November 15

Events

• 655 - Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
• 1315 - Battle of Morgarten: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
• 1532 - Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.
• 1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
• 1705 - Battle of Zsibó: Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs.
• 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 sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins Sherman's March to the Sea.
• 1889 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
• 1914 - Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
• 1920 - 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.
• 1926 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
• 1928 - The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
• 1933 - Thailand has its first election.
• 1939 - In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
• 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".
• 1949 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
• 1951 - Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
• 1955 - The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
• 1959 - The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas were discovered, inspiring Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.
• 1966 - Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1966 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
• 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. Recognized only 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.
• 1988 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned 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 - Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
• 1990 - The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
• 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.
• 2002 - Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China 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, killing 25 people and wounding about 300.
• 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.
• 2012 - Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China 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.

  Births

• 459 - B'utz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king
• 1316 - John I, king of France and Navarre
• 1397 - Nicholas V, pope of the Catholic Church
• 1498 - Eleanor of Austria, queen of Portugal and France
• 1511 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet and author
• 1556 - Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal
• 1607 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French author
• 1660 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and orientalist
• 1661 - Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author
• 1692 - Eusebius Amort, German poet and theologian
• 1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1738 - William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer
• 1741 - Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist
• 1746 - Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer
• 1757 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic
• 1776 - José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and author
• 1784 - Jérôme Bonaparte, French husband of Catharina of Württemberg
• 1791 - Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician
• 1793 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic
• 1849 - Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator
• 1852 - Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler
• 1859 - Christopher Hornsrud, Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway
• 1862 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1865 - John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania
• 1867 - Emil Krebs, German polyglot
• 1868 - Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer
• 1873 - Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic
• 1874 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner
• 1874 - August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1879 - Lewis Stone, American actor
• 1881 - Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author
• 1882 - Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist
• 1886 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author
• 1887 - Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and translator
• 1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator
• 1888 - Artie Matthews, American pianist and composer
• 1890 - Richmal Crompton, English author and educator
• 1891 - W. Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce
• 1891 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal
• 1892 - Naomi Childers, American actress
• 1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
• 1895 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish journalist, poet, and playwright
• 1896 - Leonard Lord, English businessman
• 1897 - Aneurin Bevan, Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health
• 1897 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English author and critic
• 1899 - Avdy Andresson, Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War
• 1903 - Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach
• 1905 - Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer
• 1906 - Curtis LeMay, American general and politician
• 1907 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel
• 1908 - Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth
• 1912 - Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic
• 1912 - Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel
• 1913 - Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach
• 1913 - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet
• 1914 - V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge
• 1916 - Nita Barrow, Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados
• 1916 - Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer
• 1919 - Carol Bruce, American singer and actress
• 1919 - Joseph Wapner, American lieutenant and judge
• 1920 - Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1922 - Francis Brunn, German juggler
• 1922 - David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic
• 1922 - Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter
• 1923 - Văn Cao, Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter
• 1923 - Samuel Klein, Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia
• 1924 - Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor
• 1925 - Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff
• 1926 - Thomas Williams, American author and academic
• 1927 - Bill Rowling, New Zealand politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1928 - C. W. McCall, American singer-songwriter and politician
• 1928 - Seldon Powell, American saxophonist and flute player
• 1929 - Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1929 - Joe Hinton, American singer
• 1930 - J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist
• 1930 - Olene Walker, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah
• 1931 - John Kerr, American actor, singer, and lawyer
• 1931 - Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya
• 1931 - Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo
• 1932 - Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1932 - Clyde McPhatter, American singer
• 1932 - Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher, author, and academic
• 1933 - Gloria Foster, American actress
• 1933 - Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author
• 1934 - Joanna Barnes, American actress and author
• 1934 - Peter Dickinson, English pianist and composer
• 1935 - Nera White, American basketball player
• 1936 - H. B. Bailey, American race car driver
• 1936 - Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1936 - Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher
• 1937 - Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter
• 1939 - Terry Bradbury, English footballer and manager
• 1939 - Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist
• 1939 - Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter
• 1940 - Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer
• 1940 - Tony Mendez, American CIA technical operations officer
• 1940 - Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor and screenwriter
• 1940 - Hank Wangford, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and physician
• 1940 - Sam Waterston, American actor
• 1941 - Rick Kemp, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1941 - Daniel Pinkwater, American author and illustrator
• 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 - Malcolm Ranjith, Sri Lankan cardinal
• 1947 - Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1947 - Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 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 - Rick Atkinson, American journalist, historian, and author
• 1952 - Randy Savage, American wrestler
• 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 - Emma Dent Coad, British politician
• 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
• 1955 - Joe Leeway, English pop singer-songwriter and percussionist
• 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 - Mark Acres, American basketball player and educator
• 1962 - Judy Gold, American comedian, actress, and producer
• 1963 - Andrew Castle, English tennis player and television host
• 1963 - Benny Elias, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1963 - Kevin J. O'Connor, American actor
• 1964 - Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1964 - Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1964 - Tiit Sokk, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1965 - Nigel Bond, English snooker player
• 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 - Pedro Borbón, Jr., Dominican baseball player
• 1967 - E-40, American rapper and actor
• 1967 - Wayne Harrison, English footballer
• 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
• 1968 - Fausto Brizzi, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 - Teodoro Casiño, Filipino journalist and politician
• 1968 - Jennifer Charles, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1968 - Uwe Rösler, German footballer and manager
• 1970 - Ilija Aračić, Croatian footballer and coach
• 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 - Scott Henshall, English fashion designer
• 1975 - Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 - Boris Živković, Croatian footballer
• 1976 - Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian, actor, and stuntman
• 1976 - Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
• 1976 - Sule, Indonesian comedian and actor
• 1977 - Sean Murray, American actor
• 1977 - Peter Phillips, English businessman
• 1977 - Robaire Smith, American football player
• 1978 - Floyd Womack, American football player
• 1979 - Brooks Bollinger, American football player and coach
• 1979 - Josemi, Spanish footballer
• 1979 - Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
• 1980 - Ace Young, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1981 - Drew Hodgdon, American football player
• 1981 - Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
• 1982 - D. J. Fitzpatrick, American football player
• 1982 - Rio Hirai, Japanese actress
• 1982 - Joe Kowalewski, American football player
• 1982 - Benjamin Krause, German rugby player
• 1982 - Giaan Rooney, Australian swimmer
• 1982 - Lofa Tatupu, American football player
• 1982 - Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer
• 1983 - Dominic Carroll, Gibraltarian runner
• 1983 - Sasha Pavlović, Serbian basketball player
• 1983 - Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
• 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 - Coye Francies, American football player
• 1986 - Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
• 1986 - Jerry Roush, American singer-songwriter
• 1987 - Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player
• 1988 - Morgan Parra, French rugby player
• 1988 - Billy Twelvetrees, English rugby player
• 1989 - Jonalyn Viray, Filipino singer
• 1991 - Maxime Colin, French footballer
• 1991 - Shailene Woodley, American actress
• 1992 - Sofia Goggia, Italian skier
• 1992 - Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer
• 1992 - Daniela Seguel, Chilean tennis player
• 1992 - Trevor Story, American baseball player
• 1992 - Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer
• 1993 - Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer
• 1993 - Saaya Irie, Japanese actress and singer
• 1994 - Bryce Cartwright, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 - Blake Pieroni, American swimmer
• 1995 - Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player
• 1997 - Catie Munnings, British rally driver

  Deaths

• 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
• 1136 - Leopold III, margrave of Austria
• 1194 - Margaret I, countess of Flanders
• 1226 - Frederick of Isenberg, German nobleman
• 1280 - Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher
• 1347 - James I of Urgell, Spanish nobleman
• 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
• 1579 - Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania
• 1594 - Martin Frobisher, English seaman and explorer
• 1628 - Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr
• 1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician
• 1670 - John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator
• 1691 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter
• 1706 - Tsangyang, Tibetan dalai lama
• 1712 - James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire
• 1712 - Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician
• 1787 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer
• 1794 - John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic
• 1795 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter
• 1832 - Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman
• 1845 - William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary
• 1853 - Maria II, Portuguese queen and regent
• 1892 - Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer
• 1897 - Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania
• 1908 - Cixi, China empress dowager and regent
• 1910 - Wilhelm Raabe, German author
• 1916 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1917 - Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher
• 1919 - Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor
• 1919 - Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician
• 1919 - Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1922 - Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece
• 1922 - Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece
• 1922 - Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece
• 1941 - Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer
• 1945 - Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer
• 1949 - Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
• 1949 - Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
• 1951 - Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator
• 1954 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1956 - Emma Richter, German paleontologist
• 1958 - Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1959 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1960 - Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer
• 1961 - Elsie Ferguson, American actress
• 1961 - Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic
• 1963 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor
• 1966 - Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler
• 1966 - William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter
• 1967 - Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut
• 1970 - Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician
• 1971 - Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel
• 1976 - Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and producer
• 1978 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author
• 1980 - Bill Lee, American actor and singer
• 1981 - Steve Macko, American baseball player and coach
• 1981 - Enid Markey, American actress
• 1981 - Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar
• 1982 - Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee
• 1982 - Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver
• 1983 - John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and songwriter
• 1983 - Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and manager
• 1983 - John Le Mesurier, English actor
• 1985 - Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet
• 1988 - Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer
• 1988 - Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian
• 1994 - Elizabeth George Speare, American author
• 1996 - Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat
• 1997 - Saul Chaplin, American director and composer
• 1998 - Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist
• 1998 - Ludvík Daněk, Czech discus thrower
• 2000 - Edoardo Agnelli, son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli, converted to Shia Islam
• 2003 - Ray Lewis, Canadian runner
• 2003 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer
• 2003 - Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation
• 2003 - Speedy West, American guitarist and producer
• 2004 - Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota
• 2004 - John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 2005 - Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author
• 2005 - Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author
• 2006 - David K. Wyatt, American historian and author
• 2007 - Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 2008 - Grace Hartigan, American painter
• 2009 - Serbian Patriarch Pavle II
• 2010 - Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist
• 2010 - Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player
• 2010 - William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer
• 2011 - Oba Chandler, American murderer
• 2012 - Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician
• 2012 - Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer
• 2012 - Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player
• 2012 - K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence
• 2012 - Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor
• 2013 - Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer
• 2013 - Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus
• 2013 - Mike McCormack, American football player and coach
• 2014 - Jack Bridger Chalker, English painter and academic
• 2014 - Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator
• 2014 - Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer
• 2014 - Reg Withers, Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory
• 2015 - Gisèle Prassinos, French author
• 2015 - Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic
• 2015 - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor
• 2016 - Mose Allison, American pianist and songwriter
• 2017 - Lil Peep, American singer and rapper

  Holidays and observances

• America Recycles Day
• Christian feast day:
• * Abibus of Edessa
• * Albert the Great
• *Blessed Caius of Korea
• * Didier of Cahors
• * Francis Asbury and George Whitefield
• * Blessed Hugh Faringdon
• * Leopold III, a public holiday in Lower Austria and Vienna.
• * Malo
• * Mechell
• * November 15
• Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium
• Day of the Imprisoned Writer
• Earliest day on which Beaujolais Day can fall, while November 21 is the latest; observed on the third Thursday in November
• Earliest day on which Day of the Revolution can fall, while November 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in November
• Earliest day on which Great American Smokeout can fall, while November 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Thursday in November
• Independence Day, unilaterally declared in 1988.
• King's Feast
• National Tree Planting Day
• Peace Day
• Republic Proclamation Day
• Shichi-Go-San
• The beginning of Winter Lent