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November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 52 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 694 At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
- 1180 The Battle of Fujigawa: Minamoto forces (30,000 men) under Minamoto no Yoritomo defeat Taira no Koremori during a night attack near the Fuji River but he escapes safely with the routed army.[1][2]
- 1277 The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement forced on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd by King Edward I of England, brings a temporary end to the Welsh Wars.[3]
- 1307 Knights Templar officer Hugues de Pairaud is forced to confess during the Trials of the Knights Templar. He was persecuted on the charges of false idolism and sodomy.[4]
- 1313 Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf.
- 1323 Siege of Warangal: Prataparudra surrenders to Muhammad bin Tughlaq, officially marking the end of the Kakatiya dynasty.[5]
- 1330 At the Battle of Posada, Basarab I of Wallachia defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.
- 1372 Trần Duệ Tτng succeeds his brother Trần Nghệ Tτng as King of Vietnam.[6]
- 1431 The Battle of Ilava: The Hungarians defeat the Hussite army.[7][8]
- 1456 Ulrich II, Count of Celje, last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in Belgrade.
- 1520 More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
- 1580 Second Desmond Rebellion: The Siege of Smerwick ends with the Catholic garrison surrendering to the English forces under Arthur Grey. The majority of the garrison is massacred the next day.[9][10]
16011900
[edit]- 1620 The Bohemian King Frederick I flees Prague to Wroclaw one day after the defeat of his troops in the Battle of White Mountain.[11]
- 1688 Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
- 1719 In a treaty between Sweden and Hanover at the close of the Great Northern War, Sweden cedes the Duchies of Bremen and Verden (in northern Germany) to Hanover.[12]
- 1720 The synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
- 1729 Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
- 1780 American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
- 1791 The Dublin Society of United Irishmen is founded.
- 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor Consulate Government.
- 1851 Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
- 1862 American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
- 1867 The Tokugawa shogunate hands back power to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
- 1870 The Battle of Coulmiers ends in a Pyrrhic victory for the French army during the Franco-German War of 1870.[13]
- 1872 The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
- 1880 A major earthquake strikes Zagreb and destroys many buildings, including Zagreb Cathedral.[14][15]
- 1881 Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.[16]
- 1887 The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- 1888 Jack the Ripper murders Mary Jane Kelly, his final victim in the Whitechapel murders.[17]
- 1900 Russian invasion of Manchuria: Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria with 100,000 troops.[18]
1901present
[edit]- 1901 Prince George, Duke of Cornwall (later George V of the United Kingdom), becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.[19][20]
- 1905 The Province of Alberta, Canada, holds its first general election.[21]
- 1906 Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country, doing so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
- 1907 The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
- 1913 The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
- 1914 SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
- 1917 The Balfour Declaration is published in The Times newspaper.[22]
- 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
- 1921 The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista or PNF) is founded in Italy.[23][24]
- 1923 In Munich, police and government troops crush the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch.
- 1935 The Committee for Industrial Organization, the precursor to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.[25]
- 1936 American fashion designer Ruth Harkness encounters and captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan; it becomes the first live giant panda to enter the United States.[26]
- 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.
- 1938 Kristallnacht occurs, instigated by the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as justification.
- 1940 Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari by the Polish government-in-exile.
- 1942 Battle of Stalingrad: German forces of the 6th Army under general Friedrich Paulus reach finally the river bank of the Volga, capturing 90% of the ruined city of Stalingrad and splitting the remaining Soviet forces into two narrow pockets.[27]
- 1943 An agreement for the founding of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration[28] is signed by 44 countries in the White House, Washington, D.C.[29]
- 1945 Soo Bahk Do and Moo Duk Kwan martial arts are founded in Korea.[30]
- 1953 Cambodia gains independence from France.
- 1960 Robert McNamara is named president of the Ford Motor Company, becoming the first non-Ford family member to serve in that post. He resigns a month later to join the newly elected John F. Kennedy administration.
- 1963 At a coal mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
- 1965 Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965.
- 1965 A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
- 1967 Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy.
- 1970 Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 63 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
- 1971 American banker John List murdered his wife, mother, and three children with a pair of handguns.[31]
- 1979 Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, detect a purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
- 1985 Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union, becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
- 1989 Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
- 1993 Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the CroatBosniak War.[32]
- 1994 The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
- 1998 A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
- 1998 Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
- 1999 TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacαn, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.[33]
- 2000 Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.[34]
- 2004 Firefox 1.0 is released.[35]
- 2005 The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- 2005 Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
- 2011 - The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m. EST.[36]
- 2012 A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
- 2012 At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
- 2014 A non-binding self-determination consultation is held in Catalonia, asking Catalan citizens their opinion on whether Catalonia should become a state and, if so, whether it should be an independent state.[37]
- 2020 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: An armistice agreement is signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.[38][39]
- 2023 U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.[40]
Births
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 955 Gyeongjong, Korean king (died 981)
- 1383 Niccolς III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (died 1441)
- 1389 Isabella of Valois, French princess and queen of England (died 1409)[41]
- 1414 Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1486)
- 1455 John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (died 1516)
- 1467 Charles II, Duke of Guelders, count of Zutphen from 1492 (died 1538)
- 1467 Philippa of Guelders, twin sister of Charles II, Dutch duchess consort (died 1547)
- 1522 Martin Chemnitz, German astrologer and theologian (died 1586)
- 1535 Nanda Bayin, king of Burma (died 1600)
- 1580 Johannes Narssius, Dutch physician and poet (died 1637)
16011900
[edit]- 1606 Hermann Conring, German philosopher and educator (died 1681)
- 1664 Johann Speth, German organist and composer (died 1719)
- 1664 Henry Wharton, English librarian and author (died 1695)
- 1666 Carl Gustaf Armfeldt, Swedish officer, general and friherre (died 1736)[42]
- 1683 George II of Great Britain (died 1760)[43]
- 1697 Claudio Casciolini, Italian singer and composer (died 1760)
- 1719 Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian priest, theoretician, and academic (died 1796)
- 1721 Mark Akenside, English physician and poet (died 1770)
- 1723 Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (died 1787)
- 1731 Benjamin Banneker, American farmer, surveyor, and author (died 1806)
- 1732 Jeanne Julie Ιlιonore de Lespinasse, French businesswoman and author (died 1776)
- 1773 Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvδrd, Danish author (died 1856)
- 1780 Nicolai Wergeland, Norwegian priest, writer and politician (died 1848)[44]
- 1799 Gustav, Prince of Vasa (died 1877)
- 1801 Gail Borden, American surveyor and publisher, invented condensed milk (died 1874)
- 1802 Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister, journalist, and activist (died 1837)
- 1810 Bernhard von Langenbeck, German general, surgeon, and academic (died 1887)
- 1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright (died 1883)
- 1825 A. P. Hill, American general (died 1865)
- 1829 Peter Lumsden, English general (died 1918)
- 1832 Ιmile Gaboriau, French author and journalist (died 1873)
- 1840 Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (died 1898)
- 1841 Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)[45]
- 1850 Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist and academic (died 1929)
- 1853 Stanford White, American architect and partner, co-founded McKim, Mead & White (died 1906)
- 1854 Maud Howe Elliott, American activist and author (died 1948)
- 1862 Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter and educator (died 1936)
- 1869 Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (died 1934)
- 1871 Florence R. Sabin, American medical scientist (died 1953)
- 1872 Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian author and poet (died 1941)
- 1873 Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and surgeon (died 1941)
- 1874 Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist and academic (died 1954)
- 1877 Enrico De Nicola, Italian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of the Italian Republic (died 1959)
- 1877 Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and politician (died 1938)
- 1878 Ahn Changho, Korean activist and politician (died 1938)
- 1879 Jenő Bory, Hungarian architect and sculptor (died 1959)
- 1879 Milan ufflay, Croatian historian and politician (died 1931)
- 1880 Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the red telephone box (died 1960)
- 1883 Edna May Oliver, American actress (died 1942)
- 1885 Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (died 1954)
- 1885 Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (died 1922)
- 1885 Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor and educator (died 1952)
- 1885 Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1955)
- 1886 Ed Wynn, American actor (died 1966)
- 1888 Jean Monnet, French economist and diplomat (died 1979)
- 1891 Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (died 1983)
- 1894 Mae Marsh, American actress (died 1968)
- 1894 Dietrich von Choltitz, General of the German Army during World War II (died 1966)
- 1897 Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (died 1941)
- 1897 Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1978)
- 1900 Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic (died 1961)
1901present
[edit]- 1902 Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (died 1968)
- 1904 Viktor Brack, German SS officer (died 1948)
- 1904 Heiti Talvik, Estonian poet (died 1947)
- 1905 Erika Mann, German-Swiss actress and author (died 1969)[46]
- 1906 Arthur Rudolph, German scientist and engineer (died 1996)
- 1913 Paulene Myers, American actress (died 1996)
- 1914 Thomas Berry, American priest, historian, and theologian (died 2009)
- 1914 Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and inventor (died 2000)[47]
- 1915 Andrι Franηois, Romanian-French illustrator, painter, and sculptor (died 2005)
- 1915 Sargent Shriver, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 21st United States Ambassador to France (died 2011)[47]
- 1916 Martha Settle Putney, American lieutenant, historian, and educator (died 2008)
- 1918 Spiro Agnew, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (died 1996)[47]
- 1918 Florence Chadwick, American swimmer (died 1995)
- 1918 Thomas Ferebee, American colonel (died 2000)
- 1918 Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general and martial artist, co-founded taekwondo (died 2002)
- 1919 Eva Todor, Brazilian actress (died 2017)
- 1920 Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin of Medgar Evers (died 2001)
- 1920 Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (died 2014)
- 1921 Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano and actress (died 2011)
- 1921 Viktor Chukarin, Ukrainian gymnast and coach (died 1984)
- 1922 Dorothy Dandridge, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 1965)[47]
- 1922 Raymond Devos, Belgian-French comedian and clown (died 2006)
- 1922 Imre Lakatos, Hungarian mathematician, philosopher, and academic (died 1974)
- 1923 Alice Coachman, American high jumper (died 2014)
- 1923 Elizabeth Hawley, American-Nepali journalist and historian (died 2018)
- 1923 James Schuyler, American poet and author (died 1991)
- 1924 Robert Frank, Swiss-American photographer and director (died 2019)
- 1925 Alistair Horne, English-American journalist, historian, and author (died 2017)
- 1926 Vicente Aranda, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)
- 1926 Luis Miguel Dominguνn, Spanish bullfighter (died 1996)
- 1928 Anne Sexton, American poet and academic (died 1974)
- 1929 Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (died 2005)
- 1929 Imre Kertιsz, Hungarian author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
- 1931 Whitey Herzog, American baseball player and manager (died 2024)[47]
- 1931 Valery Shumakov, Russian surgeon and transplantologist (died 2008)
- 1931 George Witt, American baseball player and coach (died 2013)
- 1932 Frank Selvy, American basketball player and coach[48] (died 2024)[49]
- 1933 Ed Corney, American professional bodybuilder (died 2019)
- 1933 Jim Perry, American game show host (died 2015)[50]
- 1934 Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish economist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1934 Ronald Harwood, South African author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2020)
- 1934 Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (died 1996)[47]
- 1935 Bob Gibson, American baseball player and coach (died 2020)[47]
- 1935 David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, English businessman and politician (died 2021)
- 1936 Bob Graham, American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Florida (died 2024)
- 1936 Mikhail Tal, Latvian-Russian chess player and author (died 1992)
- 1936 Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (died 2009)[47]
- 1937 Roger McGough, English author, poet, and playwright
- 1937 Donald Trelford, English journalist and academic (died 2023)
- 1937 Clyde Wells, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
- 1938 Ti-Grace Atkinson, American author and critic
- 1939 Paul Cameron, American psychologist and academic
- 1939 Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham, English academic and politician
- 1941 David Constant, English cricketer and umpire
- 1941 Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1990)[47]
- 1941 John Singleton, Australian businessman
- 1942 Victor Blank, English businessman and philanthropist
- 1942 Tom Weiskopf, American golfer and sportscaster (died 2022)
- 1944 Chitresh Das, Indian dancer and choreographer (died 2015)
- 1944 Phil May, English singer-songwriter (died 2020)
- 1945 Moeletsi Mbeki, South African economist and academic
- 1945 Charlie Robinson, American actor (died 2021)[51]
- 1946 Benny Mardones, American singer-songwriter (died 2020)
- 1946 Marina Warner, English author and academic
- 1947 Robert David Hall, American actor, singer, and pianist[47]
- 1948 Bille August, Danish director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
- 1948 Joe Bouchard, American bass player and songwriter
- 1948 Jane Humphries, English economist, historian, and academic
- 1948 Michel Pagliaro, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1948 Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian footballer and manager
- 1950 Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician, 40th Minister of Māori Affairs (died 2013)
- 1951 Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and actor[52]
- 1952 Sherrod Brown, American academic and politician
- 1952 Gladys Requena, Venezuelan politician[53]
- 1952 Jim Riggleman, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1953 Gaιtan Hart, Canadian boxer
- 1954 Aed Carabao, Thai singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1955 Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1955 Bob Nault, Canadian lawyer and politician
- 1959 Thomas Quasthoff, German opera singer[54]
- 1959 Tony Slattery, British actor, comedian and television personality (died 2025)[55]
- 1960 Andreas Brehme, German footballer and manager (died 2024)
- 1960 Sarah Franklin, American-English anthropologist and academic
- 1960 Demetra Plakas, American drummer
- 1961 Jill Dando, English journalist (died 1999)[56]
- 1963 Anthony Bowie, American basketball player[57]
- 1964 Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor, director, and producer
- 1965 Daphne Guinness, English-Irish model and actress
- 1965 Andrei Lapushkin, Russian footballer
- 1965 Ryan Murphy, American television writer, producer, and director[52]
- 1965 Bryn Terfel, Welsh opera singer
- 1967 Ricky Otto, English footballer
- 1968 Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist and educator
- 1968 Colin Hay, English political scientist, author, and academic
- 1969 Sandra Denton, Jamaican-American rapper and actress
- 1969 Ramona Milano, Canadian actress
- 1969 Roxanne Shantι, American rapper
- 1969 Allison Wolfe, American singer-songwriter
- 1970 Nelson Diebel, American swimmer and coach
- 1970 Domino, American DJ and producer
- 1970 Guido Gφrtzen, Dutch volleyball player
- 1970 Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player, coach, and executive
- 1970 Chris Jericho, American-Canadian wrestler[52]
- 1970 Scarface, American rapper and producer[52]
- 1970 Susan Tedeschi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[52]
- 1971 David Duval, American golfer and sportscaster
- 1971 Sabri Lamouchi, French footballer and manager
- 1972 Eric Dane, American actor[52]
- 1972 Naomi Shindō, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1972 Corin Tucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1973 Alyson Court, Canadian actress and producer
- 1973 Nick Lachey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor[52]
- 1973 Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress and director
- 1973 Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer and coach
- 1974 Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
- 1974 Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress
- 1975 Gareth Malone, English singer and conductor
- 1975 Mathew Sinclair, New Zealand cricketer
- 1976 Tochiazuma Daisuke, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1977 Chris Morgan, English footballer and manager
- 1977 Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
- 1978 Even Ormestad, Norwegian bass player and producer
- 1978 Sisqσ, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor[52]
- 1979 Dave Bush, American baseball player
- 1979 Adam Dunn, American baseball player
- 1979 Caroline Flack, English television presenter, radio presenter, and model[58] (died 2020)
- 1979 Martin Taylor, English footballer
- 1980 Vanessa Lachey, Filipino-American television host and actress[52]
- 1980 Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
- 1981 Eyedea, American rapper and producer (died 2010)
- 1981 Jobi McAnuff, Jamaican footballer
- 1981 Kane Waselenchuk, Canadian racquetball player
- 1982 Boaz Myhill, American-Welsh footballer
- 1982 Jana Pittman, Australian hurdler[59]
- 1983 Rob Elloway, German rugby player
- 1983 Ted Potter Jr., American golfer
- 1983 Michael Turner, English footballer
- 1984 Delta Goodrem, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
- 1984 French Montana, Moroccan-American rapper[47]
- 1984 Seven, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor
- 1985 Bakary Soumarι, Malian footballer
- 1986 Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1988 Nikki Blonsky, American actress, singer, and dancer[52]
- 1988 Lio Tipton, American actor and model[47]
- 1989 Baptiste Giabiconi, French model and singer
- 1990 Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer
- 1993 Pete Dunne, English wrestler[60]
- 1994 Lyrica Okano, American actress[47]
- 1995 Finn Cole, English actor[47]
- 1995 Daniel Naroditsky, American chess grandmaster[61]
- 1996 Momo Hirai, Japanese dancer and singer[62]
- 1999 Prithvi Shaw, Indian cricketer[63]
Deaths
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 959 Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor (born 905)
- 1034 Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia (born c. 975)
- 1187 Emperor Gaozong of Song (born 1107)
- 1208 Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (born 1154)
- 1261 Sanchia of Provence, queen consort of Germany
- 1284 Siger of Brabant, Dutch philosopher (born 1240)[64]
- 1286 Roger Northwode, English statesman (born 1230)
- 1312 Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (born 1261)
- 1321 Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England (born 1243)
- 1456 Ulrich II, Count of Celje (born 1406)
- 1492 Jami, Persian poet (born 1414)
- 1596 George Peele, English translator, poet, and dramatist (born 1556)
16011900
[edit]- 1623 William Camden, English historian and topographer (born 1551)
- 1641 Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (born 1610)
- 1677 Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter (born 1603)
- 1689 Enea Silvio Piccolomini, imperial general (born 1651)[65]
- 1706 Peter Mews, English Royalist theologian and bishop (born 1619)[66]
- 1719 Oley Douglas, British Member of Parliament (born 1684)[67]
- 1766 Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer and diplomat (born 1692)
- 1770 John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish general and politician (born 1693)
- 1778 Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (born 1720)
- 1801 Carl Stamitz, German-Czech violinist and composer (born 1745)
- 1848 Robert Blum, German poet and politician (born 1810)
- 1854 Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born 1757)
- 1880 Edwin Drake, American businessman (born 1819)
1901present
[edit]- 1906 Dorothea Beale, English suffragist, educational reformer and author (born 1831)[68]
- 1911 Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (born 1853)
- 1917 Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (born 1866)[69]
- 1918 Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, and playwright (born 1880)
- 1918 Peter Lumsden, English general (born 1829)
- 1919 Eduard Mόller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 26th President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1848)
- 1924 Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (born 1850)
- 1932 Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (born 1901)
- 1937 Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1866)
- 1938 Vasily Blyukher, Russian marshal (born 1889)
- 1940 Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese-American bishop (born 1876)
- 1940 Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1869)
- 1942 Charles Courtney Curran, American painter (born 1861)
- 1942 Edna May Oliver, American actress (born 1883)
- 1944 Frank Marshall, American chess player and theoretician (born 1877)
- 1951 Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American pianist and composer (born 1887)
- 1952 Philip Murray, Scottish-American labor leader (born 1886)
- 1952 Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist, academic, and politician, 1st President of Israel (born 1874)
- 1953 Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (born 1859)
- 1953 Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian king (born 1880)
- 1953 Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (born 1914)
- 1956 Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author (born 1878)
- 1957 Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (born 1872)
- 1958 Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American educational reformer, social activist and author (born 1879)[70]
- 1962 Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian activist and academic (born 1858)
- 1968 Jan Johansson, Swedish pianist (born 1931)
- 1970 Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (born 1890)
- 1971 Maude Fealy, American actress and screenwriter (born 1883)
- 1972 Victor Adamson; American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (born 1890)
- 1976 Armas Taipale, Finnish discus thrower and shot putter (born 1890)
- 1977 Fred Haney, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1898)
- 1985 Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (born 1946)
- 1988 David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and priest (born 1924)
- 1988 John N. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (born 1913)
- 1988 Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (born 1920)
- 1989 Bill Neilson, Australian politician, 34th Premier of Tasmania (born 1925)
- 1991 Yves Montand, Italian-French actor (born 1921)
- 1992 Charles Fraser-Smith, English missionary and author (born 1904)
- 1992 William Hillcourt, Danish-American scout leader and author (born 1900)
- 1992 T. Sivasithamparam, Sri Lankan politician (born 1926)
- 1993 Ross Andru, American illustrator (born 1925)
- 1996 Joe Ghiz, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (born 1945)
- 1997 Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (born 1905)
- 1997 Helenio Herrera, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager (born 1910)
- 1999 Mabel King, American actress and singer (born 1932)
- 2000 Sherwood Johnston, American race car driver (born 1927)
- 2000 Eric Morley, English television host, founded Miss World (born 1918)
- 2001 Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and curator (born 1924)
- 2001 Giovanni Leone, Italian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Italy (born 1908)
- 2002 William Schutz, American psychologist and academic (born 1925)
- 2003 Art Carney, American actor and comedian (born 1918)
- 2003 Gordon Onslow Ford, English-American painter (born 1912)
- 2004 Iris Chang, American historian, journalist, and author (born 1968)
- 2004 Emlyn Hughes, English footballer and manager (born 1947)
- 2004 Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and author (born 1954)
- 2005 K. R. Narayanan, Indian journalist and politician, 10th President of India (born 1921)
- 2006 Ed Bradley, American journalist (born 1941)
- 2006 Ellen Willis, American journalist and activist (born 1941)
- 2006 Markus Wolf, German intelligence officer (born 1923)
- 2008 Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (born 1929)
- 2008 Miriam Makeba, South African singer and activist (born 1932)
- 2012 Milan Čič, Slovak lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic (born 1932)
- 2012 Joseph D. Early, American soldier and politician (born 1933)
- 2012 Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1905)
- 2012 James L. Stone, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1922)
- 2013 Savaş Ay, Turkish journalist (born 1954)
- 2013 Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (born 1947)[71]
- 2013 Grethe Rytter Hasle, Norwegian biologist and academic (born 1920)
- 2013 Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, American saxophonist (born 1936)
- 2013 Steve Prescott, English rugby player (born 1973)
- 2013 Emile Zuckerkandl, Austrian-American biologist and academic (born 1922)
- 2014 Rubιn Alvarez, Argentinian golfer (born 1961)
- 2014 Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani, Qatari prince (born 1966)[72]
- 2014 R. A. Montgomery, American author and publisher (born 1936)[73]
- 2014 Myles Munroe, Bahamian pastor and author (born 1954)[74]
- 2014 Orlando Thomas, American football player (born 1972)[75]
- 2014 Joe Walsh, Irish politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (born 1943)[76]
- 2015 Carol Doda, American actress and dancer (born 1937)[77]
- 2015 Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (born 1930)[78]
- 2015 Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (born 1986)[79]
- 2015 Byron Krieger, American fencer (born 1920)[80]
- 2015 Andy White, Scottish drummer (born 1930)[81]
- 2016 Greg Ballard, American basketball player and coach (born 1955)[82]
- 2017 Chuck Mosley, American singer songwriter (born 1959)[83]
- 2017 Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (born 1982)[84]
- 2021 Max Cleland, American politician (born 1942)[85]
- 2023 Junko Ohashi, Japanese singer (born 1950)[86]
- 2024 Bobby Allison, American race car driver and businessman (born 1937)[87]
- 2024 Lou Donaldson, American saxophonist (born 1926)[88]
- 2024 Judith Jamison, American dancer and choreographer (born 1943)[89]
- 2024 Ella Jenkins, American folk singer (born 1924)[90]
Holidays and observances
[edit]- Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)
- Christian feast day:
- Benignus of Armagh
- Dedication of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day)
- Margery Kempe (Church of England)
- Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran)
- Nectarios of Aegina[91]
- Theodore of Amasea (Roman Catholic Church)
- Virgin of Almudena (Madrid)[92]
- Vitonus
- November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Day of the Skulls or Dia de los ρatitas (Bolivia)
- Flag Day (Azerbaijan)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cambodia from France in 1953.
- Inventors' Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
- Uttarakhand Day (Uttarakhand, India)
- World Freedom Day (United States)


