November 22
November 22 is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 39 days remain until the end of the year.
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In the ancient astrology, it is the cusp day between Scorpio and Sagittarius. In some years it is Sagittarius, but others Scorpio.
Events
- 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.[1]
- 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.[2]
- 1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.[3]
- 1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.[4]
- 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.
- 1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
- 1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
- 1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched
- 1873 – The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.
- 1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
- 1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
- 1931 – Al-Mina'a SC is founded in Iraq.
- 1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.
- 1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
- 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
- 1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
- 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
- 1948 – Chinese Civil War: Elements of the Chinese Communist Second Field Army under Liu Bocheng trap the Nationalist 12th Army, beginning the Shuangduiji Campaign, the largest engagement of the Huaihai Campaign.
- 1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
- 1956 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.
- 1963 – William Clay Ford Sr. buys the Detroit Lions for $4.5 million.
- 1963 – The Beatles release With the Beatles.
- 1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
- 1968 – The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).
- 1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
- 1973 – The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
- 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
- 1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
- 1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
- 1986 – Mike Tyson from Brooklyn, New York becomes the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history at age 20.
- 1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
- 1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
- 1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.
- 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.
- 1994 – The Sega Saturn is released in Japan.[5]
- 1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
- 1995 – The 7.3 Mw Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
- 2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
- 2003 – Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.
- 2003 – England defeats Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final, becoming the first side from the Northern Hemisphere to win the tournament.
- 2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
- 2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
- 2012 – Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths.
- 2015 – A landslide in Hpakant, Kachin State, northern Myanmar kills at least 116 people near a jade mine, with around 100 more missing.
Births
- 1329 – Elisabeth of Meissen, Burgravine of Nuremberg (d. 1375)
- 1428 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (d. 1471)
- 1515 – Mary of Guise, Queen of Scots (d. 1560)[6]
- 1519 – Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, German humanist and physician (d. 1585)
- 1532 – Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (d. 1585)
- 1533 – Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble (d. 1597)
- 1564 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kent (d. 1610)
- 1602 – Elisabeth of France (d. 1644)
- 1635 – Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (d. 1672)
- 1643 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French-American explorer (d. 1687)
- 1690 – François Colin de Blamont, French pianist and composer (d. 1760)
- 1698 – Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-American soldier and politician, 10th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1778)
- 1709 – Franz Benda, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1786)
- 1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1784)
- 1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-Canadian cartographer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1824)
- 1722 – Gregory Skovoroda, Ukrainian philosopher, poet, and composer (d. 1794)
- 1728 – Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1811)
- 1744 – Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
- 1780 – Conradin Kreutzer, German composer (d. 1849)[7]
- 1780 – José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran journalist, lawyer, and politician, Foreign Minister of Mexico (d. 1834)
- 1787 – Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1823)
- 1808 – Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group (d. 1892)[8]
- 1814 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (d. 1893)
- 1819 – George Eliot, English novelist and poet (d. 1880)
- 1820 – Katherine Plunket, Irish supercentenarian (d. 1932)
- 1824 – Georg von Oettingen, Estonian-German physician and ophthalmologist (d. 1916)
- 1836 – George Barham, English businessman, founded Express County Milk Supply Company (d. 1913)
- 1845 – Aleksander Kunileid, Estonian composer and educator (d. 1875)
- 1849 – Christian Rohlfs, German painter and academic (d. 1938)
- 1852 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
- 1856 – Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945)
- 1857 – George Gissing, English novelist (d. 1903)
- 1859 – Cecil Sharp, English folk song scholar (d. 1924)
- 1861 – Ranavalona III of Madagascar (d. 1917)
- 1868 – John Nance Garner, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1967)
- 1869 – André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
- 1870 – Howard Brockway, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1951)
- 1870 – Harry Graham, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
- 1873 – Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1955)
- 1873 – Johnny Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1930)
- 1876 – Percival Proctor Baxter, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Governor of Maine (d.1969)
- 1876 – Emil Beyer, American gymnast and triathlete (d. 1934)
- 1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian journalist and poet (d. 1919)
- 1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer, founded FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
- 1881 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (d. 1922)
- 1884 – C. J. "Jack" De Garis, Australian entrepreneur (d. 1926)
- 1884 – Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani historian, author, and scholar (d. 1953)
- 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (d. 1970)
- 1891 – Edward Bernays, Austrian-American publicist (d. 1995)
- 1893 – Harley Earl, American businessman (d. 1969)
- 1893 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician (d. 1991)
- 1896 – David J. Mays, American lawyer and author (d. 1971)
- 1897 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer and educator (d. 1989)
- 1897 – Harry Wilson, English-American actor and singer (d. 1987)
- 1898 – Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
- 1899 – Hoagy Carmichael, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1981)
- 1900 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (d. 1980)
- 1900 – Helenka Pantaleoni, American actress and humanitarian, co-founded U.S. Fund for UNICEF (d. 1987)
- 1901 – Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1971)
- 1901 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1999)
- 1902 – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
- 1902 – Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist and educator (d. 1942)
- 1902 – Humphrey Gibbs, English-Rhodesian politician, 15th Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d. 1990)
- 1902 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
- 1902 – Ethel Smith, American organist (d. 1996)
- 1904 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and illustrator (d. 1957)
- 1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
- 1904 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese author (d. 2005)
- 1906 – Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (d. 1983)
- 1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (d. 1970)
- 1910 – Mary Jackson, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1911 – Ralph Guldahl, American golfer (d. 1987)
- 1912 – Doris Duke, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1993)
- 1913 – Benjamin Britten, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1976)
- 1913 – Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player and coach (d. 2016)
- 1913 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino lawyer and jurist (d. 2006)
- 1913 – Jacqueline Vaudecrane, French figure skater and coach (d. 2018)
- 1914 – Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (d. 1995)
- 1915 – Oswald Morris, British cinematographer (d. 2014)
- 1917 – Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright (d. 2010)
- 1917 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
- 1917 – Sir Keith Shann, Australian diplomat (d. 1988)
- 1918 – Claiborne Pell, American captain and politician (d. 2009)
- 1919 – Máire Drumm, Irish politician (d. 1976)
- 1920 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (d. 1956)
- 1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish sailor, author, and playwright (d. 2003)
- 1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, rapper, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1922 – Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani composer (d. 1984)
- 1922 – Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer, designed the AR-15 rifle (d. 1997)
- 1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian actor, director, and producer (d. 2016)
- 1923 – Dika Newlin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2006)
- 1924 – Geraldine Page, American actress and singer (d. 1987)
- 1924 – Les Johnson, Australian politician (d. 2015)
- 1925 – Jerrie Mock, American pilot (d. 2014)
- 1925 – Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (d. 2015)
- 1926 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (d. 2007)
- 1927 – Steven Muller, German-American scholar and academic (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Robert E. Valett, American psychologist, teacher, and author (d. 2008)
- 1928 – Tim Beaumont, English priest and politician (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Staughton Lynd, American lawyer, historian, author, and activist
- 1929 – Keith Rayner, Australian Archbishop
- 1930 – Peter Hall, English actor, director, and manager (d. 2017)
- 1930 – Peter Hurford, English organist and composer
- 1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor and director (d. 2016)
- 1933 – Merv Lincoln, Australian Olympic athlete (d. 2016)
- 1934 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)
- 1935 – Ludmila Belousova, Soviet ice skater (d. 2017)
- 1936 – John Bird, English actor and screenwriter
- 1936 – Archie Gouldie, Canadian-American wrestler (d. 2016)
- 1937 – Nikolai Kapustin, Russian pianist and composer
- 1938 – John Eleuthère du Pont, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Delaware Museum of Natural History (d. 2010)
- 1938 – Henry Lee, Chinese-American criminologist and academic
- 1939 – Tom West, American engineer and author (d. 2011)
- 1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician, 24th Indian Minister of Defence
- 1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-English actor, director, animator, and screenwriter
- 1940 – Roy Thomas, American author
- 1940 – Andrzej Żuławski, Polish director and screenwriter (d. 2016)
- 1941 – Tom Conti, Scottish actor and director
- 1941 – Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1941 – Ron McClure, American jazz bassist
- 1941 – Volker Roemheld, German physiologist and biologist (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
- 1941 – Jesse Colin Young, American singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1942 – Guion Bluford, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1942 – Floyd Sneed, Canadian drummer
- 1943 – Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player and sportscaster
- 1943 – William Kotzwinkle, American novelist and screenwriter
- 1943 – Ricky May, New Zealand-Australian jazz singer (d. 1988)
- 1943 – Mushtaq Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer
- 1943 – Roger L. Simon, American author and screenwriter
- 1945 – Elaine Weyuker, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic
- 1945 – Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (d. 2010)[9]
- 1946 – Aston Barrett, Jamaican bass player and songwriter
- 1947 – Sandy Alderson, American businessman and academic
- 1947 – Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1947 – Nevio Scala, Italian footballer and manager
- 1947 – Salt Walther, American race car driver (d. 2012)
- 1947 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American journalist and author
- 1948 – Radomir Antić, Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2020)
- 1948 – Stewart Guthrie, New Zealand police officer (d. 1990)
- 1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician and politician, 17th Surgeon General of the United States
- 1949 – David Pietrusza, American author and historian
- 1950 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
- 1950 – Jim Jefferies, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1950 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer
- 1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer (d. 2019)
- 1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
- 1950 – Tina Weymouth, American singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1951 – Kent Nagano, American conductor, director, and manager
- 1952 – Nicholas Suntzeff, American astronomer and cosmologist
- 1953 – Wayne Larkins, English cricketer and footballer
- 1954 – Denise Epoté, Cameroonian journalist at the head of the Africa management of TV5 Monde[10]
- 1954 – Paolo Gentiloni, Italian politician, 57th Prime Minister of Italy
- 1954 – Carol Tomcala, Australian sports shooter[11]
- 1955 – George Alagiah, British journalist
- 1955 – James Edwards, American basketball player
- 1956 – Lawrence Gowan, Scottish-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1956 – Richard Kind, American actor
- 1956 – Ron Randall, American author and illustrator
- 1957 – Donny Deutsch, American businessman and television host
- 1957 – Alan Stern, American engineer and planetary scientist
- 1958 – Horse, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
- 1958 – Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
- 1958 – Ibrahim Ismail of Johor, Sultan of Johor
- 1958 – Chic McSherry, Scottish musician, businessman and writer
- 1958 – Jason Ringenberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1959 – Eddie Frierson, American actor
- 1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
- 1959 – Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
- 1959 – Lenore Zann, Australian-Canadian actress, singer, and politician
- 1960 – Jim Bob, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1960 – Leos Carax, French actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress
- 1961 – Stephen Hough, English-Australian pianist and composer
- 1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer and author
- 1962 – Sumi Jo, South Korean soprano
- 1962 – Victor Pelevin, Russian engineer and author
- 1962 – Rezauddin Stalin, Bangladeshi poet and educator
- 1963 – Hugh Millen, American football player and sportscaster
- 1963 – Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager
- 1963 – Kennedy Pola, Samoan-American football player and coach
- 1963 – Brian Robbins, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1963 – Corinne Russell, English model, actress, and dancer
- 1964 – Robbie Slater, English-Australian footballer and sportscaster
- 1965 – Valeriya Gansvind, Estonian chess player
- 1965 – Olga Kisseleva, Russian artist[12]
- 1965 – Jörg Jung, German footballer and manager
- 1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
- 1965 – Kristin Minter, American actress
- 1965 – Sen Dog, Cuban-American rapper and musician
- 1966 – Ed Ferrara, American wrestler and manager
- 1966 – Mark Pritchard, English lawyer and politician
- 1966 – Richard Stanley, South African director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1966 – Michael K. Williams, American actor and producer
- 1967 – Boris Becker, German-Swiss tennis player and coach
- 1967 – Tom Elliott, Australian investment banker
- 1967 – Quint Kessenich, American lacrosse player and sportscaster
- 1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor and activist
- 1967 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-Belgian speed skater, coach, and sportscaster
- 1968 – Sidse Babett Knudsen, Danish actress
- 1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic-Canadian computer scientist and programmer, created PHP
- 1968 – Sarah MacDonald, Canadian organist and conductor
- 1969 – Byron Houston, American basketball player[13]
- 1969 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian author and illustrator
- 1970 – Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
- 1970 – Chris Fryar, American drummer
- 1970 – Stel Pavlou, English author and screenwriter
- 1971 – Cath Bishop, English rower[14]
- 1971 – Kyran Bracken, Irish-English rugby player
- 1971 – Cecilia Suárez, Mexican actress and producer
- 1972 – Olivier Brouzet, French rugby player[15]
- 1972 – Russell Hoult, English footballer, coach, and manager
- 1972 – Jay Payton, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1973 – Dmitri Linter, Russian-Estonian activist
- 1973 – Chad Trujillo, American astronomer and scholar
- 1973 – Andrew Walker, Australian rugby player
- 1974 – Joe Nathan, American baseball player[16]
- 1974 – David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater and coach
- 1975 – Aiko, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1975 – Joshua Wheeler, American sergeant (d. 2015)
- 1975 – Yusaku Maezawa, Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and art collector
- 1976 – Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
- 1976 – Torsten Frings, German footballer and coach
- 1976 – Regina Halmich, German boxer and businesswoman
- 1976 – Ville Valo, Finnish singer-songwriter
- 1977 – Kerem Gönlüm, Turkish basketball player
- 1977 – Annika Norlin, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1977 – Michael Preston, English footballer
- 1978 – Colin Best, Australian rugby league player
- 1978 – Mélanie Doutey, French actress and singer
- 1978 – Karen O, South Korean-American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1979 – Jeremy Dale, American illustrator (d. 2014)
- 1979 – Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer
- 1980 – David Artell, English-Gibraltarian footballer and coach
- 1980 – Shawn Fanning, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Napster
- 1980 – Rait Keerles, Estonian basketball player
- 1980 – Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian high jumper
- 1981 – Asmaa Abdol-Hamid, Arab-Danish social worker and politician
- 1981 – Ben Adams, English-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1981 – Song Hye-kyo, South Korean actress and singer
- 1981 – Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
- 1981 – Jenny Owen Youngs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1981 – Shangela Laquifa Wadley, American drag queen, comedian and reality television personality
- 1982 – Xavier Doherty, Australian cricketer
- 1982 – Alasdair Duncan, Australian journalist and author
- 1982 – Isild Le Besco, French actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1982 – Yakubu, Nigerian footballer
- 1983 – Sei Ashina, Japanese actress
- 1983 – Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1983 – Tyler Hilton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1983 – Peter Ramage, English footballer
- 1983 – Xiao Yu, Taiwanese singer and songwriter
- 1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress[17]
- 1984 – Nathalie Nordnes, Norwegian singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Austin Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and producer
- 1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
- 1985 – Dieumerci Mbokani, Congolese footballer
- 1985 – Ava Leigh, English singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Mandy Minella, Luxembourgian tennis player[18]
- 1985 – James Roby, English rugby league player[19]
- 1985 – DeVon Walker, American football player
- 1986 – Erika Padilla, Filipino actress and host
- 1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter
- 1987 – Martti Aljand, Estonian swimmer
- 1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer
- 1988 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor and singer
- 1988 – Austin Romine, American baseball player
- 1989 – Candice Glover, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1989 – Minehiro Kinomoto, Japanese actor
- 1989 – Chris Smalling, English footballer
- 1989 – Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer
- 1990 – Jang Dongwoo, South Korean singer and dancer
- 1990 – Brock Osweiler, American football player
- 1990 – Kartik Aaryan, Indian actor
- 1991 – Tarik Black, American professional basketball player
- 1993 – Tridha Choudhury, Indian actress
- 1993 – Adèle Exarchopoulos, French actress
- 1994 – Keiji Tanaka, Japanese figure skater
- 1994 – Nicolás Stefanelli, Argentine footballer
- 1994 – Samantha Bricio, Mexican volleyball player
- 1994 – Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor
- 1995 – Katherine McNamara, American actress
- 1996 – Hailey Baldwin, American model
- 1996 – Madison Davenport, American actress and singer
- 2000 – Auli'i Cravalho, Hawaiian-American actress and singer[20]
- 2000 – Baby Ariel, American social media vlogger and singer
- 2001 – Zhong Chenle, Chinese singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor
Deaths
- 365 – Antipope Felix II
- 950 – Lothair II of Italy (b. 926)
- 1249 – As-Salih Ayyub, ruler of Egypt
- 1286 – Eric V of Denmark (b. 1249)
- 1318 – Mikhail of Tver (b. 1271)
- 1392 – Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland (b. 1362)
- 1538 – John Lambert, English Protestant martyr
- 1617 – Ahmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam (b. 1590)
- 1694 – John Tillotson, English archbishop (b. 1630)
- 1697 – Libéral Bruant, French architect and academic, designed Les Invalides (b. 1635)
- 1710 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1637)
- 1718 – Blackbeard, English pirate (b. 1680)
- 1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (db. 1680)
- 1774 – Robert Clive, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire (b. 1725)
- 1794 – John Alsop, American merchant and politician (b. 1724)
- 1813 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (b. 1759)
- 1819 – John Stackhouse, English botanist and phycologist (b. 1742)
- 1871 – Oscar James Dunn, African American activist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868-1871 (b. 1826)
- 1875 – Henry Wilson, American colonel, journalist, and politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
- 1886 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (b. 1823)
- 1896 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, invented the Ferris wheel (b. 1859)
- 1900 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer and scholar (b. 1842)
- 1902 – Walter Reed, American physician and entomologist (b. 1851)
- 1913 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1837)
- 1916 – Jack London, American novelist and journalist (b. 1876)
- 1917 – Teoberto Maler, Italian-German archaeologist and explorer (b. 1842)
- 1919 – Francisco Moreno, Argentinian explorer and academic (b. 1852)
- 1920 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and author (b. 1884)
- 1926 – Darvish Khan, Iranian tar player (b. 1872)
- 1932 – William Walker Atkinson, American merchant, lawyer, and author (b. 1862)
- 1941 – Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
- 1943 – Lorenz Hart, American playwright and composer (b. 1895)
- 1944 – Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and astronomer (b. 1882)
- 1946 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Justice (b. 1889)
- 1948 – Fakhri Pasha, Turkish general and politician (b. 1868)
- 1954 – Jess McMahon, American wrestling promoter, co-founded Capitol Wrestling Corporation (b. 1882)
- 1955 – Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
- 1956 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American actor, ballet dancer, and choreographer (b. 1882)
- 1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, Austrian-German physician (b. 1905)
- 1963 – Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (b. 1894)
- 1963 – John F. Kennedy, American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
- 1963 – C. S. Lewis, British writer, critic and Christian apologist (b. 1898)
- 1963 – J. D. Tippit, American police officer (Dallas Police Department) (b. 1924)
- 1967 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
- 1976 – Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (b. 1936)
- 1980 – Jules Léger, Canadian journalist and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
- 1980 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
- 1980 – Mae West, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1893)
- 1981 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- 1986 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (b. 1910)
- 1988 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect and engineer, designed the Torres de Satélite (b. 1908)
- 1989 – C. C. Beck, American illustrator (b. 1910)
- 1989 – René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
- 1992 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1993 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1917)
- 1994 – Minni Nurme, Estonian writer and poet (b. 1917)
- 1994 – Forrest White, American businessman (b. 1920)
- 1996 – María Casares, Spanish-French actress (b. 1922)
- 1996 – Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (b. 1936)
- 1996 – Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
- 1998 – Stu Ungar, American poker player (b. 1953)
- 2000 – Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
- 2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (b. 1922)
- 2001 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay, Inc. (b. 1915)
- 2001 – Theo Barker, English historian and academic (b. 1923)
- 2001 – Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer, founded Verve Records (b. 1918)
- 2002 – Parley Baer, American actor (b. 1914)
- 2004 – Arthur Hopcraft, English screenwriter and journalist (b. 1932)
- 2005 – Bruce Hobbs, American jockey and trainer (b. 1920)
- 2006 – Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (b. 1917)[21]
- 2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player and coach (b. 1942)
- 2007 – Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1929)
- 2007 – Verity Lambert, English television producer (b. 1935)
- 2008 – MC Breed, American rapper (b. 1971)
- 2010 – Jean Cione, American baseball player and educator (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (b. 1914)
- 2011 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author and educator (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-Austrian soprano and actress (b. 1921)
- 2011 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (b. 1938)
- 2011 – Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Pearl Laska Chamberlain, American pilot (b. 1909)
- 2012 – Bryce Courtenay, South African-Australian author (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Bennie McRae, American football player (b. 1939)
- 2012 – P. Govinda Pillai, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Don Dailey, American computer programmer (b. 1956)
- 2013 – Brian Dawson, English singer (b. 1939)
- 2013 – Jancarlos de Oliveira Barros, Brazilian footballer (b. 1983)
- 2013 – Tom Gilmartin, Irish businessman (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Alec Reid, Irish priest and activist (b. 1931)
- 2014 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (b. 1916)
- 2014 – Don Grate, American baseball and basketball player (b. 1923)
- 2014 – Marcel Paquet, Belgian-Polish philosopher and author (b. 1947)
- 2014 – Émile Poulat, French sociologist and historian (b. 1920)
- 2015 – Abubakar Audu, Nigerian banker and politician, Governor of Kogi State (b. 1947)
- 2015 – Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1949)
- 2015 – Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948)
- 2015 – Robin Stewart, Indian-English actor and game show host (b. 1946)
- 2015 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean soldier and politician, 7th President of South Korea (b. 1929)
- 2016 – M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian vocalist and singer (b. 1930)
- 2017 – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian operatic baritone (b. 1962)
- 2017 – Tommy Keene, American singer songwriter (b. 1958)
Holidays and observances
- Arbour Day (British Virgin Islands)
- Christian feast day:
- Amphilochius of Iconium
- Cecilia
- George (Eastern Orthodox, a national holiday in Georgia)
- Herbert
- Philemon and Apphia
- Pragmatius of Autun
- November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Day of Justice (Azerbaijan)
- Day of the Albanian Alphabet (Albania and ethnic Albanians)
- Earliest day on which Holodomor Remembrance Day can fall, while November 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Saturday of November. (Ukraine)
- Earliest day on which Thanksgiving Day can fall, while November 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. (United States)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Lebanon from France in 1943.
- Teacher's Day (Costa Rica)
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