19 November

Events

Pre-1600

* 461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the ''magister militum'' Ricimer.
* 636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
*1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).

1601–1900

*1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
* 1802 – The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (present-day Belize).
* 1808 – Finnish War: The Convention of Olkijoki in Raahe ends hostilities in Finland.
* 1816 – Warsaw University is established.
* 1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened.
*1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
* 1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
*1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.

1901–present

* 1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, ''Island Maid'' and ''Angele'', the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
*1912 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
*1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
*1941 – World War II: Battle between HMAS ''Sydney'' and HSK ''Kormoran''. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
*1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
* 1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
*1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
*1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
* 1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
* 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
*1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
*1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
* 1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
*1955 – ''National Review'' publishes its first issue.
*1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
*1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at ''Oceanus Procellarum'' (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
* 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
*1977 – TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
*1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
*1984 – San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
*1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
* 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
* 1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
* 1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
*1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
*1996 – A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing 14.
*1998 – Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
*1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
* 1999 – John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?''.
*2002 – The Greek oil tanker '' Prestige'' splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
*2004 – The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery.
*2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand. Twenty-nine people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
*2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.
*2022 – A gunman kills five and injures 17 at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Births

Pre-1600

*1417 – Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern (d. 1480)
* 1464 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
*1503 – Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1547)
*1563 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English poet and politician (d. 1626)
*1600 – Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1649)
* 1600 – Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 1669)

1601–1900

*1617 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter and educator (d. 1655)
*1700 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French priest and physicist (d. 1770)
*1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1765)
* 1722 – Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
* 1722 – Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)
*1752 – George Rogers Clark, American general (d. 1818)
* 1765 – Filippo Castagna, Maltese politician (d. 1830)
*1770 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor and academic (d. 1844)
* 1802 – Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (d. 1866)
*1805 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer, developed the Suez Canal (d. 1894)
* 1808 – Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian journalist, physician, and politician (d. 1881)
*1812 – Karl Schwarz, German theologian and politician (d. 1885)
* 1828 – Rani Lakshmibai, Indian queen (d. 1858)
* 1831 – James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
*1833 – Wilhelm Dilthey, German psychologist, sociologist, and historian (d. 1911)
*1834 – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (d. 1924)
* 1843 – Richard Avenarius, German-Swiss philosopher and academic (d. 1896)
* 1843 – C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (d. 1914)
*1845 – Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (d. 1939)
* 1859 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1935)
*1862 – Billy Sunday, American baseball player and evangelist (d. 1935)
* 1873 – Elizabeth McCombs, the first woman elected to the Parliament of New Zealand (d. 1935)
*1875 – Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician, 1st Head of State of The Soviet Union (d. 1946)
*1876 – Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (d. 1964)
*1877 – Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (d. 1947)
*1883 – Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1957)
*1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
*1888 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban-American chess player and theologian (d. 1942)
*1889 – Clifton Webb, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1966)
* 1892 – Thomas Clay, English footballer and coach (d. 1949)
* 1892 – Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (d. 1970)
*1893 – René Voisin, French trumpet player (d. 1952)
*1894 – Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
*1895 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
* 1895 – Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)
*1897 – Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1918)
*1898 – Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)
* 1898 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist and academic (d. 2003)
*1899 – Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (d. 1992)
* 1899 – Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)
*1900 – Bunny Ahearne, Irish-English ice hockey player and manager (d. 1985)
* 1900 – Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980)
* 1900 – Anna Seghers, German author and politician (d. 1983)

1901–present

*1901 – Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (d. 1961)
*1904 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American murderer (d. 1971)
*1905 – Eleanor Audley, American actress (d. 1991)
* 1905 – Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, composer and bandleader (d. 1956)
*1906 – Franz Schädle, German SS officer (d. 1945)
*1907 – Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
* 1907 – Hans Liska, Austrian-German artist (d. 1983)Manfred H. Grieb: ''Liska, Hans''. In: ''Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Bildende Künstler, Kunsthandwerker, Gelehrte, Sammler, Kulturschaffende und Mäzene vom 12. bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' Walter de Gruyter, 2011, , p. 930
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*1909 – Peter Drucker, Austrian-American theorist, educator, and author (d. 2005).
* 1909 – Carlos López Moctezuma, Mexican actor (d. 1980).
* 1910 – Adrian Conan Doyle, English race car driver, author, and explorer (d. 1970)
*1912 – Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American bishop (d. 2015)
* 1912 – George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
* 1912 – Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author (d. 2014)
*1915 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
*1917 – Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
*1919 – Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
* 1919 – Alan Young, English-Canadian actor, singer, and director (d. 2016)
* 1919 – Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican nationalist (d. 2010)
*1920 – Gene Tierney, American actress and singer (d. 1991)
*1921 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (d. 1993)
* 1921 – Peter Ruckman, American pastor and educator (d. 2016)
*1922 – Salil Chowdhury, Indian director, playwright, and composer (d. 1995)
* 1922 – Yuri Knorozov, Ukrainian-Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer (d. 1999)
* 1922 – Rajko Mitić, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2008)
*1923 – Louis D. Rubin, Jr., American author, critic, and academic (d. 2013)
*1924 – Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (d. 2014)
* 1924 – William Russell, English actor
* 1924 – Knut Steen, Norwegian-Italian sculptor (d. 2011)
* 1924 – Margaret Turner-Warwick, English physician and academic (d. 2017)
*1925 – Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-English sociologist, historian, and academic (d. 2017)
*1926 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006)
* 1926 – Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (d. 2012)
* 1926 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (d. 2011)
*1928 – Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (d. 2012)
*1929 – Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and scholar (d. 2004)
*1930 – Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player, referee, and sportscaster (d. 2011)
* 1932 – Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (d. 2009)
*1933 – Larry King, American journalist and talk show host (d. 2021)
* 1933 – Jerry Sheindlin, American judge and author
*1934 – Kurt Hamrin, Swedish footballer and scout
* 1934 – Valentin Ivanov, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2011)
* 1934 – David Lloyd-Jones, English conductor (d. 2022)
*1935 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and scholar (d. 1990)
* 1935 – Jack Welch, American engineer, businessman, and author (d. 2020)
*1936 – Dick Cavett, American actor and talk show host
* 1936 – Ray Collins, American singer (d. 2012)
* 1936 – Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
*1937 – Penelope Leach, English psychologist and author
* 1938 – Len Killeen, South African rugby league player (d. 2011)
* 1938 – Frank Misson, Australian cricketer
* 1938 – Ted Turner, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Turner Broadcasting System
*1939 – Emil Constantinescu, Romanian academic and politician, 3rd President of Romania
* 1939 – Tom Harkin, American lawyer and politician
* 1939 – Jane Mansbridge, American political scientist and academic
* 1939 – Warren "Pete" Moore, American singer-songwriter and record producer (d. 2017)
* 1939 – Richard Zare, American chemist and academic
*1940 – Gary Gruber, author and expert on test-prep (d. 2019)
*1941 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
* 1941 – Dan Haggerty, American actor and producer (d. 2016)
* 1941 – Tommy Thompson, American captain and politician, 19th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
*1942 – Roland Clift, English engineer and academic
* 1942 – Larry Gilbert, American golfer (d. 1998)
* 1942 – Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, founded Calvin Klein Inc.
* 1942 – Sharon Olds, American poet and academic
*1943 – Fred Lipsius, American saxophonist and educator
* 1943 – Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-American baseball player and manager (d. 1990)
*1944 – Agnes Baltsa, Greek soprano and actress
* 1944 – Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
* 1945 – Hans Monderman, Dutch engineer (d. 2008)
*1945 – Bobby Tolan, American baseball player and manager
*1947 – Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
* 1947 – Anfinn Kallsberg, Faroese politician, 10th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
* 1947 – Lamar S. Smith, American lawyer and politician
*1949 – Raymond Blanc, French chef and author
* 1949 – Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster
*1950 – Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian chess player
*1951 – Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
* 1953 – Robert Beltran, American actor
* 1953 – Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
* 1954 – Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egyptian field marshal and politician, 6th President of Egypt
* 1954 – Réjean Lemelin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
* 1954 – Kathleen Quinlan, American actress
*1955 – Sam Hamm, American screenwriter and producer
*1956 – Peter Carter, English diplomat, British Ambassador to Estonia (d. 2014)
* 1956 – Eileen Collins, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
* 1956 – Ann Curry, Guamanian-American journalist
* 1956 – Glynnis O'Connor, American actress
* 1956 – Sergiy Vilkomir, Ukrainian-born computer scientist (d. 2020)
*1957 – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2000)
* 1957 – Tom Virtue, American actor
* 1958 – Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (d. 2007)
* 1958 – Algirdas Butkevičius, Lithuanian sergeant and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Lithuania
* 1958 – Terrence C. Carson, American actor and singer
* 1958 – Annette Gordon-Reed, American historian, author, and academic
* 1958 – Charlie Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1958 – Michael Wilbon, American sportscaster and journalist
*1959 – Robert Barron, American bishop, author, and theologian
* 1959 – Jo Bonner, American politician
* 1959 – Allison Janney, American actress
*1960 – Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)
* 1960 – Matt Sorum, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
*1961 – Jim L. Mora, American football player and coach
* 1961 – Meg Ryan, American actress and producer
* 1961 – Pernille Svarre, Danish athlete
*1962 – Jodie Foster, American actress, director, and producer
* 1962 – Sean Parnell
* 1962 – Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Filipino boxer and trainer
*1963 – Terry Farrell, American actress
* 1963 – Jon Potter, English-American field hockey player
*1964 – Fred Diamond, American-English mathematician and academic
* 1964 – Vincent Herring, American saxophonist and flute player
* 1964 – Phil Hughes, Irish footballer and coach
* 1964 – Jung Jin-young, South Korean actor
* 1964 – Irina Laricheva, Russian target shooter (d. 2020)
* 1964 – Eric Musselman, American basketball player and coach
* 1964 – Nicholas Patrick, English-American engineer and astronaut
* 1964 – Peter Rohde, Australian footballer and coach
* 1964 – Tony Ryall, New Zealand banker and politician, 38th New Zealand Minister of Health
* 1964 – Ronnie Sinclair, Scottish footballer and coach
* 1964 – Alfredo Zaiat, Argentine economist and journalist
* 1964 – Shawn Holman, American baseball pitcher
*1965 – Laurent Blanc, French footballer and manager
* 1965 – Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor
* 1965 – Jason Pierce, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1965 – Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, Brazilian cryptographer and academic
* 1965 – Paul Weitz, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright
*1966 – Shmuley Boteach, American rabbi and author
* 1966 – Gail Devers, American sprinter and hurdler
* 1966 – Rocco DiSpirito, American chef and author
* 1966 – Kakhaber Kacharava, Georgian footballer and manager
* 1966 – Jason Scott Lee, American actor and martial artist
*1967 – Yaroslav Blanter, Russian physicist
* 1967 – Randi Kaye, American journalist
*1969 – Philippe Adams, Belgian race car driver
* 1969 – Erika Alexander, American actress and screenwriter
* 1969 – Ertuğrul Sağlam, Turkish footballer and coach
* 1969 – Richard Virenque, Moroccan-French cyclist and sportscaster
*1971 – Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, American author and activist
* 1971 – Justin Chancellor, English bass player
* 1971 – Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
* 1971 – Alice Peacock, American singer-songwriter
* 1971 – Tony Rich, American R&B singer-songwriter and musician
*1972 – Sandrine Holt, English-American model and actress
*1973 – Billy Currington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1973 – Savion Glover, American dancer and choreographer
*1975 – Toby Bailey, American basketball player and agent
* 1975 – Sushmita Sen, Indian actress, model and Miss Universe 1994
*1976 – Jack Dorsey, American businessman, co-founded Twitter
* 1976 – Robin Dunne, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
* 1976 – Jun Shibata, Japanese singer-songwriter
* 1976 – Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player
* 1976 – Stylianos Venetidis, Greek footballer and manager
*1977 – Kerri Strug, American gymnast and runner
*1978 – Dries Buytaert, Belgian computer programmer
* 1978 – Matt Dusk, Canadian singer
* 1978 – Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech discus thrower and shot putter
*1979 – Keith Buckley, American singer-songwriter
* 1979 – Mahé Drysdale, New Zealand rower
* 1979 – John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
* 1979 – Ryan Howard, American baseball player
* 1979 – Larry Johnson, American football player
* 1979 – Leam Richardson, English footballer and manager
*1980 – Courtney Anderson, American football player
* 1980 – Otis Grigsby, American football player
* 1980 – Vladimir Radmanović, Serbian basketball player
*1981 – Marcus Banks, American basketball player
* 1981 – André Lotterer, German race car driver
* 1981 – Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, Argentine rugby player
* 1981 – DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, producer, and songwriter
* 1981 – Mark Wallace, Welsh-English cricketer
*1983 – Chandra Crawford, Canadian skier
* 1983 – Adam Driver, American actor
* 1983 – Daria Werbowy, Polish-Canadian model
*1984 – Dawid Kucharski, Polish footballer
* 1984 – Brittany Maynard, American activist (d. 2014)
*1985 – Chris Eagles, English footballer
* 1985 – Alex Mack, American football player
*1986 – Sam Betty, English rugby player
* 1986 – Jeannie Ortega, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
* 1986 – Michael Saunders, Canadian baseball player
* 1986 – Jessicah Schipper, Australian swimmer
* 1986 – Milan Smiljanić, Serbian footballer
*1987 – Sílvia Soler Espinosa, Spanish tennis player
* 1988 – Timo Eichfuss, Estonian basketball player
* 1988 – Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player
*1989 – John McCarthy, Australian footballer (d. 2012)
* 1989 – Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper
* 1989 – Tyga, American rapper
*1990 – Marquise Goodwin, American football player
* 1990 – John Moore, American ice hockey player
* 1990 – Benedikt Schmid, German footballer
*1991 – Marina Marković, Serbian basketball player
* 1991 – Fabien Antunes, French footballer
*1992 – Cameron Bancroft, Australian cricketer
*1993 – Kerim Frei, Austrian footballer
* 1993 – Suso, Spanish footballer
*1994 – Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer
*1995 – Vanessa Axente, Hungarian model
*1997 – Kotonowaka Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler
*1997 – The McCaughey septuplets
*1999 – Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater

Deaths

Pre-1600

* 496 – Pope Gelasius I
* 498 – Pope Anastasius II
* 930 – Yan Keqiu, Chinese chief strategist
*1034 – Theodoric II, Margrave of Lower Lusatia (b. c. 990)
*1092 – Malik-Shah I, Seljuk Sultan (b. 1055)
* 1288 – Rudolf I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1230)
*1298 – Mechtilde, Saxon saint (b. c. 1240)
*1350 – Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eu (b. 1315)
*1481 – Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (b. 1472)
*1557 – Bona Sforza, Italian wife of Sigismund I the Old (b. 1494)
*1577 – Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese daimyō (b. 1508)
*1581 – Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (b. 1554)

1601–1900

* 1630 – Johann Hermann Schein, German singer and composer (b. 1586)
*1649 – Caspar Schoppe, German scholar and author (b. 1576)
* 1665 – Nicolas Poussin, French-Italian painter (b. 1594)
* 1672 – John Wilkins, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1614)
* 1679 – Roger Conant, Massachusetts governor (b. 1592)
* 1692 – Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (b. 1642)
*1703 – Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner
*1723 – Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
* 1772 – William Nelson, American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
* 1773 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1722)
* 1785 – Bernard de Bury, French harpsichord player and composer (b. 1720)
*1798 – Wolfe Tone, Irish general (b. 1763)
*1804 – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
*1810 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1727)
*1822 – Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
* 1828 – Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1797)
* 1831 – Titumir, Bengali revolutionary (b. 1782)
*1850 – Richard Mentor Johnson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 9th Vice President of the United States (b. 1780)
*1868 – Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
*1883 – Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German-English engineer (b. 1823)
*1887 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
*1897 – William Seymour Tyler, American historian and academic (b. 1810)

1901–present

* 1910 – Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (b. 1835)
*1915 – Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist (b. 1879)
*1918 – Joseph F. Smith, American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
*1924 – Thomas H. Ince, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
*1928 – Jeanne Bérangère, French actress (b. 1864)
*1931 – Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet and translator (b. 1897)
* 1938 – Lev Shestov, Ukrainian-Russian philosopher and theologian (b. 1866)
*1942 – Bruno Schulz, Polish painter and critic (b. 1892)
*1943 – Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (b. 1895)
*1949 – James Ensor, Belgian painter (b. 1860)
*1950 – Aage Redal, Danish actor (b. 1891)
* 1954 – Walter Bartley Wilson, English footballer and manager (b. 1870)
*1955 – Marquis James, American journalist and author (b. 1891)
*1956 – Francis L. Sullivan, English-American actor (b. 1903)
*1959 – Joseph Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1892)
*1960 – Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
*1962 – Grigol Robakidze, Georgian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
*1963 – Carmen Boni, Italian-French actress (b. 1901)
* 1963 – Henry B. Richardson, American archer (b. 1889)
*1967 – Charles J. Watters, American priest and soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
*1968 – May Hollinworth, Australian theatre producer and director (b. 1895)
*1970 – Lewis Sargent, American actor (b. 1903)
* 1970 – Maria Yudina, Soviet pianist (b. 1899)
*1974 – George Brunies, American trombonist (b. 1902)
* 1974 – Louise Fitzhugh, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
*1975 – Roger D. Branigin, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Governor of Indiana (b. 1902)
* 1975 – Rudolf Kinau, Low German writer (b. 1887)
* 1975 – Elizabeth Taylor (novelist), English novelist, (b. 1912)
*1976 – Basil Spence, Indian-Scottish architect and academic, designed the Coventry Cathedral (b. 1907)
*1983 – Tom Evans, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
*1985 – Stepin Fetchit, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1902)
* 1985 – Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1900)
* 1988 – Christina Onassis, American-Greek businesswoman (b. 1950)
* 1988 – Peggy Parish, American author (b. 1927)
*1989 – Grant Adcox, American race car driver (b. 1950)
*1990 – Sun Li-jen, Chinese general and politician (b. 1900)
*1991 – Reggie Nalder, Austrian-American actor (b. 1907)
*1992 – Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
* 1992 – Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
*1998 – Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (b. 1920)
* 1998 – Alan J. Pakula, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
* 1998 – Bernard Thompson, English director and producer (b. 1926)
*1999 – Alexander Liberman, Russian-American artist and publisher (b. 1912)
*2001 – Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
*2003 – Ian Geoghegan, Australian race car driver (b. 1939)
*2004 – George Canseco, Filipino journalist and composer (b. 1934)
* 2004 – Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor and academic (b. 1914)
* 2004 – Helmut Griem, German actor and director (b. 1932)
* 2004 – Trina Schart Hyman, American author and illustrator (b. 1939)
* 2004 – Terry Melcher, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
* 2004 – John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
*2005 – Erik Balling, Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
* 2005 – Steve Belichick, American football player, coach and scout (b. 1919)
*2007 – Kevin DuBrow, American singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
* 2007 – Mike Gregory, English rugby player and coach (b. 1964)
*2009 – Johnny Delgado, Filipino actor (b. 1948)
*2010 – Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1952)
*2011 – Ömer Lütfi Akad, Turkish director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
* 2011 – John Neville (actor), John Neville, English actor (b. 1925)
* 2011 – Ruth Stone, American poet and author (b. 1915)
*2012 – John Hefin, Welsh director and producer (b. 1941)
* 2012 – Shiro Miya, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
* 2012 – Warren Rudman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
* 2012 – Boris Strugatskiy, Russian author (b. 1933)
*2013 – Babe Birrer, American baseball player (b. 1928)
* 2013 – Dora Dougherty Strother, American pilot and academic (b. 1921)
* 2013 – Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (b. 1939)
* 2013 – Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
* 2013 – Charlotte Zolotow, American author and poet (b. 1915)
*2014 – Roy Bhaskar, English philosopher and academic (b. 1944)
* 2014 – Jeremiah Coffey, Irish-Australian bishop (b. 1933)
* 2014 – Pete Harman, American businessman (b. 1919)
* 2014 – Richard A. Jensen, American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1934)
* 2014 – Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (b. 1950)
* 2014 – Mike Nichols, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
*2015 – Armand (singer), Armand, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
* 2015 – Allen E. Ertel, American lawyer and politician (b. 1937)
* 2015 – Ron Hynes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
* 2015 – Korrie Layun Rampan, Indonesian author, poet, and critic (b. 1953)
* 2015 – Mal Whitfield, American runner and diplomat (b. 1924)
*2017 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and mass murderer (b. 1934)
* 2017 – Warren "Pete" Moore, American singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1938)
* 2017 – Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player (b. 1968)
* 2017 – Della Reese, American singer and actress (b. 1931)
* 2017 – Mel Tillis, American singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
* 2022 – Jason David Frank, American actor and mixed martial artist, best known as Tommy Oliver in the Power Rangers franchise (b. 1973)

Holidays and observances

* Christian feast day:
** Obadiah (Eastern Catholic Church)
** Raphael Kalinowski
** Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician
** November 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* Day of Discovery of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
* Day of Missile Forces and Artillery (Russia, Belarus)
* Flag Day (Brazil)
* Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize)
* International Men's Day
* Liberation Day (Mali)
* Martyrs' Day (India)#19 November, Martyrs' Day (Uttar Pradesh, India)
* National Day of Monaco, The Sovereign Prince's Day (Monaco)
* Women's Entrepreneurship Day
* World Toilet Day

References

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