November 17th
Holidays and Festivals
World Peace Day
International Students' Day * (see below)
Struggle for Freedom & Democracy Day * (see below)
Polytechneio (Greece) * (see below)
Shogi Day (Japan) * (see below)
Flag Day (Morocco) * CLICK HERE
Take A Hike Day
Homemade Bread Day
Electronic Greeting Card Day
Feast of Elisabeth of Hungary (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Gregory of Tours (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Hilda of Whitby (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Hugh of Lincoln (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Acisclus (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Gregory the Wonderworker bishop of Neocaesareia (Orthodox Church)
Feast of Gennadius I Patriarch of Constantinople (Orthodox Church)
* International Students' Day Commemorates the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of the University of Prague.
* Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia) Commemorates the beginning of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989.
* Polytechneio (Greece) Commemorates the 1973 student protests against the junta of the colonels.
* Shogi Day (Japan), More accurately 17th day on Kannazuki; 17th November in modern calendar)
Fête de la Macjonc Translation: Tuberous pea Day (French Republican) The 27th day of the Month of Brumaire in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May there always be work for your hands to do,
May your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane,
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you,
And may your heart be filled with gladness to cheer you."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Jager Bomb
1 Shot of Jagermeister
Drop Shot Into an Entery Drink (Red Bull)
Wine of The Day
Merritt Estate Winery NV Pinot Grigio
Style - Pinot Grigio
Lake Erie
$15
Beer of The Day
St. Bernardus Abt 12
Brewer - Brouwerij St. Bernardus
Style - Quadrupel
ABV - 10.50%
Joke of The Day
A guy stuck his head into a barbershop and asked,
"How long before you can cut my hair?"
The barber looked around the shop full of customers and said, "A couple of hours."
The guy left.
A few days later, the same guy stuck his head in the door and asked,
"How long before you can cut my hair?"
The barber looked around at the shop and said, "I'm pretty busy about 3 hours."
The guy left.
A week later, the same guy stuck his head in the shop and asked..."How long before you can cut my hair?"
The barber looked around the shop and said, "About an hour and a half today."
The guy left. The barber turned to the apprentice who was sweeping up hair and said "Do me a favour. Follow that bloke who just put his head around the door and see where he goes. He keeps asking how long he has to wait for a haircut, but then he doesn't ever come back."
A little while later, the apprentice returned to the shop, laughing hysterically.
The barber asked, "So, where does that guy go?"
The apprentice looked up, wiped the tears from his eyes and said, "Your house!".
Quote of The Day
"What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?"
- Unknown
Whiskey of The Day
Tullamore Dew 10 Year Old Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Price: $40.
November Observances
Adopt A Senior Pet Month
American Diabetes Month
Aviation History Month
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
Beard Month (US)
Celebrate Empty Nester Month
Child Safety Protection Month
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month a.k.a. National Epilepsy Month
Family Stories Month
Final Binary Month (3of 3) (0s and 1s)
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
Greens and Plantains Month
Historic Bridge Awareness Month
I Am So Thankful Month
International Creative Child and Adult Month
International Drum (Percussion) Month
International Microfinance Month
Learn Chinese Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign (11/16-12/31)
Military Family Appreciation Month
Moustache Month a.k.a. Movember (Australia)
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Adoption Month a.k.a. National Adoption Awareness Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Month
National American Indian Heritage Month (Also see August)
National COPD Awareness Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Family Literacy Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Home Care & Hospice Month
National Hospice Month
National Impotency Month
National Inspirational Role Models Month
National Life Writing Month
National Long-term Care Awareness Month
National Marrow Awareness Month
National Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Awareness & Appreciation Month
National Model Railroad Month
National Native American Heritage Month
National Novel Writing Month
National PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month
National Pomegranate Month
National Roasting Month
National Scholarship Month
National Sleep Comfort Month
Native American Heritage Month (Also see August)
No-shave-ember
PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month
Peanut Butter Lovers' Month
Plum Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
Real Jewelry Month
Spinach Month
Squash Month
Sweet Potato Awareness Month (Also see February)
Vegan Month
Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month
Week Observances
Game and Puzzle Week, Third Week in NovemberAmerican Education Week, Full Week Before the Week of Thanksgiving
National Book Awareness Week, Third Monday to Saturday in November
Historical Events on November 16th
284 Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
473 The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I.
1183 The Battle of Mizushima.
1278 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins
1292 John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1511 England, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign anti-French covenant The Treaty of Westminster
1555 William of Orange becomes member of Council of State
1558 Elizabethan era begins, Queen Mary I "Bloody Mary" of England (1553-1558) dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
1603 English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1659 The Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
1734 John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY col gov, later acquitted
1777 Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification.
1785 Church of England organizes in New England
1796 Battle of Arcole of the Napoleonic Wars, Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy.
1798 Snow storms in New England, 100s die
1800 The United States Congress holds its first session in incompleted Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
1811 José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
1812 Battle of Krasnoi of the Napoleonic Wars.
1820 Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him).
1827 The Delta Phi fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, is founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
1831 Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia.
1839 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Oberte Conti Di," premieres in Milan
1842 Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston
1842 Opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London)
1853 Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections
1855 David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1856 On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
1858 Origin of Modified Julian Period
1862 Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns
1863 Battle of Knoxville, TN of the American Civil War, Siege of Knoxville begins Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.
1863 Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg Address
1866 Opera "Mignon" is produced (Paris)
1869 Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen)
1869 In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
1871 The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
1874 Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire & sinks off Auckland, NZ
1875 Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Col Olcott
1876 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
1877 Gilbert/Sullivans operette "Sorcerer," premieres in London
1878 First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
1884 Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"
1888 Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony premieres in St Petersburg
1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland & SF
1894 Daily Racing Form founded
1903 Dahomey (Benin) becomes a French protectorate.
1903 The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
1904 George Cohans musical "Little Johnny Jones," premieres in NYC
1905 The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
1911 The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at an historically black college or university, is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
1913 1st US dental hygienists course forms, Bridgeport, Ct
1914 US declares Panama Canal Zone neutral
1917 Lenin defended "temporary" removal of freedom of the press
1918 Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH
1919 King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea is first suggested by Edward George Honey.
1922 Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile to Malta on British warship.
1926 NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St Pats 4-1
1927 Tornado hits Washington DC
1928 Boston Garden officially opens
1928 Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years
1929 Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico
1929 Stalin throws Nicolai Bucharin out of Politburo
1930 Musical "Sweet & Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in NYC
1931 Bradman scores 135 NSW v South Africa, 128 mins, 15 fours
1932 German government of von Papen, resigns
1933 United States recognizes Soviet Union, opens trade
1934 Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor
1936 Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio
1937 Britains Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
1938 Italy passes their own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
1939 German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship
1939 Jerome Kern, Hammerstein II's "Very Warm for May," premieres in NYC
1939 Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. In addition, all Czech universities are shut down and over 1200 Czech students sent to concentration camps. Since this event, International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.
1939 The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created.
1940 Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
1941 Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1944 Nazi raids in Dutch NE Polder
1945 "Girl from Nantucket" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 12 perfs
1945 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
1947 American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th Century.
1947 The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
1948 Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry
1950 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is enthroned as the leader of Tibet at the age of fifteen.
1953 St Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc
1953 The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
1956 Syracuse fullback Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 pts (vs Colgate)
1956 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1957 G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause was a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.
1957 WBOY TV channel 12 in Clarksburg, WV (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 KAII TV channel 7 in Wailuku, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1959 De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond
1959 Giants slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of Year
1959 William Shea shows proposed NYC stadium with transparent roof
1960 New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
1962 "Little Me" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 257 performances
1962 "Nowhere to Go, But Up" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 9 perfs
1962 President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
1962 Simon, Coleman, and Leigh's musical "Little Me," premieres in NYC
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational
1964 British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa
1965 General Meeting of UN refuses admittance of China PR
1965 William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball
1966 Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour)
1967 Beatles Ltd & Apple Music Ltd swap names
1967 French author Regis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia.
1967 Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon
1967 Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done in the Vietnam War, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
1968 "Zorba" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 305 performances
1968 Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
1968 British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
1968 John Kander and Fred Ebbs musical "Zorba," premieres in NYC
1968 KHNE TV channel 29 in Hastings, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational
1968 NBC cuts to show "Heidi," misses Raider's rally to beat Jets, 43-32
1969 Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
1969 SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland
1970 British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn)
1970 Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1970 The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
1970 Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre of the Vietnam War.
1972 Juan Peron returns to Argentina
1973 Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed
1973 In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "...people have got to know whether or not their pres is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook" in response to the Watergate scandal.
1973 Teri Garr plays role of a stripper on "The Nurse"
1973 The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
1974 Bonnie Bryant wins Bill Branch LPGA Golf Classic
1974 The Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) is founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).
1974 Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms
1976 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1977 Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man," premieres in London
1977 Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
1977 Miss World Contest Miss UK wears $9,500 platinum bikini
1978 Gerald Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Elizabeth Colvin
1979 Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
1979 Daniel Okrent sketches out 1st draft rules for Rotisserie Baseball
1979 Khomeini frees most black & female US hostages
1979 NY Stars (WBL) home opener at Madison Square Garden in NYC
1979 On a flight to Austin, TX, Daniel Okrent sketches out the first
1980 John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in UK
1981 "1st" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 37 performances
1981 NBA NY Knick Bill Cartwright, ties record of 19 of 19 free throws
1982 Dale Murphy wins NL MVP
1982 Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, Nevada, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
1983 "La Tragedie de Carmen" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 187 perfs
1983 Harm Wiersma retains checkers world championship
1983 Phila Flyers win 13th straight NHL game
1983 The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded.
1984 Golden State Warrior scores 59 points losing to NJ Nets 124-110
1984 Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
1985 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on 92.3 WXRK FM NY
1985 NY Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
1986 "Oh Coward!" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 56 performances
1987 George Bell is 1st Blue Jay ever to win the AL MVP
1988 Linda Petursdottir of Iceland, 18, crowned 38th Miss World
1988 Neil Simon's "Rumors," premieres in NYC
1989 Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year KC Royal contract
1989 The Velvet Revolution begins, In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
1990 Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
1991 "Brigadoon" closes at New York State Theater NYC after 12 performances
1991 1st TV condom ad aired (FOXTV)
1991 Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralized in a game vs LA Rams
1992 "Gypsy Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 55 performances
1992 Blue Jay Nigel Wilson is 1st pick of Marlins in expansion draft
1992 Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test
1992 Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole
1993 "Grand Night For Singing" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 52 perfs
1993 Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed
1993 US House of Representatives approve Nafta
1994 "Sunset Boulevard" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 977 performances
1994 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms
1994 Irish government of Reynolds resigns
1996 "Present Laughter" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1996 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational
1997 In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
1997 Mario Lemieux enters NHL Hall of Fame
2000 A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
2000 Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
2004 Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
2005 Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
2006 Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
2012 50 schoolchildren and a bus driver are killed after a train collides with a school bus in Manfalut, Egypt
2013 50 people are killed after a Boeing 737 aircraft crashes in Kazan, Russia
2013 Czech Republic beats Serbia in Belgrade (3-2) at the 102nd Davis Cup
2013 Abdulla Yameen becomes the President of the Maldives
2013 Giorgi Margvelashvili becomes the President of Georgia
2013 Jimmie Johnson wins the NASCAR Sprint Cup for the sixth time
2013 Sebastian Vettel wins a record breaking eighth consecutive Formula One race in the 2013 United States Grand Prix
2014 The Church of England adopts legislation enabling the appointment of female bishops
2015 Actor Charlie Sheen confirms that he is HIV-positive
2015 Ireland's 1st same-sex wedding takes place - Cormac Gollogly and Richard Dowling marry in Clonmel, County Tipperary
2015 Suicide bomber kills more than 30 in a market in Yola, north-eastern Nigeria, with Boko Haram blamed
Born on November 16th
9 Vespasian, Falacrina, Italy, Roman Emperor (AD 69-79) (d. 79)
331 Flavius Claudius Julianus, [Julian the Apostate], Emperor
1502 Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (d. 1533)
1503 Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (Eleanor de Toledo & her Son) (d. 1572)
1576 Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
1587 Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)
1594 Johan van Beverwijck, Dutch physician/writer (Treasure of Health)
1612 Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
1681 Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
1685 Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
1690 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter, cartoonist
1704 Salomeja Neris (S Bacinskaite-Buciene), Latvian poet
1729 Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (d. 1785)
1749 Nicolas Appert, French inventor (d. 1841)
1755 Louis XVIII, 1st post-revolutionary King of France (1814-1824) (d. 1824)
1765 Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
1771 Jonathan Huntington, composer
1787 Michele Carafa, composer
1790 August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
1793 Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
1794 John Barrien Montgomery, Commander (Union Navy) (d. 1873)
1799 Titian Ramsey Peale, American artist, naturalist (American Ornithology) (d. 1885)
1808 Alberich Zwyssig, composer
1814 Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1885)
1816 August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer, musicologist (History of Music) (d. 1876)
1826 John McArthur, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1906)
1827 Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
1834 Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1863)
1835 Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
1837 David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curacao
1837 Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor
1837 Willem Coenen, composer
1854 Louis H(ubert) G. Lyautey, French general, Minister of Defense (1916-17) (d. 1934)
1857 Joseph Babinski, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932)
1859 Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer
1865 John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins)
1866 Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
1868 Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
1876 Baron Joseph van de Meulebroeck, mayor (Brussels, Belgium)
1877 Frank Calder, the first NHL President (d. 1943)
1878 Grace Abbott, American social worker (US Children Bureau) (d. 1939)
1878 Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
1879 Gerardus H de Haas, socialist vicar
1881 Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh
1883 Harold Baumgartner, South African cricketer
1885 Henry de Man, Belgium, sociologist, chairman (Belgian Workers Party)
1886 Crane Wilbur, American director, writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo)
1887 Bernard L Montgomery, British field marshall (WW II-African campaign) (d. 1976)
1888 Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg, actress (It Vijgeblaadje, It Hippie)
1890 Jack Cusack, pro football pioneer (Canton Bulldogs)
1891 Guido Pannain, composer
1891 Jean Del Val (Gautier), French actor (Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces)
1892 Max Deutsch, composer
1894 Eelco van Kleffens, Minister of Foreign affairs (1939-46), diplomat
1894 Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (d. 1972)
1894 Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51)
1895 Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
1895 Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
1896 Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
1897 Ed Baker, American actor (Keystone Kops)
1897 Frank Fay, American actor (God's Gift to Women, Love Nest) (d. 1961)
1897 Sara Haden, American actress (A Family Affair)
1899 Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)
1899 Roger Vitrac, French poet, dramatist (Coup of Trafalgar)
1900 Marcel Dalio, French actor (Casablanca)
1901 Joyce Wethered, English golfer (4 time British Amateur champ)
1901 Lee Strasberg, Austrian director, acting coach, actor (Somewhere in the Night, And Justice for All) (d. 1982)
1901 Max Zehnder, composer
1901 Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer
1901 Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU) (Hallstein doctrine) (d. 1982)
1902 Eugene Paul Wigner, Hungarian mathematician, physicist (A Bomb) (Nobel Prize laureate 1963) (d. 1995)
1903 Joseph Kaminski, composer
1904 Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (1963 Fine Arts Medal) (d. 1988)
1905 Arthur Chipperfield, cricketer (Aus batsman & leggie 99 on Test debut)
1905 Astrid Bernadotte, Princess of Sweden
1905 Mischa Auer (Ounskowsky), Russian actor (My Man Godfrey) (d. 1967)
1905 Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)
1905 Wazyk (Adam Wagman), Polish poet, author (Eyes & Mouth)
1906 Betty Bronson, American actress (Evel Knievel, One Stolen Night)
1906 Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1906 Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer, founder and CEO (Honda Motor Co) (d. 1992)
1907 Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)
1909 Gerald Savory, actor, playwright, TV producer (Heart of the Matter)
1911 Charles Walters, US, actor, choreographer, director (Easter parade)
1911 Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
1911 Nobutaka Shikanai, Japans media CEO (Fujisankei Com Group)
1911 William Tannen, American actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull)
1914 Archie Campbell, American comedian (Hee Haw)
1916 Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005)
1916 Winson Hudson, American community activist (rural Mississippi)
1917 Jack Lescoulie, American TV host (Jackie Gleason Show)
1919 Hershy Kay, American composer, arranger (Olympic Hymn)
1919 Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, journalist
1920 Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
1921 Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter
1922 Emile Noel, international civil servant
1922 Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1923 Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde
1923 Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)
1923 Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (d. 2009)
1923 Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1923 Robert Francis Vere Heuston, British professor of law
1924 Lucas J "Luc" Lutz, Dutch actor, director (Hague Comedy)
1925 Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor
1925 Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier
1925 Libby Newman, painter/printmaker/curator
1925 Rock Hudson, American actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms) (d. 1985)
1927 Ellis Hillman, politician
1927 Robert Brown, American actor
1927 Robert Drasnin, American musician and composer
1928 Colin McDonald, Australian cricketer
1928 Rance Howard, American actor
1929 Edgar White, American yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952)
1929 Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
1929 Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer, attorney general on Aruba
1929 Sumner White, American yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952)
1930 Bob Mathias, American decathelete (Olympic-gold-1948, 52) (d. 2006)
1930 Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician
1930 David Werner Amram, American composer (Splendor in the Grass)
1933 Orlando Peña, Cuban baseball player
1934 Fenella Fielding, English actress
1934 Jim Inhofe, American politician, senior senator from Oklahoma (Rep-R-Oklahoma)
1935 Anton Sailer, Austrian skier (Olympic-3 golds-1956)
1935 Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player
1935 Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (d. 2009)
1936 Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
1936 Leni van Rijn-Vellekoop, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1937 Peter Edward Cook, English actor, comedian (Bedazzled) (d. 1995)
1938 Alvaro Leon Cassuto, composer
1938 Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk singer (Sundown)
1938 Peter Snell, New Zealand 800m and 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960, 64)
1938 Thomas Black, English industrial, auto collector
1939 Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
1940 Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player (d. 1984)
1941 Gene Clark, American vocalist/guitarist (Byrds)
1941 Peter Hoagland, (Rep-D-Nebraska)
1942 Annemarie Oster, Dutch actress (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden)
1942 Bob Gaudio, American rocker (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1942 Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician, criminal
1942 Martin Scorsese, American film director (Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Departed)
1943 Lauren Hutton (Mary), American model, actress (American Gigolo)
1944 Danny DeVito, American actor (Taxi, Twins, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1944 Eugene Clarke, Tipton Missouri, rock guitarist
1944 Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991)
1944 Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame basketball coach
1944 Lorne Michaels (Lipowitz), Canadian producer, comedian (SNL)
1944 Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
1944 Tom Seaver, Baseball player, pitcher (NY Met, 300 game winner, Cy Young '69 '73 '75)
1945 Elvin Hayes, American basketball player, NBA (San Diego, Houston, Baltimore)
1945 Jeremy Hanley, British Lower house member
1945 Roland Joffé, Anglo-French film director (City of Joy, Mission, Killing Fields)
1946 Martin Barre, English guitarist (Jethro Tull)
1946 Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
1947 Inky Mark, Canadian politician
1947 Rod Clements, rocker
1947 Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
1947 Stewkey (Robert Antoni), Musician
1948 East Bay Ray, American musician
1948 Howard Dean, American politician
1948 Jaime Huelamo, Spanish cyclist (Olympic-bronze-1972) drug disqualified
1949 John Boehner, American politician (Rep-R-Ohio)
1949 Nguyn Tin Dung, Prime Minister of Vietnam
1949 Thomas Lionel Hill, New Orleans, 110m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1950 Roland Matthes, German DR, 100m and 200m backstroke (Oly-gold-1968, 72)
1950 Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and race team owner
1951 Butch Davis, American football coach
1951 Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (Billy-Misfits of Science) (d. 1987)
1951 Stephen Root, American actor (News Radio, Finding Nemo)
1952 M Cyril Ramaphosa, sec-gen of South African Mine Workers' Union
1952 Roman Codreanu, Romania, wrestler (Olympic-1980)
1952 Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
1953 Babis Tennes, Greek football manager
1953 Dino Martin Jr, rocker
1953 Jilly Johnson, England, vocalist (Blonde on Blonde)
1954 Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
1955 Bill McCreary, Ontario, NHL referee
1955 Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player
1955 Peter Cox, rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down)
1955 Yolanda King, actress (Fluke, Ghosts of Mississippi), daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007)
1956 Graham Jones (author), British author and psychologist
1957 Debbie Thrower, BBC News Reader
1958 Allison Finney, Winnetka IL, LPGA golfer (1989 Standard Register)
1958 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress (Scarface, Color of Money)
1959 Terry Fenwick, English footballer
1959 William R Moses, LA California, actor (Cole-Falcon Crest)
1960 Jonathan Ross, British TV talk show host (Tall Guy)
1960 Kirk Fogg, host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
1960 Mandy Yachad, former South African cricketer
1960 RuPaul, American drag queen entertainer (RuPaul Show)
1961 Merete Van Kemp, Danish actress (Grace-Dallas, Princess Daisy)
1961 Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (d. 1985)
1962 Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
1962 Eric Olson, American actress (Apple's Way)
1963 Dylan Walsh, Actor (Congo)
1963 Marco T Dawson, German PGA golfer (1995 Greater Milw-2nd)
1963 Pedro Luis Estrada, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1963 Randy Black, Canadian drummer (Annihilator)
1964 Marina Tcherkasova, US, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1964 Michelle Knox-Zaloom, American rower (Olympics-96)
1964 Mitch Williams, Baseball player
1964 Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality
1965 Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer
1965 Grant Connell, Regina Saskatchawan, tennis player (Olympics-96)
1965 Paul Sorrento, Somerville MA, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1965 Raffaella Reggi, Italian tennis star
1965 Rob Koll, American wrestler, 163 lbs/74 kg freestyle (Olymp-96)
1965 Winthrop Graham, Jamaican 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1966 Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model, actress, veejay (MTV), host (America's Funniest Videos)
1966 Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
1966 Jeff Nelson, American pitcher (NY Yankees)
1966 Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
1966 Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1966 Sophie Marceau, French actress (Braveheart, L'Amour Braque, The World Is Not Enough)
1967 Howard Griffith, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 Ronnie Devoe, American vocalist (New Edition, Bell Div Devoe)
1967 Sheila Lussier, American actress (Reform School, My Chauffeur)
1968 Amber Michaels, German pornographic actress
1968 Cacho Conde, WLAF tight end, running back (Barcelona Dragons)
1968 Sean Miller, American basketball coach
1969 Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
1969 Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
1969 Takako Inque, Japanese wrestler (Japan)
1970 Chris Tamer, American NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1970 Max Huiberts, soccer player (Roda JC)
1970 Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
1971 Audra Keller, American tennis star (1993 Futures-Evansville IN)
1972 Joanne Goode, English badminton player
1972 Kimya Dawson, American singer
1972 Leonard Roberts, American actor
1972 Ron Lewis, WLAF OL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
1973 Andreas "Vintersorg" Hedlund, Swedish singer (Vintersorg)
1973 Bernd Schneider, German footballer
1973 Eli Marrero, American baseball player
1973 Scott Rehberg, tackle (New England Patriots)
1974 Abbygale Williamson Arenas, Miss Universe-Photogenic (Phil, 1997)
1974 Berto Romero, Spanish humorist
1974 Brandon Call, actor (Baywatch, Blind Fury, Step by Step)
1974 Leslie Bibb, American actress
1974 Marc Edwards, NFL fullback (SF 49ers)
1975 Diane Neal, Actress (Law and Order SVU, Dracula II: Ascension)
1975 Lord Infamous, Rapper
1976 Brandon Call, American actor
1976 Dafne Zeledon, Miss Universe-Costa Rica (1996)
1976 Diane Neal, American actress
1977 Paul Shepherd, English footballer
1977 Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
1978 Glen Air, Rugby League player for London Broncos
1978 Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress (Midnight in Paris)
1978 Reggie Wayne, American football player
1978 Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress (Grindhouse), stuntwoman (Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill)
1979 Matthew Spring, English footballer
1980 Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
1980 Mercedes Martinez, American professional wrestler
1980 (Clarke) Isaac Hanson, American singer (Hanson)
1981 Bojana Novakovic, Actress (Devil)
1981 Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1982 Katie Feenstra, American basketball player
1982 Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer
1983 Christopher Paolini, American novelist
1983 Harry Lloyd, English actor (The Iron Lady)
1983 Nick Markakis, American baseball player
1983 Ryan Braun, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers)
1983 Scott Moore, American baseball player
1983 Trevor Crowe, American baseball player
1983 Viva Bianca, Actress (X: Night of Vengeance)
1983 Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
1984 Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
1985 Patrick Quinn, Personal Trainer
1986 Nani, Portugease Footballer
1987 Darren McKillion, Northern Irish sportsman
1987 Gemma Spofforth, British swimmer
1988 Justin Cooper actor (Liar, Liar, General Hospital)
1989 Sophie Shad, Actress (Grange Hill)
1990 Shanica Knowles, American actress
1991 Shawn McGill, Actor (Life Is Hot in Cracktown)
1992 Darian Weiss, American actor
1993 Manreet Bahia, Actress (Seeking Fear)
1994 Raquel Castro, American actress (Jersey Girl)
1995 Alix de Charentenay, French model
1996 Christian Villarosa, Actor (Illegal)
1997 Emilie Renggli, Actress (Birthmark)
1998 Isaac Jin Solstein, Actor (The Last Airbender)
Died on November 16th
375 Valentinian I "The Great", Roman Co-Emperor and Ruler of Western Roman Empire (336-75) (b. 321)
474 Leo II, Byzantine Emperor (474)
594 Gregory of Tours, Bishop and historian, Saint (b. c. 539)
641 Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
680 Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
885 Queen Liutgard of Saxony (b. c. 845)
1093 Margaret, widow of Scottish king Malcolm III
1231 Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
1302 St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256)
1326 Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
1494 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1512 Kempo Roeper, Frisian rebel, quartered
1558 Mary I of England (b. 1516)
1558 Reginald Cardinal Pole, English Archbishop of Canterbury, scholar (b. 1500)
1562 Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
1592 John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
1608 Adolf, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 22
1632 Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
1643 Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
1648 Thomas Ford, English composer
1665 John Earle, English bishop
1668 Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
1690 Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
1708 Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
1713 Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
1720 Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682)
1747 Alain-René Lesage, French author (Le diable boiteux) (b. 1668)
1768 Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
1770 Gian Francesco de Majo, composer
1776 James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
1780 Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
1794 Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
1796 Catherine II "the Great", Empress of Russia (1762-96) (b. 1729)
1808 David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
1818 Charlotte Sophia von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of England, consort of King George III (b. 1744)
1826 Louise Reichardt, composer
1835 Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
1848 Jozef B "Olim" Cannaert, Flemish lawyer
1849 Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794)
1856 William Knyvett, composer
1858 Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1862 Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer
1865 James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813)
1875 Hilario Ascasubi, Argentina author (pampa, gauchos & indians)
1893 Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, king of Bulgaria (1879-86)
1897 George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
1902 Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
1905 Adolf, Duke of Nassau, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1817)
1905 Philip, earl of Flanders
1910 Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado (b. 1886)
1917 Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (Baiser, Thinker) (b. 1840)
1921 John McLaren, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1912)
1921 Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist
1922 Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
1927 Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide
1928 Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
1929 A F A Lilley, cricketer (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909)
1929 Herman Hollerith, American statistician (punch card) (b. 1860)
1931 Georgi Atanasov, composer
1931 John P Lotsy, botanist/geneticist (Resumptio Genetics)
1936 Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
1937 Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
1938 Ante Trumbic, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
1940 Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
1940 Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
1941 Earnest Udet, German general, air pioneer, commits suicide
1942 Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
1943 Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer
1944 A C MacLaren, English cricketer
1947 Ricarda Huch, writer
1947 Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
1954 Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (b. 1899)
1955 James P(rice) Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
1958 Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
1959 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer, pianist, conductor (b. 1887)
1962 Arthur Vining Davis, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
1968 Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
1968 Wilhelm Lehmann, writer
1970 Naunton Wayne, actor (Dead of Night)
1971 Gladys Cooper, actress (Margaret-The Rogues)
1971 Jackie Cooper, actor (People's Choice)
1971 Melville Cooper, actor (Diane, Bundle of Joy)
1973 Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother", Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
1974 Clive Brook, actor/director (On Approval)
1975 Kay Johnson, actress (Real Glory, Of Human Bondage)
1976 Victor Alessandro, composer
1978 Claude Dauphin, actor (Paris Precinct)
1978 James J "Gene" Tunney, heavyweight boxing champ (1926-8)
1979 John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull) (b. 1951)
1981 Bob Eberly, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
1982 Bill Baldwin, announcer (Mayor of Hollywood)
1982 Duk Koo Kim, S Korean boxer, legally declared dead (b. 1959)
1982 Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
1982 Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
1982 Ruth Donnelly, comedienne
1985 Jimmy Ritz, actor (Ritz Brothers)
1986 Alan Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian)
1986 Georges Besse, French automobile executive, president-director (Renault) (b. 1927)
1987 Irene Wicker, singer/actress (Singing Lady)
1987 Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906)
1988 Sheilah Graham, gossip columnist
1989 Billy Lee, actor (Sons of Legion, Biscuit Eater)
1989 Emerson Buckley, composer
1989 Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
1989 Mary Giatra Lemou, Greek actress (b. 1915)
1990 Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1991 John Blatnik, (Rep-Minn, 1947-75)
1991 Kelly Jean Van Dyke-Nance, (Jerry Van Dyke's daughter), suicide
1991 Paul Reid Roman, actor (Aviator, Blue Knight)
1992 Audre Lord, Caribbean-American writer, poet, and activist (Black Unicorn) (b. 1934)
1993 Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
1993 Jthm de Vreeze, Dutch MP (KVP, 1956..77)
1994 G Waller, German-Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety)
1995 Alan Hull, English singer and composer (Lindisfarne) (b. 1945)
1995 Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng
1995 John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist
1995 Marguerite Young, writer
1995 Peter John Welding, record producer
1996 Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator
1996 Johan Fleming Ramsland, broadcaster
1998 Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2001 Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
2002 Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
2002 Frank McCarthy, American artist and realist painter (b. 1924)
2003 Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
2003 Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
2004 Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
2004 Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
2005 Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
2006 Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
2006 Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
2006 Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
2006 Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
2008 George Stephen Morrison, American admiral, father of The Doors' lead singer Jim Morrison (b. 1919)
2008 Pete Newell, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2011 Kurt Budke, American basketball coach (b. 1961)
2011 Olin Branstetter, American businessman and politician (b. 1929)
2012 Margaret Yorke, English crime fiction writer
2013 Doris Lessing, Iranian-British novelist and Nobel laureate
2014 Jimmy Ruffin, American soul singer (What Becomes of the Brokenhearted)
2014 Ray Sadecki, American MLB player
