November 9: On This Day

Events, births, deaths, holidays and observances for November 9.

Events 75

694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1180 – The Battle of Fujigawa: Minamoto forces (30,000 men) under Minamoto no Yoritomo defeat Taira no Koremori during a night attack near the Fuji River but he escapes safely with the routed army.
1277 – The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement forced on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd by King Edward I of England, brings a temporary end to the Welsh Wars.
1307 – Knights Templar officer Hugues de Pairaud is forced to confess during the Trials of the Knights Templar. He was persecuted on the charges of false idolism and sodomy.
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf.
1323 – Siege of Warangal: Prataparudra surrenders to Muhammad bin Tughlaq, officially marking the end of the Kakatiya dynasty.
1330 – At the Battle of Posada, Basarab I of Wallachia defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.
1372 – Trần Duệ Tông succeeds his brother Trần Nghệ Tông as King of Vietnam.
1431 – The Battle of Ilava: The Hungarians defeat the Hussite army.
1456 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje, last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in Belgrade.
1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
1580 – Second Desmond Rebellion: The Siege of Smerwick ends with the Catholic garrison surrendering to the English forces under Arthur Grey. The majority of the garrison is massacred the next day.
1620 – The Bohemian King Frederick I flees Prague to Vratislav one day after the defeat of his troops in the Battle of White Mountain.
1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
1719 – In a treaty between Sweden and Hanover at the close of the Great Northern War, Sweden cedes the Duchies of Bremen and Verden (in northern Germany) to Hanover.
1720 – The synagogue of Judah HeHasid 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.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
1791 – The Dublin Society of United Irishmen is founded.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor Consulate Government.
1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
1867 – The Tokugawa shogunate hands back power to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1870 – The Battle of Coulmiers ends in a Pyrrhic victory for the French army during the Franco-German War of 1870.
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
1880 – A major earthquake strikes Zagreb and destroys many buildings, including Zagreb Cathedral.
1881 – Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 – Jack the Ripper murders Mary Jane Kelly, his final victim in the Whitechapel murders.
1900 – Russian invasion of Manchuria: Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria with 100,000 troops.
1901 – Prince George, Duke of Cornwall (later George V of the United Kingdom), becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
1905 – The Province of Alberta, Canada, holds its first general election.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country, doing 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, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1914 – SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1917 – The Balfour Declaration is published in The Times newspaper.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1921 – The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista or PNF) is founded in Italy.
1923 – In Munich, police and government troops crush the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch.
1935 – The Committee for Industrial Organization, the precursor to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
1936 – American fashion designer Ruth Harkness seeks and captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan; named Su Lin, he becomes the first live giant panda to enter the United States.
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.
1938 – Kristallnacht occurs, instigated by the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as justification.
1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari by the Polish government-in-exile.
1942 – Battle of Stalingrad: German forces of the 6th Army under general Friedrich Paulus reach the river bank of the Volga, capturing 90% of the ruined city of Stalingrad and splitting the remaining Soviet forces into two narrow pockets.
1943 – An agreement for the founding of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is signed by 44 countries in the White House, Washington, D.C.
1945 – Soo Bahk Do and Moo Duk Kwan martial arts are founded in Korea.
1953 – Cambodia gains independence from France.
1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of the Ford Motor Company, becoming the first non-Ford family member to serve in that post. He resigns a month later to join the newly elected John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 – At a coal mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
1963 – The Tsurumi rail accident on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Yokohama kills 162 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 – A Catholic Worker Movement 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 Florida's Cape Kennedy.
1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1971 – American banker John List murdered his wife, mother, and three children with a pair of handguns.
1979 – Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, detect a 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 fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
1993 – Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.
1994 – The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
1998 – A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
1999 – TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
2000 – Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
2004 – Firefox 1.0 is released.
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 – Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2011 - The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m. EST.
2012 – A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
2012 – At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
2014 – A non-binding self-determination consultation is held in Catalonia, asking Catalan citizens their opinion on whether Catalonia should become a state and, if so, whether it should be an independent state.
2020 – Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: An armistice agreement is signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.
2023 – U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.

Births 213

955 – Gyeongjong, Korean king (died 981)
1383 – Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (died 1441)
1389 – Isabella of Valois, French princess, Queen Consort of England and Duchess of Orleans (died 1409)
1414 – Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1486)
1455 – John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (died 1516)
1467 – Charles II, Duke of Guelders, count of Zutphen from 1492 (died 1538)
1467 – Philippa of Guelders, twin sister of Charles II, Dutch duchess consort (died 1547)
1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German astrologer and theologian (died 1586)
1535 – Nanda Bayin, king of Burma (died 1600)
1580 – Johannes Narssius, Dutch physician and poet (died 1637)
1606 – Hermann Conring, German philosopher and educator (died 1681)
1664 – Johann Speth, German organist and composer (died 1719)
1664 – Henry Wharton, English librarian and author (died 1695)
1666 – Carl Gustaf Armfeldt, Swedish officer, general and friherre (died 1736)
1683 – George II of Great Britain (died 1760)
1697 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian singer and composer (died 1760)
1719 – Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian priest, theoretician, and academic (died 1796)
1721 – Mark Akenside, English physician and poet (died 1770)
1723 – Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (died 1787)
1731 – Benjamin Banneker, American farmer, surveyor, and author (died 1806)
1732 – Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, French businesswoman and author (died 1776)
1773 – Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, Danish author (died 1856)
1780 – Nicolai Wergeland, Norwegian priest, writer and politician (died 1848)
1799 – Gustav, Prince of Vasa (died 1877)
1801 – Gail Borden, American surveyor and publisher, invented condensed milk (died 1874)
1802 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister, journalist, and activist (died 1837)
1810 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German general, surgeon, and academic (died 1887)
1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright (died 1883)
1825 – A. P. Hill, American general (died 1865)
1829 – Peter Lumsden, English general (died 1918)
1832 – Émile Gaboriau, French author and journalist (died 1873)
1840 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (died 1898)
1841 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)
1850 – Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist and academic (died 1929)
1853 – Stanford White, American architect and partner, co-founded McKim, Mead & White (died 1906)
1854 – Maud Howe Elliott, American activist and author (died 1948)
1862 – Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter and educator (died 1936)
1869 – Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (died 1934)
1871 – Florence R. Sabin, American medical scientist (died 1953)
1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian author and poet (died 1941)
1873 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and surgeon (died 1941)
1874 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist and academic (died 1954)
1877 – Enrico De Nicola, Italian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of the Italian Republic (died 1959)
1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and politician (died 1938)
1878 – Ahn Changho, Korean activist and politician (died 1938)
1879 – Jenő Bory, Hungarian architect and sculptor (died 1959)
1879 – Milan Šufflay, Croatian historian and politician (died 1931)
1880 – Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the red telephone box (died 1960)
1883 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (died 1942)
1885 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (died 1954)
1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (died 1922)
1885 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor and educator (died 1952)
1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1955)
1886 – Ed Wynn, American actor (died 1966)
1888 – Jean Monnet, French economist and diplomat (died 1979)
1891 – Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (died 1983)
1894 – Mae Marsh, American actress (died 1968)
1894 – Dietrich von Choltitz, General of the German Army during World War II (died 1966)
1897 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (died 1941)
1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1978)
1900 – Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic (died 1961)
1902 – Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (died 1968)
1904 – Viktor Brack, German SS officer (died 1948)
1904 – Heiti Talvik, Estonian poet (died 1947)
1905 – Erika Mann, German-Swiss actress and author (died 1969)
1906 – Arthur Rudolph, German scientist and engineer (died 1996)
1913 – Paulene Myers, American actress (died 1996)
1914 – Thomas Berry, American priest, historian, and theologian (died 2009)
1914 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and inventor (died 2000)
1915 – André François, Romanian-French illustrator, painter, and sculptor (died 2005)
1915 – Sargent Shriver, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 21st United States Ambassador to France (died 2011)
1916 – Martha Settle Putney, American lieutenant, historian, and educator (died 2008)
1918 – Spiro Agnew, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (died 1996)
1918 – Florence Chadwick, American swimmer (died 1995)
1918 – Thomas Ferebee, American colonel (died 2000)
1918 – Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general and martial artist, co-founded taekwondo (died 2002)
1919 – Eva Todor, Brazilian actress (died 2017)
1920 – Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin of Medgar Evers (died 2001)
1920 – Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (died 2014)
1921 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano and actress (died 2011)
1921 – Viktor Chukarin, Ukrainian gymnast and coach (died 1984)
1922 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 1965)
1922 – Raymond Devos, Belgian-French comedian and clown (died 2006)
1922 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian mathematician, philosopher, and academic (died 1974)
1923 – Alice Coachman, American high jumper (died 2014)
1923 – Elizabeth Hawley, American-Nepali journalist and historian (died 2018)
1923 – James Schuyler, American poet and author (died 1991)
1924 – Robert Frank, Swiss-American photographer and director (died 2019)
1925 – Alistair Horne, English-American journalist, historian, and author (died 2017)
1926 – Vicente Aranda, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)
1926 – Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (died 1996)
1928 – Anne Sexton, American poet and academic (died 1974)
1929 – Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (died 2005)
1929 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
1931 – Whitey Herzog, American baseball player and manager (died 2024)
1931 – Valery Shumakov, Russian surgeon and transplantologist (died 2008)
1931 – George Witt, American baseball player and coach (died 2013)
1932 – Frank Selvy, American basketball player and coach (died 2024)
1933 – Ed Corney, American professional bodybuilder (died 2019)
1933 – Jim Perry, American game show host (died 2015)
1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish economist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
1934 – Ronald Harwood, South African author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2020)
1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (died 1996)
1935 – Bob Gibson, American baseball player and coach (died 2020)
1935 – David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, English businessman and politician (died 2021)
1936 – Bob Graham, American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Florida (died 2024)
1936 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian-Russian chess player and author (died 1992)
1936 – Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (died 2009)
1937 – Roger McGough, English author, poet, and playwright
1937 – Donald Trelford, English journalist and academic (died 2023)
1937 – Clyde Wells, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
1938 – Ti-Grace Atkinson, American author and critic
1939 – Paul Cameron, American psychologist and academic
1939 – Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham, English academic and politician
1941 – David Constant, English cricketer and umpire
1941 – Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1990)
1941 – John Singleton, Australian businessman
1942 – Victor Blank, English businessman and philanthropist
1942 – Tom Weiskopf, American golfer and sportscaster (died 2022)
1944 – Chitresh Das, Indian dancer and choreographer (died 2015)
1944 – Phil May, English singer-songwriter (died 2020)
1945 – Moeletsi Mbeki, South African economist and academic
1945 – Charlie Robinson, American actor (died 2021)
1946 – Benny Mardones, American singer-songwriter (died 2020)
1946 – Marina Warner, English author and academic
1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor, singer, and pianist
1948 – Bille August, Danish director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
1948 – Joe Bouchard, American bass player and songwriter
1948 – Jane Humphries, English economist, historian, and academic
1948 – Michel Pagliaro, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian footballer and manager
1950 – Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician, 40th Minister of Māori Affairs (died 2013)
1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and actor
1952 – Sherrod Brown, American academic and politician
1952 – Gladys Requena, Venezuelan politician
1952 – Jim Riggleman, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1953 – Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
1954 – Aed Carabao, Thai singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 – Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Bob Nault, Canadian lawyer and politician
1959 – Thomas Quasthoff, German opera singer
1959 – Tony Slattery, British actor, comedian and television personality (died 2025)
1960 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer and manager (died 2024)
1960 – Sarah Franklin, American-English anthropologist and academic
1960 – Demetra Plakas, American drummer
1961 – Jill Dando, English journalist (died 1999)
1963 – Anthony Bowie, American basketball player
1964 – Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor, director, and producer
1965 – Daphne Guinness, English-Irish model and actress
1965 – Andrei Lapushkin, Russian footballer
1965 – Ryan Murphy, American television writer, producer, and director
1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh opera singer
1967 – Ricky Otto, English footballer
1968 – Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist and educator
1968 – Colin Hay, English political scientist, author, and academic
1969 – Sandra Denton, Jamaican-American rapper and actress
1969 – Ramona Milano, Canadian actress
1969 – Roxanne Shanté, American rapper
1969 – Allison Wolfe, American singer-songwriter
1970 – Nelson Diebel, American swimmer and coach
1970 – Domino, American DJ and producer
1970 – Guido Görtzen, Dutch volleyball player
1970 – Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player, coach, and executive
1970 – Chris Jericho, American-Canadian wrestler
1970 – Scarface, American rapper and producer
1970 – Susan Tedeschi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 – David Duval, American golfer and sportscaster
1971 – Sabri Lamouchi, French footballer and manager
1972 – Eric Dane, American actor (died 2026)
1972 – Naomi Shindō, Japanese voice actress and singer
1972 – Corin Tucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 – Alyson Court, Canadian actress and producer
1973 – Nick Lachey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1973 – Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress and director
1973 – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer and coach
1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1974 – Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress
1975 – Gareth Malone, English singer and conductor
1975 – Mathew Sinclair, New Zealand cricketer
1976 – Tochiazuma Daisuke, Japanese sumo wrestler
1977 – Chris Morgan, English footballer and manager
1977 – Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
1978 – Even Ormestad, Norwegian bass player and producer
1978 – Sisqó, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1979 – Dave Bush, American baseball player
1979 – Adam Dunn, American baseball player
1979 – Caroline Flack, English television presenter, radio presenter, and model (died 2020)
1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
1980 – Vanessa Lachey, Filipino-American television host and actress
1980 – Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
1981 – Eyedea, American rapper and producer (died 2010)
1981 – Jobi McAnuff, Jamaican footballer
1981 – Kane Waselenchuk, Canadian racquetball player
1982 – Boaz Myhill, American-Welsh footballer
1982 – Jana Pittman, Australian hurdler
1983 – Rob Elloway, German rugby player
1983 – Ted Potter Jr., American golfer
1983 – Michael Turner, English footballer
1984 – Delta Goodrem, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
1984 – French Montana, Moroccan-American rapper
1984 – Seven, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor
1985 – Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
1986 – Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress, singer, and dancer
1988 – Lio Tipton, American actor and model
1989 – Baptiste Giabiconi, French model and singer
1990 – Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer
1993 – Pete Dunne, English wrestler
1994 – Lyrica Okano, American actress
1995 – Finn Cole, English actor
1995 – Daniel Naroditsky, American chess grandmaster (died 2025)
1996 – Momo Hirai, Japanese dancer and singer
1999 – Prithvi Shaw, Indian cricketer

Deaths 117

959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor (born 905)
1034 – Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia (born c. 975)
1187 – Emperor Gaozong of Song (born 1107)
1208 – Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (born 1154)
1261 – Sanchia of Provence, queen consort of Germany
1284 – Siger of Brabant, Dutch philosopher (born 1240)
1286 – Roger Northwode, English statesman (born 1230)
1312 – Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (born 1261)
1321 – Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England (born 1243)
1456 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje (born 1406)
1492 – Jami, Persian poet (born 1414)
1596 – George Peele, English translator, poet, and dramatist (born 1556)
1623 – William Camden, English historian and topographer (born 1551)
1641 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (born 1610)
1677 – Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter (born 1603)
1689 – Enea Silvio Piccolomini, imperial general (born 1651)
1706 – Peter Mews, English Royalist theologian and bishop (born 1619)
1719 – Oley Douglas, British Member of Parliament (born 1684)
1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer and diplomat (born 1692)
1770 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish general and politician (born 1693)
1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (born 1720)
1801 – Carl Stamitz, German-Czech violinist and composer (born 1745)
1848 – Robert Blum, German poet and politician (born 1810)
1854 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (born 1757)
1880 – Edwin Drake, American businessman (born 1819)
1906 – Dorothea Beale, English suffragist, educational reformer and author (born 1831)
1911 – Mary Fortune, Australian journalist and author (born 1832)
1911 – Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (born 1853)
1917 – Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (born 1866)
1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, and playwright (born 1880)
1918 – Peter Lumsden, English general (born 1829)
1919 – Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 26th President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1848)
1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (born 1850)
1932 – Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (born 1901)
1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1866)
1938 – Vasily Blyukher, Russian marshal (born 1889)
1940 – Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese-American bishop (born 1876)
1940 – Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1869)
1942 – Charles Courtney Curran, American painter (born 1861)
1942 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (born 1883)
1944 – Frank Marshall, American chess player and theoretician (born 1877)
1951 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American pianist and composer (born 1887)
1952 – Philip Murray, Scottish-American labor leader (born 1886)
1952 – Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist, academic, and politician, 1st President of Israel (born 1874)
1953 – Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (born 1859)
1953 – Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian king (born 1880)
1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (born 1914)
1956 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author (born 1878)
1957 – Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (born 1872)
1958 – Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American educational reformer, social activist and author (born 1879)
1962 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian activist and academic (born 1858)
1968 – Jan Johansson, Swedish pianist (born 1931)
1970 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (born 1890)
1971 – Maude Fealy, American actress and screenwriter (born 1883)
1972 – Victor Adamson; American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (born 1890)
1976 – Armas Taipale, Finnish discus thrower and shot putter (born 1890)
1977 – Fred Haney, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1898)
1985 – Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (born 1946)
1988 – David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and priest (born 1924)
1988 – John N. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (born 1913)
1988 – Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (born 1920)
1989 – Bill Neilson, Australian politician, 34th Premier of Tasmania (born 1925)
1991 – Yves Montand, Italian-French actor (born 1921)
1992 – Charles Fraser-Smith, English missionary and author (born 1904)
1992 – William Hillcourt, Danish-American scout leader and author (born 1900)
1992 – T. Sivasithamparam, Sri Lankan politician (born 1926)
1993 – Ross Andru, American illustrator (born 1925)
1996 – Joe Ghiz, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (born 1945)
1997 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (born 1905)
1997 – Helenio Herrera, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager (born 1910)
1999 – Mabel King, American actress and singer (born 1932)
2000 – Sherwood Johnston, American race car driver (born 1927)
2000 – Eric Morley, English television host, founded Miss World (born 1918)
2001 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and curator (born 1924)
2001 – Giovanni Leone, Italian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Italy (born 1908)
2002 – William Schutz, American psychologist and academic (born 1925)
2003 – Art Carney, American actor and comedian (born 1918)
2003 – Gordon Onslow Ford, English-American painter (born 1912)
2004 – Iris Chang, American historian, journalist, and author (born 1968)
2004 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer and manager (born 1947)
2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and author (born 1954)
2005 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian journalist and politician, 10th President of India (born 1921)
2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (born 1941)
2006 – Ellen Willis, American journalist and activist (born 1941)
2006 – Markus Wolf, German intelligence officer (born 1923)
2008 – Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (born 1929)
2008 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer and activist (born 1932)
2012 – Milan Čič, Slovak lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic (born 1932)
2012 – Joseph D. Early, American soldier and politician (born 1933)
2012 – Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1905)
2012 – James L. Stone, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1922)
2013 – Savaş Ay, Turkish journalist (born 1954)
2013 – Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (born 1947)
2013 – Grethe Rytter Hasle, Norwegian biologist and academic (born 1920)
2013 – Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, American saxophonist (born 1936)
2013 – Steve Prescott, English rugby player (born 1973)
2013 – Emile Zuckerkandl, Austrian-American biologist and academic (born 1922)
2014 – Rubén Alvarez, Argentinian golfer (born 1961)
2014 – Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani, Qatari prince (born 1966)
2014 – R. A. Montgomery, American author and publisher (born 1936)
2014 – Myles Munroe, Bahamian pastor and author (born 1954)
2014 – Orlando Thomas, American football player (born 1972)
2014 – Joe Walsh, Irish politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (born 1943)
2015 – Carol Doda, American actress and dancer (born 1937)
2015 – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (born 1930)
2015 – Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (born 1986)
2015 – Byron Krieger, American fencer (born 1920)
2015 – Andy White, Scottish drummer (born 1930)
2016 – Greg Ballard, American basketball player and coach (born 1955)
2017 – Chuck Mosley, American singer songwriter (born 1959)
2017 – Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (born 1982)
2021 – Max Cleland, American politician (born 1942)
2023 – Junko Ohashi, Japanese singer (born 1950)
2024 – Bobby Allison, American race car driver and businessman (born 1937)
2024 – Lou Donaldson, American saxophonist (born 1926)
2024 – Judith Jamison, American dancer and choreographer (born 1943)
2024 – Ella Jenkins, American folk singer (born 1924)

Holidays and observances 17

Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)
Christian feast day: Benignus of Armagh Dedication of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day) Margery Kempe (Church of England) Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran) Nectarios of Aegina Theodore of Amasea (Roman Catholic Church) Virgin of Almudena (Madrid) Vitonus November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Benignus of Armagh
Dedication of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day)
Margery Kempe (Church of England)
Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran)
Nectarios of Aegina
Theodore of Amasea (Roman Catholic Church)
Virgin of Almudena (Madrid)
Vitonus
November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the Skulls or Dia de los ñatitas (Bolivia)
Flag Day (Azerbaijan)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cambodia from France in 1953.
Inventors' Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
Uttarakhand Day (Uttarakhand, India)
World Freedom Day (United States)