Charles the Fat
Charles III (839 – 13 January 888), also known as Charles the Fat, was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 881 to 888. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, Charles was the youngest son of Louis the German and Hemma, and a great-grandso ...
is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
East Frankish Kingdom
East Francia (Medieval Latin: ) or the Kingdom of the East Franks () was a successor state of Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire, empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911. It was created through the Treaty of Verdun (843) which divided t ...
in late November.
*
1183
Year 1183 ( MCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Byzantine Empire
* Andronicus I Comnenus becomes Byzantine Emperor.
* October – Alexios II Komn ...
– Genpei War: The
Battle of Mizushima
The naval battle of Mizushima took place on 17 November 1183 during the Genpei War. One of the most important bases of the Taira was Yashima, a small island off the coast of Shikoku. In November 1183, Minamoto no Yoshinaka sent an army to cross ...
takes place off the Japanese coast, where
Minamoto no Yoshinaka
, , or Lord Kiso was a general from the late Heian period of Japanese history. A member of the Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo was his cousin and rival during the Genpei War between the Minamoto and the Taira clans. Yoshinaka was born in Musas ...
's invasion force is intercepted and defeated by the
Taira clan
The Taira was one of the four most important clans that dominated Japanese politics during the Heian, Kamakura and Muromachi Periods of Japanese history – the others being the Fujiwara, the Tachibana, and the Minamoto. The clan is divided ...
John Balliol
John Balliol ( – late 1314), known derisively as ''Toom Tabard'' (meaning "empty coat" – coat of arms), was King of Scots from 1292 to 1296. Little is known of his early life. After the death of Margaret, Maid of Norway, Scotland entered an ...
Sultanate of Sulu
The Sultanate of Sulu ( Tausūg: ''Kasultanan sin Sūg'', كاسولتانن سين سوڬ; Malay: ''Kesultanan Sulu''; fil, Sultanato ng Sulu; Chavacano: ''Sultanato de Sulu/Joló''; ar, سلطنة سولك) was a Muslim state that ruled ...
Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disa ...
concludes the Treaty of Westminster, a pledge of mutual aid against the French, with
Ferdinand II of Aragon
Ferdinand II ( an, Ferrando; ca, Ferran; eu, Errando; it, Ferdinando; la, Ferdinandus; es, Fernando; 10 March 1452 – 23 January 1516), also called Ferdinand the Catholic (Spanish: ''el Católico''), was King of Aragon and Sardinia from ...
Elizabethan era
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begins: Queen
Mary I of England
Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. Sh ...
dies and is succeeded by her half-sister
Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was List of English monarchs, Queen of England and List of Irish monarchs, Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is ...
courtier
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Sir
Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh (; – 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppressed rebelli ...
goes on trial for
treason
Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplo ...
1796
Events
January–March
* January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.)
* February 1 – The capital ...
–
French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars (french: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution. They pitted French First Republic, France against Ki ...
:
Battle of the Bridge of Arcole
The Battle of Arcole or Battle of Arcola (15–17 November 1796) was fought between French and Austrian forces southeast of Verona during the War of the First Coalition, a part of the French Revolutionary Wars. The battle saw a bold maneuver b ...
: French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
* 1800 – The
United States Congress
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holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
* 1810 – Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
* 1811 –
José Miguel Carrera
José Miguel Carrera Verdugo (; October 15, 1785 – September 4, 1821) was a Chilean general, formerly Spanish military, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Carrera was the most impo ...
, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of
Chile
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Nathaniel Palmer
Nathaniel Brown Palmer (August 8, 1799June 21, 1877) was an American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer. He gave his name to Palmer Land, Antarctica, which he explored in 1820 on his sloop ''Hero''. He was born in Stonin ...
becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)
* 1831 –
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
and
Venezuela
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are separated from
Gran Colombia
Gran Colombia (, "Great Colombia"), or Greater Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish language, Spanish: ''República de Colombia''), was a state that encompassed much of northern South America and part of southern Central Ameri ...
Sonoita River
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in present-day southern
Arizona
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, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
* 1858 – Modified Julian Day zero.
* 1858 – The city of
Denver
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,
Colorado
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American Civil War
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:
Siege of Knoxville
The siege of Knoxville (November 19 – December 4, 1863) saw Lieutenant General James Longstreet's Confederate States Army, Confederate forces besiege the Union (American Civil War), Union garrison of Knoxville, Tennessee, led by Major General A ...
begins:
Confederate
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States or communities
* Confederate state or confederation, a union of sovereign groups or communities
* Confederate States of America, a confederation of secessionist American states that existed between 1 ...
forces led by General
James Longstreet
James Longstreet (January 8, 1821January 2, 1904) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse". He served under Lee as a corps ...
place
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Di ...
, under
siege
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Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
, the
Suez Canal
The Suez Canal ( arz, قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ, ') is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia. The long canal is a popular ...
, linking the
Mediterranean Sea
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with the
Red Sea
The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; T ...
, is inaugurated.
* 1878 – First assassination attempt against
Umberto I of Italy
Umberto I ( it, Umberto Rainerio Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio di Savoia; 14 March 1844 – 29 July 1900) was King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his assassination on 29 July 1900.
Umberto's reign saw Italy attempt colo ...
by anarchist
Giovanni Passannante
Giovanni Passannante (; February 19, 1849 – February 14, 1910) was an Italian anarchist who attempted to assassinate king Umberto I of Italy, the first attempt against Savoy monarchy since its origins. Originally condemned to death, his sentence ...
, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm.
Prime Minister
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Benedetto Cairoli
Benedetto Cairoli (28 January 1825 – 8 August 1889) was an Italian politician.
Biography
Cairoli was born at Pavia, Lombardy. From 1848 until the completion of Italian unity in 1870, his whole activity was devoted to the ''Risorgimento'', as ...
blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
* 1885 –
Serbo-Bulgarian War
The Serbo-Bulgarian War or the Serbian–Bulgarian War ( bg, Сръбско-българска война, ''Srăbsko-bălgarska voyna'', sr, Српско-бугарски рат, ''Srpsko-bugarski rat'') was a war between the Kingdom of Ser ...
: The decisive
Battle of Slivnitsa
The Battle of Slivnitsa ( bg, Битка при Сливница, sr, Битка на Сливници) was a victory of the Bulgarian army over the Serbians on 17–19 November 1885 in the Serbo-Bulgarian War. It solidified the unification ...
H. H. Holmes
Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer, the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone. Until his execution in 1896, he ...
, one of the first modern
serial killer
A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more persons,A
*
*
*
* with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. While most authorities set a threshold of three ...
s, is arrested in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
Western Pennsylvania Hockey League
The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League (WPHL) was an originally amateur and later professional ice hockey league founded in 1896 and existing through 1909. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the league became the pre-eminent ice hockey league in ...
, which later became the first
ice hockey
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league to openly trade and hire players, began play at
Pittsburgh
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's
Schenley Park Casino
The Schenley Park Casino was Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh’s first multi-purpose arena. The facility was considered the envy of the sports and entertainment world during the early 1890s, with amenities that were unsurpassed anywhere on the globe. It w ...
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP; in , ''Rossiyskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya (RSDRP)''), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a socialist pol ...
splits into two groups: The
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
(Russian for "majority") and
Mensheviks
The Mensheviks (russian: меньшевики́, from меньшинство 'minority') were one of the three dominant factions in the Russian socialist movement, the others being the Bolsheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries.
The factions eme ...
Czech
Czech may refer to:
* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'
Places
* Czech, ...
students are executed as a response to anti-
Nazi
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demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. All Czech universities are shut down and more than 1,200 students sent to
concentration camp
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply ...
s. Since this event,
International Students' Day
International Students' Day is an international observance of the student community, held annually on 17 November. Originally commemorating the Czech universities which were stormed by Nazis in 1939 and the students who were subsequently kille ...
is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.
* 1940 – The
Tartu Art Museum
Tartu Art Museum ( Estonian: ''Tartu Kunstimuuseum'') is a state-owned museum of art located in Tartu, Estonia. It was founded in 1940 on a private initiative by the members of local art school Pallas. This is the largest art museum in Southern ...
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide. On March 30, 2012, the union leadership announced that the SAG membership voted to m ...
implements an anti-
Communist
Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...
loyalty oath.
* 1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and
Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain (; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December 1947. They shared t ...
observe the basic principles of the
transistor
upright=1.4, gate (G), body (B), source (S) and drain (D) terminals. The gate is separated from the body by an insulating layer (pink).
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to Electronic amplifier, amplify or electronic switch, switch e ...
, a key element for the
electronics
The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...
revolution of the 20th century.
* 1950 – Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the
14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...
Blasket Islands
The Blasket Islands ( ga, Na Blascaodaí) are an uninhabited group of islands off the west coast of the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. The last island to hold a significant population, Great Blasket Island, was abandoned in 1954 due ...
,
Kerry
Kerry or Kerri may refer to:
* Kerry (name), a given name and surname of Gaelic origin (including a list of people with the name)
Places
* Kerry, Queensland, Australia
* County Kerry, Ireland
** Kerry Airport, an international airport in Count ...
, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
* 1957 –
Vickers Viscount
The Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee, it entered service in 1953 and was the first turboprop-powered airliner.
The Vi ...
G-AOHP of
British European Airways
British European Airways (BEA), formally British European Airways Corporation, was a British airline which existed from 1946 until 1974.
BEA operated to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from airports around the United Kingdom. The a ...
crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to
Copenhagen Airport
Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup ( da, Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup, ; ) is an international airport serving Copenhagen, Denmark, Zealand, the Øresund Region, and southern Sweden including Scania. It is the second largest airport in the Nordic coun ...
. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.
* 1962 –
President
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*President (corporate title)
*President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination ...
dedicates
Washington Dulles International Airport
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice ...
tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
* 1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
* 1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when
NBC
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broadcasts ''
Heidi
''Heidi'' (; ) is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as ''Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning'' (german: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and ''Heidi: How She Use ...
'' instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
* 1969 –
Cold War
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: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in
Helsinki
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, Finland to begin
SALT I
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War superpowers dealt with arms control in two rounds o ...
negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
* 1970 –
Vietnam War
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: Lieutenant
William Calley
William Laws Calley Jr. (born June 8, 1943) is a former American army officer and war criminal convicted by court-martial for the premeditated killings of 200 to 400 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the Mỹ Lai massacre on March 16, 1968, d ...
goes on trial for the
My Lai Massacre
My or MY may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* My (radio station), a Malaysian radio station
* Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe
* ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak
* ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon
Business
* Market ...
.
* 1970 –
Luna programme
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: The Soviet Union lands ''
Lunokhod 1
''Lunokhod 1'' ( Russian: Луноход-1 ("Moonwalker 1"), also known as Аппарат 8ЕЛ № 203 ("Device 8EL No. 203")) was the first of two robotic lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program. The ...
Moon
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. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting ''
Luna 17
''LOK Luna 17'' (Ye-8 series) was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called ''Lunik 17''. It deployed the first robotic rover onto the surface of the Moon.
Launch
''Luna 17'' was launched from an Earth parking orbit towards ...
Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's contin ...
: In
Orlando, Florida
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, U.S. President
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...
tells 400
Associated Press
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military regime
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The reverse situation is to have civilian control of the m ...
ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
* 1983 – The
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
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Sin ...
UFO sighting
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Second millennium BCE
Classical antiquity
8th century
16th–17th centuries
19th cent ...
incident while flying over Alaska.
* 1989 – Cold War:
Velvet Revolution
The Velvet Revolution ( cs, Sametová revoluce) or Gentle Revolution ( sk, Nežná revolúcia) was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 28 November 1989. Popular demonstrations agains ...
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
– Fugendake, part of the
Mount Unzen
is an active volcanic group of several overlapping stratovolcanoes, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island.
In 1792, the collapse of one of its several lava domes triggered a megatsunam ...
volcanic complex,
Nagasaki Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Nagasaki Prefecture has a population of 1,314,078 (1 June 2020) and has a geographic area of 4,130 km2 (1,594 sq mi). Nagasaki Prefecture borders Saga Prefecture to the northeast.
N ...
, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.
* 1993 –
United States House of Representatives
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passes a resolution to establish the
North American Free Trade Agreement
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.
* 1993 – In Nigeria, General
Sani Abacha
Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who ruled as the military head of state of Nigeria from 1993 until his death in 1998. He seized power on 17 November 1993 in the last successful c ...
ousts the government of
Ernest Shonekan
Chief Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan (9 May 1936 – 11 January 2022) was a Nigerian lawyer and statesman who served as the interim Head of State of Nigeria from 26 August 1993 to 17 November 1993. He was titled Abese of Egbaland from ...
Luxor
Luxor ( ar, الأقصر, al-ʾuqṣur, lit=the palaces) is a modern city in Upper (southern) Egypt which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of ''Thebes''.
Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open-a ...
, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six
Islamic militants
''Mujahideen'', or ''Mujahidin'' ( ar, مُجَاهِدِين, mujāhidīn), is the plural form of ''mujahid'' ( ar, مجاهد, mujāhid, strugglers or strivers or justice, right conduct, Godly rule, etc. doers of jihād), an Arabic term t ...
outside the
Temple of Hatshepsut
The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut (Egyptian language, Egyptian: ''Ḏsr-ḏsrw'' meaning "Holy of Holies") is a mortuary temple built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Located opposite the city of Luxor, ...
, known as
Luxor massacre
The Luxor massacre was the killing of 62 people, mostly tourists, on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahari, an archaeological site and major tourist attraction across the Nile from Luxor, Egypt.
Attack
Deir el-Bahari is one of Egypt's top tour ...
landslide
Landslides, also known as landslips, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated grade (slope), slope failures, mudflows, and debris flows. Landslides occur in a variety of ...
in
Log pod Mangartom
Log pod Mangartom (; sometimes ''Log pod Mangrtom''; it, Bretto; german: Breth), is a settlement in the Municipality of Bovec in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It comprises Gornji Log and Spodnji Log as well as the hamlets Loška Koritnica, Mo ...
,
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...
, kills seven, and causes millions of
SIT
Sit commonly refers to sitting.
Sit, SIT or Sitting may also refer to:
Places
* Sit (island), Croatia
* Sit, Bashagard, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
* Sit, Gafr and Parmon, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
* Sit, Minab, a villa ...
of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
* 2000 –
Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto ( or ; born 28 July 1938) is a Peruvian politician, professor and former engineer who was President of Peru from 28 July 1990 until 22 November 2000. Frequently described as a dictator,
*
*
*
*
*
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he remains a ...
is removed from office as president of
Peru
, image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg
, image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg
, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
, other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal
, national_motto = "Fi ...
Manfalut
Manfalut ( ar, منفلوط ', ; ) is a city in Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile, in the Asyut Governorate. The city is at 350 km (230 miles) south of Cairo. In 2006, it had a population of 82,585 people.
Local agriculture i ...
,
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
.
*
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...
– Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
* 2013 – A rare late-season
tornado outbreak
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A tornado outbreak is the occurrence of multiple tornadoes spawned by the same synoptic scale weather system. The number of tornadoes required to qualify as an outbreak typically are at least six to ten, with at least two rotational l ...
strikes the
Midwest
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four Census Bureau Region, census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2"). It occupies the northern central part of ...
.
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolita ...
and
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
are most affected with
tornado
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, altho ...
reports as far north as lower
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...
. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.
* 2019 – The first known case of
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...
is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Births
Pre-1600
*
AD 9
AD 9 (IX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gaius Poppaeus Sabinus, Sabinus and Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus, Camerinus (or, less frequently, 762 Ab ur ...
–
Vespasian
Vespasian (; la, Vespasianus ; 17 November AD 9 – 23/24 June 79) was a Roman emperor who reigned from AD 69 to 79. The fourth and last emperor who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors, he founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empi ...
Sima Guang
Sima Guang (17 November 1019 – 11 October 1086), courtesy name Junshi, was a Chinese historian, politician, and writer. He was a high-ranking Song dynasty scholar-official who authored the monumental history book ''Zizhi Tongjian''. Sima was ...
Zanobi Strozzi
Zanobi di Benedetto di Caroccio degli Strozzi (17 November 1412 – 6 December 1468), normally referred to more simply as Zanobi Strozzi, was an Italian Renaissance painter and manuscript illuminator active in Florence and nearby Fiesole. He was ...
Alfonso
Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian peninsula. ...
John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer
John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer (17 November 1493 – 2 March 1543) was an English peer. His third wife was Catherine Parr, later queen of England.
Family
John Neville, born 17 November 1493, was the eldest son of Richard Neville, 2nd Baron ...
, English politician (d. 1543)
* 1503 – Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)
* 1576 –
Roque González de Santa Cruz
Roque is an American variant of croquet played on a hard, smooth surface. Popular in the first quarter of the 20th century and billed "the Game of the Century" by its enthusiasts, it was an Olympic sport in the 1904 Summer Games, replacing cr ...
, Paraguayan missionary and saint (d. 1628)
*
1587
Events
January–June
* February 1 – Queen Elizabeth I of England signs the death warrant of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, after Mary has been implicated in a plot to murder Elizabeth. Seven days later, on the orders of E ...
–
Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel (; 17 November 1587 – 5 February 1679) was a Dutch poet, writer and playwright. He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century. His plays are the ones from that period that are still mos ...
Dorgon
Dorgon (, ; 17 November 1612 – 31 December 1650), was a Manchu prince and regent of the early Qing dynasty. Born in the House of Aisin-Gioro as the 14th son of Nurhaci (the founder of the Later Jin dynasty, predecessor of the Qing dynast ...
Pierre François le Courayer
Pierre François le Courayer (17 November 1681 – 17 October 1776) was a French Catholic theological writer, for many years an expatriate in England.
Life
Pierre François le Courayer was born at Rouen. While canon regular and librarian of the ...
Nicolas Appert
Nicolas Appert (17 November 1749 – 1 June 1841) was the French inventor of airtight food preservation. Appert, known as the "father of Food Science", was a confectioner. Appert described his invention as a way "of conserving all kinds of food ...
, French chef, invented
canning
Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container (jars like Mason jars, and steel and tin cans). Canning provides a shelf life that typically ranges from one to five years, although u ...
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (17 November 1753 – 23 May 1815) was an American clergyman and botanist.
Biography
The son of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, he was born in Trappe, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Franckesche Stiftungen in ...
Louis XVIII
Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (), was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. He spent twenty-three years in ...
Jacques MacDonald
Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...
, French general (d. 1840)
* 1769 – Charlotte Georgine, duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
* 1790 –
August Ferdinand Möbius
August Ferdinand Möbius (, ; ; 17 November 1790 – 26 September 1868) was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer.
Early life and education
Möbius was born in Schulpforta, Electorate of Saxony, and was descended on hi ...
, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1868)
* 1793 –
Charles Lock Eastlake
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (17 November 1793 – 24 December 1865) was a British painter, gallery director, collector and writer of the 19th century. After a period as keeper, he was the first director of the National Gallery.
Life
Eastlak ...
, English painter, historian, and academic (d. 1865)
*
1816
This year was known as the ''Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in s ...
–
August Wilhelm Ambros
August Wilhelm Ambros (17 November 181628 June 1876) Blom, Eric (2005) ''Everyman's Dictionary of Music'', Kessinger Publishing. p. 15. . was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.
Life
He was born in Mýto, Rokycany Dist ...
, Austrian composer and historian (d. 1876)
* 1827 –
Petko Slaveykov
Petko Rachov Slaveykov ( bg, Петко Рачов Славейков) (17 November 1827 OS – 1 July 1895 OS ) was a Bulgarian poet, publicist, politician and folklorist.
Biography Early years and educational activity
Slaveykov was born in ...
, Bulgarian journalist and poet (d. 1895)
* 1835 –
Andrew L. Harris
Andrew Lintner Harris (also known as The Farmer–Statesman) (November 17, 1835 – September 13, 1915) was one of the heroes of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War and served as the 44th governor of Ohio.
Biography
Har ...
Hubert Lyautey
Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (17 November 1854 – 27 July 1934) was a French Army general and colonial administrator. After serving in Indochina and Madagascar, he became the first French Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925. Early in ...
Joseph Babinski
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski ( pl, Józef Julian Franciszek Feliks Babiński; 17 November 1857 – 29 October 1932) was a French- Polish professor of neurology. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathologi ...
, French neurologist and academic (d. 1932)
* 1866 –
Voltairine de Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist known for being a prolific writer and speaker who opposed capitalism, marriage and the State (polity), state as well as the domination of religion over sexuality ...
Korbinian Brodmann
Korbinian Brodmann (17 November 1868 – 22 August 1918) was a German neurologist who became famous for mapping the cerebral cortex and defining 52 distinct regions, known as Brodmann areas, based on their cytoarchitectonic (histological) char ...
, German neurologist and academic (d. 1918)
* 1877 –
Frank Calder
Frank Sellick Calder (November 17, 1877 – February 4, 1943) was a British-born Canadian ice hockey executive, journalist, and athlete.
Calder was the first president of the National Hockey League (NHL), from 1917 until his death in 1943. He ...
, English-Canadian journalist and businessman (d. 1943)
* 1878 –
Grace Abbott
Grace Abbott (November 17, 1878 – June 19, 1939) was an American social worker who specifically worked in improving the rights of immigrants and advancing child welfare, especially the regulation of child labor. Her elder sister, Edith Abbott ...
, American social worker (d. 1939)
* 1878 –
Augustus Goessling
Augustus M. Goessling (November 17, 1878 – August 22, 1963) was an American water polo player, breaststroke and backstroke swimmer who represented the United States at the 1904 Summer Olympics and 1908 Summer Olympics. He was born and died ...
, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1963)
* 1886 –
Walter Terence Stace
Walter Terence Stace (17 November 1886 – 2 August 1967) was a British civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism. He worked with the Ceylon Civil Service from 1910 to ...
, English-American philosopher, academic, and civil servant (d. 1967)
* 1887 –
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and ...
Lester Allen
Lester Allen (November 17, 1891 – November 6, 1949) was a screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director. In vaudeville
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th cen ...
, American screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director (d. 1949)
* 1895 – Gregorio López, Mexican journalist, author, and poet (d. 1966)
* 1896 –
Lev Vygotsky
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (russian: Лев Семёнович Выго́тский, p=vɨˈɡotskʲɪj; be, Леў Сямёнавіч Выго́цкі, p=vɨˈɡotskʲɪj; – June 11, 1934) was a Soviet psychologist, known for his work on ps ...
, Belarusian-Russian psychologist and philosopher (d. 1934)
* 1897 – Frank Fay, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1961)
* 1899 –
Douglas Shearer
Douglas Graham Shearer (November 17, 1899 – January 5, 1971) was a Canadian American pioneering sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures. The elder brother of ac ...
Walter Hallstein
Walter Hallstein (17 November 1901 – 29 March 1982) was a German academic, diplomat and statesman who was the first President of the Commission of the European Economic Community and one of the founding fathers of the European Union.
...
Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strassberg; November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American theatre director, actor and acting teacher. He co-founded, with theatre directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931 ...
, Ukrainian-American actor and director (d. 1982)
* 1902 –
Eugene Wigner
Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner ( hu, Wigner Jenő Pál, ; November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his co ...
, Hungarian physicist and mathematician,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
Isamu Noguchi
was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and severa ...
, American sculptor and architect (d. 1988)
* 1905 – Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor (d. 1967)
* 1905 –
Astrid of Sweden
Astrid of Sweden (17 November 1905 – 29 August 1935) was the Queen of the Belgians and the first wife of King Leopold III. Originally a princess of Sweden of the House of Bernadotte, Astrid became the Duchess of Brabant after her marriage ...
(d. 1935)
* 1905 –
Arthur Chipperfield
Arthur Gordon Chipperfield (17 November 1905 – 29 July 1987) was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Test matches between 1934 and 1938. He is one of only three players to make a score of 99 runs on his Test match debut.1906 –
Soichiro Honda
was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer.
Early years
Honda ...
, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company (d. 1991)
* 1906 –
Rollie Stiles
Rolland Mays Stiles (November 17, 1906 – July 22, 2007) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Browns from to . Born in Ratcliff, Arkansas, he batted and threw right-handed, and was 9–14 w ...
Israel Regardie
Francis Israel Regardie (; né Regudy; November 17, 1907 – March 10, 1985) was a British-American occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer who spent much of his life in the United States. He wrote fifteen books on the subject of occultism.
Bo ...
Christian Fouchet
Christian Fouchet (17 November 1911 – 11 August 1974) was a French politician.
Biography
He was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines. He was a graduate of the Ecole des sciences politiques.
After Marshal Petain's request for an armistic ...
Shelby Foote
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of '' The Civil War: A Narrative'', a three ...
, American historian and author (d. 2005)
* 1917 –
Ruth Aaronson Bari
Ruth Aaronson Bari (November 17, 1917 – August 25, 2005) was an American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and algebraic homomorphisms. She was a professor at George Washington University, beginning in 1966.
Career
The daughter ...
, American mathematician (d. 2005)
* 1919 – Kim Heungsou, Korean painter and educator (d. 2014)
* 1920 –
Camillo Felgen
Camillo Jean Nicolas Felgen (17 November 1920 – 16 July 2005) was a Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, disc jockey, and television presenter, who represented Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 and in 1962.
Biography
Felgen started ...
, Luxembourgian singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
* 1920 –
Gemini Ganesan
Ramasamy Ganesan (17 November 1920 – 22 March 2005), better known by his stage name Gemini Ganesan, was an Indian actor who worked mainly in Tamil cinema. He was referred to as the ''Kaadhal Mannan'' (King of Romance) for his romantic roles ...
, Indian actor and director (d. 2002)
* 1921 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter and illustrator (d. 2019)
* 1922 – Stanley Cohen, American biochemist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 2020)
* 1922 –
Jack Froggatt
Jack Froggatt (17 November 1922 – 17 February 1993) was an English footballer.
Career
Coming from a footballing family, Froggatt started his football career in 1945, whilst in the RAF. Froggatt's uncle, Frank and cousin, Redfern Froggatt bot ...
Hubertus Brandenburg
Hubertus Brandenburg (17 November 1923 – 4 November 2009) was a Catholic bishop of Stockholm. He was ordained priest in Osnabrück on 20 December 1952. On 12 December 1974, he was appointed by Pope Paul VI as auxiliary bishop of Osnabrück. On ...
, Swedish bishop (d. 2009)
* 1923 – Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986)
* 1923 – Aristides Pereira, Cape Verdean politician, first
President of Cape Verde
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese f ...
(d. 2011)
* 1923 –
Bert Sutcliffe
Bert Sutcliffe (17 November 1923 – 20 April 2001) was a New Zealand Test cricketer. Sutcliffe was a successful left-hand batsman. His batting achievements on tour in England in 1949, which included four fifties and a century in the Tests, e ...
, New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 2001)
* 1925 –
Jean Faut
Jean Anna Faut ''Winsch/Eastman(born November 17, 1925) is an American retired starting pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 137 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.
Jean F ...
, American baseball player and bowler
* 1925 –
Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor. One of the most popular movie stars of his time, he had a screen career spanning more than three decades. A prominent heartthrob in the Golde ...
, American actor (d. 1985)
* 1925 –
Charles Mackerras
Mackerras in 2005
Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (; 1925 2010) was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was long associated with the Engli ...
, American-Australian
oboe
The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range.
...
Robert Drasnin
Robert Drasnin (November 17, 1927 – May 13, 2015) was an American composer and clarinet player.
Robert Drasnin was born on November 17, 1927, in Charleston, West Virginia. At an early age Drasnin was interested in the Clarinet so he took lesson ...
, American clarinet player and composer (d. 2015)
* 1927 –
Fenella Fielding
Fenella Fielding, OBE (born Fenella Marion Feldman; 17 November 1927 – 11 September 2018) was an English stage, film and television actress who rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, and was often referred to as "England's first lad ...
, English actress (d. 2018)
* 1927 – Nicholas Taylor, Canadian geologist, businessman, and politician (d. 2020)
* 1928 – Arman, French-American painter and sculptor (d. 2005)
* 1928 –
Rance Howard
Rance Howard (born Harold Engle Beckenholdt; November 17, 1928 – November 25, 2017) was an American actor who starred in film and on television. He was the father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, and grandfather of actr ...
, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
* 1928 – Colin McDonald, Australian cricketer (d. 2021)
* 1929 –
Gorō Naya
was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director from Hakodate, Hokkaidō. He and his brother were two of seven children, and was a drop-out of the legal education division of Ritsumeikan University. He was connected to Theatre E ...
, Japanese actor and director (d. 2013)
* 1929 –
Norm Zauchin
Norbert Henry Zauchin (November 17, 1929 – January 31, 1999) was a professional baseball first baseman. He played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox (1951, 1955–57) and Washington Senators (1958–59). ...
Bob Mathias
Robert Bruce Mathias (November 17, 1930 – September 2, 2006) was an American decathlete, two-time Olympic gold medalist in the event, a United States Marine Corps officer, actor and United States Congressman representing the state of Californ ...
, American decathlete, actor, and politician (d. 2006)
* 1932 – Jeremy Black, English admiral (d. 2015)
* 1933 –
Dan Osinski
Daniel Osinski (November 17, 1933 – September 13, 2013), nicknamed "The Silencer", was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher. The , right-hander was signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent before the 1952 season. H ...
, American baseball player (d. 2013)
* 1933 –
Orlando Peña
Orlando Gregorio Peña Guevara (born November 17, 1933) is a Cuban former professional baseball pitcher. The right-hander played in Major League Baseball for all or parts of 14 seasons between and for the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Athletic ...
, Cuban-American baseball player and scout
* 1934 –
Jim Inhofe
James Mountain Inhofe ( ; born November 17, 1934) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oklahoma, a seat he was first elected to in 1994. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the U.S. Senate Committ ...
, American soldier and politician, senior senator of Oklahoma
* 1934 – Anthony King, Canadian-English Psephologist and academic (d. 2017)
* 1934 – Terry Rand, American basketball player (d. 2014)
* 1935 – Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player
* 1935 –
Toni Sailer
Anton Engelbert "Toni" Sailer (17 November 1935 – 24 August 2009) was an Austrian alpine ski racer, considered among the best in the sport. At age 20, he won all three gold medals in alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics. He nearly duplica ...
Crispian Hollis
Roger Francis Crispian Hollis (born 17 November 1936, in Bristol) is the Bishop Emeritus of Portsmouth for the Roman Catholic Church.
Early life
Crispian Hollis' parents were Christopher Hollis (1902–1977), the author and parliamentarian, an ...
Peter Cook
Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, comedian, satirist, playwright and screenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishme ...
, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
* 1938 –
Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank
Field Marshal Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, (born 17 November 1938) is a retired senior officer of the British Army who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1994 to 1997 and Chief of the Defence Staff from ...
, Scottish general
* 1938 –
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960 ...
, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1939 –
Auberon Waugh
Auberon Alexander Waugh (17 November 1939 – 16 January 2001) was an English journalist and novelist, and eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was widely known by his nickname "Bron".
After a traditional classical education at Downsid ...
, English journalist and author (d. 2001)
* 1940 –
Luke Kelly
Luke Kelly (17 November 1940 – 30 January 1984) was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor from Dublin, Ireland. Born into a working-class household in Dublin city, Kelly moved to England in his late teens and by his early 20s had become i ...
, Irish singer,
folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...
Derek Clayton
Derek James Clayton (born 17 November 1942) is a former Australian long-distance runner, born in Cumbria, England and raised in Northern Ireland.
Clayton set a marathon world best in the Fukuoka Marathon, Japan on 3 December 1967 in 2:09:36.4 ...
, English-Australian runner
* 1942 –
Partha Dasgupta
Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (born on 17 November 1942), is an Indian-British economist who is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
Personal ...
, Bangladeshi economist and academic
* 1942 – Bob Gaudio, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
* 1942 –
Lesley Rees
Dame Lesley Howard Rees DBE (born 17 November 1942) is a British professor, medical doctor, and endocrinologist. She was Dean of St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College (Bart’s) from 1989–95, the first and only woman to hold this post. R ...
, English endocrinologist and academic
* 1942 – István Rosztóczy, Hungarian-Japanese microbiologist and physician (d. 1993)
* 1942 –
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese ( , ; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominatio ...
, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
* 1943 – Lauren Hutton, American model and actress
* 1944 –
Jim Boeheim
James Arthur Boeheim Jr. ( ; born November 17, 1944) is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the Syracuse Orange men's team of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Boeheim has guided the Orange to ten Big East Conference ...
, American basketball player and coach
* 1944 –
Malcolm Bruce
Malcolm Gray Bruce, Baron Bruce of Bennachie, (born 17 November 1944) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
He was the Member of Parliament for Gordon from 1983 to 2015 and was the chairman of the International Development Select Commit ...
, English-Scottish journalist, academic, and politician
* 1944 – Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1991)
* 1944 –
Danny DeVito
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the television series ''Taxi'' (1978–1983), which won him a Gold ...
, American actor, director, and producer
* 1944 – Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect and academic, designed the
Seattle Central Library
The Seattle Central Library is the flagship library of the Seattle Public Library system. The 11-story (185 feet or 56.9 meters high) glass and steel building in downtown Seattle, Washington was opened to the public on May 23, 2004. Rem Koolhaas an ...
* 1944 –
Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American producer, screenwriter, and comedian. He is best known for creating and producing ''Saturday Night Live'' (1975–1980, 1985–present) and producing the '' La ...
, Canadian-American screenwriter and producer, created ''
Saturday Night Live
''Saturday Night Live'' (often abbreviated to ''SNL'') is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and Peacock. Michaels currently serves a ...
''
* 1944 –
Tom Seaver
George Thomas Seaver (November 17, 1944 – August 31, 2020), nicknamed "Tom Terrific" and "the Franchise", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the New York Mets, Cinc ...
, American baseball pitcher (d. 2020)
* 1944 – Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights activist (d. 1966)
* 1945 – Lesley Abdela, English journalist and activist
* 1945 –
Jeremy Hanley
Sir Jeremy James Hanley, KCMG (born 17 November 1945) is a politician and former chartered accountant from the United Kingdom. He served as the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1994 to 1995, and as a member of parliament (MP) representing ...
Elvin Hayes
Elvin Ernest Hayes (born November 17, 1945), nicknamed "the Big E", is an American former professional basketball player and radio analyst for his alma-mater Houston Cougars. He is a member of the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams, and a ...
, American basketball player and sportscaster
* 1945 –
Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé (born 17 November 1945) is a British director and producer of film and television, known for the Academy Award-winning films ''The Killing Fields'' and '' The Mission''. He began his career in television, his early credits inclu ...
, English-French director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1946 –
Martin Barre
Martin Lancelot Barre (; born 17 November 1946) is an English guitarist best known for his longtime role as lead guitarist of British rock band Jethro Tull, with whom he recorded and toured from 1968 until the band's initial dissolution in 201 ...
, English guitarist and songwriter
* 1946 –
Terry Branstad
Terry Edward Branstad (born November 17, 1946) is an American politician and former diplomat. A member of the Republican Party, he served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 before serving as governor of Iowa f ...
, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th
Governor of Iowa
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
* 1946 –
Petra Burka
Petra Burka (; born November 17, 1946) is a Canadian former competitive figure skater and now coach. She won the 1964 Olympic bronze medal in women's figure skating and the 1965 World championship in the sport.
Personal life
Petra Burka was bor ...
Rod Clements
Roderick Parry Clements (born 17 November 1947 in North Shields, Northumberland) is a British guitarist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He formed the folk-rock band Lindisfarne with Alan Hull in 1970, and wrote "Meet Me on the Co ...
, British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist
* 1948 –
Howard Dean
Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American physician, author, lobbyist, and retired politician who served as the 79th governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 200 ...
, American physician and politician, 79th
Governor of Vermont
The governor of Vermont is the head of government of Vermont. The officeholder is elected in even-numbered years by direct voting for a term of 2 years. Vermont and bordering New Hampshire are the only states to hold gubernatorial elections every ...
* 1948 –
East Bay Ray
Raymond John Pepperell (born November 17, 1958), better known by his stage name East Bay Ray, is an American musician best known as the guitarist for the San Francisco Bay area-based punk band Dead Kennedys. His guitar work was heavily influence ...
, American guitarist
* 1949 – John Boehner, American businessman and politician, 61st
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the U. ...
* 1949 –
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (born 17 November 1949) is a Vietnamese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Vietnam from 2006 to 2016. He was confirmed by the National Assembly on 27 June 2006, having been nominated by his predecessor, Phan Vă ...
, Vietnamese soldier and politician, eighth
Prime Minister of Vietnam
The prime minister of Vietnam ( vi, Thủ tướng Việt Nam), officially styled as the Prime Minister of the Government of the Socialist Republic ( vi, Thủ tướng Chính phủ nước Cộng hòa Xã hội chủ nghĩa), is the head of g ...
* 1949 –
Michael Wenden
Michael Vincent Wenden, (born 17 November 1949) is a champion swimmer who represented Australia in the 1968 Summer Olympics and 1972 Summer Olympics. In 1968 he won four medals: gold in both the 100- and 200-metre freestyle (setting world reco ...
Roland Matthes
Roland Matthes (, ; 17 November 1950 – 20 December 2019) was a German swimmer and the most successful backstroke swimmer of all time. Between April 1967 and August 1974 he won all backstroke competitions he entered. He won four European champ ...
Butch Davis
Paul Hilton "Butch" Davis Jr. (born November 17, 1951) is an American football coach. He was most recently the head football coach at Florida International University. After graduating from the University of Arkansas, he became an assistant co ...
, American football player and coach
* 1951 –
Werner Hoyer
Werner Hoyer (born 17 November 1951 in Wuppertal) is a German economist and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who is currently serving as the President of the European Investment Bank.
Education and early career
Hoyer graduated as ...
, German economist and politician
* 1951 –
Dean Paul Martin
Dean Paul Martin Jr. (born Dino Paul Crocetti Jr., November 17, 1951 – March 21, 1987) was an American pop singer and film and television actor. A member of the California Air National Guard, Martin died in a crash during a military training f ...
, American singer, actor, and pilot (d. 1987)
* 1951 –
Stephen Root
Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor. He has starred as Jimmy James on the television sitcom '' NewsRadio'', as Milton Waddams in the film ''Office Space'' (1999), and provided the voices of Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickl ...
, American actor
* 1951 –
Jack Vettriano
Jack Vettriano (born Jack Hoggan, 17 November 1951) is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting ''The Singing Butler'' became a best-selling image in Britain.
Early life
Jack Vettriano was born and grew up in the industrial seaside town of Met ...
, Scottish painter and philanthropist
* 1952 – David Emanuel, Welsh fashion designer
* 1952 –
Ties Kruize
Ties Kruize (born 17 November 1952) is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands. He competed at the 1972 and 1984 Olympic Games and finished in fourth and sixth place, respectively. He became world champion in 1973, European champion in ...
, Dutch field hockey player
* 1952 –
Runa Laila
Runa Laila ( bn, রুনা লায়লা, ur, ; born 17 November 1952) is a Bangladeshi playback singer and composer. She started her career in Pakistan film industry in the late 1960s. Her style of singing is inspired by Pakistani p ...
, Bangladeshi singer
* 1952 –
Cyril Ramaphosa
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa (born 17 November 1952) is a South African businessman and politician who is currently serving as the fifth democratically elected president of South Africa. Formerly an anti-apartheid activist, trade union leader, and ...
, South African businessman and politician, fifth
President of South Africa
The president of South Africa is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of South Africa. The president heads the executive branch of the Government of South Africa and is the commander-in-chief of the South African Nationa ...
Babis Tennes
Babis Tennes ( gr, Μπάμπης Τεννές; born 17 November 1953) is a Greek professional football manager.
Managerial career
Tennes began his professional coaching career with Kallithea in 1993 in Gamma Ethniki. After that he built up h ...
Chopper Read
Chopper may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Chopper'' (comics), a horror comic book mini-series
* ''Chopper'' (film), a 2000 Australian film by and about Mark "Chopper" Read
* Chopper (''Judge Dredd''), a character in British comics anth ...
, Australian criminal and author (d. 2013)
* 1955 – Peter Cox, English singer-songwriter
* 1955 –
Yolanda King
Yolanda Denise King (November 17, 1955 – May 15, 2007) was an African-American activist, actress and first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was also known for her artistic and entertainment ...
, American actress and activist (d. 2007)
* 1955 – Dennis Maruk, Ukrainian-Canadian ice hockey player
*1956 – Angelika Machinek, German glider pilot (d. 2006)
* 1956 – Jim McGovern (British politician), Jim McGovern, Scottish politician
* 1957 – Jim Babjak, American guitarist and songwriter
*1958 – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer
*1959 – Terry Fenwick, English footballer and manager
* 1959 – William R. Moses, American actor and producer
* 1959 – Jaanus Tamkivi, Estonian politician
*1960 – Michael Hertwig, German footballer and manager
* 1960 – Jonathan Ross, English actor and talk show host
* 1960 – RuPaul, American drag queen performer, actor, and singer
*1961 – Robert Stethem, American soldier (d. 1985)
* 1961 – Pat Toomey, American businessman and politician
* 1962 – Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2000)
*1963 – Daniel Scott (writer), Daniel Scott, American novelist and short story writer
*1964 – Susan Rice, American academic and politician, 24th National Security Advisor (United States), United States National Security Advisor
* 1964 – Mitch Williams, American baseball player and sportscaster
*1965 – Darren Beadman, Australian jockey
* 1965 – Amanda Brown (musician), Amanda Brown, Australian violinist and composer
*1966 – Alvin Patrimonio, Filipino basketball player and manager
* 1966 – Ben Allison, American bassist and composer
* 1966 – Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
* 1966 – Kate Ceberano, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
* 1966 – Richard Fortus, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
* 1966 – Daisy Fuentes, Cuban-American model and actress
* 1966 – Sophie Marceau, French actress, director, and screenwriter
* 1967 – Tab Benoit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1967 – Ronnie DeVoe, American singer, producer, and actor
* 1968 – Sean Miller, American basketball player and coach
* 1969 – Ryōtarō Okiayu, Japanese voice actor and singer
* 1969 – Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
* 1969 – Rebecca Walker, American author
* 1970 – Paul Allender, English guitarist and songwriter
* 1970 – Tania Zaetta, Australian actress
*1971 – David Ramsey, American actor
*1972 – Kimya Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1972 – Joanne Goode, English badminton player
* 1972 – Lorraine Pascale, English model and chef
* 1972 – Leonard Roberts, American actor
* 1973 – Andreas Hedlund, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer
* 1973 – Eli Marrero, Cuban-American baseball player, coach, and manager
* 1973 – Bernd Schneider (footballer), Bernd Schneider, German footballer
* 1973 – Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater and coach
*1974 – Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean-French heptathlete and long jumper
* 1974 – Leslie Bibb, American actress and producer
* 1974 – Berto Romero, Spanish comedian and actor
*1975 – Kinga Baranowska, Polish mountaineer
* 1975 – Lee Carseldine, Australian cricketer
* 1975 – Jerome James, American basketball player
*1976 – Diane Neal, American actress and director
*1977 – Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
*1978 – Glen Air, Australian rugby league player
* 1978 – Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress and stuntwoman
* 1978 – Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
* 1978 – Reggie Wayne, American football player
* 1978 – Tom Ellis (actor), Tom Ellis, Welsh actor
*1979 – Matthew Spring, English footballer
*1980 – Jay Bradley, American wrestler
* 1980 – Hanson (band)#Isaac Hanson, Isaac Hanson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
*1981 – Sarah Harding, English singer, dancer, and actress (d. 2021)
* 1981 – Doug Walker (comedian), Doug Walker, American actor, comedian, film critic, internet personality, and filmmaker
*1982 – Katie Feenstra-Mattera, American basketball player
* 1982 – Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer
* 1982 – Hollie Smith, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1983 – Viva Bianca, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter
* 1983 – Ioannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
* 1983 – Ryan Bradley, American figure skater
* 1983 – Ryan Braun, American baseball player
* 1983 – Trevor Crowe, American baseball player
* 1983 – Jodie Henry, Australian swimmer
* 1983 – Harry Lloyd, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
* 1983 – Nick Markakis, American baseball player
* 1983 – Scott Moore (baseball), Scott Moore, American baseball player
* 1983 – Christopher Paolini, American author
*1984 – Amanda Evora, American figure skater
* 1984 – Park Han-byul, South Korean model and actress
*1985 – Luis Aguiar, Uruguayan footballer
* 1985 – Sékou Camara (footballer, born 1985), Sékou Camara, Malian footballer (d. 2013)
* 1985 – Carolina Neurath, Swedish journalist
* 1986 – Everth Cabrera, Nicaraguan baseball player
* 1986 – Fabio Concas, Italian footballer
* 1986 – Aaron Finch, Australian cricketer
* 1986 – Nani (footballer), Nani, Portuguese footballer
* 1986 – Greg Rutherford, English long jumper
*1987 – Craig Noone, English footballer
* 1987 – Gemma Spofforth, English swimmer
* 1987 – Justine Michelle Cain, English actress
*1988 – Durratun Nashihin Rosli, Malaysian rhythmic gymnast
* 1989 – Ryan Griffin (quarterback), Ryan Griffin, American football player
* 1989 – Roman Zozulya, Ukrainian football striker
*1992 – Katarzyna Kawa, Polish tennis player
* 1992 – Danielle Kettlewell, Australian synchronised swimmer
* 1992 – Alex Sheedy, Australian basketball player
* 1993 – Taylor Gold, American snowboarder
*1995 – Elise Mertens, Belgian tennis player
* 1995 – Panashe Muzambe, Scottish rugby union player
* 2000 – Joanne Züger, Swiss tennis player
*2004 – Linda Nosková, Czech tennis player
Deaths
Pre-1600
* 375 – Valentinian I, Roman emperor (b. 321)
* 594 – Gregory of Tours, Roman bishop and saint (b. 538)
* 641 – Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
* 885 – Liutgard of Saxony (died 885), Liutgard of Saxony (b. 845)
* 935 – Empress Chen Jinfeng, Chen Jinfeng, empress of Min (Ten Kingdoms), Min (b. 893)
* 935 – Wang Yanjun, emperor of Min (Ten Kingdoms)
*1104 – Nikephoros Melissenos, Byzantine general (b. 1045)
*1188 – Usama ibn Munqidh, Arab chronicler (b. 1095)
*1231 – Elizabeth of Hungary (b. 1207)
*1307 – Hethum II, King of Armenia (b. 1266)
* 1307 – Leo III, King of Armenia (b. 1289)
*1326 – Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
*1417 – Gazi Evrenos, Ottoman general (b. 1288)
*1492 – Jami, Persian poet and saint (b. 1414)
* 1494 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher and author (b. 1463)
*1525 – Eleanor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal (b. 1458)
* 1558 –
Mary I of England
Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. Sh ...
(b. 1516)
* 1558 – Reginald Pole, English cardinal and academic (b. 1500)
* 1558 – Hugh Aston, English composer (b. 1485)
*1562 – Antoine of Navarre (b. 1518)
*1592 – John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
*1600 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese commander (b. 1542)
1601–1900
*1624 – Jakob Böhme, German mystic (b. 1575)
*1632 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
*1643 – Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, French general (b. 1602)
*1648 – Thomas Ford (composer), Thomas Ford, English viol player, composer, and poet (b. 1580)
*1665 – John Earle (bishop), John Earle, English bishop (b. 1601)
*1668 – Joseph Alleine, English pastor and author (b. 1634)
*1690 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French general and politician (b. 1610)
*1708 – Ludolf Bakhuizen, German-Dutch painter (b. 1631)
*1713 – Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Indonesian merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
*1747 – Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (b. 1668)
*1768 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1693)
*1776 – James Ferguson (Scottish astronomer), James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1710)
*1780 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1720)
*
1796
Events
January–March
* January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.)
* February 1 – The capital ...
– Catherine the Great, of Russia (b. 1729)
*1808 – David Zeisberger, Czech-American pastor and missionary (b. 1721)
*1812 – John Walter (publisher), John Walter, English Insurance underwriter and founder of ''The Times'' newspaper (b. 1738/1739)
*1818 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1744)
* 1835 – Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (b. 1758)
*1865 – James McCune Smith, American physician and author (b. 1813)
* 1897 – George Hendric Houghton, American pastor and theologian (b. 1820)
1901–present
* 1902 – Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (b. 1847)
* 1905 – Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
*1910 – Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886)
* 1917 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1840)
* 1922 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th List of Presidents of the Swiss Confederation, President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1847)
* 1923 – Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (b. 1862)
*1924 – Gregory VII of Constantinople (b. 1850)
* 1928 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (b. 1865)
* 1929 – Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman (b. 1860)
* 1932 – Charles W. Chesnutt, American lawyer, author, and activist (b. 1858)
* 1936 – Ernestine Schumann-Heink, German-American singer (b. 1861)
* 1937 – Jack Worrall, Australian footballer, cricketer, and coach (b. 1860)
* 1938 – Ante Trumbić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 20th Mayor of Split (b. 1864)
* 1940 – Eric Gill, English sculptor and typeface designer (b. 1882)
* 1940 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist and academic (b. 1879)
* 1947 – Victor Serge, Russian historian and author (b. 1890)
* 1954 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1899)
* 1955 – James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
*1958 – Mort Cooper, American baseball player (b. 1913)
*1959 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1887)
* 1968 – Mervyn Peake, English poet, author, and illustrator (b. 1911)
*1971 – Gladys Cooper, English actress (b. 1888)
* 1973 – Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (b. 1878)
*1976 – Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi scholar and politician (b. 1880)
*1979 – John Glascock, English singer and bass player (b. 1951)
*1982 – Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1905)
* 1986 – Georges Besse, French businessman (b. 1927)
*1987 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (b. 1906)
*1988 – Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, author, and journalist (b. 1904)
* 1989 – Costabile Farace, American criminal (b. 1960)
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
– Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (b. 1915)
*1992 – Audre Lorde, American poet, essayist, memoirist, and activist (b. 1934)
* 1993 – Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian lawyer and politician, fifth Deputy Premier of Quebec (b. 1926)
*1995 – Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
*1998 – Kea Bouman, Dutch tennis player (b. 1903)
* 1998 – Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
* 2000 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (b. 1904)
*2001 – Michael Karoli, German guitarist and songwriter (b. 1948)
* 2001 – Harrison A. Williams, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1919)
*2002 – Abba Eban, South African-Israeli soldier and politician, third Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel), Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1915)
* 2002 – Frank McCarthy (artist), Frank McCarthy, American painter and illustrator (b. 1924)
* 2003 – Surjit Bindrakhia, Indian singer (b. 1962)
* 2003 – Arthur Conley, American-Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
*2004 – Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler and manager (b. 1970)
* 2004 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1941)
*2005 – Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor and director (b. 1942)
*2006 – Ruth Brown, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1928)
* 2006 – Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
* 2006 – Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (b. 1929)
*2007 – Aarne Hermlin, Estonian chess player (b. 1940)
*2008 – George Stephen Morrison, American admiral (b. 1919)
* 2008 – Pete Newell, American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)
*2011 – Kurt Budke, American basketball player and coach (b. 1961)
* 2012 – Ponty Chadha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1957)
* 2012 – Armand Desmet, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
* 2012 – Lea Gottlieb, Hungarian-Israeli fashion designer, founded the Gottex, Gottex Company (b. 1918)
* 2012 – Freddy Schmidt, American baseball player (b. 1916)
* 2012 – Billy Scott (singer), Billy Scott, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
* 2012 – Bal Thackeray, Indian cartoonist and politician (b. 1926)
* 2012 – Margaret Yorke, English author (b. 1924)
*
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...
– Zeke Bella, American baseball player (b. 1930)
* 2013 – Alfred Blake, English colonel and lawyer (b. 1915)
* 2013 – Syd Field, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1935)
* 2013 – Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
* 2013 – Alex Marques, Portuguese footballer (b. 1993)
* 2013 – Mary Nesbitt Wisham, American baseball player (b. 1925)
*2014 – John T. Downey, American CIA agent and judge (b. 1930)
* 2014 – Bill Frenzel, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1928)
* 2014 – Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (b. 1940)
* 2014 – Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1922)
*2015 – John Leahy (diplomat), John Leahy, English lawyer and diplomat, List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Australia, High Commissioner to Australia (b. 1928)
* 2015 – Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, Iranian poet and songwriter (b. 1926)
* 2019 – Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1982)
*2021 – Young Dolph, American rapper (b. 1985)
Holidays and observances
* Athens Polytechnic uprising, Athens Polytechnic Uprising Remembrance Day (Greece)
* Christian feast days:
** Acisclus
** Aignan of Orleans
** Elizabeth of Hungary
** Gennadius of Constantinople (Greek Orthodox Church)
** Gregory of Tours (Roman Catholic Church)
** Gregory Thaumaturgus
** Hilda of Whitby
** Hugh of Lincoln
** November 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*
International Students' Day
International Students' Day is an international observance of the student community, held annually on 17 November. Originally commemorating the Czech universities which were stormed by Nazis in 1939 and the students who were subsequently kille ...
* Martyrs' Day (India)#17 November, Martyrs' Day (Orissa, India)
* Public holidays in the Marshall Islands, Presidents Day (Marshall Islands)
* World Prematurity Day
References
External links
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Days of the year
November