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Day of the year
November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 44 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1603 – English explorer, writer and
courtier Sir
Walter Raleigh goes on trial for
treason .
1775 – The city of
Kuopio, Finland (belonging to
Sweden at this time) is founded by King
Gustav III of Sweden .
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1777 –
Articles of Confederation (United States) are submitted to the states for ratification.
1796 –
French Revolutionary Wars :
Battle of the Bridge of Arcole : French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
1800 – The
United States Congress holds its first
session in Washington, D.C.
1810 – Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the
Anglo-Swedish War , although no fighting ever takes place.
1811 –
José Miguel Carrera , Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of
Chile .
1820 – Captain
Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The
Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)
1831 –
Ecuador and
Venezuela are separated from
Gran Colombia .
1837 –
An earthquake in Valdivia , south-central Chile, causes a tsunami that leads to significant destruction along Japan's coast.
[7]
1856 –
American Old West : On the
Sonoita River in present-day southern
Arizona , the United States Army establishes
Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the
Gadsden Purchase .
1858 – Modified
Julian Day zero.
1858 – The city of
Denver ,
Colorado is founded.
1863 –
American Civil War :
Siege of Knoxville begins:
Confederate forces led by General
James Longstreet place
Knoxville, Tennessee , under
siege .
1869 – In
Egypt , the
Suez Canal , linking the
Mediterranean Sea with the
Red Sea , is inaugurated.
1878 – First assassination attempt against
Umberto I of Italy by anarchist
Giovanni Passannante , who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm.
Prime Minister
Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
1885 –
Serbo-Bulgarian War : The decisive
Battle of Slivnitsa begins.
1894 –
H. H. Holmes , one of the first modern
serial killers , is arrested in
Boston , Massachusetts.
1896 – The
Western Pennsylvania Hockey League , which later became the first
ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players,
began play at
Pittsburgh 's
Schenley Park Casino .
1901–present
1903 – The
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The
Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and
Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
1939 – Nine
Czech students are executed as a response to anti-
Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of
Jan Opletal . All Czech universities are shut down and more than 1,200 students sent to
concentration camps . Since this event,
International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.
1940 – The
Tartu Art Museum was established in
Tartu ,
Estonia .
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1947 – The
Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-
Communist loyalty oath.
1947 – American scientists
John Bardeen and
Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the
transistor , a key element for the
electronics revolution of the
20th century .
1950 – Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the
14th Dalai Lama .
1950 –
United Nations Security Council Resolution 89 relating to the Palestine Question is adopted.
1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the
Blasket Islands ,
County Kerry , Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
1957 –
Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of
British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to
Copenhagen Airport . The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.
1962 –
President
John F. Kennedy dedicates
Washington Dulles International Airport , serving the Washington, D.C., region.
1967 –
Vietnam War : Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
1968 – British European Airways introduces the
BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
1968 – Viewers of the
Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when
NBC broadcasts
Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
1969 –
Cold War : Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in
Helsinki , Finland to begin
SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of
strategic weapons on both sides.
1970 –
Vietnam War : Lieutenant
William Calley goes on trial for the
My Lai Massacre .
1970 –
Luna programme : The Soviet Union lands
Lunokhod 1 on
Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the
Moon . This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting
Luna 17 spacecraft.
1973 –
Watergate scandal : In
Orlando, Florida , U.S. President
Richard Nixon tells 400
Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1973 – The
Athens Polytechnic uprising against the
military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
1983 – The
Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
1986 – The flight crew of
Japan Airlines Flight 1628 are involved in a
UFO sighting incident while flying over Alaska.
[9]
1989 – Cold War:
Velvet Revolution begins: In
Czechoslovakia , a student demonstration in
Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
1990 – Fugendake, part of the
Mount Unzen volcanic complex,
Nagasaki Prefecture , Japan, becomes active again and erupts.
1993 –
United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the
North American Free Trade Agreement .
1993 – In Nigeria, General
Sani Abacha ousts the government of
Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.
1997 – In
Luxor , Egypt, 62 people are killed by six
Islamic militants outside the
Temple of Hatshepsut , known as
Luxor massacre .
2000 – A catastrophic
landslide in
Log pod Mangartom ,
Slovenia , kills seven, and causes millions of
SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
2000 –
Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of
Peru .
2003 – Actor
Arnold Schwarzenegger ’s tenure as the
governor of California began.
[10]
2012 – At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in
an accident at a railway crossing near
Manfalut ,
Egypt .
2013 – Fifty people are killed when
Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
2013 – A rare late-season
tornado outbreak strikes the
Midwest .
Illinois and
Indiana are most affected with
tornado reports as far north as lower
Michigan . In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.
2019 – The first known case of
COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in
Wuhan, Hubei Province , China.
[11]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1602 –
Agnes of Jesus , French Catholic nun (d. 1634)
1612 –
Dorgon , Chinese prince and regent (d. 1650)
1681 –
Pierre François le Courayer , French theologian and author (d. 1776)
1685 –
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes , Canadian commander and explorer (d. 1749)
1729 –
Maria Antonia Ferdinanda , Sardinian queen consort (d. 1785)
[16]
1749 –
Nicolas Appert , French chef, invented
canning (d. 1841)
[17]
1753 –
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg , American pastor and botanist (d. 1815)
[18]
1755 –
Louis XVIII , king of France (d. 1824)
1765 –
Jacques MacDonald , French general (d. 1840)
1769 –
Charlotte Georgine , duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
1790 –
August Ferdinand Möbius , German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1868)
1793 –
Charles Lock Eastlake , English painter, historian, and academic (d. 1865)
1816 –
August Wilhelm Ambros , Austrian composer and historian (d. 1876)
1827 –
Petko Slaveykov , Bulgarian journalist and poet (d. 1895)
1835 –
Andrew L. Harris , American general and politician, 44th
Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
1854 –
Hubert Lyautey , French general and politician,
French Minister of War (d. 1934)
1857 –
Joseph Babinski , French neurologist and academic (d. 1932)
1866 –
Voltairine de Cleyre , American author and activist (d. 1912)
[19]
1868 –
Korbinian Brodmann , German neurologist and academic (d. 1918)
1877 –
Frank Calder , English-Canadian journalist and businessman (d. 1943)
1878 –
Grace Abbott , American social worker (d. 1939)
[20]
1878 –
Augustus Goessling , American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1963)
1886 –
Walter Terence Stace , English-American philosopher, academic, and civil servant (d. 1967)
1887 –
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein , English field marshal (d. 1976)
1891 –
Lester Allen , American screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director (d. 1949)
1895 –
Gregorio López , Mexican journalist, author, and poet (d. 1966)
1896 –
Lev Vygotsky , Belarusian-Russian psychologist and philosopher (d. 1934)
1897 –
Frank Fay , American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1961)
1899 –
Douglas Shearer , Canadian-American engineer (d. 1971)
1901–present
1901 –
Walter Hallstein , German academic and politician, first
President of the European Commission (d. 1982)
1901 –
Lee Strasberg , Ukrainian-American actor and director (d. 1982)
1902 –
Eugene Wigner , Hungarian physicist and mathematician,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1904 –
Isamu Noguchi , American sculptor and architect (d. 1988)
1905 –
Astrid of Sweden (d. 1935)
[21]
1905 –
Mischa Auer , Russian-American actor (d. 1967)
1905 –
Arthur Chipperfield , Australian cricketer (d. 1987)
1906 –
Soichiro Honda , Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the
Honda Motor Company (d. 1991)
1906 –
Rollie Stiles , American baseball player (d. 2007)
1907 –
Israel Regardie , English occultist and author (d. 1985)
1911 –
Christian Fouchet , French lawyer and politician,
French Minister of the Interior (d. 1974)
1916 –
Shelby Foote , American historian and author (d. 2005)
1917 –
Ruth Aaronson Bari , American mathematician (d. 2005)
[22]
1919 –
Kim Heungsou , Korean painter and educator (d. 2014)
1920 –
Camillo Felgen , Luxembourgian singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1920 –
Gemini Ganesan , Indian actor and director (d. 2002)
1921 –
Albert Bertelsen , Danish painter and illustrator (d. 2019)
1922 –
Stanley Cohen , American biochemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)
1922 –
Jack Froggatt , English footballer (d. 1993)
1923 –
Hubertus Brandenburg , Swedish bishop (d. 2009)
1923 –
Mike Garcia , American baseball player (d. 1986)
1923 –
Aristides Pereira , Cape Verdean politician, first
President of Cape Verde (d. 2011)
1923 –
Bert Sutcliffe , New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 2001)
1925 –
Jean Faut , American baseball player and bowler (d. 2023)
1925 –
Rock Hudson , American actor (d. 1985)
[23]
1925 –
Charles Mackerras , American-Australian
oboe player and conductor (d. 2010)
1927 –
Robert Drasnin , American clarinet player and composer (d. 2015)
1927 –
Fenella Fielding , English actress (d. 2018)
1927 –
Nicholas Taylor , Canadian geologist, businessman, and politician (d. 2020)
[24]
1928 –
Arman , French-American painter and sculptor (d. 2005)
1928 –
Rance Howard , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1928 –
Colin McDonald , Australian cricketer (d. 2021)
1929 –
Gorō Naya , Japanese actor and director (d. 2013)
1929 –
Norm Zauchin , American baseball player (d. 1999)
1930 –
Bob Mathias , American decathlete, actor, and politician (d. 2006)
1932 –
Jeremy Black , English admiral (d. 2015)
1933 –
Dan Osinski , American baseball player (d. 2013)
1933 –
Orlando Peña , Cuban-American baseball player and scout
1934 –
Jim Inhofe , American soldier and politician, senior senator of Oklahoma
1934 –
Anthony King , Canadian-English
Psephologist and academic (d. 2017)
1934 –
Terry Rand , American basketball player (d. 2014)
1935 –
Bobby Joe Conrad , American football player
1935 –
Toni Sailer , Austrian skier and actor (d. 2009)
1936 –
Crispian Hollis , English Roman Catholic bishop
1937 –
Peter Cook , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
1938 –
Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank , Scottish general
1938 –
Gordon Lightfoot , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2023)
[25]
1939 –
Auberon Waugh , English journalist and author (d. 2001)
1940 –
Luke Kelly , Irish singer,
folk musician and actor (d. 1984)
[26]
1942 –
Derek Clayton , English-Australian runner
1942 –
Partha Dasgupta , Bangladeshi economist and academic
1942 –
Bob Gaudio , American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1942 –
Lesley Rees , English endocrinologist and academic
1942 –
István Rosztóczy , Hungarian-Japanese microbiologist and physician (d. 1993)
1942 –
Martin Scorsese , American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
[27]
1943 –
Lauren Hutton , American model and actress
[27]
1944 –
Jim Boeheim , American basketball player and coach
[23]
1944 –
Malcolm Bruce , English-Scottish journalist, academic, and politician
1944 –
Gene Clark , American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1991)
1944 –
Danny DeVito , American actor, director, and producer
[27]
1944 –
Rem Koolhaas , Dutch architect and academic, designed the
Seattle Central Library
1944 –
Lorne Michaels , Canadian-American screenwriter and producer, created
Saturday Night Live
[27]
1944 –
Tom Seaver , American baseball pitcher (d. 2020)
[23]
1944 –
Sammy Younge Jr. , American civil rights activist (d. 1966)
1945 –
Lesley Abdela , English journalist and activist
1945 –
Jeremy Hanley , English accountant and politician,
British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
1945 –
Elvin Hayes , American basketball player and sportscaster
1945 –
Roland Joffé , English-French director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 –
Abdelmadjid Tebboune , Algerian politician, 8th
President of Algeria
[23]
1946 –
Martin Barre , English guitarist and songwriter
1946 –
Terry Branstad , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th
Governor of Iowa
1946 –
Petra Burka , Dutch-Canadian figure skater and coach
1947 –
Rod Clements , British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist
1948 –
Howard Dean , American physician and politician, 79th
Governor of Vermont
1948 –
East Bay Ray , American guitarist
1949 –
John Boehner , American businessman and politician, 53rd
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
[23]
1949 –
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng , Vietnamese soldier and politician, eighth
Prime Minister of Vietnam
1949 –
Michael Wenden , Australian swimmer
1950 –
Roland Matthes , German swimmer (d. 2019)
1951 –
Butch Davis , American football player and coach
1951 –
Werner Hoyer , German economist and politician
1951 –
Dean Paul Martin , American singer, actor, and pilot (d. 1987)
1951 –
Stephen Root , American actor
[27]
1951 –
Jack Vettriano , Scottish painter and philanthropist
1952 –
David Emanuel , Welsh fashion designer
1952 –
Ties Kruize , Dutch field hockey player
1952 –
Runa Laila , Bangladeshi singer
1952 –
Cyril Ramaphosa , South African businessman and politician, fifth
President of South Africa
1953 –
Babis Tennes , Greek footballer and manager
1954 –
Chopper Read , Australian criminal and author (d. 2013)
1955 –
Peter Cox , English singer-songwriter
1955 –
Yolanda King , American actress and activist (d. 2007)
[28]
1955 –
Dennis Maruk ,
Ukrainian-Canadian ice hockey player
1956 –
Angelika Machinek , German glider pilot (d. 2006)
[29]
1956 –
Jim McGovern , Scottish politician
1957 –
Jim Babjak , American guitarist and songwriter
1958 –
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , American actress and singer
[27]
1959 –
Terry Fenwick , English footballer and manager
1959 –
William R. Moses , American actor and producer
[27]
1959 –
Jaanus Tamkivi , Estonian politician
1960 –
Michael Hertwig , German footballer and manager
1960 –
Jonathan Ross , English actor and talk show host
1960 –
RuPaul , American
drag queen performer, actor, and singer
[27]
1960 –
Steve Stipanovich , American basketball player
[30]
1961 –
Robert Stethem , American soldier (d. 1985)
1961 –
Pat Toomey , American businessman and politician
1962 –
Dédé Fortin , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2000)
1963 –
Adrian Branch , American basketball player and sportscaster
[31]
1963 –
Daniel Scott , American novelist and short story writer
1963 –
Dylan Walsh , American actor
[27]
1964 –
Susan Rice , American academic and politician, 24th
United States National Security Advisor
[23]
1964 –
Mitch Williams , American baseball player and sportscaster
1965 –
Darren Beadman , Australian jockey
1965 –
Amanda Brown , Australian violinist and composer
1966 –
Ben Allison , American bassist and composer
1966 –
Jeff Buckley , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
[23]
1966 –
Kate Ceberano , Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1966 –
Richard Fortus , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1966 –
Daisy Fuentes , Cuban-American model and actress
[27]
1966 –
Sophie Marceau , French actress, director, and screenwriter
[27]
1966 –
Alvin Patrimonio , Filipino basketball player and manager
1967 –
Tab Benoit , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967 –
Ronnie DeVoe , American singer, producer, and actor
[27]
1968 –
Sean Miller , American basketball player and coach
1969 –
Ryōtarō Okiayu , Japanese voice actor and singer
1969 –
Jean-Michel Saive , Belgian table tennis player
1969 –
Rebecca Walker , American author
1970 –
Paul Allender , English guitarist and songwriter
1970 –
Tania Zaetta , Australian actress
1971 –
David Ramsey , American actor
[27]
1971 –
Tonje Sagstuen , Norwegian handball player, journalist, newspaper editor, and gambling executive
[32]
1972 –
Kimya Dawson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 –
Joanne Goode , English badminton player
1972 –
Lorraine Pascale , English model and chef
1972 –
Leonard Roberts , American actor
1973 –
Andreas Hedlund , Swedish singer-songwriter and producer
1973 –
Eli Marrero , Cuban baseball player, coach, and manager
1973 –
Bernd Schneider , German footballer
1973 –
Alexei Urmanov , Russian figure skater and coach
1974 –
Eunice Barber , Sierra Leonean-French heptathlete and long jumper
1974 –
Leslie Bibb , American actress and producer
1974 –
Berto Romero , Spanish comedian and actor
1975 –
Kinga Baranowska , Polish mountaineer
1975 –
Lee Carseldine , Australian cricketer
1975 –
Jerome James , American basketball player
1976 –
Brandon Call , American actor
[27]
1976 –
Diane Neal , American actress and director
[33]
1977 –
Ryk Neethling , South African swimmer
1978 –
Glen Air , Australian rugby league player
1978 –
Zoë Bell , New Zealand actress and stuntwoman
1978 –
Tom Ellis , Welsh actor
[34]
1978 –
Rachel McAdams , Canadian actress
[27]
1978 –
Reggie Wayne , American football player
1979 –
Matthew Spring , English footballer
1980 –
Jay Bradley , American wrestler
1981 –
Sarah Harding , English singer, dancer, and actress (d. 2021)
[35]
1981 –
Doug Walker , American actor, comedian, film critic, internet personality, and filmmaker
1982 –
Katie Feenstra-Mattera , American basketball player
[36]
1982 –
Yusuf Pathan , Indian cricketer
1982 –
Hollie Smith , New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
1983 –
Viva Bianca , Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter
1983 –
Ioannis Bourousis , Greek basketball player
1983 –
Ryan Bradley , American figure skater
1983 –
Ryan Braun , American baseball player
1983 –
Trevor Crowe , American baseball player
1983 –
Jodie Henry , Australian swimmer
1983 –
Harry Lloyd , English actor, producer, and screenwriter
1983 –
Nick Markakis , American baseball player
1983 –
Scott Moore , American baseball player
1983 –
Christopher Paolini , American author
[23]
1984 –
Amanda Evora , American figure skater
1984 –
Park Han-byul , South Korean model and actress
1985 –
Luis Aguiar , Uruguayan footballer
1985 –
Sékou Camara , Malian footballer (d. 2013)
1985 –
Carolina Neurath , Swedish journalist
1986 –
Everth Cabrera , Nicaraguan baseball player
1986 –
Fabio Concas , Italian footballer
1986 –
Aaron Finch , Australian cricketer
[37]
1986 –
Nani , Portuguese footballer
1986 –
Greg Rutherford , English long jumper
1987 –
Justine Michelle Cain , English actress
1987 –
Craig Noone , English footballer
1987 –
Gemma Spofforth , English swimmer
1988 –
Justin Cooper , American actor
[27]
1989 –
Ryan Griffin , American football player
1989 –
Seth Lugo , American baseball player
[38]
1989 –
Roman Zozulya , Ukrainian footballer
1990 –
Elías Díaz , Venezuelan baseball player
[39]
1992 –
Damiris Dantas , Brazilian basketball player
[40]
1992 –
Katarzyna Kawa , Polish tennis player
[41]
1992 –
Danielle Kettlewell , Australian synchronised swimmer
1993 –
Taylor Gold , American snowboarder
1994 –
Raquel Castro , American actress and singer
[27]
1995 –
Elise Mertens , Belgian tennis player
[42]
1995 –
Panashe Muzambe , Scottish rugby union player
[43]
1996 –
Minkah Fitzpatrick , American football player
[44]
1996 –
Jamayne Taunoa-Brown , Australian rugby league player
[45]
1997 –
Dragan Bender , Croatian basketball player
[46]
1997 –
Julian Ryerson , Norwegian footballer
[47]
2000 –
Joanne Züger , Swiss tennis player
[48]
2004 –
Linda Nosková , Czech tennis player
[49]
[50]
Deaths
Pre-1600
375 –
Valentinian I , Roman emperor (b. 321)
[51]
594 –
Gregory of Tours , Roman bishop and saint (b. 538)
[52]
641 –
Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
885 –
Liutgard of Saxony (b. 845)
935 –
Chen Jinfeng , empress of
Min (b. 893)
935 –
Wang Yanjun , emperor of Min (
Ten Kingdoms )
1104 –
Nikephoros Melissenos , Byzantine general (b. 1045)
1188 –
Usama ibn Munqidh , Arab chronicler (b. 1095)
1231 –
Elizabeth of Hungary (b. 1207)
[53]
1307 –
Hethum II, King of Armenia (b. 1266)
1307 –
Leo III, King of Armenia (b. 1289)
1326 –
Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel , English politician (b. 1285)
1417 –
Gazi Evrenos , Ottoman general (b. 1288)
1492 –
Jami , Persian poet and saint (b. 1414)
1494 –
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , Italian philosopher and author (b. 1463)
1525 –
Eleanor of Viseu , queen of
João II of Portugal (b. 1458)
1558 –
Mary I of England (b. 1516)
1558 –
Reginald Pole , English cardinal and academic (b. 1500)
1558 –
Hugh Aston , English composer (b. 1485)
1562 –
Antoine of Navarre (b. 1518)
1592 –
John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 –
Kuki Yoshitaka , Japanese commander (b. 1542)
1601–1900
1624 –
Jakob Böhme ,
German mystic (b. 1575)
1632 –
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim , Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
1643 –
Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant , French general (b. 1602)
1648 –
Thomas Ford , English viol player, composer, and poet (b. 1580)
1665 –
John Earle , English bishop (b. 1601)
1668 –
Joseph Alleine , English pastor and author (b. 1634)
1690 –
Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier , French general and politician (b. 1610)
1708 –
Ludolf Bakhuizen , German-Dutch painter (b. 1631)
1713 –
Abraham van Riebeeck , South African-Indonesian merchant and politician,
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
1747 –
Alain-René Lesage , French author and playwright (b. 1668)
1768 –
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle , English lawyer and politician,
Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1693)
[54]
1776 –
James Ferguson , Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1710)
1780 –
Bernardo Bellotto , Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1720)
1796 –
Catherine the Great , of Russia (b. 1729)
1808 –
David Zeisberger , Czech-American pastor and missionary (b. 1721)
1812 –
John Walter , English Insurance underwriter and founder of
The Times newspaper (b. 1738/1739)
1818 –
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1744)
1835 –
Carle Vernet , French painter and lithographer (b. 1758)
1865 –
James McCune Smith , American physician and author (b. 1813)
1897 –
George Hendric Houghton , American pastor and theologian (b. 1820)
1901–present
1902 –
Hugh Price Hughes , Welsh theologian and educator (b. 1847)
1905 –
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg , (b. 1817)
1910 –
Ralph Johnstone , American pilot (b. 1886)
1917 –
Auguste Rodin , French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1840)
1922 –
Robert Comtesse , Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th
President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1847)
1923 –
Eduard Bornhöhe , Estonian author (b. 1862)
1924 –
Gregory VII of Constantinople (b. 1850)
1928 –
Lala Lajpat Rai , Indian author and politician (b. 1865)
1929 –
Herman Hollerith , American statistician and businessman (b. 1860)
1932 –
Charles W. Chesnutt , American lawyer, author, and activist (b. 1858)
1936 –
Ernestine Schumann-Heink , German-American singer (b. 1861)
1937 –
Jack Worrall , Australian footballer, cricketer, and coach (b. 1860)
1938 –
Ante Trumbić , Croatian lawyer and politician, 20th
Mayor of Split (b. 1864)
1940 –
Eric Gill , English sculptor and typeface designer (b. 1882)
1940 –
Raymond Pearl , American biologist and academic (b. 1879)
1947 –
Victor Serge , Russian historian and author (b. 1890)
1954 –
Yitzhak Lamdan , Russian-Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1899)
1955 –
James P. Johnson , American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
1958 –
Mort Cooper , American baseball player (b. 1913)
1959 –
Heitor Villa-Lobos , Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1887)
1968 –
Mervyn Peake , English poet, author, and illustrator (b. 1911)
1968 –
Abdul Wahed Bokainagari , Bengali politician (b. 1876)
[55]
1971 –
Gladys Cooper , English actress (b. 1888)
1973 –
Mirra Alfassa , French-Indian spiritual leader (b. 1878)
1976 –
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani , Bangladeshi scholar and politician (b. 1880)
1979 –
John Glascock , English singer and bass player (b. 1951)
1982 –
Eduard Tubin , Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1905)
1986 –
Georges Besse , French businessman (b. 1927)
1987 –
Paul Derringer , American baseball player (b. 1906)
1988 –
Sheilah Graham Westbrook , English-American actress, author, and journalist (b. 1904)
1989 –
Costabile Farace , American criminal (b. 1960)
1990 –
Robert Hofstadter , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1992 –
Audre Lorde , American poet, essayist, memoirist, and activist (b. 1934)
1993 –
Gérard D. Levesque , Canadian lawyer and politician, fifth
Deputy Premier of Quebec (b. 1926)
1995 –
Alan Hull , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
1998 –
Kea Bouman , Dutch tennis player (b. 1903)
1998 –
Esther Rolle , American actress (b. 1920)
2000 –
Louis Néel , French physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
[56]
2001 –
Michael Karoli , German guitarist and songwriter (b. 1948)
2001 –
Harrison A. Williams , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1919)
2002 –
Abba Eban , South African-Israeli soldier and politician, third
Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1915)
2002 –
Frank McCarthy , American painter and illustrator (b. 1924)
2003 –
Surjit Bindrakhia , Indian singer (b. 1962)
2003 –
Arthur Conley , American-Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2004 –
Mikael Ljungberg , Swedish wrestler and manager (b. 1970)
2004 –
Alexander Ragulin , Russian ice hockey player (b. 1941)
2005 –
Marek Perepeczko , Polish actor and director (b. 1942)
2006 –
Ruth Brown , American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1928)
2006 –
Ferenc Puskás , Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
2006 –
Bo Schembechler , American football player and coach (b. 1929)
2007 –
Aarne Hermlin , Estonian chess player (b. 1940)
2008 –
George Stephen Morrison , American admiral (b. 1919)
2008 –
Pete Newell , American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)
2011 –
Kurt Budke , American basketball player and coach (b. 1961)
2012 –
Ponty Chadha , Indian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1957)
2012 –
Armand Desmet , Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
2012 –
Lea Gottlieb , Hungarian-Israeli fashion designer, founded the
Gottex Company (b. 1918)
2012 –
Freddy Schmidt , American baseball player (b. 1916)
2012 –
Billy Scott , American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
2012 –
Bal Thackeray , Indian cartoonist and politician (b. 1926)
2012 –
Margaret Yorke , English author (b. 1924)
2013 –
Zeke Bella , American baseball player (b. 1930)
2013 –
Alfred Blake , English colonel and lawyer (b. 1915)
2013 –
Syd Field , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1935)
2013 –
Doris Lessing , British novelist, poet, playwright,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
2013 –
Alex Marques , Portuguese footballer (b. 1993)
2013 –
Mary Nesbitt Wisham , American baseball player (b. 1925)
2014 –
John T. Downey , American
CIA agent and judge (b. 1930)
2014 –
Bill Frenzel , American lieutenant and politician (b. 1928)
2014 –
Ray Sadecki , American baseball player (b. 1940)
2014 –
Patrick Suppes , American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1922)
2015 –
John Leahy , English lawyer and diplomat,
High Commissioner to Australia (b. 1928)
2015 –
Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi , Iranian poet and songwriter (b. 1926)
2019 –
Tuka Rocha , Brazilian race car driver (b. 1982)
[57]
2021 –
Young Dolph , American rapper (b. 1985)
[58]
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