakistani Christian playback singer (b.
1932) ·
1984 – Yashwantrao Chavan,
Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy
Prime Minister of India (b. 1913) ·
1985 – Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic
(b. 1905) ·
1985 – Franz Hildebrandt,
German pastor and theologian (b. 1909) ·
1987 – Harold Washington,
American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922) ·
1989 – Alva R. Fitch, American general (b. 1907) ·
1990 – Merab Mamardashvili,
Georgian philosopher and academic (b. 1930) ·
1991 – Eleanor Audley, American actress and voice
artist (b. 1905) ·
1995 – Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist (b.
1914) ·
1997 – Hastings Banda, Malawian physician and
politician, 1st President of Malawi (b.
1898) ·
1998 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher and
academic (b. 1906) ·
1998 – Flip Wilson, American comedian, actor, and
screenwriter (b. 1933) ·
1999 – Valentín Campa,
Mexican union leader and politician (b. 1904) ·
2000 – Hugh Alexander,
American baseball player and scout (b. 1917) ·
2002 – Karel Reisz, Czech-English director and
producer (b. 1926) ·
2004 – Ed Paschke, American painter and academic
(b. 1939) ·
2005 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b.
1946) ·
2005 – Richard Burns, English race car driver (b.
1971) ·
2006 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian author and
illustrator (b. 1931) ·
2006 – Valentín Elizalde,
Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1979) ·
2006 – Phyllis Fraser, American actress and
publisher, co-founded Beginner Books (b. 1916) ·
2006 – Kenneth M. Taylor,
American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1919) ·
2007 – Peter Lipton, American philosopher and
academic (b. 1954) ·
2010 – Alfred Balk, American journalist and author
(b. 1930) ·
2010 – Peter Christopherson,
English keyboard player, songwriter, and director (b. 1955) ·
2010 – C. Scott Littleton,
American anthropologist and academic (b. 1933) ·
2010 – Bernard Matthews, English businessman,
founded Bernard Matthews
Farms (b. 1930) ·
2011 – Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter and
coach (b. 1942) ·
2011 – Coco Robicheaux, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1947) ·
2012 – Lars Hörmander,
Swedish mathematician and educator (b. 1931) ·
2012 – Dave Sexton, English footballer and manager
(b. 1930) ·
2012 – Dinah Sheridan, English actress (b. 1920) ·
2012 – Jim Temp, American football player and
businessman (b. 1933) ·
2013 – Lou Brissie, American baseball player (b.
1924) ·
2013 – Ricardo Fort, Argentinian businessman (b.
1968) ·
2013 – Bill Foulkes, English footballer and manager
(b. 1932) ·
2013 – Chico Hamilton, American drummer and
bandleader (b. 1921) ·
2013 – Egon Lánský, Czech journalist and politician
(b. 1934) ·
2013 – Al Plastino, American author and illustrator
(b. 1921) ·
2014 – Irvin J. Borowsky,
American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1924) ·
2014 – Sitara Devi, Indian dancer, and
choreographer (b. 1920) ·
2014 – Petr Hapka, Czech composer and conductor (b.
1944) ·
2014 – Denham Harman, American biogerontologist and
academic (b. 1916) ·
2015 – O'Neil Bell, Jamaican boxer (b. 1974) ·
2015 – Jeremy
Black, English admiral (b. 1932) ·
2015 – Svein Christiansen,
Norwegian drummer and composer (b. 1941) ·
2015 – Lennart Hellsing, Swedish author and
translator (b. 1919) ·
2015 – Elmo Williams, American director, producer,
and editor (b. 1913) ·
2016 – Fidel Castro, Communist leader of Cuba, and
revolutionary (b. 1926)[8] ·
2016 – Ron Glass, American actor (b. 1945)[9] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Catherine of
Alexandria and its related observances o Isaac Watts (Lutheran
Church and Church
of England) o James Otis
Sargent Huntington (Episcopal
Church) o November
25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Independence Day, celebrates the
independence of Suriname from the
Netherlands in 1975. ·
International Day for the Elimination of Violence
against Women ·
National
Day (Bosnia and
Herzegovina) ·
Vajiravudh
Memorial Day (Thailand) |
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