November 26th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Mongolia)
Flag Adoption Day (Colombia) * CLICK HERE
Shopping Reminder Day
Day of the Covenant (Bahá'í Faith)
Celebration of the excellence of Saint Genevieve in Paris (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Pope Siricius (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Sylvester Gozzolini (Roman Catholic)
Feast of John Berchmans (Roman Catholic)Feast of Saint Stylianos (Eastern Orthodoxy)
Fête de la Mâche Translation: Corn salad Day (French Republican) The Sixth day of the Month of Frimaire in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Wooley Mitten
1 and Half oz. Irish Cream (Bailey's)
1 oz. Schnapps, peppermint
1 and half oz. Southern Comfort
Half mug Hot Chocolate
Fill With (boiling) Water
Top with Whipped cream
Fill a mug half full with hot chocolate. Pour in whiskey and liqueurs, top up the mug with boiling water. Top with whipped cream.
Wine of The Day
Five Star Cellars (2007) Merlot
Style - Merlot
Walla Walla Valley
$35
Certified Organic
Beer of The Day
Distelhauser FrAhlingsbock
Brewer - Distelhäuser Brauerei Tauberbischofsheim, Germany
Style - German-Style Heller Bock/Maibock
Joke of The Day
Scotty came home from the pub late one Friday evening stinking drunk, as he often did, and crept into bed beside his wife who was already asleep.
He gave her a peck on the cheek and fell asleep. When he awoke, he found a strange man standing at the end of his bed. 'Who the hell are you?', demanded Scotty , 'and what are you doing in my bedroom ?'
The mysterious man answered, 'This isn't your bedroom and I'm St Peter ..'
Scotty was stunned.. 'You mean I'm dead !!! That can't be, I have so much to live for - and I hav en't said goodby e to my family. . . You've got to send me back straight away.'
St Peter replied, 'Yes, you can be reincarnated but there is a catch. We can only send you back as a dog or a hen.'
Scotty was devastated, but knowing there was a farm not far from his house, he asked to be sent back as a hen.
A flash of light later, he was covered in feathers and clucking around, pecking the ground.
'This ain't so bad', he thought until he felt this strange feeling welling up inside him. The farmyard rooster strolled over and said,
'So you're the new hen, How are you enjoying your first day here ?'
'It's not so bad', replies Scotty , 'but I have this strange feeling inside like I'm about to explode.'
'You're ovulating', explained the rooster. 'Don't tell me you've never laid an egg before.'
'Never', replies Scotty ..
'Well just relax and let it happen'.
And so he did and after a few uncomfortable seconds later, an egg pops out from under his tail. An immense feeling of relief swept over him and his emotions got the better of him as he experienced motherhood for the first time.
When he laid his second egg, the feeling of happiness was overwhelming and he knew that being reincarnated as a hen was the best thing that ever happened to him . . . Ever!!!
The joy kept coming and as he was just about to lay his third egg, he felt an enormous smack on the back of his head and heard his wife shouting...
'Scotty , wake up, you drunken bastard. You've sh*t the bed !!'
Quote of The Day
“I stay up late every night and realize it’s a bad idea every morning.”
- Unknown
Whisky of The Day
Ardmore Traditional Cask Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Price: $50
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
National Farm-City Week,Week ending on Thanksgiving
National Bible Week, Full Week of Thanksgiving
National Deal Week, 7 Days beginning the Day Before Thanksgiving
Better Conversation Week, Last Full Week in November
Church and State Separation Week, Last Full Week in November
National Family Week, Last Full Week in November
National Game & Puzzle Week, Last Full Week in November
Historical Events on November 26th
(43 BC) The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
579 Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
783 The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
1476 Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1527 Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I
1580 French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty
1598 Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java
1648 Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westfalen
1688 Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg
1688 French King Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands
1688 King James II escapes back to London
1702 Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter"
1703 Great storm hits Southern England 1000s killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1500 seamen
1716 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1741 French & Beiers army occupies Prague
1764 France bans Jesuit enorde
1778 Captain Cook becomes the first European to discover Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now the Hawaiian Islands)
1784 The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1789 The first national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
1793 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1805 Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
1825 At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent fare)
1835 HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ
1841 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan
1842 The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1847 Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris
1859 Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical All the Year Round
1861 West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virg
1863 Mine Run campaign, VA of the American Civil War, Mine Run Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
1864 Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia
1864 Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal, Waynesboro, Georgia
1865 "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in US
1865 Battle of Papudo, The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
1867 Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
1868 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom
1885 1st meteor photograph
1894 King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France
1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms
1896 1st large indoor football game, University of Chicago beats University of Michigan 7-6, U of Chicago creates American football huddle
1898 Snow-ice storm over US; 455 die
1898 SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed
1909 Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
1910 2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7
1913 Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
1913 Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
1914 Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die
1916 Greece declares war on Germany
1917 The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
1918 The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
1922 English archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (Tut) in over 3000 years.
1922 Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).
1924 Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1925 Neth & Germany sign trade agreement
1927 15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6
1928 Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily," premieres in Dresden
1928 Philip Barry's "Holiday," premieres in NYC
1932 Bradman completes 10000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings
1933 Camille Chautemps becomes French premier
1934 German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to nazi
1934 Turkish regiment decrees importing family names
1939 Shelling of Mainila, 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border. The Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
1940 Leidse students strike
1940 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
1941 Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
1941 British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs
1941 British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda
1941 Japanese carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor
1941 Lebanon gains independence from France
1942 "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC
1942 Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) at Bihac in northwestern Bosnia during World War II.
1944 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor
1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoriums
1944 A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers during World War II.
1944 Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium in World War II.
1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)
1948 Belgian government of Spaak, resigns
1949 37th CFL Grey Cup, Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 28-15
1949 The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India's constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
1950 Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River), ending any hopes of a quick end to the Korean War conflict.
1952 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood
1953 KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening
1954 Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
1955 "Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 483 performances
1955 43rd CFL Grey Cup, Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-19
1955 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus
1955 Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"
1956 "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
1956 USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks
1957 WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 48th CFL Grey Cup, Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6
1960 Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
1961 For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
1961 Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
1962 1st recording session under name "Beatles"
1962 Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
1962 Fab Four have their 1st recording session under name Beatles
1963 29th Heisman Trophy Award, Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
1963 Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year
1963 Explorer 18 launched
1965 Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
1965 France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
1965 In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.
1966 "Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 perfs
1966 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1966 54th CFL Grey Cup, Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14
1967 Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
1967 Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450
1968 34th Heisman Trophy Award, O J Simpson, Southern Cal (RB)
1968 United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire in the Vietnam War, and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
1969 35th Heisman Trophy Award, Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB)
1969 Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
1969 Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
1970 In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
1972 Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown
1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1974 Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)
1974 Catfish Hunter & Charlie Finley meet in arbitration
1974 Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India
1975 Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
1975 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1975 Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship
1976 Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single
1976 Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK"
1976 Willy Brandt elected chairman of Social International
1977 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.
1978 1st lesbian theme TV movie "Question of Love"
1978 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
1978 66th CFL Grey Cup, Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13
1979 International Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
1979 Twins John Castino & Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year
1980 Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
1980 Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP
1982 Clyde King named Yankee manager
1982 Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1983 Brinks Mat robbery, In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
1984 After 518 goals & 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires
1984 John W Mercom Jr announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million
1984 Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain
1984 US & Iraq regain diplomatic relations
1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
1985 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1985 Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000
1986 U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission (Iran-Contra scandal).
1988 Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch
1988 Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1989 77th CFL Grey Cup, Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40
1989 Comores coup under Bob Benard
1989 Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes pres of Uruguay
1989 Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
1990 1st Billboard Music Awards, Janet Jackson & Phil Collins win
1990 Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend
1990 Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1990 Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns
1990 The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
1993 Political campaigners James Carville (49) & Mary Matalin wed
1995 33rd Tennis Fed Cup, Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2)
1995 Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass
1995 New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI
1996 Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4
1996 Colbert, Floyd & Irwin win Wendy's Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Couples, Davies, Sheehan & Sorenstam win Wendy's Lady's 3 Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Couples, Love & Stewart win Wendy's Men's 3 Tour Golf Challenge
1997 Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5
1998 Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
2003 Concorde makes its last ever flight over Bristol, England.
2004 Male Po'ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
2004 Ruzhou School massacre, a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China
2008 The first of many Terrorist attacks on Mumbai, India are fired. These ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 300 people in Mumbai, India.
2011 NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others
2012 10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground
2012 The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion
2013 Due to a street tirade captured on video, Alec Baldwin's show "Up Late with Alec Baldwin" is cancelled after only five episodes
2015 UK nonprofit Raspberry Pi releases its $5 Zero computer, sells out in a day
Born on November 26th
1288 Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
1436 Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)
1607 John Harvard, English clergyman, scholar, founded Harvard University (d. 1638)
1609 Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
1640 Carl Rosier, composer
1653 Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer
1657 William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
1663 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas)
1678 Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
1703 Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
1731 William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) (d. 1800)
1736 Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France)
1744 Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer
1754 Georg Forster, writer
1792 Sarah Grimké, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
1795 Carl P Fohr, German painter
1795 Cornelis P J Elout, Dutch military, resident of West Sumatra
1809 Mariano Obiols, composer
1810 William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British industralist (hydraulic crane)
1816 William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General (Confederate Army)
1818 Louis Lacombe, composer
1823 Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer
1827 Alfred Moore Scales, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1827 Ellen G. White, American religious leader (d. 1915)
1828 René Goblet, French politician (d. 1905)
1832 Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)
1832 Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
1847 Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
1850 Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929)
1853 Bat Masterson, American Old West figure (d. 1921)
1857 Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
1858 Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint (d. 1955)
1862 Mark A Stein, archaeologist
1864 Edward Higgins, 3rd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1947)
1864 Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem)
1865 Earl Ross Drake, composer
1869 Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
1874 Edmond Fleg(enheimer), Swiss-French author (Ecoute Israel)
1876 Bart A van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style)
1876 Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer and inventor (air-conditioning equipment) (d. 1950)
1878 Marshall Taylor, American cyclist (d. 1932)
1879 Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian (d. 1950)
1885 Heinrich Brüning, German politician (d. 1970)
1888 Franz Jung, writer
1889 Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (d. 1976)
1892 Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc)
1894 James Charles McGuigan, Catholic cardinal archbishop of Toronto (d. 1974)
1894 Norbert Wiener, American mathematician, discovered cybernetics (d. 1964)
1895 Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer (Milky Way system)
1895 Bill Wilson, American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
1898 Karl Ziegler, German chemist,polymers (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 1973)
1899 Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
1901 Philippus J Idenburg, Dutch statistician
1902 Alberto Morin, Puerto Rican actor (Armando-Dallas)
1902 Gerrit Jan van der Veen (Wolffensperger), Dutch resistance fighter
1902 Maurice McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1971)
1904 Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)
1905 Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1905 George Emlyn Williams, Welch actor, playwright (David Copperfield)
1906 Sandro Fuga, composer
1907 Frances Dee, American actress (Of Human Bondage)
1907 Ruth Patrick, American botanist
1908 Charles Forte, Scottish hotelier (Savoy) (d. 2007)
1908 Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1908 Philipp Mohler, composer
1909 Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-french playwright (d. 1994)
1909 Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
1910 Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (Day of the Jackal) (d. 1993)
1911 Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs
1911 Ronald Diggens, English fabric manufacturer, multi-millionaire
1911 Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish-American chess grandmaster/prodigy
1912 Eric Sevareid, American journalist, newscaster (CBS Weekend News) (d. 1992)
1912 Eugene Ionesco, Slatina Romania, dramatist (Rhinoceros)
1912 Gunnar Johannes Sonstevold, composer
1913 Foy Draper, American relay runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1913 Joshua William Steward, polymath
1915 Earl Wild, American pianist, composer (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symph 1942)
1915 Herbert Joeks (Herbert J van Hugten), Dutch actor (Snip & Snap, Pipo)
1916 Bob Elliot, baseball player
1916 Mareo Ishiketa, composer
1918 Patricio Aylwin, president of Chile (1990-94)
1919 Frederik Pohl, American science fiction author (3 Hugo, Gateway, Bipohl)
1920 Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (d. 2004)
1920 Istvan Sarkozy, composer
1920 Paul T B Rodenko, poet, author (Stolen Lover)
1921 Francoise Gilot, painter, designer, author (living legacy award 1984)
1921 Verghese Kurien, British-Indian engineer (billion-litre idea), (d.2012)
1922 Adele Jergens, American actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man)
1922 Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (Peanuts) (d. 2000)
1923 Patricia Phoenix, Irish actress (L Shaped Room) (d. 1986)
1924 George Segal, American painter and sculptor of lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver) (d. 2000)
1924 Jasu Patel, cricketer (Indian off-spinner, 9-69 v Aust 1959)
1925 Eugene Istomin, American pianist (Leventritt Award-1943) (d. 2003)
1925 Linda Hunt, Morriston NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
1926 Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner
1926 Mauro Bortolotti, composer
1927 Ernie Coombs, American children's entertainer (d. 2001)
1927 John Carter, American actor (Max-Falcon Crest)
1929 Betta St John, American actress (Corridors of Blood)
1929 Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
1930 Berthold Leibinger, German Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
1931 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist (recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1980)
1931 Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Cardinal Archbishop of Utrecht
1931 Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, Italian downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1932 Alan Stout, composer
1932 Marten Beinema, Dutch MP (CDA)
1933 Garrett "Garnet" Mimms, US singer (Enchanters-Cry Baby)
1933 Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (Scrooged) (d. 2007)
1934 Ludmila Shevtsova, Soviet 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1935 Marian Mercer, American actress, singer (Dean Martin Show)
1936 Margaret Boden, philosopher
1937 Boris Borisovich Yegorov, Soviet doctor, cosmonaut (Voskhod I) (d. 1994)
1937 Garnett Mimms, rocker
1938 Elizabeth E Bailey, university dean (Carnegie Mellon)
1938 Jeremy Boorda, admiral
1938 Porter J. Goss, American Central Intelligence Agency director (Rep-R-Florida)
1938 Rich Little, Canadian comedian, impressionist, and actor (Love on a Rooftop)
1938 Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
1939 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian politician
Mark Margolis, Actor (The Wrestler, OZ, Breaking Bad)
1939 Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock), Brownsville Tx, American singer (Proud Mary) and actress
1939 Wayland Flowers, American Puppeteer (d. 1988)
1940 Enrico Bombieri, Italian mathematician
1941 Jeff Torborg, baseball player
1941 Susanne Marsee, American mezzo-soprano
1942 Michael Devlin, American bass-baritone
1942 Olivia Cole, American actress (Roots, Szysznyk)
1943 Bruce Paltrow, American producer, director, writer (Here's Mud in Your Eye) (d. 2002)
1943 Gerald D Kleczka, (Rep-D-WI, 1984)
1943 Jan Stenerud, Norweigan NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs)
1943 Marilynne Robinson, American writer
1943 Paul Burnett, English disc-jockey
1944 Alan Henderson, Belfast, rock bassist (Them)
1944 Jean Terrell, American singer (The Supremes)
1945 Björn von Sydow, Swedish politician
1945 Daniel Davis, American actor (Niles-Nanny, The Prestige)
1945 John McVie, British bassist (Fleetwood Mac)
1945 Mikhail Woronin, Soviet gymnist (Olympic-2 gold/4 silver/bronze-1968)
1945 Tandy Cronyn, actress (Twisted, Guardian, Age Old Friends)
1946 Angus Suttie, English potter
1946 Art Shell, American football player and coach
1946 Bert Bouquet, bassist (Earth & Fire, Focus)
1946 Burt Reiter, rocker (Focus)
1947 Larry Gura, baseball player
1947 Richie Hebner, baseball player
1947 Roger Wehrli, American football player
1947 Susanne Zenor, American actress
1948 Claes Elfsberg, Swedish television presenter
1948 Galina Prozumenschikova, Soviet 200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 Krešimir Cosic, Croatian basketball player (d. 1995)
1948 Marianne Muellerleile, American actress
1949 Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
1949 Maggie Donnelly, bag lady
1949 Martin Lee, British singer and member of pop group Brotherhood of Man
1949 Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
1949 Vincent A. Mahler, American educator
1950 Jorge Orta, baseball player
1951 La Cicciolina (Ilona Staller), Italian porno actress and politician
1952 Wendy Turnbell, Australian tennis player (1979,82 US Opens Double)
1953 Harry Carson, American football player
1953 Hilary Benn, British politician
1953 Louise Parks, LPGA golfer
1954 Roz Chast, American cartoonist
1954 Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan militant leader (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Ceylon).
1955 Bob Walk, baseball player
1955 Jay Howell, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
1955 Tracy [Raye] Hickman, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
1956 Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
1956 Don Lake, Canadian television writer
1956 Keith Vaz, UK Member of Parliament
1956 Nico Slothouwer, Dutch poet (Man & his Bag)
1958 Steve Buyer, (Rep-R-Indiana)
1959 Jamie Rose, NYC, actress (Susan Birch-St Elsewhere, Falcon Crest)
1959 Mike Moore, baseball player
1960 Chuck Eddy, American music journalist
1960 Harold Reynolds, American baseball player
1961 Dave Hannan, Sudbury, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres, Colorado Avalanche)
1961 Lisa Moretti, American professional wrestler
1961 Marcy Walker, Paducah KY, actress (Liza-All My Child, Santa Barbara)
1962 Chuck Finley, American baseball pitcher, pitcher (California Angels)
1962 John Samuel Inman, Greensboro NC, PGA golfer (1993 Buick South Open)
1962 Mike Johnson, NFL inside linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1963 Adam Gaynor, American musician (Matchbox Twenty)
1963 Allyson Rice-Taylor, American actress (As the World Turns)
1963 Mario Elie, American basketball player, NBA forward, guard (Houston Rockets)
1964 Al Smith, NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers)
1964 Jeff Jaeger, NFL kicker (Oakland Raiders, Chicago Bears)
1964 Vreni Schneider, Swiss alpine skier (Olympics-Gold-1988)
1965 Scott Adsit, American actor (30 Rock, The Italian Job)
1966 Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian actress (Wild Wild West) and model
1966 Jay Berger, American tennis star
1966 Kristin Bauer van Straten, Actress (Bad Blood)
1966 Sue Wicks, WNBA forward (NY Liberty)
1967 Karol Rusznyak, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1967 Ridley Jacobs, West Indian cricketer
1968 Edna Campbell, American basketball player
1968 Steve Lofton, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, NE Patriots)
1969 Kara Walker, American artist
1969 Sam Militello, baseball player
1969 Shawn Kemp, American basketball player, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, Seattle Supersonics)
1970 Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
1970 Greg Graham, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
1970 John Amaechi, American-born British basketball player, NBA center, forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1970 Lorissa McComas, American actress (Lap Dancing, Vamp)
1970 Mark Dixon, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1971 Emma Robinson, Canadian rower (Olympics-96)
1971 Ronald "Winky" Wright, American boxer
1971 Vince Danielsen, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 Adam Harrington, Actor (The Ugly Truth)
1972 Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
1972 Chris Osgood, Canadian hockey player (Detroit Red Wings)
1972 Nicole Beach, American model (Wonderbra)
1973 John Zimmerman, American pairs skater (& Steigler)
1973 Kristin Bauer, American actress
1973 Peter Facinelli, American actor (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2)
1974 David Barnard, WLAF defensive tackle (Scotland Claymores)
1974 Jamie Jones, singer (All 4 One)
1974 Richard Ikeda, Canadian gymnist (Olympics-96)
1974 Tammy Lynn Michaels, American actress
1975 DJ Khaled, Palestinian-American hip-hop/rap artist, DJ and producer
1975 Patrice Lauzon, French Canadian figure skater
1976 Andreas Augustsson, Swedish footballer
1976 Brian Schneider, American baseball player
1976 Maven Huffman, American professional wrestler
1977 Forrest Griffin, American MMA-fighter
1977 Ivan Basso, Italian bicyclist
1977 John Parrish, American baseball player
1977 Paris Lenon, American football player
1978 Matthew Taylor, American bassist (Motion City Soundtrack)
1978 Ryan Toby, American musician
1978 Sarah Cahill, Miss Minnesota Teen USA (1996)
1979 B.J. Averell, American online tutor, reality television contestant
1980 Delilah Cotto, Puerto Rican actress, dancer and model
1980 Jason Anthony Griffith, American video game voice actor
1980 Jessica Bowman, Walnut Creek California, actress (Colleen Cooper-Dr Quinn)
1980 Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor
1981 Aurora Snow, American actress (Superbad) and pornographic actress
1981 Gina Kingsbury, Canadian hockey player
1981 Jamie Fiske, liver transplant recipient
1981 Natalie Gauci, Australian singer (Australian Idol 2007 winner)
1981 Natasha Bedingfield, British singer
1981 OJ Da Juiceman, American Rapper
1981 Stephan Andersen, Danish footballer
1982 Jessica Camacho, Actress (Think Like a Man)
1983 Chris Hughes, American businessman, co-founder of Facebook
1984 Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
1985 Lil' Fizz, American singer
1986 Konstadinos Filippidis, Greek pole vaulter
1986 Trevor Morgan, American actor (The Sixth Sense)
1987 Kat DeLuna, American singer
1988 Tamsin Egerton, Actress (Keeping Mum)
1988 Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese fashion model
1989 Cassidy Gard, Actress (Electrick Children)
1990 Chipmunk, British rapper
1990 Danny Welbeck, English footballer
1991 Ron Shimshilashvili, Actor (Detective Story Movie Premier)
1992 Louis Ducrut, prince, son of Princess Stephanie & Daniel Ducrut of Monaco
1993 Erena Ono, Japanese actress and member of AKB48
1994 Gracie Markland, Actress (Really Big Brother)
1995 Till Wiedemann, Actor (Heimweh)
1996 Caz Ferreira, Actor (Red Tide)
1997 Timotei Duma, Actor (The Way I Spent the End of the World)
2000 Mirna Zdralovic, Actress (Snow)
2001 Célestin Chapelain, Actor (Planter des rêves)
Died on November 26th
399 Pope Staint Siricius (384-399)
666 Yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo
1126 Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated
1240 Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury, saint
1252 Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (b. 1188)
1267 Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit, saint
1326 Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b. 1286)
1504 Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
1621 Radulph Agas, English surveyor (b. c. 1540)
1639 John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b. 1565)
1651 Henry Ireton, English Civil War general, parliament leader (Marston Moor) (b. 1611)
1653 Maximilian Teellinck, vicar
1688 Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet) (b. 1635)
1689 Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b. 1635)
1717 Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
1719 John Hudson, British classical scholar (b. 1662)
1776 Dov Baer of Mezhirech, hassidic rabbi
1778 Jean-Noel Hamal, composer
1780 James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (b. 1712)
1809 Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer
1810 Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer
1821 Friedrich Heine, composer
1822 Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer
1836 John MacAdam, British road builder (b. 1756)
1851 Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (b. 1769)
1854 Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling)
1855 Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion) (b. 1798)
1857 Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier) (b. 1788)
1866 Adrien Francois Servais, composer
1866 Carl Jonas Love Almquist, composer
1876 Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b. 1792)
1880 Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer
1882 Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier of Prussia
1883 Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist, women's rights advocate (b. 1797)
1885 Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (ozone) (b. 1813)
1892 Charles Lavigerie, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1825)
1896 Coventry Patmore, British poet (b. 1823)
1896 Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (b. 1818)
1918 Charlie McLeod, Australian cricketer
1919 Felipe Ángeles, Mexican Revolution general (b. 1868)
1923 Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian writer
1925 Johannes Haarklou, composer
1926 John M Brown, US weapons constructer
1927 Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated
1928 Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I) (b. 1863)
1929 Michele Esposito, composer
1933 Edward Julius Biedermann, composer
1934 Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b. 1866)
1938 Flora Call Disney, mother of Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney (b. 1868)
1938 Henry Schultz, US farm commune
1941 Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (b. 1876)
1941 Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)
1943 Edward H "Butch" O'hare, American ace pilot, lt-comdr, dies in battle (b. 1914)
1950 Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author
1952 Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
1954 Bill Doak, former Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1891)
1956 Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (b. 1905)
1957 Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren)
1957 Billy Bevan, actor (White Sin)
1959 Albert William Ketelby, English composer (b. 1875)
1961 Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer
1962 Albert P Sarraut, Indo-China premier (1933-1936) (b. 1872)
1963 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b. 1882)
1965 Wild Bill Elliott, cowboy actor (49'ers)
1966 Harold Burrage, US singer, pianist (Got to Find a Way)
1966 Siegfried Kracauer, writer
1968 Arnold Zweig, German antifascist author (Junge frau 1914)
1970 B O Davis Sr, 1st black general
1971 Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher (b. 1884)
1971 Joe Adonis, US crime-syndicate boss in NY & NJ
1973 John Rostill, Musician
1974 Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (b. 1903)
1980 Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life)
1981 Machgielis "Max" Euwe, Dutch chess player, world chess champion (1935-1937) (b. 1901)
1982 Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian)
1982 Juhan Aavic, composer
1982 Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe)
1985 Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of Bride)
1985 Vivien Thomas, African American surgeon (b. 1910)
1986 Betico Croes, Arubian politician
1986 Scatman Crothers, American singer, actor (Shining, Chico & The Man)
1987 Emmanuel Bondeville, composer
1987 Thomas G. Lanphier, American aviator, WW II pilot (b. 1915)
1989 Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores
1990 David White, actor (Bewitched)
1991 Bob Johnson, American hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins) (b. 1931)
1991 Dehl Berti, actor (Bullies)
1991 Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft) (b. 1908)
1991 Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake)
1992 Stephen Burks, actor (Kiss of a Killer)
1993 Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death
1993 Mart Kempers, sculptor
1994 Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94)
1994 David Bache, British car designer (b. 1925)
1994 Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
1994 Nimrod Workman, folksinger
1995 Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer, teacher
1995 David Briggs, record producer
1995 Max Fernandez, businessman, politician
1995 Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist, campaigner
1995 Terri Jewell, writer
1996 Euphemia MacDonald May Moxon, dance producer
1996 Hans Klein, politician
1996 Joan Hammond, singer
1996 Michael Bentine, British author, comedian (Reluctant Jester) (b. 1922)
1996 Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b. 1914)
1997 Francis Paudras, designer, jazz fan
1998 Jonathan Kwitny, American reporter (b. 1941)
2001 Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (b. 1943)
2002 Polo Montañez, Cuban singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
2002 Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2003 Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
2003 Stefan Wul, French writer (b. 1922)
2004 Philippe de Broca, French film director (b. 1933)
2005 Mark Craney, American musician (b. 1952)
2005 Stan Berenstain, children's author (b. 1923)
2006 Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
2006 Isaac Gálvez, Spanish pro cyclist (b. 1975)
2006 Mário Cesariny, Portuguese painter and writer (b. 1923)
2006 Raúl Velasco, Mexican television host (b. 1933)
2006 Stephen Heywood, American builder (b. 1969)
2007 Mel Tolkin, television comedy writer (b. 1913)
2007 Sean Taylor, American Football Player (b. 1983)
2007 Silvestre Herrera, Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. (b. 1917)
2007 Steve Fossett, American Aviator (b. 1944)
2008 De'Angelo Wilson, American actor (b. 1979)
2008 Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (b. 1893)
2010 Palle Huld, Danish actor (b. 1912)
2012 Joseph Murray, English plastic surgeon
2013 Tony Musante, American actor