November 15
Day of the year
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
Pre-1600
1917 – Eduskunta Finland , prompting its declaration of independence and secession from Russia .[ 7] 1920 – The 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 .[ 8] 1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.[ 9] 1933 – Thailand holds its first election .1938 – Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht .[ 10] 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 ".1951 – Nikos Beloyannis , along with 11 comrades, is sentenced to death for attempting to reestablish the Communist Party of Greece .1955 – The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.1957 – Short Solent 3 crashes near Chessell .[ 11] 1959 – Four members of the Clutter family are murdered near Holcomb, Kansas , by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock ,[ 12] Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood [ 13] 1965 – Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America , at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah .[ 14] 1966 – Project Gemini : Gemini 12 Atlantic Ocean .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; it is only recognized 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 .1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713 crashes during takeoff from Stapleton International Airport in Denver , Colorado, killing 25.[ 15]
1988 – In the Soviet Union , the uncrewed 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 – The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.1990 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-38 , a classified mission for the Department of Defense .[ 16]
1994 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro , killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to 8.5 m (28 ft) high.[ 17] 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 .[ 18]
2001 – Microsoft launches the Xbox game console in North America .[ 19] 2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 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, kill 25 people and wound 300 more.2006 – Al Jazeera English 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 Chinese Communist Party 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 .[ 20] 2017 – A flood a few miles outside of Athens results in the death of 25 people. [ 21] 2020 – Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title , equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher .[ 22] 2022 – The world population reached eight billion .[ 23]
Births
Pre-1600
1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry , French author (d. 1701)[ 24] 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 politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1778)[ 25] 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)1866 – Cornelia Sorabji , Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (d. 1954)[ 26] 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)[ 27] 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)[ 28] 1916 – Bill Melendez , Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (d. 2008)
1919 – Carol Bruce , American singer and actress (d. 2007)[ 29] 1919 – Joseph Wapner , American judge and television personality (d. 2017)[ 30]
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)1929 – Ed Asner , American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2021)[ 31] 1929 – Joe Hinton , American singer (d. 1968)
1930 – J. G. Ballard , English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2009)[ 32] 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 (d. 2022)
1931 – Pascal Lissouba , Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (d. 2020)
1932 – Petula Clark , English singer-songwriter and actress[ 33] 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 (d. 2022)1934 – Peter Dickinson , English pianist and composer (d. 2023)
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 manager1939 – Yaphet Kotto , American actor and screenwriter (d. 2021)[ 34]
1939 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde , Finnish physician and parapsychologist (d. 2015)
1940 – Roberto Cavalli , Italian fashion designer (d. 2024)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[ 33]
1941 – Rick Kemp , English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer1941 – Daniel Pinkwater , American author and illustrator
1942 – Daniel Barenboim , Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor[ 32] 1945 – Roger Donaldson , Australian director, producer, and screenwriter1945 – Bob Gunton , American actor and singer[ 33]
1945 – Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Norwegian-Swedish singer[ 33]
1946 – Vassilis Goumas , Greek basketball player1947 – Bob Dandridge , American basketball player[ 35] 1947 – Malcolm Ranjith , Sri Lankan cardinal
1947 – Bill Richardson , American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2023)[ 36]
1947 – Ken Sutcliffe , Australian journalist and sportscaster
1948 – Jimmy Choo , Malaysian fashion designer[page needed [ 37] 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[ 33] 1952 – Rick Atkinson , American journalist, historian, and author1952 – Randy Savage , American wrestler (d. 2011)[ 32]
1953 – Alexander O'Neal , American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger1953 – James Widdoes , American actor, director, and producer[ 33]
1954 – Kevin S. Bright , American director and producer1954 – 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 percussionist1956 – Michael Hampton , American guitarist and producer1957 – Gerry Connolly , Australian comedian and actor1957 – Kevin Eubanks , American guitarist and composer[ 33]
1957 – Harold Marcuse , American historian and educator
1957 – Michael Woythe , German footballer and manager
1958 – Lewis Fitz-Gerald , Australian actor and director1958 – Gu Kailai , Chinese lawyer and businesswoman
1958 – Lesley Laird , British politician
1959 – Tibor Fischer , English author1960 – Dawn Airey , English broadcaster1961 – Hugh McGahan , New Zealand rugby league player1962 – Mark Acres , American basketball player and educator1962 – Judy Gold , American comedian, actress, and producer[ 33]
1963 – Andrew Castle , English tennis player and television host1963 – Benny Elias , Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1963 – Kevin J. O'Connor , American actor
1964 – Stelios Aposporis , Greek footballer and manager1964 – Mikhail Rusyayev , Russian footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2011)
1964 – Tiit Sokk , Estonian basketball player and coach
1965 – Nigel Bond , English snooker player1965 – Stefan Pfeiffer , German swimmer
1966 – Rachel True , American actress[ 33] 1967 – Greg Anthony , American basketball player and sportscaster1967 – Cynthia Breazeal , American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic
1967 – E-40 , American rapper and actor[ 33]
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 coach1970 – Jack Ingram , American singer-songwriter and guitarist[ 33]
1970 – Alexander Kvitashvili , Georgian-Ukrainian academic and politician, 19th Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare
1970 – Patrick M'Boma , Cameroonian footballer
1971 – Jay Harrington , American actor1971 – Martin Pieckenhagen , German footballer
1972 – Jonny Lee Miller , English-American actor[ 33] 1973 – Sydney Tamiia Poitier , American actress[ 33] 1973 – Alamgir Sheriyar , English cricketer
1974 – Chad Kroeger , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[ 33] 1975 – Scott Henshall , English fashion designer1975 – Yannick Tremblay , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Boris Živković , Croatian footballer
1976 – Brandon DiCamillo , American comedian, actor, and stuntman1976 – Virginie Ledoyen , French actress[ 33]
1976 – Sule , Indonesian comedian and actor
1977 – Richard Lintner , Slovak ice hockey player[ 38] 1977 – Steven Miles , Australian politician, 40th Premier of Queensland [ 39]
1977 – Sean Murray , American actor[ 33]
1977 – Peter Phillips , English businessman
1977 – Robaire Smith , American football player
1978 – Floyd Womack , American football player1979 – Brooks Bollinger , American football player and coach1979 – Josemi , Spanish footballer
1979 – Brett Lancaster , Australian cyclist
1980 – Ace Young , American singer-songwriter and actor1981 – Drew Hodgdon , American football player1981 – Lorena Ochoa , Mexican golfer[ 32]
1982 – D. J. Fitzpatrick , American football player1982 – 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 runner1983 – Sophia Di Martino , English actress[ 32]
1983 – Aleksandar Pavlović , Serbian basketball player
1983 – Fernando Verdasco , Spanish tennis player
1983 – John Heitinga , Dutch footballer and coach[ 40]
1984 – Asia Kate Dillon , American actor and producer1985 – Lily Aldridge , American model1985 – Charron Fisher , American basketball player
1985 – Simon Spender , Welsh footballer
1986 – Winston Duke , Tobagonian-American actor[ 33] 1986 – Coye Francies , American football player
1986 – Sania Mirza , Indian tennis player
1986 – Jerry Roush , American singer-songwriter
1987 – Sergio Llull , Spanish basketball player[ 41] 1988 – B.o.B , American rapper, songwriter, and producer[ 33] 1988 – Quanitra Hollingsworth , American-Turkish basketball player[ 42]
1988 – Morgan Parra , French rugby player
1988 – Billy Twelvetrees , English rugby player
1989 – Jona Viray , Filipino singer1991 – Maxime Colin , French footballer1991 – Shailene Woodley , American actress[ 33]
1992 – Dylan Bundy , American baseball player[ 43] 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 – Arik Armstead , American football player[ 44] 1993 – Paulo Dybala , Argentine footballer
1993 – Saaya Irie , Japanese actress and singer
1993 – Melitina Staniouta , Belarusian rhythmic gymnast[ 45]
1994 – Ekaterina Alexandrova , Russian tennis player[ 46] 1994 – Emma Dumont , American actress and model[ 33]
1994 – Bryce Cartwright , Australian rugby league player
1995 – Blake Pieroni , American swimmer[ 47] 1995 – Karl-Anthony Towns , Dominican-American basketball player
1996 – Kim Min-jae , South Korean footballer[ 48] 1997 – Paula Badosa , Spanish tennis player[ 49] 2001 – TyTy Washington Jr. , American basketball player[ 50]
Deaths
Pre-1600
165 BCE – Mattathias , Jewish resistance leader621 – Malo , Breton bishop and saint655 – Æthelhere , king of East Anglia655 – 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 Flanders1226 – 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 Austria1379 – Otto V , duke of Bavaria1463 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini , Italian nobleman1527 – Catherine of York , English princess (b. 1479)[ 51] 1579 – Ferenc Dávid , Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (b. 1510)
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)1836 – Herman of Alaska , Russian missionary and saint (b. 1750s)[ 52] 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)[ 53] 1910 – Wilhelm Raabe , German author (b. 1831)1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz , Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)[ 54] 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)
1921 – Tadhg Barry , veteran Irish republican and leading trade unionist (b. 1880)[ 55] 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)1942 – Annemarie Schwarzenbach , Swiss author and photographer (b. 1908)[ 56] 1945 – Frank Chapman , American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)1949 – Narayan Apte , Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)[ 57] 1949 – Nathuram Godse , Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)[ 57]
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)[ 58] 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)[ 59] 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)
1984 – Baby Fae , American infant, who received baboon heart (b. 1984)[ 60] 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)2023 – Žarko Laušević , Serbian actor (b. 1960)[ 61] 2024 – Celeste Caeiro , Portuguese pacifist (b. 1933)[ 62] 2024 – Béla Károlyi , Romanian-American gymnastics coach (b. 1942)[ 63]
2024 – Jon Kenny , Irish comedian and actor (b. 1957)[ 64]
2024 – Yuriko, Princess Mikasa , Japanese princess (b. 1923)[ 65]
Holidays and observances
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