November 15: On This Day

Events, births, deaths, holidays and observances for November 15.

Events 62

655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1315 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morgarten.
1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day.
1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1705 – Rákóczi's War of Independence: The Habsburg Empire and Denmark win a military victory over the Kurucs from Hungary in the Battle of Zsibó.
1760 – The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
1806 – Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is later named Pikes Peak in his honor.
1842 – A slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation commences.
1849 – Boilers of the steamboat Louisiana explode as she pulls back from the dock in New Orleans, killing more than 150 people.
1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea through Georgia towards the city of Savannah.
1884 – The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 met on 15 November 1884, and after an adjournment concluded on 26 February 1885, with the signature of a General Act, regulating the European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.
1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1899 – Second Boer War: Battle of Chieveley, a British armored train is ambushed and partially derailed. British lose the battle, with 80 soldiers captured, along with war correspondent Winston Churchill.
1917 – Eduskunta declares itself the supreme state power of Finland, prompting its declaration of independence and secession from Russia.
1920 – The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1920 – The Free City of Danzig is established.
1922 – At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsizes in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
1933 – Thailand holds its first election.
1938 – Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
1951 – Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 comrades, is sentenced to death for attempting to reestablish the Communist Party of Greece.
1955 – The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
1957 – Short Solent 3 crashes near Chessell.
1959 – Four members of the Clutter family are murdered near Holcomb, Kansas, by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, a crime later detailed by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.
1965 – Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1968 – The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000–500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence; it is only recognized by Turkey.
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1987 – In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713 crashes during takeoff from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, killing 25.
1988 – In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
1988 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1990 – The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
1990 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-38, a classified mission for the Department of Defense.
1994 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to 8.5 m (28 ft) high.
2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
2000 – Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
2001 – Microsoft launches the Xbox game console in North America.
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, kill 25 people and wound 300 more.
2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
2010 – A fire in a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai, China kills 58 people.
2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2016 – Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.
2017 – A flood a few miles outside of Athens results in the death of 25 people.
2020 – Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.
2022 – The world population reached eight billion.
2025 Anti-government demonstrations are held across Mexico following the assassination of Carlos Manzo earlier that month.

Births 199

459 – Bʼutz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king (died 501)
1316 – John I, king of France and Navarre (died 1316)
1397 – Nicholas V, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1455)
1498 – Eleanor of Austria, queen of Portugal and France (died 1558)
1511 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet and author (died 1536)
1556 – Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (died 1618)
1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (died 1701)
1660 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and orientalist (died 1746)
1661 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author (died 1743)
1692 – Eusebius Amort, German poet and theologian (died 1775)
1708 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1778)
1738 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (died 1822)
1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist (died 1801)
1746 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer (died 1809)
1757 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (died 1830)
1776 – José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and author (died 1827)
1784 – Jérôme Bonaparte, French husband of Catharina of Württemberg (died 1860)
1791 – Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (died 1869)
1793 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (died 1880)
1849 – Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator (died 1934)
1852 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (died 1892)
1859 – Christopher Hornsrud, Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway (died 1960)
1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1946)
1865 – John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (died 1932)
1866 – Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (died 1954)
1867 – Emil Krebs, German polyglot (died 1930)
1868 – Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (died 1947)
1873 – Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic (died 1945)
1874 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (died 1941)
1874 – August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)
1879 – Lewis Stone, American actor (died 1953)
1881 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (died 1960)
1882 – Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (died 1965)
1886 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (died 1951)
1887 – Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and translator (died 1972)
1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator (died 1986)
1888 – Artie Matthews, American pianist and composer (died 1958)
1890 – Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (died 1969)
1891 – W. Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1986)
1891 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (died 1944)
1892 – Naomi Childers, American actress (died 1964)
1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918)
1895 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1976)
1896 – Leonard Lord, English businessman (died 1967)
1897 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health (died 1960)
1897 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English author and critic (died 1988)
1899 – Avdy Andresson, Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War (died 1990)
1903 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (died 1974)
1905 – Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer (died 1980)
1906 – Curtis LeMay, American general and politician (died 1990)
1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel (died 1944)
1908 – Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (died 1979)
1912 – Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (died 2010)
1912 – Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel (died 1945)
1913 – Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (died 2003)
1913 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (died 2005)
1914 – V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge (died 2014)
1916 – Nita Barrow, Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados (died 1995)
1916 – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (died 2008)
1919 – Carol Bruce, American singer and actress (died 2007)
1919 – Joseph Wapner, American judge and television personality (died 2017)
1920 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1999)
1922 – Francis Brunn, German juggler (died 2004)
1922 – David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic (died 2019)
1922 – Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2015)
1923 – Văn Cao, Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter (died 1995)
1923 – Samuel Klein, Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia (died 2014)
1924 – Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor (died 2013)
1925 – Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (died 2014)
1926 – Thomas Williams, American author and academic (died 1990)
1927 – Bill Rowling, New Zealand politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1995)
1929 – Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer (died 2021)
1929 – Joe Hinton, American singer (died 1968)
1930 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 2009)
1930 – Olene Walker, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (died 2015)
1931 – Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya (died 2022)
1931 – Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (died 2020)
1932 – Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress
1932 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (died 1972)
1932 – Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher, author, and academic
1933 – Gloria Foster, American actress (died 2001)
1933 – Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author (died 2011)
1934 – Joanna Barnes, American actress and author (died 2022)
1935 – Nera White, American basketball player (died 2016)
1935 – Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian politician
1936 – Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
1936 – Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (died 1998)
1937 – Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter (died 1968)
1939 – Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter (died 2021)
1939 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (died 2015)
1939 – Enzo Staiola, Italian child actor (died 2025)
1940 – Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer (died 2024)
1940 – Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor and screenwriter
1940 – Sam Waterston, American actor
1942 – Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor
1945 – Roger Donaldson, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Bob Gunton, American actor and singer
1945 – Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer
1946 – Vassilis Goumas, Greek basketball player
1947 – Bob Dandridge, American basketball player
1947 – Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2023)
1947 – Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and sportscaster
1948 – Jimmy Choo, Malaysian fashion designer
1948 – Teodoro Locsin, Jr., Filipino journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat
1950 – Egon Vaupel, German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg
1951 – Beverly D'Angelo, American actress, singer, and producer
1952 – Randy Savage, American wrestler (died 2011)
1953 – Alexander O'Neal, American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger
1953 – James Widdoes, American actor, director, and producer
1954 – Kevin S. Bright, American director and producer
1954 – Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland
1954 – Randy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 – Tony Thompson, American R&B, disco, and rock drummer (died 2003)
1956 – Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer
1957 – Gerry Connolly, Australian comedian and actor
1957 – Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist and composer
1957 – Harold Marcuse, American historian and educator
1957 – Michael Woythe, German footballer and manager
1958 – Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Australian actor and director
1958 – Gu Kailai, Chinese lawyer and businesswoman
1958 – Lesley Laird, British politician
1959 – Tibor Fischer, English author
1960 – Dawn Airey, English broadcaster
1961 – Hugh McGahan, New Zealand rugby league player
1962 – Judy Gold, American comedian, actress, and producer
1963 – Benny Elias, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1964 – Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer and manager
1964 – Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2011)
1965 – Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
1966 – Rachel True, American actress
1967 – Greg Anthony, American basketball player and sportscaster
1967 – Cynthia Breazeal, American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic
1967 – E-40, American rapper and actor
1967 – François Ozon, French director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – Gus Poyet, Uruguayan footballer and manager
1967 – Jon Preston, New Zealand rugby player
1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper and producer (died 2004)
1968 – Fausto Brizzi, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Uwe Rösler, German footballer and manager
1970 – Jack Ingram, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – Alexander Kvitashvili, Georgian-Ukrainian academic and politician, 19th Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare
1970 – Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer
1971 – Jay Harrington, American actor
1971 – Martin Pieckenhagen, German footballer
1972 – Jonny Lee Miller, English-American actor
1973 – Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress
1973 – Alamgir Sheriyar, English cricketer
1974 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1975 – Boris Živković, Croatian footballer
1976 – Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian, actor, and stuntman
1976 – Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
1977 – Richard Lintner, Slovak ice hockey player
1977 – Steven Miles, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Queensland
1977 – Sean Murray, American actor
1977 – Peter Phillips, English businessman
1979 – Josemi, Spanish footballer
1979 – Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
1981 – Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
1982 – Rio Hirai, Japanese actress
1982 – Benjamin Krause, German rugby player
1982 – Giaan Rooney, Australian swimmer
1982 – Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer
1983 – Dominic Carroll, Gibraltarian runner
1983 – Sophia Di Martino, English actress
1983 – Aleksandar Pavlović, Serbian basketball player
1983 – Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
1983 – John Heitinga, Dutch footballer and coach
1984 – Asia Kate Dillon, American actor and producer
1985 – Lily Aldridge, American model
1985 – Charron Fisher, American basketball player
1985 – Simon Spender, Welsh footballer
1986 – Winston Duke, Tobagonian-American actor
1986 – Coye Francies, American football player
1986 – Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
1986 – Jerry Roush, American singer-songwriter
1987 – Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player
1988 – B.o.B, American rapper, songwriter, and producer
1988 – Quanitra Hollingsworth, American-Turkish basketball player
1988 – Morgan Parra, French rugby player
1988 – Billy Twelvetrees, English rugby player
1989 – Jona Viray, Filipino singer
1991 – Maxime Colin, French footballer
1991 – Shailene Woodley, American actress
1992 – Dylan Bundy, American baseball player
1992 – Sofia Goggia, Italian skier
1992 – Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer
1992 – Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer
1993 – Arik Armstead, American football player
1993 – Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer
1993 – Melitina Staniouta, Belarusian rhythmic gymnast
1994 – Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russian tennis player
1994 – Emma Dumont, American actress and model
1994 – Bryce Cartwright, Australian rugby league player
1994 – Alejandro Saab, American voice actor, YouTuber, and VTuber
1995 – Blake Pieroni, American swimmer
1995 – Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player
1996 – Kim Min-jae, South Korean footballer
1997 – Paula Badosa, Spanish tennis player
2001 – TyTy Washington Jr., American basketball player

Deaths 121

165 BCE – Mattathias, Jewish resistance leader
621 – Malo, Breton bishop and saint
655 – Æthelhere, king of East Anglia
655 – Penda of Mercia, king of Mercia
1037 – Odo II, French nobleman (born 983)
1136 – Leopold III, margrave of Austria (born 1073)
1194 – Margaret I, countess of Flanders
1226 – Frederick of Isenberg, German nobleman (born 1193)
1280 – Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (born 1193)
1347 – James I of Urgell, Spanish nobleman (born 1321)
1351 – Joanna of Pfirt, duchess of Austria
1379 – Otto V, duke of Bavaria
1463 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian nobleman
1527 – Catherine of York, English princess (born 1479)
1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (born 1510)
1628 – Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (born 1576)
1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1571)
1670 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (born 1592)
1691 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (born 1620)
1706 – Tsangyang, Tibetan dalai lama (born 1683)
1712 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (born 1658)
1712 – Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (born 1675)
1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (born 1714)
1794 – John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (born 1723)
1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (born 1719)
1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman (born 1767)
1836 – Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and saint (born 1750s)
1845 – William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (born 1803)
1853 – Maria II, Portuguese queen and regent (born 1819)
1892 – Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (born 1850)
1897 – Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (born 1810)
1908 – Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (born 1835)
1910 – Wilhelm Raabe, German author (born 1831)
1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)
1917 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (born 1858)
1919 – Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (born 1862)
1919 – Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician (born 1868)
1919 – Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
1921 – Tadhg Barry, Irish republican and trade unionist, killed in prison (born 1880)
1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1866)
1922 – Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1854)
1922 – Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1872)
1941 – Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer (born 1902)
1942 – Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Swiss author and photographer (born 1908)
1945 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (born 1864)
1949 – Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (born 1911)
1949 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (born 1910)
1951 – Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (born 1862)
1954 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (born 1878)
1956 – Emma Richter, German paleontologist (born 1888)
1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1914)
1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)
1960 – Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (born 1937)
1961 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (born 1883)
1961 – Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (born 1883)
1963 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (born 1888)
1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler (born 1877)
1966 – William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (born 1887)
1967 – Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (born 1930)
1970 – Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician (born 1884)
1971 – Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (born 1903)
1976 – Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and producer (born 1904)
1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (born 1901)
1980 – Bill Lee, American actor and singer (born 1916)
1981 – Steve Macko, American baseball player and coach (born 1954)
1981 – Enid Markey, American actress (born 1894)
1981 – Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (born 1938)
1982 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (born 1895)
1982 – Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver (born 1901)
1983 – John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and songwriter (born 1955)
1983 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and manager (born 1898)
1983 – John Le Mesurier, English actor (born 1912)
1984 – Baby Fae, American infant, who received baboon heart (born 1984)
1985 – Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (born 1913)
1988 – Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (born 1915)
1988 – Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian (born 1905)
1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (born 1908)
1996 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat (born 1904)
1997 – Saul Chaplin, American director and composer (born 1912)
1998 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (born 1941)
1998 – Ludvík Daněk, Czech discus thrower (born 1937)
2000 – Edoardo Agnelli, son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli (born 1954)
2001 – Frances Hawkins, American politician and teacher, member of the Nevada State Assembly (born 1921)
2003 – Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (born 1910)
2003 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (born 1925)
2003 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (born 1923)
2003 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (born 1924)
2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (born 1909)
2004 – John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1930)
2005 – Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (born 1931)
2005 – Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (born 1959)
2006 – David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (born 1937)
2007 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1928)
2008 – Grace Hartigan, American painter (born 1922)
2009 – Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (born 1914)
2010 – Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (born 1932)
2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (born 1944)
2010 – William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer (born 1921)
2011 – Oba Chandler, American murderer (born 1946)
2012 – Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (born 1954)
2012 – Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (born 1976)
2012 – Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (born 1983)
2012 – K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (born 1931)
2012 – Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (born 1940)
2013 – Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (born 1929)
2013 – Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (born 1919)
2013 – Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (born 1930)
2014 – Jack Bridger Chalker, English painter and academic (born 1918)
2014 – Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator (born 1934)
2014 – Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (born 1983)
2014 – Reg Withers, Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory (born 1924)
2015 – Gisèle Prassinos, French author (born 1920)
2015 – Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (born 1930)
2015 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (born 1929)
2016 – Mose Allison, American pianist and songwriter (born 1927)
2017 – Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (born 1996)
2023 – Žarko Laušević, Serbian actor (born 1960)
2024 – Celeste Caeiro, Portuguese pacifist (born 1933)
2024 – Béla Károlyi, Romanian-American gymnastics coach (born 1942)
2024 – Jon Kenny, Irish comedian and actor (born 1957)
2024 – Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Japanese princess (born 1923)

Holidays and observances 22

America Recycles Day (United States)
Christian feast day: Abibus of Edessa Albert the Great Blessed Caius of Korea Didier of Cahors Francis Asbury and George Whitefield (Episcopal Church) Blessed Hugh Faringdon Leopold III, a public holiday in Lower Austria and Vienna. Malo Mechell November 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Abibus of Edessa
Albert the Great
Blessed Caius of Korea
Didier of Cahors
Francis Asbury and George Whitefield (Episcopal Church)
Blessed Hugh Faringdon
Leopold III, a public holiday in Lower Austria and Vienna.
Malo
Mechell
November 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium (German-speaking Community of Belgium)
Day of the Imprisoned Writer (International observance)
Independence Day, unilaterally declared in 1988. (Palestine)
King's Feast (Belgium)
National Tree Planting Day (Sri Lanka)
Peace Day (Ivory Coast)
Republic Proclamation Day (Brazil)
Shichi-Go-San (Japan)
Republic Day (Northern Cyprus)
The beginning of Nativity Fast (Eastern Orthodox)