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November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 46 days remain until the end of the year.
Events [ ]
655 – Battle of the Winwaed : Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria .[1]
1315 – Battle of Morgarten : The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I .[2]
1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro , Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca , arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day .
1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco , the capital of the Inca Empire .
1705 – Battle of Zsibó : Austrian -Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians ).
1760 – The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
1777 – American Revolutionary War : After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation .
1806 – Pike Expedition : Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains . (It is later named Pikes Peak .)
1864 – American Civil War : Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins Sherman's March to the Sea .
1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup .
1914 – Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League ", the direct predecessor to the National Football League .
1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva , Switzerland.
1920 – The Free City of Danzig is established.
1922 – At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil , Ecuador.[3]
1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
1933 – Thailand has its first election .
1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial .
1942 – World War II : The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1943 – The Holocaust : German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps ".
1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi .
1951 – Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis , along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial .
1955 – The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
1959 – The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas were discovered, inspiring Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood .
1966 – Project Gemini : Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert .
1968 – The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport .
1969 – Cold War : The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea .
1969 – Vietnam War : In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war , including a symbolic "March Against Death".
1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor , the 4004 .
1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence .
1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka , killing 183.
1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence. Recognized only by Turkey.
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald .
1987 – In Brașov , Romania , workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu .
1988 – In the Soviet Union , the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
1988 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict : An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council .
1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar , is launched in the Netherlands.
1990 – Space Shuttle program : Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38 .
1990 – The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda , Angola, killing more than 40 people.
2000 – Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India , formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar .[4]
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings , in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300.
2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans .
2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2016 – Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament .[5]
Births [ ]
459 – B'utz Aj Sak Chiik , Mayan king (d. 501)
1316 – John I , king of France and Navarre (d. 1316)
1397 – Nicholas V , pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1455)
1498 – Eleanor of Austria , queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
1511 – Johannes Secundus , Dutch poet and author (d. 1536)
1556 – Jacques Davy Duperron , French cardinal (d. 1618)
1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry , French author (d. 1701)
1660 – Hermann von der Hardt , German historian and orientalist (d. 1746)
1661 – Christoph von Graffenried , Swiss-American settler and author (d. 1743)
1692 – Eusebius Amort , German poet and theologian (d. 1775)
1708 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham , English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778)
1738 – William Herschel , German-English astronomer and composer (d. 1822)
1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater , Swiss poet and physiognomist (d. 1801)
1746 – Joseph Quesnel , French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer (d. 1809)
1757 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher , Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (d. 1830)
1776 – José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi , Mexican journalist and author (d. 1827)
1784 – Jérôme Bonaparte , French husband of Catharina of Württemberg (d. 1860)
1791 – Friedrich Ernst Scheller , German lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1869)
1793 – Michel Chasles , French mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
1849 – Mary E. Byrd , American astronomer and educator (d. 1934)
1852 – Tewfik Pasha , Egyptian ruler (d. 1892)
1859 – Christopher Hornsrud , Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann , German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1946)
1865 – John Earle , Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (d. 1932)
1867 – Emil Krebs , German polyglot (d. 1930)
1868 – Emil Racoviță , Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (d. 1947)
1873 – Sara Josephine Baker , American physician and academic (d. 1945)
1874 – Dimitrios Golemis , Greek runner (d. 1941)
1874 – August Krogh , Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
1879 – Lewis Stone , American actor (d. 1953)
1881 – Franklin Pierce Adams , American journalist and author (d. 1960)
1882 – Felix Frankfurter , Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (d. 1965)
1886 – René Guénon , French-Egyptian philosopher and author (d. 1951)
1887 – Marianne Moore , American poet, critic, and translator (d. 1972)
1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe , American painter and educator (d. 1986)
1888 – Artie Matthews , American pianist and composer (d. 1958)
1890 – Richmal Crompton , English author and educator (d. 1969)
1891 – W. Averell Harriman , American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1986)
1891 – Erwin Rommel , German field marshal (d. 1944)
1892 – Naomi Childers , American actress (d. 1964)
1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1895 – Antoni Słonimski , Polish journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1976)
1896 – Leonard Lord , English businessman (d. 1967)
1897 – Aneurin Bevan , Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health (d. 1960)
1897 – Sacheverell Sitwell , English author and critic (d. 1988)
1899 – Avdy Andresson , Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War (d. 1990)
1903 – Stewie Dempster , New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 1974)
1905 – Mantovani , Italian conductor and composer (d. 1980)
1906 – Curtis LeMay , American general and politician (d. 1990)
1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg , German colonel (d. 1944)
1908 – Carlo Abarth , Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (d. 1979)
1912 – Harald Keres , Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2010)
1912 – Yi Wu , Japanese-Korean colonel (d. 1945)
1913 – Jack Dyer , Australian footballer and coach (d. 2003)
1913 – Arthur Haulot , Belgian journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1914 – V. R. Krishna Iyer , Indian lawyer and judge (d. 2014)
1916 – Nita Barrow , Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 1995)
1916 – Bill Melendez , Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (d. 2008)
1919 – Carol Bruce , American singer and actress (d. 2007)
1919 – Joseph Wapner , American lieutenant and judge (d. 2017)
1920 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos , Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1922 – Francis Brunn , German juggler (d. 2004)
1922 – David Sidney Feingold , American biochemist and academic (d. 2019)
1922 – Francesco Rosi , Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1923 – Văn Cao , Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter (d. 1995)
1923 – Samuel Klein , Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia (d. 2014)
1924 – Gianni Ferrio , Italian composer and conductor (d. 2013)
1925 – Howard Baker , American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (d. 2014)
1926 – Thomas Williams , American author and academic (d. 1990)
1927 – Bill Rowling , New Zealand politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1995)
1928 – C. W. McCall , American singer-songwriter and politician
1928 – Seldon Powell , American saxophonist and flute player (d. 1997)
1929 – Ed Asner , American actor, singer, and producer
1929 – Joe Hinton , American singer (d. 1968)
1930 – J. G. Ballard , English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2009)
1930 – Olene Walker , American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (d. 2015)
1931 – John Kerr , American actor, singer, and lawyer (d. 2013)
1931 – Mwai Kibaki , Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya
1931 – Pascal Lissouba , Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (d. 2020)
1932 – Petula Clark , English singer-songwriter and actress
1932 – Clyde McPhatter , American singer (d. 1972)
1932 – Alvin Plantinga , American philosopher, author, and academic
1933 – Gloria Foster , American actress (d. 2001)
1933 – Theodore Roszak , American scholar and author (d. 2011)
1934 – Joanna Barnes , American actress and author
1934 – Peter Dickinson , English pianist and composer
1935 – Nera White , American basketball player (d. 2016)
1936 – H. B. Bailey , American race car driver (d. 2003)
1936 – Wolf Biermann , German singer-songwriter and guitarist
1936 – Tara Singh Hayer , Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (d. 1998)
1937 – Little Willie John , American singer-songwriter (d. 1968)
1939 – Terry Bradbury , English footballer and manager
1939 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde , Finnish physician and parapsychologist (d. 2015)
1939 – Yaphet Kotto , American actor and screenwriter
1940 – Roberto Cavalli , Italian fashion designer
1940 – Tony Mendez , American CIA technical operations officer (d. 2019)
1940 – Ulf Pilgaard , Danish actor and screenwriter
1940 – Hank Wangford , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and physician
1940 – Sam Waterston , American actor
1941 – Rick Kemp , English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1941 – Daniel Pinkwater , American author and illustrator
1942 – Daniel Barenboim , Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor
1945 – Roger Donaldson , Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Bob Gunton , American actor and singer
1945 – Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Norwegian-Swedish singer
1946 – Vassilis Goumas , Greek basketball player
1947 – Malcolm Ranjith , Sri Lankan cardinal
1947 – Bill Richardson , American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1947 – Ken Sutcliffe , Australian journalist and sportscaster
1948 – Teodoro Locsin, Jr. , Filipino journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat
1950 – Egon Vaupel , German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg
1951 – Beverly D'Angelo , American actress, singer, and producer
1952 – Rick Atkinson , American journalist, historian, and author
1952 – Randy Savage , American wrestler (d. 2011)
1953 – Alexander O'Neal , American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger
1953 – James Widdoes , American actor, director, and producer
1954 – Kevin S. Bright , American director and producer
1954 – Emma Dent Coad , British politician
1954 – Aleksander Kwaśniewski , Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland
1954 – Randy Thomas , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 – Tony Thompson , American R&B, disco, and rock drummer (d. 2003)
1955 – Joe Leeway , English pop singer-songwriter and percussionist
1956 – Michael Hampton , American guitarist and producer
1957 – Gerry Connolly , Australian comedian and actor
1957 – Kevin Eubanks , American guitarist and composer
1957 – Harold Marcuse , American historian and educator
1957 – Michael Woythe , German footballer and manager
1958 – Lewis Fitz-Gerald , Australian actor and director
1958 – Gu Kailai , Chinese lawyer and businesswoman
1958 – Lesley Laird , British politician
1959 – Tibor Fischer , English author
1960 – Dawn Airey , English broadcaster
1961 – Hugh McGahan , New Zealand rugby league player
1962 – Mark Acres , American basketball player and educator
1962 – Judy Gold , American comedian, actress, and producer
1963 – Andrew Castle , English tennis player and television host
1963 – Benny Elias , Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1963 – Kevin J. O'Connor , American actor
1964 – Stelios Aposporis , Greek footballer and manager
1964 – Mikhail Rusyayev , Russian footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2011)
1964 – Tiit Sokk , Estonian basketball player and coach
1965 – Nigel Bond , English snooker player
1965 – Stefan Pfeiffer , German swimmer
1966 – Rachel True , American actress
1967 – Greg Anthony , American basketball player and sportscaster
1967 – Cynthia Breazeal , American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic
1967 – Pedro Borbón, Jr. , Dominican baseball player
1967 – E-40 , American rapper and actor
1967 – Wayne Harrison , English footballer (d. 2013)
1967 – François Ozon , French director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – Gus Poyet , Uruguayan footballer and manager
1967 – Jon Preston , New Zealand rugby player
1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard , American rapper and producer (d. 2004)
1968 – Fausto Brizzi , Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Teodoro Casiño , Filipino journalist and politician
1968 – Jennifer Charles , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1968 – Uwe Rösler , German footballer and manager
1970 – Ilija Aračić , Croatian footballer and coach
1970 – Jack Ingram , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – Alexander Kvitashvili , Georgian-Ukrainian academic and politician, 19th Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare
1970 – Patrick M'Boma , Cameroonian footballer
1971 – Jay Harrington , American actor
1971 – Martin Pieckenhagen , German footballer
1972 – Jonny Lee Miller , English-American actor
1973 – Sydney Tamiia Poitier , American actress
1973 – Alamgir Sheriyar , English cricketer
1974 – Chad Kroeger , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1975 – Scott Henshall , English fashion designer
1975 – Yannick Tremblay , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Boris Živković , Croatian footballer
1976 – Brandon DiCamillo , American comedian, actor, and stuntman
1976 – Virginie Ledoyen , French actress
1976 – Sule , Indonesian comedian and actor
1977 – Sean Murray , American actor
1977 – Peter Phillips , English businessman
1977 – Robaire Smith , American football player
1978 – Floyd Womack , American football player
1979 – Brooks Bollinger , American football player and coach
1979 – Josemi , Spanish footballer
1979 – Brett Lancaster , Australian cyclist
1980 – Ace Young , American singer-songwriter and actor
1981 – Drew Hodgdon , American football player
1981 – Lorena Ochoa , Mexican golfer
1982 – D. J. Fitzpatrick , American football player
1982 – Rio Hirai , Japanese actress
1982 – Joe Kowalewski , American football player
1982 – Benjamin Krause , German rugby player
1982 – Giaan Rooney , Australian swimmer
1982 – Lofa Tatupu , American football player
1982 – Kalu Uche , Nigerian footballer
1983 – Dominic Carroll , Gibraltarian runner
1983 – Sasha Pavlović , Serbian basketball player
1983 – Fernando Verdasco , Spanish tennis player
1984 – Asia Kate Dillon , American actor and producer
1985 – Lily Aldridge , American model
1985 – Charron Fisher , American basketball player
1985 – Simon Spender , Welsh footballer
1986 – Coye Francies , American football player
1986 – Sania Mirza , Indian tennis player
1986 – Jerry Roush , American singer-songwriter
1987 – Sergio Llull , Spanish basketball player[6]
1988 – Morgan Parra , French rugby player
1988 – Billy Twelvetrees , English rugby player
1989 – Jonalyn Viray , Filipino singer
1991 – Maxime Colin , French footballer
1991 – Shailene Woodley , American actress
1992 – Sofia Goggia , Italian skier
1992 – Minami Minegishi , Japanese singer
1992 – Daniela Seguel , Chilean tennis player
1992 – Trevor Story , American baseball player
1992 – Kevin Wimmer , Austrian footballer
1993 – Paulo Dybala , Argentine footballer
1993 – Saaya Irie , Japanese actress and singer
1994 – Bryce Cartwright , Australian rugby league player
1995 – Blake Pieroni , American swimmer[7]
1995 – Karl-Anthony Towns , Dominican-American basketball player
1997 – Catie Munnings , British rally driver[8]
Deaths [ ]
165 BCE – Mattathias , Jewish resistance leader
621 – Malo , Breton bishop and saint
655 – Æthelhere , king of East Anglia
655 – Penda of Mercia , king of Mercia
1037 – Odo II , French nobleman (b. 983)
1136 – Leopold III , margrave of Austria (b. 1073)
1194 – Margaret I , countess of Flanders
1226 – Frederick of Isenberg , German nobleman (b. 1193)
1280 – Albertus Magnus , German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1193)
1347 – James I of Urgell , Spanish nobleman (b. 1321)
1351 – Joanna of Pfirt , duchess of Austria
1379 – Otto V , duke of Bavaria
1463 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini , Italian nobleman
1527 – Catherine of York , English princess (b. 1479)
1579 – Ferenc Dávid , Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (b. 1510)
1594 – Martin Frobisher , English seaman and explorer
1628 – Roque González de Santa Cruz , Paraguayan missionary and martyr (b. 1576)
1630 – Johannes Kepler , German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
1670 – John Amos Comenius , Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (b. 1592)
1691 – Aelbert Cuyp , Dutch painter (b. 1620)
1706 – Tsangyang , Tibetan dalai lama (b. 1683)
1712 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton , Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1658)
1712 – Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun , English politician (b. 1675)
1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck , German composer (b. 1714)
1794 – John Witherspoon , Scottish-American minister and academic (b. 1723)
1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo , French painter (b. 1719)
1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say , French economist and businessman (b. 1767)
1845 – William Knibb , English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (b. 1803)
1853 – Maria II , Portuguese queen and regent (b. 1819)
1892 – Thomas Neill Cream , Scottish-Canadian serial killer (b. 1850)
1897 – Alfred Kennerley , English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1810)
1908 – Cixi , China empress dowager and regent (b. 1835)[9]
1910 – Wilhelm Raabe , German author (b. 1831)
1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz , Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
1917 – Émile Durkheim , French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1858)
1919 – Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky , Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (b. 1862)
1919 – Mohammad Farid , Egyptian lawyer and politician (b. 1868)
1919 – Alfred Werner , French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris , Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1866)
1922 – Petros Protopapadakis , Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854)
1922 – Nikolaos Stratos , Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1872)
1941 – Wal Handley , English motorcycle racer (b. 1902)
1945 – Frank Chapman , American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)
1949 – Narayan Apte , Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
1949 – Nathuram Godse , Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
1951 – Frank Weston Benson , American painter and educator (b. 1862)
1954 – Lionel Barrymore , American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
1956 – Emma Richter , German paleontologist (b. 1888)[10]
1958 – Tyrone Power , American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)
1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson , Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1960 – Robert Raymond Cook , Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
1961 – Elsie Ferguson , American actress (b. 1883)
1961 – Johanna Westerdijk , Dutch pathologist and academic (b. 1883)
1963 – Fritz Reiner , Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1888)
1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos , Greek weightlifter and wrestler (b. 1877)
1966 – William Zorach , Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (b. 1887)
1967 – Michael J. Adams , American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
1970 – Konstantinos Tsaldaris , Egyptian-Greek politician (b. 1884)
1971 – Rudolf Abel , English-Russian colonel (b. 1903)
1976 – Jean Gabin , French actor, singer, and producer (b. 1904)
1978 – Margaret Mead , American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)[11]
1980 – Bill Lee , American actor and singer (b. 1916)
1981 – Steve Macko , American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
1981 – Enid Markey , American actress (b. 1894)
1981 – Khawar Rizvi , Pakistani poet and scholar (b. 1938)
1982 – Vinoba Bhave , Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (b. 1895)
1982 – Martín de Álzaga , Argentinian race car driver (b. 1901)
1983 – John Grimaldi , English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1955)
1983 – Charlie Grimm , American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
1983 – John Le Mesurier , English actor (b. 1912)
1985 – Méret Oppenheim , German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (b. 1913)
1988 – Billo Frómeta , Dominican conductor and composer (b. 1915)
1988 – Ieronymos I of Athens , Greek archbishop and theologian (b. 1905)
1994 – Elizabeth George Speare , American author (b. 1908)
1996 – Alger Hiss , American lawyer and diplomat (b. 1904)
1997 – Saul Chaplin , American director and composer (b. 1912)
1998 – Stokely Carmichael , Trinidadian-American activist (b. 1941)
1998 – Ludvík Daněk , Czech discus thrower (b. 1937)
2000 – Edoardo Agnelli , son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli, converted to Shia Islam (b. 1954)
2003 – Ray Lewis , Canadian runner (b. 1910)
2003 – Dorothy Loudon , American actress and singer (b. 1925)
2003 – Laurence Tisch , American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (b. 1923)
2003 – Speedy West , American guitarist and producer (b. 1924)
2004 – Elmer L. Andersen , American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)
2004 – John Morgan , Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2005 – Adrian Rogers , American pastor and author (b. 1931)
2005 – Arto Salminen , Finnish journalist and author (b. 1959)
2006 – David K. Wyatt , American historian and author (b. 1937)
2007 – Joe Nuxhall , American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
2008 – Grace Hartigan , American painter (b. 1922)
2009 – Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (b. 1914)
2010 – Larry Evans , American chess player and journalist (b. 1932)
2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick , American baseball player (b. 1944)
2010 – William Edwin Self , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921)
2011 – Oba Chandler , American murderer (b. 1946)
2012 – Théophile Abega , Cameroonian footballer and politician (b. 1954)
2012 – Luís Carreira , Portuguese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
2012 – Maleli Kunavore , Fijian rugby player (b. 1983)
2012 – K. C. Pant , Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (b. 1931)
2012 – Frode Thingnæs , Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (b. 1940)
2013 – Sheila Matthews Allen , American actress and producer (b. 1929)
2013 – Glafcos Clerides , Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (b. 1919)
2013 – Mike McCormack , American football player and coach (b. 1930)
2014 – Jack Bridger Chalker , English painter and academic (b. 1918)
2014 – Lucien Clergue , French photographer and educator (b. 1934)
2014 – Valéry Mézague , Cameroonian footballer (b. 1983)
2014 – Reg Withers , Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory (b. 1924)
2015 – Gisèle Prassinos , French author (b. 1920)
2015 – Herbert Scarf , American economist and academic (b. 1930)
2015 – Saeed Jaffrey , Indian-British actor (b. 1929)
2016 – Mose Allison , American pianist and songwriter (b. 1927)
2017 – Lil Peep , American singer and rapper (b. 1996)
Holidays and observances [ ]
America Recycles Day (United States)
Christian feast day :
Abibus of Edessa
Albert the Great
Blessed Caius of Korea
Didier of Cahors
Francis Asbury and George Whitefield (Episcopal Church )
Blessed Hugh Faringdon
Leopold III , a public holiday in Lower Austria and Vienna .
Malo
Mechell
November 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium (German-speaking Community of Belgium )
Day of the Imprisoned Writer (International observance )
Earliest day on which Beaujolais Day can fall, while November 21 is the latest; observed on the third Thursday in November (International)
Earliest day on which Day of the Revolution can fall, while November 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in November (Mexico)
Earliest day on which Great American Smokeout can fall, while November 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Thursday in November (United States)
Independence Day , unilaterally declared in 1988. (Palestine )
King's Feast (Belgium)
National Tree Planting Day (Sri Lanka )
Peace Day (Ivory Coast )
Republic Proclamation Day (Brazil)
Shichi-Go-San (Japan)
The beginning of Winter Lent (Eastern Orthodox )
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↑ Haas, Benjamin (15 November 2016). "Hong Kong court bans pro-independence politicians from office" . The Guardian .
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↑ "Blake Pieroni" . International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 May 2020 .
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