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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
53 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
960 Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the
Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla. ·
1278 Trần Thαnh
Tτng, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, decides to pass the
throne to his crown prince Trần Khβm and take up the post
of Retired
Emperor. ·
1291
The Republic of Venice enacts
a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to the "island
of Murano".[1] ·
1519 Hernαn Cortιs enters Tenochtitlαn and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great
celebration. ·
1520 Stockholm Bloodbath begins:
A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of
around 100 people mostly noblemen. ·
1576 Eighty Years' War: Pacification of
Ghent: The States
General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish
occupation. ·
1602
The Bodleian Library at
the University of Oxford is
opened to the public. ·
1605 Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed. ·
1614
Japanese daimyō Dom Justo Takayama is
exiled to the Philippines by shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian. ·
1620
The Battle of White
Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours. ·
1644
The Shunzhi Emperor,
the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing after
the collapse of the Ming dynasty as
the first Qing emperor to rule over China. ·
1745 Charles Edward
Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later
participate in the Battle of Culloden. ·
1837 Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female
Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke
College. ·
1861 American Civil War:
The "Trent Affair":
The USS San
Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and
arrests two Confederate envoys,
sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. ·
1889 Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state. ·
1892
The New
Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful
four-day general strike action for
the first time. ·
1895
While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Rφntgen discovers
the X-ray. ·
1901 Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place
in Athens following the translation of
the Gospels into demotic Greek. ·
1917
The first Council of
People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. ·
1923 Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to
overthrow the German government. ·
1932 Franklin D.
Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President
of the United States, defeating incumbent president Herbert Hoover. ·
1933 Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D.
Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works
Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more
than 4 million unemployed. ·
1936 Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort
to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards. ·
1937
The Nazi exhibition Der
ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich. ·
1939 Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are
captured by the Germans. ·
1939
In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the
assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th
anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. ·
1940 Greco-Italian War:
The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the
Italians in the Battle of
ElaiaKalamas. ·
1942 World War II: French Resistance coup
in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French
patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth
Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals,
allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers. ·
1950 Korean War: United States Air
Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star,
shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in
the first jet aircraft-to-jet
aircraft dogfight in history. ·
1957 Pan Am Flight 7 disappears
between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered
a week later. ·
1957
Operation Grapple X,
Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. ·
1960 John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th
President of the United States. ·
1965
The British
Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands. ·
1965
The Murder
(Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally
abolishing the death penalty in
the United Kingdom, except in cases of high treason, "piracy with
violence" (piracy with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm), arson
in royal dockyards and espionage, as well as other capital offences under
military law. The death penalty would be abolished in all cases in 1998. ·
1965
The 173rd Airborne is
ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st
Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first
set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong
at the Battle of Gang Toi. ·
1966
Former Massachusetts Attorney
General Edward Brooke becomes
the first African American elected
to the United States Senate since Reconstruction. ·
1966
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs
into law an antitrust exemption
allowing the National
Football League to merge with
the upstart American
Football League. ·
1968
The Vienna
Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate
international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the
uniform traffic rules among the signatories. ·
1972
American pay television network Home
Box Office (HBO) launches, initially transmitting to
365 Teleservice Cable subscribers
in Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania. First operating as a Northeastern
U.S.-based regional service, HBO was one of the first cable-originated television channels. HBO's
inaugural programming that evening consisted of its first event
telecastan NHL hockey
game between the New York Rangers and
the Vancouver Canucks,
and its first movie presentationthe 1971 Paul NewmanHenry Fonda film Sometimes
a Great Notion. ·
1973
The right ear of John Paul Getty III is
delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his
father to pay US$2.9 million. ·
1977 Manolis Andronikos,
a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina. ·
1983 TAAG
Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people
on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the
aircraft, though this is disputed.[2] ·
1987 Remembrance Day
bombing: A Provisional
IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony
honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people
are killed and sixty-three wounded. ·
1988
U.S. Vice
President George H. W. Bush is
elected as the 41st president. ·
1994 Republican
Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United
States midterm elections, Republicans make
historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses
of congress (54
seats in the House and
eight seats in the Senate,
additionally). Thus bringing a close to four decades of Democratic domination. ·
1999
Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover
Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of
the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder. ·
2002 Iraq disarmament
crisis: UN
Security Council Resolution 1441: The United
Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution
on Iraq,
forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious
consequences". ·
2004 Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a
small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege
on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. ·
2006 Israeli-Palestinian
conflict: the Israeli Defense
Force kill 19 Palestinian civilians in their homes
during the shelling of
Beit Hanoun.[3] ·
2011
The potentially
hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar
distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700
miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in
1976. ·
2013 Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest
tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340
people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion
(2013 USD) in damage. ·
2016 Indian Prime
Minister Narendra Modi of
the BJP party led NDA government, publicly announced the
withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes only a
few hours before the implementation/imposition of diktat, i.e. from midnight, starting of
November 9 (9-11 as per Indian date recordings), from the Indian economy,
without popular consent, rendering 86% of Indian currency in circulation
invalid. ·
2016
Donald Trump is
elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton, the first woman ever to
receive a major party's nomination. Births[edit] ·
AD 30 Nerva, Roman emperor (d. 98)[4] ·
1407 Alain de Coλtivy,
French cardinal (d. 1474) ·
1417 Philipp
I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (14581480) (d. 1480) ·
1456 Queen Gonghye, Korean royal consort (d.
1474) ·
1491 Teofilo Folengo, Italian monk and poet (d.
1544) ·
1543 Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex and
lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I of
England (d. 1634) ·
1555 Nyaungyan Min, King of Burma (d. 1605) ·
1563 Henry II, Duke
of Lorraine (d. 1624) ·
1572 John
Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1619) ·
1622 Charles X
Gustav of Sweden (d. 1660) ·
1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer and
mathematician (d. 1742)[5] ·
1706 Johann Ulrich
von Cramer, German philosopher and judge (d. 1772) ·
1710 Sarah Fielding, English author (d. 1768) ·
1715 Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbόttel-Bevern (d.
1797) ·
1723 John Byron, English admiral and politician,
24th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d.
1786) ·
1725 Johann George
Tromlitz, German flute player and composer (d. 1805) ·
1738 Barbara Catharina
Mjφdh, Finnish poet (d. 1776) ·
1763 Otto Wilhelm Masing,
German-Estonian linguist and author (d. 1832) ·
1768 Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (d.
1840) ·
1772 William
Wirt, American lawyer and politician, 9th United
States Attorney General (d. 1834) ·
1788 Mihαly Bertalanits,
Slovene poet and educator (d. 1853) ·
1855 Nikolaos
Triantafyllakos, Greek politician, Prime Minister
of Greece (d. 1939) ·
1831 Robert
Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English poet and diplomat,
30th Governor-General
of India (d. 1880) ·
1836 Milton Bradley, American businessman,
founded the Milton Bradley Company (d.
1911) ·
1837 Ilia Chavchavadze,
Georgian journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1907) ·
1847 Jean Casimir-Perier,
French politician, 6th President of France (d.
1907) ·
1847
Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and critic,
created Count Dracula (d.
1912) ·
1848 Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and
philosopher (d. 1925) ·
1854 Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and
academic (d. 1919) ·
1866 Herbert
Austin, 1st Baron Austin, English businessman, founded the Austin Motor Company (d.
1941) ·
1868 Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and
academic (d. 1942) ·
1878 Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and
archaeozoologist (d. 1951) ·
1881 Clarence Gagnon, Canadian painter and
illustrator (d. 1942) ·
1883 Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (d.
1953) ·
1883
Charles Demuth,
American painter (d. 1935) ·
1884 Hermann Rorschach,
Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1922) ·
1885 George Bouzianis, Greek painter (d. 1959) ·
1885
Hans Cloos, German geologist and academic
(d. 1951) ·
1885
Emil Fahrenkamp,
German architect and academic (d. 1966) ·
1885
Tomoyuki Yamashita,
Japanese general and politician, 4th Japanese
Military Governors of the Philippines (d. 1946) ·
1888 David Monrad Johansen,
Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1974) ·
1893 Prajadhipok, Thai king (d. 1941) ·
1896 Erika Abels d'Albert,
Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1975) ·
1896
Bucky Harris,
American baseball player and manager (d. 1977) ·
1897 Dorothy Day, American journalist and
activist (d. 1980) ·
1898 Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress and
singer (d. 1937) ·
1900 Margaret Mitchell,
American journalist and author (d. 1949) ·
1904 Cedric Belfrage, English-American journalist
and author, co-founded the National Guardian (d.
1990) ·
1908 Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and
author (d. 1998) ·
1910 James McCormack, American general (d. 1975) ·
1911 Al Brosch, American golfer (d. 1975) ·
1911
Robert
Jackson, Australian public servant and diplomat (d. 1991) ·
1912 June Havoc, American actress, singer and
dancer (d. 2010) ·
1912
Stylianos Pattakos,
Greek general and politician, Deputy
Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016) ·
1913 Lou Ambers, American boxer (d. 1995) ·
1914 Norman Lloyd, American actor, director, and
producer ·
1918 Kazuo Sakamaki, Japanese soldier (d. 1999) ·
1918
Hermann Zapf,
German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015) ·
1919 James S. Ackerman,
American historian and academic (d. 2016) ·
1920 Sitara Devi, Indian actress, dancer, and
choreographer (d. 2014) ·
1920
Esther Rolle,
American actress (d. 1998) ·
1920
Eugκnio Sales,
Brazilian cardinal (d. 2012) ·
1921 Douglas Townsend, American composer, musicologist,
and academic (d. 2012) ·
1922 Christiaan Barnard,
South African surgeon and academic (d. 2001) ·
1922
Thea D. Hodge,
American computer scientist and academic (d. 2008) ·
1922
Ademir Marques
de Menezes, Brazilian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (d.
1996) ·
1923 Yisrael
Friedman, Romanian-born Israeli rabbi (d. 2017) ·
1923
Jack Kilby, American physicist and
engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2005) ·
1924 Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player and
soldier (d. 2017) ·
1924
Joe Flynn,
American actor (d. 1974) ·
1924
Robert V. Hogg,
American statistician and academic (d. 2014) ·
1924
Victorinus Youn
Kong-hi, South Korean archbishop ·
1924
Dmitry Yazov, Marshal of
the Soviet Union (d. 2020) ·
1926 Darleane C. Hoffman,
American nuclear chemist ·
1927 L. K. Advani, Indian lawyer and politician,
7th Deputy
Prime Minister of India ·
1927
Ken Dodd, English singer / comedian (d.
2018) ·
1927
Chris Connor,
American singer (d. 2009) ·
1927
Nguyễn Khαnh,
Vietnamese general and politician, 4th President of the
Republic of Vietnam (d. 2013) ·
1927
Patti Page, American singer and actress (d.
2013) ·
1928 Des Corcoran, Australian politician,
37th Premier of
South Australia (d. 2004) ·
1929 Bobby Bowden, American football player and
coach ·
1929
Antσnio
Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher and academic ·
1931 Jim Redman, English-Rhodesian motorcycle
racer ·
1931
Morley Safer,
Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 2016) ·
1931
Paolo Taviani,
Italian film director and screenwriter ·
1932 Stιphane Audran,
French actress (d. 2018) ·
1932
Ben Bova, American journalist and author ·
1933 Peter Arundell, English race car driver (d.
2009) ·
1935 Alain Delon, French-Swiss actor, producer,
screenwriter ·
1935
Stratos Dionysiou,
Greek singer-songwriter (d. 1990) ·
1935
Alfonso Lσpez
Trujillo, Colombian cardinal (d. 2008) ·
1936 Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014) ·
1938 Driss Basri, Moroccan police officer and
politician (d. 2007) ·
1938
Satch Sanders,
American basketball player[6] ·
1938
Richard Stoker,
English composer, author, and poet ·
1939 Meg Wynn Owen, Welsh actress ·
1941 Nerys Hughes, Welsh actress ·
1942 Angel Cordero Jr.,
Puerto Rican-American jockey ·
1942
Sandro Mazzola,
Italian footballer and sportscaster ·
1943 Martin Peters, English footballer and
manager (d. 2019) ·
1944 Bonnie Bramlett, American singer and actress ·
1945 Arduino Cantafora,
Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and author ·
1945
Joseph James DeAngelo,
American serial killer ·
1945
John Farrar, Australian-born music producer,
songwriter, arranger, singer, and guitarist ·
1945
Don Murray,
American drummer (d. 1996) ·
1945
Vincent Nichols,
English cardinal ·
1945
Arnold Rosner,
American composer (d. 2013) ·
1946 Guus Hiddink, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1946
Roy Wood, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1947 Michael Perham,
English bishop (d. 2017) ·
1947
Minnie Riperton,
American singer-songwriter (d. 1979) ·
1947
Margaret Rhea Seddon,
American physician and astronaut ·
1947
Lewis Yocum, American physician and surgeon
(d. 2013) ·
1948 Dale Gardner, American captain and astronaut
(d. 2014) ·
1949 Wayne LaPierre, American businessman,
author, and activist ·
1949
Bonnie Raitt,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1950 Mary Hart, American journalist and actress ·
1951 Gerald Alston, American R&B singer ·
1951
Larry Burnett,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1951
Alfredo Astiz,
Argentinian captain ·
1951
Laura Cox, English lawyer and judge ·
1951
Peter Suber, American philosopher and
academic ·
1952 John Denny, American baseball player and
coach ·
1952
Christie Hefner,
American publisher and businesswoman ·
1952
Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist ·
1952
Jerry Remy, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1952
Alfre Woodard,
American actress ·
1953 Giorgos Foiros, Greek footballer and manager ·
1953
John Musker, American animator, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1953
Nand Kumar Patel,
Indian politician (d. 2013) ·
1954 David Bret, French-English journalist and
author ·
1954
Michael D. Brown,
American lawyer and radio host ·
1954
Timothy Egan,
American journalist and author ·
1954
Kazuo Ishiguro,
Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. ·
1954
Rickie Lee Jones,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1954
Thanasis Pafilis,
Greek jurist and politician ·
1955 Patricia Barber, American singer-songwriter
and pianist ·
1955
Jeffrey Ford,
American author and educator ·
1956 Mari Boine, Norwegian singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1956
Richard Curtis,
New Zealand-English screenwriter, film and television producer, and film
director ·
1956
Steven
Miller, American record producer and engineer ·
1957 Alan Curbishley, English footballer and
manager ·
1957
Tim Shaw,
American swimmer ·
1957
Porl Thompson,
English guitarist and songwriter ·
1957
Hardi Volmer,
Estonian singer and director ·
1958 Don Byron, American clarinet player and
composer ·
1958
Ken Lamberton,
American author and educator ·
1958
Selηuk Yula,
Turkish footballer and journalist (d. 2013) ·
1959 Miroslav Janů, Czech footballer and
manager (d. 2013) ·
1959
Chi Chi LaRue,
American drag queen performer
and director ·
1960 Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor, singer, and
director ·
1960
Michael Nyqvist,
Swedish actor and producer (d. 2017) ·
1961 Micky Adams, English footballer and manager ·
1961
Leif Garrett,
American singer, actor, and television personality ·
1963 Paul McKenna, English hypnotist and author ·
1965 Jeff Blauser, American baseball player and
manager ·
1965
Craig Chester,
American actor and screenwriter ·
1965
Mike Matarazzo,
American bodybuilder and boxer (d. 2014) ·
1966 Gordon Ramsay, British chef, restaurateur,
and television host/personality ·
1967 Henry
Rodriguez, Dominican baseball player ·
1967
Courtney
Thorne-Smith, American actress ·
1968 Keith Jones,
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster ·
1968
Josι Offerman,
Dominican baseball player and manager ·
1968
Sergio Porrini,
Italian footballer and manager ·
1968
Parker Posey,
American actress ·
1970 Tom Anderson, American businessman,
co-founded Myspace ·
1970
David Hemp, Bermudian cricketer ·
1970
Michael Jackson,
Canadian actor ·
1970
Diana King, Jamaican singer-songwriter ·
1970
Josι Porras, Costa
Rican footballer and coach ·
1971 Carlos Atanes, Spanish director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1971
Tech N9ne, American musician, record
producer, and actor ·
1972 Chris Fydler, Australian swimmer ·
1972
Gretchen Mol,
American model and actress ·
1972
Kylie Shadbolt,
Australian artistic gymnast[7] ·
1973 Sven Mikser, Estonian politician, 22nd Estonian
Minister of Defence ·
1973
David Muir, American journalist ·
1974 Joshua Ferris, American author ·
1974
Penelope Heyns,
South African swimmer ·
1974
Masashi Kishimoto,
Japanese author and illustrator, created Naruto ·
1974
Seishi Kishimoto,
Japanese illustrator ·
1975 Brevin Knight, American basketball player
and sportscaster ·
1975
Tara Reid, American actress ·
1975
Alena Vakovα,
Czech tennis player ·
1976 Brett Lee, Australian cricketer and
sportscaster ·
1976
Colin Strause,
American director, producer, and visual effects designer ·
1977 Jully Black, Canadian singer-songwriter,
producer, and actress ·
1977
Bucky Covington,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1977
Nick Punto, American baseball player ·
1978 Matthew Bulbeck, English cricketer ·
1978
Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer ·
1978
Maurice Evans,
American basketball player ·
1978
Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer and manager ·
1978
Kensaku Kishida,
Japanese actor and entertainer ·
1978
Emma Lewell-Buck,
English social worker and politician ·
1978
Jϊlio Sιrgio,
Brazilian footballer and manager ·
1979 Andrea Benatti, Italian rugby player ·
1979
Aaron Hughes,
Irish footballer ·
1980 Luνs Fabiano, Brazilian footballer ·
1980
Laura Jane Grace,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1980
Holly Walsh, English radio and television
host ·
1981 Joe Cole, English footballer ·
1981
Yann Kermorgant,
French footballer ·
1982 Ted DiBiase, Jr., American wrestler and actor ·
1982
Mika Kallio, Finnish motorcycle racer ·
1982
Sam Sparro, Australian singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1983 Sinan Gόler, Turkish basketball player ·
1983
Katharina Molitor,
German javelin thrower ·
1983
Remko Pasveer,
Dutch footballer ·
1983
Pavel Pogrebnyak,
Russian footballer ·
1983
Nikola Rachelle,
English-New Zealand singer-songwriter and producer ·
1983
Danielle Valore
Evans American short story writer ·
1984 Kuntal Chandra, Bangladeshi cricketer (d.
2012) ·
1984
Yoko Mitsuya,
Japanese model and actress ·
1984
Steven Webb, English actor ·
1985 Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress ·
1985
Mνchel,
Spanish footballer ·
1986 Patricia
Mayr-Achleitner, Austrian tennis player ·
1986
Jamie Roberts,
Welsh rugby player ·
1986
Aaron Swartz,
American computer programmer and activist (d. 2013) ·
1987 Ιdgar Benνtez,
Paraguayan footballer ·
1987
Sam Bradford,
American football player ·
1987
Mohd Faiz Subri,
Malaysian footballer ·
1988 Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress and singer ·
1988
Lucia
Slaničkovα, Slovak heptathlete ·
1989 Morgan Schneiderlin,
French footballer ·
1989
Giancarlo Stanton,
American baseball player ·
1990 Ingrid Puusta, Estonian sailor ·
1990
SZA, American
singer-songwriter[8] ·
1991 Aaron Fotheringham,
American wheelchair athlete ·
1991
Jack Littlejohn,
Australian rugby league player ·
1991
Dan Middleton,
English YouTube personality and pro gamer ·
1992 Christophe Vincent,
French footballer ·
1993 Przemek Karnowski,
Polish basketball player ·
1993
Fraser Mullen,
Scottish footballer ·
1999 Katherine Uchida, Canadian rhythmic gymnast[9] ·
2000 Jasmine Thompson, English singer Deaths[edit] ·
397 Martin of Tours, Frankish bishop and saint ·
618 Adeodatus I, pope of the Catholic Church ·
785 Sawara, Japanese prince ·
789 Willehad, bishop of Bremen ·
928 Duan Ning, Chinese general ·
940 Yao Yi, Chinese chancellor (b. 866) ·
943 Liu,
empress of Qi (Ten Kingdoms) (b. 877) ·
955 Agapetus II, pope of the Catholic Church ·
977 Ibn al-Qūṭiyya,
Andalusian historian ·
1067 Sancha of Leσn,
Queen of Leσn (b. c. 1018)[10] ·
1115 Godfrey of Amiens,
French bishop and saint (b. 1066) ·
1122 Ilghazi, Artuqid ruler of Mardin ·
1171 Baldwin IV,
Count of Hainaut (b. 1108) ·
1195 Conrad,
Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1135) ·
1226 Louis VIII,
king of France (b. 1187) ·
1246 Berengaria of
Castile (b. 1179) ·
1263 Matilda of Bιthune,
French countess ·
1308 Duns Scotus, Scottish priest, philosopher,
and academic (b. 1266) ·
1400 Peter of
Aragon, Aragonese infante (b. 1398) ·
1478 Baeda Maryam I, emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1448) ·
1494 Melozzo da Forlμ,
Italian painter (b. c. 1438) ·
1517 Francisco
Jimιnez de Cisneros, Spanish cardinal (b. 1436) ·
1527 Jerome Emser, German theologian and reformer
(b. 1477) ·
1599 Francisco Guerrero,
Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1528) ·
1600 Natsuka Masaie, Japanese daimyō (b.
1562) ·
1605 Robert Catesby, English conspirator, leader
of the Gunpowder Plot (b.
1573) ·
1606 Girolamo Mercuriale,
Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530) ·
1658 Witte de With, Dutch admiral (b. 1599) ·
1674 John Milton, English poet and philosopher
(b. 1608) ·
1719 Michel Rolle, French mathematician and
author (b. 1652) ·
1773 Friedrich
Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721) ·
1817 Andrea Appiani, Italian painter and educator
(b. 1754) ·
1828 Thomas Bewick, English engraver, illustrator
and author (b.1753) ·
1830 Francis I
of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777) ·
1873 Manuel
Bretσn de los Herreros, Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (b.
1796) ·
1887 Doc Holliday, American dentist and poker
player (b. 1851) ·
1890 Cιsar Franck, Belgian organist and composer
(b. 1822) ·
1895 Robert Battey, American surgeon and academic
(b. 1828) ·
1901 James Agnew, Irish-Australian politician,
16th Premier of Tasmania (b.
1815) ·
1905 Victor
Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870) ·
1917 Colin Blythe, English cricketer and soldier
(b. 1879) ·
1921 Pavol Orszαgh
Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet and playwright (b. 1849) ·
1934 Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and
bacteriologist (b. 1879) ·
1944 Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and
pilot (b. 1920) ·
1945 August von Mackensen,
German field marshal (b. 1849) ·
1949 Cyriel Verschaeve,
Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874) ·
1953 Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1870) ·
1953
John van Melle,
Dutch-South African author and educator (b. 1887) ·
1956 Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (b. 1884)[11] ·
1959 Frank S. Land, American activist, founded
the DeMolay
International (b. 1890) ·
1960 Subroto Mukerjee, Indian soldier; Chief of
the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (b. 1911) ·
1965 Dorothy Kilgallen,
American journalist, television personality, and game show panelist (b. 1913) ·
1968 Wendell Corey, American actor and politician
(b. 1914) ·
1968
Peter Mohr Dam,
Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime
Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898) ·
1970 Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician
(b. 1892) ·
1973 Faruk Nafiz
Ηamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and politician (b. 1898) ·
1974 Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter
and pianist (b. 1914) ·
1975 Jaime Montestrela,
Portuguese-French poet and author (b. 1925) ·
1977 Tasos Giannopoulos,
Greek actor and producer (b. 1931) ·
1977
Bucky Harris,
American baseball player and manager (b. 1896) ·
1978 Norman Rockwell, American painter and
illustrator (b. 1894) ·
1983 James Booker, American singer and pianist
(b. 1939) ·
1983
Mordecai Kaplan,
Lithuanian-American rabbi and educator (b. 1881) ·
1985 Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourger cyclist (b.
1899) ·
1985
Jacques Hnizdovsky,
Ukrainian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1915) ·
1986 Vyacheslav Molotov,
Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet
Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1890)[12] ·
1994 Michael O'Donoghue,
American actor and screenwriter (b. 1940) ·
1998 Rumer Godden, English author and poet (b.
1907) ·
1998
John Hunt, Baron
Hunt, English colonel, mountaineer, and academic (b. 1910) ·
1998
Jean Marais, French actor and director (b.
1913) ·
1999 Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and
composer (b. 1941) ·
1999
Leon tukelj,
Slovenian gymnast and judge (b. 1898) ·
2001 Aristidis Moschos,
Greek santouri player and educator (b. 1930) ·
2002 Jon Elia, Pakistani poet, philosopher, and
scholar (b. 1931) ·
2003 Bob Grant,
English actor and screenwriter (b. 1932) ·
2003
C.Z. Guest, American actress, fashion
designer, and author (b. 1920) ·
2003
Guy Speranza,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1956) ·
2004 Peter Mathers, English-Australian author and
playwright (b. 1931) ·
2005 Alekos Alexandrakis,
Greek actor and director (b. 1928) ·
2005
David Westheimer,
American soldier and author (b. 1917) ·
2006 Basil Poledouris, American composer and
conductor (b. 1945) ·
2006
Hannspeter Winter,
Austrian physicist and academic (b. 1941) ·
2007 Aad Nuis, Dutch journalist, poet, and
politician (b. 1933) ·
2007
Dulce Saguisag,
Filipino politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (b.
1943) ·
2007
Chad Varah, English priest, founded The Samaritans (b.
1911) ·
2009 Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and
astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1916) ·
2010 Quintin Dailey, American basketball player
(b. 1961) ·
2010
Jack Levine, American soldier and painter
(b. 1915) ·
2010
Emilio Eduardo
Massera, Argentinian admiral (b. 1925) ·
2011 Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper, producer,
and actor (b. 1967) ·
2011
Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922) ·
2012 Lee MacPhail, American businessman (b. 1917) ·
2012
Pete Namlook,
German composer and producer (b. 1960) ·
2012
Peggy Vaughan,
American author (b. 1936) ·
2013 William C. Davidon,
American physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1927) ·
2013
Penn Kimball,
American journalist and academic (b. 1915) ·
2013
Arnold Rosner,
American composer (b. 1945) ·
2013
Chiyoko Shimakura,
Japanese singer and actress (b. 1938) ·
2013
Amanchi
Venkata Subrahmanyam, Indian journalist and actor (b. 1957) ·
2014 Phil Crane, American academic and politician
(b. 1930) ·
2014
Luigi Gorrini,
Italian soldier and pilot (b. 1917) ·
2014
Don Paul,
American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925) ·
2014
Hugo Sαnchez
Portugal, Spanish-Mexican footballer and sportscaster (b. 1984) ·
2014
Ernie Vandeweghe,
Canadian-American basketball player and physician (b. 1928) ·
2015 Rhea Chiles, American philanthropist,
founded the Polk Museum of Art (b.
1930) ·
2015
Joseph Cure, American ice hockey player and
actor (b. 1984) ·
2015
Rod Davies, Australian-English astronomer
and academic (b. 1930) ·
2015
Om Prakash Mehra,
Indian air marshal and politician (b. 1919) ·
2015
Maduluwawe
Sobitha Thero, Sri Lankan monk and activist (b. 1942) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Blessed
Elizabeth of the Trinity (Roman Catholic
Church) o Johann von Staupitz (Lutheran) o Saints
and Martyrs of England (Church of England) o Tysilio o November
8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest
day on which Father's Day can
fall, while November 14 is
the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in November. (Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) ·
Earliest
day on which Grandparents
Day can fall, while November 14 is the latest; celebrated on
the second Sunday in November. (South Sudan) ·
Earliest
day on which Heir to the
Throne's Birthday can fall, while November 14 is the latest;
celebrated on the second Monday in November. (Tuvalu) ·
Earliest
day on which National Day of the Pupusa can
fall, while November 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in
November. (El Salvador) ·
Earliest
day on which Remembrance Sunday can
fall, while November 14 is
the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in November. (United Kingdom) ·
Latest
day on which Election Day can
fall, while November 2 is
the earliest; observed on the first Tuesday after a Monday in November. (United States) ·
Day of Baku
Metro Employees (Azerbaijan) ·
Intersex Day
of Remembrance (New South Wales, Australia) ·
International
Day of Radiology (European
Society of Radiology) ·
National
Aboriginal Veterans Day (Canada) ·
Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and
the other Bodiless
Powers of Heaven (Eastern Orthodox
Church) |
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