November 6th
Holidays and Festivals
Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden) * (see below)
Flag day (Finland) * (see below)
Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, 1884)
Flag Day (Chad) * CLICK HERE
End of Autumn / Spring * (see below)
Constitution Day (Tajikistan, 1992,1994)
Flag Day (Dominican Republic) * CLICK HERE
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
Pumpkin Chunkin Days
Marooned without a Compass Day
Saxophone Day
Christian Feast Day of Illtud
Christian Feast Day of Leonard of Noblac
Christian Feast Day of Winnoc
* Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden) AKA Flag Day the death of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and official flag day
* Flag Day (Finland) Also Finnish Swedish Heritage Day.
* The end of autumn or fall in the northern hemisphere / The end of spring in the southern hemisphere on this day, With 88 days between the mid-autumn equinox on September 23 and the mid-winter solstice on 21 December
Fête de la Chervis Translation: Skirret Day (French Republican) The 16th day of the Month of Brumaire in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Dogs do it, cats do it,
monkeys have a try.
Mums do it, dads do it,
so why don't you and I?"
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Box Car
1 Part Rum
1 Part Triple Sec
1 Part Sweet and Sour
Wine of The Day
Echeverria (2007) Late Harvest
Style - Sauvignon Blanc
Curico Valley
$20
Beer of The Day
Three Heavy
Brewer - Dry Dock Brewing Co. Aurora, CO
Style - Scotch Ale
Joke of The Day
WARNING, the consumption of alcohol may lead you to think
people are laughing with you.
WARNING, the consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering
what happened to your pants.
Quote of The Day
"While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and I instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart."
- Anonymous
Whisky of The Day
Price: $70
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
Observances this Week
Novemberfest, First Week in NovemberRadiologic Technology Week, First Week in November
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week, First Week in November
Dear Santa Letter Week, First Week in November
National Family Week, First Week in November
National Care Week, First Week in November
National Fig Week, First Week in November
National Patient Accessibility Week, First Week in November
World Communication Week, First Week in November
Chemistry Week, First Week in November
Health Information and Technology Week ,First Full Week in November
International Fraud Awareness Week, First Full Week in November
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week, First Full Week in November
National Nurse Practioner's Week, First Full Week in November
National Rad Tech Week, First Full Week in November
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week, First Work Week in November
Intimate Apparel Week, First Full Work Week in the Months of February, May, August, and November
World Origami Days, Oct. 24th to Nov. 11th
Historical Events on November 6th
355 Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian keizer of Britain to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
1153 Treaty of Wallingford signed
1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1534 Zealand hit by heavy storm
1572 Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia
1632 Battle of Lützen of the Thirty years war is fought, the Swedes are victorius in beating the imperial armies but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle.
1657 Brandenburg & Poland sign unity of Bromberg
1676 King Carlos II of Spain comes of age (at 15)
1789 Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1792 Battle at Jemappes: French army beats Ausrtrians
1813 Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1844 Spain grants Dominican Rep independence, The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
1850 1st Hawaiian fire engine
1850 Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use
1856 Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
1860 Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President
1861 Jefferson Davis is elected to 6 year term as the president of the Confederate States of America.
1862 NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms
1863 Battle of Rogersville TN
1864 Battle of Cane Hill, AK
1864 Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid)
1865 CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender in the American Civil War after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 vessels.
1865 Maastricht-Venlo railway in Neth opens
1869 In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football (soccer) game.
1871 Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa
1878 Henrik Ibsens "Samfundets Stotter," premieres in Oslo
1879 Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
1883 NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
1884 British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1884 Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game
1885 US mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes
1897 Peter Pan opens in NY at Empire Theater
1900 Battle at Bothaville, general major Charles Knox beats Boers
1900 Pres William McKinley (R) 25th American President re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan, Assassinated in 1901.
1903 USA recognizes independence of Panama
1906 Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY gov beats William Randolph Hearst
1908 Leonid Andreyevs "Dui Nashey Zhizni," premieres in St Petersburg
1910 SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
1911 Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico
1913 Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1915 1st military flight in Netherlands East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
1915 Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government
1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace
1917 NY allows women to vote
1917 Third Battle of Ypres of World War I ends After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
1918 Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns
1918 The Second Polish Republic proclaimed in Poland.
1919 1st Dutch radio program, Soirée Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel"
1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
1924 Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of UK
1925 Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
1928 Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds
1928 Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres
1928 Sweden begins a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
1932 German election KPD defeats NSDAP
1934 Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1934 NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0
1935 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft
1935 Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
1935 Engl prince Henry (under George V) weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott
1935 Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane
1935 Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.
1936 RCA displays TV for press
1936 Terence Rattigans "French Without Tears," premieres in London
1938 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, charity all star game
1939 WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS) 1st commerical TV broadcast
1939 Sonderaktion Krakau takes place, World War II.
1940 Franklin Roosevelt re-elected president
1941 Einsatz group kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1941 Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
1941 USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
1941 During World War II, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
1942 Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
1942 Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta finds Ampat Serangkai
1942 Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II begins.
1943 Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula
1943 Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost"
1943 the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev in World War II. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1945 HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
1947 Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
1949 Greeks civil war ends
1950 Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pittsburgh Pirates
1950 Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea
1950 King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
1952 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premieres
1953 French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy
1953 Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Balt Orioles
1953 Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres
1955 11th Ryder Cup, US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch & CC Calif
1955 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1956 Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary
1956 President Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)
1957 "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45 performances
1957 Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France
1958 AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1958 Belgium government of Eyskens & Lilar forms
1958 Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1961 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith
1962 Apartheid, The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1962 BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
1962 Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)
1962 Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
1962 Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
1962 Saudi Arabia proclaims abolishing slavery
1962 UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa
1963 Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
1964 WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
1966 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
1967 Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curacao, kills 15
1967 US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9
1968 Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey
1968 Students of SF State Counsel go on strike
1969 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Balt & Denny McLain, Det)
1970 Boog Powell wins AL MVP
1970 Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
1971 "Great Harp" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 7 performances
1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1973 "Man With the Golden Girl" begins shooting
1973 Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on NYC
1973 Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit
1974 Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award
1975 "Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances
1975 1st appearance of Sex Pistols
1975 Green March begins, 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
1976 Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
1976 Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years
1977 "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 43 performances
1977 1st Emmy Sports Award presentation
1977 The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1978 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule, Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
1979 Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran
1981 Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award
1981 Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1982 Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1983 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament
1983 Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, Calif
1983 Tampa Bay Buccaneers James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minnesota Vikings
1983 Turkey Turgut Özals Moederland party wins elections
1984 President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
1984 Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award
1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9lands at Edwards AFB
1985 Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil
1985 In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
1985 M-19 guerrilla's occupies Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia
1985 Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Calif
1985 The Iran-Contra Affair, The American press reveals that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
1986 Houston's Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young
1986 Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
1986 Reverand Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
1986 Sumburgh disaster, A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
1987 Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards
1988 18th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:07
1988 19th NYC Marathon won by Steve Jones in 2:08:20
1988 Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7)
1988 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1988 Steve Jones wins NY men's marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women's title
1989 US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
1990 Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1990 Braves Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year
1990 Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages
1990 Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected
1991 "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" opens at Gershwin NYC for 32 perfs
1991 Grand duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St Petersburg
1991 Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii
1991 Maximus 2.0 BBS released
1991 Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA
1991 Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1993 Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving
1993 Actress Allison Angrim (32) weds Robert Schoonover (44)
1993 Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont
1994 24th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37
1994 25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21
1994 Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan
1994 Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Golf Cup
1995 Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Balt
1995 Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians
1996 LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year
1997 "Proposals," opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1997 SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year
1999 Australians vote to keep the Head of the British Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2002 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris.
2004 An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.
2005 The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
2005 The military junta of Myanmar begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.
2012 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California
2012 Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington
2012 US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State
2012 Voters go to the polls for the US Presidential election and re-elect Barack Obama in a surprisingly decisive victory
2013 8 people are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria
2013 15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
Born on November 6th
1391 Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
1479 Johanna I , the Insane, Queen of Castile (1504-20) (d. 1555)
1494 Suleiman I (the Magnificent), Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566). Longest reigning Sultan (1520 till death in 1566).
1550 Karin Månsdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
1558 Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy)
1566 Julien Perrichon, composer
1607 Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer
1613 Luis de Garay, composer
1659 Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer
1661 Charles II, Last Habsburg King of Spain (1665-1700) (d. 1700)
1671 Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift)
1692 Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
1746 African-American abolitionist and clergyman Absalom Jones born into slavery in Delaware
1753 Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
1753 Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
1757 Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer
1771 Alois Senefelder, inventor (lithography)
1779 Michal Bogdanowicz, composer
1796 George Back, English sea officer/explorer (North Canada)
1800 Eduard Grell, composer
1814 Adolphe Sax, Belgium musician, inventor (saxophone) (d. 1894)
1818 Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach)
1822 Gordon Granger, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1876)
1833 Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908)
1835 Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist and founder of criminology (d. 1909)
1836 Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Boston, theologian (Scientific Theism)
1838 John Grant Mitchell, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers) (d. 1894)
1841 Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)
1841 Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
1851 Charles Dow, American journalist and economist, co-founder (Dow Jones), 1st editor (Wall St Journal) (d. 1902)
1854 John Philip Sousa, American composer (Stars & Stripes Forever) (d. 1932)
1855 Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer
1855 Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
1856 Nicholas Nikolajevitsj, ruler of Russia
1860 Ignace Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and President of Poland (d. 1941)
1861 James Naismith, Canadian inventor (basketball, football helmet) (d. 1939)
1867 Marie Bregendahl, Danish author (Holger Hauge og hans Hustru)
1875 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator
1878 Ernest Irving, English composer
1879 Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician
1880 Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959)
1880 Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
1882 Thomas Ince, American movie actor, director, producer. (d. 1924)
1883 Hubert Bath, British film composer and music director
1884 Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer/conductor (Meduza, Eros i Psyche)
1885 Emiel Poetou, Flemish sculptor
1887 Walter Johnson, American baseball player, pitcher Wash Senator (1907-27) (W414-L218) (d. 1946)
1892 George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (d. 1938)
1892 Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
1892 John Alcock, English pilot (1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean)
1892 John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen, Wabash Ind, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
1893 August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director (Uninhabited Island)
1893 Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
1896 Jim Jordan, Peoria IL, radio comedian (Fibber McGee)
1901 Juanita Hall, Keyport NJ, actress (Capt Billy)
1903 June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
1904 Selena Royale, NYC, actress (Date With Judy, Misleading Lady)
1906 Francis Lederer, Prague Czech, actor (Diary of a Chambermaid)
1906 James D. Norris, sportsman and businessman (Chicago Black Hawks) (d. 1966)
1908 Fanny Leys, Flemish author (Ontwijding)
1909 Heinz Rottger, composer
1909 Henk Bijvanck, composer
1910 Arthur Cohn, composer
1914 Jonathan Harris, American actor (Dr Zachary Smith-Lost in Space) (d. 2002)
1916 Ray Conniff, American composer and conductor, chorus director (Ray Conniff Singers) (d. 2002)
1918 Ronnie Brody, English actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse, Ritz)
1919 Alan Lisette, cricketer (NZ slow left-armer vs West Indies 1956)
1920 John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC)
1921 Geoff Rabone, cricketer (gifted all-rounder for NZ in 1950's)
1921 James Jones, American writer (From Here to Eternity) (d. 1977)
1922 Lars Edlund, composer
1923 Aleksandra Chudina, USSR, track jumper (Olympic-2 silver-1952)
1923 Clay Jones, gardener
1923 Renato Capecchi, Italian violinist/baritone
1924 Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler, AKA Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (d. 2005)
1925 Dirk de Vroome (Red Giant), SS'er
1926 Brian Abel-Smith, professor of Social Adminstration
1926 Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian
1928 Peter Matz, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Hullabaloo, Carol Burnette Show)
1930 Raymond Baervoets, Belgian composer (Metamorphoses)
1930 Tom Hornbein, American mountaineer
1931 Mike Nichols (Peschowsky), American film director (Catch 22, Biloxi Blues)
1931 Peter Collins, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1931 Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer
1932 Stonewall Jackson, American country singer
1933 Joseph Pope, US singer (Hey Girl Don't Bother Me)
1933 Knut Johannesen, Norway, 5K/10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1936 David Ward-Steinman, composer
1936 K Schippers (Gerard Stigter), Dutch author
1936 Mikhail Vladimirovich Sologub, Russian cosmonaut
1937 Bas de Gaay Fortman, Dutch MP (PPR)
1937 Edwin Roxburgh, composer
1937 Eugene Pitt, American singer (The Jive Five)
1937 Joe Warfield, American actor
1938 Diana E. H. Russell, South African feminist writer and activist
1938 Dumitru Rusu, Romanian painter
1938 Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
1938 Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1938 P. J. Proby (James Marcus Smith), Houston Texas, American-born singer and actor
1939 Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1939 Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
1940 Dieter F. Uchtdorf, LDS apostle
1940 Johnny Giles, Irish footballer,
1940 Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President and President of the American Jewish World Service
1941 Doug Sahm, San Antonio Texas, country singer (Texas Tornadoes-Dinero)
1941 Guy Clark, Rockport Tx, country singer (Heartbroke)
1941 James Bowman, English contratenor
1943 Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1944 Bill Henderson, Canadian vocalist, guitarist (Chilliwack)
1945 Robert J Mrazek, (Rep-D-NY, 1983)
1946 Fred Penner, Canadian children's entertainer
1946 Sally Field, American actress (Gidget, Flying Nun)
1947 Doug Young, rocker (Flash In The Pan)
1947 Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (Tewrrorizers) (d. 2007)
1947 George Lawrence James, NJ, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 George Young, Australian musician, guitarist (Easybeats)
1947 Jack Arnold, character on Wonder Years
1947 Jim Rosenthal, English sports presenter
1947 John Wilson, rock drummer (Them)
1948 Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles)
1949 Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter
1949 Brad Davis, American actor (Roots, Chiefs, Midnight Express) (d. 1991)
1949 Joseph C. Wilson, American diplomat, Vice Chairman of Jarch Capital, LLC
1949 Nigel Havers, English actor (Dr Latimer-Don't Wait Up)
1950 Amir Aczel, lecturer in mathematics
1950 Chris Glen, Scottish bassist The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
1950 Ernest Thompson, Bellows Fall Vt, actor (Sierra, Westside Medical)
1951 John Falsey, American television writer and producer
1951 Peter Althin, Swedish politician and attorney
1952 Michael Cunningham, American writer
1954 Catherine Crier, American television personality
1955 Alton Coleman, American serial killer
1955 Maria Shriver, American journalist, newscaster (Sunday Today)
1956 Graeme Wood, cricketer (Australian lefty opening batsman 1978-88)
1957 Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist
1957 Lori Singer, American actress (Fame, V, Footloose)
1957 Siobhán McCarthy, Irish singer and actress
1958 Trace Beaulieu, American actor
1959 Teri Peterson, Santa Monica Cal, playmate (July, 1980)
1960 Lance Kerwin, Newport Beach Ca, (James at 15, The Loneliest Runner)
1960 Michael Cerveris, American actor (The Mexican)
1961 Craig Goldy, guitarist (Dio)
1961 Florent Pagny, French songwriter and singer
1961 Kazuhiko Aoki, Japanese game creator
1962 Aznil Nawawi, Malaysian host, actor and singer
1963 Jean-Marc Chouinard, Montreal Quebec, epee (Olympics-96)
1963 Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (d. 1998)
1964 Arne Duncan, American political figure
1964 Corey Glover, American musician (Living Color)
1964 Erik Kramer, NFL quarterback (Chic Bears)
1964 Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion)
1964 Kerry Conran, American filmmaker
1965 Brian Givens, Lompoc CA, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1965 Robert Oberrrauch, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1966 Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)
1966 Lisa Fuller, LA California, actress (Dawn-General Hospital)
1966 Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
1966 Peter DeLuise, American actor (21 Jump Street, seaQuest DSV) and director
1967 Dennis Brown, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1967 Jackie Auzias de Turenne, Seattle, WPVA volleyballer (Natl-17th-1995)
1967 Jana McCoy, Portales NM, Miss NM-America (1991)
1967 Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (Patti-My Sister Sam) (d. 1989)
1967 Shuzo Matsuoka, Tokyo Japan, tennis star (1995 USTA/Binghampton)
1968 Alfred Williams, American football player, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers, Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1968 Chad Curtis, American baseball player, outfielder (NY Yankees, Detroit Tigers)
1968 Edward Linskens, soccer player (PSV)
1968 Jerry Yang, Chinese American entrepreneur (Yahoo!, Inc.)
1968 Kelly Rutherford, American actress (Generations)
1968 Vlast Plavucha, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1969 Bryan Abrams, Oklahoma City, singer (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up)
1969 Don Wengert, Sioux City IA, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1970 Eric Mueller, KC MO, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1970 Ethan Hawke, American actor (Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers)
1970 Maa Tanuvasa, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1970 Patrick Burke, CFL cornerback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 Rich Braham, tackle (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 Derrick Alexander, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1972 Anthony Brown, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1972 Deivi Cruz, American baseball player
1972 Garry Flitcroft, English footballer
1972 Rebecca Romijn, American actress (X2)
1972 Thandie Newton, English actress (The Pursuit of Happyness)
1972 Vicki Movessian, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1973 Nell McAndrew, British model
1973 Taje Allen, NFL kicker (St Louis Rams)
1973 Susan Downey, Producer (Iron Man 2)
1974 Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (d. 2009)
1975 Anastasia Blue, American pornographic actress (d. 2008)
1975 Mike Maurer, CFL fullback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1976 Catherine Clark, Canadian journalist; daughter of Joe Clark
1976 Jodi Martin, Australian singer-songwriter
1976 Laurie Baker, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-gold-98)
1976 Mike Herrera, American singer and bassist (MxPx)
1976 Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)
1976 Wiley Wiggins, Actor (Waking Life)
1977 Patrícia Tavares, Portuguese actress
1978 Daniella Cicarelli, Brazilian model and television host
1978 Jolina Magdangal, Filipina singer, actress and television host
1978 Nicole Dubuc, actress (Robin-Major Dad)
1978 Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
1978 Taryn Manning, American actress (8 Mile)
1978 Zak Morioka, Brazilian racing driver
1979 Lamar Odom, American basketball player
1979 Myolie Wu , Hong Kong famous star
1981 Andrew Murray, Canadian Ice Hockey Player
1981 Cassie Bernall, American murder victim (d. 1999)
1981 Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
1982 Sowelu, Japanese pop singer
1982 Steve Millar, Canadian/American Singer-Songwriter
1983 Janette McBride, Australian-Filipino actress
1983 Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore)
1984 Ricky Romero, American baseball player
1986 Katie Leclerc, Actress (This Is the Color of My Dreams)
1987 Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
1987 Chris Ziegenhagel, Director (The Day I've Lived a Thousand Times)
1987 Wesley Scott, Actor (Varsity Blood)
1988 Emma Stone, American actress (The Help)
1988 Erik Lund, Swedish footballer
1989 Jasmin Lord, Actress (Blutsschwestern - Jung, magisch, tödlich)
1989 Jozy Altidore, American footballer
1989 Mercedes Kastner, Actress (Port Charles)
1989 Shaina Magdayao, Filipina actress
1994 Alexander Agate, Actor (Half-Life)
1996 Emma Duke, Actress (Minor Details)
1996 Max Zuppa, Actor (Michael Saints)
1997 Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Actor (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
2001 Prince Abdullah bin Al Ghazi, son of Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad
Died on November 6th
1231 Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1406 Innocent VII (Cosma de' Migliorati), Italian Pope (1404-06)
1492 Antoine Busnois, French composer
1550 Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)
1632 Gustavus II Adolphus, King of Sweden, dies at battle of Lutzen (b. 1594)
1650 William II, Prince of Orange, Earl of Nassau (b. 1626)
1656 Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)
1656 John IV, Duke of Braganca, King of Portugal (1640-56) (b. 1603)
1669 Laurentius Erhard, composer
1692 Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
1712 Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer
1730 Hans Hermann von Katte, Prussian lieutenant, beheaded
1752 Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
1771 Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch jurist
1771 John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
1790 James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)
1795 Jiri Antonin Benda, composer
1796 Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)
1801 Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer
1816 Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
1822 Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
1822 Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior
1835 Ignaz Schuster, composer
1836 Charles X, King of France (1824-30) (b. 1757)
1839 Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim)
1846 Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general (b. 1786)
1846 Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
1862 Charles Davis Jameson, US Union brig-gen (Fair Oaks)
1865 Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer
1875 John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician
1876 Giacomo Antonelli, secretary of state of Pius IX
1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (Swan Lake) (b. 1840)
1897 Edouard Deldevez, composer
1900 PWJ Le Gallais, British lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville
1901 Bohdan Borkowski, composer
1901 Kate Greenaway, English children book illustrater
1903 Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (b.1895)
1910 Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
1912 Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer
1914 Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante)
1922 William Baines, composer
1925 Khai Ðinh, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1885)
1929 Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18)
1929 Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
1936 Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
1937 Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
1939 Adolphe Max, Belgian liberal MP
1941 Maurice Leblanc, French novelist (b. 1864)
1944 Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1944 Lord Moyne, British prefect (Middle-East), murdered
1944 Segundo "Boy" Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed
1946 Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer
1947 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have)
1953 John Parsons Beach, composer
1955 Charley Toorop (Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop), Dutch painter
1955 Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator
1958 Francis George Scott, composer
1960 Erich Raeder, German grand admiral (b. 1876)
1963 Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier (Indonesia)
1964 Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
1964 Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
1965 Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1898)
1965 Edgard Varèse, French composer (b. 1883)
1965 Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varese, composer
1968 Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (b. 1898)
1968 Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
1968 Guillaume Landre, composer
1969 Augustin Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900)
1972 Billy Murcia, musician (New York Dolls), chokes to death
1972 Tod Andrews, actor (Gray Ghost, Counterthrust)
1978 Flora Campbell, actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy)
1978 Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
1978 Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
1980 Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton)
1983 Robert Gross, composer
1984 Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
1985 Joel Crothers, Soap Opera Actor (Edge of Night) (b. 1941)
1986 Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
1987 Ross R Barnett, lawyer (Gov-D-Miss)
1987 William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Seasons NYC)
1987 Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
1989 Dickie Goodman, creator of "break-in" records (b. 1934)
1989 Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)
1990 Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World)
1991 Andre Vandernoot, Flemish fluitist, conductor
1991 Gene Tierney, American actress (Laura, Whirlpool) (b. 1920)
1994 Jacob Kurtzberg, American comic book artist, writer, and editor (b. 1917)
1995 Aneta Corsaut, American actress (b. 1933)
1995 Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan
1995 Philip Rawson, artist, teacher
1995 Stanley Oliphant Stewart, librarian
1996 Mario Savio, activist
1996 Patience Edney, nurse/communist
1996 Tommy Lawton, footballer
1997 Phillipo Seed, social work academic
1998 Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
2000 David R. Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
2000 L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
2001 Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (b. 1926)
2002 Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
2003 Crash Holly, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
2003 Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
2003 Just Betzer, Danish film producer (b. 1944)
2003 Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
2004 Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)
2004 Johnny Warren, Australian soccer player (b. 1943)
2005 Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mexican actor, composer and singer (b. 1915)
2005 Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
2005 Rod Donald, New Zealand Politician, Green Party Co-leader (b. 1957)
2006 Federico (Fico) López, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1962)
2006 Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
2007 Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
2007 George Grljusich, Australian sports broadcaster (b. c. 1939)
2007 George Osmond, Osmond family patriarch (b. 1917)
2007 Hank Thompson, American singer (b. 1925)
2007 Hilda Braid, English actress (b. 1929)
2007 Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Afghan politician (b. c. 1962)
2009 Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (b. 1932)
2010 Jo Myong-Rok, North Korean military official (b. 1928)
2010 Robert Lipshutz, American attorney and counsel to the Carter Adminisrtation (b. 1921)
2012 Clive Dunn, British actor
2012 M-16 (Ernest Mateen), American cruiserweight boxing champion
2015 Yitzhak Navon, President of Israel (1978-83)