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Pre-1600

* 284 –
Diocletian Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles ...
is chosen as Roman emperor. * 762 – During the
An Shi Rebellion The An Lushan Rebellion was an uprising against the Tang dynasty of China towards the mid-point of the dynasty (from 755 to 763), with an attempt to replace it with the Yan dynasty. The rebellion was originally led by An Lushan, a general office ...
, the
Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an Zhou dynasty (690–705), interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dyn ...
, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures
Luoyang Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of Luo River (Henan), Luo River and Yellow River in the west of Henan province. Governed as a prefecture-level city, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the ...
from the rebels. *
1194 Year 1194 ( MCXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place England * February 4 – King Richard I (the Lionheart) is ransomed for an amount of 150,000 ...
–
Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...
is conquered by
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI (German: ''Heinrich VI.''; November 1165 – 28 September 1197), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was King of Germany ( King of the Romans) from 1169 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 until his death. From 1194 he was also King of S ...
. *
1407 Year 1407 ( MCDVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * April 10 – After several invitations by the Yongle Emperor of China since 1403 ...
–
John the Fearless John I (french: Jean sans Peur; nl, Jan zonder Vrees; 28 May 137110 September 1419) was a scion of the French royal family who ruled the Burgundian State from 1404 until his death in 1419. He played a key role in French national affairs during ...
, Duke of Burgundy, and
Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (d ...
, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later. * 1441 – The Peace of Cremona ends the war between the
Republic of Venice The Republic of Venice ( vec, Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic ( vec, Repùblega Vèneta, links=no), traditionally known as La Serenissima ( en, Most Serene Republic of Venice, italics=yes; vec, Serenìsima Repùblega de Venèsia, ...
and the
Duchy of Milan The Duchy of Milan ( it, Ducato di Milano; lmo, Ducaa de Milan) was a state in northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti family, which had been ruling the city sin ...
, after the victorious Venetian enterprise of military engineering of the Galeas per montes.


1601–1900

* 1695 –
Zumbi Zumbi (1655 – November 20, 1695), also known as Zumbi dos Palmares (), was a Brazilian quilombola leader, being one of the pioneers of resistance to slavery of Africans by the Portuguese in colonial Brazil. He was also the last of the kings ...
, the last of the leaders of
Quilombo dos Palmares Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was a ''quilombo'', a community of escaped slaves and others, in colonial Brazil that developed from 1605 until its suppression in 1694. It was located in the captaincy of Pernambuco, in what is today the Br ...
in early Brazil, is
executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...
by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante
Domingos Jorge Velho Domingos Jorge Velho (1641–1705) was one of the fiercest and most effective bandeirantes. He was born in Santana de Parnaíba, captaincy of São Paulo, to Francisco Jorge Velho and Francisca Gonçalves de Camargo. He was responsible for t ...
. *
1739 Events January–March * January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, in the South Atlantic Ocean. * January 3: A 7.6 earthquake shakes the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region ...
– Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the
War of Jenkins' Ear The War of Jenkins' Ear, or , was a conflict lasting from 1739 to 1748 between Britain and the Spanish Empire. The majority of the fighting took place in New Granada and the Caribbean Sea, with major operations largely ended by 1742. It is con ...
. *
1776 Events January–February * January 1 – American Revolutionary War – Burning of Norfolk: The town of Norfolk, Virginia is destroyed, by the combined actions of the British Royal Navy and occupying Patriot forces. * January 1 ...
–
American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...
: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The
Continental Army The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies (the Thirteen Colonies) in the Revolutionary-era United States. It was formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, and was establis ...
starts to retreat across
New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
. *
1789 Events January–March * January – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes the pamphlet ''What Is the Third Estate?'' ('), influential on the French Revolution. * January 7 – The 1788-89 United States presidential election a ...
–
New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the
Bill of Rights A bill of rights, sometimes called a declaration of rights or a charter of rights, is a list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country. The purpose is to protect those rights against infringement from public officials and pri ...
. * 1805 – Beethoven's only opera, ''
Fidelio ''Fidelio'' (; ), originally titled ' (''Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love''), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, with ...
'', premieres in
Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...
. *
1815 Events January * January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke in Seaham, county of Durham, England. * January 3 – Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussi ...
– The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by troops of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia for several more years. *
1820 Events January–March *January 1 – Nominal beginning of the Trienio Liberal in Spain: A constitutionalist military insurrection at Cádiz leads to the summoning of the Spanish Parliament (March 7). *January 8 – General Maritime T ...
– An 80-ton
sperm whale The sperm whale or cachalot (''Physeter macrocephalus'') is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. It is the only living member of the genus ''Physeter'' and one of three extant species in the sperm whale famil ...
attacks and sinks the ''
Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
'' (a
whaling Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industry ...
ship from
Nantucket, Massachusetts Nantucket () is an island about south from Cape Cod. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government that is part of the U.S. state of Massachuse ...
) from the western coast of South America. (
Herman Melville Herman Melville (Name change, born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American people, American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance (literature), American Renaissance period. Among his bes ...
's 1851 novel ''
Moby-Dick ''Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'' is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael (Moby-Dick), Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab, Ahab, captain of the whaler, whaling ship ''Pequod (Moby- ...
'' was in part inspired by this incident.) *
1845 Events January–March * January 10 – Elizabeth Barrett receives a love letter from the younger poet Robert Browning; on May 20, they meet for the first time in London. She begins writing her ''Sonnets from the Portuguese''. * January 23 ...
–
Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata The Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata was a five-year-long naval blockade imposed by France and Britain on the Argentine Confederation ruled by Juan Manuel de Rosas. It was imposed in 1845 to support the Colorado Party in the Urug ...
:
Battle of Vuelta de Obligado The naval Battle of Vuelta de Obligado took place on the waters of the Paraná River on 20 November 1845, between the Argentine Confederation, under the leadership of Juan Manuel de Rosas, and a combined Anglo-French fleet. The action was part o ...
. *
1861 Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry. Events January–March * January 1 ** Benito Juárez captures Mexico City. ** The first steam-p ...
–
American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...
: A secession ordinance is filed by
Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...
's Confederate government. * 1873 –
Garnier Expedition The Garnier Expedition was a French expedition in Tonkin between November 1873 and January 1874. Lieutenant Francis Garnier, who had been sent by France on the demand of Vietnamese Imperial authorities to bring back Jean Dupuis, an unruly French tr ...
: French forces under Lieutenant
Francis Garnier Marie Joseph François Garnier ( vi, Ngạc Nhi; 25 July 1839 – 21 December 1873) was a French officer, inspector of Indigenous Affairs of Cochinchina and explorer. He eventually became mission leader of the Mekong Exploration Commission in 19th ...
captured
Hanoi Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi is ...
from the
Vietnamese Vietnamese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia ** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam. * Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam ** Overse ...
. *
1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...
– The French actress
Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt (; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including '' La Dame Aux Camel ...
receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She talked about her impending tour with a troupe of more than 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in ''
Hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...
''.


1901–present

*
1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
–
Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction ...
:
Francisco I. Madero Francisco Ignacio Madero González (; 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913) was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer and Public figure, statesman, who became the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed in Ten Tragic Da ...
issues the
Plan de San Luis Potosí A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an Goal, objective to do something. It is commonly understood as a modal logic, temporal set (mathematics), set of intended actions through wh ...
, denouncing Mexican President
Porfirio Díaz José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori ( or ; ; 15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915), known as Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican general and politician who served seven terms as President of Mexico, a total of 31 years, from 28 November 1876 to 6 Decem ...
, calling for a
revolution In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...
to overthrow the
government of Mexico The Federal government of Mexico (alternately known as the Government of the Republic or ' or ') is the national government of the United Mexican States, the central government established by its constitution to share sovereignty over the republi ...
, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution. *
1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...
–
World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back. *
1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
–
José Antonio Primo de Rivera José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella (24 April 1903 – 20 November 1936), often referred to simply as José Antonio, was a Spanish politician who founded the falangist Falange ...
, founder of the
Falange The Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FET y de las JONS; ), frequently shortened to just "FET", was the sole legal party of the Francoist regime in Spain. It was created by General Francisco F ...
, is killed by a republican execution squad. *
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *January ...
–
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
:
Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
becomes a signatory of the
Tripartite Pact The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano and Saburō Kurusu. It was a defensive military ...
, officially joining the
Axis powers The Axis powers, ; it, Potenze dell'Asse ; ja, 枢軸国 ''Sūjikukoku'', group=nb originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were ...
. *
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...
– World War II:
Battle of Tarawa The Battle of Tarawa was fought on 20–23 November 1943 between the United States and Japan at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, an ...
(
Operation Galvanic The Battle of Tarawa was fought on 20–23 November 1943 between the United States and Japan at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, ...
) begins:
United States Marines The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through com ...
land on
Tarawa Atoll Tarawa is an atoll and the capital of the Republic of Kiribati,Kiribati
''
Gilbert Islands The Gilbert Islands ( gil, Tungaru;Reilly Ridgell. ''Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.'' 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95. formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill IslandsVery often, this n ...
and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns. *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
–
Nuremberg trials The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies of World War II, Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries, and other crimes, in World War II. Between 1939 and 1945 ...
: Trials against 24
Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...
war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at
Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
. *
1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...
– The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the
Duke of Edinburgh Duke of Edinburgh, named after the city of Edinburgh in Scotland, was a substantive title that has been created three times since 1726 for members of the British royal family. It does not include any territorial landholdings and does not produc ...
, at
Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United ...
in London. *
1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
– The
Declaration of the Rights of the Child The Declaration of the Rights of the Child, sometimes known as the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, is an international document promoting child rights, drafted by Eglantyne Jebb and adopted by the League of Nations in 1924, and adop ...
is adopted by the
United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...
. *
1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...
–
Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (of 1962) ( es, Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, the Caribbean Crisis () in Russia, or the Missile Scare, was a 35-day (16 October – 20 November 1962) confrontation between the United S ...
ends: In response to the
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
agreeing to remove its missiles from
Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
, U.S. President
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 ...
ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation. *
1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...
– A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the
Farmington Mine disaster The Farmington Mine disaster was an explosion that happened at approximately 5:30 a.m. on November 20, 1968, at the Consol No. 9 coal mine north of Farmington and Mannington, West Virginia, United States. The explosion was large enough to be ...
. *
1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
–
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 ...
: ''
The Plain Dealer ''The Plain Dealer'' is the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. In fall 2019, it ranked 23rd in U.S. newspaper circulation, a significant drop since March 2013, when its circulation ranked 17th daily and 15th on Sunday. As of Ma ...
'' (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from 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 ...
in
Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
. * 1969 –
Occupation of Alcatraz The Occupation of Alcatraz (November 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971) was a 19-month long protest when 89 Native Americans and their supporters occupied Alcatraz Island. The protest was led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and others, while John T ...
: Native American activists seize control of
Alcatraz Island Alcatraz Island () is a small island in San Francisco Bay, offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. The island was developed in the mid-19th century with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, and a military pris ...
until being ousted by the U.S. Government on
June 11 Events Pre-1600 * 173 – Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle ...
,
1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...
. *
1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...
– The
United States Department of Justice The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United State ...
files its final anti-trust suit against
AT&T Corporation AT&T Corporation, originally the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is the subsidiary of AT&T Inc. that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agen ...
. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its
Bell System The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over one hundr ...
. * 1974 – The first fatal crash of a
Boeing 747 The Boeing 747 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2022. After introducing the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet times its size, t ...
occurs when
Lufthansa Flight 540 Lufthansa Flight 540 was a scheduled commercial flight for Lufthansa, serving the Frankfurt–Nairobi–Johannesburg route. On 20 November 1974, the Boeing 747-130 that was operating as Flight 540 was carrying 157 people (140 passenge ...
crashes while attempting to takeoff from
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Jomo Kenyatta International Airport , is an international airport in Nairobi, the capital of and largest city in Kenya. The other three important international airports in Kenya include the Kisumu International Airport, Moi International Airp ...
in
Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ha ...
,
Kenya ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ...
, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board. *
1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...
–
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 ...
ian President
Anwar Sadat Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat, (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 ...
becomes the first
Arab The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...
leader to officially visit
Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
, when he meets Israeli prime minister
Menachem Begin Menachem Begin ( ''Menaḥem Begin'' (); pl, Menachem Begin (Polish documents, 1931–1937); ''Menakhem Volfovich Begin''; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. B ...
and speaks before the
Knesset The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...
in
Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, seeking a permanent peace settlement. *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
–
Grand Mosque seizure The Grand Mosque seizure lasted from 20 November 1979 to 4 December 1979, when extremist militants in Saudi Arabia calling for the overthrow of the House of Saud besieged and took over Masjid al-Haram, the holiest Islamic site, in the city of M ...
: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
at the site of the
Kaaba The Kaaba (, ), also spelled Ka'bah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah ( ar, ٱلْكَعْبَة ٱلْمُشَرَّفَة, lit=Honored Ka'bah, links=no, translit=al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah), is a building at the c ...
in
Mecca Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red ...
during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising. *
1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...
–
Lake Peigneur Lake Peigneur (locally pronounced ) is a brackish lake in the U.S. state of Louisiana, north of Delcambre and west of New Iberia, near the northernmost tip of Vermilion Bay. With a maximum depth of , it is the deepest lake in Louisiana. Its ...
in
Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
drains into an underlying
salt deposit Salt mining extracts natural salt deposits from underground. The mined salt is usually in the form of halite (commonly known as rock salt), and extracted from evaporite formations. History Before the advent of the modern internal combustio ...
. A misplaced
Texaco Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American Petroleum, oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its Gasoline, fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an Indepe ...
oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. *
1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
–
Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
Windows 1.0 Windows 1.0 is the first major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft. It was first released to manufacturing in the United States on November 20, 1985, while the Euro ...
, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released. *
1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
–
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 ...
: The number of protesters assembled in
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 ...
,
Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...
, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million. *
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 ...
–
Andrei Chikatilo Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (russian: Андре́й Рома́нович Чикати́ло, translit=Andréy Románovich Chikatílo; uk, Андрій Романович Чикатило, translit=Andriy Romanovych Chykatylo; 16 October 1936 ...
, one of the
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
's most prolific
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; he eventually confesses to 56 killings. *
1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...
– An
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
i
MI-8 The Mil Mi-8 (russian: Ми-8, NATO reporting name: Hip) is a medium twin-turbine helicopter, originally designed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and introduced into the Soviet Air Force in 1968. It is now produced by Russia. In addition to ...
helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia,
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
and
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
is shot down by Armenian military forces in
Khojavend District Khojavend District ( az, Xocavənd rayonu) is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the west of the country and belongs to the Karabakh Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Lachin, Shusha, Khojaly, Agdam, Aghj ...
of Azerbaijan. *
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
– In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage. *
1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...
– Savings and loan crisis: The
United States Senate Ethics Committee The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics is a select committee of the United States Senate charged with dealing with matters related to senatorial ethics. It is also commonly referred to as the Senate Ethics Committee. Senate rules require th ...
issues a stern censure of
California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
senator
Alan Cranston Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was an American politician and journalist who served as a United States Senator from California from 1969 to 1993, and as a President of the World Federalist Association from 1949 to 1 ...
for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive
Charles Keating Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. (December 4, 1923 – March 31, 2014) was an American sportsman, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, financier, conservative activist, and convicted felon best known for his role in the savings and loan sca ...
. * 1993 – Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs when
Avioimpex Flight 110 Avioimpex Flight 110 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Avioimpex that crashed on 20 November 1993 while flying from Geneva to Skopje. Before the disaster, Flight 110 had deviated from Skopje International Airport to Oh ...
, a
Yakovlev Yak-42 The Yakovlev Yak-42 (russian: Яковлев Як-42; NATO reporting name: "Clobber") is a 100/120-seat three-engined mid-range passenger jet developed in the mid 1970s to replace the technically obsolete Tupolev Tu-134. It was the first airli ...
, crashes near
Ohrid Ohrid ( mk, Охрид ) is a city in North Macedonia and is the seat of the Ohrid Municipality. It is the largest city on Lake Ohrid and the List of cities in North Macedonia, eighth-largest city in the country, with the municipality recording ...
, killing all 116 people on board. *
1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
– The
Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina ...
n government and
UNITA The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( pt, União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, abbr. UNITA) is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded in 1966, UNITA fought alongside the Popular Movement for ...
rebels sign the
Lusaka Protocol The Lusaka Protocol, initialed in Lusaka, Zambia on October 31, 1994, attempted to end the Angolan Civil War by integrating and disarming UNITA and starting national reconciliation. Both sides signed a truce as part of the protocol on November 15 ...
in
Zambia Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most cent ...
, ending 19 years of
civil war A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.) *
1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...
– A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81. *
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
– A court in
Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, m ...
-controlled
Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
declares accused terrorist
Osama bin Laden Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism ...
"a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in
Kenya ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ...
and
Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...
. * 1998 – The first space station module component,
Zarya Zarya may refer to: *Zorya, personification of dawn in Slavic mythology * Zarya (antenna), a type of medium-wave broadcasting antenna used in former Soviet Union *Zarya (ISS module) is a module of the International Space Station. * ''Zarya'' (magazi ...
, for the
International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA ...
is launched from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( kk, Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, translit=Baiqoñyr ğaryş ailağy, ; russian: Космодром Байконур, translit=Kosmodrom Baykonur, ) is a spaceport in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to R ...
in
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
. *
2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
– After the
November 15 Events Pre-1600 * 655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. *1315 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morg ...
bombings, a second day of the
2003 Istanbul bombings The 2003 Istanbul bombings were a series of suicide attacks carried out with trucks fitted with bombs detonated at four different locations in Istanbul, Turkey on November 15 and 20, 2003. On November 15, two truck bombs were detonated, one in ...
occurs in
Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...
, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate. *
2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...
– Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are killed in Bamako, Mali. *
2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...
– The
2022 FIFA World Cup The 2022 FIFA World Cup is an international association football, football tournament contested by the men's national teams of FIFA's member associations. The 22nd FIFA World Cup is taking place in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022 ...
begins in
Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...
. This is the first time the tournament will be held in the
Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...
.


Births


Pre-1600

* 270 –
Maximinus II Galerius Valerius Maximinus, born as Daza (20 November 270 – July 313), was Roman emperor from 310 to 313 CE. He became embroiled in the Civil wars of the Tetrarchy between rival claimants for control of the empire, in which he was defeated ...
, Roman emperor (d. 313) *
939 Year 939 ( CMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Hugh the Great, count of Paris, rebels against King Louis IV ("d'Outremer") and gains su ...
–
Emperor Taizong of Song Zhao Jiong (20 November 939 – 8 May 997), known as Zhao Guangyi from 960 to 977 and Zhao Kuangyi before 960, also known by his temple name Taizong after his death, was the second emperor of the Song dynasty of China. He reigned from 976 to h ...
(d. 997) * 1545 –
Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania Ernst Ludwig (20 November 1545, in Wolgast – 17 June 1592, in Wolgast)Thümmel (2002), p.87 was duke of Pomerania from 1560 to 1592. From 1569 to 1592, he was duke in the ''Teilherzogtum'' Pomerania-Wolgast, sharing the rule over the Duchy of Po ...
(d. 1592)


1601–1900

*
1602 Events January–June * January 3 – Battle of Kinsale: The English defeat Irish rebels and their Spanish allies. (The battle happens on this date according to the Gregorian calendar used by the Irish and Spanish but on Thursday, 24 Dec ...
–
Otto von Guericke Otto von Guericke ( , , ; spelled Gericke until 1666; November 20, 1602 – May 11, 1686 ; November 30, 1602 – May 21, 1686 ) was a German scientist, inventor, and politician. His pioneering scientific work, the development of experimental me ...
, German physicist and politician (d. 1686) *
1603 Events January–June * February 25 – Dutch–Portuguese War: the Portuguese ship '' Santa Catarina'' is seized by Dutch East India Company ships off Singapore. The first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia is established ...
–
Fasilides Fasilides ( Ge'ez: ፋሲልደስ; ''Fāsīladas''; 20 November 1603 – 18 October 1667), also known as Fasil, Basilide, or Basilides (as in the works of Edward Gibbon), was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1632 to his death on 18 October 1667, and a m ...
, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1667) *
1620 Events January–June * February 4 – Prince Bethlen Gabor signs a peace treaty with Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. * May 17 – The first merry-go-round is seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey). * June 3 – The ...
–
Avvakum Avvakum Petrov (russian: link=no, Аввакум Петров; 20 November 1620/21 – 14 April 1682) (also spelled Awakum) was an Old Believer and Russian protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nik ...
, Russian priest and saint (d. 1682) *
1625 Events January–March * January 17 – Led by the Duke of Soubise, the Huguenots launch a second rebellion against King Louis XIII, with a surprise naval assault on a French fleet being prepared in Blavet. * February 3 – ...
–
Paulus Potter Paulus Potter (; 20 November 1625 (baptised) – 17 January 1654 (buried)) was a Dutch painter who specialized in animals within landscapes, usually with a low vantage point. Before Potter died of tuberculosis at the age of 28 he succeeded in p ...
, Dutch painter (d. 1654) *
1629 Events January–March * January 7– Henry Frederick, Hereditary Prince of the Palatinate, the 15-year-old son of the German Palatinate elector, Frederick V, drowns in an accident while sailing to Amsterdam. * January 19&nd ...
– Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (d. 1698) *
1660 Events January–March * January 1 ** At daybreak, English Army Colonel George Monck, with two brigades of troops from his Scottish occupational force, fords the River Tweed at Coldstream in Scotland to cross the border into England ...
–
Daniel Ernst Jablonski Daniel Ernst Jablonski (20 November 1660, Nassenhuben (Mokry Dwór), Royal Prussia, Crown of Poland25 May 1741, Berlin) was a German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calv ...
, Czech-German theologian and reformer (d. 1741) *
1688 Events January–March * January 2 – Fleeing from the Spanish Navy, French pirate Raveneau de Lussan and his 70 men arrive on the west coast of Nicaragua, sink their boats, and make a difficult 10 day march to the city of Oco ...
–
Gyeongjong of Joseon Gyeongjong of Joseon (20 November 1688 – 11 October 1724; reigned 1720–1724) was the 20th king of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. He was the son of King Sukjong and his concubine, Royal Noble Consort Hui of the Indong Jang clan. Biography In ...
, 20th king of the
Joseon Dynasty Joseon (; ; Middle Korean: 됴ᇢ〯션〮 Dyǒw syéon or 됴ᇢ〯션〯 Dyǒw syěon), officially the Great Joseon (; ), was the last dynastic kingdom of Korea, lasting just over 500 years. It was founded by Yi Seong-gye in July 1392 and re ...
(d. 1724) *
1715 Events For dates within Great Britain and the British Empire, as well as in the Russian Empire, the "old style" Julian calendar was used in 1715, and can be converted to the "new style" Gregorian calendar (adopted in the British Empire i ...
–
Pierre Charles Le Monnier Pierre Charles Le Monnier (; 23 November 1715 – 3 April 1799) was a French astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Lemonnier. Biography Le Monnier was born in Paris, where his father Pierre (1675–1757), also an astronomer, was professor ...
, French astronomer (d. 1799) *
1726 Events January–March * January 23 – (January 12 Old Style) The Conventicle Act (''Konventikelplakatet'') is adopted in Sweden, outlawing all non-Lutheran religious meetings outside of church services. * January 26 – ...
–
Oliver Wolcott Oliver Wolcott Sr. (November 20, 1726 December 1, 1797) was an American Founding Father and politician. He was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation as a representative of Connecticut, and t ...
, American politician (d. 1797) *
1733 Events January–March * January 13 – Borommarachathirat V becomes King of Siam (now Thailand) upon the death of King Sanphet IX. * January 27 – George Frideric Handel's classic opera, ''Orlando'' is performed for ...
–
Philip Schuyler Philip John Schuyler (; November 18, 1804) was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a United States Senator from New York. He is usually known as Philip Schuyler, while his son is usually known as Philip J. Schuyler. Born in Alba ...
, American general and senator (d. 1804) *
1737 Events January–March * January 5 – Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign instruments of cession at Pontremoli in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Italy, with the Empire receiving control of Tuscany and the Grand Duchy of Parma a ...
–
José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez (20 November 1737 – 2 February 1799) was a priest in New Spain, scientist, historian, cartographer, and journalist. Life and career He was born in Ozumba in 1737, the child of Felipe de Alzate and María ...
, Spanish-Mexican scientist and cartographer (d. 1799) *
1739 Events January–March * January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, in the South Atlantic Ocean. * January 3: A 7.6 earthquake shakes the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region ...
–
Jean-François de La Harpe Jean-François de La Harpe (20 November 173911 February 1803) was a French playwright, writer and literary critic. Life La Harpe was born in Paris of poor parents. His father, who signed himself Delharpe, was a descendant of a noble family orig ...
, French writer and literary critic (d. 1803) * 1748 –
Jean-François de Bourgoing Jean-François, baron de Bourgoing (20 November 1748 in Nevers – 20 July 1811 in Karlovy Vary) was a French diplomat, writer and translator. A commander of the Legion of Honour, he was also a corresponding member of the French Academy of Scien ...
, French diplomat, writer and translator (d. 1811) *
1750 Various sources, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, use the year 1750 as a baseline year for the end of the pre-industrial era. Events January–March * January 13 – The Treaty of Madrid between Spain ...
–
Tipu Sultan Tipu Sultan (born Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu, 1 December 1751 – 4 May 1799), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India. He was a pioneer of rocket artillery.Dalrymple, p. 243 He int ...
, Indian ruler (d. 1799) *
1752 In the British Empire, it was the only leap year with 355 days, as September 3–13 were skipped when the Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 1 – The British Empire (except Scotland, which h ...
–
Thomas Chatterton Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Althoug ...
, English poet (d. 1770) *
1753 Events January–March * January 3 – King Binnya Dala of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom orders the burning of Ava, the former capital of the Kingdom of Burma. * January 29 – After a month's absence, Elizabeth Canning returns ...
–
Louis-Alexandre Berthier Louis-Alexandre Berthier (20 November 1753 – 1 June 1815), Prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin, Prince of Wagram, was a French Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was twice Minister ...
, 1st
Prince of Wagram Prince of Wagram (; ) was a title of French nobility that was granted to Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier in 1809. It was created as a victory title by Emperor Napoleon I after the Battle of Wagram. Berthier had previously been granted the title of ...
(d. 1815) * 1755 –
Stanisław Kostka Potocki Count Stanisław Kostka Potocki (; November 1755 – 14 September 1821) was a Polish nobleman, politician, writer, public intellectual and patron of the arts. Life Potocki was a son of General and starost of Lwów, Eustachy Potocki and An ...
, Polish noble, politician and writer (d. 1821) *
1761 Events January–March * January 14 – Third Battle of Panipat: Ahmad Shah Durrani and his coalition decisively defeat the Maratha Confederacy, and restore the Mughal Empire to Shah Alam II. * January 16 – Siege of Pondi ...
–
Pope Pius VIII Pope Pius VIII ( it, Pio VIII; born Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Castiglioni; 20 November 1761 – 30 November 1830), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 31 March 1829 to his death in November 1830. Pius VIII's ...
(d. 1830) *
1776 Events January–February * January 1 – American Revolutionary War – Burning of Norfolk: The town of Norfolk, Virginia is destroyed, by the combined actions of the British Royal Navy and occupying Patriot forces. * January 1 ...
–
Ignaz Schuppanzigh Ignaz Schuppanzigh (20 July Michael Lorenz"Four more months for Ignaz Schuppanzigh" 13 August 2012] 1776 – 2 March 1830) was an Austrian violinist, friend and teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven, and leader of Count Razumovsky's private ...
, Austrian violinist (d. 1830) *
1781 Events January–March * January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21. * January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn in Eng ...
–
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn Karl Friedrich Eichhorn (20 November 1781 – 4 July 1854) was a German jurist. Eichhorn was born in Jena as the son of Johann Gottfried Eichhorn. He entered the University of Göttingen in 1797. In 1805 he obtained the professorship of law at ...
, German captain and jurist (d. 1854) * 1781 –
Bartolomeo Pinelli Bartolomeo Pinelli (November 20, 1781 – April 1, 1835) was an Italian illustrator and engraver. Life Pinelli was born and died in the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome, the son of an artisan who modeled religious statues. Pinelli was educa ...
, Italian illustrator and engraver (d. 1835) *
1782 Events January–March * January 7 – The first American commercial bank (Bank of North America) opens. * January 15 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establish ...
–
Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os (20 November 1782 The Hague – 11 July 1861 Paris), was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography According to the RKD he was a son and pupil of the painters Jan van Os and Susanna de l ...
, Dutch painter (d. 1861) *
1783 Events January–March * January 20 – At Versailles, Great Britain signs preliminary peace treaties with the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Spain. * January 23 – The Confederation Congress ratifies two October 8, ...
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Georgios Sinas Georgios Sinas ( el, Γεώργιος Σίνας, german: Georg Sina; 20 November 1783 – 18 May 1856) was a Greek- Austrian entrepreneur and banker. He became a national benefactor of Greece and was the father of another Greek national benefacto ...
, Greek entrepreneur and banker (d. 1856) * 1784 – Marianne von Willemer, Austrian actress and dancer (d. 1860) *
1787 Events January–March * January 9 – The North Carolina General Assembly authorizes nine commissioners to purchase of land for the seat of Chatham County. The town is named Pittsborough (later shortened to Pittsboro), for ...
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Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (20 November 1787 – 9 December 1867) was a German firearms inventor and manufacturer. He is most famous for submitting the Dreyse needle gun in 1836 to the Prussian army, which was adopted for service in December 1840 ...
, German firearms inventor and manufacturer (d. 1867) *
1788 Events January–March * January 1 – The first edition of ''The Times'', previously ''The Daily Universal Register'', is published in London. * January 2 – Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fourth U.S ...
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Félix Varela Félix Varela y Morales (November 20, 1788 – February 18, 1853) was a Cuban Catholic priest and independence leader who is regarded as a notable figure in the Catholic Church in both his native Cuba and the United States, where he also served. ...
, Cuban-born Roman Catholic priest (d. 1853) *
1794 Events January–March * January 1 – The Stibo Group is founded by Niels Lund as a printing company in Aarhus (Denmark). * January 13 – The U.S. Congress enacts a law providing for, effective May 1, 1795, a United States ...
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Eduard Rüppell Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell (20 November 1794 – 10 December 1884) was a German Natural history, naturalist and List of explorers, explorer. Rüppell is occasionally transliterated to "Rueppell" for the English alphabet, due to german ort ...
, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1884) * 1801 –
Mungo Ponton Mungo Ponton FRS FRSE (20 November 1801 – 3 August 1880) was a Scottish inventor who in 1839 created a method of permanent photography based on potassium dichromate. Life and family Ponton was born in the Balgreen district of west Edinburgh ...
, Scottish inventor (d. 1880) *
1808 Events January–March * January 1 ** The importation of slaves into the United States is banned, as the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves takes effect; African slaves continue to be imported into Cuba, and until the island ab ...
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Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein Albert Félix Ignace Kazimirski or Albin de Biberstein (20 November 1808 – 22 June 1887) was a French orientalist and Arabist of Polish origin, author of an Arabic-French dictionary and a number of Arab-French translations, including the Quran. ...
, French orientalist (d. 1887) *
1813 Events January–March * January 18–January 23 – War of 1812: The Battle of Frenchtown is fought in modern-day Monroe, Michigan between the United States and a British and Native American alliance. * January 24 – T ...
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Franz Miklosich Franz Miklosich (german: Franz Ritter von Miklosich, also known in Slovene as ; 20 November 1813 – 7 March 1891) was a Slovene philologist. Early life Miklosich was born in the small village of Radomerščak near the Lower Styrian town of Lju ...
, Slovenian linguist and philologist (d. 1891) *
1830 It is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the Revolutions of 1830 in France, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland and Italy. Events January–March * January 11 – LaGrange College (later the University of North Alabama) b ...
– Mikhail Dragomirov, Russian general (1905) *
1834 Events January–March * January – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina. * January 1 – Zollverein (Germany): Customs charges are abolished at borders within its member states. * January 3 ...
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Franjo Kuhač Franjo Ksaver Kuhač (November 20, 1834 – June 18, 1911) was a piano teacher, choral conductor, composer, and comparative musicologist who studied Croatian folk music. Kuhač did a great deal of field work in this area, collecting and publishing ...
, Croatian conductor and composer (d. 1911) *
1841 Events January–March * January 20 – Charles Elliot of the United Kingdom, and Qishan of the Qing dynasty, agree to the Convention of Chuenpi. * January 26 – Britain occupies Hong Kong. Later in the year, the first census of the i ...
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Victor D'Hondt Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt (; 20 November 1841 – 30 May 1901) was a Belgian lawyer and jurist of civil law at Ghent University. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for allocating seats to candidates ...
, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1901) * 1841 –
François Denys Légitime François Denys Légitime (November 20, 1841 – July 29, 1935) was a Haitian general who served as President of Haiti from 1888 to 1889. Biography Légitime was born in Jérémie, Haiti, on 20 November 1841 to Denys Légitime and Tinette L ...
, Haitian general (d. 1935) * 1841 –
Wilfrid Laurier Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier, ( ; ; November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was a Canadian lawyer, statesman, and politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minis ...
, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th
Prime Minister of Canada The prime minister of Canada (french: premier ministre du Canada, link=no) is the head of government of Canada. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the Confidence and supply, confidence of a majority the elected Hou ...
(d. 1919) *
1850 Events January–June * April ** Pope Pius IX returns from exile to Rome. ** Stephen Foster's parlor ballad "Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway" is published in the United States. * April 4 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a cit ...
– Joseph Samuel Bloch, Austrian rabbi and deputy (d. 1923) * 1850 –
Charlotte Garrigue Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk ( cz, Charlotta Garrigue-Masaryková; née Garrigue; 20 November 1850 – 13 May 1923) was the American-born wife of the Czechoslovak philosopher, sociologist, and politician, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first Presiden ...
, wife of
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš () is a Czech and Slovak given name, equivalent to the name Thomas. It may refer to: * Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), first President of Czechoslovakia * Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), Czech footwear entrepreneur * Tomáš Berdych ( ...
(d. 1923) * 1851 –
Mikhail Albov Mikhail Nilovich Albov (russian: Михаи́л Ни́лович А́льбов; November 20, 1851 – June 25, 1911) was a Russian writer. Biography Albov was born in St Petersburg in 1851. From an early age he showed a love for reading. He ...
, Russian writer (d. 1911) * 1851 –
John Merle Coulter John Merle Coulter, Ph. D. (November 20, 1851 – December 23, 1928) was an American botanist and educator. In his career in education administration, Coulter is notable for serving as the president of Indiana University and Lake Forest College a ...
, American botanist (d. 1928) * 1851 –
Margherita of Savoy Margherita of Savoy (''Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna''; 20 November 1851 – 4 January 1926) was Queen of Italy by marriage to Umberto I. Life Early life Margherita was born to Prince Ferdinand of Savoy, Duke of Genoa and Princess Elisabeth ...
, Italian Queen consort (d. 1926) *
1853 Events January–March * January 6 – Florida Governor Thomas Brown signs legislation that provides public support for the new East Florida Seminary, leading to the establishment of the University of Florida. * January 8 – Taiping Reb ...
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Oskar Potiorek Oskar Potiorek (20 November 1853 – 17 December 1933) was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army, who served as Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1911 to 1914. He was a passenger in the car carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ...
, Austro-Hungarian Army officer (d. 1933) *
1855 Events January–March * January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city. * January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru. * January 23 ** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens ...
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Josiah Royce Josiah Royce (; November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism. His philosophical ideas included his version of personalism, defense of absolutism, idealism and his ...
, American philosopher (d. 1916) *
1857 Events January–March * January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen. * January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating. * Janua ...
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Helena Westermarck Helena Charlotta Westermarck (20 November 1857, Helsinki – 5 April 1938, Helsinki) was a Finnish artist and writer (belonging to Swedish-speaking population of Finland). She is known for her pioneering biographies of women. Biography Westerma ...
, Finnish artist and writer (d. 1938) *
1858 Events January–March * January – **Benito Juárez (1806–1872) becomes Liberal President of Mexico. At the same time, conservatives install Félix María Zuloaga (1813–1898) as president. **William I of Prussia becomes regent f ...
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Selma Lagerlöf Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, , ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She published her first novel, ''Gösta Berling's Saga'', at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Pr ...
, Swedish author and educator,
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. 1940) *
1860 Events January–March * January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France. * January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusett ...
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José Figueroa Alcorta José María Cornelio Figueroa Alcorta (November 20, 1860 – December 27, 1931) was an Argentines, Argentine lawyer and politician, who managed to be the only person to head the three powers of the State: List of vice presidents of Argentin ...
, President of Argentina, (d. 1931) *
1861 Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry. Events January–March * January 1 ** Benito Juárez captures Mexico City. ** The first steam-p ...
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Camillo Laurenti Camillo Laurenti (20 November 1861 – 6 September 1938) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites from 1929 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1921 ...
, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1938) *
1862 Events January–March * January 1 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos Island, in modern-day Nigeria. * January 6 – French intervention in Mexico: French, Spanish and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico. * January ...
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Georges Palante Georges Toussaint Léon Palante (20 November 1862 – 5 August 1925) was a French philosopher and sociologist. Palante advocated aristocratic individualist ideas similar to Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer. He was opposed to Émile Dur ...
, French philosopher and sociologist (d. 1925) * 1862 –
Edvard Westermarck Edvard Alexander Westermarck (Helsinki, 20 November 1862 – Tenala, 3 September 1939) was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo. Biography Westermarck was born in 1862 in a ...
, Finnish philosopher and sociologist (d. 1939) *
1864 Events January–March * January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song " ...
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Percy Cox Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (20 November 1864 – 20 February 1937) was a British Indian Army officer and Colonial Office administrator in the Middle East. He was one of the major figures in the creation of the current Middle East. ...
, British Indian Army officer (d. 1937) *
1866 Events January–March * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman tr ...
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Kenesaw Mountain Landis Kenesaw Mountain Landis (; November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944) was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death. He is remembered for his h ...
, American lawyer and judge (d. 1944) * 1866 –
Maria Letizia Bonaparte Maria Letizia Bonaparte (Marie Laetitia Eugénie Catherine Adélaïde; 20 November 1866 – 25 October 1926) was one of three children born to Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Prince Napoléon and his wife Princess Maria Clotilde of Savo ...
, daughter of
Prince Napoléon Bonaparte A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...
(d. 1926) *
1867 Events January–March * January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed a ...
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Patrick Joseph Hayes Patrick Joseph Hayes (November 20, 1867 – September 4, 1938) was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of New York from 1919 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1924. Early life and ...
, American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1938) * 1867 –
Gustav Giemsa Gustav Giemsa (; November 20, 1867 – June 10, 1948) was a German chemist and bacteriologist who was a native of Medar-Blechhammer (now part of the city Kędzierzyn-Koźle). He is remembered for creating a dye solution commonly known as "Giemsa ...
, German chemist and bacteriologist (d. 1948) * 1869 –
Zinaida Gippius Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (Hippius) (; – 9 September 1945) was a Russian literature, Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism. The story of her marriage to Dmitry Merezhk ...
, Russian writer and editor (d. 1945) * 1869 –
Josaphata Hordashevska Josaphata Hordashevska, born Michaelina Hordashevska (20 November 1869 – 7 April 1919) an ethnic Ukrainian Greek-Catholic in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Religious Sister, was the first member and co-foundress of the Sisters Servants of Mary ...
, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun (d. 1919) *
1871 Events January–March * January 3 – Franco-Prussian War – Battle of Bapaume: Prussians win a strategic victory. * January 18 – Proclamation of the German Empire: The member states of the North German Confederation and the sout ...
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William Heard Kilpatrick William Heard Kilpatrick (November 20, 1871 – February 13, 1965) was an American pedagogue and a pupil, a colleague and a successor of John Dewey (1859–1952). Kilpatrick was a major figure in the progressive education movement of the early 20 ...
, American pedagogue (d. 1965) * 1871 – Augusto Weberbauer, German naturalist (d. 1948) * 1873 –
Ramón Castillo Ramón Antonio Castillo Barrionuevo (November 20, 1873 – October 12, 1944) was a conservative Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from June 27, 1942 to June 4, 1943. He was a leading figure in the period known as t ...
, Argentine politician (d. 1944) * 1873 –
William Coblentz William Weber Coblentz (November 20, 1873 – September 15, 1962) was an American physicist notable for his contributions to infrared radiometry and spectroscopy. Early life, education, and employment William Coblentz was born in North Lima, ...
, American physicist (d. 1962) * 1873 –
Georges Caussade Georges Paul Alphonse Emilien Caussade (20 November 1873 – 5 August 1936) was a French composer, music theorist, and music educator. Biography Born in Port Louis, Mauritius, he joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de Paris in 1905 as a teac ...
, French composer (d. 1936) * 1873 –
Daniel Gregory Mason Daniel Gregory Mason (November 20, 1873 – December 4, 1953) was an American composer and music critic. Biography Mason was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He came from a long line of notable American musicians, including his father Henry Ma ...
, American composer and music critic (d. 1953) *1874 – James Michael Curley, American lawyer, politician, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts, and criminal (d. 1958) *1875 – Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat (d. 1944) *1876 – Rudolf Koch, German designer (d. 1934) *1877 – Herbert Pitman, English sailor (d. 1961) *1880 – Walter Brack, German swimmer (d. 1919) *1881 – Irakli Tsereteli, Georgian politician (d. 1959) *1882 – Ernestas Galvanauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician (d. 1967) *1883 – Edwin August, American actor and director (d. 1964) * 1883 – Tony Gaudio, Italian American cinematographer (d. 1951) *1884 – Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (d. 1968) *1885 – George Holley, English footballer (d. 1942) * 1885 – Kaarlo Vasama, Finnish gymnast (d. 1926) *1886 – Robert Hunter (golfer), Robert Hunter, American golfer (d. 1971) * 1886 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982) * 1886 – Alexandre Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (d. 1934) *1887 – Jean Ducret, French footballer *1888 – Dennis Fenton, American sports shooter (d. 1954) *1889 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1953) *1890 – Robert Armstrong (actor), Robert Armstrong, American actor (d. 1973) * 1890 – Harald Madsen, Danish actor (d. 1949) * 1890 – Lauri Tanner, Finnish gymnast (d. 1950) *1891 – Reginald Denny (actor), Reginald Denny, English actor (d. 1967) *1892 – James Collip, Canadian biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin (d. 1965) *1893 – André Bloch (mathematician), André Bloch, French mathematician (d. 1948) * 1893 – Grace Darmond, Canadian-American actress (d. 1963) *1894 – Johann Nikuradse, Georgian-born German engineer and physicist (d. 1979) *1895 – Pierre Cot, French politician (d. 1977) *1896 – Chiyono Hasegawa, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2011) * 1896 – Carl Mayer, Austrian-Jewish screenplay writer (d. 1944) *1897 – Germaine Krull, German photographer and political activist (d. 1985) *1898 – Richmond Landon, American high jumper (d. 1971) * 1898 – Adrian Piotrovsky, Russian dramaturge (d. 1937) *1899 – Alicja Kotowska, Polish nun (d. 1939) *
1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...
– Florieda Batson, American Olympic hurdler (d. 1996) * 1900 – Helen Bradley, English painter (d. 1979) * 1900 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist and author, created ''Dick Tracy'' (d. 1985)


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*1901 – José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1957) *1902 – Gianpiero Combi, Italian footballer (d. 1956) * 1902 – Erik Eriksen, Danish politician (d. 1972) * 1902 – Heini Meng, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 1982) * 1902 – Jean Painlevé, French photographer and filmmaker (d. 1989) * 1902 – Philipp Schmitt, German officer of the Schutzstaffel (d. 1950) *1903 – Alexandra Danilova, Russian-American ballerina and choreographer (d. 1997) * 1903 – Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator (d. 1981) *1904 – Arnold Gartmann, Swiss bobsledder (d. 1980) *1905 – Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1998) *1906 – Vera Tanner, English swimmer (d. 1971) *1907 – Fran Allison, American entertainer (d. 1989) * 1907 – Mihai Beniuc, Romanian writer (d. 1988) * 1907 – Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1977) * 1907 – Anni Rehborn, German swimmer (d. 1987) *1908 – Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1968) * 1908 – Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (d. 2004) * 1908 – Jenő Vincze, Hungarian footballer (d. 1988) *1909 – John Berger (cross-country skier), John Berger, Swiss cross-country skier (d. 2002) * 1909 – Vicente Feola, Brazilian football manager and coach (d. 1975) * 1909 – Piero Gherardi, Italian costume and set designer (d. 1971) * 1909 – Samand Siabandov, Soviet Red Army writer (d. 1989) *
1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
– Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician, pilot, and academic (d. 1944) * 1910 – Pauli Murray, American civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, Episcopal priest, and author (d. 1985) *1911 – Eduard Kainberger, Austrian footballer (d. 1974) * 1911 – David Seymour (photographer), David Seymour, Polish photographer (d. 1956) * 1911 – Jean Shiley, American high jumper (d. 1998) * 1911 – Rupert Weinstabl, Austrian sprint canoeist (d. 1953) * 1911 – Paul Zielinski, German footballer (d. 1966) *1912 – Enrique García (Argentine footballer), Enrique Garcia, Argentine footballer (d. 1969) * 1912 – Otto von Habsburg, the last List of heirs to the Austrian throne, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary (d. 2011) *1913 – Franz Berghammer, Austrian field handballer (d. 1944) * 1913 – Charles Berlitz, American linguist (d. 2003) * 1913 – Charles Bettelheim, French Marxian economist and historian (d. 2006) * 1913 – Judy Canova, American actress and comedian (d. 1983) * 1913 – Kostas Choumis, Greek footballer (d. 1981) * 1913 – Russell Rouse, American screenwriter, director and producer (d. 1987) * 1913 – Libertas Schulze-Boysen, German opponent of the Nazism, Nazis (d. 1942) * 1913 – Yakov Zak, Soviet pianist (d. 1976) *1914 – Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer and politician (d. 1992) * 1914 – Kurt Lundqvist, Swedish high jumper (d. 1976) *1915 – Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008) * 1915 – Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (d. 1989) *1916 – Charles E. Osgood, American psychologist (d. 1991) * 1916 – Michael J. Ingelido, American general (d. 2015) * 1916 – Evelyn Keyes, American actress (d. 2008) * 1916 – Donald T. Campbell, American social scientist (d. 1996) *
1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...
– Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (d. 2010) * 1917 – Leonard Jimmie Savage, American mathematician (d. 1971) * 1917 – Erich Leo Lehmann, American statistician (d. 2009) * 1917 – Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987) *1918 – Corita Kent, American nun, illustrator, and educator (d. 1986) * 1918 – Dora Ratjen, German high jumper (d. 2008) *1919 – Alan Brown (racing driver), Alan Brown, English race car driver (d. 2004) * 1919 – Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (d. 2012) *1920 – Douglas Dick, American actor and psychologist (d. 2015) *1921 – Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (d. 1992) *1923 – Gunnar Åkerlund, Swedish sprint canoer (d. 2006) * 1923 – Danny Dayton, American actor and director (d. 1999) * 1923 – Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer (d. 2005) * 1923 – Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist,
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. 2014) *1924 – Karen Harup, Danish swimmer (d. 2009) * 1924 – Timothy Evans, (d. 1950) * 1924 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (d. 2010) * 1924 – Michael Riffaterre, French literary critic and theorist (d. 2006) * 1924 – Henk Vredeling, Dutch agronomist and politician, List of Ministers of Defence of the Netherlands, Dutch Minister of Defence (d. 2007) *1925 – June Christy, American singer (d. 1990) * 1925 – Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (d. 1968) * 1925 – Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (d. 2015) *1926 – John Gardner (British writer), John Gardner, English soldier and author (d. 2007) * 1926 – Tôn Thất Đính, Vietnamese general (d. 2013) * 1926 – Édouard Leclerc, French businessman and entrepreneur (d. 2012) * 1926 – Miroslav Tichý, Czech photographer (d. 2011) *1927 – Vakhtang Balavadze, Georgian wrestler (d. 2018) * 1927 – Ed Freeman, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2008) * 1927 – Estelle Parsons, American actress and director * 1927 – Wolfgang Schreyer, German writer (d. 2017) * 1927 – Mikhail Ulyanov, Soviet and Russian actor (d. 2007) *1928 – Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2017) * 1928 – Franklin Cover, American actor (d. 2006) * 1928 – Pedro Ferrándiz, Spanish basketball coach * 1928 – John Disley, Welsh athlete (d. 2016) * 1928 – Pete Rademacher, American boxer * 1928 – Genrikh Sapgir, Russian writer (d. 1999) *1929 – Jerry Hardin, American actor * 1929 – Raymond Lefèvre, French composer (d. 2008) * 1929 – Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian footballer * 1929 – Ron Willey, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2004) *1930 – Christine Arnothy, French writer (d. 2015) * 1930 – Aarón Hernán, Mexican actor * 1930 – Bernard Horsfall, English-Scottish actor (d. 2013) * 1930 – Choe Yong-rim, North Korean Premier *1931 – Wayne Moore (swimmer), Wayne Moore, American swimmer (d. 2015) *1932 – Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (d. 2012) * 1932 – Yorozuya Kinnosuke, Japanese kabuki actor (d. 1997) * 1932 – Sándor Mátrai, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002) * 1932 – Paulo Valentim, Brazilian footballer (d. 1984) * 1932 – Colville Young, Governor-General of Belize *1934 – Paco Ibáñez, Spanish singer and musician * 1934 – Lev Polugaevsky, Soviet Chess Grandmaster (d. 1995) *1935 – Leo Falcam, Micronesian politician and 5th President of Micronesia (d. 2018) * 1935 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (d. 2011) *
1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
– Hans van Abeelen, Dutch geneticist (d. 1998) * 1936 – Don DeLillo, American novelist, essayist, and playwright * 1936 – Luciano Fabro, Italian sculptor and artist (d. 2007) * 1936 – Charles R. Larson, American admiral (d. 2014) *1937 – René Kollo, German tenor * 1937 – Ruth Laredo, American pianist and educator (d. 2005) * 1937 – Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier (d. 2013) * 1937 – Bruno Mealli, Italian cyclist * 1937 – Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian author and screenwriter *1938 – Colin Fox (actor), Colin Fox, Canadian actor *1939 – Jerry Colangelo, American businessman * 1939 – Copi, Argentine writer and artist (d. 1987) * 1939 – Dick Smothers, American actor and comedian * 1939 – Jan Szczepański (boxer), Jan Szczepański, Polish boxer (d. 2017) *
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *January ...
– Wendy Doniger, American indologist * 1940 – Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014) * 1940 – Ediz Hun, Turkish actor and politician * 1940 – Arieh Warshel, Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist *1941 – Oliver Sipple, U.S. Marine and Vietnam War veteran (d. 1989) * 1941 – Dr. John, American singer and songwriter (d. 2019) *1942 – Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States * 1942 – Bob Einstein, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2019) * 1942 – Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1942 – Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer * 1942 – Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul, Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul (d. 2008) *
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...
– David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home, David Douglas-Home, British businessman and politician * 1943 – Veronica Hamel, American actress and model * 1943 – Ivan Hrdlička, Czechoslovak footballer * 1943 – Suze Rotolo, American artist *1944 – Louie Dampier, American basketball player and coach * 1944 – Wayne Maki, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1974) * 1944 – Anthea Stewart, Zimbabwean field hockey player *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
– Deborah Eisenberg, American writer, actress and teacher *1946 – Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1971) * 1946 – Algimantas Butnorius, Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster (d. 2017) * 1946 – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow * 1946 – Samuel E. Wright, American actor, voice actor and singer (d. 2021) *
1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...
– Nurlan Balgimbayev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (d. 2015) * 1947 – Eli Ben Rimoz, Israeli footballer * 1947 – Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor *1948 – John R. Bolton, American lawyer and diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations * 1948 – Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013) * 1948 – Barbara Hendricks, American-Swedish soprano and actress * 1948 – Richard Masur, American actor and director * 1948 – Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (d. 1978) * 1948 – Kenjiro Shinozuka, Japanese race car driver *1949 – Jeff Dowd, American film producer and activist * 1949 – Thelma Drake, American politician * 1949 – Ulf Lundell, Swedish writer and composer * 1949 – Juha Mieto, Finnish cross-country skier * 1949 – Nené (footballer, born 1949), Nené, Portuguese footballer *1950 – Jacqueline Gourault, French politician * 1950 – Gary Green (musician), Gary Green, British musician *1951 – Rodger Bumpass, American actor and singer * 1951 – León Gieco, Argentine folk rock singer and interpreter * 1951 – Aleksey Spiridonov, Soviet footballer (d. 1998) * 1951 – David Walters, American businessman and politician, 24th Governor of Oklahoma *1952 – John Van Boxmeer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach *1953 – Fábio Jr., Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor * 1953 – Greg Gibson (wrestler), Greg Gibson, American wrestler * 1953 – Halid Bešlić, Bosnian musician and singer * 1953 – Nirmal Selvamony, Indian Tamils, Tamil academician and Ecocriticism, ecocritic *1954 – Richard Brooker, English actor and stuntman (d. 2013) * 1954 – Antonina Koshel, Soviet artistic gymnast * 1954 – Frank Marino, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter * 1954 – Bin Shimada, Japanese voice actor *1955 – Angela Finocchiaro, Italian actress * 1955 – Toshio Matsuura, Japanese footballer * 1955 – Ray Ozzie, American software industry entrepreneur *1956 – Bo Derek, American actress and producer *1957 – Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (d. 1985) * 1957 – John Eriksen, Danish footballer (d. 2002) * 1957 – Jean-Marc Furlan, French football manager * 1957 – Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria *1958 – Rickson Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial artist and choreographer *
1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
– Diane James, British politician * 1959 – Mario Martone, Italian director and screenwriter * 1959 – Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, German prelate of the Catholic Church and theologian * 1959 – Sean Young, American actress and dancer *1960 – Ye Jiangchuan, Chinese chess player * 1960 – Ozell Jones, American basketball player (d. 2006) *1961 – Pierre Hermé, French pastry chef and chocolatier * 1961 – Petra Wenzel, Liechtenstein alpine skier *
1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...
– Živko Budimir, Bosnian politician * 1962 – Polona Dornik, Yugoslav and Slovenian basketball player * 1962 – Rajkumar Hirani, Indian director * 1962 – Abderrazak Khairi, Moroccan footballer * 1962 – Peng Liyuan, wife of Xi Jinping * 1962 – Gerardo Martino, Argentine footballer *1963 – Tim Gavin, Australian rugby player * 1963 – Timothy Gowers, English mathematician and academic * 1963 – Beezie Madden, American show jumper * 1963 – Ming-Na Wen, Chinese-American actress *1964 – Katharina Böhm, Austrian actress * 1964 – Boris Dežulović, Croatian journalist and author * 1964 – Andriy Kalashnykov, Ukrainian wrestler * 1964 – John MacLean (ice hockey), John MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach *1965 – Mike D, American rapper and drummer * 1965 – Nigel Gibbs, English footballer and coach * 1965 – Yehuda Glick, American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi * 1965 – Amos Mansdorf, Israeli tennis player * 1965 – Takeshi Kusao, Japanese actor and singer * 1965 – Jimmy Vasser, American race car driver * 1965 – Yoshiki (musician), Yoshiki, Japanese musician *1966 – Neil Broad, British tennis player * 1966 – Kevin Gilbert (musician), Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1996) * 1966 – Terry Lovejoy, Australian information technologist * 1966 – Štefan Svitek (basketball), Štefan Svitek, Slovak basketball coach * 1966 – Jill Thompson, American author and illustrator *1967 – Chris Childs (basketball), Chris Childs, American basketball player * 1967 – Stuart Ripley, English footballer * 1967 – Teoman (singer), Teoman, Turkish singer *
1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...
– James Dutton (astronaut), James Dutton, American astronaut * 1968 – Andrei Kharlov, Russian chess player * 1968 – Paul Scheuring, American screenwriter and director * 1968 – David Einhorn (hedge fund manager), David Einhorn, American hedge fund manager * 1968 – Jeff Tarango, American tennis player *
1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
– Jimmy Blandon, Ecuadorian footballer * 1969 – Kristian Ghedina, Italian alpine ski racer * 1969 – Chris Harris (cricketer), Chris Harris, New Zealand cricketer * 1969 – Wolfgang Stark, German football referee * 1969 – Callie Thorne, American actress and producer *1970 – Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates * 1970 – Matt Blunt, American lieutenant and politician, 54th Governor of Missouri * 1970 – Phife Dawg, American rapper (d. 2016) * 1970 – Delia Gonzalez, American boxer * 1970 – Stéphane Houdet, French wheelchair tennis player * 1970 – Geoffrey Keezer, American pianist and educator * 1970 – Sabrina Lloyd, American actress *
1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...
– Mike Dunn (snooker player), Mike Dunn, English snooker player * 1971 – Joey Galloway, American football player and sportscaster * 1971 – Joel McHale, American comedian, actor, and producer *1972 – Johan Åkerman, Swedish ice hockey player * 1972 – Jérôme Alonzo, French footballer * 1972 – Ed Benes, Brazilian comic book artist * 1972 – Paulo Figueiredo, Angolan footballer * 1972 – Corinne Niogret, French biathlete * 1972 – Skander Souayah, Tunisian footballer * 1972 – Tatiana Turanskaya, Transnistrian politician *1973 – Angelica Bridges, American actress and singer * 1973 – Fabio Galante, Italian footballer * 1973 – Neil Hodgson, English motorcycle racer and sportscaster * 1973 – Masaya Honda, Japanese footballer *
1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...
– Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, German speed skater * 1974 – Jason Faunt, American actor * 1974 – Florian David Fitz, German actor, screenwriter and director * 1974 – Drew Ginn, Australian rower * 1974 – Claudio Husain, Argentine footballer * 1974 – Jon Knudsen, Norwegian footballer *1975 – Mengke Bateer, Chinese Inner Mongolian basketball player * 1975 – Dierks Bentley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1975 – Ryan Bowen, American basketball player and coach * 1975 – J. D. Drew, American baseball player * 1975 – Joshua Gomez, American actor * 1975 – Sébastien Hamel, French footballer * 1975 – Davey Havok, American singer-songwriter *1976 – Mohamed Barakat, Egyptian footballer * 1976 – Beto (footballer, born November 1976), Beto, Brazilian footballer * 1976 – DeJuan Collins, American basketball player * 1976 – Dominique Dawes, American gymnast and actress * 1976 – Laura Harris, Canadian actress * 1976 – Adrián Hernán González, Argentine footballer * 1976 – Harold Jamison, American basketball player * 1976 – Tusshar Kapoor, Indian Bollywood actor and producer * 1976 – Pascal Roller, German basketball player * 1976 – Francisco Rufete, Spanish footballer * 1976 – Nebojša Stefanović, Serbian politician * 1976 – Doug Viney, New Zealand boxer * 1976 – Atsushi Yoneyama, Japanese footballer * 1976 – Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer *
1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...
– Rudy Charles, American wrestling referee * 1977 – Mikhail Ivanov (cross-country skier), Mikhail Ivanov, Russian cross-country skier * 1977 – Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer and producer * 1977 – Josh Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor *1978 – Jean-François Bedenik, French footballer and coach * 1978 – Freya Lim, Taiwanese-Malaysian singer and radio host * 1978 – Kéné Ndoye, Senegalese track and fielder * 1978 – Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
– Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player * 1979 – Dmitri Bulykin, Russian footballer * 1979 – Kateryna Burmistrova, Ukrainian wrestler * 1979 – Naide Gomes, Portuguese heptathlete and long jumper * 1979 – Joseph Hallman, American composer and academic * 1979 – Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Russian sprint athlete * 1979 – Hassan Mostafa, Egyptian footballer * 1979 – Jacob Pitts, American actor * 1979 – Shalini, Indian actress * 1979 – Arpad Sterbik, Serbian handball player *
1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...
– Dilnaz Akhmadieva, Kazakhstani singer and actress * 1980 – James Chambers (English footballer), James Chambers, English footballer * 1980 – Eiko Koike, Japanese actress * 1980 – Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, Thai boxer * 1980 – Marek Krejčí, Slovak footballer (d. 2007) * 1980 – Ana Caterina Morariu, Romanian-Italian actress * 1980 – Christian Obrist, Italian middle-distance runner * 1980 – Eoin Reddan, Irish rugby union player *1981 – Carlos Boozer, American basketball player * 1981 – Yuko Kavaguti, Japanese ice skater * 1981 – Ye Li, Chinese basketball player * 1981 – Andrea Riseborough, English actress * 1981 – İbrahim Toraman, Turkish footballer * 1981 – Orsolya Tóth, Hungarian actress * 1981 – Kimberley Walsh, English singer-songwriter and actress *1982 – Stephen Ademolu, Canadian footballer * 1982 – Dương Hồng Sơn, Vietnamese footballer * 1982 – Rémi Mathis, French historian and curator * 1982 – Shermine Shahrivar, Iranian model * 1982 – Gregor Urbas, Slovenian figure skater * 1982 – Israel Villaseñor, Mexican footballer *1983 – Future (rapper), Future, American rapper * 1983 – Dele Aiyenugba, Nigerian footballer * 1983 – Mónika Kovacsicz, Hungarian handballer *1984 – Ali (South Korean singer), Ali, South Korean singer * 1984 – Halley Feiffer, American actress and playwright * 1984 – Kévin Hecquefeuille, French ice hockey player * 1984 – Justin Hoyte, English footballer * 1984 – Jeremy Jordan (actor, born 1984), Jeremy Jordan, American actor * 1984 – Cartier Martin, American basketball player * 1984 – Nelson Sebastián Maz, Uruguayan footballer * 1984 – Sherjill MacDonald, Dutch footballer * 1984 – Moe Meguro, Japanese curler * 1984 – Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian race car driver * 1984 – Florencia Mutio, Argentine field hockey player * 1984 – Stéphane N'Guéma, Gabonese footballer * 1984 – Naoya Tamura, Japanese footballer * 1984 – Monique van der Vorst, Dutch cyclist * 1984 – Lee Yun-yeol, South Korean gamer *
1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
– Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentinian race car driver * 1985 – Eric Boateng, British basketball player * 1985 – Dan Byrd, American actor * 1985 – Muhamed Demiri, Macedonian footballer * 1985 – Greg Holland, American baseball player * 1985 – Maria Mukhortova, Russian skater * 1985 – Heinrich Schmidtgal, Kazakhstani footballer * 1985 – Themistoklis Tzimopoulos, Greek New Zealanders, Greek New Zealander footballer * 1985 – Aaron Yan, Taiwanese actor and singer *1986 – Josh Carter, American basketball player * 1986 – Edder Delgado, Honduran footballer * 1986 – Ashley Fink, American actress and singer * 1986 – Kōhei Horikoshi, Japanese manga artist * 1986 – Özer Hurmacı, Turkish footballer * 1986 – William Fernando da Silva, Brazilian footballer * 1986 – Oliver Sykes, English singer-songwriter * 1986 – Bartolomé Salvá Vidal, Spanish tennis player * 1986 – Koudai Tsukakoshi, Japanese race car driver *1987 – Amelia Rose Blaire, American actress * 1987 – Andrew Driver, English footballer * 1987 – Ben Hamer, English footballer * 1987 – Mylène Lazare, French swimmer * 1987 – Kou Lei, Ukrainian table tennis player * 1987 – Nathan Lyon, Australian cricketer * 1987 – Joëlle Numainville, Canadian cyclist * 1987 – Christoph Pfingsten, German cyclist * 1987 – Valdet Rama, Albanian footballer * 1987 – Gina Stechert, German alpine skier *1988 – Marie-Laure Brunet, French biathlete * 1988 – Aya Medany, Egyptian modern pentathlete. * 1988 – Max Pacioretty, American ice hockey player * 1988 – Roberto Rosales, Venezuelan footballer * 1988 – Dariga Shakimova, Kazakhstani boxer * 1988 – Dušan Tadić, Serbian footballer * 1988 – Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor and director *
1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
– Artak Dashyan, Armenian footballer * 1989 – Babita Kumari, Indian wrestler * 1989 – Cody Linley, American actor and singer * 1989 – Agon Mehmeti, Swedish footballer * 1989 – Jonas Mendes, Bissau-Guinean footballer * 1989 – Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian ballet dancer * 1989 – Eduardo Vargas, Chilean footballer * 1989 – Dmitry Zhitnikov, Russian handballer *
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 ...
– Haley Anderson, American swimmer * 1990 – Mark Christian, Manx cyclist * 1990 – Aleksandra Król, Polish snowboarder * 1990 – Slobodan Medojević, Serbian footballer * 1990 – Nzuzi Toko, Congolese footballer *
1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...
– Irene Esser, Venezuelan actress and model * 1991 – Grant Hanley, Scottish footballer * 1991 – Anthony Knockaert, French footballer * 1991 – Yvonne Leuko, Cameroonian footballer * 1991 – Kim Se-yong, South Korean singer and actor * 1991 – Tim Simona, New Zealand rugby league player *
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
– Amit Guluzade, Azerbaijani footballer * 1992 – Zoltán Harcsa, Hungarian boxer * 1992 – Maiha Ishimura, Japanese singer and actress * 1992 – Kristiina Mäkelä, Finnish triple jumper * 1992 – Gaku Matsuda, Japanese actor * 1992 – Jenna Prandini, American track and field athlete * 1992 – Brayan Ramírez (cyclist), Brayan Ramirez, Colombian cyclist * 1992 – Frédéric Veseli, Albanian footballer *
1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...
– Junior Paulo (rugby league, born 1993), Junior Paulo, New Zealand rugby league player * 1993 – Sanjin Prcić, Bosnian footballer * 1993 – Anna Prugova, Russian ice hockey player *
1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
– Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle-distance runner *1995 – Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete * 1995 – Iván García (cyclist), Iván Garcia, Spanish cyclist * 1995 – Shaolin Sándor Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater * 1995 – Kyle Snyder (wrestler), Kyle Snyder, American wrestler *
1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...
– Jack Harrison (footballer, born 1996), Jack Harrison, English professional footballer * 1996 – Blaž Janc, Slovenian handballer * 1996 – Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer *1997 – Levi Garcia, Trinidadian footballer *2000 – Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter *2001 – Caty McNally, American tennis player *2002 – Madisyn Shipman, American actress


Deaths


Pre-1600

* 284 – Numerian, Roman emperor * 763 – Domnall Midi, High King of Ireland (b. 743) * 811 – Li Fan (Tang dynasty), Li Fan, Chinese chancellor (b. 754) * 855 – Theoktistos, Byzantine courtier * 869 – Edmund the Martyr, English king (b. 841) * 927 – Xu Wen, Chinese general (b. 862) * 996 – Richard I of Normandy, Richard I, duke of Normandy (b. 932) *1008 – Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany, Geoffrey I, duke of Brittany (b. 980) *1022 – Bernward of Hildesheim, German bishop (b. c. 960) *1314 – Albert II, Margrave of Meissen, Albert II, German nobleman (b. 1240) *1316 – John I of France, John I, king of France and Navarra (b. 1316) *1400 – Elisabeth of Moravia, margravine of Meissen *1480 – Eleanor of Scotland, Scottish princess (b. 1433) *1518 – Pierre de la Rue, Belgian singer and composer (b. 1452) *1559 – Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, Lady Frances Brandon, English noblewoman and claimant to the throne of England (b. 1517) *1591 – Christopher Hatton, English academic and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1540) *1593 – Hans Bol, Flemish painter (b. 1534)


1601–1900

*1606 – John Lyly, English poet and courtier *1612 – John Harington (writer), John Harington, English courtier and author (b. 1561) *1651 – Mikołaj Potocki, Polish nobleman (b. 1595) *1678 – Karel Dujardin, Dutch Golden Age painting, Dutch Golden Age painter (b. 1622) *1662 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Leopold Wilhelm, Austrian duke and governor (b. 1614) * 1695 –
Zumbi Zumbi (1655 – November 20, 1695), also known as Zumbi dos Palmares (), was a Brazilian quilombola leader, being one of the pioneers of resistance to slavery of Africans by the Portuguese in colonial Brazil. He was also the last of the kings ...
, Brazilian king (b. 1655) *1704 – Charles Plumier, French botanist and painter (b. 1646) *
1737 Events January–March * January 5 – Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign instruments of cession at Pontremoli in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Italy, with the Empire receiving control of Tuscany and the Grand Duchy of Parma a ...
– Caroline of Ansbach, queen of England and Ireland (b. 1683) *1742 – Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal and poet (b. 1661) *1758 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish violinist and composer (b. 1694) *1764 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician and theorist (b. 1690) *1773 – Charles Jennens, English landowner and patron of the arts *1778 – Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (b. 1726) *1824 – Carl Axel Arrhenius, Swedish chemist (b. 1757) *1856 – Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775) *
1864 Events January–March * January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song " ...
– Albert Newsam, American painter and illustrator (b. 1809) *
1866 Events January–March * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman tr ...
– Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist (b. 1815) *1880 – Léon Cogniet, French painter (b. 1794) *1882 – Henry Draper, American doctor and astronomer (b. 1837) *1886 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859) *1889 – August Ahlqvist, Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic (b. 1826) *1894 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1829) *1898 – Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (b. 1817)


1901–present

*1903 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, French race car driver (b. 1867) * 1903 – Tom Horn, American scout, cowboy, soldier *1907 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876) *1908 – Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor (b. 1829) * 1908 – Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1868) *
1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
– Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (b. 1828) *1918 – John Bauer (illustrator), John Bauer, Swedish painter and illustrator (b.1882) *1923 – Allen Holubar, American actor and director * 1923 – Denny Barry Irish Republican, Hunger Striker (b. 1883) *1924 – Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the List of persons considered father or mother of a field, father of the Football Association and modern Association football, football (b. 1831) *1925 – Alexandra of Denmark, Queen of the United Kingdom (b. 1844) *1930 – Bill Holland (sprinter), Bill Holland, American track and field athlete (b. 1874) *1933 – Augustine Birrell, British politician (b. 1815) *1934 – Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1872) *1935 – John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, John Jellicoe, Royal Navy officer (b. 1859) *
1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
– Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish mechanic and activist (b. 1896) * 1936 –
José Antonio Primo de Rivera José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella (24 April 1903 – 20 November 1936), often referred to simply as José Antonio, was a Spanish politician who founded the falangist Falange ...
, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1903) *1938 – Maud of Wales, queen of Norway (b. 1869) * 1938 – Edwin Hall, American physicist (b. 1855) *
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *January ...
– Arturo Bocchini, Chief of Police under the Fascism, Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini (b. 1880) * 1940 – Tim Coleman, English footballer (b. 1881) * 1940 – Robert Lane (soccer), Robert Lane, Canadian footballer (b. 1882) *1941 – Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author (b. 1901) *1944 – Maria Jacobini, Italian actress (b. 1892) * 1945 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) *
1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...
– Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (b. 1921) *1950 – Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866) *1952 – Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and politician (b. 1866) *1954 – Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and engineer, founded the Cessna, Cessna Aircraft Corporation (b. 1879) *1957 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter and illustrator (b. 1875) *
1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
– Sylvia Lopez, French model and actress (b. 1933) *1960 – Ya'akov Cahan, Israeli writer and translator (b. 1881) *1972 – Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer and journalist (b. 1910) *1973 – Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1924) *1975 – Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1892) *1976 – Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (b. 1898) *1978 – Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1888) * 1978 – Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian soldier and poet (b. 1890) *
1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...
– John McEwen, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900) *1983 – Marcel Dalio, French actor and playwright (b. 1900) * 1983 – Richard Loo, Chinese-American actor (b. 1903) *1984 – Carlo Campanini, Italian actor, singer and comedian (b. 1904) * 1984 – Kristian Djurhuus, Faroese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1895) * 1984 – Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Pakistani journalist and poet (b. 1911) *
1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
– Lynn Bari, American actress (b. 1913) *
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
– Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (b. 1920) *
1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
– Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1930) *1995 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967) * 1995 – Robie Macauley, American editor, novelist and critic (b. 1919) *1997 – Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (b. 1926) * 1997 – Robert Palmer (writer), Robert Palmer, American saxophonist, producer, and author (b. 1945) *
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
– Roland Alphonso, Jamaican saxophonist (b. 1931) * 1998 – Galina Starovoytova, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1946) *1999 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908) *2000 – Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (networking utility), Ping (b. 1958) * 2000 – Kalle Päätalo, Finnish author (b. 1919) * 2000 – Barbara Sobotta, Polish athlete (b. 1936) *2002 – Kakhi Asatiani, Georgian footballer (b. 1947) *
2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
– Robert Addie, English actor (b. 1960 ) * 2003 – David Dacko, African educator and politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930) * 2003 – Eugene Kleiner, American businessman, co-founded Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (b. 1923) *2004 – Ancel Keys, American physiologist (b. 1904) *2005 – Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (b. 1931) * 2005 – James King (tenor), James King, American tenor (b. 1925) * 2005 – Chris Whitley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960) *2006 – Robert Altman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925) * 2006 – Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician and academic (b. 1950) * 2006 – Donald Hamilton, American author (b. 1916) *2007 – Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, NASA manager (b. 1919) * 2007 – Ian Smith, Rhodesian lieutenant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919) *2009 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925) *2010 – Chalmers Johnson, American author and scholar (b. 1931) *2012 – Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1975) * 2012 – William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (b. 1914) * 2012 – Pete La Roca, American jazz drummer (b. 1938) * 2012 – Ivan Kušan, Croatian writer (b. 1933) *2013 – Sylvia Browne, American author (b. 1936) * 2013 – Dieter Hildebrandt, Polish-German actor and screenwriter (b. 1927) *2014 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (b. 1926) *
2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...
– Keith Michell, Australian actor (b. 1926) * 2015 – Jim Perry (television personality), Jim Perry, American-Canadian singer and game show host (b. 1933) * 2015 – Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Makuuchi#Yokozuna, Yokozuna (b. 1953) *2016 – Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1984) * 2016 – Gene Guarilia, American basketball player (b. 1937) * 2016 – Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Greek statesman (b. 1926) * 2016 – William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1928) *2017 – Peter Berling, German actor, film producer and writer (b. 1934) *2018 – James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress (b. 1929) * 2018 – Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926) *2019 – Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (b. 1923) *2020 – Jan Morris, Welsh historian, author and travel writer (b. 1926)


Holidays and observances

*20-N (Spain) *Africa Industrialization Day (International observance, international) *Black Awareness Day (Brazil) *Children's Day * Christian feast day: **Agapius (died 306), Agapius **Saint Ambrose Traversari, Ambrose Traversari **Ampelus, Ampelus and Caius **Beatification, Blessed Anacleto González Flores, José Sánchez del Río, and companions (Saints of the Cristero War, Martyrs of Cristero War) **Bernward of Hildesheim **Dasius of Durostorum **Edmund the Martyr **Felec of Cornwall, Felec (or Felix) of Cornwall **Gregory of Dekapolis ** Blessed
Josaphata Hordashevska Josaphata Hordashevska, born Michaelina Hordashevska (20 November 1869 – 7 April 1919) an ethnic Ukrainian Greek-Catholic in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Religious Sister, was the first member and co-foundress of the Sisters Servants of Mary ...
(Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) **Solutor, Solutor, Octavius, and Adventor **Theonestus of Vercelli **November 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) * Earliest day on which the Feast of Christ the King can fall, while November 26 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday before Advent. (Roman Catholic Church) *National Sovereignty Day (Argentina) *Revolution Day (Mexico), Revolution Day (Mexico) *Royal Thai Navy, Royal Thai Navy Day (Thailand) *Teachers' Day or ''Ngày nhà giáo Việt Nam'' (
Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
) *Transgender Day of Remembrance (LGBT community)


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