November 25 Events 571 BC - Servius Tullius , king of Rome , celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans . 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda , King of Scots , dies. His grandson, Donnchad , son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld , inherits the throne. 1120 - The White Ship sinks in the English Channel , drowning William Adelin , son and heir of Henry I of England . 1177 - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard . 1343 - A tsunami , caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea , devastates Naples and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi , among other places. 1487 - Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England . 1491 - The siege of Granada , the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada . 1510 - Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque , and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji , seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate , resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule. 1667 - A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus , killing 80,000 people. 1678 - Trunajaya rebellion: After a long and logistically challenging march, the allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assaulted the rebel stronghold of Kediri. 1755 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary . 1758 - French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh . 1759 - An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000. 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris . 1795 - Partitions of Poland: Stanisław August Poniatowski , the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia. 1826 - The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy . 1833 - A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2, rocks Sumatra , producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast. 1839 - A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa . The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster. 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee , Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg . 1864 - American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City . 1874 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873 . 1876 - American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn , United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River . 1905 - Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway . 1908 - A fire breaks out on as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour , resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people. 1915 - Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences . 1917 - World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania . 1918 - Vojvodina , formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia . 1926 - The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400. 1936 - In Berlin , Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact , agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories. 1940 - World War II: First flights of both the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder . 1941 - is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II . 1943 - World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina . 1947 - Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios. 1947 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom. 1950 - The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 impacts 22 American states, killing 353 people, injuring over 160, and causing US$66.7 million in damages. 1952 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history. 1952 - Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends with Chinese victory, American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle". 1958 - French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community . 1960 - The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated. 1963 - President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia , across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.; his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald , is buried on the same day in Fort Worth, Texas . 1970 - In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt. 1973 - Georgios Papadopoulos , head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis . 1975 - Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands. 1977 - Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr., is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad . He is later assassinated in 1983 . 1981 - Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith . 1984 - Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia . 1986 - Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua . 1986 - The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf . 1987 - Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm. 1992 - The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia , with effect from January 1, 1993 . 1996 - An ice storm strikes the central U.S., killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers. 1999 - A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez , is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast. 2000 - The 2000 Baku earthquake , with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku , Azerbaijan , and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years. 2008 - Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka , killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades. 2009 - Jeddah floods: Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia , during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.Births 902 - Emperor Taizong of Liao 1075 - Emperor Taizong of Jin 1454 - Catherine Cornaro , Queen of Cyprus 1467 - Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre , Knight of Henry VIII of England 1493 - Osanna of Cattaro , Dominican visionary and anchoress 1562 - Lope de Vega , Spanish playwright and poet 1566 - John Heminges , English actor 1577 - Piet Pieterszoon Hein , Dutch admiral 1587 - Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet , English politician 1609 - Henrietta Maria of France 1638 - Catherine of Braganza 1666 - Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri , Italian violin maker 1703 - Jean-François Séguier , French astronomer and botanist 1752 - Johann Friedrich Reichardt , German composer and critic 1753 - Robert Townsend , American spy 1758 - John Armstrong, Jr., American general and politician, 7th United States Secretary of War 1778 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck , English author and activist 1787 - Franz Xaver Gruber , Austrian organist and composer 1814 - Julius Robert von Mayer , German physician and physicist 1815 - William Sawyer , Canadian merchant and politician 1817 - John Bigelow , American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to France 1835 - Andrew Carnegie , Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist 1841 - Ernst Schröder , German mathematician and academic 1843 - Henry Ware Eliot , American businessman and philanthropist 1844 - Karl Benz , German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz 1845 - José Maria de Eça de Queirós , Portuguese-French journalist and author 1846 - Carrie Nation , American activist 1858 - Alfred Capus , French journalist, author, and playwright 1862 - Ethelbert Nevin , American pianist and composer 1862 - Gustaf Söderström , Swedish tug of war competitor, shot putter, and discus thrower 1865 - Kate Gleason , American engineer, businesswoman, and philanthropist 1867 - Talaat Harb , Egyptian economist, founded the Banque Misr 1868 - Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse 1869 - Ben Lindsey , American lawyer and judge 1870 - Winthrop Ames , American director, producer, and playwright 1870 - Maurice Denis , French painter of Les Nabis movement 1872 - Robert Maysack , American gymnast and triathlete 1873 - Albert Henry Krehbiel , American painter and illustrator 1874 - Joe Gans , American boxer 1876 - Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1877 - Harley Granville-Barker , British actor, director and playwright 1880 - John Flynn , Australian minister and pilot, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia 1880 - Elsie J. Oxenham, English author 1881 - Jacob Fichman , Romanian-Israeli poet and critic 1881 - Pope John XXIII 1883 - Harvey Spencer Lewis , American mystic and author 1887 - Nikolai Vavilov , Russian botanist and geneticist 1889 - Reşat Nuri Güntekin , Turkish author and playwright 1890 - Isaac Rosenberg , English soldier and poet 1891 - Ōnishiki Uichirō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna 1893 - Joseph Wood Krutch , American author and critic 1895 - Wilhelm Kempff , German pianist and composer 1895 - Anastas Mikoyan , Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union 1895 - Helen Hooven Santmyer , American poet and author 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda , Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia 1896 - Albertus Soegijapranata , Indonesian archbishop 1896 - Virgil Thomson , American composer and critic 1898 - Debaki Bose , Indian actor, director, and screenwriter 1898 - Aarne Viisimaa , Estonian tenor and director 1900 - Rudolf Höss , German SS officer 1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas , American actress and politician 1901 - Arthur Liebehenschel , German SS officer 1902 - Eddie Shore , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach 1904 - Lillian Copeland , American discus thrower and shot putter 1904 - Toni Ortelli , Italian composer and conductor 1905 - Samiha Ayverdi , Turkish mystic and author 1906 - Alice Ambrose , American philosopher and logician 1907 - John Stuart Hindmarsh , English race car driver and pilot 1908 - Natyaguru Nurul Momen , Bangladeshi playwright, author, educator, director and media personality 1909 - P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator 1911 - Roelof Frankot , Dutch painter and photographer 1913 - Lewis Thomas , American physician, etymologist, and educator 1914 - Joe DiMaggio , American baseball player and coach 1914 - Léon Zitrone , Russian-French journalist 1915 - Augusto Pinochet , Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile 1915 - Armando Villanueva , Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru 1916 - Peg Lynch , American actress and screenwriter 1917 - Luigi Poggi , Italian cardinal 1917 - Alparslan Türkeş , Cypriot-Turkish colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey 1919 - Norman Tokar , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1920 - Ricardo Montalbán , Mexican-American actor, singer, and director 1920 - Noel Neill , American actress 1922 - Shelagh Fraser , English actress 1922 - Ilja Hurník , Czech composer and playwright 1922 - Fernance B. Perry, Portuguese-American businessman and philanthropist 1923 - Mauno Koivisto , Finnish banker and politician, 9th President of Finland 1923 - Art Wall Jr., American golfer 1924 - Paul Desmond , American saxophonist and composer 1924 - Sybil Stockdale , American activist, co-founded the National League of Families 1924 - Takaaki Yoshimoto , Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic 1926 - Poul Anderson , American author 1926 - Jeffrey Hunter , American actor and producer 1926 - Ranganath Misra , Indian lawyer and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India 1927 - John K. Cooley, American journalist and author 1929 - Judy Crichton , American director and producer 1931 - Nat Adderley , American cornet and trumpet player 1932 - Takayo Fischer , American actress and singer 1933 - Kathryn Crosby , American actress and singer 1935 - Robert Berner , American geologist and academic 1936 - Trisha Brown , American dancer and choreographer 1936 - Phoebe S. Leboy, American biochemist 1938 - Erol Güngör , Turkish sociologist and psychologist 1938 - Rosanna Schiaffino , Italian actress 1939 - Martin Feldstein , American economist and academic 1940 - Reinhard Furrer , Austrian-German physicist and astronaut 1940 - Joe Gibbs , American football player and coach 1940 - Jan Jongbloed , Dutch footballer and coach 1940 - Karl Offmann , Mauritian politician, 3rd President of Mauritius 1940 - Shyamal Kumar Sen , Indian jurist and politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal 1940 - Percy Sledge , American singer 1941 - Christos Papanikolaou , Greek pole vaulter 1941 - Gerald Seymour , English journalist and author 1941 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi , Pakistani spiritual leader and author 1942 - Bob Lind , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1942 - Mimis Papaioannou , Greek footballer and manager 1943 - Jerry Portnoy , American singer-songwriter and harmonica player 1944 - Ben Stein , American actor, television personality, game show host, lawyer, and author 1944 - Michael Kijana Wamalwa , Kenyan lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya 1945 - Gail Collins , American journalist and author 1945 - Patrick Nagel , American painter and illustrator 1945 - George Webster , American football player 1946 - Marc Brown , American author and illustrator 1946 - Mike Doyle , English footballer 1947 - Jonathan Kaplan , French-American director and producer 1947 - John Larroquette , American actor 1948 - Jacques Dupuis , Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Deputy Premier of Quebec 1948 - Lars Eighner , American author 1949 - Kerry O'Keeffe , Australian cricketer and sportscaster 1950 - Chris Claremont , English-American author 1950 - Giorgio Faletti , Italian author, screenwriter, and actor 1950 - Alexis Wright , Australian author 1951 - Bucky Dent , American baseball player and manager 1951 - Charlaine Harris , American author and poet 1951 - Bill Morrissey , American singer-songwriter 1951 - Arturo Pérez-Reverte , Spanish author and journalist 1951 - Johnny Rep , Dutch footballer and manager 1952 - Crescent Dragonwagon , American author and educator 1952 - John Lynch , American businessman and politician, 80th Governor of New Hampshire 1952 - Gabriele Oriali , Italian footballer and manager 1953 - Graham Eadie , Australian rugby league player and coach 1953 - Mark Frost , American author, screenwriter, and producer 1953 - Jeffrey Skilling , American businessman 1955 - Don Hahn , American director and producer 1955 - Kurt Niedermayer , German footballer and manager 1955 - Connie Palmen , Dutch author 1955 - Bruno Tonioli , Italian dancer and choreographer 1957 - Bob Ehrlich , American lawyer and politician, 60th Governor of Maryland 1958 - Naomi Oreskes , American historian of science 1959 - Charles Kennedy , Scottish journalist and politician 1959 - Steve Rothery , English guitarist and songwriter 1960 - Amy Grant , American singer-songwriter 1960 - John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer, journalist, and publisher 1961 - Paul Comstive , English footballer 1962 - Scott Cam , Australian carpenter and television host 1962 - Gilbert Delorme , Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1962 - Hironobu Sakaguchi , Japanese videogame designer 1962 - Jimon Terakado , Japanese comedian and actor 1963 - Kevin Chamberlin , American actor and director 1963 - Holly Cole , Canadian singer and actress 1963 - Chip Kelly , American football player and coach 1963 - Bernie Kosar , American football player and sportscaster 1964 - Mark Lanegan , American singer-songwriter 1965 - Tim Armstrong , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1965 - Cris Carter , American football player, coach, and sportscaster 1966 - Stacy Lattisaw , American R&B singer 1967 - Anthony Nesty , Surinamese swimmer 1967 - Gregg Turkington , Australian comedian and singer 1968 - Jacqueline Hennessy , Canadian actress and journalist 1968 - Jill Hennessy , Canadian actress and singer 1968 - Erick Sermon , American rapper and producer 1969 - Kim Ofstad , Norwegian drummer and composer 1971 - Magnus Arvedson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach 1971 - Göksel Demirpençe , Turkish singer-songwriter 1972 - Deepa Marathe , Indian cricketer 1973 - Steven de Jongh , Dutch cyclist 1973 - Octavio Dotel , Dominican baseball player 1973 - Erick Strickland , American basketball player 1973 - Eddie Steeples , American actor, producer, and screenwriter 1974 - Kenneth Mitchell , Canadian actor 1975 - Abdelkader Benali , Moroccan-Dutch journalist and author 1976 - Clint Mathis , American soccer player and coach 1976 - Donovan McNabb , American football player and sportscaster 1976 - Olena Vitrychenko , Ukrainian gymnast and coach 1977 - Guillermo Cañas , Argentinian tennis player 1977 - Marcus Marshall , Australian race car driver 1978 - Ringo Sheena , Japanese singer-songwriter and producer 1979 - Michael Lehan , American football player 1980 - John-Michael Liles , American ice hockey player 1980 - Josh Mathews , American wrestler and sportscaster 1980 - Aaron Mokoena , South African footballer 1980 - Alviro Petersen , South African cricketer 1980 - Nick Swisher , American baseball player 1980 - Steffen Thier , German rugby player 1981 - Xabi Alonso , Spanish footballer 1981 - Lee Bum-ho , South Korean baseball player 1981 - Barbara Pierce Bush , American activist 1981 - Jenna Bush Hager , American journalist 1981 - Jared Jeffries , American basketball player 1981 - Chevon Troutman , American basketball player 1982 - Mitchell Claydon , Australian-English cricketer 1983 - Kirsty Crawford , Scottish singer-songwriter and actress 1983 - Jhulan Goswami , Indian cricketer 1984 - Peter Siddle , Australian cricketer 1985 - Remona Fransen , Dutch pentathlete 1986 - Katie Cassidy , American actress 1986 - Craig Gardner , English footballer 1988 - Nodar Kumaritashvili , Georgian luger 1988 - Jay Spearing , English footballer 1989 - Tom Dice , Belgian singer-songwriter 1990 - Rye Rye , American rapper, dancer, and actress 1990 - Everton Heleno dos Santos , Brazilian footballer 1991 - Kyler Fackrell , American football player 1991 - Jamie Grace , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress 1991 - Philipp Grubauer , German ice hockey player 1991 - Luca Tremolada , Italian footballer 1991 - Kevin Woo , American-South Korean singer and dancer 1992 - Ana Bogdan , Romanian tennis player 1993 - Danny Kent , English motorcycle racerDeaths 311 - Pope Peter I of Alexandria 734 - Bilge Khagan , Turkic emperor 1034 - Malcolm II of Scotland 1120 - William Adelin, son of Henry I of England 1185 - Pope Lucius III 1326 - Prince Koreyasu , Japanese shōgun 1374 - Philip II, Prince of Taranto 1456 - Jacques Cœur , French merchant and banker 1560 - Andrea Doria , Italian admiral 1565 - Hu Zongxian , Chinese general 1626 - Edward Alleyn , English actor, founded Dulwich College 1694 - Ismaël Bullialdus , French astronomer and mathematician 1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt , American lawyer and politician, 10th Mayor of New York City 1748 - Isaac Watts , English hymnwriter and theologian 1755 - Johann Georg Pisendel , German violinist and composer 1785 - Richard Glover , English poet and politician 1865 - Heinrich Barth , German explorer and scholar 1884 - Hermann Kolbe , German chemist and academic 1885 - Thomas A. Hendricks, American lawyer and politician, 21st Vice President of the United States 1885 - Alfonso XII of Spain 1909 - Edward P. Allen, American lawyer and politician 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet , French-American race car driver and businessman 1925 - Vajiravudh , Siam king 1934 - N. E. Brown, English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents 1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis , American lawyer and judge 1948 - Kanbun Uechi , Japanese martial artist, founded Uechi-ryū 1949 - Bill Robinson , American actor and dancer 1950 - Mao Anying , Chinese general 1950 - Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate 1950 - Gustaf John Ramstedt , Finnish linguist and diplomat 1956 - Alexander Dovzhenko , Ukrainian-Russian director, producer, and screenwriter 1957 - Prince George of Greece and Denmark 1959 - Gérard Philipe , French actor 1961 - Hubert Van Innis , Belgian archer 1963 - Alexander Marinesko , Russian lieutenant 1965 - Myra Hess , English pianist and educator 1968 - Upton Sinclair , American novelist, critic, and essayist 1968 - Paul Siple , American geographer and explorer 1970 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, actor, and director 1972 - Henri Coandă , Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 1973 - Laurence Harvey , Lithuania-born English actor 1974 - Nick Drake , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1974 - U Thant , Burmese lawyer and diplomat, 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations 1981 - Jack Albertson , American actor and singer 1983 - Saleem Raza, Pakistani Christian playback singer 1984 - Yashwantrao Chavan , Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India 1985 - Geoffrey Grigson , English poet and critic 1985 - Franz Hildebrandt , German pastor and theologian 1987 - Harold Washington , American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago 1989 - Alva R. Fitch, American general 1990 - Merab Mamardashvili , Georgian philosopher and academic 1991 - Eleanor Audley , American actress and voice artist 1995 - Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist 1997 - Hastings Banda , Malawian physician and politician, 1st President of Malawi 1998 - Nelson Goodman , American philosopher and academic 1998 - Flip Wilson , American comedian, actor, and screenwriter 1999 - Valentín Campa , Mexican union leader and politician 2000 - Hugh Alexander , American baseball player and scout 2002 - Karel Reisz , Czech-English director and producer 2004 - Ed Paschke , American painter and academic 2005 - George Best , Northern Irish footballer 2005 - Richard Burns , English race car driver 2006 - Luciano Bottaro , Italian author and illustrator 2006 - Valentín Elizalde , Mexican singer-songwriter 2006 - Phyllis Fraser , American actress and publisher, co-founded Beginner Books 2006 - Kenneth M. Taylor, American lieutenant and pilot 2007 - Peter Lipton , American philosopher and academic 2010 - Alfred Balk , American journalist and author 2010 - Peter Christopherson , English keyboard player, songwriter, and director 2010 - C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic 2010 - Bernard Matthews , English businessman, founded Bernard Matthews Farms 2011 - Vasily Alekseyev , Russian weightlifter and coach 2011 - Coco Robicheaux , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 2012 - Lars Hörmander , Swedish mathematician and educator 2012 - Dave Sexton , English footballer and manager 2012 - Dinah Sheridan , English actress 2012 - Jim Temp , American football player and businessman 2013 - Lou Brissie , American baseball player 2013 - Ricardo Fort , Argentinian businessman 2013 - Bill Foulkes , English footballer and manager 2013 - Chico Hamilton , American drummer and bandleader 2013 - Egon Lánský , Czech journalist and politician 2013 - Al Plastino , American author and illustrator 2014 - Irvin J. Borowsky, American publisher and philanthropist 2014 - Sitara Devi , Indian dancer, and choreographer 2014 - Petr Hapka , Czech composer and conductor 2014 - Denham Harman , American biogerontologist and academic 2015 - O'Neil Bell , Jamaican boxer 2015 - Jeremy Black , English admiral 2015 - Svein Christiansen , Norwegian drummer and composer 2015 - Lennart Hellsing , Swedish author and translator 2015 - Elmo Williams , American director, producer, and editor 2016 - Fidel Castro , Communist leader of Cuba, and revolutionary 2016 - Ron Glass , American actorHolidays and observances Christian feast day: * Catherine Labouré * Catherine of Alexandria and its related observances * Elizabeth of Reute * Isaac Watts * James Otis Sargent Huntington * November 25 Independence Day , celebrates the independence of Suriname from the Netherlands in 1975 . International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women National Day Teachers' Day Vajiravudh Memorial Day
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