November 15
Day of the year
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November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 46 days remain until the end of the year.
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Events
Pre-1600
- 655 â Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.[1]
- 1315 â Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morgarten.[2]
- 1532 â Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day.
- 1533 â Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1601â1900
- 1705 â Rákóczi's War of Independence: The Habsburg Empire and Denmark win a military victory over the Kurucs from Hungary in the Battle of Zsibó.
- 1760 â The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
- 1777 â American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
- 1806 â Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is later named Pikes Peak in his honor.
- 1842 â A slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation commences.[3]
- 1849 â Boilers of the steamboat Louisiana explode as she pulls back from the dock in New Orleans, killing more than 150 people.[4]
- 1864 â American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea through Georgia towards the city of Savannah.[5]
- 1884 â The Berlin Conference of 1884â1885 met on 15 November 1884, and after an adjournment concluded on 26 February 1885, with the signature of a General Act, regulating the European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.[6]
- 1889 â Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
- 1899 â Second Boer War: Battle of Chieveley, a British armored train is ambushed and partially derailed. British lose the battle, with 80 soldiers captured, along with war correspondent Winston Churchill.[7]
1901âpresent
- 1917 â Eduskunta declares itself the supreme state power of Finland, prompting its declaration of independence and secession from Russia.[8]
- 1920 â The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1920 â The Free City of Danzig is established.
- 1922 â At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.[9]
- 1928 â The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsizes in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.[10]
- 1933 â Thailand holds its first election.
- 1938 â Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.[11]
- 1942 â World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
- 1943 â The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
- 1951 â Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 comrades, is sentenced to death for attempting to reestablish the Communist Party of Greece.
- 1955 â The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
- 1957 â Short Solent 3 crashes near Chessell.[12]
- 1959 â Four members of the Clutter family are murdered near Holcomb, Kansas, by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock,[13] a crime later detailed by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.[14]
- 1965 â Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.[15]
- 1966 â Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1967 â The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
- 1968 â The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
- 1969 â Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
- 1969 â Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000â500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
- 1971 â Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
- 1976 â René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
- 1978 â A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
- 1979 â A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
- 1983 â Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence; it is only recognized by Turkey.
- 1985 â A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
- 1985 â The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
- 1987 â In BraÈov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae CeauÈescu.
- 1987 â Continental Airlines Flight 1713 crashes during takeoff from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, killing 25.[16]
- 1988 â In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
- 1988 â IsraeliâPalestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
- 1988 â The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
- 1990 â The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
- 1990 â Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-38, a classified mission for the Department of Defense.[17]
- 1994 â A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to 8.5 m (28 ft) high.[18]
- 2000 â A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
- 2000 â Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.[19]
- 2001 â Microsoft launches the Xbox game console in North America.[20]
- 2002 â Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
- 2003 â The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, kill 25 people and wound 300 more.
- 2006 â Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
- 2007 â Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
- 2010 â A fire in a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai, China kills 58 people.[21]
- 2012 â Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
- 2016 â Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.[22]
- 2017 â A flood a few miles outside of Athens results in the death of 25 people.[23]
- 2020 â Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.[24]
- 2022 â The world population reached eight billion.[25]
Births
Pre-1600
- 459 â Bʼutz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king (died 501)
- 1316 â John I, king of France and Navarre (died 1316)
- 1397 â Nicholas V, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1455)
- 1498 â Eleanor of Austria, queen of Portugal and France (died 1558)
- 1511 â Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet and author (died 1536)
- 1556 â Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (died 1618)
1601â1900
- 1607 â Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (died 1701)[26]
- 1660 â Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and orientalist (died 1746)
- 1661 â Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author (died 1743)
- 1692 â Eusebius Amort, German poet and theologian (died 1775)
- 1708 â William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1778)[27]
- 1738 â William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (died 1822)
- 1741 â Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist (died 1801)
- 1746 â Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer (died 1809)
- 1757 â Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (died 1830)
- 1776 â José JoaquÃn Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and author (died 1827)
- 1784 â Jérôme Bonaparte, French husband of Catharina of Württemberg (died 1860)
- 1791 â Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (died 1869)
- 1793 â Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (died 1880)
- 1849 â Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator (died 1934)
- 1852 â Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (died 1892)
- 1859 â Christopher Hornsrud, Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway (died 1960)
- 1862 â Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1946)
- 1865 â John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (died 1932)
- 1866 â Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (died 1954)[28]
- 1867 â Emil Krebs, German polyglot (died 1930)
- 1868 â Emil RacoviÈÄ, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (died 1947)
- 1873 â Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic (died 1945)
- 1874 â Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (died 1941)
- 1874 â August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)
- 1879 â Lewis Stone, American actor (died 1953)
- 1881 â Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (died 1960)
- 1882 â Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (died 1965)
- 1886 â René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (died 1951)
- 1887 â Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and translator (died 1972)
- 1887 â Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator (died 1986)
- 1888 â Artie Matthews, American pianist and composer (died 1958)
- 1890 â Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (died 1969)
- 1891 â W. Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1986)
- 1891 â Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (died 1944)
- 1892 â Naomi Childers, American actress (died 1964)
- 1895 â Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918)[29]
- 1895 â Antoni SÅonimski, Polish journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1976)
- 1896 â Leonard Lord, English businessman (died 1967)
- 1897 â Aneurin Bevan, Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health (died 1960)
- 1897 â Sacheverell Sitwell, English author and critic (died 1988)
- 1899 â Avdy Andresson, Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War (died 1990)
1901âpresent
- 1903 â Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (died 1974)
- 1905 â Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer (died 1980)
- 1906 â Curtis LeMay, American general and politician (died 1990)
- 1907 â Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel (died 1944)
- 1908 â Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (died 1979)
- 1912 â Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (died 2010)
- 1912 â Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel (died 1945)
- 1913 â Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (died 2003)
- 1913 â Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (died 2005)
- 1914 â V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge (died 2014)
- 1916 â Nita Barrow, Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados (died 1995)[30]
- 1916 â Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (died 2008)
- 1919 â Carol Bruce, American singer and actress (died 2007)[31]
- 1919 â Joseph Wapner, American judge and television personality (died 2017)[32]
- 1920 â Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1999)
- 1922 â Francis Brunn, German juggler (died 2004)
- 1922 â David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic (died 2019)
- 1922 â Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2015)
- 1923 â VÄn Cao, Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter (died 1995)
- 1923 â Samuel Klein, Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia (died 2014)
- 1924 â Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor (died 2013)
- 1925 â Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (died 2014)
- 1926 â Thomas Williams, American author and academic (died 1990)
- 1927 â Bill Rowling, New Zealand politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1995)
- 1929 â Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer (died 2021)[33]
- 1929 â Joe Hinton, American singer (died 1968)
- 1930 â J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 2009)[34]
- 1930 â Olene Walker, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (died 2015)
- 1931 â Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya (died 2022)
- 1931 â Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (died 2020)
- 1932 â Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress[35]
- 1932 â Clyde McPhatter, American singer (died 1972)
- 1932 â Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher, author, and academic
- 1933 â Gloria Foster, American actress (died 2001)
- 1933 â Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author (died 2011)
- 1934 â Joanna Barnes, American actress and author (died 2022)
- 1935 â Nera White, American basketball player (died 2016)
- 1935 â Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian politician[36]
- 1936 â Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1936 â Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (died 1998)
- 1937 â Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter (died 1968)
- 1939 â Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter (died 2021)[37]
- 1939 â Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (died 2015)
- 1939 â Enzo Staiola, Italian child actor (died 2025)[38][39]
- 1940 â Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer (died 2024)
- 1940 â Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor and screenwriter
- 1940 â Sam Waterston, American actor[35]
- 1942 â Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor[34]
- 1945 â Roger Donaldson, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1945 â Bob Gunton, American actor and singer[35]
- 1945 â Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer[35]
- 1946 â Vassilis Goumas, Greek basketball player
- 1947 â Bob Dandridge, American basketball player[40]
- 1947 â Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2023)[41]
- 1947 â Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and sportscaster
- 1948 â Jimmy Choo, Malaysian fashion designer[page needed][42]
- 1948 â Teodoro Locsin, Jr., Filipino journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat
- 1950 â Egon Vaupel, German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg
- 1951 â Beverly D'Angelo, American actress, singer, and producer[35]
- 1952 â Rick Atkinson, American journalist, historian, and author
- 1952 â Randy Savage, American wrestler (died 2011)[34]
- 1953 â Alexander O'Neal, American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger
- 1953 â James Widdoes, American actor, director, and producer[35]
- 1954 â Kevin S. Bright, American director and producer
- 1954 â Emma Dent Coad, British politician
- 1954 â Aleksander KwaÅniewski, Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland
- 1954 â Randy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1954 â Tony Thompson, American R&B, disco, and rock drummer (died 2003)
- 1955 â Joe Leeway, English pop singer-songwriter and percussionist
- 1956 â Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer
- 1957 â Gerry Connolly, Australian comedian and actor
- 1957 â Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist and composer[35]
- 1957 â Harold Marcuse, American historian and educator
- 1957 â Michael Woythe, German footballer and manager
- 1958 â Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Australian actor and director
- 1958 â Gu Kailai, Chinese lawyer and businesswoman
- 1958 â Lesley Laird, British politician
- 1959 â Tibor Fischer, English author
- 1960 â Dawn Airey, English broadcaster
- 1961 â Hugh McGahan, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1962 â Mark Acres, American basketball player and educator
- 1962 â Judy Gold, American comedian, actress, and producer[35]
- 1963 â Andrew Castle, English tennis player and television host
- 1963 â Benny Elias, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
- 1963 â Kevin J. O'Connor, American actor
- 1964 â Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer and manager
- 1964 â Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2011)
- 1964 â Tiit Sokk, Estonian basketball player and coach
- 1965 â Nigel Bond, English snooker player
- 1965 â Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
- 1966 â Rachel True, American actress[35]
- 1967 â Greg Anthony, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1967 â Cynthia Breazeal, American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic
- 1967 â E-40, American rapper and actor[35]
- 1967 â Wayne Harrison, English footballer (died 2013)
- 1967 â François Ozon, French director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1967 â Gus Poyet, Uruguayan footballer and manager
- 1967 â Jon Preston, New Zealand rugby player
- 1968 â Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper and producer (died 2004)
- 1968 â Fausto Brizzi, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1968 â Teodoro Casiño, Filipino journalist and politician
- 1968 â Jennifer Charles, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1968 â Uwe Rösler, German footballer and manager
- 1970 â Ilija AraÄiÄ, Croatian footballer and coach
- 1970 â Jack Ingram, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[35]
- 1970 â Alexander Kvitashvili, Georgian-Ukrainian academic and politician, 19th Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare
- 1970 â Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer
- 1971 â Jay Harrington, American actor
- 1971 â Martin Pieckenhagen, German footballer
- 1972 â Jonny Lee Miller, English-American actor[35]
- 1973 â Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress[35]
- 1973 â Alamgir Sheriyar, English cricketer
- 1974 â Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[35]
- 1975 â Scott Henshall, English fashion designer
- 1975 â Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 â Boris ŽivkoviÄ, Croatian footballer
- 1976 â Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian, actor, and stuntman
- 1976 â Virginie Ledoyen, French actress[35]
- 1976 â Sule, Indonesian comedian and actor
- 1977 â Richard Lintner, Slovak ice hockey player[43]
- 1977 â Steven Miles, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Queensland[44]
- 1977 â Sean Murray, American actor[35]
- 1977 â Peter Phillips, English businessman
- 1977 â Robaire Smith, American football player
- 1978 â Floyd Womack, American football player
- 1979 â Brooks Bollinger, American football player and coach
- 1979 â Josemi, Spanish footballer
- 1979 â Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
- 1980 â Ace Young, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1981 â Drew Hodgdon, American football player
- 1981 â Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer[34]
- 1982 â D. J. Fitzpatrick, American football player
- 1982 â Rio Hirai, Japanese actress
- 1982 â Joe Kowalewski, American football player
- 1982 â Benjamin Krause, German rugby player
- 1982 â Giaan Rooney, Australian swimmer
- 1982 â Lofa Tatupu, American football player
- 1982 â Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer
- 1983 â Dominic Carroll, Gibraltarian runner
- 1983 â Sophia Di Martino, English actress[34]
- 1983 â Aleksandar PavloviÄ, Serbian basketball player
- 1983 â Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
- 1983 â John Heitinga, Dutch footballer and coach[45]
- 1984 â Asia Kate Dillon, American actor and producer
- 1985 â Lily Aldridge, American model
- 1985 â Charron Fisher, American basketball player
- 1985 â Simon Spender, Welsh footballer
- 1986 â Winston Duke, Tobagonian-American actor[35]
- 1986 â Coye Francies, American football player
- 1986 â Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
- 1986 â Jerry Roush, American singer-songwriter
- 1987 â Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player[46]
- 1988 â B.o.B, American rapper, songwriter, and producer[35]
- 1988 â Quanitra Hollingsworth, American-Turkish basketball player[47]
- 1988 â Morgan Parra, French rugby player
- 1988 â Billy Twelvetrees, English rugby player
- 1989 â Jona Viray, Filipino singer
- 1991 â Maxime Colin, French footballer
- 1991 â Shailene Woodley, American actress[35]
- 1992 â Dylan Bundy, American baseball player[48]
- 1992 â Sofia Goggia, Italian skier
- 1992 â Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer
- 1992 â Daniela Seguel, Chilean tennis player
- 1992 â Trevor Story, American baseball player
- 1992 â Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer
- 1993 â Arik Armstead, American football player[49]
- 1993 â Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer[50]
- 1993 â Saaya Irie, Japanese actress and singer
- 1993 â Melitina Staniouta, Belarusian rhythmic gymnast[51]
- 1994 â Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russian tennis player[52]
- 1994 â Emma Dumont, American actress and model[35]
- 1994 â Bryce Cartwright, Australian rugby league player
- 1995 â Blake Pieroni, American swimmer[53]
- 1995 â Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player
- 1996 â Kim Min-jae, South Korean footballer[54]
- 1997 â Paula Badosa, Spanish tennis player[55]
- 2001 â TyTy Washington Jr., American basketball player[56]
Deaths
Pre-1600
- 165 BCE â Mattathias, Jewish resistance leader
- 621 â Malo, Breton bishop and saint
- 655 â Ãthelhere, king of East Anglia
- 655 â Penda of Mercia, king of Mercia
- 1037 â Odo II, French nobleman (born 983)
- 1136 â Leopold III, margrave of Austria (born 1073)
- 1194 â Margaret I, countess of Flanders
- 1226 â Frederick of Isenberg, German nobleman (born 1193)
- 1280 â Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (born 1193)
- 1347 â James I of Urgell, Spanish nobleman (born 1321)
- 1351 â Joanna of Pfirt, duchess of Austria
- 1379 â Otto V, duke of Bavaria
- 1463 â Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian nobleman
- 1527 â Catherine of York, English princess (born 1479)[57]
- 1579 â Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (born 1510)
1601â1900
- 1628 â Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (born 1576)
- 1630 â Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1571)
- 1670 â John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (born 1592)
- 1691 â Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (born 1620)
- 1706 â Tsangyang, Tibetan dalai lama (born 1683)
- 1712 â James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (born 1658)
- 1712 â Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (born 1675)
- 1787 â Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (born 1714)
- 1794 â John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (born 1723)
- 1795 â Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (born 1719)
- 1832 â Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman (born 1767)
- 1836 â Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and saint (born 1750s)[58]
- 1845 â William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (born 1803)
- 1853 â Maria II, Portuguese queen and regent (born 1819)
- 1892 â Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (born 1850)
- 1897 â Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (born 1810)
1901âpresent
- 1908 â Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (born 1835)[59]
- 1910 â Wilhelm Raabe, German author (born 1831)
- 1916 â Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)[60]
- 1917 â Ãmile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (born 1858)
- 1919 â Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (born 1862)
- 1919 â Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician (born 1868)
- 1919 â Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
- 1921 â Tadhg Barry, veteran Irish republican and leading trade unionist (born 1880)[61]
- 1922 â Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1866)
- 1922 â Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1854)
- 1922 â Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1872)
- 1941 â Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer (born 1902)
- 1942 â Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Swiss author and photographer (born 1908)[62]
- 1945 â Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (born 1864)
- 1949 â Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (born 1911)[63]
- 1949 â Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (born 1910)[63]
- 1951 â Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (born 1862)
- 1954 â Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (born 1878)
- 1956 â Emma Richter, German paleontologist (born 1888)[64]
- 1958 â Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1914)
- 1959 â Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)
- 1960 â Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (born 1937)
- 1961 â Elsie Ferguson, American actress (born 1883)
- 1961 â Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (born 1883)
- 1963 â Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (born 1888)
- 1966 â Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler (born 1877)
- 1966 â William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (born 1887)
- 1967 â Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (born 1930)
- 1970 â Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician (born 1884)
- 1971 â Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (born 1903)
- 1976 â Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and producer (born 1904)
- 1978 â Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (born 1901)[65]
- 1980 â Bill Lee, American actor and singer (born 1916)
- 1981 â Steve Macko, American baseball player and coach (born 1954)
- 1981 â Enid Markey, American actress (born 1894)
- 1981 â Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (born 1938)
- 1982 â Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (born 1895)
- 1982 â MartÃn de Ãlzaga, Argentinian race car driver (born 1901)
- 1983 â John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and songwriter (born 1955)
- 1983 â Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and manager (born 1898)
- 1983 â John Le Mesurier, English actor (born 1912)
- 1984 â Baby Fae, American infant, who received baboon heart (born 1984)[66]
- 1985 â Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (born 1913)
- 1988 â Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (born 1915)
- 1988 â Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian (born 1905)
- 1994 â Elizabeth George Speare, American author (born 1908)
- 1996 â Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat (born 1904)
- 1997 â Saul Chaplin, American director and composer (born 1912)
- 1998 â Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (born 1941)
- 1998 â LudvÃk DanÄk, Czech discus thrower (born 1937)
- 2000 â Edoardo Agnelli, son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli (born 1954)
- 2003 â Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (born 1910)
- 2003 â Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (born 1925)
- 2003 â Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (born 1923)
- 2003 â Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (born 1924)
- 2004 â Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (born 1909)
- 2004 â John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1930)
- 2005 â Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (born 1931)
- 2005 â Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (born 1959)
- 2006 â David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (born 1937)
- 2007 â Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1928)
- 2008 â Grace Hartigan, American painter (born 1922)
- 2009 â Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (born 1914)
- 2010 â Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (born 1932)
- 2010 â Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (born 1944)
- 2010 â William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer (born 1921)
- 2011 â Oba Chandler, American murderer (born 1946)
- 2012 â Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (born 1954)
- 2012 â LuÃs Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (born 1976)
- 2012 â Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (born 1983)
- 2012 â K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (born 1931)
- 2012 â Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (born 1940)
- 2013 â Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (born 1929)
- 2013 â Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (born 1919)
- 2013 â Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (born 1930)
- 2014 â Jack Bridger Chalker, English painter and academic (born 1918)
- 2014 â Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator (born 1934)
- 2014 â Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (born 1983)
- 2014 â Reg Withers, Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory (born 1924)
- 2015 â Gisèle Prassinos, French author (born 1920)
- 2015 â Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (born 1930)
- 2015 â Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (born 1929)
- 2016 â Mose Allison, American pianist and songwriter (born 1927)
- 2017 â Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (born 1996)
- 2023 â Žarko LauÅ¡eviÄ, Serbian actor (born 1960)[67]
- 2024 â Celeste Caeiro, Portuguese pacifist (born 1933)[68]
- 2024 â Béla Károlyi, Romanian-American gymnastics coach (born 1942)[69]
- 2024 â Jon Kenny, Irish comedian and actor (born 1957)[70]
- 2024 â Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Japanese princess (born 1923)[71]
Holidays and observances
- America Recycles Day (United States)
- Christian feast day:
- Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium (German-speaking Community of Belgium)
- Day of the Imprisoned Writer (International observance)
- Independence Day, unilaterally declared in 1988. (Palestine)
- King's Feast (Belgium)
- National Tree Planting Day (Sri Lanka)
- Peace Day (Ivory Coast)
- Republic Proclamation Day (Brazil)
- Shichi-Go-San (Japan)
- Republic Day (Northern Cyprus)[73]
- The beginning of Nativity Fast (Eastern Orthodox)
