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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.
Events
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 978 Franco-German war of 978980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege of Paris and withdraws.[1]
16011900
[edit]- 1707 Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British Empire and their Creek allies to capture Pensacola, Spanish Florida.[2]
- 1718 Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.[3]
- 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).[4]
- 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).[5]
- 1803 The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines.[6]
- 1803 In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to the French First Republic.[7]
- 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.[8]
- 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.[9]
- 1872 The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.[10]
1901present
[edit]- 1916 Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
- 1936 In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.[11]
- 1939 World War II: The Soviet Red Army crosses the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War.
- 1940 World War II: Signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1940 between the Empire of Japan and the newly formed Wang Jingwei-led Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China. This treaty was considered so unfair to China that it was compared to the Twenty-One Demands.[12]
- 1941 The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up roughly 25,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre.[13]
- 1942 World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. Navy cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
- 1947 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 ArabIsraeli War.
- 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.
- 1962 Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 crashes at Idlewild Airport, killing 25 people.[14]
- 1966 Decolonization: Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1967 Decolonization: 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.
- 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.)
- 1995 Official end of Operation Desert Storm.[15]
- 1995 U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters "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.[16]
- 2004 A McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Lion Air Flight 538, overran the runway and crashed, killing 25 people.[17][18]
- 2005 John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
- 2018 A magnitude 7.1 earthquake with its epicenter only 24 km from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths.
- 2021 Barbados becomes a republic.[19]
- 2021 A 15-year-old gunman murders four students and injures seven people, including a teacher, in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan.[20]
- 2022 The AI chatbot ChatGPT is launched by OpenAI.[21]
Births
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 539 Gregory of Tours, French bishop and saint (probable;[22] d. 594)
- 1310 Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (d. 1349)
- 1340 John, Duke of Berry (d. 1416)[23]
- 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)[24]
- 1459 Mingyi Nyo, founder of Toungoo dynasty of Burma (d. 1530)
- 1466 Andrea Doria, Italian admiral (d. 1560)[25]
- 1485 Veronica Gambara, Italian poet and stateswoman (d. 1550)
- 1508 Andrea Palladio, Italian architect and theoretician, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and Teatro Olimpico (d. 1580)
- 1549 Sir Henry Savile, English scholar and mathematician (d. 1622)[26]
- 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)
16011900
[edit]- 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)[27]
- 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 Dickson, English-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Queensland (d. 1901)
- 1835 Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (d. 1910)[28]
- 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)[29]
- 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)[30]
- 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)
1901present
[edit]- 1904 Clyfford Still, American painter and educator (d. 1980)
- 1906 John Dickson Carr, American author and playwright (d. 1977)[31]
- 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)[32]
- 1912 Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator (d. 1966)
- 1912 Gordon Parks, American photographer and director (d. 2006)[33]
- 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)
- 1916 Michael Gwynn, English actor (d. 1976)
- 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)[34]
- 1924 Elliott Blackstone, American police officer and activist (d. 2006)
- 1924 Shirley Chisholm, American activist, educator and politician (d. 2005)[33]
- 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)
- 1926 Andrew Schally, Polish-American endocrinologist (d. 2024)[35]
- 1927 Robert Guillaume, American actor and singer (d. 2017)[33]
- 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 (d. 2022)[36]
- 1928 Steele Hall, Australian politician, 36th Premier of South Australia (d. 2024)
- 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)[33]
- 1929 Joan Ganz Cooney, American screenwriter and producer, co-created Sesame Street
- 1930 G. Gordon Liddy, American lawyer, radio host, television actor and criminal (d. 2021)[33]
- 1931 Vivian Lynn, New Zealand artist (d. 2018)[37]
- 1931 Bill Walsh, American football player and coach (d. 2007)
- 1931 Margot Zemach, American author and illustrator (d. 1989)
- 1932 Bob Moore, American bassist (d. 2021)
- 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 (d. 2022)
- 1934 Marcel Prud'homme, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
- 1935 Woody Allen, American actor, director, and screenwriter[38]
- 1936 Dmitri Anosov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2014)
- 1936 Abbie Hoffman, American activist and author, co-founded the Youth International Party (d. 1989)[33]
- 1937 Jimmy Bowen, American record producer, songwriter, and pop singer[39]
- 1937 Praveen Chaudhari, Indian-American physicist and academic (d. 2010)
- 1937 Frank Ifield, English-Australian singer and guitarist (d. 2024)[40]
- 1937 Luther Ingram, American R&B/soul singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
- 1937 Ridley Scott, English director, producer, and production designer[39]
- 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)[41]
- 1938 John M. Goldman, English haematologist and oncologist (d. 2013)
- 1940 Kevin Phillips, American political analyst and author (d. 2023)[42]
- 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[43]
- 1943 Terrence Malick, American director, producer, and screenwriter[39]
- 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[44]
- 1945 Roger Glover, Welsh bass player, songwriter, and producer[39]
- 1945 Vani Jairam, Indian playback singer (d. 2023)[45]
- 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[46]
- 1949 Jim Chones, American basketball player[47]
- 1949 Matthew Festing, 79th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (d. 2021)
- 1949 Jimmy London, Jamaican singer-songwriter
- 1950 Patricia Ann Tracey, American Naval Vice Admiral[48]
- 1950 Paul Westphal, American basketball player and coach (d. 2021)
- 1951 Daniel Petrie, Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1952 Semyon Bychkov, Russian-American conductor
- 1952 Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer[39]
- 1953 Shuggie Otis, American singer-songwriter and musician[39]
- 1953 June Pointer, American singer and actress (d. 2006)[33]
- 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[33]
- 1955 Richard Burr, American businessman, academic, and politician
- 1955 Kevin Conroy, American actor (d. 2022)[49]
- 1955 Andy Gray, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
- 1955 Billy Idol, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor[39]
- 1957 John Ashton, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer[39]
- 1957 Richard Barbieri, English keyboard player and songwriter
- 1957 Joλl Champetier, Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
- 1957 Thomas McElweem Irish Republican and hunger striker (d. 1981)[50]
- 1957 Patrick McLoughlin, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
- 1957 Colin Mochrie, Scottish-Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter[39]
- 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 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
- 1960 Ron Simons, American theatre producer and actor (d. 2024)[51]
- 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[39]
- 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[39]
- 1966 Nigel Adams, English businessman and politician
- 1966 David Berkoff, American swimmer
- 1966 John Bishop, English comedian, presenter, and actor
- 1966 Philippe Bozon, French ice hockey player[52]
- 1966 David Nicholls, English author and screenwriter
- 1966 Mika Salo, Finnish racing driver
- 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
- 1970 Natalie Williams, American basketball player and executive[53]
- 1971 Ray Durham, American baseball player
- 1972 Christophe Beck, Canadian television and film score composer and conductor[54]
- 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 Mark Blount, American basketball player[55]
- 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 Andres Lacson, Filipino politician[56]
- 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[39]
- 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[39]
- 1978 Gael Garcνa Bernal, Mexican actor and producer[33]
- 1978 Benjamin Lense, German footballer
- 1979 Chris Atkinson, Australian racing driver
- 1979 Andrιs Nocioni, Italian-Argentine basketball player
- 1980 Cem Adrian, Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and director
- 1980 Jamie Ashdown, English footballer
- 1980 Shane Victorino, American baseball player[57]
- 1981 Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player
- 1982 Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress[39]
- 1982 Jason Pominville, Canadian-American ice hockey player
- 1983 Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
- 1983 Vladislav Polyakov, Kazakhstani swimmer
- 1984 Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
- 1984 Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer[58]
- 1984 Olga Rypakova, Kazakhstani triple jumper
- 1984 Francisco Sandaza, Spanish footballer
- 1985 Kaley Cuoco, American actress[39]
- 1985 Hikari Mitsushima, Japanese actress and singer
- 1985 Chrissy Teigen, American model[39]
- 1985 Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2018)[59]
- 1986 Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
- 1986 Evgenia Linetskaya, Israeli tennis player[60]
- 1987 Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player
- 1987 Christel Khalil, American actress[39]
- 1987 Naomi, American wrestler, model, and dancer
- 1987 Daniel Noboa, President-elect of Ecuador and businessman[61]
- 1987 Dougie Poynter, English singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1988 Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)[62]
- 1988 Vitaliy Polyanskyi, Ukrainian footballer
- 1988 Rebecca Rittenhouse, American actress[39]
- 1988 Tomi Saarelma, Finnish footballer
- 1989 Adelaide Clemens, Australian actress[39]
- 1989 Vladimνr Weiss, Slovak footballer
- 1990 Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player[63]
- 1990 Antoine N'Gossan, Ivorian footballer[64]
- 1991 Agnatius Paasi, Tongan rugby league player[65]
- 1994 Sofia Araϊjo, Portuguese tennis player[66]
- 1994 Marko Daňo, Austrian-Slovak ice hockey player[67]
- 1998 Grant Williams, American basketball player[68]
Deaths
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 1016 Edmund Ironside, English king (b. 993)[69]
- 1204 Emeric, King of Hungary[70]
- 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)
16011900
[edit]- 1603 William Gilbert, English scientist (b. 1544)[71]
- 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)
- 1694 Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician and biologist (b. 1628)[72]
- 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)[73]
- 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)
- 1892 Dimitrios Valvis, Greek judge and politician, 69th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1814)
- 1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (b. 1854)[74]
1901present
[edit]- 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 revolutionary socialist 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)[75]
- 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)
- 1995 Til Kiwe, German actor and screenwriter (b. 1910)[76]
- 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)[77]
- 1998 Margaret Walker, American author and poet (b. 1915)
- 2000 Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American author (b. 1915)
- 2000 Scott Smith, Canadian bass player (b. 1955)
- 2003 Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1905)[78]
- 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 Merv Pregulman, American football player and businessman (b. 1922)[79]
- 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)[80]
- 2013 Tabu Ley Rochereau, Congolese-Belgian singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
- 2013 Doriano Romboni, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1968)
- 2013 Paul Walker, American actor (b. 1973)[81]
- 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 Marina Popovich, Soviet pilot, engineer and military officer (b. 1931)[82]
- 2017 Alfie Curtis, British actor (b. 1930)
- 2018 George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st President of the United States (b. 1924)[83]
- 2020 Irina Antonova, Russian art historian (b. 1922)[84]
- 2022 Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and President of China (b. 1926)[85]
- 2022 Christine McVie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1943)[86]
- 2023 Alistair Darling, British Politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1953)[87]
- 2023 Shane MacGowan, Irish singer-songwriter and frontman of The Pogues (b. 1957)[88]
Holidays and observances
[edit]- Bonifacio Day (Philippines)
- Christian feast day:
- 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
- National Day (Benin)
- Regina Mundi Day (South Africa)
- Saint Andrew's Day (Scotland)[89]
- Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare (United Nations)