November 16th
Holidays and Festivals
International Day for Tolerance
Dagur íslenskrar tungu (Iceland) * (see below)
Flag Day (Benin) * CLICK HERE
Button Day
Have a Party With Your Bear Day
Feast of Saint Margaret of Scotland (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Gertrude the Great (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle and Gospel-writer (Orthodox Church)
* Dagur íslenskrar tungu (Iceland) AKA Icelandic Language Day
Fête de la Pistache Translation: Pistachio Day (French Republican) The 26th day of the Month of Brumaire in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Drink is the curse of the land...
It makes you fight with your neighbor...
It makes you shoot at your landlord-and it makes you miss him."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Aviation
2 oz. gin
Half oz. lemon Juice
Half oz. maraschino liqueur
Quarter oz. crème de violette
Add all ingredients into cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with a cherry.
Wine of The Day
Vini (2008) Merlot
Style - Merlot
Thracian Valley
$10
Beer of The Day
Outback X
Brewer - Bend Brewing Co. Bend, OR
Style - Strong Ale
Joke of The Day
Guy walks into a bar, sits down next to another guy and immediately notices the guy has a very large Bic cigarette lighter.
The first guy says "Wow, cool lighter...where did you get it?"
"A genie from a bottle granted me one wish."
"Great, can I try it?"
"Sure."
First guy rubs the bottle and the genie appears. "You are granted one wish says the genie."
The guy says, "I want a million bucks!"
"Done" says the genie and disappears.
A few minutes go by and suddenly the bar door swings open and in come pouring in ducks. Thousands and thousands of ducks falling all over each other through the bar door.
"I can't believe this," says the guy who had just placed his wish, "I asked for a million bucks, not a million ducks!"
The second guy then says, "Do you really think I wished for a 12" Bic?"
Quote of The Day
"If God dropped acid would he see people?"
- Unknown, Referring to LSD (first synthesized on November 16, 1938).
Whisky of The Day
The Glenlivet Nádurra 16 Year Old Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky
Price: $70.
- In Celebration of Saint Margaret Day - Queen of Scots
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
World Kindness Week, Second Monday through Sunday in NovemberNational Global Entrepreneurship Week, Second Monday through Sunday in November
Game and Puzzle Week, Third Week in November
National Donor Sabath, Thursday two weeks before Thanksgiving Through Sunday
American Education Week, Full Week Before the Week of Thanksgiving
Historical Events on November 16th
13 General Tiberius' (later Emperor) triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany
534 A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
1380 French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever
1384 Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1491 An auto de fe, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1532 Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca.
1572 Don Frederiks troops occupy, plunder Zutphen
1632 Battle at Lutzen, Sweden beats imperial armies under Von Wallenstein
1676 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass
1677 French troops occupy Freiburg
1683 Hendrik Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz marries Henriette Amalia
1700 Monarch of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia
1763 English journalist John Wilkes injured at duel
1764 Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
1771 West Indian Company & Amsterdam divide up Suriname
1776 1st gun salute for an American warship in a foreign port US Andrew Doria at Ft St Eustatius
1776 The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States, American Revolution.
1776 Hessian (Brittish) mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots in the American Revolutionary War.
1798 Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress
1801 1st edition of New York Evening Post
1805 Battle of Schöngrabern of the Napoleonic Wars, Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
1821 American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1824 NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
1835 Charles Darwins voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
1841 Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
1849 A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1852 The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
1856 Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
1857 Second relief of Lucknow. Twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
1859 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza," premieres in Moscow
1863 Battle of Campbell's Station of the American Civil War, near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces, 492 casualities.
1864 Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia
1864 Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
1870 Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I
1875 Battle at Gundet, Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1875 William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities
1882 British HMS Flirt fire at & destroy Abari village in Niger
1885 Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason.
1894 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
1894 French capt Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa
1901 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds
1903 V Herbert & H Smith' musical "Babette," premieres in NYC
1905 Dutch-Russian Count Witte becomes premier of Russia
1907 Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania, sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1907 Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1908 Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera
1909 EVV Eindhoven soccer team forms
1914 Pope Benedict XV calls for peace
1914 The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1916 Eugene O'Neill's "Bound East for Cardiff," premieres in NYC
1916 I Berlin, V Herbert, H Blossoms musical premieres in NYC
1916 USSR La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000
1917 British occupy Tel Aviv & Jaffa
1918 Hungarian People's Republic declared
1919 Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from Béla Kuns Soviet Republic
1920 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
1920 Australia's Qantas airways founded in Winton, Queensland as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited
1922 Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite
1922 Turkish kalief, sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help
1924 Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL & major-league football record)
1925 American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
1925 Philip Barry's "In a Garden," premieres in NYC
1926 NY Rangers 1st game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0
1933 Brazilians president Getulio Vargas names himself dictator
1933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
1935 Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo," premieres in NYC
1936 German air force begins bombing of Madrid
1938 K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India
1938 LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
1939 Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
1939 German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland
1940 In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
1940 In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg in World War II.
1941 German troops conquer Kertsh (probably)
1942 Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed
1943 American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway, World War II.
1944 Dueren, Germany is destroyed by Allied bombers.
1944 US 9th division & 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen
1945 Operation Paperclip, The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
1945 UNESCO is founded.
1945 Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st US Jewish College
1947 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis
1948 Operation Magic Carpet 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
1950 Egyptian king Faruk demands departure of all British troops
1950 UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
1950 US pres Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat
1952 Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election
1955 1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (D M Campbell)
1955 Johnny Cash made his 1st chart appearance with "Cry Cry Cry"
1955 KLM orders 8 DC-8's
1955 Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Yussuph V returns to Morocco
1957 "Copper & Brass" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 perfs
1957 Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Phila 111-89
1957 Ed Gein butchers last victim
1957 Okla's NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing to Notre Dame 7-0
1959 "Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 perfs
1960 NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP
1961 Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
1962 Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 73 points vs NY Knicks
1963 Toledo, OH newspaper strike began
1963 Touch-tone telephone introduced
1964 Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission
1964 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet (crashes on to Venus).
1965 Walt Disney launches Epcot Center, Prototype Community of Tomorrow
1966 Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
1966 Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP
1969 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai S Vietnam, by US is 1st reported
1972 "Dear Oscar" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 5 performances
1973 John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album
1973 President Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline
1973 NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1974 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away
1974 John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"
1974 Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record)
1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Jacksonville Ladies Golf Open
1976 René Levesque's "Parti Québécois" wins elections in Quebec
1976 Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
1977 Rod Carew wins AL MVP award
1978 Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft
1979 Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas"
1979 The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
1980 Tampa Bay Buccaneer QB Doug Williams throws for 486 yards
1981 "Merrily We Roll Along" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 performances
1981 Dennis Lillee kicked Javed Miandad, who waved his bat at Dennis
1981 Luke marries Laura on General Hospital (16 million watch)
1982 5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards AFB
1982 Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike
1982 Space Shuttle Columbia completes its 1st operational flight
1982 Tom Stoppard's "Real Thing," premieres in London
1983 Kapil Dev takes 9-83 v WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose
1984 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2lands at Kennedy Center
1984 Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record
1984 Imran Khan makes his 1st appearance for NSW Cricket
1984 John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him"
1987 Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz
1987 Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"
1988 In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1988 Jose Canseco is 1st unanimous AL MVP since Reggie Jackson
1988 Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel
1988 The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
1989 "Gypsy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 477 performances
1989 A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
1989 South Africa president FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
1989 UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.
1990 Manuel Noriega claims US denied him a fair trial
1993 "Any Given Day" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 32 performances
1993 James Carrey files for divorce from Melissa
1993 Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
1995 Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson disease
1995 Queen Mother Elizabeth undergoes hip surgery
1996 "Into the Whirlwind" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs
1996 18th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 28 awards
1997 "1776," closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
1997 CFL Grey Cup, Toronto beats Saskatchawan, 47-23
2000 Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
2002 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says that he had to accept UN Resolution 1441 because the United States and Israel had shown their "claws and teeth" and declared unitlateral war on the Iraqi people
2003 Matt Kenseth wins the 55th NASCAR Sprint Cup
2003 Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-22 in the 91st CFL Grey Cup
2008 Jimmie Johnson wins 60th NASCAR Sprint Cup
2010 Engagement announced between Prince William and Catherine Middleton at Clarence House, London
2010 In University Park, Texas, the groundbreaking ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center takes place
2012 Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 grosses $500 million in 24 hours to become the biggest entertainment launch of all time
2014 Klaus Iohannis wins the Romanian Presidential election
2014 Kevin Harvick wins the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
2015 French President François Hollande declares the country at war with ISIS in an address to parliament
2015 Largest diamond discovered in more than a century - 1,111 carat stone found in the Karowe mine, Botswana
Born on November 16th
(42 BC) Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37)
1436 Leonardo Loredan, Doge of the Republic of Venice (d. 1521)
1569 Paul Sartorius, composer
1587 Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet, dramatist (Jephtha)
1603 Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (d. 1673)
1609 Henrietta Maria, French-born, Queen Consort of England (d. 1669)
1615 Guillaume Dumanoir, composer
1642 Cornelis Evertsen the Younger, Dutch buccaneer/lt admiral of Zeeland
1643 Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703)
1653 Joan van Hoorn, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1707-09)
1684 Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright (Puiterveense Helleveeg)
1715 Girolamo Abos, composer
1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French Enlightenment philosophe, mathematician (Encyclopédie) (d. 1783)
1717 Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1793)
1720 Carlo Antonio Campioni, Italian composer (d. 1788)
1730 Gualtherius "Wouter" van Doeveren, Zealand-Flanders physician
1757 Daniel Read, composer
1758 Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
1762 Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess
1766 Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer (Paris Conserv) (d. 1831)
1780 Robert Archibald Smith, composer
1793 Francis Danby, Irish painter
1807 Francois Hainl, composer
1810 Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer
1822 Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1891)
1827 James Southerton, cricketer
1829 Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist, conductor, composer
1835 Elliott Warren Rice, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers) (d. 1887)
1836 David Kalakaua of Hawaii, Hawaiian king (d. 1891)
1839 Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908)
1840 Frederick Scotson Clark, composer
1841 Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923)
1847 Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
1854 Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician
1860 Edmund Schuecker, composer
1861 Vaclav Suk, composer
1862 Charles Thomas Biass Turner, Australian cricketer (the "Terror") (d. 1944)
1870 Alfred Hill, composer
1873 W(illiam) C(hristopher) Handy, American jazz composer (St Louis Blues) (d. 1958)
1874 Johanna HC Albregt, Dutch actress (Dumb August), wife of Henri Dons
1880 Alexander A Blok, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) (d. 1921)
1883 Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist, composer (In Tempore Belli)
1885 Michael Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
1887 Philip Frohman, US architect
1888 Burnet Corwin Tuthill, American composer (Laurentia)
1888 Clinton Golden, American founder (United Steelworkers of America)
1888 Henri (Ferdinand M J) Bosco, French author, poet (Gogol)
1888 Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician (d. 1957)
1889 August Croegaert, Flemish liturgist
1889 Dietrich Kraiss, German Generalleutnant during World War II (d. 1944)
1889 George S. Kaufman, American playwright (This is Show Business) (d. 1961)
1889 Luis Cluzeau-Mortet, composer
1890 Aloys-Henri-Gerard Fornerod, composer
1890 Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of the Philippines (1949-53) (d. 1956)
1890 George Seldes, journalist
1892 Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (d. 1978)
1892 Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (d. 1953)
1893 Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist
1894 Count Richard Coudenhove Kalergi, Austrian politician
1894 Mabel Normand (Muriel Fortescue), American comedienne (Mickey)
1895 Eduard Bagritsky (Dzhubin), Russian poet, journalist (South-West)
1895 Michael Arlen, Armenian English author (An American Verdict)
1895 Olga Nikolaevna, Russian Grand Duchess (d. 1918)
1895 Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
1896 Joan Lindsay, Australian author (d. 1984)
1896 Lawrence Tibbett, American singer, baritone (Metropolitan 1923-50) (d. 1960)
1896 Oswald Mosley, British fascist (d. 1980)
1896 Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (d. 1982)
1897 Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951)
1897 Halliwell Hobbes, Stratford-on-Avon Engld, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)
1899 Mary Margaret McBride, Paris Mo, radio personality (WOR-AM, NYC)
1902 Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist
1904 Eddie Condon, American jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show)
1904 Frederik van der Meer, Dutch archaeologist/art historian
1904 Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (d. 1996)
1904 Nnamdi Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe, politician
1905 Astrid SLT Bernadotte, Queen of Belgium, Princess of Sweden
1905 Eddie Condon, American musician (d. 1973)
1907 Burgess Meredith, American actor (Mr Novak, The Penguin in Batman, Rocky) (d. 1997)
1912 Anton (Tom) Koolhaas, author (Weird White)
1912 George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners)
1914 Eddie Chapman (Agent Zigzag), British World War II spy and double agent (d. 1997)
1916 Daws Butler, American voice actor (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound) (d. 1988)
1917 John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Saint's Day)
1919 Udo Kasemets, composer
1920 Betty Hicks, LPGA golfer
1922 Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist
1922 José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel laureate
1922 Royal Dano, American actor (Red Badge of Courage, Cocaine Wars, House II)
1924 Joep J P de Boer, Dutch MP (CDA)
1924 Mel Patton, American athlete
1926 Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer
1927 Barbara Payton, American actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde)
1928 Clu Gulager, American actor (Virginian, Survivors, Tall Man, The Return of the Living Dead)
1929 Renate Rubinstein (Tamar), Dutch-German author, columnist (Tamar)
1930 Alice Adams, sculptor
1930 Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author (Christmas in Biafra)
1930 Salvatore Riina, Sicilian mafioso, multiple murderer
1931 Bob Gibson, musician
1931 Ellen Albertini Dow, Actress (Wedding Crashers)
1931 Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician
1931 Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (d. 2006)
1932 Barbara Romack, LPGA golfer
1933 Garnet Mimms, American singer
1933 Guy Stockwell, American actor (Chris-Adventures in Paradise)
1935 Elizabeth Drew, journalist (Politics & Money: The Road to Corruption)
1935 France-Albert Rene, president of Seychelles (1977)
1936 John Moore, Australian politician
1936 Shirvani Chalayev, composer
1938 Richard Landry, composer
1938 Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
1938 Toni Brown, American guitarist, singer, keyboardist (Joy of Cooking)
1940 Chris Balderstone, English cricket batsman
1941 Ann Dore McLaughlin, American Secretary of Labor (1987)
1941 Dan Penn, American songwriter, producer, gospel singer (Out in Left Field)
1941 Gerry Marshall, British race car driver (d. 2005)
1942 Donna McKechnie, Pontiac Michigan, actress/dancer (Company)
1942 Joanna Pettet, English-American actress
1942 Willie Carson, Scottish jockey
1943 Winfred "Blue" Lovett, American singer (Manhattans-One Life to Live)
1944 Charles Jay Hammer, actor (Fletcher Reade-Guiding Light)
1944 David O'Sullivan, NZ cricket left-arm spinner (in 11 Tests 1973-76)
1944 Hugo Dittberner, writer
1944 Joanna Pettit, English actress (Knots Landing, Cry of the Innocent)
1944 Oliver Braddick, British psychologist
1945 Martine van Hamel, Brussels Belgium, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co)
1946 Barbara Leigh, Ringgold Ga, actress (Vampirella)
1946 Jo Jo White, American basketball player
1946 Terence McKenna, American writer (d. 2000)
1947 Ebby Thust, German boxing promoter and writer
1948 Aline Issermann, director (Amant Magnifiquew)
1948 Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic
1948 Chi Coltrane, US pianist/singer
1948 Steve Railsback, actor (Blue Monkey, Green Monkey, Escape 2000)
1949 Pattie Santos, musician
1949 William Ackerman, composer
1950 Carl J Meade, Illinos, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 38, STS 50, 64)
1950 David Leisure, American actor (Joe Isuzu, Airplane, Charley-Empty Nest)
1950 John Swartzwelder, American television writer and novelist
1951 Miguel Sandoval, American actor
1952 Piero Falchetta, Italian archivist, Biblioteca Marciana
1952 Robin McKinley, American writer
1952 Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer
1953 Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, writer and actor (Morons From Outer Space)
1954 Andrea Barrett, American author
1954 Bruce Edwards, American golf caddy (d. 2004)
1954 Dick Gross, Australian politician
1955 Pierre Larouche, Canadian National Hockey League player
1956 Terry Labonte, American NASCAR driver
1957 Frank Milton "Pete" Higgins II, VP (Microsoft Desktop)
1957 Jacques Gamblin, French actor
1958 Boris Krivokapic, Serbian academic
1958 Harry Rushakoff, rocker (Concrete Blonde)
1958 Marg Helgenberger, American actress (China Beach, Mr. Brooks)
1958 Roberto Guerrero, Medelin Colombia, Indy racer (Rookie of Year 1984)
1959 Bert Cameron, Spanish Town Jamaica, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silv-1988)
1959 Corey Allen Pavin, Oxnard CA, PGA golfer (1995 US Open)
1961 Corinne Hermès, French singer
1961 Frank Bruno, British boxer (European champ)
1962 Chuck Finley, pitcher (Angels)
1962 Gary Mounfield, English musician (Primal Scream)
1962 Josh Silver, American musician (Type O Negative)
1963 Gay "Mani" Mournfield, English pop bassist (Stone Roses)
1963 Zina Garrison Jackson, Houston Tx, tennis star (1988/90 Wimbledon)
1964 Diana Krall, Canadian Jazz pianist and singer
1964 Dwight "Doc" Gooden, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
1964 Harry J. Lennix, American actor (Man of Steel)
1964 Maeve Quinlan, American actress
1964 Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian actress
1965 Glen Edward Day, Mobile AL, PGA golfer (1994 Anheuser-Busch-2nd)
1965 Mark Benton, English actor (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
1965 Mika Aaltonen, Finnish footballer
1965 Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Turin Italy, actress (Normal People)
1966 Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)
1966 Dan Nowosielski, Montreal Quebec, fencing epee (Olympics-96)
1966 Dave Kushner, American guitarist (Velvet Revolver)
1966 Dean McDermott, Canadian actor (Open Range)
1966 Lisa Brown Miller, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1966 Tahir Shah, British travel writer and explorer
1966 Tammy Lauren, American actress (Angie, Out of the Blue)
1966 Tim Scott, American pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 Tricia Cast, American actress (Amanda-Bad News Bear, Young & Restless)
1967 Craig Arnold, American poet
1967 Lawrence Dawsey, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 Lisa Bonet, American actress (Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart, Enemy of the State)
1968 Chris Haney, Baltimore MD, pitcher (KC Royals)
1968 Ebrahim Essop-Adam, cricketer (one ODI for Zimbabwe 1992)
1968 Melvin Stewart, America swimmer, butterfly (200m record)
1968 Suzi Simpson, Athens Greece, playmate (Jan, 1992)
1968 Vlado Šola, Croatian handball goalkeeper
1969 Mike Devlin, NFL guard/center (Buffalo Bills, Cardinals)
1969 Thomas Ingalsbe, 238+ lbs (108+ kg) US weightlifter (Olympics-1996)
1970 Jason Carthen, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1970 Logan Mader, American guitarist (Machine Head)
1970 Martha Plimpton, American actress (Goonies, Mosquito Coast)
1971 Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
1971 Donald Wolf, computer game creator
1971 Koshi Rikdo, Japanese mangaka
1971 Mustapha Hadji, Moroccan footballer
1971 Waqar Younis, Pakistani cricketer
1972 Missi Pyle, American actress (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
1973 Brendan Laney, Scottish rugby player
1973 Christian Horner, British Formula One team owner
1973 Howard Smothers, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 Joe Hudepohl, American 800m freestyle relay (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 Sedrick Shaw, running back (New England Patriots)
1974 Brooke Elliott, Actress (What Women Want)
1974 Eric Judy, American Musician
1974 Maurizio Margaglio, Italian ice dancer
1974 Paul Scholes, British footballer
1975 Julio Lugo, Dominican baseball player
1976 Danny Wallace, British author
1976 Juha Pasoja, Finnish footballer
1976 Mario Barravecchia, Italian singer
1976 Martijn Zuijdweg, Dutch swimmer
1977 Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress (Donnie Darko, The Dark Knight)
1977 Mauricio Ochmann, Mexican actor
1977 Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater (Olympic-gold-1994)
1978 Carolina Parra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1978 Gary Naysmith, Scottish footballer
1978 Kip Bouknight, American baseball player
1979 Bruce Irons, American surfer
1979 Michael Faustino, actor (brother of David)
1979 Salli Wills, Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1979 Tony Frias, American footballer
1980 Alexa Havins, Actress (27 Dresses)
1980 Carol Huynh, 2008 Canadian Gold Medalist,48 kg. wrestling
1980 Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
1980 Nicole Gius, Italian alpine skier
1981 Allison Crowe, Canadian singer
1981 Caitlin Glass, American voice actress
1981 Osi Umenyiora, English-born NFL football player
1982 Amar'e Stoudemire, American basketball player
1982 Jannie du Plessis, South African rugby player
1982 Ronald Pognon, French athlete
1983 Britta Steffen, German swimmer
1983 K, South Korean singer
1983 Kari Lehtonen, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
1984 Gemma Atkinson, British actress and model
1984 Kimberly J. Brown, American actress (Guiding Light)
1985 Aditya Roy Kapoor, Actor (Aashiqui 2)
1986 Saeko, Japanese actress (Nana)
1987 Quan Zhou, Director (Whereabouts)
1988 Savvas Stavrou, Director (Song to the Siren)
1989 Elan Rosenberg, Actress (Geppetto)
1990 Jordan David, Actor (The Oates' Valor)
1991 Malwina Buss, Actress (Rose)
1992 Adam Robert Worton, American twin actor (Baby's Day Out)
1992 Jacob Joseph Worton, American twin actor (Baby's Day Out)
1994 India Ennenga, Actress (The Women)
1995 Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor (Lady in the Water)
1996 Leonie Kranzle, Actress (2 Days in Paris)
1997 Marta Peneda, Actress (O Espelho Lento)
1999 Francesca Scorsese, Actress (Hugo)
2000 Jeremy Taieb, Actor (Le monde doit m'arriver?)
2001 Lukas Pummell, Actor (He That Believeth in Me)
2002 Robin Soudek, Actor (Empties)
2003 Weronika Kosobudzka, Actress (Kolysanka)
2007 Quin and Reed Baron, Actors (JFK to LAX)
Died on November 16th
1093 Saint Margaret of Scotland, wife of Malcolm III of Scotland
1240 Edmund Rich, St. Edmund of Canterbury (b. 1175)
1271 Henry III, King of England (1216-71, Provisions of Oxford)
1272 King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
1328 Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1276)
1512 Gerbrand Mockema, Fries rebel, beheaded
1512 Jemme Herjuwsma, Fries rebel, beheaded
1548 Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer
1603 Pierre Charron, French philosopher, theologian
1613 Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
1628 Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer
1632 King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (killed in battle) (b. 1594)
1667 Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer
1668 Antoon Anselmo, South Netherlands lawyer
1695 Pierre Nicole, French philosopher (b. 1625)
1706 Cornelis Evertsen, mutineer, ltalian-admiral of Zeeland
1706 Godfried Schalcken, painter, etcher, engraver
1724 Jack Sheppard, English burglar, hanged (b. 1702)
1745 James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665)
1766 Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect, painter
1773 John Hawkesworth, English writer
1775 Marian Paradeiser, composer
1779 Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)
1790 Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1797 Frederick William II, King of Prussia (1786-1797) (b. 1744)
1802 André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)
1806 Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754)
1808 Mustapha IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08)
1831 Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813)
1835 Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern)
1836 Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761)
1878 Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1874)
1884 František Chvostek, Moravian physician (b. 1835)
1885 Louis Riel, Canadian politician (b. 1844)
1890 Johann A H Scheler, Belgian man of letters, librarian
1893 George Alexander Osborne, composer
1907 Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
1908 Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-born Canadian politician (b. 1829)
1909 Francis Thome, composer
1911 Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842)
1922 Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
1924 Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer
1924 Edward Everett Rice, composer
1932 Carry van Bruggen (de Haan), Dutch author (Eva)
1934 Joachim Ringelantz, writer
1935 Kurt Schindler, composer
1939 Pierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1866)
1943 Marcel Verhamme, Belgian resistance fighter, executed
1944 Charles Kellaway, cricketer (26 Tests 1910-1928)
1945 Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Kohtalon Vaaka)
1950 Bob Smith, American physician, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
1955 Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish premier (1944-47)
1957 Cora Witherspoon, actress (Quality Street, Bank Dick)
1958 Warner Fabian (S Adams), US author (Great American Fraud)
1960 Clark Gable, American actor1960 Clark Gable, actor (Gone With the Wind) (Gone With the Wind) (b. 1901)
1961 Sam Rayburn, U.S. Speaker of the House for 17 years (b. 1882)
1964 Albert Hay Malotte, composer
1964 John Emery, actor (Ship Ahoy, Kronos, Mademoiselle Fifi)
1964 Piet Moeskops, Dutch world champion cyclist (1921-24, 26)
1965 Alexander King, author (Jack Paar Show)
1968 Greet Hofmans, faith healer of Dutch queen Juliana
1971 Charlie Dell, comedian
1971 Edward Sedgwick, American director, dies of barbiturate overdose (b. 1940)
1972 Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer
1972 Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1889)
1973 Alan Watts, English writer, philosopher, Zen (b. 1915)
1974 Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (Meissner Effect) (b. 1882)
1975 Ernst van Raalte, lawyer/minister-president
1978 Claude Dauphin, French actor (Les Miserables, Mado)
1980 Imogen Hassall, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng), suicide
1980 Jayan, Indian actor (b.1938)
1981 Enid Markey, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy)
1981 Morgan Conway, actor (Dick Tracy Detective)
1981 William Holden, American actor (Network, Wild Bunch, Breezy) (b. 1918)
1982 Arthur Askey, British comedian (b. 1900)
1982 Lenny Murphy, Leader of Belfast's notorious Shankill Butchers (b. 1952)
1984 Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906)
1985 John J Sparkmann, (Sen-D-Ala)
1986 Siobhán McKenna, Irish stage and screen actress (Dr Zhivago, Hungry Hill) (b. 1923)
1987 Jim Brewer, Major League Baseball relief pitcher (b. 1937)
1987 Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (b. 1907)
1988 Lotte Stam-Beese, German/Neth architect
1989 Jean-Claude Malépart, Quebec politician (b. 1938)
1991 Ralph Marrero, actor (Babe, Johnny Suede), dies in car accident
1993 Achille Zavatta, French clown (b. 1915)
1993 Evelyn Venable, model (Columbia Pictures logo)
1993 Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (Vienna Opera) (b. 1939)
1994 Chester Dino Powers Valenti, singer/Songwriter
1994 Dan Smith, harmonicist, gospel singer
1994 David Rayner, cyclist, dies
1994 Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
1994 Doris Speed, British actress (Annie-Coronation Street) (b. 1899)
1994 Harvey Watkins, gospel Singer
1994 John Boylan, American actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle)
1995 Gwyn A Williams, historian, socialist
1995 Jack Finney, American author (Body Snatchers) (b. 1911)
1996 George Byatt, playwright
1996 Jack Popplewell, composer, playwright
1996 John Reginald Bevins, politician
1997 George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners)
1997 Georges Marchais, Sec Gen of French Communist Party (1972-94)
1997 Russ "Mad Monk" Meyer, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1999 Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)
2000 Ahmet Kaya, Kurdish singer, composer and songwriter from Turkey (b. 1957)
2000 DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (b. 1971)
2000 Joe C., American rapper (b. 1974)
2001 Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (b. 1930)
2003 Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (b. 1974)
2004 Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (b. 1945)
2005 Donald Watson, English founder of the Vegan Society (b. 1910)
2005 Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
2005 Robert Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926)
2006 Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
2006 Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist (b. 1930)
2007 Grethe Kausland, Norwegian actress and singer (b. 1947)
2007 Harold Alfond, American businessman (b. 1914)
2007 Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author (b. 1946)
2008 Reg Varney, British actor (On The Buses) (b. 1916)
2009 Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (b. 1978)
2009 Edward Woodward, British actor (The Equalizer) (b. 1930)
2010 Britton Chance, American molecular biologist and yachtsman (b. 1913)
2010 Donald Nyrop, American airline executive (b. 1912)
2010 Ronni Chasen, American film publicist (b. 1946)
2010 Wyngard Tracy, Filipino talent manager (b. 1952)
2012 Bob Scott, New Zealand Rugby player
2014 Ian Craig, Australian cricketer
2015 Stephen Birmingham, American author (Real Lace: America's Irish Rich)
2015 Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player
2015 David Canary, American actor (Bonanza, One Life to Live)
