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Events

• 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
• 642 - Pope Theodore I succeeds John IV as Pope.
• 1190 - Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, Israel, making him de jure Kings of Jerusalem.
• 1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus
• 1642 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
• 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain - Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate States of America siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
• 1898 - The International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opens.
• 1904 - The first successful caterpillar track is made.
• 1917 - Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when the Milwaukee, WI police headquarters building explodes due to a bomb.
• 1922 - Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
• 1932 - In Washington, D.C., the Federal Bureau of Investigation Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
• 1935 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
• 1941 - World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
• 1943 - World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa Atoll and sinks with nearly 650 men killed.
• 1944 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo in World War II - The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land was made by 88 United States aircraft.
• 1947 - Second Red Scare: After refusing to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communism influence in the film industry, the United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10.
• 1947 - Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1951 - The Broadway theatre play Gigi opens with a then unknown actress by the name of Audrey Hepburn in the title role.
• 1960 - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in one game, setting an NBA record.
• 1962 - The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
• 1963 - Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
• 1965 - Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; he goes on to rule the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
• 1966 - A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
• 1966 - New York City experiences the smoggiest day in that city's history.
• 1969 - Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
• 1971 - During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a Aircraft hijacking calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D.B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with US$200,000 in ransom money - neither he nor the money are ever found.
• 1992 - In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
• 1993 - In Liverpool, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the child murder of 2-year-old Murder of James Bulger.
• 1998 - America Online announces it will acquire Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock transaction worth US$4.2 billion.
• 2005 - Conservative leader Stephen Harper, the leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament, introduced a motion of no confidence, which NDP leader Jack Layton seconded. The motion was passed on November 28 which led to the dissolution to the 38th Canadian Parliament.

Births

• 1273 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (d. 1284)
• 1394 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465)
• 1420 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (d. 1473)
• 1583 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
• 1615 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)
• 1630 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
• 1632 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)
• 1655 - Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
• 1690 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
• 1713 - Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary (d. 1784)
• 1713 - Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist (d. 1768)
• 1724 - Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of Spain (d. 1760)
• 1729 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
• 1774 - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)
• 1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
• 1787 - Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
• 1801 - Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)
• 1806 - William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby (d. 1872)
• 1811 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)
• 1815 - Grace Darling, English heroine (d. 1842)
• 1826 - Carlo Collodi, Italian author (d. 1890)
• 1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-born author (d. 1924)
• 1853 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (d. 1921)
• 1859 - Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
• 1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
• 1868 - Scott Joplin, Ragtime Composer (d. 1917)
• 1874 - Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer (d. 1953)
• 1876 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d. 1937)
• 1877 - Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
• 1881 - Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1951)
• 1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
• 1886 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher (d. 1973)
• 1887 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (d. 1973)
• 1888 - Dale Carnegie, American writer (d. 1955)
• 1888 - Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
• 1894 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1897 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
• 1908 - Libertad Lamarque, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2000)
• 1911 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (d. 1975)
• 1911 - Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1912 - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (d. 1993)
• 1912 - Garson Kanin, American writer (d. 1999)
• 1912 - Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (d. 1986)
• 1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (d. 2005)
• 1916 - Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer
• 1916 - Irwin Allen, American film producer (d. 1991)
• 1917 - Howard Duff, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1919 - David Kossoff, British actor (d. 2005)
• 1921 - John Lindsay, American politician (d. 2000)
• 1924 - Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman (d. 2000)
• 1925 - William F. Buckley Jr., American writer
• 1925 - Simon van der Meer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 - Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1927 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
• 1930 - Bob Friend, baseball player
• 1934 - Alfred Schnittke, German composer (d. 1998)
• 1935 - Ronald Vernie Dellums, U.S. Representative from California
• 1938 - Oscar Robertson, American basketball player
• 1938 - Willy Claes, Belgian politician
• 1940 - Paul Tagliabue, retired commissioner of the National Football League
• 1940 - Don Metz, American architect
• 1940 - Eric Wilson (author), Canadian children's author.
• 1941 - Pete Best, British musician
• 1941 - Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician, Booker T. and the M.G.'s
• 1942 - Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian
• 1942 - Marlin Fitzwater, White House Press Secretary
• 1943 - Dave Bing, American basketball player
• 1943 - Robin Williamson, Scottish musician
• 1944 - Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar
• 1945 - Lee Michaels, American musician and singer
• 1946 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
• 1946 - Penelope Jones Halsall (aka: Caroline Courtney, Melinda Wright, Lydia Hitchcock, Penny Jordan, Annie Groves)
• 1947 - Dave Sinclair, English musician (Caravan (band), Hatfield and the North)
• 1947 - Dwight Schultz, American actor
• 1948 - Spider Robinson, science fiction author
• 1948 - Steve Yeager, baseball player
• 1949 - Shane Bourne, Australian comedian and actor
• 1951 - Chet Edwards, American politician
• 1953 - Glenn Withrow, American actor
• 1954 - Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker
• 1955 - Ian Botham, England test cricketer
• 1955 - Elvis Ramone, American drummer (The Ramones)
• 1955 - Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
• 1955 - Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician
• 1957 - Denise Crosby, American actress
• 1957 - Edward Stourton (journalist), British radio presenter
• 1958 - Roy Aitken, Scottish former footballer
• 1958 - Alain Chabat, French actor and director
• 1960 - Amanda Wyss, American actress
• 1960 - Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer
• 1961 - Carlos Carnero, Spanish member of parliament
• 1961 - Arundhati Roy, Indian writer
• 1962 - John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)
• 1962 - John Kovalic, British-born cartoonist
• 1964 - Brad Sherwood, American comedian
• 1964 - Tony Rombola, American guitarist (Godsmack)
• 1965 - Kim Roe-ha, South Korean actor
• 1965 - Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
• 1966 - Paul Robinett, American internet personality
• 1966 - Russell Watson, British singer
• 1967 - Cal Eldred, baseball player
• 1968 - Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
• 1969 - Rob Nicholson (musician), American musician
• 1970 - Julieta Venegas, Mexican singer
• 1971 - Cosmas Ndeti, three-time Boston Marathon winner
• 1971 - Keith Primeau, Canadian hockey player
• 1974 - Stephen Merchant, British comedian
• 1974 - Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor
• 1975 - Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer
• 1976 - Dave Aizer, American television host
• 1976 - Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
• 1976 - Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 - Colin Hanks, American actor
• 1978 - Katherine Heigl, American actress
• 1980 - Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler
• 1983 - Dean Ashton, English footballer
• 1994 - Jonathan Jackson, African American born on thanksgiving

Deaths

• 654 - Emperor Kotoku of Japan
• 1468 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
• 1531 - Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
• 1541 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489)
• 1572 - John Knox, Scottish reformer
• 1583 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
• 1615 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)
• 1650 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b. 1566)
• 1722 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (b. 1623)
• 1741 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688)
• 1770 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685)
• 1775 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
• 1781 - James Caldwell, American revolutionary (b. 1734)
• 1793 - Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
• 1801 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
• 1807 - Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (b. 1742)
• 1848 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
• 1870 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846)
• 1890 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
• 1916 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
• 1920 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (b. 1854)
• 1922 - Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
• 1929 - Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
• 1943 - Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
• 1956 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
• 1957 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
• 1958 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
• 1959 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883)
• 1960 - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
• 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
• 1965 - Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
• 1967 - Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
• 1973 - John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
• 1980 - George Raft, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1980 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
• 1985 - Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1987 - Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
• 1990 - Fred Shero, National Hockey League player and coach (b. 1925)
• 1990 - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1990 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
• 1991 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen (band)) (b. 1946)
• 1991 - Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss (band)) (b. 1950)
• 1992 - Kishan Patel
• 1996 - Sorley MacLean, British poet (b. 1911)
• 2001 - Melanie Thornton, American dance/pop singer (b. 1967)
• 2002 - John Rawls, political philosopher (b. 1921)
• 2003 - Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964)
• 2003 - Warren Spahn, Major League Baseball player (b. 1921)
• 2004 - Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2004 - Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920)
• 2005 - Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2006 - Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)
• 2006 - George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
• 2006 - Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

• Roman festivals - in the Byzantine empire the Brumalia (a wine festival) were celebrated from this day until the winter solstice
• Calendar of Saints - Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and other Vietnamese Martyrs
• Feast Day of Saint Colman of Cloyne - Cobh, Ireland
• Teacher's Day in Turkey
• Lachit Divas is observed on 24th November each year in Assam, India to commemorate the heroism of the Assamese General Lachit Borphukan and the victory of Assamese army over the Mughal army in the Battle of Saraighat in 1671.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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Events

• 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
• 642 - Pope Theodore I succeeds John IV as Pope.
• 1190 - Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, Israel, making him de jure Kings of Jerusalem.
• 1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus
• 1642 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
• 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain - Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate States of America siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
• 1898 - The International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opens.
• 1904 - The first successful caterpillar track is made.
• 1917 - Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when the Milwaukee, WI police headquarters building explodes due to a bomb.
• 1922 - Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
• 1932 - In Washington, D.C., the Federal Bureau of Investigation Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
• 1935 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
• 1941 - World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
• 1943 - World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa Atoll and sinks with nearly 650 men killed.
• 1944 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo in World War II - The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land was made by 88 United States aircraft.
• 1947 - Second Red Scare: After refusing to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communism influence in the film industry, the United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10.
• 1947 - Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1951 - The Broadway theatre play Gigi opens with a then unknown actress by the name of Audrey Hepburn in the title role.
• 1960 - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in one game, setting an NBA record.
• 1962 - The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
• 1963 - Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
• 1965 - Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; he goes on to rule the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
• 1966 - A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
• 1966 - New York City experiences the smoggiest day in that city's history.
• 1969 - Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
• 1971 - During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a Aircraft hijacking calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D.B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with US$200,000 in ransom money - neither he nor the money are ever found.
• 1992 - In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
• 1993 - In Liverpool, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the child murder of 2-year-old Murder of James Bulger.
• 1998 - America Online announces it will acquire Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock transaction worth US$4.2 billion.
• 2005 - Conservative leader Stephen Harper, the leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament, introduced a motion of no confidence, which NDP leader Jack Layton seconded. The motion was passed on November 28 which led to the dissolution to the 38th Canadian Parliament.

Births

• 1273 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (d. 1284)
• 1394 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465)
• 1420 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (d. 1473)
• 1583 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
• 1615 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)
• 1630 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
• 1632 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)
• 1655 - Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
• 1690 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
• 1713 - Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary (d. 1784)
• 1713 - Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist (d. 1768)
• 1724 - Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of Spain (d. 1760)
• 1729 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
• 1774 - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)
• 1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
• 1787 - Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
• 1801 - Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)
• 1806 - William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby (d. 1872)
• 1811 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)
• 1815 - Grace Darling, English heroine (d. 1842)
• 1826 - Carlo Collodi, Italian author (d. 1890)
• 1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-born author (d. 1924)
• 1853 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (d. 1921)
• 1859 - Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
• 1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
• 1868 - Scott Joplin, Ragtime Composer (d. 1917)
• 1874 - Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer (d. 1953)
• 1876 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d. 1937)
• 1877 - Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
• 1881 - Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1951)
• 1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
• 1886 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher (d. 1973)
• 1887 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (d. 1973)
• 1888 - Dale Carnegie, American writer (d. 1955)
• 1888 - Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
• 1894 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1897 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
• 1908 - Libertad Lamarque, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2000)
• 1911 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (d. 1975)
• 1911 - Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1912 - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (d. 1993)
• 1912 - Garson Kanin, American writer (d. 1999)
• 1912 - Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (d. 1986)
• 1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (d. 2005)
• 1916 - Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer
• 1916 - Irwin Allen, American film producer (d. 1991)
• 1917 - Howard Duff, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1919 - David Kossoff, British actor (d. 2005)
• 1921 - John Lindsay, American politician (d. 2000)
• 1924 - Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman (d. 2000)
• 1925 - William F. Buckley Jr., American writer
• 1925 - Simon van der Meer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 - Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1927 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
• 1930 - Bob Friend, baseball player
• 1934 - Alfred Schnittke, German composer (d. 1998)
• 1935 - Ronald Vernie Dellums, U.S. Representative from California
• 1938 - Oscar Robertson, American basketball player
• 1938 - Willy Claes, Belgian politician
• 1940 - Paul Tagliabue, retired commissioner of the National Football League
• 1940 - Don Metz, American architect
• 1940 - Eric Wilson (author), Canadian children's author.
• 1941 - Pete Best, British musician
• 1941 - Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician, Booker T. and the M.G.'s
• 1942 - Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian
• 1942 - Marlin Fitzwater, White House Press Secretary
• 1943 - Dave Bing, American basketball player
• 1943 - Robin Williamson, Scottish musician
• 1944 - Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar
• 1945 - Lee Michaels, American musician and singer
• 1946 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
• 1946 - Penelope Jones Halsall (aka: Caroline Courtney, Melinda Wright, Lydia Hitchcock, Penny Jordan, Annie Groves)
• 1947 - Dave Sinclair, English musician (Caravan (band), Hatfield and the North)
• 1947 - Dwight Schultz, American actor
• 1948 - Spider Robinson, science fiction author
• 1948 - Steve Yeager, baseball player
• 1949 - Shane Bourne, Australian comedian and actor
• 1951 - Chet Edwards, American politician
• 1953 - Glenn Withrow, American actor
• 1954 - Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker
• 1955 - Ian Botham, England test cricketer
• 1955 - Elvis Ramone, American drummer (The Ramones)
• 1955 - Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
• 1955 - Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician
• 1957 - Denise Crosby, American actress
• 1957 - Edward Stourton (journalist), British radio presenter
• 1958 - Roy Aitken, Scottish former footballer
• 1958 - Alain Chabat, French actor and director
• 1960 - Amanda Wyss, American actress
• 1960 - Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer
• 1961 - Carlos Carnero, Spanish member of parliament
• 1961 - Arundhati Roy, Indian writer
• 1962 - John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)
• 1962 - John Kovalic, British-born cartoonist
• 1964 - Brad Sherwood, American comedian
• 1964 - Tony Rombola, American guitarist (Godsmack)
• 1965 - Kim Roe-ha, South Korean actor
• 1965 - Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
• 1966 - Paul Robinett, American internet personality
• 1966 - Russell Watson, British singer
• 1967 - Cal Eldred, baseball player
• 1968 - Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
• 1969 - Rob Nicholson (musician), American musician
• 1970 - Julieta Venegas, Mexican singer
• 1971 - Cosmas Ndeti, three-time Boston Marathon winner
• 1971 - Keith Primeau, Canadian hockey player
• 1974 - Stephen Merchant, British comedian
• 1974 - Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor
• 1975 - Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer
• 1976 - Dave Aizer, American television host
• 1976 - Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
• 1976 - Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 - Colin Hanks, American actor
• 1978 - Katherine Heigl, American actress
• 1980 - Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler
• 1983 - Dean Ashton, English footballer
• 1994 - Jonathan Jackson, African American born on thanksgiving

Deaths

• 654 - Emperor Kotoku of Japan
• 1468 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
• 1531 - Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
• 1541 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489)
• 1572 - John Knox, Scottish reformer
• 1583 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
• 1615 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)
• 1650 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b. 1566)
• 1722 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (b. 1623)
• 1741 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688)
• 1770 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685)
• 1775 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
• 1781 - James Caldwell, American revolutionary (b. 1734)
• 1793 - Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
• 1801 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
• 1807 - Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (b. 1742)
• 1848 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
• 1870 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846)
• 1890 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
• 1916 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
• 1920 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (b. 1854)
• 1922 - Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
• 1929 - Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
• 1943 - Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
• 1956 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
• 1957 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
• 1958 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
• 1959 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883)
• 1960 - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
• 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
• 1965 - Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
• 1967 - Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
• 1973 - John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
• 1980 - George Raft, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1980 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
• 1985 - Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1987 - Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
• 1990 - Fred Shero, National Hockey League player and coach (b. 1925)
• 1990 - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1990 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
• 1991 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen (band)) (b. 1946)
• 1991 - Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss (band)) (b. 1950)
• 1992 - Kishan Patel
• 1996 - Sorley MacLean, British poet (b. 1911)
• 2001 - Melanie Thornton, American dance/pop singer (b. 1967)
• 2002 - John Rawls, political philosopher (b. 1921)
• 2003 - Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964)
• 2003 - Warren Spahn, Major League Baseball player (b. 1921)
• 2004 - Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2004 - Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920)
• 2005 - Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2006 - Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)
• 2006 - George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
• 2006 - Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

• Roman festivals - in the Byzantine empire the Brumalia (a wine festival) were celebrated from this day until the winter solstice
• Calendar of Saints - Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and other Vietnamese Martyrs
• Feast Day of Saint Colman of Cloyne - Cobh, Ireland
• Teacher's Day in Turkey
• Lachit Divas is observed on 24th November each year in Assam, India to commemorate the heroism of the Assamese General Lachit Borphukan and the victory of Assamese army over the Mughal army in the Battle of Saraighat in 1671.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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