November 12th
Holidays and Festivals
Constitution Day (Azerbaijan)
Birth of Sun Yat-Sen (Taiwan)
Chicken Soup for the Soul Day
Feast of Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Saint Patiens (Roman Catholic)
Father's Day (Indonesia) * CLICK HERE
Birth of Bahá'u'lláh a holy day in the Bahá'í Faith
* Count-up Day (2013). In 2013 the date will be 11/12/13, at 10:09:08 the time will be 8 seconds, 9 minutes, 10 hours, 11 days, 12 months, and 13 years into the millenium.
Fête de la Azerole Translation: Azarole Day (French Republican) The 22nd day of the Month of Brumaire in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Practice makes perfect, there's many do think,
but a man's not too perfect when he's practiced at drink."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Blue Blazer
2 and Half oz rye or bourbon whiskey or Brandy
2and Half oz boiling water
1 tsp powdered sugar
Lemon peel
Wine of The Day
Dr. Konstantin Frank Bunch Select Late Harvest
Style - Riesling
Finger Lakes
$75
Beer of The Day
Doug's Very Noddy 40th Birthday Lager
Brewer - Buckbean Brewing Co. Reno, NV
Style - Strong Beer
Joke of The Day
An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says,
"Ah, you're an engineer -- you're in the wrong place."
So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is admitted. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and, as is the wont for engineers, starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy. One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and asks,
"So how's it going down there in hell?"
Satan replies, "Hey things are going great. We've got air conditioning, flushing toilets and working escalators, and there's no telling what an engineer is going to come up with next."
God replies, "What You've got an engineer? That's a mistake -- he should never have gotten down there; send him up here." Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him." God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue."
Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah right. And just where are you going to get a lawyer?"
Quote of The Day
"I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness."
- Unknown
Whisky of The Day
The Balvenie 12 Year Old Doublewood Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Price: $45.
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
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
Historical Events on November 12th
295 Origin of Era of Ascension
764 Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
954 Lotharius becomes king of France
1028 Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.
1439 Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1555 The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1591 Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza
1614 Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
1673 Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn
1682 Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy
1727 France & Bavaria renew secret treaty
1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1793 Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1813 Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth
1823 Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
1847 Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1859 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
1873 Bay District Race Track opens
1885 Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
1892 Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football
1892 William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
1893 The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister nations.
1899 British troops reach Durban Natal
1900 World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors)
1905 Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
1906 C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps
1910 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1912 The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
1914 Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
1915 Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago
1915 Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
1918 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
1919 Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1920 Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1921 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1922 The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1923 In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8
1924 Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
1925 US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
1927 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens
1927 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1928 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1931 Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
1931 Sibelius and Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott," premieres in London
1932 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion
1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0
1933 Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1936 1st TV Gardening show
1936 In California, the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1936 Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
1936 Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1936 St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt
1938 Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually is first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1939 Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David
1940 Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1941 WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
1941 Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C, Germany's drive to take Moscow halted and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city, World War II.
1941 The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol of World War II.
1942 The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal of World War II, between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days.
1943 Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
1944 The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway in World War II.
1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
1946 A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens "autobank", the first ten drive-up teller windows.
1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
1947 KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1947 Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced
1948 In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1950 Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards
1951 "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
1952 Phila A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
1952 White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
1953 David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel
1953 US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1955 1st West German officers sworn in
1955 Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II"
1955 E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1956 Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
1958 A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
1958 Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award
1959 White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP
1960 Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails
1960 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
1963 Train crash in Japan, kills 164
1964 Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1964 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1965 Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
1965 General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
1965 Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ
1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1966 Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1967 Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1967 Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
1968 Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations.
1968 KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional
1968 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District argued before the Supreme Court.
1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1969 Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP
1969 US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
1969 Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai Massacre story in the Vietnam War.
1969 WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
1970 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
1970 Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
1970 The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan (Bangladesh) becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history, 300,000 to 500,000 die, 240 KPH winds.
1970 The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
1971 As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from the Vietnam War.
1973 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 14th String Quartet premieres
1974 South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
1975 NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
1975 Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
1975 The Comoros joins the United Nations.
1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
1978 "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
1978 As Bishop of Rome Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran.
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1979 In response to the Iran hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran & freezes Iranian assets.
1979 Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
1980 Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1980 The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn 77,000-mi (124,000 km), and takes the first images of its rings.
1981 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 Bill C Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in NYC
1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)
1981 Great Britain performs nuclear test
1981 Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
1981 Mission STS-2 of the Space Shuttle program, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
1982 In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1982 Lech Walesa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.
1982 USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket v India, goes to 215
1983 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
1983 NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
1984 Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
1984 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1985 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
1985 R Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match v Australia at Brisbane
1985 STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
1986 France performs nuclear test
1986 Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
1987 "Teddy & Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances
1987 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
1987 Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World
1988 Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances
1989 Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1989 George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
1990 Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1990 Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 "Full House" 100th episode-twins are born
1991 Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award
1991 Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters funeral possession: 270-520 diein Dili, East Timor.
1991 Indonesian army shoots on
1992 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
1993 Decree of President of Kazakhstan "About introducing national currency of Republic of Kazakhstan" is issued.
1995 25th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06
1995 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
1995 Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe
1995 Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003
1995 NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50
1995 STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit
1996 A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
1996 Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
1997 Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004
1997 Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award
1997 Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
1998 Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
1998 NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak
1998 Then Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
1999 The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
2001 In the 2001 Attack on Afghanistan, Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2001 In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2003 In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2003 Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems.
2006 The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.
2011 Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis
2012 Into the Silence by Wade Davis wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize
2012 Joe Sakic, Mats Sundin, Pavel Bure and Adam Oates are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
2014 European Space Agency's Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
2015 Out Magazine names Barack Obama 'Ally of the Year', Obama becomes 1st sitting US President to pose for cover of a gay magazine
2015 Suicide bombings in Lebanon kill 43, Isis claim responsibility
Born on November 12th
1493 Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
1528 Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)
1547 Claude of Valois, French princess, 2nd daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici (d. 1575).
1606 Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian settler (d. 1673)
1615 Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
1651 Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican mystic, poet, nun, feminist and author (Primero Sueno) (d. 1695)
1676 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer
1729 Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
1748 Carlos IV, King of Spain (1788-1808)
1755 Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general, Minister of War (1807-10) (d. 1813)
1757 Jacobus Bellamy (Zelandus), Zealand poet
1790 Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler
1795 Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (d. 1856)
1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (80 Years & More) (d. 1902)
1817 Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)
1817 Carlo Pedrotti, composer
1817 Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer
1827 Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer
1831 Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist
1833 Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russian composer (Robert LeDiable), chemist (d. 1887)
1840 Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (Kiss, Thinker) (d. 1917)
1841 John W Rayleigh, Malden, England, physicist (discovery of argon Nobel 1904) (d. 1919)
1842 John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1844 Octave Fouque, composer
1848 Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)
1850 Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
1853 Oskar Panizza, writer
1858 Alexis Contant, composer
1865 Frans L M "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas)
1866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC & PRC), 1st President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
1872 William Fay, Irish actor and theatre producer (d. 1947)
1881 Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1881 Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (d. 1948)
1886 Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
1886 Günther Dyhrenfurth, German born geologist, geographer and Himalayan explorer (d. 1975)
1886 Leonardus G Kortenhorst, Dutch MP (KVP)
1889 DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921) (d. 1981)
1890 Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
1892 Tudor Davies, Welsh operatic tenor (d. 1958)
1896 Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
1897 Karl Marx, German composer, conductor (d. 1985)
1898 Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet/author (His Master's Voice)
1898 Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
1901 James Luther Adams, American theologian (d. 1994)
1903 Jack Oakie, American actor (Great Dictator, 1974 Photoplay Award) (d. 1978)
1905 Evgeny Grigor'yevich Bruslovsky, composer
1905 Solon Michaelides, composer
1908 Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (d. 1946)
1908 Hans Werner Richter, German author (Socially Responsible Cinema)
1908 Harry A Blackmun, U.S. 100th Supreme Court justice (1970-94) (d. 1999)
1908 Shamus Culhane, animator
1910 Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (Wisden COY 1952) (d. 1981)
1911 Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
1911 Luc Estang (Lucien Bastard), French writer (Stigmates)
1911 William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian
1912 Alphonse (Tuffy) Leemans, NFL fullback (NY Giants)
1914 Edward "Henricus" Schillebeeckx, Dutch theologist
1914 Roberto Cavanagh, Argentina, polo (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 Sylvi Saimo, Finland, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1952)
1915 Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (L'Empire des Signer) (d. 1980)
1916 Jean Papineau-Couture, French-Canadian composer (d. 2000)
1916 Liam Dunn, NJ, actor (Koska & his Family)
1916 Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993)
1916 Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986)
1917 Jo Stafford, American singer (You Belong to me, Never Smile Again) (d. 2008)
1917 Joseph Coors, CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery)
1920 Richard Quine, American actor, director (Clay Pigeon) (d. 1989)
1921 Robert Fleming, composer
1922 Kim Hunter (Janet Cole), American actress (Planet of the Apes, Lilith) (d. 2002)
1923 Vicco von Bülow, German film director
1924 Sam Jones, jazz bassist (d. 1981)
1927 Sunset Carson (Michael Harrison) American actor (Cat of Rockies)
1927 Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
1928 Bob Holness, English presenter and actor
1928 Johan B W Polak, Dutch publisher, publicist (Bloom of Decadence)
1928 Robert Holness, South African radio and television presenter (BBC), (d. 2012)
1929 Grace Kelly, American actress (Rear Window)/Princess (Monaco) (d. 1982)
1929 Michael Ende, German writer (d. 1995)
1929 Princess Grace of Monaco, American Actress, Royalty (d. 1982)
1930 Ann Flood, American actress
1930 Tonke Dragt, Dutch children book author (Towers of February)
1931 Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer (The Four Seasons)
1931 Norman Y Mineta, (Rep-R-CA, 1975)
1933 Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq
1933 Peter Post, Dutch bicyclist (8x European Champion at Derny-drive)
1934 Ann Flood, Jamaica NY, actress (Edge of Night)
1934 Bukka White, rocker
1934 Charles Manson, American cult leader (Manson Family)
1935 Jerry Douglas, Chelsea Mass, actor (John Abbott-Young & Restless)
1935 Terry Johnson, US R&B singer (Flamingos-I Know Better)
1936 Mills Lane, American judge and boxing referee
1936 Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
1936 Robert White, guitarist
1936 Ruth Jessen, LPGA golfer
1937 Ina Balin, Brooklyn NY, actress (Danger in Paradise)
1937 Peter Lloyd, British MP
1937 Richard H Truly, American Rear Adm USN/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 8)
1938 Benjamin Mkapa, Tanzanian president
1938 Denis DeJordy, Canadian ice hockey player
1939 Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
1939 Ruby Nash Curtis, American singer (Ruby & the Romantics)
1940 Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician
1940 Michel Audet, Quebec economist and politician
1940 Ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers
1941 Carol Gluck, American academic and Japanologist
1941 Frank Rosenthal, rocker
1941 Jennifer Helen McLeod, composer
1943 Bjorn Waldegard, Swedish rally driver
1943 Brian Hyland, American singer (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini)
1943 Jimmy "Bro" Hayes, US singer (Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk)
1943 John Maus, NYC, rock vocalist (Walker Brothers)
1943 Julie Ege, Norwegian/British actress (d. 2008)
1943 Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright (My Dinner with Andre, Princess Bride)
1944 Al Michaels, American television sportscaster
1944 Booker T. Jones, American organist and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's)
1944 Johan van Doorn (Johnny the Selfkicker), Dutch poet (War & Porridge)
1945 Al Michaels, American sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football)
1945 Michael Bishop, American sci-fi author (Nebula, Stolen Faces)
1945 Neil Young, Canadian singer-songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
1945 Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author
1945 Valerie Leon, London England, actress (Blood from Mummy's Tomb)
1946 Krister Henriksson, Swedish actor
1947 Buck Dharma, American musician (Blue Öyster Cult)
1947 Donald Roeser, guitarist, vocalist (Blue Oyster Cult)
1947 J C Crowley, rocker
1947 Patrice Leconte, French film director and screenwriter (Monsieur Hire, Hairdresser's Husband)
1947 Ron Bryant, American baseball player
1948 Cliff Harris, American football player
1948 Errol Brown, Jamaican singer (Hot Chocolate)
1949 Arthur "Pooch" Tavares, rocker
1949 Jack Reed, American politician (Rep-D-Rhode Island)
1949 Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 1992)
1949 Sinyan Shen, American physicist and classical composer.
1952 Ronald Burkle, American entrepreneur
1953 Vasilis Karras, Greek singer
1954 Bharat Reddy, cricket wicket-keeper (India 1979)
1954 Paul McNamee, Australia, tennis star
1955 Katharine Weber, American novelist
1955 Leslie McKeown, vocalist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
1956 Rhonda Shear, American comedian (Up All Night)
1957 Gail Castro, Glendale California, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-1991, Oly-96)
1957 Marta Figueras-Dotti, Spanish LPGA golfer (1994 Hawaiian Open)
1958 Megan Mullally, American actress (Bee Movie) and singer
1958 Nick Stellino, Italian-American television chef
1959 Vincent Irizarry, American actor
1960 Bertice Berry, talk show host (Bertice)
1960 Ismo Alanko, Finnish musician
1960 Maurane, Belgian singer
1961 Chela Quintana, Venezuelan LPGA golfer (8 time Venezuelan Amat Champ)
1961 Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
1961 Greg Gagne, American infielder (LA Dodgers)
1961 Jonathan Nossiter, American film director
1961 Michaela Paetsch, American violinist
1961 Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast (1st 10/Olymp-gold-1976)
1962 Brix Smith, American musician (The Fall, The Adult Net)
1962 Jeff Reed, Joliet IL, catcher (Colorado Rockies)
1962 Mariella Frostrup, Norwegian journalist and television presenter
1962 Mark Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist
1962 Neal Shusterman, American author
1962 Wim Kieft, Dutch soccer star (Ajax/Gir de Bordeaux/PSV)
1963 Laurie Brower, Long Beach CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Lady Keystone-9th)
1963 Sam Lloyd, American actor
1963 Susumu Terajima, Japanese actor
1964 David Ellefson, American bassist (Megadeth)
1964 Erik Howard, NFL defensive tackle/end (NY Jets)
1964 Gerald Perry, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1964 Jakob Hlasek, Czech, tennis star
1964 Vic Chesnutt, American singer and songwriter (d. 2009)
1965 Lex Lang, American voice actor
1965 Mike Keim, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1966 David Schwimmer, American actor (Ross-Friends)
1967 Charlie Pennaelino, Queens NY, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way)
1967 Grant Nicholas, British singer (Feeder)
1967 Michael Moorer, American boxer, heavyweight champ (defeated Holyfield-1994)
1968 Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride)
1968 Aya Hisakawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
1968 Derek Bell, Tampa Florida, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1968 Glenn Gilberti, American professional wrestler
1968 Irina Privalova, Russian runner (indoor world record 50/60m)
1968 Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter
1968 Randy Knorr, San Gabriel CA, catcher (Houston Astros)
1968 Sammy Sosa, Dominican baseball player, outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1969 Iain Sydie, North York Ontario, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1969 Ian Bremmer, American political scientist
1969 Jason Cundy, English footballer and broadcaster
1969 Johnny Gosch, American kidnap victim
1969 Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter
1969 Trevor Shaw, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1970 Craig Parker, New Zealand actor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
1970 Donna Adamo, American professional wrestler
1970 Harvey Stephens, British actor (The Omen)
1970 Tonya Harding, American figure skater (Oly-8th-1994, US Champ 1994)
1971 Heidi Burge, WNBA forward (LA Sparks)
1971 Shakeel Ahmed, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper
1972 Vassilis Tsiartas, Greek footballer
1973 Colin Morgan, Calgary Alberta, 78 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1973 Ethan Zohn, United Soccer Leagues star, winner of Survivor: Africa
1973 Keith Morgan, Calgary Alberta, 95 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1973 Mayte Garcia, American dancer
1973 Melanie Gaffin, Santa Monica California, actress (Cheryl-Whiz Kids)
1973 Radha Mitchell, Australian actress (Silent Hill)
1973 Tara Strong, Canadian voice actress
1973 Zahir Shah, cricketer (attention-grabbing Rawalpindi leg-spinner)
1974 Tamala Jones, American actress (Blue Streak)
1975 Angela Watson, American actress (Karen Foster-Step by Step, Movin' on up)
1975 Chris Wells, Calgary, NHL center (Pitts Penguins)
1975 Gretchen Durgin, Miss USA-New Hampshire (1997)
1975 Jason Lezak, American swimmer
1975 Nina Brosh, Israeli model and actress (Drakkar)
1975 Tevin Jermod Campbell, Dallas Tx, rapper
1976 Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden)
1976 Miroslaw Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
1976 Richelle Mead, American author
1976 Scott Mark Cameron, Dunedin NZ, 4x200m relay swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 Tevin Campbell, American R&B singer
1977 Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
1977 Dalene Kurtis, American Playboy model
1977 Jennifer Smith, Miss Maryland Teen USA (1996)
1977 Lee Murray, English mixed martial artist
1978 Alexandra Maria Lara, German-Romanian actress (Downfall)
1978 Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician
1978 Ashley Williams, American actress (Margin Call)
1978 Lena Yada, American actress, model, surfer, and professional wrestler (WWE)
1979 Corey Maggette, American basketball player
1979 Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress (Under Covers)
1979 Crown J, South Korean hip hop singer and rapper
1979 Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler
1980 Gustaf Skarsgård, Actor (Evil)
1980 Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor (Drive)
1980 Trent Acid, American professional wrestler
1981 DJ Campbell, English footballer
1982 Anne Hathaway, American actress (Les Misérables)
1982 Mikele Leigertwood, English footballer
1983 Carlton Cole, English footballer
1983 Charlie Morton (pitcher), American baseball player
1984 Conrad Rautenbach, Zimbabwean rally driver
1984 Matt Thomas, legal scholar
1984 Omarion, American R&B musician
1984 Sandara Park, South Korean actor
1984 Sepp De Roover, Belgian footballer
1985 Kelly Misek Jr., Actor (The Yin of Gary Fischer's Life)
1986 Evan Yo, Taiwanese pop singer
1987 Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 Leah O'Rourke, Actress (Wasted)
1988 Russell Westbrook, American basketball player
1989 Paul Jessup, actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)
1990 Dajo Hogeweg, Actor (Dajo)
1991 Emma Kelley, Actress (Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters)
1992 Macey Cruthird, Actress (Come Away Home)
1993 EJ Jallorina, Actor (Pisay)
1994 Tiffany Hannam-Daniels, actress (True True Lie)
1996 María Fernanda Sasián, Actress (Piel marcada)
1997 Jaiden Fallo Sauter, Actress (Klya's Law)
1998 Issei Kakazu, Actor (Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War Core)
Died on November 12th
607 Pope Boniface III
1035 Cnut (Canute) "The Great", King of Denmark. England, Norway and parts of Sweden (1016-1035).
1094 King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
1202 Knut VI, King of the Denen, Turn (1182-1202)
1434 King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
1555 Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester (b. 1497)
1558 Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva)
1567 Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, Constable of France (b. 1493)
1595 John Hawkins, English shipbuilder, treasurer of the Navy, trader (b. 1532)
1600 Andreas of Austrian, Land Guardian of Neth (1598-1600)
1606 Matthaus Ludecus, composer
1606 St. Nicholas Owens (martyr), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
1667 Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
1671 Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general, 3rd baron Fairfax of Cameron (b. 1612)
1722 Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter, engraver, architect
1739 Ludwig Ernst, composer
1742 Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1754 Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam painter/decorater
1757 Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
1793 Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
1802 Charles van Poucke, Flemish sculptor
1823 Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer
1836 Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1852 Georg Hellmesberger, composer
1865 Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
1869 Gheorghe Asachi, author, humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia)
1893 Alexander Freiherr von Bach, premier of Austria (1852-59)
1896 Spyridon Xyndas, composer
1912 Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered
1916 Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
1921 Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter, sculpto
1925 Roman Statkowski, composer
1933 F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
1937 Harry Smith, English cricket wicket-keeper
1939 (Ernest YY) Oscar Tourniaire, actor (Bluejackets)
1939 Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
1940 Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer
1941 Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, American mobster, police informer, killed (b. 1907)
1944 Edgar Stillman Kelley, US composer (Gulliver)
1944 George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure)
1944 Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
1944 Roy Agnew, composer
1947 Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel)
1948 Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
1949 Hendrik A de Fish (Henri Pauwels), Flemish philological
1955 Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
1956 Gerhard Alexander, actor (One Zomerzotheid)
1957 Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law)
1960 John Trim, cricketer
1962 Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer
1962 Sid Tomack, actor (Gillis-Life of Riley, My Friend Irma)
1965 Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
1966 Quincy Porter, US composer
1967 Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian
1969 Liu Shaoqi, Former Chairman of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
1969 Louis van Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C)
1972 Rudolf Friml, Czech composer of operettas (Bohemian suite) (b. 1879)
1974 Charles Quinlivan, actor (7 Guns to Mesa)
1975 Anthony Ross, TV host (Telltale Clue)
1976 Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
1976 Walter Hamor Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
1978 Howard Swanson, composer
1979 Dimitri Tiompkin, composer
1980 Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen, Dutch composer
1980 Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer, dissident
1980 Haya van Someren-Downer, Dutch MP
1981 William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
1984 Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
1987 Roger Lewis, aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am)
1990 Dave Willock, actor (Queen of Outer Space)
1990 Eve Arden, American actress (Our Miss Brooks) (b. 1908)
1990 Nico Haak, Dutch singer (Foxy Foxtrot)
1990 Rifaat El-Maghub, Egyptian MP leader, murdered
1990 Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet
1991 Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack
1991 Diane Brewster, actress (Courage of Black Beauty)
1991 Howard Brunner
1991 Paul E "Cardinal" Leger, cardinal/archbishop of Montreal
1992 Charles "Honi" Coles, tap dancer
1992 David Oliver, actor (Perry Hutchins-Another World)
1993 Anna Stein, actress (Wedding Night)
1993 Bill Dickey, HOF baseball catcher (NY Yankees, 1928-46)
1993 H(arry) R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff , Nixon's cabinet member (1968-73) (b. 1926)
1994 Charles "Honi" Coles, dancer (1983 Tony award)
1994 Katherine Elliots, doctor
1994 Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer
1994 Wilma Glodean Rudolph, American sprinter (Olympics-3 gold-60) (b. 1940)
1995 Curley Fox, fiddler
1995 Jack Mann, pilot, hostage,
1995 Marion Pitt, social worker, writer
1996 Don Kenyon, cricketer
1996 Gwen Catley, soprano
1996 John Qace Hardbattle, political activist
1997 Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
1997 William Matthews, poet
2000 Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
2000 Leah Rabin, widow of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1928)
2001 Albert Hague, actor and songwriter
2001 Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
2003 Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
2003 Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
2003 Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
2003 Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
2004 John Peel, English DJ and Broadcaster (b. 1939)
2005 William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada (b. 1923)
2006 General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909)
2007 Ira Levin, American novelist (b. 1929)
2007 Khanmohammed Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
2008 Catherine Baker Knoll, 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, (b. 1930)
2008 Mitch Mitchell, English musician (b. 1947)
2010 Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
2010 Karl Plutus, Estonian jurist and centenarian (b. 1904)
2012 Sergio Oliva, American body builder
2013 John Tavener, British composer
2014 Warren Clark, British actor
2015 Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer and goalkeeper
