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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
November 30 is the 334th day of the
year (335th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
31 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
977 Emperor Otto II lifts
the siege at Paris and withdraws. His rearguard is defeated while crossing
the Aisne River by
Frankish forces under King Lothair III. ·
1707 The
second Siege of
Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British to
capture Pensacola, Florida. ·
1718 King Charles XII of
Sweden dies during a siege of the
fortress of Fredriksten in Norway. ·
1782 American
Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris:
In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign
preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris). ·
1786 The Grand Duchy of
Tuscany, under Pietro
Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later
commemorated as Cities for Life Day). ·
1803 The Balmis Expedition starts
in Spain with the aim of vaccinating
millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines. ·
1803 In New Orleans, Spanish representatives
officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to
a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the
United States as the Louisiana Purchase. ·
1804 The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins
an impeachment trial
of Federalist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. ·
1829 First Welland Canal opens
for a trial run, five years to the day from the ground breaking. ·
1853 Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The Imperial Russian
Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman
fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey. ·
1864 American Civil War:
The Confederate Army of Tennessee suffers
heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio in the Battle of Franklin. ·
1868 A statue of
King Charles XII of
Sweden is inaugurated in Stockholm's Kungstrδdgεrden. ·
1872 The first-ever
international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England. ·
1883 The style of
western calendar, Common Era is
conveyed to Joseon (Early-Modern Korean kingdom]]. ·
1886 The Folies Bergθre stages
its first revue. ·
1916 Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires
Convention, a copyright treaty. ·
1934 The LNER
Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam
locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph. ·
1936 In
London, the Crystal Palace is
destroyed by fire. ·
1939 Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border
in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish
cities, starting the war. ·
1942 World War II: Battle of
Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led
by Raizō Tanaka defeats
a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright. ·
1947 Civil
War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation
of the state of Israel. ·
1953 Edward Mutesa II,
the kabaka (king)
of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London
by Sir
Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda. ·
1954 In Sylacauga, Alabama,
United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof
and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in
the Western Hemisphere of
a human being hit by a rock from space. ·
1966 Barbados becomes independent from the
United Kingdom. ·
1967 South Yemen becomes independent from
the United Kingdom. ·
1967 The Pakistan Peoples
Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,
who becomes its first chairman. ·
1967 Pro-Soviet communists in the
Philippines establish Malayang
Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing. ·
1971 Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the
Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah. ·
1972 Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there
will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals
from Vietnam because troop levels are now
down to 27,000. ·
1979 Pink Floyd's rock opera, The Wall is released. ·
1981 Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United
States and the Soviet Union begin
to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe.
(The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.) ·
1982 Michael Jackson's sixth solo studio
album, Thriller,
is released worldwide, ultimately to become the best-selling
record album in history. ·
1994 MS Achille Lauro catches
fire off the coast of Somalia. ·
1995 Official end
of Operation Desert
Storm. ·
1995 U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favour
of the "Northern
Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall;
he calls terrorists "yesterday's men". ·
1999 Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement
to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company. ·
1999 In Seattle, United States, demonstrations
against a World Trade
Organization meeting by anti-globalization
protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation
of opening ceremonies. ·
1999 British Aerospace and Marconi
Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense
contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world. ·
2000 NASA
launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission. ·
2001 Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged
with four murders as the Green River Killer. ·
2004 Lion Air Flight 583 overshoots
the runway while landing at Adisumarmo
International Airport and crashes, killing 25 people.[1] ·
2005 John Sentamu becomes the first black
archbishop in the Church of England with
his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York. ·
2012 An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging
to Aιro-Service, crashes
into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during
a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people. ·
2018 A magnitude 7.0
earthquake with its epicenter only 15 miles from Anchorage, Alaska causes
significant property damage but no deaths. Births[edit]
·
539 Gregory of Tours, French bishop and saint
(probable;[2] d. 594) ·
1310 Frederick
II, Margrave of Meissen (d. 1349) ·
1340 John, Duke of Berry (d.
1416)[3] ·
1364 John
FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, Scottish soldier (d. 1390) ·
1426 Johann IV Roth, Roman Catholic bishop (d.
1506) ·
1427 Casimir IV Jagiellon,
King of Poland (d. 1492)[4] ·
1459 Mingyi Nyo, founder of Toungoo dynasty of
Burma (d. 1530) ·
1466 Andrea Doria, Italian admiral (d. 1560)[5] ·
1485 Veronica Gambara, Italian poet and
stateswoman (d. 1550) ·
1498 Andrιs de Urdaneta,
Spanish captain and explorer (d. 1568) ·
1508 Andrea Palladio, Italian architect and
theoretician, designed the Church of
San Giorgio Maggiore and Teatro Olimpico (d. 1580) ·
1549 Sir Henry
Savile, English educator (d. 1622) ·
1554 Philip Sidney, English soldier, courtier,
and poet (d. 1586) ·
1573 Aubert Miraeus, Belgian historian (d. 1640) ·
1594 John Cosin, English bishop and academic (d.
1672) ·
1599 Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (d. 1661) ·
1614 William
Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford (d. 1680) ·
1625 Jean Domat, French scholar and jurist (d.
1696) ·
1637 Louis-Sιbastien
Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian and author (d. 1698) ·
1642 Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit Brother, architect and
painter (d. 1709) ·
1645 Andreas Werckmeister,
German organist, composer, and theorist (d. 1706) ·
1667 Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist and essayist
(d. 1745) ·
1670 John Toland, Irish philosopher and author
(d. 1722) ·
1683 Ludwig
Andreas von Khevenhόller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744) ·
1699 King Christian VI of
Denmark (d. 1746) ·
1719 Princess
Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (d. 1772) ·
1723 William Livingston,
American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of New
Jersey (d. 1790) ·
1748 Joachim Albertini,
Italian-Polish composer (d. 1838) ·
1756 Ernst Chladni, German physicist and author
(d. 1827) ·
1764 Franz Xaver Gerl, Austrian singer and
composer (d. 1827) ·
1768 Jędrzej
Śniadecki, Polish physician, chemist, and biologist (d. 1838) ·
1781 Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon, merchant,
and explorer (d. 1873) ·
1791 Count
Franz Philipp von Lamberg, Austrian field marshal and politician
(d. 1848) ·
1796 Carl Loewe, German singer, composer, and
conductor (d. 1869) ·
1810 Oliver Winchester,
American businessman and politician, founded the Winchester
Repeating Arms Company (d. 1880) ·
1813 Louise-Victorine
Ackermann, French poet and author (d. 1890) ·
1813 Charles-Valentin
Alkan, French pianist and composer (d. 1888) ·
1817 Theodor Mommsen, German jurist, historian,
and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1903) ·
1821 Frederick Temple, English archbishop and
academic (d. 1902) ·
1825 William-Adolphe
Bouguereau, French painter and educator (d. 1905) ·
1832 James Robert Dickson,
English-Australian politician, 13th Premier of
Queensland (d. 1901) ·
1835 Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and
critic (d. 1910) ·
1836 Lord Frederick
Cavendish, Anglo-Irish soldier and politician, Chief
Secretary for Ireland (d. 1882) ·
1840 Henry Birks, Canadian businessman,
founded Birks & Mayors (d.
1928) ·
1843 Martha Ripley, American physician (d. 1912)[6] ·
1847 Afonso Pena, Brazilian lawyer and
politician, 6th President of Brazil (d.
1909) ·
1857 Bobby Abel, English cricketer (d. 1936) ·
1858 Jagadish Chandra
Bose, Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (d.
1937) ·
1863 Andrιs Bonifacio,
Filipino activist and politician, co-founded Katipunan (d. 1897) ·
1866 Andrey Lyapchev, Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (d. 1933) ·
1869 Gustaf Dalιn, Swedish physicist and
engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1937) ·
1869 James
Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, English lawyer and
politician, Governor of
Northern Ireland (d. 1953) ·
1872 John McCrae, Canadian physician, soldier,
and poet (d. 1918) ·
1873 Boena Beneovα,
Czech author and poet (d. 1936) ·
1874 Winston Churchill,
English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1965) ·
1874 Lucy Maud Montgomery,
English-Canadian author and poet (d. 1942) ·
1875 Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (d.
1936) ·
1875 Otto Strandman, Estonian lawyer and
politician, 2nd Prime Minister
of Estonia (d. 1941) ·
1883 Gustav Suits, Estonian-Swedish poet and
politician (d. 1956) ·
1887 Andrej Gosar, Slovenian economist, lawyer,
and politician (d. 1970) ·
1887 Beatrice Kerr, Australian swimmer and diver
(d. 1971) ·
1888 Harry Altham, English cricketer and coach
(d. 1965) ·
1889 Edgar
Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1977) ·
1889 Reuvein Margolies,
Ukrainian-Israeli author and scholar (d. 1971) ·
1898 Firpo Marberry, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1976) ·
1904 Clyfford Still, American painter and
educator (d. 1980) ·
1906 John Dickson Carr,
American author and playwright (d. 1977)[7] ·
1906 Andrιs Henestrosa,
Mexican poet, linguist, and politician (d. 2008) ·
1907 Jacques Barzun, French-American historian
and author (d. 2012) ·
1909 Robert Nighthawk, American singer and
guitarist (d. 1967) ·
1911 Carle Hessay, German-Canadian painter (d.
1978) ·
1911 Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d.
1953)[8] ·
1912 Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player,
conductor, and educator (d. 1966) ·
1912 Gordon Parks, American photographer and
director (d. 2006) ·
1915 Brownie McGhee, American folk-blues singer
and guitarist (d. 1996) ·
1915 Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2005) ·
1916 Dena Epstein, American musicologist and
author (d. 2013) ·
1918 Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.,
American actor (d. 2014) ·
1919 Jane C. Wright, American oncologist and
cancer researcher (d. 2013) ·
1920 Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)[9] ·
1924 Elliott Blackstone,
American police officer and activist (d. 2006) ·
1924 Shirley Chisholm, American activist,
educator and politician (d. 2005) ·
1924 Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian,
singer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973) ·
1925 Maryon Pittman Allen,
American journalist and politician (d. 2018) ·
1925 William H. Gates,
Sr., American lawyer and philanthropist (d. 2020) ·
1926 Teresa Gisbert
Carbonell, Bolivian architect and art historian (d. 2018) ·
1926 Richard Crenna, American actor, director,
and producer (d. 2003) ·
1927 Robert Guillaume, American actor and singer
(d. 2017) ·
1928 Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician
68th Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan (d.
2014) ·
1928 Joe B. Hall, American basketball player and
coach ·
1928 Steele Hall, Australian politician,
36th Premier of
South Australia ·
1928 Andres Narvasa, Filipino lawyer and jurist,
19th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (d.
2013) ·
1929 Dick Clark, American television host and
producer, founded Dick Clark
Productions (d. 2012) ·
1929 Joan Ganz Cooney, American screenwriter and
producer, co-created Sesame Street ·
1930 G. Gordon Liddy, American lawyer, radio
host, television actor and criminal ·
1931 Vivian Lynn, New Zealand artist (d. 2018)[10] ·
1931 Bill
Walsh, American football player and coach (d. 2007) ·
1931 Margot Zemach, American author and
illustrator (d. 1989) ·
1932 Bob Moore, American bassist and bandleader ·
1932 Cho Nam-chul, South Korean Go player (d. 2006) ·
1933 Norman Deeley, English footballer and
manager (d. 2007) ·
1933 Sam Gilliam, American painter and educator ·
1934 Marcel Prud'homme,
Canadian politician (d. 2017) ·
1936 Dmitri Anosov, Russian mathematician and
academic (d. 2014) ·
1936 Abbie Hoffman, American activist and author,
co-founded the Youth
International Party (d. 1989) ·
1937 Jimmy Bowen, American record producer,
songwriter, and pop singer ·
1937 Praveen Chaudhari,
Indian-American physicist and academic (d. 2010) ·
1937 Frank Ifield, English-Australian singer and
guitarist[11] ·
1937 Luther Ingram, American R&B/soul
singer-songwriter (d. 2007) ·
1937 Ridley Scott, English director, producer,
and production designer ·
1937 Tom Simpson, English cyclist (d. 1967) ·
1937 Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese-American physician
and author ·
1938 Jean Eustache, French director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 1981)[12] ·
1938 John M. Goldman, English haematologist and
oncologist (d. 2013) ·
1940 Kevin
Phillips, American journalist and author ·
1940 Dan Tieman, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2012) ·
1941 Phil
Willis, Baron Willis of Knaresborough, English politician ·
1943 Norma Alarcσn, American author and professor[13] ·
1943 Terrence Malick, American director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1943 Sokratis Kosmidis,
Greek lawyer and politician ·
1944 George Graham,
Scottish footballer and manager ·
1945 Hilary Armstrong, Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top,
English academic and politician, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster[14] ·
1945 Roger Glover, Welsh bass player, songwriter,
and producer ·
1945 John R. Powers, American author and
playwright (d. 2013) ·
1946 George Duffield, English jockey and trainer ·
1947 Sergio Badilla
Castillo, Chilean-Swedish poet and translator ·
1947 David Mamet, American playwright,
screenwriter, and director[15] ·
1949 Jimmy London,
Jamaican singer-songwriter ·
1949 Matthew Festing, 79th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order
of Malta ·
1950 Patricia Ann Tracey,
American Naval Vice Admiral[16] ·
1950 Paul Westphal, American basketball player
and coach ·
1951 Daniel Petrie, Jr.,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1952 Semyon Bychkov,
Russian-American conductor ·
1952 Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer ·
1953 Shuggie Otis, American singer-songwriter and
musician ·
1953 June Pointer, American singer and actress
(d. 2006) ·
1953 David Sancious, American rock and jazz
keyboard player and guitarist ·
1954 Wayne Bartholomew,
Australian surfer ·
1954 Lawrence Summers, American economist and
academic ·
1955 Michael Beschloss,
American historian and author ·
1955 Richard Burr, American businessman, academic,
and politician ·
1955 Kevin Conroy, American actor ·
1955 Andy
Gray, Scottish footballer and sportscaster ·
1955 Billy Idol, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1957 John Ashton,
English guitarist, songwriter, and producer ·
1957 Richard Barbieri, English keyboard player
and songwriter ·
1957 Joλl Champetier,
Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 2015) ·
1957 Patrick McLoughlin,
English miner and politician, Secretary
of State for Transport ·
1957 Colin Mochrie, Scottish-Canadian comedian,
actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1957 Margaret Spellings,
American educator and politician, 8th United
States Secretary of Education ·
1958 Stacey Q, American pop singer-songwriter,
dancer and actress ·
1959 Cherie Currie, American singer-songwriter,
musician, and actress ·
1959 George Faber,
British television producer ·
1959 Lorraine Kelly, Scottish journalist and
actress ·
1959 Hugo Swire, English soldier and
politician, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs ·
1960 Bill Halter, American scholar, activist, and
politician, 14th Lieutenant
Governor of Arkansas ·
1960 Gary Lineker, English footballer and
sportscaster ·
1960 Michael O'Connor,
Australian rugby player ·
1960 Bob Tewksbury, American baseball player and
coach ·
1961 Innocent Egbunike,
Nigerian sprinter and coach ·
1961 Ian Morris,
Trinidadian footballer and sprinter ·
1962 Jimmy Del Ray, American wrestler and manager
(d. 2014) ·
1962 Bo Jackson, American football and baseball
player ·
1962 Daniel Keys Moran,
American computer programmer and author ·
1964 Jushin Thunder Liger,
Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist ·
1965 Aldair, Brazilian footballer ·
1965 Fumihito,
Prince Akishino, Japanese royal (younger brother of Emperor Naruhito and first in line to
the Chrysanthemum throne) ·
1965 David Laws, English banker and
politician, Chief
Secretary to the Treasury ·
1965 Ben Stiller, American actor, director,
producer and screenwriter ·
1966 Nigel Adams, English businessman and
politician ·
1966 David Berkoff, American swimmer ·
1966 David Nicholls,
English author and screenwriter ·
1966 Mika Salo, Finnish racing driver ·
1966 John Bishop, English comedian presenter and
actor ·
1967 Joseph Corrι, English fashion designer and
businessman, co-founded Agent
Provocateur ·
1967 Rajiv Dixit, Indian author and activist (d.
2010) ·
1967 Richard Harry, Australian rugby player ·
1968 Des'ree, English R&B singer-songwriter ·
1968 Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist and
sportscaster ·
1969 Marc Forster, German-Swiss director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1969 Marc Goossens, Belgian racing driver ·
1969 Chris Weitz, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1970 Phil Babb, English footballer and manager ·
1970 Walter Emanuel Jones,
American actor and dancer ·
1971 Ray Durham, American baseball player ·
1972 Dan Jarvis, English soldier and politician ·
1972 Stanislav Kitto, Estonian footballer ·
1972 Abel Xavier, Portuguese footballer and
manager ·
1973 Christian Cage, Canadian wrestler, actor,
and podcaster ·
1975 Mindy McCready, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2013) ·
1975 Ben Thatcher, English footballer ·
1976 Marta Burgay, Italian astronomer ·
1976 Marco Castro, Peruvian-American director and
cinematographer ·
1976 Josh Lewsey, English rugby player ·
1976 Paul Nuttall, British politician ·
1977 Richard Elias
Anderson, Canadian basketball player and coach ·
1977 Steve Aoki, American DJ and producer,
founded Dim Mak Records ·
1977 Ivαn Guerrero, Honduran footballer and
manager ·
1977 Kazumi Saito, Japanese baseball player and
coach ·
1977 Olivier Schoenfelder,
French ice dancer and coach ·
1978 Clay Aiken, American singer ·
1978 Benjamin Lense, German footballer ·
1979 Chris Atkinson, Australian racing driver ·
1979 Andrιs Nocioni,
Argentinian basketball player ·
1980 Cem Adrian, Turkish singer-songwriter,
producer, and director ·
1980 Jamie Ashdown, English footballer ·
1981 Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player ·
1982 Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress ·
1982 Tony Giarratano, American baseball player ·
1982 Jason Pominville, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1983 Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer ·
1983 Vladislav Polyakov,
Kazakhstani swimmer ·
1984 Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer ·
1984 Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer ·
1984 Olga Rypakova, Kazakhstani triple jumper ·
1984 Francisco Sandaza,
Spanish footballer ·
1985 Kaley Cuoco, American actress ·
1985 Hikari Mitsushima,
Japanese actress and singer ·
1985 Chrissy Teigen, American model ·
1986 Jordan Farmar, American basketball player ·
1986 Evgenia Linetskaya,
Israeli tennis player[17] ·
1987 Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player ·
1987 Naomi Knight, American wrestler, model, and
dancer ·
1987 Dougie Poynter, English singer-songwriter
and bass player ·
1988 Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (d.
2014)[18] ·
1988 Vitaliy Polyanskyi,
Ukrainian footballer ·
1988 Tomi Saarelma, Finnish footballer ·
1989 Vladimνr
Weiss, Slovak footballer ·
1990 Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player ·
1990 Antoine N'Gossan,
Ivorian footballer ·
1991 Agnatius Paasi, Tongan rugby league player ·
1993 Yuri Chinen, Japanese idol, singer, dancer
and model ·
1994 Sofia Araϊjo, Portuguese tennis player Deaths[edit]
·
912 Otto I, Duke of
Saxony (b. c. 851) ·
1016 Edmund Ironside, English king (b. 993) ·
1204 Emeric, King of
Hungary ·
1276 Kanezawa Sanetoki,
Japanese member of the Hōjō clan (b. 1224) ·
1283 John of Vercelli, Master
General of the Dominican Order (b. c. 1205) ·
1378 Andrew Stratford, English verderer and landowner ·
1525 Guillaume Crιtin,
French poet (b. c. 1460) ·
1526 Giovanni dalle
Bande Nere, Italian captain (b. 1498) ·
1580 Richard Farrant, English playwright and
composer (b. 1530) ·
1600 Nanda Bayin, Burmese king (b. 1535) ·
1603 William
Gilbert, English scientist (b. 1544) ·
1623 Thomas Weelkes, English organist and
composer (b. 1576) ·
1647 Bonaventura
Cavalieri, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1598) ·
1647 Giovanni Lanfranco,
Italian painter (b. 1582) ·
1654 John Selden, English jurist and scholar (b.
1584) ·
1675 Cecil
Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (b.
1605) ·
1703 Nicolas de Grigny,
French organist and composer (b. 1672) ·
1718 Charles XII of
Sweden (b. 1682) ·
1760 Friederike
Caroline Neuber, German actress (b. 1697)[19] ·
1761 John Dollond, English optician and
astronomer (b. 1706) ·
1765 George Glas, Scottish merchant and explorer
(b. 1725) ·
1863 Kamehameha IV, Hawaiian King (b. 1834) ·
1864 Patrick Cleburne, Irish-American general (b.
1828) ·
1873 Alexander Berry, Scottish-Welsh surgeon,
merchant, and explorer (b. 1781) ·
1892 Dimitrios Valvis, Greek judge and politician,
69th Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1814) ·
1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and
poet (b. 1854) ·
1901 Edward John Eyre, English explorer and
politician, Governor of
Jamaica (b. 1815) ·
1907 Ludwig Levy, German architect (b. 1854) ·
1908 Nishinoumi
Kajirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna (b. 1855) ·
1920 Vladimir
May-Mayevsky, Russian general (b. 1867) ·
1923 John
Maclean, Scottish educator and activist (b. 1879) ·
1930 Ponnambalam
Ramanathan, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 3rd Solicitor
General of Sri Lanka (b. 1851) ·
1930 Mary Harris Jones,
American Labor organizer (b. 1837) ·
1931 Henry Walters, American art collector and
philanthropist (b. 1848) ·
1933 Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875) ·
1934 Hιlθne Boucher,
French pilot (b. 1908) ·
1935 Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet,
philosopher, and critic (b. 1888) ·
1942 Anthony M. Rud, American journalist and
author (b. 1893) ·
1943 Etty Hillesum, Dutch author (b. 1914) ·
1944 Paul Masson,
French cyclist (b. 1876) ·
1949 Frank Cooper,
Australian politician, 25th Premier of
Queensland (b. 1872) ·
1953 Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b.
1879) ·
1954 Wilhelm Furtwδngler,
German conductor and composer (b. 1886) ·
1955 Josip
tolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer and educator (b. 1896) ·
1958 Hubert Wilkins, Australian pilot,
ornithologist, geographer, and explorer (b. 1888) ·
1966 Salah Suheimat, Jordanian lawyer and
politician (b. 1914) ·
1967 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet and author (b.
1904) ·
1972 Compton Mackenzie,
English-Scottish actor, author, and academic (b. 1883) ·
1977 Terence Rattigan, English playwright and
screenwriter (b. 1911) ·
1979 Laura Gilpin, American photographer (b.1891)[20] ·
1979 Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b.
1901) ·
1987 Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and
author (b. 1913) ·
1988 Pannonica de
Koenigswarter, English-American singer-songwriter (b. 1913) ·
1989 Ahmadou Ahidjo, Cameroonian lawyer and
politician, 1st President
of Cameroon (b. 1924) ·
1989 Alfred Herrhausen,
German banker (b. 1930) ·
1990 Fritz Eichenberg, German-American
illustrator and arts educator (b. 1901) ·
1992 Peter Blume, American painter and sculptor
(b. 1906) ·
1993 David Houston,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1938) ·
1994 Guy Debord, French theorist and author (b.
1931) ·
1994 Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908) ·
1996 Tiny Tim,
American singer and ukulele player (b. 1932) ·
1997 Kathy Acker, American author, poet, and
playwright (b. 1947) ·
1998 Janet Lewis, American novelist and poet (b.
1899)[21] ·
1998 Margaret Walker, American author and poet
(b. 1915) ·
1999 Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (b. 1925) ·
2000 Eloise Jarvis McGraw,
American author (b. 1915) ·
2000 Scott Smith,
Canadian bass player (b. 1955) ·
2003 Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906) ·
2004 Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and
author (b. 1920) ·
2004 Seungsahn, South Korean spiritual leader,
founded the Kwan Um School of
Zen (b. 1927) ·
2005 Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915) ·
2006 Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and songwriter
(b. 1927) ·
2006 Rafael Buenaventura,
Filipino banker (b. 1938) ·
2006 Shirley Walker, American composer and
conductor (b. 1945) ·
2007 Engin Arık, Turkish physicist and
academic (b. 1948) ·
2007 Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and
stuntman (b. 1938) ·
2008 Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer and
producer (b. 1958) ·
2010 Rajiv Dixit, Indian author and activist (b.
1967) ·
2010 Garry Gross, American photographer (b. 1937) ·
2012 Rogelio Αlvarez,
Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1938) ·
2012 I. K. Gujral, Indian lawyer and politician,
12th Prime Minister of
India (b. 1919) ·
2012 Munir Malik, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1931) ·
2012 Susil Moonesinghe,
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th Chief
Minister of Western Province (b. 1930) ·
2012 Homer R. Warner, American cardiologist and
academic (b. 1922) ·
2012 Mitchell Cole, English footballer (b. 1985) ·
2013 Paul Crouch, American broadcaster,
co-founded Trinity
Broadcasting Network (b. 1934) ·
2013 Jean Kent, English actress (b. 1921) ·
2013 Tabu Ley Rochereau,
Congolese-Belgian singer-songwriter (b. 1937) ·
2013 Doriano Romboni, Italian motorcycle racer
(b. 1968) ·
2013 Paul Walker, American actor and producer (b.
1973) ·
2014 Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and
academic (b. 1932) ·
2014 Jarbom Gamlin, Indian lawyer and politician,
7th Chief
Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (b. 1961) ·
2014 Martin
Litton, American rafter and environmentalist (b. 1917) ·
2014 Anthony Dryden
Marshall, American CIA officer and
diplomat (b. 1924) ·
2014 Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (b. 1914) ·
2014 Kent Haruf, American novelist (b. 1943) ·
2015 Pνo Caro Baroja,
Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1928) ·
2015 Minas Hatzisavvas,
Greek actor and screenwriter (b. 1948) ·
2015 Marcus Klingberg, Polish-Israeli physician
and biologist (b. 1918) ·
2015 Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist and
author (b. 1940) ·
2015 Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and
illustrator (b. 1922) ·
2015 Eldar Ryazanov, Russian director and
screenwriter (b. 1927) ·
2015 Nigel Buxton, British travel writer and wine
critic (b. 1924) ·
2017 Jim Nabors, American actor and comedian (b.
1930) ·
2017 Surin Pitsuwan, Thai politician and diplomat
(b. 1949) ·
2017 Alfie Curtis, British actor (b. 1930) ·
2018 George H. W. Bush,
American politician, 41st President
of the United States (b. 1924) ·
2019 Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (b. 1943) Holidays and observances[edit]
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Christian feast day: o Andrew and its related observances. o Joseph Marchand (one of Vietnamese Martyrs) o November
30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Commemoration Day (United Arab Emirates) ·
Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from
the Arab Countries and Iran (Israel) ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the independence of Barbados from the United Kingdom in
1966 ·
Independence Day, celebrates the
independence of South Yemen from
the United Kingdom in 1967 ·
Regina Mundi Day (South Africa) |
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