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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
November 27 is the 331st day of the
year (332nd in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
34 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
AD 25 – Luoyang is declared capital
of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of
Han. ·
176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme
Commander of the Roman legions. ·
395 – Rufinus, praetorian
prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas. ·
511 – King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St
Genevieve. ·
602 – Emperor Maurice is
forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself. ·
1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont. ·
1727 – The foundation
stone to the Jerusalem
Church in Berlin is laid. ·
1809 – The Berners Street hoax was
perpetrated by Theodore Hook in
the City of Westminster,
London. ·
1815 – Adoption
of Constitution
of the Kingdom of Poland. ·
1830 – Saint Catherine Labouré experiences
a Marian apparition. ·
1835 – James Pratt
and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to
be executed for sodomy in England. ·
1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American
Statistical Association is founded. ·
1856 – The Coup of 1856 leads
to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new,
reactionary constitution. ·
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry
leader John Hunt Morgan and
several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and
return safely to the South. ·
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against
troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee. ·
1868 – American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita
River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong
Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land. ·
1886 – German
judge Emil Hartwich sustains
fatal injuries in a duel, which would become
the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest. ·
1895 – At the
Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and
testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies. ·
1896 – Also
sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed. ·
1901 – The U.S. Army War
College is established. ·
1912 – Spain declares a protectorate over the
north shore of Morocco. ·
1918 – The Free Territory of Ukraine is
established in Huliaipole. ·
1924 – In New York
City, the first Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. ·
1940 – In Romania,
the ruling Iron Guard fascist
party assassinates over
60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's
aides and other political dissidents. ·
1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape
Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea. ·
1942 – World War II:
At Toulon, the French navy scuttles
its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands. ·
1944 – World War
II: RAF Fauld explosion:
An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition
dump in Staffordshire kills
seventy people. ·
1945 – CARE (then
the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) was founded to a
send CARE Packages of
food relief to Europe after World War II. ·
1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison
after serving 44 months for perjury. ·
1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that
if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from
120,000 to 400,000. ·
1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman
to play major professional basketball for the Kentucky Colonels in
an ABA game
against the Los Angeles Stars. ·
1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter
releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first
man-made object to reach the surface of Mars. ·
1973 – Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes
92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice
President of the United States. (On December 6, the House will
confirm him 387–35). ·
1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had
announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings
and shootings across England. ·
1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by
former supervisor Dan White. ·
1978 – The Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in
Turkey. ·
1983 – Avianca Flight 011:
A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181. ·
1984 – Under the Brussels
Agreement signed between the governments of the United
Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain
over Gibraltar, including sovereignty. ·
1989 – Avianca Flight 203:
A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air
over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board
and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel will
claim responsibility for the attack. ·
1992 – For the second
time in a year, military forces try
to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela. ·
1997 – Twenty-five
people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria. ·
1999 – The
centre-left Labour Party takes
control of the New Zealand government
with leader Helen Clark becoming
the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. ·
2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is
discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space
Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. ·
2004 – Pope John Paul II returns
the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox
Church. ·
2006 – The House of
Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as
a nation within Canada. ·
2008 – XL Airways
Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing
a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon,
killing all seven people on board.[1] ·
2009 – Nevsky
Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing
28 deaths and 96 injuries. ·
2015 – United States: An active shooter inside
a Planned Parenthood facility
in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, shoots at
least four police
officers. One officer later dies. Two civilians were also killed,
and six injured. The shooter later surrendered. Births[edit]
·
111 – Antinous, Greek favourite of Hadrian (d. 130) ·
1127 – Emperor Xiaozong
of Song (d. 1194) ·
1380 – King Ferdinand I of
Aragon (d. 1416) ·
1422 – Gaston IV, Count
of Foix, French nobleman (d. 1472) ·
1548 – Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (d.
1598) ·
1558 – Mingyi Swa, Crown Prince of Burma (d. 1593) ·
1576 – Shimazu Tadatsune,
Japanese daimyō (d. 1638) ·
1582 – Pierre Dupuy,
French historian and scholar (d. 1651) ·
1630 – Sigismund
Francis, Archduke of Austria (d. 1665) ·
1635 – Françoise
d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (d.
1719) ·
1640 – Barbara
Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (d. 1709) ·
1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer,
physicist, and mathematician (d. 1744) ·
1710 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and academic
(d. 1787) ·
1746 – Robert
R. Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st United
States Secretary for Foreign Affairs (d. 1813) ·
1746 – Increase Sumner, American lawyer, jurist,
and politician, 5th Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1799) ·
1754 – Georg Forster, German-Polish ethnologist and
journalist (d. 1794) ·
1759 – Franz Krommer, Czech violinist and composer
(d. 1831) ·
1779 – Aimé, duc
de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician, French
Minister of Defence (d. 1865) ·
1804 – Julius Benedict, German-English conductor
and composer (d. 1885) ·
1809 – Fanny Kemble, English actress, playwright,
and poet (d. 1893) ·
1814 – Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de
Montholon-Sémonville, French politician and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (d.
1886) ·
1820 – Rachel Brooks
Gleason, fourth woman to earn a medical degree in the United
States (d. 1905) ·
1823 – James Service, Scottish-Australian
politician, 12th Premier of Victoria (d.
1899) ·
1833 – Princess
Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897) ·
1843 – Cornelius
Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899) ·
1845 – Frederic
Crowninshield, American artist and author (d. 1918) ·
1853 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and
illustrator (d. 1928) ·
1857 – Charles Scott
Sherrington, English physiologist, bacteriologist, and
pathologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1952) ·
1859 – William Bliss Baker,
American painter (d. 1886) ·
1865 – Janez Evangelist
Krek, Slovene priest, journalist, and politician (d. 1917) ·
1867 – Charles Koechlin, French composer and
educator (d. 1950) ·
1870 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi,
Finnish academic and politician, 7th President of Finland (d.
1956) ·
1871 – Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and
engineer (d. 1950) ·
1874 – Charles A. Beard, American historian,
author, and educator, co-founded The New School (d. 1948) ·
1874 – Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist
and politician, 1st President of Israel (d.
1952) ·
1875 – Julius Lenhart, Austrian gymnast (d. 1962) ·
1877 – Katharine Anthony,
American biographer (d. 1965)[2] ·
1878 – Jatindramohan Bagchi,
Indian poet and critic (d. 1948) ·
1878 – Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and
coach (d. 1969) ·
1885 – Daniel Mendaille, French actor (d. 1963) ·
1885 – Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian author and
playwright (d. 1944) ·
1887 – Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (d. 1946) ·
1888 – Ganesh Vasudev
Mavalankar, Indian activist and politician, 1st Speaker of the
Lok Sabha (d. 1956) ·
1894 – Konosuke Matsushita,
Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (d. 1989) ·
1894 – Katherine Milhous,
American author and illustrator (d. 1977) ·
1894 – Amphilochius of
Pochayiv, Ukrainian monk and saint (d. 1971) ·
1898 – Fredric Warburg, English author and
publisher (d. 1981) ·
1900 – Jovette Bernier, Canadian journalist,
author, and radio show host (d. 1981) ·
1901 – Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d. 1962) ·
1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and
physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1976) ·
1905 – Astrid Allwyn, American actress (d. 1978)[3] ·
1907 – Harivansh Rai
Bachchan, Indian poet and author (d. 2003) ·
1907 – L. Sprague de Camp,
American historian and author (d. 2000) ·
1909 – James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter,
and critic (d. 1955) ·
1909 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and
theorist (d. 1967) ·
1911 – Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and
educator (d. 2011) ·
1911 – David Merrick, American director and
producer (d. 2000) ·
1912 – Connie Sawyer, American actress (d. 2018) ·
1916 – Chick Hearn, American sportscaster and actor
(d. 2002) ·
1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith,
American actor and television host (d. 1998) ·
1918 – Stephen Elliott,
American actor (d. 2005) ·
1920 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985) ·
1920 – Buster Merryfield,
English actor (d. 1999) ·
1920 – Cal Worthington, American captain and car
dealer (d. 2013) ·
1921 – Dora Dougherty
Strother, American pilot and academic (d. 2013) ·
1921 – Alexander
Dubček, Slovak soldier and politician (d. 1992) ·
1922 – Hall Bartlett, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 1993) ·
1922 – Nicholas Magallanes,
American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet (d.
1977) ·
1923 – J. Ernest Wilkins
Jr., American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and
mathematician (d. 2011) ·
1925 – John Maddox, Welsh chemist, physicist, and
journalist (d. 2009) ·
1925 – Marshall Thompson,
American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992) ·
1925 – Derroll Adams, American folk
singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2000) ·
1925 – Ernie Wise, English actor, singer, and
screenwriter (d. 1999) ·
1926 – Chae Myung-shin, South Korean general (d.
2013) ·
1927 – Carlos José Castilho,
Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 1987) ·
1927 – William E. Simon, American soldier and
politician, 63rd United
States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 2000) ·
1928 – Alekos Alexandrakis,
Greek actor and director (d. 2005) ·
1928 – Josh Kirby, English painter and illustrator
(d. 2001) ·
1930 – Joe DeNardo, American meteorologist (d.
2018) ·
1930 – Dick Poole,
Australian rugby league player and coach ·
1930 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean engineer and author
(d. 2009) ·
1930 – Alan Simpson,
English screenwriter and producer (d. 2017) ·
1932 – Benigno Aquino, Jr.,
Filipino journalist and politician (d. 1983) ·
1933 – Jacques Godbout, Canadian journalist,
author, director, and screenwriter ·
1933 – Gordon S. Wood, American historian and
academic ·
1934 – Ammo Baba, Iraqi footballer and manager (d.
2009) ·
1934 – Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer,
songwriter, and producer (d. 1975) ·
1934 – Gilbert Strang, American mathematician and
academic ·
1935 – Les Blank, American director and producer
(d. 2013) ·
1935 – Daniel Charles, French musicologist and
philosopher (d. 2008) ·
1935 – Willie Pastrano, American boxer (d. 1997) ·
1937 – Gail Sheehy, American journalist and author ·
1938 – John Ashworth,
English biologist and academic ·
1938 – Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan academic and
politician, Prime Minister
of Uganda (d. 2019) ·
1939 – Dave Giusti, American baseball player and
manager ·
1939 – Laurent-Désiré
Kabila, Congolese politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d.
2001) ·
1940 – Bruce Lee, American-Chinese actor, martial
artist, and screenwriter (d. 1973) ·
1941 – Aimé Jacquet, French footballer, coach, and
manager ·
1941 – Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 1998) ·
1941 – Louis van Dijk, Dutch pianist ·
1942 – Henry Carr, American football player and
sprinter (d. 2015) ·
1942 – Marilyn Hacker, American poet and critic ·
1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (d. 1970) ·
1943 – Nicole Brossard, Canadian author and poet ·
1943 – Jil Sander, German fashion designer ·
1944 – Mickey Leland, American activist and
politician (d. 1989) ·
1945 – James Avery,
American actor (d. 2013) ·
1945 – Phil Bloom, Dutch model and actress ·
1945 – Randy Brecker, American trumpeter and
flugelhornist ·
1945 – Alain de Cadenet, English race car driver ·
1945 – Benigno Fitial, Mariana Islander businessman
and politician, 7th Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands ·
1945 – Simon Townsend, Australian journalist and
television host ·
1946 – Richard Codey, American politician,
53rd Governor of New
Jersey ·
1946 – Ismaďl Omar Guelleh,
Ethiopian-Djiboutian lawyer and politician, President
of Djibouti ·
1947 – Don Adams,
American basketball player (d. 2013) ·
1947 – Neil Rosenshein, American tenor and actor ·
1949 – Masanori Sekiya, Japanese race car driver ·
1950 – Gavyn Davies, English journalist and
businessman ·
1951 – Kathryn Bigelow, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1951 – Vera Fischer,
Brazilian actress, winner from Miss Brasil 1969 contest ·
1951 – Gunnar Graps, Estonian singer and guitarist
(d. 2004) ·
1952 – Sheila Copps, Canadian journalist and
politician, 6th Deputy
Prime Minister of Canada ·
1952 – Bappi Lahiri, Indian singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1952 – Jim Wetherbee, American captain, engineer,
and astronaut ·
1953 – Curtis Armstrong, American actor, singer,
and producer ·
1953 – Steve Bannon, American media executive and
political figure ·
1953 – Boris Grebenshchikov,
Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1953 – Tarmo Kőuts, Estonian admiral and politician ·
1953 – Lyle Mays, American keyboardist and composer
(d. 2020) ·
1953 – Richard Stone,
American composer (d. 2001) ·
1954 – Arthur Smith,
English comedian, actor, and screenwriter ·
1955 – Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1955 – Bill Nye, American engineer, educator, and
television host ·
1956 – William Fichtner, American actor ·
1956 – John McCarthy,
English journalist and author ·
1956 – Nazrin Shah of Perak,
Sultan of Perak ·
1957 – Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish race car
driver ·
1957 – Frank Boeijen, Dutch singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1957 – Caroline Kennedy, American lawyer and
diplomat, 29th United
States Ambassador to Japan ·
1957 – Callie Khouri, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1957 – Michael A. Stackpole,
American game designer and author ·
1957 – Edda Heiđrún Backman,
Icelandic actress, singer, director and artist (d. 2016) ·
1958 – Tetsuya Komuro, Japanese singer-songwriter,
and producer ·
1958 – Mike Scioscia, American baseball player and
manager ·
1959 – Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and
songwriter ·
1959 – Viktoria Mullova, Russian violinist ·
1960 – Kevin Henkes, American author and
illustrator ·
1960 – Ken O'Brien, American football player and
coach ·
1960 – Tim Pawlenty, American lawyer and
politician, 39th Governor of
Minnesota ·
1960 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian economist and
politician, 10th Prime Minister
of Ukraine ·
1960 – Gianni Vernetti, Italian lawyer and
politician ·
1961 – Samantha Bond, English actress ·
1961 – Steve Oedekerk, American actor, director,
and screenwriter ·
1962 – Charlie Benante, American drummer and
songwriter ·
1962 – Mike Bordin, American drummer ·
1962 – Davey Boy Smith, English-Canadian wrestler
(d. 2002) ·
1963 – Fisher Stevens, American actor, director,
and producer ·
1964 – Robin Givens, American actress ·
1964 – Roberto Mancini, Italian footballer and
manager ·
1964 – Hisayuki Sasaki, Japanese golfer (d. 2013) ·
1965 – Danielle Ammaccapane,
American golfer ·
1966 – Andy Merrill, American television writer,
producer and voice actor ·
1968 – Michael Vartan, French-American actor ·
1968 – Al Barrow, English bass guitarist ·
1969 – Ruth George, English politician ·
1969 – Damian Hinds, English politician ·
1969 – Myles Kennedy, American singer-songwriter ·
1971 – Kirk Acevedo, American actor ·
1971 – Larry Allen, American football player ·
1971 – Iván Rodríguez,
Puerto Rican-American baseball player ·
1971 – Nick Van Exel, American basketball player
and coach ·
1972 – Shane Salerno, American screenwriter and
producer ·
1973 – Sharlto Copley, South African actor ·
1973 – Samantha Harris, American model and
television host ·
1973 – Evan Karagias, American wrestler and actor ·
1973 – Jin Katagiri, Japanese comedian, actor,
sculptor, and potter ·
1973 – Twista, American rapper and producer ·
1974 – Wendy Houvenaghel,
Northern Irish racing cyclist ·
1974 – Alec Newman, Scottish actor ·
1975 – Bad Azz, American rapper (d. 2019) ·
1975 – Martín Gramática,
Argentinian-American football player ·
1975 – Rain Vessenberg, Estonian footballer ·
1976 – Jean Grae, South African-American rapper and
producer ·
1976 – Chad Kilger, Canadian ice hockey player and
firefighter ·
1976 – Jaleel White, American actor and
screenwriter ·
1977 – Willie Bloomquist,
American baseball player ·
1978 – Eszter Molnár, Hungarian tennis player ·
1978 – Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player ·
1978 – Mike Skinner,
English rapper and producer ·
1978 – Radek Štěpánek,
Czech tennis player ·
1979 – Ricky Carmichael, American motocross racer ·
1979 – Hilary Hahn, American violinist ·
1979 – Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer ·
1980 – Jackie Greene, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1980 – Veronika Portsmuth,
Estonian singer and conductor ·
1980 – Michael Yardy, English cricketer ·
1981 – Bruno Alves, Portuguese footballer ·
1981 – Ryan Jimmo, Canadian mixed martial artist
(d. 2016) ·
1981 – Matthew
Taylor, English footballer ·
1982 – David Bellion, French footballer ·
1982 – Aleksandr Kerzhakov,
Russian footballer ·
1982 – Tommy Robinson,
English activist, co-founded the English Defence
League ·
1983 – Professor Green, English rapper ·
1984 – Izumi Kitta, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
1984 – Domata Peko, American football player ·
1984 – Leslie Dewan, American entrepreneur ·
1985 – Park Soo-jin, South Korean singer ·
1985 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress ·
1985 – Thilo Versick, German footballer ·
1986 – Suresh Kumar Raina,
Indian cricketer ·
1986 – Steven Silva, American-Filipino footballer ·
1986 – Xavi Torres, Spanish footballer ·
1986 – Oritsé Williams,
English singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer ·
1989 – Michael Floyd, American football player ·
1989 – Freddie Sears, English footballer ·
1990 – Josh Dubovie, English singer ·
1992 – Ala Boratyn, Polish singer-songwriter ·
1992 – Park Chanyeol, South Korean rapper, singer,
songwriter, actor and model ·
1995 – Suliasi Vunivalu, Fijian rugby league player ·
1996 – Mike Williams,
Dutch DJ and record producer ·
1996 – Andy Truong, Australian fashion designer Deaths[edit]
·
8 BC – Horace, Roman soldier and poet (b. 65 BC) ·
395 – Rufinus, Roman politician (b. 335) ·
450 – Galla Placidia, Roman
Empress (b. 392) ·
511 – Clovis I, king of the Franks ·
602 – Maurice,
Byzantine emperor (b. 539) ·
639 – Acarius, bishop
of Doornik and Noyon ·
1198 – Constance,
Queen of Sicily (b. 1154) ·
1252 – Blanche of Castile (b.
1188) ·
1346 – Saint Gregory of Sinai (b. c. 1260) ·
1382 – Philip van Artevelde,
Flemish patriot (b. 1340) ·
1474 – Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer and
educator (b. 1397) ·
1570 – Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and
architect (b. 1486) ·
1592 – Nakagawa Hidemasa,
Japanese commander (b. 1568) ·
1620 – Francis, Duke
of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (b. 1577) ·
1632 – John Eliot,
English politician (b. 1592) ·
1703 – Henry Winstanley, English painter and engineer
(b. 1644) ·
1754 – Abraham de Moivre,
French-English mathematician and theorist (b. 1667) ·
1811 – Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer, designed
the threshing machine (b.
1719) ·
1819 – Gustavus Conyngham,
Irish-born American merchant sea captain, an officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer. ·
1830 – André
Parmentier, Belgian-American architect (b. 1780) ·
1852 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and
computer scientist (b. 1815) ·
1875 – Richard
Christopher Carrington, English astronomer and educator (b. 1826) ·
1881 – Theobald Boehm, German flute player and
composer (b. 1794) ·
1884 – Fanny Elssler, Austrian ballerina (b. 1810) ·
1895 – Alexandre Dumas,
fils, French novelist and playwright (b. 1824) ·
1899 – Constant Fornerod,
Swiss academic and politician, 10th President of the Swiss Council of States (b.
1819) ·
1901 – Clement Studebaker,
American businessman, co-founded Studebaker (b. 1831) ·
1908 – Jean Albert Gaudry,
French geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1827) ·
1916 – Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet and playwright
(b. 1855) ·
1919 – Manuel Espinosa
Batista, Panamanian pharmacist and politician (b. 1857) ·
1920 – Alexius Meinong, Ukrainian-Austrian
philosopher and author (b. 1853) ·
1921 – Douglas
Cameron, Canadian contractor and politician, 8th Lieutenant
Governor of Manitoba (b. 1854) ·
1921 – Mary Grant Roberts,
Australian zoo owner (b. 1841)[4] ·
1931 – Lya De Putti, Slovak-American actress (b.
1899) ·
1934 – Baby Face Nelson, American criminal (b.
1908) ·
1936 – Basil Zaharoff, Greek-French businessman and
philanthropist (b. 1849) ·
1940 – Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and
politician, 34th Prime
Minister of Romania (b. 1871) ·
1943 – Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian soldier and
politician (b. 1916) ·
1944 – Leonid Mandelstam,
Russian physicist and academic (b. 1879) ·
1953 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1888) ·
1955 – Arthur Honegger, French-Swiss composer and
academic (b. 1892) ·
1958 – Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian politician, Head
of State of Bulgaria (b. 1892) ·
1958 – Artur Rodziński,
Polish-American conductor (b. 1892) ·
1960 – Frederick Fane, Irish-English cricketer (b.
1875) ·
1960 – Dirk Jan de Geer, Dutch lawyer and
politician, Prime
Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870) ·
1962 – August Lass, Estonian footballer (b. 1903) ·
1967 – Léon M'ba, Gabonese politician, 1st President of Gabon (b.
1902) ·
1969 – May Gibbs, English Australian children's
author, illustrator, and cartoonist, (b. 1877) ·
1970 – Helene Madison, American swimmer and nurse
(b. 1913) ·
1973 – Frank
Christian, American trumpet player (b. 1887) ·
1975 – Alberto Massimino,
Italian automotive engineer (b. 1895) ·
1975 – Ross McWhirter, English author and activist,
co-founded the Guinness Book of
Records (b. 1925) ·
1977 – Mart Laga, Estonian basketball player (b.
1936) ·
1978 – Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and
politician (b. 1930) ·
1978 – George Moscone, American lawyer and
politician, 37th Mayor of San
Francisco (b. 1929) ·
1980 – F. Burrall Hoffman,
American architect, designed the Villa Vizcaya (b. 1882) ·
1981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b.
1898) ·
1985 – Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (b. 1920) ·
1986 – Steve Tracy, American actor (b, 1952) ·
1988 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906) ·
1988 – Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player and
author (b. 1927) ·
1989 – Carlos Arias Navarro,
Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime
Minister of Spain (b. 1908) ·
1990 – David White,
American actor (b. 1916) ·
1990 – Basilis C.
Xanthopoulos, Greek physicist and academic (b. 1951) ·
1992 – Ivan Generalić,
Croatian painter (b. 1914) ·
1994 – Fernando Lopes-Graça,
Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1906) ·
1997 – Buck Leonard, American baseball player and
educator (b. 1907) ·
1998 – Barbara Acklin, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1943) ·
1998 – Gloria Fuertes, Spanish poet and author of
children's literature (b. 1917) ·
1999 – Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler
and trainer (b. 1937) ·
1999 – Alain Peyrefitte, French scholar and
politician, French
Minister of Justice (b. 1925) ·
1999 – Elizabeth Gray
Vining, American author and librarian (b. 1902) ·
2000 – Malcolm Bradbury, English author and
academic (b. 1932) ·
2000 – Uno Prii, Estonian-Canadian architect (b.
1924) ·
2000 – Len Shackleton, English footballer and
journalist (b. 1922) ·
2002 – Billie Bird, American actress (b. 1908) ·
2002 – Shivmangal Singh
Suman, Indian poet and academic (b. 1915) ·
2005 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919) ·
2005 – Joe Jones,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1926) ·
2006 – Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b.
1923) ·
2006 – Bebe Moore Campbell,
American author and educator (b. 1950) ·
2006 – Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b.
1951) ·
2007 – Bernie Banton, Australian activist (b. 1946) ·
2007 – Robert Cade, American physician and
academic, co-invented Gatorade (b. 1927) ·
2007 – Sean Taylor, American football player (b.
1983) ·
2007 – Bill Willis, American football player and
coach (b. 1921) ·
2008 – V. P. Singh, Indian lawyer and politician,
7th Prime Minister of
India (b. 1931) ·
2009 – Al Alberts, American singer-songwriter (b.
1922) ·
2010 – Irvin Kershner, American actor, director,
and producer (b. 1923) ·
2011 – Len Fulford, English photographer and
director (b. 1928) ·
2011 – Ken Russell, English actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927) ·
2011 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (b.
1969) ·
2012 – Mickey Baker, American guitarist (b. 1925) ·
2012 – Ab Fafié, Dutch footballer and manager (b.
1941) ·
2012 – Érik Izraelewicz,
French journalist and author (b. 1954) ·
2012 – Marvin Miller, American businessman and
union leader (b. 1917) ·
2012 – Jack Wishna, American photographer and
businessman, co-founded Rockcityclub (b. 1958) ·
2013 – Lewis Collins, English-American actor (b.
1946) ·
2013 – Herbert F. DeSimone,
American lawyer and politician, Attorney
General of Rhode Island (b. 1929) ·
2013 – Volker Roemheld, German physiologist and
biologist (b. 1941) ·
2013 – Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (b.
1925) ·
2013 – Manuel F. Segura, Filipino colonel (b. 1919) ·
2014 – Wanda
Błeńska, Polish physician and missionary (b. 1911) ·
2014 – Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (b.
1988)[5][6] ·
2014 – P. D. James, English author (b. 1920) ·
2014 – Jack Kyle, Irish rugby player and
humanitarian (b. 1926) ·
2014 – Fernance B. Perry,
Portuguese-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922) ·
2015 – Mark Behr, Tanzanian-South African author
and academic (b. 1963) ·
2015 – Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and
diplomat (b. 1929) ·
2015 – Garrett Swasey, American figure skater and
coach (b. 1971) ·
2015 – Philippe Washer, Belgian tennis player and
golfer (b. 1924) ·
2016 – Ioannis Grivas, Greek statesman (b. 1923) Holidays and observances[edit]
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Christian feast day: o Our
Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Roman Catholic) o November
27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest day on which Advent Sunday can fall, while December
3 is the latest; celebrated on the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day (Western Christianity) ·
Lancashire Day (United Kingdom) ·
Maaveerar Day (Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka) ·
Teacher's Day (Spain) |
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