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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[]

  • 960Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla.
  • 1278Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, decides to pass the throne to his crown prince Trần Khâm and take up the post of Retired Emperor.
  • 1291 – The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to the "island of Murano".[1]
  • 1519Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
  • 1520Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people mostly noblemen.
  • 1576Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
  • 1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
  • 1605Robert 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.
  • 1745Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
  • 1837Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
  • 1861American 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.
  • 1889Montana 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.
  • 1901Gospel 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.
  • 1923Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
  • 1932Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent president Herbert Hoover.
  • 1933Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.
  • 1936Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
  • 1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
  • 1939Venlo 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.
  • 1940Greco-Italian War: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
  • 1942World 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.
  • 1950Korean 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.
  • 1957Pan 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.
  • 1960John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United States.
  • 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, except in cases of high treason, "piracy with violence" (piracy with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm), arson in royal dockyards and espionage, as well as other capital offences under military law. The death penalty would be abolished in all cases in 1998.
  • 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.
  • 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, initially transmitting to 365 Teleservice Cable subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. First operating as a Northeastern U.S.-based regional service, HBO was one of the first cable-originated television channels. HBO's inaugural programming that evening consisted of its first event telecast—an NHL hockey game between the New York Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks, and its first movie presentation—the 1971 Paul NewmanHenry Fonda film Sometimes a Great Notion.
  • 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.
  • 1977Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
  • 1983TAAG 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.[2]
  • 1987Remembrance 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.
  • 1994Republican 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 a close to four decades of Democratic domination.
  • 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.
  • 2002Iraq 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".
  • 2004Iraq 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.
  • 2006Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli Defense Force kill 19 Palestinian civilians in their homes during the shelling of Beit Hanoun.[3]
  • 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 Template:Mpl in 1976.
  • 2013Typhoon 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.
  • 2016Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the BJP party led NDA government, publicly announced the withdrawal of 500 and 1000 denomination banknotes only a few hours before the implementation/imposition of diktat, i.e. from midnight, starting of November 9 (9-11 as per Indian date recordings), from the Indian economy, without popular consent, rendering 86% of Indian currency in circulation invalid.
  • 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.

Births[]

  • AD 30Nerva, Roman emperor (d. 98)[4]
  • 1407Alain de Coëtivy, French cardinal (d. 1474)
  • 1417Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1458–1480) (d. 1480)
  • 1456Queen Gonghye, Korean royal consort (d. 1474)
  • 1491Teofilo Folengo, Italian monk and poet (d. 1544)
  • 1543Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex and lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I of England (d. 1634)
  • 1555Nyaungyan Min, King of Burma (d. 1605)
  • 1563Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1624)
  • 1572John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1619)
  • 1622Charles X Gustav of Sweden (d. 1660)
  • 1656Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)[5]
  • 1706Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German philosopher and judge (d. 1772)
  • 1710Sarah Fielding, English author (d. 1768)
  • 1715Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (d. 1797)
  • 1723John Byron, English admiral and politician, 24th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1786)
  • 1725Johann George Tromlitz, German flute player and composer (d. 1805)
  • 1738Barbara Catharina Mjödh, Finnish poet (d. 1776)
  • 1763Otto Wilhelm Masing, German-Estonian linguist and author (d. 1832)
  • 1768Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
  • 1772William Wirt, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Attorney General (d. 1834)
  • 1788Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene poet and educator (d. 1853)
  • 1855Nikolaos Triantafyllakos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1939)
  • 1831Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English poet and diplomat, 30th Governor-General of India (d. 1880)
  • 1836Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company (d. 1911)
  • 1837Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1907)
  • 1847Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician, 6th President of France (d. 1907)
  • 1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (d. 1912)
  • 1848Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1925)
  • 1854Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1919)
  • 1866Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, English businessman, founded the Austin Motor Company (d. 1941)
  • 1868Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and academic (d. 1942)
  • 1878Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist (d. 1951)
  • 1881Clarence Gagnon, Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1942)
  • 1883Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (d. 1953)
  • 1883 – Charles Demuth, American painter (d. 1935)
  • 1884Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1922)
  • 1885George 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)
  • 1888David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1974)
  • 1893Prajadhipok, Thai king (d. 1941)
  • 1896Erika Abels d'Albert, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1975)
  • 1896 – Bucky Harris, American baseball player and manager (d. 1977)
  • 1896Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1937)
  • 1897Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist (d. 1980)
  • 1900Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (d. 1949)
  • 1904Cedric Belfrage, English-American journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (d. 1990)
  • 1908Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author (d. 1998)
  • 1910James McCormack, American general (d. 1975)
  • 1911Al Brosch, American golfer (d. 1975)
  • 1911 – Robert Jackson, Australian public servant and diplomat (d. 1991)
  • 1912June Havoc, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 2010)
  • 1912 – Stylianos Pattakos, Greek general and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016)
  • 1913Lou Ambers, American boxer (d. 1995)
  • 1914Norman Lloyd, American actor, director, and producer
  • 1918Kazuo Sakamaki, Japanese soldier (d. 1999)
  • 1918 – Hermann Zapf, German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015)
  • 1919James S. Ackerman, American historian and academic (d. 2016)
  • 1920Sitara Devi, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2014)
  • 1920 – Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
  • 1920 – Eugênio Sales, Brazilian cardinal (d. 2012)
  • 1921Douglas Townsend, American composer, musicologist, and academic (d. 2012)
  • 1922Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon and academic (d. 2001)
  • 1922 – Thea D. Hodge, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2008)
  • 1922 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1996)
  • 1923Yisrael Friedman, Romanian-born Israeli rabbi (d. 2017)
  • 1923 – Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
  • 1924Johnny 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)
  • 1926Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist
  • 1927L. K. Advani, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India
  • 1927 – Ken Dodd, English singer / comedian (d. 2018)
  • 1927 – Chris Connor, American singer (d. 2009)
  • 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)
  • 1928Des Corcoran, Australian politician, 37th Premier of South Australia (d. 2004)
  • 1929Bobby Bowden, American football player and coach
  • 1929 – António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher and academic
  • 1931Jim Redman, English-Rhodesian motorcycle racer
  • 1931 – Morley Safer, Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 2016)
  • 1931 – Paolo Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter
  • 1932Stéphane Audran, French actress (d. 2018)
  • 1932 – Ben Bova, American journalist and author
  • 1933Peter Arundell, English race car driver (d. 2009)
  • 1935Alain Delon, French-Swiss actor, producer, screenwriter
  • 1935 – Stratos Dionysiou, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 1990)
  • 1935 – Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian cardinal (d. 2008)
  • 1936Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014)
  • 1938Driss Basri, Moroccan police officer and politician (d. 2007)
  • 1938 – Satch Sanders, American basketball player[6]
  • 1938 – Richard Stoker, English composer, author, and poet
  • 1939Meg Wynn Owen, Welsh actress
  • 1941Nerys Hughes, Welsh actress
  • 1942Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican-American jockey
  • 1942 – Sandro Mazzola, Italian footballer and sportscaster
  • 1943Martin Peters, English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
  • 1944Bonnie Bramlett, American singer and actress
  • 1945Arduino 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)
  • 1946Guus Hiddink, Dutch footballer and manager
  • 1946 – Roy Wood, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  • 1947Michael Perham, English bishop (d. 2017)
  • 1947 – Minnie Riperton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1979)
  • 1947 – Margaret Rhea Seddon, American physician and astronaut
  • 1947 – Lewis Yocum, American physician and surgeon (d. 2013)
  • 1948Dale Gardner, American captain and astronaut (d. 2014)
  • 1949Wayne LaPierre, American businessman, author, and activist
  • 1949 – Bonnie Raitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1950Mary Hart, American journalist and actress
  • 1951Gerald Alston, American R&B singer
  • 1951 – Larry Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1951 – Alfredo Astiz, Argentinian captain
  • 1951 – Laura Cox, English lawyer and judge
  • 1951 – Peter Suber, American philosopher and academic
  • 1952John Denny, American baseball player and coach
  • 1952 – Christie Hefner, American publisher and businesswoman
  • 1952 – Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist
  • 1952 – Jerry Remy, American baseball player and sportscaster
  • 1952 – Alfre Woodard, American actress
  • 1953Giorgos Foiros, Greek footballer and manager
  • 1953 – John Musker, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1953 – Nand Kumar Patel, Indian politician (d. 2013)
  • 1954David 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.
  • 1954 – Rickie Lee Jones, American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1954 – Thanasis Pafilis, Greek jurist and politician
  • 1955Patricia Barber, American singer-songwriter and pianist
  • 1955 – Jeffrey Ford, American author and educator
  • 1956Mari 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
  • 1957Alan Curbishley, English footballer and manager
  • 1957 – Tim Shaw, American swimmer
  • 1957 – Porl Thompson, English guitarist and songwriter
  • 1957 – Hardi Volmer, Estonian singer and director
  • 1958Don Byron, American clarinet player and composer
  • 1958 – Ken Lamberton, American author and educator
  • 1958 – Selçuk Yula, Turkish footballer and journalist (d. 2013)
  • 1959Miroslav Janů, Czech footballer and manager (d. 2013)
  • 1959 – Chi Chi LaRue, American drag queen performer and director
  • 1960Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor, singer, and director
  • 1960 – Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor and producer (d. 2017)
  • 1961Micky Adams, English footballer and manager
  • 1961 – Leif Garrett, American singer, actor, and television personality
  • 1963Paul McKenna, English hypnotist and author
  • 1965Jeff Blauser, American baseball player and manager
  • 1965 – Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter
  • 1965 – Mike Matarazzo, American bodybuilder and boxer (d. 2014)
  • 1966Gordon Ramsay, British chef, restaurateur, and television host/personality
  • 1967Henry Rodriguez, Dominican baseball player
  • 1967 – Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
  • 1968Keith 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
  • 1970Tom Anderson, American businessman, co-founded Myspace
  • 1970 – David Hemp, Bermudian cricketer
  • 1970 – Michael Jackson, Canadian actor
  • 1970 – Diana King, Jamaican singer-songwriter
  • 1970 – José Porras, Costa Rican footballer and coach
  • 1971Carlos Atanes, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1971 – Tech N9ne, American musician, record producer, and actor
  • 1972Chris Fydler, Australian swimmer
  • 1972 – Gretchen Mol, American model and actress
  • 1972 – Kylie Shadbolt, Australian artistic gymnast[7]
  • 1973Sven Mikser, Estonian politician, 22nd Estonian Minister of Defence
  • 1973 – David Muir, American journalist
  • 1974Joshua Ferris, American author
  • 1974 – Penelope Heyns, South African swimmer
  • 1974 – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese author and illustrator, created Naruto
  • 1974 – Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese illustrator
  • 1975Brevin Knight, American basketball player and sportscaster
  • 1975 – Tara Reid, American actress
  • 1975 – Alena Vašková, Czech tennis player
  • 1976Brett Lee, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
  • 1976 – Colin Strause, American director, producer, and visual effects designer
  • 1977Jully Black, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
  • 1977 – Bucky Covington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1977 – Nick Punto, American baseball player
  • 1978Matthew 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
  • 1979Andrea Benatti, Italian rugby player
  • 1979 – Aaron Hughes, Irish footballer
  • 1980Luís Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
  • 1980 – Laura Jane Grace, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  • 1980 – Holly Walsh, English radio and television host
  • 1981Joe Cole, English footballer
  • 1981 – Yann Kermorgant, French footballer
  • 1982Ted DiBiase, Jr., American wrestler and actor
  • 1982 – Mika Kallio, Finnish motorcycle racer
  • 1982 – Sam Sparro, Australian singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1983Sinan 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
  • 1983 – Danielle Valore Evans American short story writer
  • 1984Kuntal Chandra, Bangladeshi cricketer (d. 2012)
  • 1984 – Yoko Mitsuya, Japanese model and actress
  • 1984 – Steven Webb, English actor
  • 1985Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
  • 1985 – Míchel, Spanish footballer
  • 1986Patricia Mayr-Achleitner, Austrian tennis player
  • 1986 – Jamie Roberts, Welsh rugby player
  • 1986 – Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer and activist (d. 2013)
  • 1987Édgar Benítez, Paraguayan footballer
  • 1987 – Sam Bradford, American football player
  • 1987 – Mohd Faiz Subri, Malaysian footballer
  • 1988Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress and singer
  • 1988 – Lucia Slaničková, Slovak heptathlete
  • 1989Morgan Schneiderlin, French footballer
  • 1989 – SZA, American singer-songwriter[8]
  • 1989 – Giancarlo Stanton, American baseball player
  • 1990Ingrid Puusta, Estonian sailor
  • 1991Aaron Fotheringham, American wheelchair athlete
  • 1991 – Jack Littlejohn, Australian rugby league player
  • 1991 – Dan Middleton, English YouTube personality and pro gamer
  • 1992Christophe Vincent, French footballer
  • 1993Przemek Karnowski, Polish basketball player
  • 1993 – Fraser Mullen, Scottish footballer
  • 1999Katherine Uchida, Canadian rhythmic gymnast[9]
  • 2000Jasmine Thompson, English singer

Deaths[]

  • 397Martin of Tours, Frankish bishop and saint
  • 618Adeodatus I, pope of the Catholic Church
  • 785Sawara, Japanese prince
  • 789Willehad, bishop of Bremen
  • 928Duan Ning, Chinese general
  • 940Yao Yi, Chinese chancellor (b. 866)
  • 943Liu, empress of Qi (Ten Kingdoms) (b. 877)
  • 955Agapetus II, pope of the Catholic Church
  • 977Ibn al-Qūṭiyya, Andalusian historian
  • 1067Sancha of León, Queen of León (b. c. 1018)[10]
  • 1115Godfrey of Amiens, French bishop and saint (b. 1066)
  • 1122Ilghazi, Artuqid ruler of Mardin
  • 1171Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
  • 1195Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1135)
  • 1226Louis VIII, king of France (b. 1187)
  • 1246Berengaria of Castile (b. 1179)
  • 1263Matilda of Béthune, French countess
  • 1308Duns Scotus, Scottish priest, philosopher, and academic (b. 1266)
  • 1400Peter of Aragon, Aragonese infante (b. 1398)
  • 1478Baeda Maryam I, emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
  • 1494Melozzo da Forlì, Italian painter (b. c. 1438)
  • 1517Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish cardinal (b. 1436)
  • 1527Jerome Emser, German theologian and reformer (b. 1477)
  • 1599Francisco Guerrero, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1528)
  • 1600Natsuka Masaie, Japanese daimyō (b. 1562)
  • 1605Robert Catesby, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (b. 1573)
  • 1606Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
  • 1658Witte de With, Dutch admiral (b. 1599)
  • 1674John Milton, English poet and philosopher (b. 1608)
  • 1719Michel Rolle, French mathematician and author (b. 1652)
  • 1773Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
  • 1817Andrea Appiani, Italian painter and educator (b. 1754)
  • 1828Thomas Bewick, English engraver, illustrator and author (b.1753)
  • 1830Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
  • 1873Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1796)
  • 1887Doc Holliday, American dentist and poker player (b. 1851)
  • 1890César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (b. 1822)
  • 1895Robert Battey, American surgeon and academic (b. 1828)
  • 1901James Agnew, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1815)
  • 1905Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
  • 1917Colin Blythe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1879)
  • 1921Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet and playwright (b. 1849)
  • 1934Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1879)
  • 1944Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
  • 1945August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
  • 1949Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874)
  • 1953Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
  • 1953 – John van Melle, Dutch-South African author and educator (b. 1887)
  • 1956Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (b. 1884)[11]
  • 1959Frank S. Land, American activist, founded the DeMolay International (b. 1890)
  • 1960Subroto Mukerjee, Indian soldier; Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (b. 1911)
  • 1965Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, television personality, and game show panelist (b. 1913)
  • 1968Wendell Corey, American actor and politician (b. 1914)
  • 1968 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
  • 1970Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (b. 1892)
  • 1973Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and politician (b. 1898)
  • 1974Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)
  • 1975Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese-French poet and author (b. 1925)
  • 1977Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor and producer (b. 1931)
  • 1977 – Bucky Harris, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
  • 1978Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1894)
  • 1983James Booker, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
  • 1983 – Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian-American rabbi and educator (b. 1881)
  • 1985Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1899)
  • 1985 – Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1915)
  • 1986Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1890)[12]
  • 1994Michael O'Donoghue, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1940)
  • 1998Rumer 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)
  • 1999Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1941)
  • 1999 – Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast and judge (b. 1898)
  • 2001Aristidis Moschos, Greek santouri player and educator (b. 1930)
  • 2002Jon Elia, Pakistani poet, philosopher, and scholar (b. 1931)
  • 2003Bob 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)
  • 2004Peter Mathers, English-Australian author and playwright (b. 1931)
  • 2005Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor and director (b. 1928)
  • 2005 – David Westheimer, American soldier and author (b. 1917)
  • 2006Basil Poledouris, American composer and conductor (b. 1945)
  • 2006 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian physicist and academic (b. 1941)
  • 2007Aad 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)
  • 2009Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
  • 2010Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b. 1961)
  • 2010 – Jack Levine, American soldier and painter (b. 1915)
  • 2010 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentinian admiral (b. 1925)
  • 2011Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1967)
  • 2011 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
  • 2012Lee MacPhail, American businessman (b. 1917)
  • 2012 – Pete Namlook, German composer and producer (b. 1960)
  • 2012 – Peggy Vaughan, American author (b. 1936)
  • 2013William 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)
  • 2014Phil 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)
  • 2015Rhea 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)

Holidays and observances[]

  • Christian feast day:
    • Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (Roman Catholic Church)
    • Four Crowned Martyrs
    • Godfrey of Amiens
    • Johann von Staupitz (Lutheran)
    • Blessed John Duns Scotus
    • Saints and Martyrs of England (Church of England)
    • Tysilio
    • Willehad of Bremen
    • November 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Earliest day on which Father's Day can fall, while November 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in November. (Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden)
  • Earliest day on which Grandparents Day can fall, while November 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in November. (South Sudan)
  • Earliest day on which Heir to the Throne's Birthday can fall, while November 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in November. (Tuvalu)
  • Earliest day on which National Day of the Pupusa can fall, while November 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in November. (El Salvador)
  • Earliest day on which Remembrance Sunday can fall, while November 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in November. (United Kingdom)
  • Latest day on which Election Day can fall, while November 2 is the earliest; observed on the first Tuesday after a Monday in November. (United States)
  • Day of Baku Metro Employees (Azerbaijan)
  • Intersex Day of Remembrance (New South Wales, Australia)
  • International Day of Radiology (European Society of Radiology)
  • National Aboriginal Veterans Day (Canada)
  • Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers of Heaven (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • World Urbanism Day

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