November 25
Day of the year
November 25 is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 36 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
571 BC – Servius Tullius , king of Rome , celebrates the first of his three triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans .[ 1]
1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda , King of Scots , dies. His grandson, Donnchad , son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld , inherits the throne.
1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel , drowning William Adelin , son and heir of Henry I of England .[ 2]
1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard .[ 3]
1343 – A tsunami , caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea , devastates Naples and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi , among other places.
1400 – King Minkhaung I becomes king of Ava .[ 4]
1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England .[ 5]
1491 – The siege of Granada , the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada .
1510 – Portuguese conquest of Goa : Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque , and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji , seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate , resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
1596 – The Cudgel War begins in Finland (at the time part of Sweden), when peasants rebel against the imposition of taxes by the nobility.[ 6]
1601–1900
1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus , killing 80,000 people.
1678 – Trunajaya rebellion : After a long and logistically challenging march, the allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assaulted the rebel stronghold of Kediri.
1755 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary .
1758 – French and Indian War : British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh .
1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000–40,000.
1783 – American Revolutionary War : The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris .
1795 – Partitions of Poland : Stanisław August Poniatowski , the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy .
1833 – A massive undersea earthquake , estimated magnitude between 8.7 and 9.2, rocks Sumatra , producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
1839 – A cyclone slams into south-eastern India. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.[ 7]
1863 – American Civil War : Battle of Missionary Ridge : Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg at Missionary Ridge in Tennessee .
1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873 .[ 8]
1876 – American Indian Wars : In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn , United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River .[ 9]
1901–present
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway .[ 10]
1908 – A fire breaks out on SS Sardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour , resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.[ 11]
1912 – Românul de la Pind , the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II , ceases its publications.[ 12]
1915 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences .
1917 – World War I : German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania .
1918 – Vojvodina , formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria-Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia .
1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
1936 – In Berlin , Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact , agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.
1941 – HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II .
1943 – World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
1947 – Red Scare : The "Hollywood Ten " are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios .
1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 impacts 22 American states, killing 353 people, injuring over 160, and causing US$66.7 million in damages (1950 dollars).
1952 – Agatha Christie 's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End after a premiere in Nottingham, UK. It will become the longest continuously running play in history.[ 13]
1952 – Korean War : After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends in a Chinese victory. American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle ".[ 14]
1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community .
1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
1963 – State funeral of John F. Kennedy ; after lying in state at the United States Capitol , a Requiem Mass takes place at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle and the President is buried at Arlington National Cemetery .[ 15]
1968 – The Old Student House in Helsinki, Finland is occupied by a large group of University of Helsinki students.[ 16]
1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1973 – Georgios Papadopoulos , head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis .
1975 – Coup of 25 November 1975 , a failed military coup d'état by Portuguese far-left activists seeking to hijack the Portuguese transition to democracy to establishment a communist regime.[ 17] [ 18]
1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. , is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad . He is later assassinated in 1983.
1980 – Sangoulé Lamizana , president of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Colonel Saye Zerbo .[ 19]
1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI ) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith .
1984 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid 's "Do They Know It's Christmas? " in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia .
1985 – A Soviet Air Force Antonov An-12 is shot down near Menongue in Angola's Cuando Cubango Province , killing 21.[ 20]
1986 – Iran–Contra affair : U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua .
1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf .
1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 265 km/h (165 mph) and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia , with effect from January 1, 1993.
1999 – A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González , is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
2000 – The 2000 Baku earthquake , with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku , Azerbaijan , and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
2008 – Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka , killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.
2009 – Jeddah floods : Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1609 – Henrietta Maria of France , Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1669)[ 22]
1638 – Catherine of Braganza (d. 1705)[ 23]
1666 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri , Italian violin maker (d. 1740)[ 24]
1703 – Jean-François Séguier , French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
1752 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt , German composer and critic (d. 1814)
1753 – Robert Townsend , American spy (d. 1838)[ 25]
1758 – John Armstrong, Jr. , American general and politician, 7th United States Secretary of War (d. 1843)
1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck , English author and activist (d. 1856)
1787 – Franz Xaver Gruber , Austrian organist and composer (d. 1863)
1814 – Julius Robert von Mayer , German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
1815 – William Sawyer , Canadian merchant and politician (d. 1904)
1817 – John Bigelow , American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to France (d. 1911)
1835 – Andrew Carnegie , Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1919)[ 26]
1841 – Ernst Schröder , German mathematician and academic (d. 1902)[ 27]
1843 – Henry Ware Eliot , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1919)
1844 – Karl Benz , German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (d. 1929)[ 28]
1845 – José Maria de Eça de Queirós , Portuguese-French journalist and author (d. 1900)
1846 – Carrie Nation , American activist (d. 1911)
1858 – Alfred Capus , French journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1922)
1862 – Ethelbert Nevin , American pianist and composer (d. 1901)
1862 – Gustaf Söderström , Swedish tug of war competitor, shot putter, and discus thrower (d. 1958)
1865 – Kate Gleason , American engineer, businesswoman, and philanthropist (d. 1933)
1867 – Talaat Harb , Egyptian economist, founded the Banque Misr (d. 1941)
1868 – Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1937)[ 29]
1869 – Ben Lindsey , American lawyer and judge (d. 1934)
1870 – Winthrop Ames , American director, producer, and playwright (d. 1937)
1870 – Maurice Denis , French painter of Les Nabis movement (d. 1943)
1872 – Robert Maysack , American gymnast and triathlete (d. 1960)
1873 – Albert Henry Krehbiel , American painter and illustrator (d. 1945)
1874 – Joe Gans , American boxer (d. 1910)
1876 – Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1936)
1877 – Harley Granville-Barker , British actor, director and playwright (d. 1946)
1880 – John Flynn , Australian minister and pilot, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (d. 1951)
1880 – Elsie J. Oxenham , English author (d. 1960)
1881 – Jacob Fichman , Romanian-Israeli poet and critic (d. 1958)
1881 – Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
1883 – Harvey Spencer Lewis , American mystic and author (d. 1939)
1887 – Nikolai Vavilov , Russian botanist and geneticist (d. 1943)
1889 – Reşat Nuri Güntekin , Turkish author and playwright (d. 1956)
1890 – Isaac Rosenberg , English soldier and poet (d. 1918)
1891 – Ōnishiki Uichirō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (d. 1941)
1893 – Joseph Wood Krutch , American author and critic (d. 1970)
1895 – Wilhelm Kempff , German pianist and composer (d. 1991)
1895 – Anastas Mikoyan , Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (d. 1978)
1895 – Helen Hooven Santmyer , American poet and author (d. 1986)
1895 – Ludvík Svoboda , Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979)
1896 – Albertus Soegijapranata , Indonesian archbishop (d. 1963)
1896 – Virgil Thomson , American composer and critic (d. 1989)
1898 – Debaki Bose , Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1971)
1898 – Aarne Viisimaa , Estonian tenor and director (d. 1989)
1900 – Rudolf Höss , German SS officer (d. 1947)
1900 – Helen Gahagan Douglas , American actress and politician (d. 1980)
1901–present
1901 – Arthur Liebehenschel , German SS officer (d. 1948)
1902 – Eddie Shore , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1985)
1904 – Lillian Copeland , American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1964)[ 30]
1904 – Toni Ortelli , Italian composer and conductor (d. 2000)
1905 – Samiha Ayverdi , Turkish mystic and author (d. 1993)[ 31]
1906 – Alice Ambrose , American philosopher and logician (d. 2001)[ 32]
1907 – John Stuart Hindmarsh , English race car driver and pilot (d. 1938)
1908 – Natyaguru Nurul Momen , Bangladeshi playwright, author, educator, director and media personality (d. 1990)
1909 – P. D. Eastman , American author and illustrator (d. 1986)
1911 – Roelof Frankot , Dutch painter and photographer (d. 1984)
1913 – Lewis Thomas , American physician, etymologist, and educator (d. 1993)
1914 – Joe DiMaggio , American baseball player and coach (d. 1999)[ 33]
1914 – Léon Zitrone , Russian-French journalist (d. 1995)
1915 – Augusto Pinochet , Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile (d. 2006)[ 34]
1915 – Armando Villanueva , Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (d. 2013)
1916 – Peg Lynch , American actress and screenwriter (d. 2015)[ 35]
1917 – Luigi Poggi , Italian cardinal (d. 2010)
1917 – Alparslan Türkeş , Cypriot-Turkish colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 1997)
1919 – Norman Tokar , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1979)
1920 – Shelagh Fraser , English actress (d. 2000)[ 36]
1920 – Ricardo Montalbán , Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (d. 2009)[ 34]
1920 – Noel Neill , American actress (d. 2016)[ 34]
1922 – Ilja Hurník , Czech composer and playwright (d. 2013)
1922 – Fernance B. Perry , Portuguese-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2014)
1923 – Mauno Koivisto , Finnish banker and politician, 9th President of Finland (d. 2017)
1923 – Art Wall Jr. , American golfer (d. 2001)
1924 – Paul Desmond , American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
1924 – Sybil Stockdale , American activist, co-founded the National League of Families (d. 2015)
1924 – Takaaki Yoshimoto , Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 2012)
1926 – Poul Anderson , American author (d. 2001)
1926 – Jeffrey Hunter , American actor and producer (d. 1969)
1926 – Ranganath Misra , Indian lawyer and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (d. 2012)
1927 – John K. Cooley , American journalist and author (d. 2008)
1929 – Judy Crichton , American director and producer (d. 2007)
1931 – Nat Adderley , American cornet and trumpet player (d. 2000)
1932 – Takayo Fischer , American actress and singer
1933 – Kathryn Crosby , American actress and singer (d. 2024)[ 37] [ 38]
1935 – Robert Berner , American geologist and academic (d. 2015)
1936 – Trisha Brown , American dancer and choreographer (d. 2017)
1938 – Erol Güngör , Turkish sociologist and psychologist (d. 1983)
1938 – Rosanna Schiaffino , Italian actress (d. 2009)
1939 – Martin Feldstein , American economist and academic (d. 2019)
1940 – Reinhard Furrer , Austrian-German physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)
1940 – Joe Gibbs , American football coach and auto racing executive[ 34]
1940 – Karl Offmann , Mauritian politician, 3rd President of Mauritius (d. 2022)
1940 – Shyamal Kumar Sen , Indian jurist and politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal
1940 – Percy Sledge , American singer (d. 2015)[ 39]
1941 – Christos Papanikolaou , Greek pole vaulter
1941 – Gerald Seymour , English journalist and author
1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi , Pakistani spiritual leader and author
1942 – Bob Lind , American singer-songwriter and guitarist[ 37]
1942 – Mimis Papaioannou , Greek footballer and manager (d. 2023)
1943 – Jerry Portnoy , American singer-songwriter and harmonica player
1944 – Ben Stein , American actor, television personality, game show host, lawyer, and author[ 37]
1944 – Michael Kijana Wamalwa , Kenyan lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya (d. 2003)
1945 – Gail Collins , American journalist and author
1945 – Patrick Nagel , American painter and illustrator (d. 1984)
1945 – George Webster , American football player (d. 2007)
1946 – Marc Brown , American author and illustrator
1946 – Mike Doyle , English footballer (d. 2011)
1947 – Jonathan Kaplan , French-American director and producer
1947 – John Larroquette , American actor[ 37]
1948 – Jacques Dupuis , Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Deputy Premier of Quebec
1948 – Lars Eighner , American author (d. 2021)
1949 – Kerry O'Keeffe , Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1950 – Chris Claremont , English-American author
1950 – Giorgio Faletti , Italian author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2014)
1950 – Alexis Wright , Australian author
1951 – Bucky Dent , American baseball player and manager
1951 – Charlaine Harris , American author and poet
1951 – Bill Morrissey , American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
1951 – Arturo Pérez-Reverte , Spanish author and journalist
1951 – Johnny Rep , Dutch footballer and manager
1952 – Crescent Dragonwagon , American author and educator
1952 – John Lynch , American businessman and politician, 80th Governor of New Hampshire
1952 – Gabriele Oriali , Italian footballer and manager
1953 – Graham Eadie , Australian rugby league player and coach
1953 – Mark Frost , American author, screenwriter, and producer
1953 – Jeffrey Skilling , American businessman
1955 – Don Hahn , American director and producer
1955 – Kurt Niedermayer , German footballer and manager
1955 – Connie Palmen , Dutch author
1955 – Bruno Tonioli , Italian dancer and choreographer[ 37]
1957 – Bob Ehrlich , American lawyer and politician, 60th Governor of Maryland
1958 – Naomi Oreskes , American historian of science
1959 – Charles Kennedy , Scottish journalist and politician (d. 2015)[ 40]
1959 – Steve Rothery , English guitarist and songwriter
1960 – Amy Grant , American singer-songwriter[ 37]
1960 – John F. Kennedy Jr. , American lawyer, journalist, and publisher (d. 1999)[ 34]
1961 – Paul Comstive , English footballer (d. 2013)
1962 – Gilbert Delorme , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1962 – Hironobu Sakaguchi , Japanese videogame designer
1962 – Jimon Terakado , Japanese comedian and actor
1963 – Kevin Chamberlin , American actor and director[ 41]
1963 – Holly Cole , Canadian singer and actress
1963 – Chip Kelly , American football player and coach[ 42]
1964 – Mark Lanegan , American singer-songwriter (d. 2022)
1965 – Tim Armstrong , American musician, songwriter, and producer[ 37]
1965 – Cris Carter , American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1966 – Billy Burke , American actor[ 37]
1966 – Stacy Lattisaw , American R&B singer[ 37]
1967 – Anthony Nesty , Surinamese swimmer
1967 – Gregg Turkington , Australian comedian and singer
1968 – Jill Hennessy , Canadian actress and singer
1968 – Erick Sermon , American rapper and producer[ 37]
1969 – Anthony Peeler , American basketball player[ 43]
1971 – Christina Applegate , American actress[ 44]
1971 – Magnus Arvedson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1971 – Göksel Demirpençe , Turkish singer-songwriter
1972 – Gerard King , American basketball player[ 45]
1972 – Deepa Marathe , Indian cricketer
1972 – Petteri Nummelin , Finnish ice hockey player[ 46]
1973 – Steven de Jongh , Dutch cyclist
1973 – Octavio Dotel , Dominican baseball player
1973 – Erick Strickland , American basketball player
1973 – Eddie Steeples , American actor, producer, and screenwriter[ 37]
1974 – Kenneth Mitchell , Canadian actor (d. 2024)
1975 – Abdelkader Benali , Moroccan-Dutch journalist and author
1975 – Kristian Nairn , Northern Irish actor and DJ[ 37]
1976 – Clint Mathis , American soccer player and coach[ 47]
1976 – Donovan McNabb , American football player and sportscaster
1976 – Olena Vitrychenko , Ukrainian gymnast and coach
1977 – Guillermo Cañas , Argentinian tennis player
1977 – Jill Flint , American actress[ 37]
1977 – Marcus Marshall , Australian race car driver
1978 – Ringo Sheena , Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
1979 – Jerry Ferrara , American actor[ 37]
1979 – Joel Kinnaman , Swedish actor[ 34]
1980 – John-Michael Liles , American ice hockey player
1980 – Josh Mathews , American wrestler and sportscaster
1980 – Aaron Mokoena , South African footballer
1980 – Alviro Petersen , South African cricketer
1980 – Nick Swisher , American baseball player[ 48]
1980 – Steffen Thier , German rugby player
1981 – Xabi Alonso , Spanish footballer
1981 – Lee Bum-ho , South Korean baseball player
1981 – Barbara Pierce Bush , American activist[ 37]
1981 – Jenna Bush Hager , American journalist[ 37]
1981 – Jared Jeffries , American basketball player
1981 – Chevon Troutman , American basketball player
1982 – Mitchell Claydon , Australian-English cricketer
1982 – Michael Garnett , Canadian ice hockey player[ 49]
1983 – Jhulan Goswami , Indian cricketer
1984 – Peter Siddle , Australian cricketer
1984 – Gaspard Ulliel , French actor (d. 2022)[ 50]
1985 – Remona Fransen , Dutch pentathlete
1986 – Katie Cassidy , American actress[ 37]
1987 – Trevor Booker , American basketball player[ 51]
1988 – Nodar Kumaritashvili , Georgian luger (d. 2010)[ 52]
1988 – Jay Spearing , English footballer
1989 – Tom Dice , Belgian singer-songwriter
1990 – Stephanie Hsu , American actress[ 37]
1991 – Philipp Grubauer , German ice hockey player[ 53]
1992 – Ana Bogdan , Romanian tennis player [ 54]
1993 – Danny Kent , English motorcycle racer[ 55]
1997 – Dennis Smith Jr. , American basketball player[ 56]
2000 – Talen Horton-Tucker , American basketball player[ 57]
2000 – Kaja Juvan , Slovenian tennis player[ 58]
2002 – Pedri , Spanish footballer[ 59]
Deaths
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1626 – Edward Alleyn , English actor, founded Dulwich College (b. 1566)
1694 – Ismaël Bullialdus , French astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605)
1700 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt , American lawyer and politician, 10th Mayor of New York City (b. 1643)
1748 – Isaac Watts , English hymnwriter and theologian (b. 1674)
1755 – Johann Georg Pisendel , German violinist and composer (b. 1687)
1785 – Richard Glover , English poet and politician (b. 1712)
1865 – Heinrich Barth , German explorer and scholar (b. 1821)
1884 – Hermann Kolbe , German chemist and academic (b. 1818)
1885 – Thomas A. Hendricks , American lawyer and politician, 21st Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
1885 – Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
1901–present
1909 – Edward P. Allen , American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
1920 – Gaston Chevrolet , French-American racing driver and businessman (b. 1892)
1934 – N. E. Brown , English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents (b. 1849)
1944 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis , American lawyer and judge (b. 1866)
1948 – Kanbun Uechi , Japanese martial artist, founded Uechi-ryū (b. 1877)
1949 – Bill Robinson , American actor and dancer (b. 1878)
1950 – Mao Anying , Chinese general (b. 1922)
1950 – Johannes V. Jensen , Danish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
1950 – Gustaf John Ramstedt , Finnish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
1956 – Alexander Dovzhenko , Ukrainian-Russian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
1957 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark (b. 1869)
1959 – Gérard Philipe , French actor (b. 1922)
1961 – Hubert Van Innis , Belgian archer (b. 1866)
1963 – Alexander Marinesko , Russian lieutenant (b. 1913)
1965 – Myra Hess , English pianist and educator (b. 1890)
1968 – Upton Sinclair , American novelist, critic, and essayist (b. 1878)
1968 – Paul Siple , American geographer and explorer (b. 1908)
1970 – Yukio Mishima , Japanese author, actor, and director (b. 1925)
1972 – Henri Coandă , Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (b. 1886)
1972 – Hans Scharoun , German architect (b. 1893)[ 60]
1973 – Laurence Harvey , Lithuania-born English actor (b. 1928)
1974 – Nick Drake , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
1974 – U Thant , Burmese lawyer and diplomat, 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1909)
1980 – Herbert Flam , American tennis player (b. 1928)[ 61]
1981 – Jack Albertson , American actor and singer (b. 1907)
1983 – Saleem Raza (Pakistani singer) , Pakistani Christian playback singer (b. 1932)
1984 – Yashwantrao Chavan , Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1913)
1985 – Geoffrey Grigson , English poet and critic (b. 1905)
1985 – Franz Hildebrandt , German pastor and theologian (b. 1909)
1987 – Harold Washington , American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
1989 – Alva R. Fitch , American general (b. 1907)
1990 – Merab Mamardashvili , Georgian philosopher and academic (b. 1930)
1991 – Eleanor Audley , American actress and voice artist (b. 1905)
1995 – Léon Zitrone , Russian-French journalist (b. 1914)
1997 – Hastings Banda , Malawian physician and politician, 1st President of Malawi (b. 1898)
1998 – Nelson Goodman , American philosopher and academic (b. 1906)
1998 – Flip Wilson , American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
1999 – Valentín Campa , Mexican union leader and politician (b. 1904)
2000 – Hugh Alexander , American baseball player and scout (b. 1917)[ 62]
2002 – Karel Reisz , Czech-English director and producer (b. 1926)[ 63]
2004 – Ed Paschke , American painter and academic (b. 1939)
2005 – George Best , Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
2005 – Richard Burns , English rally driver (b. 1971)[ 64]
2006 – Luciano Bottaro , Italian author and illustrator (b. 1931)
2006 – Valentín Elizalde , Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1979)
2006 – Phyllis Fraser , American actress and publisher, co-founded Beginner Books (b. 1916)[ 65]
2006 – Kenneth M. Taylor , American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1919)[ 66]
2007 – Peter Lipton , American philosopher and academic (b. 1954)
2008 – Leonard Goodwin , British protozoologist (b. 1915) [ 67]
2010 – Alfred Balk , American journalist and author (b. 1930)
2010 – Peter Christopherson , English keyboard player, songwriter, and director (b. 1955)
2010 – C. Scott Littleton , American anthropologist and academic (b. 1933)
2010 – Bernard Matthews , English businessman, founded Bernard Matthews Farms (b. 1930)
2011 – Vasily Alekseyev , Russian weightlifter and coach (b. 1942)
2011 – Coco Robicheaux , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
2011 – Jawayd Anwar , Pakistani poet and writer (b. 1959)[ 68]
2012 – Lars Hörmander , Swedish mathematician and educator (b. 1931)
2012 – Dave Sexton , English footballer and manager (b. 1930)
2012 – Dinah Sheridan , English actress (b. 1920)
2012 – Jim Temp , American football player and businessman (b. 1933)
2013 – Lou Brissie , American baseball player (b. 1924)
2013 – Ricardo Fort , Argentinian businessman (b. 1968)
2013 – Bill Foulkes , English footballer and manager (b. 1932)
2013 – Chico Hamilton , American drummer and bandleader (b. 1921)
2013 – Egon Lánský , Czech journalist and politician (b. 1934)
2013 – Al Plastino , American author and illustrator (b. 1921)
2014 – Irvin J. Borowsky , American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1924)
2014 – Sitara Devi , Indian dancer, and choreographer (b. 1920)
2014 – Petr Hapka , Czech composer and conductor (b. 1944)
2014 – Denham Harman , American biogerontologist and academic (b. 1916)
2015 – O'Neil Bell , Jamaican boxer (b. 1974)
2015 – Jeremy Black , English admiral (b. 1932)
2015 – Svein Christiansen , Norwegian drummer and composer (b. 1941)
2015 – Lennart Hellsing , Swedish author and translator (b. 1919)
2015 – Elmo Williams , American director, producer, and editor (b. 1913)
2016 – Fidel Castro , Communist leader of Cuba, and revolutionary (b. 1926)[ 69]
2016 – Ron Glass , American actor (b. 1945)[ 70]
2020 – Diego Maradona , Argentinian football player (b. 1960)[ 71]
2023 – Terry Venables , English football player and manager (b.1943)[ 72]
2024 – Earl Holliman , American actor (b. 1928)[ 73]
2024 – Hal Lindsey , American evangelist and Christian writer (b. 1929)[ 74]
Holidays and observances
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