* 627 – Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
* 901 – Queen Adelaide of Paris
* 1241 – Pope Celestine IV
* 1444 – King Wladyslaw III of Poland (b. 1424)
* 1549 – Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
* 1596 – Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
* 1605 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
* 1617 – Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
* 1624 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English theater patron (b. 1573)
* 1644 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
* 1659 – Afzal Khan, Adilshahi Emperor by Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King in Battle of Pratapgarh
* 1673 – Michael of Poland (b. 1640)
* 1727 – Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
* 1728 – Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (b. 1661)
* 1772 – Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
* 1777 – Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
* 1808 – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
* 1865 – Henry Wirz, Swiss-born American POW commandant (b. 1823)
* 1869 – John E. Wool, American soldier (b. 1822)
* 1891 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b. 1854)
* 1909 – George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
* 1912 – Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
* 1917 – Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (b. 1866)
* 1936 – Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
* 1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish statesman (b. 1881)
* 1956 – Gordon MacQuarrie, American author and journalist (b. 1900)
* 1964 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
* 1973 – David “Stringbean” Akeman, American country music banjo player (b. 1915)
* 1975 – Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
* 1981 – Abel Gance, French film director, producer, and actor (b. 1889)
* 1982 – Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
* 1984 – Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
* 1986 – Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
* 1986 – Gordon Richards, British jockey. (b. 1904)
* 1990 – Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban baseball player (b. 1943)
* 1990 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
* 1991 – William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
* 1992 – Chuck Connors, American actor and pro athlete (b. 1921)
* 1994 – Carmen McRae, American singer (b. 1920)
* 1995 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (b. 1941)
* 1997 – Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
* 1998 – Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
* 2000 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Frech statesman (b. 1915)
* 2000 – Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1919)
* 2001 – Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
* 2002 – Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921)
* 2003 – Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1936)
* 2003 – Irv Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912)
* 2004 – Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
* 2006 – Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
* 2006 – Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
* 2006 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
* 2006 – Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
* 2006 – Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
* 2007 – Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
* 2007 – Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights figure (b. 1907)
* 2007 – Norman Mailer, American author (b. 1923)
* 2008 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932)
* 2008 – Arthur Shawcross, American serial killer (b. 1945)
* 2008 – Wannes Van de Velde, Flemish singer (b. 1937)
* 2009 – Gheorghe Dinica, Romanian actor (b. 1934)
* 2009 – Robert Enke, German footballer (b. 1977)
* 2009 – Tomaž Humar, Slovenian mountaineer (b. 1969)
* 2009 – John Allen Muhammad, American convicted spree killer (b. 1960)
* 2010 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
* 2010 – Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
* 2010 – Nicolo Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian organized crime figure (b. 1924)
Histories of 10 November (Deaths)
Histories of 10 November (Births)
* 1341 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman and former Lord Marshall (d. 1408)
* 1433 – Charles, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1477)
* 1480 – Bridget of York, English princess and nun (d. 1517)
* 1483 – Martin Luther, German Protestant reformer (d. 1546)
* 1565 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
* 1566 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (d. 1601)
* 1577 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (d. 1660)
* 1620 – Ninon de l’Enclos, French courtesan and writer (d. 1705)
* 1668 – Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
* 1668 – François Couperin, French composer (d. 1733)
* 1683 – George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
* 1695 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
* 1697 – William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764)
* 1710 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
* 1728 – Oliver Goldsmith, English playwright (d. 1774)
* 1735 – Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (d. 1813)
* 1759 – Friedrich Schiller, German writer (d. 1805)
* 1801 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876)
* 1801 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
* 1810 – George Jennings, English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
* 1834 – José Hernández, Argentine author of Martín Fierro (d. 1886)
* 1844 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)
* 1845 – Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1894)
* 1848 – Sir Surendranath Banerjea, leader, Indian National Congress (d. 1925)
* 1850 – Arthur Goring Thomas, English composer (d. 1892)
* 1868 – Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957)
* 1871 – Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)
* 1873 – Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (d. 1949)
* 1874 – Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (d. 1954)
* 1878 – Cy Morgan, American baseball player (d. 1962)
* 1879 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (d. 1931)
* 1879 – Patrick Pearse, Irish political activist (d. 1916)
* 1880 – Jacob Epstein, American sculptor (d. 1959)
* 1887 – Arnold Zweig, German author (d. 1968)
* 1888 – Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)
* 1889 – Claude Rains, English actor (d. 1967)
* 1891 – Carl Stalling, American film composer (d. 1972)
* 1893 – John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
* 1894 – Boris Furlan, Slovenian legal theorist and politician (d. 1957)
* 1895 – John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1981)
* 1896 – Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
* 1896 – Olga Grey, Hungarian-born American silent actress (d. 1973)
* 1906 – Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1945)
* 1907 – Jane Froman, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
* 1907 – John Moore, English author (d. 1967)
* 1908 – Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
* 1909 – Pawel Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
* 1909 – Johnny Marks, American songwriter (d. 1985)
* 1912 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
* 1916 – Billy May, American composer, arranger and bandleader (d. 2004)
* 1916 – Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter
* 1918 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
* 1919 – George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (d. 1997)
* 1919 – Michael Strank, American flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1945)
* 1919 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
* 1919 – François Périer, French actor (d. 2002)
* 1919 – Moise Tshombe, Congoian politician (d. 1969)
* 1920 – Jennifer Holt, American actress (d. 1997)
* 1920 – Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur (d. 2008)
* 1923 – Hachiko, world famous dog (d. 1935)
* 1924 – Russell Johnson, American actor (Gilligan’s Island)
* 1924 – Bobby Limb, Australian entertainer (d. 1999)
* 1925 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
* 1927 – Sabah (singer), Lebanese singer and actress
* 1928 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
* 1929 – Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
* 1932 – Don Henderson, English actor (d. 1997)
* 1932 – Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008)
* 1933 – Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
* 1934 – Lucien Bianchi, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
* 1935 – Bernard Babior, American biochemist
* 1935 – Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
* 1937 – Albert Hall, American actor
* 1939 – Russell Means, Native American activist
* 1939 – Allan Moffat, Canadian-Australian race car driver
* 1940 – Screaming Lord Sutch, English musician and politician (d. 1999)
* 1941 – John Geoghegan, American soldier and Silver Star recipient (d. 1965)
* 1942 – Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel laureate
* 1942 – Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
* 1943 – Saxby Chambliss, American politician, senior senator of Georgia
* 1944 – Silvestre Reyes, American politician
* 1944 – Sir Tim Rice, English lyricist
* 1945 – Donna Fargo, American singer
* 1946 – Roy Thomas Baker, English record producer
* 1947 – Glen Buxton, American musician (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997)
* 1947 – Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese military commander (d. 1982)
* 1947 – Greg Lake, British musician (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
* 1947 – Dave Loggins, American songwriter and singer
* 1948 – Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist
* 1948 – Shigesato Itoi, Japanese novelist and video game designer.
* 1948 – Hugh Moffatt, American songwriter
* 1948 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
* 1949 – Ann Reinking, American dancer
* 1950 – Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2005)
* 1950 – Bob Orton, Jr., American wrestler
* 1950 – Jack Scalia, American actor
* 1952 – Gerry DiNardo, American football coach
* 1954 – Bob Stanley, American baseball player
* 1955 – James Chapman, American novelist
* 1955 – Jack Clark, American baseball player
* 1955 – Roland Emmerich, German film producer and director
* 1956 – Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur and activist
* 1956 – Sinbad, American actor
* 1958 – Stephen Herek, American film director
* 1958 – George Lowe, American voice actor
* 1958 – Massimo Morsello, Italian singer (d. 2001)
* 1958 – Brooks Williams, American musician
* 1959 – Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
* 1959 – Mackenzie Phillips, American actress
* 1959 – Mike McCarthy, American football coach
* 1960 – Neil Gaiman, English writer
* 1960 – Dan Hawkins, American college football coach
* 1961 – Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physics professor
* 1961 – John Walton, English darts player
* 1963 – Hugh Bonneville, English actor
* 1964 – Kenny Rogers, American baseball player
* 1964 – Magnús Scheving, Icelandic athlete
* 1965 – Jamie Dixon, American basketball coach
* 1965 – Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racing driver
* 1965 – Sean Hughes, Irish comedian
* 1966 – Vanessa Angel, English actress
* 1966 – Bill DeMott, American wrestler
* 1967 – Michael Jai White, American actor
* 1968 – Steve Brookstein, English X Factor winner
* 1968 – Tracy Morgan, American actor/comedian
* 1969 – Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
* 1969 – Jens Lehmann, German footballer
* 1969 – Ellen Pompeo, American actress
* 1970 – Warren G, American rapper
* 1970 – Freddy Loix, Belgian rally driver
* 1970 – Vince Vieluf, American actor
* 1970 – Tay Ping Hui, Singaporean actor
* 1971 – Walton Goggins, American actor
* 1972 – DJ Ashba, American musician (Guns N’ Roses)
* 1972 – Isaac Bruce, American football player
* 1972 – Shawn Green, American baseball player
* 1973 – Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
* 1974 – Niko Hurme, Finnish musician
* 1974 – Chris Lilley, Australian comedian
* 1976 – Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer
* 1976 – Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer
* 1977 – Josh Barnett, American Mixed Martial Artist
* 1977 – Brittany Murphy, American actress (d. 2009)
* 1977 – Won Bin, Korean actor
* 1978 – Kyla Cole, Slovak pornographic actress
* 1978 – Eve, American rapper
* 1978 – Drew McConnell, Irish musician (Babyshambles)
* 1979 – Chris Joannou, Australian musician, (Silverchair)
* 1980 – Troy Bell, American basketball player
* 1980 – Calvin Chen, Taiwanese singer, (Fei Lun Hai/Fahrenheit)
* 1980 – Donté Stallworth, American football player
* 1981 – Tony Blanco, Dominican baseball player
* 1981 – Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)
* 1982 – Heather Matarazzo, American actress
* 1983 – Miranda Lambert, American singer
* 1983 – Craig Smith, American basketball player
* 1984 – Kendrick Perkins, Texanian basketball player
* 1985 – Ricki-Lee Coulter, New Zealand/Australian singer
* 1985 – Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
* 1985 – Krystian Trochowski, German rugby player
* 1986 – Ilias Iliadis, Greek judoka
* 1986 – Josh Peck, American actor
* 1987 – Charles Hamilton, American hip-hop artist
* 1987 – Jessica Tovey, Australian actress
* 1988 – Marc Shaw, Kirklees Council Worker
* 2000 – Mackenzie Foy, American actress and model
Histories of 09 November (Events)
* 694 – Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
* 1282 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
* 1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
* 1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
* 1456 – Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, was assassinated in Belgrade.
* 1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
* 1494 – The Family de’ Medici were expelled from Florence.
* 1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
* 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
* 1688 – The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
* 1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
* 1720 – The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
* 1729 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
* 1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
* 1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
* 1793 – William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
* 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d’état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
* 1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
* 1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
* 1857 – The Atlantic founded in Boston.
* 1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
* 1867 – Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
* 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
* 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
* 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
* 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
* 1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
* 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
* 1914 – SMS Emden sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
* 1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
* 1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
* 1921 – Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
* 1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
* 1932 – Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
* 1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
* 1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
* 1938 – Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
* 1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
* 1947 – Junagadh is annexed as to Indian military intervention.
* 1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
* 1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
* 1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people.
* 1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
* 1965 – Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
* 1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
* 1967 – First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
* 1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
* 1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
* 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
* 1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.
* 1990 – Mary Robinson is elected Ireland’s first female President.
* 1993 – Stari most, the “old bridge” in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
* 1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
* 1998 – A US federal judge ordered 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
* 1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
* 2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
* 2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
* 2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens’ telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
Histories of 09 November (Deaths)
* 959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
* 1187 – Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
* 1208 – Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
* 1456 – Ulrich II of Celje, last prince of Celje principality (b. 1406)
* 1516 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
* 1623 – William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
* 1641 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Spanish Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
* 1699 – Hortense Mancini, Italian mistress of Charles II (b. 1646)
* 1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
* 1770 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1693)
* 1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
* 1809 – Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
* 1848 – Robert Blum, German politician (b. 1810)
* 1881 – Edwin Drake, American oil driller (b. 1819)
* 1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, British victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)
* 1911 – Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
* 1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
* 1919 – Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
* 1920 – Saint Nectarios, Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Pentapolis (b. 1846)
* 1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
* 1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
* 1938 – Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b. 1889)
* 1940 – Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
* 1940 – Neville Chamberlain, English Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
* 1942 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
* 1944 – Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
* 1951 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
* 1952 – Chaim Weizmann, Israeli politician and 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
* 1952 – Philip Murray, American labor leader and 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
* 1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
* 1953 – King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud the first monarch of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
* 1957 – Peter O’Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
* 1968 – Jan Johansson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1931)
* 1970 – Charles de Gaulle, French military commander, politician, President of France (b. 1890)
* 1971 – Maude Fealy, American actor (b. 1883)
* 1977 – Fred Haney, American baseball player (b. 1898)
* 1979 – Frank O’Connor, American actor and representationalist painter (b. 1897)
* 1980 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
* 1988 – David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (b. 1924)
* 1988 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
* 1991 – Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
* 1996 – Joe Ghiz, Canadian politician (b. 1945)
* 1997 – Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
* 1998 – Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
* 2000 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
* 2001 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
* 2002 – William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
* 2002 – Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
* 2003 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
* 2003 – Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
* 2003 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili littérateur (b. 1937)
* 2004 – Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
* 2004 – Emlyn Hughes, English Football Player (b. 1947)
* 2005 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian politician and President of India (b. 1921)
* 2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
* 2006 – Markus Wolf, East German intelligence director (b. 1923)
* 2006 – Ellen Willis, American journalist (b. 1941)
Histories of 09 November (Births)
* 1389 – Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (d. 1409)
* 1414 – Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
* 1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
* 1606 – Hermann Conring, German intellectual (d. 1681)
* 1664 – Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
* 1721 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
* 1731 – Benjamin Banneker, African-American astrononomer (d. 1806)
* 1732 – Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
* 1799 – Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
* 1802 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
* 1810 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
* 1811 – Alexandru Hâjdeu, Russian writer of Romanian origins (d. 1872)
* 1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
* 1825 – A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
* 1832 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
* 1840 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
* 1841 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
* 1850 – Louis Lewin, German pharmachologist (d. 1929)
* 1853 – Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
* 1862 – Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter (d. 1936)
* 1869 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934)
* 1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
* 1873 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
* 1874 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
* 1877 – Enrico De Nicola, 1st President of the Italian Republic (d. 1959)
* 1877 – Allama Iqbal, British Indian poet and politician (d. 1938)
* 1878 – An Chang-ho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
* 1879 – Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
* 1879 – Jen? Bory, Hungarian architect (d. 1959)
* 1880 – Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)
* 1883 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
* 1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
* 1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
* 1885 – Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)
* 1885 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
* 1886 – S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
* 1886 – Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
* 1889 – Jean Monnet, French internationalist (d. 1979)
* 1890 – George Regas, Greek actor (d. 1940)
* 1895 – Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
* 1897 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (d. 1941)
* 1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
* 1902 – Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
* 1904 – Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
* 1905 – Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
* 1906 – Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d. 1996)
* 1911 – Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
* 1914 – Thomas Berry, American theologian and deep ecologist (d. 2009)
* 1914 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor (d. 2000)
* 1915 – André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
* 1915 – Sargent Shriver, American politician
* 1918 – Choi Hong Hi, Co-Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
* 1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
* 1918 – Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
* 1920 – Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin, white supremacist (d. 2001)
* 1921 – Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
* 1921 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano
* 1922 – Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
* 1922 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
* 1923 – Alice Coachman, American athlete
* 1923 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (d. 1965)
* 1924 – Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
* 1925 – Sir Alistair Horne, British historian
* 1926 – Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
* 1928 – Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
* 1929 – Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (d. 2005)
* 1929 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel laureate
* 1931 – Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
* 1933 – Jim Perry, American and Canadian television host
* 1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
* 1934 – Ronald Harwood, South African author and playwright
* 1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)
* 1935 – Bob Gibson, American baseball player
* 1936 – Daniel Robert Graham, American politician
* 1936 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
* 1936 – Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (d. 2007)
* 1936 – Mary Travers, American singer and songwriter (Peter, Paul and Mary) (d. 2009)
* 1937 – Roger McGough, English poet
* 1937 – Clyde Wells, Canadian politician
* 1938 – Ti-Grace Atkinson, American feminist author
* 1939 – Paul Cameron, American psychologist
* 1941 – Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
* 1942 – Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
* 1944 – Phil May, English singer (The Pretty Things)
* 1946 – Benny Mardones, American pop singer and songwriter (Into the Night)
* 1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor
* 1948 – Michel Pagliaro, Quebec singer
* 1948 – Bille August, Danish film and television director
* 1948 – Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician
* 1948 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football manager
* 1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and star of The Incredible Hulk
* 1951 – Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer
* 1952 – Sherrod Brown, American politician, junior senator of Ohio
* 1953 – Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
* 1954 – Dennis Stratton, British musician, (Iron Maiden, Praying Mantis)
* 1954 – Sue Upton, English actress and dancer
* 1955 – Bob Nault, French Canadian politician
* 1955 – Karen Dotrice, British actress
* 1955 – Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director
* 1959 – Thomas Quasthoff, German singer
* 1959 – Tony Slattery, British actor
* 1959 – Nick Hamilton, American wrestling referee
* 1959 – Sito Pons, Spanish motorbike racer
* 1960 – Joëlle Ursull, Guadeloupean singer
* 1960 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer
* 1961 – Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
* 1962 – Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress
* 1963 – Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player
* 1964 – Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
* 1964 – Sandra “Pepa” Denton, American musician (Salt-N-Pepa)
* 1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
* 1967 – Ricky Otto, English footballer
* 1968 – Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
* 1969 – Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)
* 1970 – Domino, American music producer
* 1970 – Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player.
* 1970 – Guido Görtzen, Dutch volleyball player
* 1970 – Nelson Diebel, American swimmer
* 1970 – Chris Jericho, Canadian wrestler and musician (Fozzy)
* 1970 – Scarface, American rapper
* 1970 – Susan Tedeschi, American musician
* 1971 – David Duval, American golfer
* 1971 – Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish actress
* 1971 – Big Punisher, American rapper (d. 2000)
* 1972 – Eric Dane, American actor
* 1972 – Doug Russell, American sports radio and television personality
* 1972 – Corin Tucker, American musician (Sleater-Kinney)
* 1973 – Alyson Court, Canadian actress
* 1973 – Nick Lachey, American singer
* 1973 – Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress
* 1973 – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
* 1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
* 1974 – Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000)
* 1974 – Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian Actress
* 1977 – Chris Morgan, English footballer
* 1978 – Steven López, American taekwondo martial artist
* 1978 – Sisqó, American singer (Dru Hill)
* 1979 – Adam Dunn, American baseball player
* 1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
* 1980 – James Harper, English footballer
* 1980 – Dominique Maltais, Quebec snowboarder
* 1980 – Vanessa Minnillo, Filipino television personality
* 1981 – Lyn, K-pop singer
* 1981 – Scottie Thompson, American actress
* 1983 – Jennifer Ayache, French singer (Superbus)
* 1983 – Rob Elloway, English-German rugby player
* 1984 – Delta Goodrem, Australian singer
* 1984 – Se7en, South Korean singer
* 1984 – Joel Zumaya, American baseball player
* 1985 – Bakary Soumare, Malian footballer
* 1985 – Ku Hye Sun, South Korean actress
* 1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress
Histories of 08 November (Events)
* 1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
* 1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
* 1576 – Eighty Years’ War: Pacification of Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
* 1602 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
* 1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
* 1745 – Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
* 1793 – In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
* 1837 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
* 1861 – American Civil War: The “Trent Affair” – The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
* 1889 – Montana 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.
* 1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
* 1917 – The People’s Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.
* 1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
* 1933 – Great Depression: New Deal – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
* 1935 – A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with advancing industrial unionism.
* 1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (“The Eternal Jew”) opens in Munich.
* 1939 – Venlo 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.
* 1942 – World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
* 1942 – World 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 Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
* 1950 – Korean 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.
* 1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
* 1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become 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.
* 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 Vietcong 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.
* 1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
* 1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
* 1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
* 1987 – Remembrance 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.
* 2002 – Iraq 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”.
* 2004 – War in Iraq: 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.
Histories of 08 November (Deaths)
* 911 – Louis the Child of the East Franks (b. 893)
* 955 – Pope Agapetus II
* 1115 – Godfrey of Amiens (b. 1066)
* 1171 – Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
* 1195 – Conrad of Hohenstaufen
* 1226 – King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
* 1246 – Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
* 1308 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
* 1517 – Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman and cardinal (b. 1436)
* 1527 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
* 1599 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
* 1600 – Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
* 1605 – Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
* 1658 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599)
* 1674 – John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
* 1719 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
* 1817 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
* 1830 – King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
* 1873 – Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (b. 1796)
* 1887 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
* 1890 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
* 1895 – Robert Battey, American surgeon (b. 1828)
* 1905 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
* 1917 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879)
* 1921 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
* 1924 – Michele Merlo, American mafia figure (b. 1880)
* 1934 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
* 1944 – Walter Nowotny, Austrian-born German fighter pilot (b. 1920)
* 1945 – August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
* 1949 – Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish clergyman (b. 1874)
* 1953 – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
* 1953 – John van Melle, South African author (b. 1887)
* 1959 – Frank Sherman Land, American Freemason (b. 1890)
* 1965 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
* 1966 – Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist (b. 1891)
* 1968 – Wendell Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
* 1970 – Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
* 1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (b. 1914)
* 1977 – Bucky Harris, American baseball player (b. 1896)
* 1978 – Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
* 1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
* 1983 – Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian-born American rabbi and educator (b. 1881)
* 1983 – James Booker, American jazz singer (b. 1939)
* 1983 – James Hayden, American actor (b. 1953)
* 1985 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
* 1985 – Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-born American painter and book illustrator (b. 1915)
* 1986 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
* 1992 – Larry Levan, American DJ (b. 1954)
* 1993 – Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
* 1994 – Michael O’Donoghue, American writer (b. 1940)
* 1998 – John Hunt, Baron Hunt, British mountaineer (b. 1910)
* 1998 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
* 1998 – Rumer Godden, British writer (b. 1907)
* 1999 – Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
* 1999 – Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
* 2002 – Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931)
* 2003 – Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
* 2003 – C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
* 2003 – Guy Speranza, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
* 2004 – Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (b. 1931)
* 2005 – David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
* 2005 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
* 2006 – Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
* 2006 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist (b. 1941)
* 2007 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary (b. 1943)
* 2007 – Chad Varah, English humanitarian (b. 1911)
* 2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
* 2010 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925)
Histories of 08 November (Births)
* 30 – Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
* 1342 – Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416)
* 1491 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
* 1622 – King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660)
* 1656 – Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)
* 1706 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
* 1710 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
* 1715 – Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797)
* 1723 – John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
* 1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840)
* 1777 – Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860)
* 1836 – Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
* 1847 – Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
* 1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (d. 1912)
* 1848 – Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (d. 1925)
* 1854 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
* 1866 – Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
* 1868 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
* 1869 – Zinaida Gippius, Russian woman-poet in exile in France (d. 1945)
* 1883 – Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)
* 1884 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
* 1885 – Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951)
* 1885 – Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
* 1885 – Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966)
* 1888 – David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (d. 1974)
* 1893 – Clarence Williams, American pianist and composer (d. 1965)
* 1893 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941)
* 1895 – Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965)
* 1896 – Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977)
* 1897 – Dorothy Day, social activist (d. 1980)
* 1898 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
* 1900 – Margaret Mitchell, American author (d. 1949)
* 1900 – Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943)
* 1904 – Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990)
* 1905 – Ivy Bean, English internet celebrity (d. 2010)
* 1908 – Martha Gellhorn, American writer (d. 1998)
* 1912 – June Havoc, American actress (d. 2010)
* 1918 – Hermann Zapf, German designer
* 1919 – P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000)
* 1920 – Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
* 1920 – Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal
* 1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001)
* 1922 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
* 1923 – Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
* 1924 – Joe Flynn, American actor (d. 1974)
* 1927 – Ken Dodd, English comedian
* 1927 – Nguyen Khanh, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
* 1927 – Patti Page, American singer
* 1929 – António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
* 1929 – Bobby Bowden, American football coach
* 1931 – Darla Hood, American actress (d. 1979)
* 1931 – Morley Safer, American journalist
* 1933 – Peter Arundell, British racing driver
* 1935 – Alain Delon, French actor
* 1935 – Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop (d. 2008)
* 1938 – Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007)
* 1942 – Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey
* 1943 – Martin Peters, English footballer
* 1944 – Bonnie Bramlett, American singer (Delaney, Bonnie & Friends)
* 1946 – Guus Hiddink, Dutch football coach
* 1946 – Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard)
* 1947 – Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979)
* 1949 – Bonnie Raitt, American singer
* 1949 – Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association.
* 1950 – Mary Hart, American television personality
* 1951 – Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general
* 1952 – Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (d. 1977)
* 1952 – John Denny, American baseball player
* 1952 – Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises
* 1952 – Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist
* 1952 – Jerry Remy, American baseball player, color commentator
* 1952 – Alfre Woodard, American actress
* 1953 – John Musker, American animation director
* 1954 – David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster
* 1954 – Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director
* 1954 – Kazuo Ishiguro, British author
* 1954 – Rickie Lee Jones, American singer
* 1954 – Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
* 1954 – Thanasis Pafilis, Greek politician
* 1956 – Steven Miller, American record producer
* 1956 – Richard Curtis, British screenwriter
* 1957 – Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
* 1957 – Alan Curbishley, English football manager
* 1958 – Don Byron, American clarinetist
* 1959 – Chi Chi LaRue, American pornographic producer
* 1960 – Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
* 1960 – Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor
* 1961 – Micky Adams, English football manager
* 1961 – Leif Garrett, American singer
* 1965 – Jeff Blauser, American baseball player
* 1965 – Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter
* 1966 – Toralf Arndt, German footballer
* 1966 – Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality
* 1967 – Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
* 1967 – Kamar de los Reyes, American actor
* 1967 – Henry Rodriguez, Dominican Republic baseball player
* 1968 – Parker Posey, American actress
* 1968 – Keith Jones, Canadian hockey player
* 1968 – Zara Whites, Dutch actress
* 1968 – Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
* 1968 – Jose Offerman, Dominican baseball player
* 1969 – Roxana Zal, American actress
* 1970 – Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace
* 1970 – José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer
* 1970 – Diana King, Jamaican singer
* 1971 – Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
* 1971 – Aaron Yates (Tech N9NE), American rapper
* 1972 – Gretchen Mol, American actress
* 1973 – Vanesa Littlecrow, Puerto Rican cartoonist, dancer, writer and model
* 1974 – Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
* 1974 – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
* 1974 – Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
* 1974 – Penny Heyns, South African swimmer
* 1975 – Brevin Knight, American basketball player
* 1975 – José Pinto, Spanish footballer
* 1975 – Tara Reid, American actress
* 1976 – Brett Lee, Australian cricketer
* 1976 – Colin Strause, American director
* 1977 – Bucky Covington, American entertainer
* 1977 – Jully Black, Canadian R&B singer
* 1977 – Nick Punto, American baseball player
* 1978 – Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
* 1978 – Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer
* 1978 – Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
* 1978 – Maurice Evans, American basketball player
* 1978 – Shyne (Moses Michael Leviy), Belizean born rapper
* 1979 – Andrea Benatti, Italian rugby player
* 1979 – Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
* 1979 – Dania Ramírez, Dominican actress
* 1980 – Ana Vidovic, classical guitarist
* 1980 – Luis Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
* 1981 – Joe Cole, English footballer
* 1981 – Azura Skye, American actress
* 1981 – Yann Kermorgant, French footballer
* 1982 – Mika Kallio, Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer
* 1982 – Ethan Ruan, Taiwanese Model and Actor
* 1982 – Lynndie England, former U.S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib
* 1982 – Sam Sparro, Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor
* 1982 – Ted DiBiase Jr., Professional wrestler in WWE
* 1983 – Katharina Molitor, German javelin thrower
* 1983 – Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
* 1983 – Blanka Vlaši?, Croatian high jumper
* 1985 – Jack Osbourne, English television star
* 1986 – Jamie Roberts, Welsh and British & Irish Lions rugby player
* 1987 – Sam Bradford, American football player and winner of the 2008 Heisman Trophy
* 1988 – Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress
* 1989 – Luca Ceppitelli, Italian footballer
* 2003 – Lady Louise Windsor, British royal
Histories of 07 November (Events)
* 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
* 1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
* 1619 – Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
* 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
* 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore’s Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
* 1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
* 1811 – Tecumseh’s War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
* 1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
* 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
* 1872 – The ship Mary Celeste sails from New York, eventually to be found deserted
* 1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
* 1885 – In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway extending across Canada.
* 1893 – Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
* 1900 – Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
* 1907 – Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
* 1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode.
* 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
* 1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
* 1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
* 1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
* 1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
* 1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
* 1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
* 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
* 1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
* 1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
* 1919 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.
* 1920 – Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
* 1921 – The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
* 1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
* 1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
* 1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
* 1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge’s completion.
* 1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
* 1944 – A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. 16 people are killed and 50 are injured.
* 1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
* 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
* 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
* 1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
* 1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
* 1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
* 1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
* 1973 – The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
* 1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig. Khaled Mosharraf.
* 1983 – 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
* 1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
* 1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor’s seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
* 1989 – David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City.
* 1989 – East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
* 1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
* 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
* 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world’s first internet radio broadcast.
* 1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
* 2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
* 2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
* 2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
* 2002 – Iran bans advertising of United States products.
* 2004 – War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day “state of emergency” as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
* 2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
Histories of 07 November (Deaths)
* 644 – Umar ibn al-Khatt?b, Second caliph of Islam
* 1225 – Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
* 1550 – Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland (b. 1484)
* 1574 – Solomon Luria, Maharshal (b. 1510)
* 1581 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
* 1599 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
* 1620 – Hetman Stanis?aw ?ólkiewski Polish commander in the Battle of ?u?ora (1620) (b. 1547)
* 1633 – Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
* 1639 – Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
* 1642 – Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
* 1713 – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
* 1837 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
* 1872 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
* 1881 – John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
* 1906 – Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
* 1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
* 1919 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
* 1922 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
* 1930 – ?kido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (b. 1878)
* 1943 – Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
* 1944 – Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
* 1944 – Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
* 1959 – Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883)
* 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
* 1966 – Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
* 1967 – John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)
* 1968 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
* 1968 – Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (b. 1901)
* 1974 – Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
* 1978 – Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1897)
* 1980 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
* 1983 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
* 1986 – Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)
* 1991 – Carter Cornelius, American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
* 1991 – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
* 1992 – Alexander Dub?ek, Slovakian politician (b. 1921)
* 1992 – Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
* 1994 – Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (b. 1924)
* 1996 – Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
* 1996 – Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist (b. 1939)
* 2000 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
* 2000 – Queen Ingrid, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)
* 2001 – Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
* 2002 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
* 2004 – Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
* 2005 – Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
* 2005 – Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
* 2006 – Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1984)
* 2006 – Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
* 2006 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
* 2007 – Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
* 2007 – George W. George, American theater, Broadway and film producer (b. 1920)