Events

Up to 1950 
 1002 – Ethelred the Unready orders the killing of Danes of England.
 1160 – Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne.
 1553 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and Lady Jane Grey are accused of high treason and sentenced to death.
 1642 - English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green - The Royalist forces withdraw against the Parliamentary army and fail to take London.
 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under General Richard Montgomery.
 1792 – Trenton, New Jersey becomes an incorporated city.
 1841 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of "animal magnetism", which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls Hypnotism.
 1851 – The first settlers arrive in what will become Seattle, Washington.
 1864 – The Constitution of Greece is adopted.
 1872 - A flood on Baltic Sea coastlines kills 271 people.
 1908 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
 1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party of Australia.
 1918 – British and French troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
 1927 - The Hotland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel to link New Jersey and New York City.
 1941 - World War II: British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed.
 1942 - World War II: US and Japanese forces clash in an intense battle on Guadalcanal.
 1945 – Sukarno becomes President of Indonesia.
 1947 – The Soviet Union completes the development of the AK-47.
 1950 – In Venezuela, General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.

1951  2000 
 1954 - Great Britain defeats France in Paris to win the first Rugby League World Cup.
 1956 – The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama's bus segregation laws illegal, ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
 1957 – Flooding in the Po River valley of Italy leads to the flooding in Venice.
 1960 - In the city of Amude in Syrian Kurdistan, a cinema fire kills 152 people.
 1965 - The ship SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau, Bahamas, killing 90 people.
 1969 – Up to 500,000 anti-war protesters march and protest in Washington, DC.
 1970 – The Bhola Cyclone strikes East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), killing approximately 500,000 people.
 1971 – The Mariner 9 spacecraft enters into orbit around Mars.
 1972 - "Cyclone" Quimburga strikes the UK, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, killing 73 people.
 1977 – Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels marry.
 1979 – The Times publishes for the first time in almost a year, following a strike.
 1982 - Duk Doo Kim suffers fatal injuries, from which he dies on November 17, in a boxing match against Ray Mancini.
 1982 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated.
 1985 – The Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts, causing a mudslide that buries the town of Armero, killing around 23,000.
 1985 - Xavier Suarez is sworn in as the first Cuban-born Mayor of Miami, Florida.
 1986 - The Compact of Free Association takes effect, allowing the Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia to become independent.
 1990 – The first-ever website is released, after Tim Berners-Lee proposed the creation of the World Wide Web.
 1992 - Riddick Bowe becomes heavyweight boxing world champion, defeating Evander Holyfield.
 1994 - Michael Schumacher wins the first of his Formula One world titles.
 1994 – Voters in Sweden approve entry to the EU.
 1995 - A truck bomb explodes outside the US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing 5 Americans and 2 Indians.
 1999 - Lennox Lewis becomes heavyweight boxing world champion, defeating Evander Holyfield.
 2000 – Philippines: Articles of impeachment are passed against President Joseph Estrada.

From 2001 
 2001 – War on Terrorism: For the first time since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order that allows military tribunals against any foreigners believed of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
 2001 – War in Afghanistan: Northern Alliance forces take Kabul.
 2002 – The oil tanker Prestige sinks off Galicia, causing a large oil spill.
 2002 - Iraq agrees to let in UN Weapons Inspectors as part of the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
 2005 – A chemical disaster occurs in Jilin, China, leading to the nearby river to be contaminated.
 2010 – Following years of House Arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi is released in Burma.
 2011 – Mario Monti is chosen to lead the Italian government following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi.
 2015 - Russia is provisionally suspended from international athletics competitions following a major doping scandal.
 2015 - The November 2015 Paris attacks occur. At least 129 people are killed as attackers strike several sites across Paris late in the evening - at least 80 are killed at the Bataclan concert hall alone.
 2017 - As four-time champion, the Italy national football team fails to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 60 years; The Sweden national football team qualifies in its place, making sure of its first appearance in the competition since 2006.
 2019 - An emergency is declared in the city of Venice, Italy, because of record flooding.

Births

Up to 1800 
 354 – Augustine of Hippo, Algerian philosopher (d. 430)
 532 - Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 604)
 1312 – Edward III, King of England (d. 1377)
 1486 - Johann Eck, German theologian (d. 1543)
 1493 - William IV, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1550)
 1504 - Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1567)
 1559 - Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (d. 1621)
 1567 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
 1595 - George William, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1640)
 1663 – Arni Magnusson, Icelandic scholar (d. 1730)
 1699 - Jan Zach, Czech composer and musician (d. 1773)
 1715 – Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, German doctor (d. 1762)
 1732 - John Dickerson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
 1760 – Jiaqing Emperor of China (d. 1820)
 1761 - John Moore, Scottish soldier and general (d. 1809)
 1780 - Ranjit Singh, Indian founder of the Sikh Empire (d. 1839)
 1782 – Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer (d. 1846)
 1792 - Edward Trelawny, English writer (d. 1881)

1801  1900 
 1801 – Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Queen of Prussia (d. 1873)
 1801 - Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony (d. 1877)
 1806 – Emilia Plater, Polish-Lithuanian princess (d. 1831)
 1809 - John A. Dahlgren, American navy admiral (d. 1870)
 1813 - Peter II Petrovic-Njegos, Montenegrin statesman, religious leader and poet (d. 1851)
 1814 – Joseph Hooker, American general (d. 1879)
 1817 - Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, French organist and composer (d. 1869)
 1826 - Charles Worth, English fashion designer (d. 1895)
 1833 - Edwin Booth, American actor (d. 1893)
 1838 - Joseph Fielding Smith, American Mormon leader (d. 1918)
 1841 - Lucius F. C. Garvin, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1922)
 1848 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d. 1922)
 1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (d. 1894)
 1854 - George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer and educator (d. 1931)
 1856 - Louis Brandeis, American jurist (d. 1941)
 1869 - Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist and publicist (d. 1943)
 1869 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian-American activist, journalist and politician (d. 1962)
 1872 - John MacIntosh Lyle, Canadian architect, designer, urban planner and teacher (d. 1945)
 1878 – Max Dehn, German mathematician (d. 1952)
 1879 - John Grieb, American gymnast (d. 1939)
 1883 - Oscar Brockmmeyer, American soccer player (d. 1954)
 1883 - Leo Goodwin, American swimmer, diver and water polo player (d. 1957)
 1886 - Mary Wigman, German dancer and choreographer (d. 1973)
 1893 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, won the 1843 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
 1897 – Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (d. 1975)
 1899 – Iskander Mirza, President of Pakistan (d. 1969)
 1899 – Huang Xianfan, Chinese historian and educator (d. 1982)

1901  1950 
 1904 - H. C. Potter, American movie director and theatre director (d. 1977)
 1904 - Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, German lawyer and resistance activist (d. 1944)
 1906 - Hermione Baddeley, English-American actress and singer (d. 1986)
 1907 – Giovanna of Italy, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 2000)
 1911 - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (d. 2006)
 1912 - Claude Pompidou, wife of Georges Pompidou and First Lady of France (d. 2007)
 1913 – Lon Nol, Cambodian politician (d. 1985)
 1914 - Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (d. 2016)
 1914 – Alberto Lattuada, Italian movie director (d. 2005)
 1915 - Maurice M. Shapiro, American physicist (d. 2008)
 1915 - Howard Cooke, former Governor-General of Jamaica (d. 2014)
 1917 - Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 1989)
 1917 - Robert Sterling, American actor (d. 2006)
 1919 - Mary Beth Hughes, American actress (d. 1995)
 1922 – Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984)
 1923 – Linda Christian, American actress (d. 2011)
 1924 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist and biologist (d. 1994)
 1926 - Don Gordon, American actor (d. 2017)
 1926 - Harry Hughes, 57th Governor of Maryland (d. 2019)
 1929 - Asashio Taro III, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1988)
 1929 – Fred Phelps, American pastor (d. 2014)
 1930 - Adrienne Corri, Scottish actress (d. 2016)
 1931 - Andrée Lachapelle, Canadian actress (d. 2019)
 1932 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000)
 1934 - Peter Arnett, American journalist
 1934 – Garry Marshall, American screenwriter, movie producer, and actor (d. 2016)
 1935 – George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury
 1935 - Tom Atkins, American actor
 1936 - Salim Kallas, Syrian actor and politician (d. 2013)
 1938 – Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
 1939 – Karel Brückner, Czech football manager
 1939 - Idris Muhammad, American jazz drummer (d. 2014)
 1939 – Will Ryan, American actor
 1940 – Saul Kripke, American philosopher and logician
 1941 – Eberhard Diepgen, German politician, former Governing Mayor of Berlin
 1941 - Dack Rambo, American actor (d. 1994)
 1943 – Roberto Boninsegna, Italian footballer
 1943 - Howard Wilkinson, English footballer
 1944 - Timmy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, keyboardist and producer
 1946 - Stanislaw Baranczak, Polish poet and translator (d. 2014)
 1947 – Joe Mantegna, American actor and director
 1948 - Humayun Ahmed, Bangladeshi novelist and movie maker
 1948 - Adelle Lutz, American costume designer, model and actress
 1950 - Gilbert Perreault, Canadian ice hockey player

1951  1975 
 1951 - Pini Gershon, Israeli basketball player and coach
 1952 - Art Malik, Pakistani-born British actor
 1953 - Frances Conroy, American actress
 1953 - Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexican politician, President of Mexico from 2018
 1953 - Andrew Ranken, British musician
 1953 - Tracy Scoggins, American actress
 1954 - Scott McNealy, American businessman, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
 1954 – Chris Noth, American actor
 1955 – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress and comedienne
 1956 – Rex Linn, American actor
 1956 - Charlie Baker, American politician, 72nd Governor of Massachusetts
 1957 - Greg Abbott, American politician, 48th Governor of Texas 
 1957 – Stephen Baxter, English science fiction writer
 1957 - Scott Thompson, American businessman
 1957 - Roger Ingram, American trumpeter, educator and writer
 1959 - Hari Kostov, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia
 1959 - Caroline Goodall, British-Australian actress
 1960 – Neil Flynn, American actor
 1963 - Venny Testaverde, American football player
 1965 - Zeljko Petrovic, Montenegrin footballer
 1967 - Juhi Chawla, Indian actress, singer and producer
 1967 – Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk show host
 1968 - Shinichiro Tani, Japanese footballer
 1969 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
 1969 – Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali-born Dutch writer and activist
 1969 - Lori Berenson, American political activist
 1971 - Noah Hathaway, American actor
 1974 - Graeme Murty, Scottish footballer and coach
 1975 – Ivica Dragutinovic, Serbian footballer
 1975 – Quim, Portuguese footballer
 1975 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (d. 2008)

From 1976 
 1976 – Kelly Sotherton, English athlete
 1976 - Albina Akhatova, Russian biathlete
 1977 - Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer
 1978 – Nikolai Fraiture, American musician (The Strokes)
 1979 - Metta World Peace, American basketball player and rapper
 1980 - Monique Coleman, American actress and singer
 1982 - Daniela Klemenschits, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008)
 1982 - Sandra Klemenschits, Austrian tennis player 
 1982 – Kumi Koda, Japanese singer
 1982 - Michael Kopon, American actor and singer
 1983 - Claudio Balderrama, Bolivian race walker
 1984 - Kurt Morath, Tongan rugby player
 1984 – Lucas Barrios, Argentine-Paraguayan footballer
 1986 - Moon Chae-won, South Korean actress
 1986 - Kevin Bridges, Scottish comedian
 1987 - Dana Vollmer, American swimmer
 1990 – Jeffrey Bruma, Dutch footballer
 1990 - Jerzy Janowicz, Polish tennis player
 1991 - Matt Bennett, American actor, singer and screenwriter
 1991 - Devon Bostick, Canadian actor
 1992 - Shabazz Muhammad, American basketball player

Deaths

Up to 1950 
 565 – Justinian I, Eastern Roman Emperor (b. 482 or 483)
 867 - Pope Nicholas I
 1004 - Abbo of Fleury, French monk and saint (b. 945)
 1093 – Malcolm III of Scotland (b. 1041)
 1143 - King Fulk of Jerusalem
 1170 - Albert I of Brandenburg
 1314 - Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1240)
 1319 – Eric VI of Denmark (b. 1274)
 1359 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1326)
 1460 – Henry the Navigator, Portuguese prince and patron of African exploration (b. 1394)
 1606 - Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and philologist (b. 1530)
 1619 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1565)
 1726 - Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (b. 1666)
 1770 – George Grenville, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1712)
 1862 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b. 1787)
 1868 – Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (b. 1792)
 1916 - Saki, British author and playwright (b. 1870)
 1929 – Princess Viktoria of Prussia (b. 1866)
 1950 – Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela (b. 1909)

1951  2000 
 1963 - Margaret Murray, English anthropologist and Egyptologist (b. 1863)
 1967 - Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
 1973 - Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b. 1890)
 1973 – Bruno Maderna, Italian-German conductor and composer (b. 1920)
 1974 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian-French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
 1983 - Henry Jamison Handy, American swimmer, water polo player and movie maker (b. 1896)
 1983 - Junior Samples, American comedian and actor (b. 1926)
 1986 - Rudolf Schock, German tenor (b. 1915)
 1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
 1988 - Jaromir Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902)
 1989 – Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (b. 1964)
 1989 – Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1906)
 1994 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist and biologist (b. 1924)
 1996 - Bill Doggett, American pianist and organist (b. 1916)
 1998 - Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman and son of Pierre Trudeau (b. 1975)
 1999 - Donald Mills, American singer (b. 1915)

From 2001 
 2002 – Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1925)
 2004 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968)
 2005 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b. 1967)
 2007 - Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (b. 1960)
 2009 - Bruce King, Governor of New Mexico (b. 1924)
 2010 – Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spanish movie director (b. 1921)
 2014 - Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (b. 1922)
 2014 - Manoel de Barros, Brazilian poet (b. 1916)
 2014 - Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician (b. 1928)
 2014 - Mike Burney, English jazz saxophonist (b. 1944)
 2014 - Chris Meffert, American politician (b. 1943)
 2015 - People killed in the November 2015 Paris attacks including:
Thomas Ayad, French music executive
Guillaume B. Decherf, French music executive and journalist (b. 1972)
Alban Denuit, French visual artist (b. 1983)
Matthieu Giroud, French geographer (b. 1976)
 2016 - Enzo Maiorca, Italian free diver, television host and politician (b. 1931)
 2016 - Leon Russell, American musician and songwriter (b. 1942)
 2017 - Bobby Doerr, American baseball player (b. 1918)
 2017 - Thomas J. Hudner, Jr., American naval aviator (b. 1924)
 2017 - Alina Janowska, Polish actress (b. 1923)
 2017 - David Poisson, French skier (b. 1982)
 2017 - Jim Rivera, American baseball player (b. 1921)
 2017 - Eric Salzman, American composer (b. 1933)
 2018 - Lucho Gatica, Chilean bolero singer and actor (b. 1928)
 2018 - Caroline Rose Hunt, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1923)
 2018 - Everett A. Kelly, American politician (b. 1926)
 2018 - Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor, American actress (b. 1925)
 2018 - William Mullan, Scottish football referee (b. 1928)
 2019 - Kieran Modra, Australian swimmer and cyclist (b. 1972)
 2019 - Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist (b. 1936)
 2019 - Tom Spurgeon, American journalist (b. 1968)
 2019 - Niall Tóibín, Irish comedian and actor (b. 1929)
 2019 - José Luis Veloso, Spanish footballer (b. 1937)

Observances 
 World Kindness Day

Days of the year