November 10th
Holidays and Festivals
Cry of Independence Day (Panama)
Day of Tradition (Argentina) * (see below)
Marine Corps Birthday (USA) * (see below)
Day of Remembrance of Ataturk (Turkey)
Day of Militsiya (Russia) * (see below)
Heroes' Day (Indonesia) * (see below)
Martini (Ancient Latvia) * (see Drink of the Day)
Forget-Me-Not Day
USMC Day
Area Code Day
The Eighth Binary Day (8of 9) (0s and 1s)
National Young Reader's Day
Christian Feast day of Pope Leo I the Great and Andrew Avellino
* Day of Tradition (Argentina) honoring José Hernández's birth
* United States Marine Corps Birthday celebrated with the Marine Corps Birthday Ball
* Day of Militsiya (Russia) An analogue of police in Russia.
* Heroes' Day (Indonesia) AKA Hari Pahlawan
Fête de la Herse Translation: Harrow Day (French Republican) The 20th day of the Month of Brumaire in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"In the words of Oliver Goldsmith,
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brains
With grammar and nonsense and learning;
Good liquor I stoutly maintain,
Gives genius a better discerning."
- In honor of Oliver Goldsmith (November 10th, 1730 - April 4th, 1774), an Anglo-Irish poet.
Drink of The Day
Martini (3 with bitters)
2 1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz dry vermouth
orange or Angostura bitters
Pour the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice cubes, Stir Strain into a chilled cocktail glass
Garnish with olive or lemon twist.
- Alternative -
Swedish Berry
3/4 shot Red Sour Puss
1/4 shot banana liqueur
Wine of The Day
Mount Pleasant NV Merlot
Style - Merlot
Augusta, Missouri
$40
Beer of The Day
Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
Brewer - Great Lakes Brewing
Style - American Porter
ABV - 5.8%
- The Edmund Fitzgerald (ship) was known for its size and became famous after sinking in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975
Joke of The Day
A doctor says to his patient, “I have bad news and worse news”.
“Oh dear, what’s the bad news?” asks the patient.
The doctor replies, “You only have 24 hours to live.” “That’s terrible”, said the patient. “How can the news possibly be worse?”
The doctor replies, “I’ve been trying to contact you since yesterday.”
Quote of The Day
"We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old."
- Martin Luther (November 10th 1483 – February 18th 1546), a German priest.
- Alternative -
"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."
- Oliver Goldsmith (November 10th 1730 – April 4th 1774), Anglo-Irish writer and poet.
Whisky of The Day
Balblair 1997 Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Price: $55
November Obervances
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
Dear Santa Letter Week, November 7th through 13thPursuit of Happiness Week, November 7th through 13th
Home Care Aide Week, Second Week in November
American Education Week, Second Week in November
Youth Appreciation Week, Second Week in November
Geography Awareness Week, Second Full Week in November
National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week, Second Full Week in November
National Young Reader's Week, Second Work Week in November
World Kindness Week, Second Monday through Sunday in November
National Global Entrepreneurship Week, Second Monday through Sunday in November
World Origami Days, Oct. 24th to Nov. 11th
Historical Events on November 10th
911 Conrad I elecect German King
1444 Battle of Varna, The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
1520 Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
1526 John I Zapolyai of Transsylvania chosen as king of Hungary
1544 Antwerps painter John Matsys banished
1567 Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots
1584 Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland
1619 René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
1630 Failed palace revolution against Richelieu France
1674 As provided in the Treaty of Westminster (After the Anglo-Dutch War), Netherlands cedes New Netherlands (New York) to England.
1687 Pope Innocent XI publishes decree Coelestis pastor
1697 English parliament accept army reduction
1766 The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philidelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
1785 Netherlands & France signs treaty
1793 France ends forced worship of God, A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette.
1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 Osage Treaty signed
1821 Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which lead to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia
1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso
1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America
1847 The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
1864 Kingston, GA burned during Sherman's March to Sea
1865 Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
1866 Gold coins from the Sydney Mint become legal tender in Canada
1871 Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, allegedly greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
1878 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa," premieres in Moscow
1883 Toronto Argonauts defeat Ottawa FC 9-7, for 1st ORFU Championship
1885 Gottlieb Daimler's motorcycle, world's 1st, unveiled
1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1891 Granville T Woods patents electric railway
1892 1st CRU championship game, Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5
1894 Fred Lugard signs accord with king Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki
1898 Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 (Race riot), the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history (8 blacks killed).
1905 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
1908 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1910 The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1911 Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly & charitable works)
1911 Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)
1917 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House
1917 Faure's 2nd Violo Sonate, premieres
1917 New soviet government suspends freedom of press (temporary)
1918 German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland
1918 Independence of Poland proclaimed by Józef Pilsudski
1918 The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1919 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.
1920 George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," premieres in NYC
1923 German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany
1924 Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
1926 Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden
1926 Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37
1926 Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)
1926 Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA
1928 Hirohito ascended throne as Emperor of Japan
1933 Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
1937 Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas proclaims "Estado novo"
1938 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska
1938 Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1940 Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game
1940 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1942 Philip Barry's "Without Love," premieres in NYC
1942 US-British troops occupies Oran Algeria
1942 US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey Morocco
1942 Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa, World War II.
1944 German riots in Rotterdam, Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany
1944 The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
1944 US 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery
1945 "Are You with It?" opens at Century Theater NYC for 264 performances
1945 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1945 Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, is celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1945 Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by US
1946 Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
1950 After 9 years, Cleveland Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau
1950 Clifford Odet's "Country Girl," premieres in NYC
1950 Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected pres of Guatemala
1950 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
1950 Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar
1951 Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service (without operator assistance) begins in the United States.
1952 Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN
1953 Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised)
1954 Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled
1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
1955 "Vamp" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 60 performances
1956 Gene de Paul and John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner," premieres in NYC
1957 Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0
1957 NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA
1958 Bertolt Brecht's "Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo o Ui," premieres
1958 The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1958 WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 Corinne Rottschaeffer elected Miss World
1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1962 "Nowhere to Go, But Up" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 9 perfs
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open
1963 Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
1964 "Something More!" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 15 perfs
1964 Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium
1965 Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels
1965 Netherlands 2nd Chamber accept marriage of Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg
1965 Willie Mays wins NL MVP
1966 Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier
1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1967 KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1968 Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
1968 Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed
1969 National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program "Sesame Street".
1970 "2 by 2" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 343 performances
1970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched by the The Soviet Union.
1970 R Rodgers and M Charnins musical "Two by Two," premieres in NYC
1970 Vietnamization For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.
1971 In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
1971 Joe Torre wins NL MVP, Vida Blue wins AL MVP
1971 US table tennis team arrived in China
1972 Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
1974 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win
1974 Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0
1975 PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1975 Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career
1975 The 729-foot-long Ore freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1975 United Nations Resolution 3379, United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
1976 Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1977 RAF-terrorists Gert Schneider and Christof Wackernagel arrested in Amsterdam
1977 Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (NYC)
1978 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1978 Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison & Griffin
1979 A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
1980 Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays $12.55 fare
1980 Poland acknowledges Solidarity union
1981 "Oh, Brother!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 3 performances
1981 Ernest Thompson's "West Side Waltz," premieres in NYC
1982 IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankrupcy
1982 Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyns "Foxfire," premieres in NYC
1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened
1983 "Amen Corner" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 83 performances
1983 Federal government shut down
1984 Australia all out 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21
1984 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood
1984 Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to Md 42-40
1985 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1986 Bangladesh Constitution restored
1987 Steve Bedrosian edges Rick Sutcliffe 57-55 to win NL Cy Young Award
1988 China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
1988 MLB All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7)
1988 NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
1988 Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award
1989 Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov, resigns
1989 Fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria.
1989 Germans begins demolishing Berlin Wall
1989 Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
1990 Lebanon releases 2 french hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
1991 Bernie Kosar ends NFL record of 308 passes without an interception
1991 Browns set club record for largest lead blown (led 23-0), Phila 32-30
1991 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1991 Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert, 157 pro tennis tournament wins
1991 Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
1991 South Africa's 1st cricket international since 1970 one-day v India
1993 "Joseph & the Amazing" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 223 perfs
1993 Slowakije government of Meciar forms
1995 In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
1997 "Jackie An American Life," opens at Belasco Theater NYC
1997 Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud & time served
1997 Nanny Louise Woodward, murder sentenced downgrade to manslaughter
1997 WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
2006 Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
2007 "Por qué no te callas" incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.
2012 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
2012 20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara
2012 27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka
2012 Israeli counter strike on Palestinian militants in Gaza kills 5 and injure 30
2012 The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to defeate Mitt Romney 332-206 Electoral College votes
2012 Notre Dame beats Boston College 21-6 in Chestnut Hill at the 22nd College Football Holy War
2013 Spaniard Marc Márquez wins the 2013 MotoGP World Championship to become its youngest ever winner at 20
2014 Ethel Kennedy is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
2015 Portugal's minority government is toppled by left-wing opposition 2 weeks after coming to power
2015 Fourth Republican presidential candidates debate, sponsored by "The Wall Street Journal", held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2084 Transit of Earth as seen from Mars
Born on November 10th
745 Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799)
1341 Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
1433 Charles of Charolais, the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, polyglot (d. 1477)
1467 Charles of Egmond, Duke of Gelre, Earl of Zutphen [or Nov 9]
1480 Bridget of York, English princess and nun (d. 1517)
1483 Martin Luther, German Protestant reformer, founded Protestantism (d. 1546)
1565 Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
1566 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician, lover of Elizabeth I (d. 1601)
1577 Jacob Cats (Father Cats), Dutch grand pensionary, poet (Houwelyck) (d. 1660)
1620 Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and writer (d. 1705)
1636 Francesco Passarini, composer
1668 François Couperin, French composer, organist (Concerts Royaux) (d. 1733)
1668 Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
1679 Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer
1683 George II (August), King of England (1727-60) (d. 1760)
1694 Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer
1695 John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
1697 William Hogarth, English satiric painter, engraver (Rake's Progress) (d. 1764)
1704 Carlo Zuccari, composer
1710 Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
1719 Georg Philipp Kress, composer
1728 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist, playwright (She Stoops to Conquer) (d. 1774)
1735 Granville Sharp, English abolishionist (d. 1813)
1759 Frederich von Schiller, German poet, lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805)
1772 Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer
1786 Carl Eberwein, composer
1793 Jared Kirtland, American physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries
1801 Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876)
1801 Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
1810 George Jennings, English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
1811 Louis Kufferath, composer
1819 Cyrus West Field, financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable
1827 Alfred Howe Terry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1830 Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1833 Dobri Voynikov, composer
1834 Jose Hernandez, Argentina poet (Martin Fierro) (d. 1886)
1834 Wager Swayne, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1902)
1844 Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)
1845 John S(parrow) D(avid) Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (1892-94) (d. 1894)
1846 Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer
1846 Paul Kuczynski, composer
1848 Surendranath Banerjea, Indian National Congress leader (d. 1925)
1850 Arthur Goring Thomas, English composer (d. 1892)
1855 Josiah Royce, American philosopher (conception of God)
1861 Robert T A Innes, Scottish astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
1864 Alexandre Levy, composer
1868 Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957)
1871 Winston Churchill, American novelist (Crisis, Crossing) (d. 1947)
1873 Henri Rabnaud, French composer (Le Premer Glaire)
1875 Maude Eburne, Canadian actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman)
1878 Cy Morgan, American baseball player (d. 1962)
1879 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, American poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven) (d. 1931)
1879 Patrick Pearse, Irish political activist (d. 1916)
1880 Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian (Willem of Orange)
1880 Jacob Epstein, American sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel) (d. 1959)
1882 Max Mell, Austria officer, literary (Donauweibchen)
1883 Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, composer
1884 Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet, author (Bird Phoenix)
1885 Esther Dale, Beaufort SC, actress (Unfinished Business)
1887 Arnold Zweig, German antifascist, author (Erziehung vor Verdun) (d. 1968)
1888 Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)
1888 Hugh Wakefield, Wanstead England, actress (Blithe Spirit)
1889 Claude Rains, English actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca) (d. 1967)
1891 Carl Stalling, American film composer (d. 1972)
1893 John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
1894 Boris Furlan, Slovenian legal theorist and politician (d. 1957)
1895 John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (Northrop Air) (d. 1981)
1895 Mabel Normand, American silent actress (d. 1930)
1896 Jimmie Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
1896 Olga Grey, Hungarian-born American silent actress (d. 1973)
1902 Antonio Maria Valencia, composer
1902 Murk Ozinga, Dutch building historian (Monuments of Curacao)
1904 Steven Geray, Uzhored Czechoslovakia, actor (French Line)
1906 Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1945)
1907 Jane Froman, American actor and singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen) (d. 1980)
1907 John Moore, English author (d. 1967)
1908 Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1909 Johnny Marks, American songwriter (d. 1985)
1909 Pawel Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
1911 Harry Andrews, English actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha)
1912 Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
1912 Salvador Contreras, composer
1913 Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist
1913 Arthur Mullard, comedian
1913 Thelma Hulbert, painter
1916 Billy May, American composer, arranger and bandleader (Milton Berle Show) (d. 2004)
1916 Guido Turchi, Rome Italy, composer (Invettiva)
1916 Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter
1918 Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (Nobel Prize laureate 1973) (d. 2007)
1918 Jack McCoy, Akron Ohio, TV host (Live Like a Millionaire)
1918 Martin Hanley, South African cricketer
1918 Oda Blinder (Yolanda Corsen), Antillean poetess (Doorstep)
1919 Clyde "Bulldog" Turner, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1919 François Périer, French actor (d. 2002)
1919 George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (d. 1997)
1919 Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
1919 Moise Tshombe, Congoian politician (Zaire), president of Katanga (d. 1969)
1920 Jennifer Holt, American actress (d. 1997)
1920 Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur (d. 2008)
1920 Tod Andrews, American actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage)
1923 Hachiko, world famous dog (d. 1935)
1924 Russell Johnson, American actor (professor-Gilligan's Island)
1925 Richard Burton, Welsh actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf) (d. 1984)
1927 Jacob Pleydell-Bouvery, 8th earl of Radnor, art collector
1927 Sabah (singer), Lebanese singer and actress
1928 Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
1928 Norma Crane, American actress (Tea & Sympathy, Fiddler on the Roof)
1928 William Staveley, British admiral
1929 Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
1930 Clarence M Pendleton Jr, chairman of US comm on Civil Rights (1981-88)
1930 Gene Conley, MLB player, NBA player
1930 Toma Prosev, composer
1932 Don Henderson, English actor (d. 1997)
1932 Roy Scheider, American actor (Jaws, French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion) (d. 2008)
1933 Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
1933 Seymour Nurse, cricketer (prolific WI batsman, 258 v NZ 1969)
1934 Lucien Bianchi, Belgian auto racer (d. 1969)
1934 Norm Cash, Eldorado Texas, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers)
1935 Bernard Babior, American biochemist
1935 Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
1935 Pippa Scott, LA California, actress (Virginian, Mr Lucky)
1935 Ronald Ellwin Evans, St Francis Ks, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 17)
1937 Albert Hall, American actor (Trouble in Mind, Ryan's 4)
1938 H J de Royen, director (Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra)
1939 Allan Moffat, Canadian-Australian race car driver
1939 Russell Means, Native American activist, (d. 2012)
1939 Tommy "Bubba" Facenda, rocker
1940 Screaming Lord Sutch, English musician and politician (d. 1999)
1941 John Geoghegan, Silver Star recipient (d. 1965)
1941 Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
1942 Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
1942 Michel Tabachnik, Swiss composer/conductor
1942 Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel laureate
1943 Saxby Chambliss, American politician
1944 Dave Loggins, singer (Please come to Boston)
1944 Silvestre Reyes, American politician
1944 Sir Tim Rice, English lyricist
1944 Tim Rice, Amersham, England, lyricist (Chess Moves, 1 Night in Bangkok)
1945 Donna Fargo, American country singer (Happiest Girl in Whole USA)
1946 Alaina Reed, Springfield Ohio, actress (Rose Lee Holloway-227)
1946 Bill Bryson, Evanston Ill, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1946 David Stockman, Reagan's ex-budget director
1946 Roy Thomas Baker, English record producer
1947 Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese military commander, President of Lebanon (8/23-9/14 1982) (d. 1982)
1947 Dave Loggins, American songwriter and singer
1947 Glen Buxton, American musician (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997)
1947 Greg Lake, British musician (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
1948 Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist
1948 Greg Lake, rock vocalist/bassist (King Crimson, ELP)
1948 Hugh Moffatt, American songwriter
1948 Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy, Funeral of Patrao)
1948 Shigesato Itoi, Japanese novelist and video game designer.
1948 Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
1949 Ann Reinking, American dancer, actress (All the Jazz, Micki & Maude)
1950 Bob Orton, Jr., American wrestler
1950 Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2005)
1950 Jack Scalia, Bkln NY, actor (Berrengers, Hollywood Beat)
1951 Morris Hatalsky, San Diego CA, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE White Rose-2nd)
1952 Gerry DiNardo, American football coach
1952 Pat Severs, Camden SC, country singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1954 Mario Cipollina, California, rock bassist (Huey Lewis & The News)
1955 Jack Clark, American baseball player, all star outfielder (Giants, Cards, Yanks, Padres)
1955 James Chapman, American novelist
1955 Roland Emmerich, German film producer and director (The Day After Tomorrow)
1956 Matt Craven, Port Colborne Ontario, actor (Juror, Killer, K2)
1956 Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur and activist
1956 Sinbad, American actor, comedian (Different World, At the Apollo)
1957 Chris Joyce, rocker (Simply Red)
1957 Jodi Anderson, Chicago Ill, US long jump champ (1978-81)
1958 Brooks Williams, American musician
1958 George Lowe, American voice actor
1958 Massimo Morsello, Italian singer (d. 2001)
1958 Stephen Herek, American film director
1959 Frank Maudsley, rock bassist/vocalist (Flock Of Seagulls)
1959 Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
1959 Mackenzie Phillips, American actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time)
1959 Mike McCarthy, American football coach
1960 Dan Hawkins, American college football coach
1960 Lee Cross Rinker, American PGA golfer (1995 Greater Milwaukee-6th)
1960 Neil Gaiman, English writer
1961 John Walton, English darts player
1961 Junior (Norman Giscombe), R&B singer (Mama used to Say)
1961 Ramona Pagel, LA California, shot putter
1961 Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physics professor
1962 Cathy Boswell, Joliet Ill, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 Hugh Bonneville, English actor (Iris)
1963 Michael Anthony Powell, Philadelphia, long jumper (world record 1991, Olympic-silver-88, 92)
1963 Vanessa Angel, English actress (Another Chance)
1964 Jushin Liger (Keiichi Yamada), wrestler (WCW/NJPW)
1964 Keith Lockhart, Whittier CA, infielder (KC Royals)
1964 Kenny Rogers, American baseball player, pitcher (Texas Rangers, NY Yankees)
1964 Magnús Scheving, Icelandic athlete
1964 Tish Certo, Niagara Falls NY, LPGA golfer (1981 Erie County (NY Champ)
1965 Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish race car driver
1965 Jamie Dixon, American basketball coach
1966 Bill DeMott, American professional wrestler
1966 Kyle Kopp, San Bernardino Ca, water polo 2m offense (Olympics-96)
1966 Vanessa Angel, English actress (Kingpin)
1967 Donya Fiorentino, US model
1967 Jed Roberts, CFL defensive tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1967 Michael Jai White, American actor (The Dark Knight)
1968 Calvin Tiggle, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1968 Jeffrey Kooistra, soccer player (SC Heerenveen/NEC)
1968 Lissa Maria Sneck, ice hockey goalie (Finland, Oly-98)
1968 Lonnie Marts, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs, Tennessee Oilers)
1968 Steve Brookstein, English X Factor winner
1968 Tracy Morgan, American actor/comedian
1969 Arjan van der Laan, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1969 Dan Farthing, CFL slot back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1969 Ed Ward, Edmonton, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1969 Ellen Pompeo, American actress (Didn't We Almost Have It All?)
1969 Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
1969 Jens Lehmann, German footballer
1969 Rod Milstead, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
1970 Freddy Loix, Belgian rally driver
1970 Trent Dimas, NM, gymnast (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1970 Vince Vieluf, American actor
1970 Warren G, American rapper
1971 Butch Huskey, Anadarko OK, infielder (NY Mets)
1971 Heather Williams, Miss USA-Oregon (1997)
1971 Jennifer McFalls, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 Kate Slatter, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1971 Walton Goggins, American actor (The Sheild, Justified, Django Unchained)
1972 Carol Anne Becker, Miss Universe-South Africa (1996)
1972 DJ Ashba, American musician (Guns N' Roses)
1972 Dick Kooijman, Dutch soccer player (Heracles, FC Groningen, Az)
1972 Isaac Bruce, American football player, NFL wide receiver (St Louis Rams)
1972 Shawn Green, American baseball player, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1972 Virag Csurgo, Siofok Hungary, tennis star (1993 Futures-Freeport)
1973 Cale Hulse, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1973 Darius Holland, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 John Solomon, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 Khiry Abdul Samad, LA California, rocker (Boys-Dial My Heart, Lucky Charm)
1973 Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
1973 Zahid Fazal, Pakistani cricket batsman (occasional Tests since 1992)
1974 Chris Lilley, Australian comedian, Writer
1974 Niko Hurme, Finnish musician
1975 Jim Adkins, American musician
1976 Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer
1976 Sota Fujimori, Japanese music composer
1976 Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer
1977 Brittany Murphy, American actress (8 Mile) (d. 2009)
1977 Josh Barnett, American Mixed Martial Artist
1977 Matt Cepicky, American baseball player
1977 Stephanie Berger, Miss Universe-Switzerland (1996)
1977 Won Bin, Korean actor
1978 Drew McConnell, Irish musician (Babyshambles)
1978 Eve, American rapper
1978 Kyla Cole, Slovak pornographic actress
1979 Chris Joannou, Australian musician, (Silverchair)
1980 Calvin Chen, Taiwanese singer, (Fei Lun Hai, Fahrenheit)
1980 Donté Stallworth, American football player
1980 Troy Bell, American basketball player
1981 Alison Waite, American model and Playboy Playmate
1981 Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)
1981 Tony Blanco, Dominican baseball player
1982 Clayton Fortune, English footballer
1982 Heather Matarazzo, American actress (Welcome to the Dollhouse)
1983 Craig Smith, American basketball player
1983 Miranda Lambert, American Country singer
1983 Sammie Rhodes, American pornographic actress
1984 Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
1985 David Lee Rohr Jr, transplant donor
1985 Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
1985 Ricki-Lee Coulter, New Zealand-Australian singer
1986 Ilias Iliadis, Greek judoka
1986 Josh Peck, American actor (Ice Age: The Meltdown)
1987 Charles Hamilton, American hip-hop artist
1987 Jessica Tovey, Australian actress
1988 Chisaki Hama, Japanese actress and model
1989 Matthew Fisher, American Pianist (Home Is Ahead... The World Behind)
1990 Ciarra Nevitt, Brittish Actress and Director (Suffering in Silence)
1991 Genevieve Buechner, Actress (The Final Cut)
1991 Inseong Cho, South Korean actor
1992 Julie Zimmer, Actor (Tammy)
1993 Seth Kays, Actor (Jericho: The Promise Fulfilled)
1994 Luke Bilyk, Actor (Nowhere to Run: Part 2)
1997 Emerson Tenney, Actress (Coraline)
1999 Kiernan Shipka, Actress (Carriers)
2000 Mackenzie Foy, Actress (The Conjuring, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Parts 1 and 2)
2000 Zack Miller, Actor (Front of the Class)
Died on November 10th
461 St. Leo I, the Great, Italian Pope (440-61)
627 Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
901 Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia
1241 Celestine IV (Goffredo Castiglioni), Pope (1241, 16 days)
1285 Pedro III, king of Aragon
1299 Jan I, count of Holland/Zeeland (1295-99)
1444 Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, King of Poland, Hungary, killed in battle (b. 1424)
1549 Paul III (Alessandro Farnese), Italian Pope (1534-49) (b. 1468)
1556 Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
1596 Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
1605 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
1617 Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1624 Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
1644 Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
1665 Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer
1670 Geory Horn (Hornius), theologist, historian
1673 Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, King of Poland (b. 1640)
1727 Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1728 Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b. 1661)
1772 Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
1777 Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
1779 Joseph Hewes, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence)
1808 Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
1821 Andreas J Romberg, German violinist/composer (Der Rabe)
1848 Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (b. 1786)
1865 Henry Wards (Wirz), Swiss-American Confederate commandant of POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia, executed by hanging for excessive cruelty (b. 1822)
1891 Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, arms merchant (Saison en Enfer) (b. 1854)
1909 George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
1909 Ludvig Schytte, composer
1909 Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
1912 Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
1917 Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (b. 1866)
1936 Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
1937 Nikolai Batalov, actor (Mother)
1938 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
1940 Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40)
1948 Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929)
1954 Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed
1959 Lupino Lane, actress (Deputy Drummer)
1960 Isadore Freed, composer, dies at 60
1963 Otto Flake, writer, dies
1964 Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
1968 Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue)
1970 Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French)
1971 Walter Van Tilburg Clark, US author (Ox-Bow Incident)
1972 Charlie Hallows, English cricketer
1973 David "Stringbean" Akeman, American country music banjo player (b. 1915)
1973 Stringbean, country singer, comedian, banjoist (Hee Haw)
1975 Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
1978 Linda Scott, actress (Escape from Hell Island)
1978 Theo Lingen, actor (Grosse Gluck)
1979 Friedrich Thorberg, writer
1981 Abel Gance, French film director (J'accuse), producer, and actor (b. 1889)
1982 Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class)
1982 Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
1984 Sudie Bond, actress (Tomorrow)
1984 Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
1985 Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player, goalie (Phila Flyers), dies in automobile accident (b. 1959)
1986 Gordon Richards, British jockey. (b. 1904)
1986 King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903)
1986 Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
1990 Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban baseball player (b. 1943)
1990 Lisa Kirk, US Broadway-singer
1990 Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
1990 Ronnie Dyson, US singer (Salvation-I Don't Wanna Cry)
1991 Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Ital Colonies (1931-38)
1991 Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972)
1991 Tutte Lemkow, dancer, director (Capt Paradise, I am a Camera)
1991 William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1992 Antoine C J Rottier, Dutch CEO (DSM)
1992 Chuck Connors, American actor, baseball and basketball player (Boston Celtics) (b. 1921)
1993 Wensley Pithey, actor (Oh What a Lovely War)
1994 Carmen McRae (Clark), American jazz singer, pianist (b. 1920)
1994 Louis Nizer, lawyer
1995 Boty Goodwin, artist
1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (b. 1941)
1995 Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, writer, environmentalist
1995 Margaret Annie Nan Macdonald, broadcaster
1996 Beecher Moore, sailor
1996 Hugo Buchthal, art historian
1996 Marjorie Proops, problem page editor
1997 Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
1997 William Alland, actor (Citizen Kane)
1998 Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
2000 Adamantios Androutsopoulos, lawyer, professor, and the Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
2000 Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
2001 Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
2002 Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921)
2003 Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
2003 Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912)
2004 Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
2006 Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
2006 Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2006 Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
2006 Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
2006 Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
2007 Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907)
2007 Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 Norman Mailer, American author (b. 1923)
2008 Arthur Shawcross, American serial killer (b. 1945)
2008 Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932)
2008 Wannes Van de Velde, Flemish singer (b. 1937)
2009 Gheorghe Dinica, Romanian actor (b. 1934)
2009 John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (b. 1960)
2009 Robert Enke, German football goalkeeper (b. 1977)
2010 Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
2010 Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
2010 Nicolo Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian organized crime figure (b. 1924)
2011 Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)
2011 Peter J. Biondi, American state legislator (New Jersey) and former mayor (b. 1942)
2015 Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of West Germany (SPD, 1974- 82)
2015 Pat Eddery, Irish jockey (won Epsom Derby 3x)
2015 Allen Toussaint [Naomi Neville], American R&B musician & songwriter (Ride Your Pony)
2015 Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist (designed IMB mainframe)
2015 Tim [Itimous Thaddeus] Valentine, American politician (Rep-D-NC, 1983-95)
2015 Robert Craft, American conductor and friend of Stravinsky