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Day of the year
November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 53 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1602 – The
Bodleian Library at the
University of Oxford is opened to the public.
1605 –
Robert Catesby , ringleader of the
Gunpowder Plotters , is killed.
1614 – Japanese
daimyō
Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shōgun
Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian.
1620 – The
Battle of White Mountain takes place near
Prague , ending in a decisive
Catholic victory in only two hours.
1644 – The
Shunzhi Emperor , the third emperor of the
Qing dynasty , is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the
Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
1745 –
Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of approximately 5,000 that would later participate in the
Battle of Culloden .
1837 –
Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes
Mount Holyoke College .
1861 –
American Civil War : The "
Trent Affair ": The
USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two
Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
1889 –
Montana is admitted as the 41st
U.S. state .
1892 – The
New Orleans general strike begins, uniting
black and
white American
trade unionists in a successful four-day general
strike action for the first time.
1895 – While experimenting with electricity,
Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the
X-ray .
1901–present
1901 –
Gospel riots : Bloody clashes take place in
Athens following the translation of the
Gospels into
demotic Greek .
1917 – The first
Council of People's Commissars is formed, including
Vladimir Lenin ,
Leon Trotsky and
Joseph Stalin .
1919 –
Eichenfeld massacre : Members of the
Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine murder 136
Mennonite colonists at Jaskyowo, initiating a series of massacres that resulted in the deaths of 827 Ukrainian Mennonites.
[2]
1920 –
Rupert Bear , illustrated by
Mary Tourtel makes his first appearance in print.
[3]
1923 –
Beer Hall Putsch : In
Munich ,
Adolf Hitler leads the
Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1932 –
Franklin D. Roosevelt is
elected as the 32nd
President of the United States , defeating incumbent president
Herbert Hoover .
1933 –
Great Depression :
New Deal : US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the
Civil Works Administration , an organization designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed.
1936 –
Spanish Civil War :
Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture
Madrid , but begin the three-year
Siege of Madrid afterwards.
1937 – The
Nazi exhibition
Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in
Munich .
1939 –
Venlo Incident : Two British agents of
SIS are captured by the Germans.
1939 – In
Munich ,
Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of
Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the
Beer Hall Putsch .
1940 –
Greco-Italian War : The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the
Battle of Elaia–Kalamas .
1942 –
World War II :
French Resistance coup in
Algiers , in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize
Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of
Operation Torch in Algiers.
1950 –
Korean War :
United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an
F-80 Shooting Star , shoots down two
North Korean
MiG-15s in the first
jet aircraft -to-jet aircraft
dogfight in history.
1957 –
Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between
San Francisco and
Honolulu . Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
1957 –
Operation Grapple X, Round C1 : The United Kingdom conducts its first successful
hydrogen bomb test over
Kiritimati in the Pacific.
1960 –
John F. Kennedy is
elected as the 35th President of the United States, defeating incumbent
Vice President
Richard Nixon , who would later be elected president in
1968 and
1972 .
1963 –
Finnair 's
Aero Flight 217 crashes near
Mariehamn Airport in
Jomala ,
Åland , killing 22 people.
[4]
1965 – The
British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of
Chagos Archipelago ,
Aldabra ,
Farquhar and
Des Roches islands.
1965 – The
Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom for almost all crimes.
1965 – The
173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200
Viet Cong in
Operation Hump during the
Vietnam War , while the
1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the
Battle of Gang Toi .
1965 –
American Airlines Flight 383 crashes in
Constance, Kentucky , killing 58.
[5]
1966 – Former
Massachusetts Attorney General
Edward Brooke becomes the first
African American
elected to the
United States Senate since
Reconstruction .
1966 – U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an
antitrust exemption allowing the
National Football League to
merge with the upstart
American Football League .
1968 – The
Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
1972 – American pay television network
Home Box Office (HBO) launches.
1973 – The right ear of
John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.
1977 –
Manolis Andronikos , a Greek archaeologist and professor at the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , discovers the tomb of
Philip II of Macedon at
Vergina .
1981 –
Aeroméxico Flight 110 crashes near
Zihuatanejo , Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
[6]
1983 –
TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from
Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board.
UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.
[7]
1987 –
Remembrance Day bombing : A
Provisional IRA bomb explodes in
Enniskillen ,
Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
1988 – U.S.
Vice President
George H. W. Bush is
elected as the 41st president.
1994 –
Republican Revolution : On the night of the
1994 United States midterm elections ,
Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of
Congress (54 seats in the
House and eight seats in the
Senate , additionally), thus bringing to a close four decades of
Democratic domination.
1997 –
Eritrea adopts the
nakfa as its official currency.
[8]
1999 – Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife
Sharee Miller , who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
2002 –
Iraq disarmament crisis :
UN Security Council Resolution 1441 : The
United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on
Iraq , forcing
Saddam Hussein to
disarm or face "serious consequences".
2004 –
Iraq War : More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of
Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of
Fallujah .
2006 –
Israeli-Palestinian conflict : The
Israeli Defense Force kill 19
Palestinian civilians in their homes during the
shelling of Beit Hanoun .
[9]
2011 – The
potentially hazardous asteroid
2005 YU55 passes 0.85
lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its
brightness since
2010 XC15 in 1976.
2013 –
Typhoon Haiyan , one of the
strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the
Visayas region of the
Philippines ; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013
USD ) in damage.
2016 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly announces
the withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes.
[10]
2016 –
Donald Trump is
elected the
45th President of the United States, defeating
Hillary Clinton , the first woman ever to receive a major party's
nomination .
2020 – Myanmar holds the
2020 general election , re-electing a government led by the
National League for Democracy , which is deposed by the
Burmese military the following February during the
2021 Myanmar coup d'état .
[11]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1622 –
Charles X Gustav of Sweden (d. 1660)
1656 –
Edmond Halley , English astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)
[14]
1706 –
Johann Ulrich von Cramer , German philosopher and judge (d. 1772)
1710 –
Sarah Fielding , English author (d. 1768)
1715 –
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (d. 1797)
1723 –
John Byron , English admiral and politician, 24th
Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1786)
1725 –
Johann George Tromlitz , German flute player and composer (d. 1805)
1738 –
Barbara Catharina Mjödh , Finnish poet (d. 1776)
1739 –
Henrik Gabriel Porthan , Finnish professor and historian (d. 1804)
[15]
1763 –
Otto Wilhelm Masing , German-Estonian linguist and author (d. 1832)
1768 –
Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1772 –
William Wirt , American lawyer and politician, 9th
United States Attorney General (d. 1834)
1788 –
Mihály Bertalanits , Slovene poet and educator (d. 1853)
1831 –
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton , English poet and diplomat, 30th
Governor-General of India (d. 1880)
1836 –
Milton Bradley , American businessman, founded the
Milton Bradley Company (d. 1911)
1837 –
Ilia Chavchavadze , Georgian journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1907)
1847 –
Jean Casimir-Perier , French politician, 6th
President of France (d. 1907)
1847 –
Bram Stoker , Irish novelist and critic, created
Count Dracula (d. 1912)
1848 –
Gottlob Frege , German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1925)
1854 –
Johannes Rydberg , Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1919)
1855 –
Nikolaos Triantafyllakos , Greek politician,
Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1939)
1866 –
Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin , English businessman, founded the
Austin Motor Company (d. 1941)
1868 –
Felix Hausdorff , German mathematician and academic (d. 1942)
1878 –
Dorothea Bate , English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist (d. 1951)
1881 –
Clarence Gagnon , Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1942)
1883 –
Arnold Bax , English composer and poet (d. 1953)
1883 –
Charles Demuth , American painter (d. 1935)
1884 –
Hermann Rorschach , Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1922)
1885 –
George Bouzianis , Greek painter (d. 1959)
1885 –
Hans Cloos , German geologist and academic (d. 1951)
1885 –
Emil Fahrenkamp , German architect and academic (d. 1966)
1885 –
Tomoyuki Yamashita , Japanese general and politician, 4th
Japanese Military Governors of the Philippines (d. 1946)
1888 –
David Monrad Johansen , Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1974)
1893 –
Prajadhipok , Thai king (d. 1941)
1896 –
Erika Abels d'Albert , Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1975)
1896 –
Bucky Harris , American baseball player and manager (d. 1977)
1896 –
Marie Prevost , Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1937)
1897 –
Dorothy Day , American journalist and activist (d. 1980)
1900 –
Margaret Mitchell , American journalist and author (d. 1949)
1901–present
1902 –
A. J. M. Smith , Canadian poet and anthologist (d. 1980)
[16]
1904 –
Cedric Belfrage , English-American journalist and author, co-founded the
National Guardian (d. 1990)
1908 –
Martha Gellhorn , American journalist and author (d. 1998)
1910 –
James McCormack , American general (d. 1975)
1911 –
Al Brosch , American golfer (d. 1975)
1911 –
Robert Jackson , Australian public servant and diplomat (d. 1991)
1912 –
June Havoc , American actress, singer and dancer (d. 2010)
1912 –
Stylianos Pattakos , Greek general and politician,
Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016)
1913 –
Lou Ambers , American boxer (d. 1995)
1914 –
Norman Lloyd , American actor, director, and producer (d. 2021)
1916 –
Clinton Jones , American Episcopal priest and gay rights activist (d. 2006)
[17]
1918 –
Kazuo Sakamaki , Japanese soldier (d. 1999)
1918 –
Hermann Zapf , German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015)
1919 –
James S. Ackerman , American historian and academic (d. 2016)
1920 –
Sitara Devi , Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2014)
1920 –
Esther Rolle , American actress (d. 1998)
[18]
1920 –
Eugênio Sales , Brazilian cardinal (d. 2012)
1921 –
Douglas Townsend , American composer, musicologist, and academic (d. 2012)
1922 –
Christiaan Barnard , South African surgeon and academic (d. 2001)
[18]
1922 –
Thea D. Hodge , American computer scientist and academic (d. 2008)
1922 –
Ademir Marques de Menezes , Brazilian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1996)
1923 –
Yisrael Friedman , Romanian-born Israeli rabbi (d. 2017)
1923 –
Jack Kilby , American physicist and engineer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
1924 –
Johnny Bower , Canadian ice hockey player and soldier (d. 2017)
1924 –
Joe Flynn , American actor (d. 1974)
1924 –
Robert V. Hogg , American statistician and academic (d. 2014)
1924 –
Victorinus Youn Kong-hi , South Korean archbishop
1924 –
Dmitry Yazov ,
Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 2020)
1926 –
Darleane C. Hoffman , American nuclear chemist
1927 –
L. K. Advani , Indian lawyer and politician, 7th
Deputy Prime Minister of India
1927 –
Chris Connor , American singer (d. 2009)
1927 –
Ken Dodd , English singer and comedian (d. 2018)
1927 –
Nguyễn Khánh , Vietnamese general and politician, 4th
President of the Republic of Vietnam (d. 2013)
1927 –
Patti Page , American singer and actress (d. 2013)
1928 –
Des Corcoran , Australian politician, 37th
Premier of South Australia (d. 2004)
1929 –
Bobby Bowden , American football player and coach (d. 2021)
[18]
1929 –
António Castanheira Neves , Portuguese philosopher and academic
1931 –
Jim Redman , English-Rhodesian motorcycle racer
1931 –
Morley Safer , Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 2016)
[18]
1931 –
Paolo Taviani , Italian film director and screenwriter
1932 –
Stéphane Audran , French actress (d.
2018 )
1932 –
Ben Bova , American journalist and author (d. 2020)
[18]
1933 –
Peter Arundell , English race car driver (d. 2009)
1935 –
Alain Delon , French-Swiss actor, producer, screenwriter
1935 –
Stratos Dionysiou , Greek singer-songwriter (d. 1990)
1935 –
Alfonso López Trujillo , Colombian cardinal (d. 2008)
1936 –
Virna Lisi , Italian actress (d. 2014)
[18]
1938 –
Driss Basri , Moroccan police officer and politician (d. 2007)
1938 –
Satch Sanders , American basketball player
[19]
1938 –
Richard Stoker , English composer, author, and poet (d. 2021)
1939 –
Meg Wynn Owen , British actress (d. 2022)
1941 –
Nerys Hughes , Welsh actress
1942 –
Angel Cordero Jr. , Puerto Rican-American jockey
1942 –
Sandro Mazzola , Italian footballer and sportscaster
1943 –
Martin Peters , English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
1944 –
Bonnie Bramlett , American singer and actress
[20]
1945 –
Arduino Cantafora , Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and author
1945 –
Joseph James DeAngelo , American serial killer
1945 –
John Farrar , Australian-born music producer, songwriter, arranger, singer, and guitarist
1945 –
Don Murray , American drummer (d. 1996)
1945 –
Vincent Nichols , English cardinal
1945 –
Arnold Rosner , American composer (d. 2013)
1946 –
Guus Hiddink , Dutch footballer and manager
1946 –
Roy Wood , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947 –
Michael Perham , English bishop (d. 2017)
1947 –
Minnie Riperton , American singer-songwriter (d. 1979)
[18]
1947 –
Margaret Rhea Seddon , American physician and astronaut
1947 –
Lewis Yocum , American physician and surgeon (d. 2013)
1948 –
Dale Gardner , American captain and astronaut (d. 2014)
1949 –
Wayne LaPierre , American businessman, author, and activist
[18]
1949 –
Bonnie Raitt , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[20]
1950 –
Mary Hart , American journalist and actress
[20]
1951 –
Gerald Alston , American R&B singer
1951 –
Alfredo Astiz , Argentine military commander
1951 –
Larry Burnett , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 –
Laura Cox , English lawyer and judge
1951 –
Peter Suber , American philosopher and academic
1952 –
John Denny , American baseball player and coach
1952 –
Christie Hefner , American publisher and businesswoman
[20]
1952 –
Jan Raas , Dutch cyclist
1952 –
Jerry Remy , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2021)
1952 –
Alfre Woodard , American actress
[20]
1953 –
Giorgos Foiros , Greek footballer and manager
1953 –
John Musker , American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter
1953 –
Nand Kumar Patel , Indian politician (d. 2013)
1954 –
David Bret , French-English journalist and author
1954 –
Michael D. Brown , American lawyer and radio host
1954 –
Timothy Egan , American journalist and author
1954 –
Kazuo Ishiguro , Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer
[18]
1954 –
Rickie Lee Jones , American singer-songwriter and producer
[20]
1954 –
Thanasis Pafilis , Greek jurist and politician
1955 –
Patricia Barber , American singer-songwriter and pianist
1955 –
Jeffrey Ford , American author and educator
1956 –
Mari Boine , Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer
1956 –
Richard Curtis , New Zealand-English screenwriter, film and television producer, and film director
1956 –
Steven Miller , American record producer and engineer
1957 –
Alan Curbishley , English footballer and manager
1957 –
Tim Shaw , American swimmer
1957 –
Porl Thompson , English guitarist and songwriter
[20]
1957 –
Hardi Volmer , Estonian singer and director
1958 –
Don Byron , American clarinet player and composer
1958 –
Ken Lamberton , American author and educator
1958 –
Selçuk Yula , Turkish footballer and journalist (d. 2013)
1959 –
Miroslav Janů , Czech footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1959 –
Chi Chi LaRue , American
drag queen performer and director
1960 –
Oleg Menshikov , Russian actor, singer, and director
1960 –
Michael Nyqvist , Swedish actor and producer (d. 2017)
1961 –
Micky Adams , English footballer and manager
1961 –
Leif Garrett , American singer, actor, and television personality
[20]
1963 –
Paul McKenna , English hypnotist and author
1965 –
Jeff Blauser , American baseball player and manager
1965 –
Craig Chester , American actor and screenwriter
1965 –
Mike Matarazzo , American bodybuilder and boxer (d. 2014)
1965 –
Patricia Poleo , Venezuelan journalist
1966 –
Gordon Ramsay , British chef, restaurateur, and television host/personality
[20]
1967 –
Henry Rodriguez , Dominican baseball player
1967 –
Courtney Thorne-Smith , American actress
[20]
1968 –
Keith Jones , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1968 –
José Offerman , Dominican baseball player and manager
1968 –
Sergio Porrini , Italian footballer and manager
1968 –
Parker Posey , American actress
[20]
1970 –
Tom Anderson , American businessman, co-founded
Myspace
1970 –
David Hemp , Bermudian cricketer
1970 –
Michael Jackson , Canadian actor
1970 –
Diana King , Jamaican singer-songwriter
[20]
1970 –
José Porras , Costa Rican footballer and coach
1971 –
Carlos Atanes , Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
1971 –
Tech N9ne , American musician, record producer, and actor
1972 –
Chris Fydler , Australian swimmer
1972 –
Gretchen Mol , American model and actress
1972 –
Kylie Shadbolt , Australian artistic gymnast
[21]
1973 –
František Kaberle , Czech ice hockey player
[22]
1973 –
Sven Mikser , Estonian politician, 22nd
Estonian Minister of Defence
1973 –
David Muir , American journalist
[18]
1974 –
Joshua Ferris , American author
1974 –
Penelope Heyns , South African swimmer
1974 –
Masashi Kishimoto , Japanese author and illustrator, created
Naruto
1974 –
Seishi Kishimoto , Japanese illustrator
1974 –
Matthew Rhys , Welsh actor
[20]
1975 –
Antony Hickling , English film maker, actor
[23]
1975 –
Brevin Knight , American basketball player and sportscaster
1975 –
Tara Reid , American actress
[20]
1975 –
Alena Vašková , Czech tennis player
1976 –
Jaroslav Bednář , Czech ice hockey player
[24]
1976 –
Brett Lee , Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1976 –
Colin Strause , American director, producer, and visual effects designer
1977 –
Jully Black , Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1977 –
Bucky Covington , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[20]
1977 –
Nick Punto , American baseball player
1978 –
Matthew Bulbeck , English cricketer
1978 –
Tim de Cler , Dutch footballer
1978 –
Maurice Evans , American basketball player
1978 –
Ali Karimi , Iranian footballer and manager
1978 –
Kensaku Kishida , Japanese actor and entertainer
1978 –
Emma Lewell-Buck , English social worker and politician
1978 –
Júlio Sérgio , Brazilian footballer and manager
1978 –
Shyne , Belizean rapper and politician
[25]
1979 –
Andrea Benatti , Italian rugby player
1979 –
Aaron Hughes , Irish footballer
1979 –
Dania Ramirez , Dominican actress
[20]
1979 –
Andrew Unger , Canadian writer
[26]
1980 –
Luís Fabiano , Brazilian footballer
1980 –
Laura Jane Grace , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
[18]
1980 –
Holly Walsh , English radio and television host
1981 –
Joe Cole , English footballer
1981 –
Yann Kermorgant , French footballer
1982 –
Ted DiBiase, Jr. , American wrestler and actor
1982 –
Mika Kallio , Finnish motorcycle racer
1982 –
Sam Sparro , Australian singer-songwriter and producer
1983 –
Danielle Valore Evans , American short story writer
1983 –
Sinan Güler , Turkish basketball player
1983 –
Katharina Molitor , German javelin thrower
1983 –
Remko Pasveer , Dutch footballer
1983 –
Pavel Pogrebnyak , Russian footballer
1983 –
Nikola Rachelle , English-New Zealand singer-songwriter and producer
1984 –
Kuntal Chandra , Bangladeshi cricketer (d. 2012)
1984 –
Keith Lee , American wrestler
[27]
1984 –
Yoko Mitsuya , Japanese model and actress
1984 –
Steven Webb , English actor
1985 –
Magda Apanowicz , Canadian actress
1985 –
Míchel , Spanish footballer
1985 –
Jack Osbourne , English-American television personality
[20]
1986 –
Patricia Mayr-Achleitner , Austrian tennis player
1986 –
Jamie Roberts , Welsh rugby player
1986 –
Aaron Swartz , American computer programmer and activist (d. 2013)
[28]
1987 –
Édgar Benítez , Paraguayan footballer
1987 –
Sam Bradford , American football player
1987 –
Mohd Faiz Subri , Malaysian footballer
1988 –
Yasmani Grandal , Cuban-American baseball player
[29]
1988 –
Jessica Lowndes , Canadian actress and singer
[20]
1988 –
Lucia Slaničková , Slovak heptathlete
1988 –
Malcolm Thomas , American basketball player
[30]
1989 –
Morgan Schneiderlin , French footballer
1989 –
Giancarlo Stanton , American baseball player
1989 –
SZA , American singer-songwriter
[31]
1990 –
Ingrid Puusta , Estonian sailor
1991 –
Aaron Fotheringham , American wheelchair athlete
1991 –
Jack Littlejohn , Australian rugby league player
1991 –
Riker Lynch , American actor and singer
[20]
1991 –
Dan Middleton , English YouTube personality and pro gamer
1992 –
Christophe Vincent , French footballer
1993 –
Przemek Karnowski , Polish basketball player
1993 –
Fraser Mullen , Scottish footballer
1994 –
Lauren Alaina , American singer and songwriter
[20]
1997 –
Akram Tawfik , Egyptian footballer
[32]
1999 –
Isaac Bonga , German basketball player
[33]
1999 –
Katherine Uchida , Canadian rhythmic gymnast
[34]
2000 –
Jade Pettyjohn , American actress
[18]
2000 –
Jasmine Thompson , English singer
Deaths
Pre-1600
397 –
Martin of Tours , Frankish bishop and saint
618 –
Adeodatus I , pope of the Catholic Church
[35]
785 –
Sawara , Japanese prince
789 –
Willehad , bishop of Bremen
928 –
Duan Ning , Chinese general
940 –
Yao Yi , Chinese chancellor (b. 866)
943 –
Liu , empress of
Qi (
Ten Kingdoms ) (b. 877)
955 –
Agapetus II , pope of the Catholic Church
977 –
Ibn al-Qūṭiyya , Andalusian historian
1067 –
Sancha of León , Queen of León (b. c. 1018)
[36]
1115 –
Godfrey of Amiens , French bishop and saint (b. 1066)
1122 –
Ilghazi ,
Artuqid ruler of
Mardin
1171 –
Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1195 –
Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1135)
1226 –
Louis VIII , king of France (b. 1187)
1246 –
Berengaria of Castile (b. 1179)
1263 –
Matilda of Béthune , French countess
1308 –
Duns Scotus , Scottish priest, philosopher, and academic (b. 1266)
1400 –
Peter of Aragon , Aragonese infante (b. 1398)
1478 –
Baeda Maryam I , emperor of
Ethiopia (b. 1448)
1494 –
Melozzo da Forlì , Italian painter (b. c. 1438)
1517 –
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros , Spanish cardinal (b. 1436)
1527 –
Jerome Emser , German theologian and reformer (b. 1477)
1599 –
Francisco Guerrero , Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1600 –
Natsuka Masaie , Japanese daimyō (b. 1562)
1601–1900
1605 –
Robert Catesby , English conspirator, leader of the
Gunpowder Plot (b. 1573)
1606 –
Girolamo Mercuriale , Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
1658 –
Witte de With , Dutch admiral (b. 1599)
1674 –
John Milton , English poet and philosopher (b. 1608)
1719 –
Michel Rolle , French mathematician and author (b. 1652)
1773 –
Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz , Prussian general (b. 1721)
1817 –
Andrea Appiani , Italian painter and educator (b. 1754)
1828 –
Thomas Bewick , English engraver, illustrator and author (b.1753)
1830 –
Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1873 –
Manuel Bretón de los Herreros , Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1796)
1887 –
Doc Holliday , American dentist and poker player (b. 1851)
1890 –
César Franck , Belgian organist and composer (b. 1822)
1895 –
Robert Battey , American surgeon and academic (b. 1828)
1901–present
1901 –
James Agnew , Irish-Australian politician, 16th
Premier of Tasmania (b. 1815)
1905 –
Victor Borisov-Musatov , Russian painter (b. 1870)
1917 –
Colin Blythe , English cricketer and soldier (b. 1879)
1921 –
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav , Slovak poet and playwright (b. 1849)
1934 –
Carlos Chagas , Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1879)
1944 –
Walter Nowotny , Austrian-German soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
1945 –
August von Mackensen , German field marshal (b. 1849)
1949 –
Cyriel Verschaeve , Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874)
1953 –
Ivan Bunin , Russian author and poet,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
1953 –
John van Melle , Dutch-South African author and educator (b. 1887)
1956 –
Chika Kuroda , Japanese chemist (b. 1884)
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1959 –
Frank S. Land , American activist, founded the
DeMolay International (b. 1890)
1960 –
Subroto Mukerjee , Indian soldier; Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (b. 1911)
1965 –
Dorothy Kilgallen , American journalist, television personality, and game show panelist (b. 1913)
1968 –
Wendell Corey , American actor and politician (b. 1914)
1968 –
Peter Mohr Dam , Faroese educator and politician, 3rd
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
1970 –
Huw T. Edwards , Welsh poet and politician (b. 1892)
1973 –
Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel , Turkish poet, author, and politician (b. 1898)
[38]
1974 –
Ivory Joe Hunter , American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)
1977 –
Tasos Giannopoulos , Greek actor and producer (b. 1931)
1977 –
Bucky Harris , American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
1978 –
Norman Rockwell , American painter and illustrator (b. 1894)
1983 –
James Booker , American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
1983 –
Mordecai Kaplan , Lithuanian-American rabbi and educator (b. 1881)
1985 –
Nicolas Frantz , Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1899)
1985 –
Jacques Hnizdovsky , Ukrainian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1915)
1986 –
Vyacheslav Molotov , Russian politician and diplomat,
Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1890)
[39]
1994 –
Michael O'Donoghue , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1940)
1998 –
Rumer Godden , English author and poet (b. 1907)
1998 –
John Hunt, Baron Hunt , English colonel, mountaineer, and academic (b. 1910)
1998 –
Jean Marais , French actor and director (b. 1913)
1999 –
Lester Bowie , American trumpet player and composer (b. 1941)
1999 –
Leon Štukelj , Slovenian gymnast and judge (b. 1898)
2001 –
Aristidis Moschos , Greek
santouri player and educator (b. 1930)
2002 –
Jon Elia , Pakistani poet, philosopher, and scholar (b. 1931)
2003 –
Bob Grant , English actor and screenwriter (b. 1932)
2003 –
C.Z. Guest , American actress, fashion designer, and author (b. 1920)
2003 –
Guy Speranza , American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
2004 –
Peter Mathers , English-Australian author and playwright (b. 1931)
2005 –
Alekos Alexandrakis , Greek actor and director (b. 1928)
2005 –
David Westheimer , American soldier and author (b. 1917)
2006 –
Basil Poledouris , American composer and conductor (b. 1945)
2006 –
Hannspeter Winter , Austrian physicist and academic (b. 1941)
2007 –
Aad Nuis , Dutch journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1933)
2007 –
Dulce Saguisag , Filipino politician, 10th
Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (b. 1943)
2007 –
Chad Varah , English priest, founded
The Samaritans (b. 1911)
2009 –
Vitaly Ginzburg , Russian physicist and astrophysicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2010 –
Quintin Dailey , American basketball player (b. 1961)
2010 –
Jack Levine , American soldier and painter (b. 1915)
2010 –
Emilio Eduardo Massera , Argentinian admiral (b. 1925)
2011 –
Heavy D , Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1967)
2011 –
Bil Keane , American cartoonist (b. 1922)
2012 –
Lee MacPhail , American businessman (b. 1917)
2012 –
Pete Namlook , German composer and producer (b. 1960)
2012 –
Peggy Vaughan , American author (b. 1936)
2013 –
William C. Davidon , American physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1927)
2013 –
Penn Kimball , American journalist and academic (b. 1915)
2013 –
Arnold Rosner , American composer (b. 1945)
2013 –
Chiyoko Shimakura , Japanese singer and actress (b. 1938)
2013 –
Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam , Indian journalist and actor (b. 1957)
2014 –
Phil Crane , American academic and politician (b. 1930)
2014 –
Luigi Gorrini , Italian soldier and pilot (b. 1917)
2014 –
Don Paul , American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925)
2014 –
Hugo Sánchez Portugal , Spanish-Mexican footballer and sportscaster (b. 1984)
2014 –
Ernie Vandeweghe , Canadian-American basketball player and physician (b. 1928)
2015 –
Rhea Chiles , American philanthropist, founded the
Polk Museum of Art (b. 1930)
2015 –
Joseph Cure , American ice hockey player and actor (b. 1984)
2015 –
Rod Davies , Australian-English astronomer and academic (b. 1930)
2015 –
Om Prakash Mehra , Indian air marshal and politician (b. 1919)
2015 –
Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero , Sri Lankan monk and activist (b. 1942)
2020 –
Alex Trebek , Canadian-American television personality and longtime host of
Jeopardy! (b. 1940)
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Holidays and observances
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