November 1

### Up to 1900

- 365 – The Alamanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and to defend the Gallic tribe.
- 996 – First documented mention of Austria.
- 1141 – Empress Matilda's reign as "Lady of the English" ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title King of England.
- 1197 – Philip II is crowned King of France.
- 1503 – Pope Julius II is elected.
- 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited for the first time.
- 1520 – Ferdinand Magellan and his crew enter the now–named Magellan Strait, linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, south of mainland South America. It is navigated by November 28.
- 1555 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony near present–day Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It lasts only 12 years.
- 1570 – The All Saints' Day flood devastates the Dutch coast.
- 1604 – William Shakespeare's play _Othello_ is performed for the first time at Whitehall Palace, London.
- 1611 – William Shakespeare's play _The Tempest_ is performed for the first time at Whitehall Palace, London.
- 1683 – The British crown colony of New York is sub–divided into 12 counties.
- 1700 – King Charles II of Spain dies at the age of almost 39, sparking the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 1755 – A major Earthquake and subsequent Tsunamis hit the city of Lisbon, Portugal, as thousands are killed, and the effects of the earthquake are felt around Europe, Morocco and Algeria.
- 1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
- 1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion, which is now known as the White House.
- 1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
- 1814 – The Congress of Vienna opens to re–draw the political map of Europe after the defeat the defeat of France, following the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1848 – The first medical school for women opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1859 – The current Cape Lookout lighthouse in North Carolina is lit for the first time.
- 1861 – American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army.
- 1876 – The Dutch North Sea canal is opened by William III of the Netherlands.
- 1894 – Tsar Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears on the covers of National Geographic magazine for the first time.
- 1897 – The Library of Congress building in Washington, DC is opened to the public.
- 1897 – Juventus F.C. is founded.

### 1901 – 2000

- 1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat occurs, during the Italo-Turkish War.
- 1914 – World War I: First British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany at the Battle of Coronel off the coast of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean. HMS _Good Hope_ and HMS _Monmouth_ are lost.
- 1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- 1922 – The last Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
- 1928 – An alphabet reform takes effect in Turkey.
- 1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
- 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes an iconic image of moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico.
- 1942 – World War II: The Matanikau Offensive begins in the Guadalcanal Campaign, ending a US victory on November 4.
- 1945 – Australia joins the UN.
- 1946 – Karol Woityla, the future Pope John Paul II, is ordained as a priest in Krakow, Poland.
- 1948 – Off southern Manchuria, China, a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks, killing 6,000 people.
- 1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to kill US President Harry S. Truman.
- 1952 – Operation Ivy: The United States detonates a large hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It yields the power of 10 megatons.
- 1954 – The Algerian War of Independence begins.
- 1955 – The bombing of the United Airlines Flight 629 near Longmont, Colorado, kills 44 people.
- 1956 – Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Mysore State (now Karnataka) become states of India.
- 1956 – Kanyahurri district is joined to Tamil Nadu, from Kerala.
- 1956 – The Springhill Mining Disaster in Nova Scotia kills 39 people. 88 are rescued.
- 1957 – The Mackinac Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas.
- 1959 – Montreal Canadiens ice hockey goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
- 1963 – A military coup occurs in South Vietnam against Ngo Dinh Diem, who is then killed.
- 1970 – A fire at a nightclub in Saint–Laurent–du–Pont, France, kills 146 people.
- 1973 – Mysore state is renamed Karnataka.
- 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda becomes independent (separate) from the United Kingdom.
- 1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the US.
- 1984 – Anti–Sikh ethnic riots occur in India, following the fatal shooting of Indira Gandhi the previous day.
- 1986 – A chemical fire near Basel, Switzerland, pollutes the river Rhine.
- 1993 – The Maastricht Treaty enters into force.
- 1995 – Peace talks begin in Dayton, Ohio, in order to try to find a solution to the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1996 – Al-Jazeera begins broadcasting by satellite from Doha, Qatar.
- 1998 – The European Court of Human Rights is created in Strasbourg.
- 2000 – Serbia joins the UN.
- 2000 – The Indian state of Chhattisgarh is created out of parts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.

### From 2001

- 2003 – Jean-Claude Trichet becomes President of the European Central Bank.
- 2011 – Mario Draghi becomes President of the European Central Bank.
- 2012 – A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 26 people.
- 2013 – Senior Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is killed by a US drone strike.
- 2014 – A massive power outage affects Bangladesh after a failure on the main power supply from India.
- 2015 – The English Wikipedia reaches the milestone of 5 million articles.
- 2015 – Parliamentary elections in Turkey result in the governing AK Party regaining the majority that it lost nearly five months earlier.
- 2016 – Iraqi forces enter the city of Mosul in the battle to recapture it from the self–proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
- 2018 – NASA's Dawn mission finishes after it runs out of fuel.
- 2019 – Christine Lagarde becomes President of the European Central Bank.

### Up to 1850

- 846 – Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (d. 879)
- 1339 – Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365)
- 1351 – Duke Leopold III of Austria (d. 1386)
- 1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor (d. 1571)
- 1526 – Queen Catherine Jagiellonica of Poland (d. 1583)
- 1530 – Etienne de la Poétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)
- 1539 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
- 1549 – Anna of Austria (d. 1580)
- 1585 – Jan Brozek, Polish mathematician, physician and astronomer (d. 1652)
- 1596 – Pedro da Cortona, Italian architect (d. 1669)
- 1607 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
- 1623 – Yongli Emperor of China (d. 1662)
- 1625 – Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop (d. 1681)
- 1666 – James Sherard, English botanist and amateur musician (d. 1738)
- 1727 – Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, Russian educator (d. 1797)
- 1757 – Antonio Canova, Italian artist (d. 1822)
- 1762 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)
- 1778 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
- 1781 – Joseph Karl Stieler, German painter (d. 1858)
- 1782 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859)
- 1808 – John Taylor, American Mormon church leader (d. 1887)
- 1814 – Doc Adams, American baseball player (d. 1899)
- 1815 – Crawford W. Long, American physician (d. 1878)
- 1823 – Lascar Catargiu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1899)
- 1828 – Santos Acosta, 6th President of Colombia (d. 1901)
- 1828 – Balfour Stewart, Scottish physician and meteorologist (d. 1887)
- 1831 – Harry Atkinson, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1892)
- 1831 – Eustorgio Salgar, 8th President of Colombia (d. 1885)
- 1832 – Richard B. Hubbard, 17th Governor of Texas (d. 1901)
- 1838 – Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama (d. 1856)
- 1845 – Samuel Teleki, Hungarian politician and explorer (d. 1916)
- 1847 – Hiep Hoa, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1883)
- 1847 – Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1920)
- 1849 – William Merritt Chase, American painter (d. 1916)

### 1851 – 1900

- 1852 – Haninbo Shuei, Japanese professional board game player (d. 1907)
- 1855 – Guido Adler, Austrian musicologist (d. 1941)
- 1859 – Charles Brantley Aycock, 50th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1912)
- 1859 – George W. P. Hunt, 1st Governor of Arizona (d. 1934)
- 1862 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer and organist (d. 1941)
- 1864 – Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1871 – Stephen Crane, American writer (d. 1900)
- 1878 – Konrad Magi, Estonian painter (d. 1925)
- 1878 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician (d. 1959)
- 1879 – Pál Teleki, Hungarian Prime Minister, scientist and scout (d. 1941)
- 1880 – Sholom Asch, Polish–American writer (d. 1957)
- 1880 – Alfred Wegener, German geologist and meteorologist, proponent of the theory of Continental Drift (d. 1930)
- 1885 – Anton Flettner, German inventor (d. 1961)
- 1886 – Sakutaro Hagiwara, Japanese poet (d. 1942)
- 1886 – Hermann Broch, Austrian writer (d. 1951)
- 1887 – L. S. Lowry, English painter (d. 1976)
- 1889 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, British politician and peace activist (d. 1982)
- 1889 – Hannah Höch, German Dada artist (d. 1978)
- 1892 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (d. 1946)
- 1896 – Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and critic (d. 1974)
- 1897 – Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1999)

### 1901 – 1950

- 1902 – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
- 1902 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet (d. 1943)
- 1903 – Jean Tardieu, French writer (d. 1995)
- 1911 – Henri Troyat, French–Armenian writer (d. 2007)
- 1919 – Hermann Bondi, Austrian–British mathematician and cosmologist (d. 2005)
- 1921 – Ilse Aichinger, Austrian writer (d. 2016)
- 1921 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer (d. 2008)
- 1921 – Wadih El Safi, Lebanese singer, songwriter, composer and actor (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish soprano (d. 2005)
- 1923 – Carlos Pies Vilaro, Uruguayan sculptor, writer and composer (d. 2014)
- 1924 – Basil Bernstein, British sociologist (d. 2000)
- 1924 – Süleyman Demirel, former President of Turkey (d. 2015)
- 1925 – Fritz Laband, German footballer (d. 1982)
- 1926 – Betsy Palmer, American actress (d. 2015)
- 1926 – Lou Donaldson, American musician
- 1927 – Marcel Ophüls, French movie maker and director
- 1927 – Filippo Maria Pandolfi, Italian politician
- 1930 – A. R. Gurney, American dramatist and author (d. 2017)
- 1930 – Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player (d. 2014)
- 1930 – Edgar Basel, German boxer (d. 1977)
- 1931 – Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer
- 1932 – Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
- 1932 – Francis Arinze, Nigerian cardinal
- 1934 – Umberto Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 2004)
- 1935 – Gary Player, South African golfer
- 1935 – Edward Said, Palestinian–born literary critic (d. 2003)
- 1936 – Adarsh Sein Anand, Chief Justice of India (d. 2017)
- 1936 – Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958)
- 1936 – Katsuhisa Hattori, Japanese composer
- 1936 – Shizuka Kamei, Japanese politician
- 1939 – Barbara Bosson, American actress
- 1939 – Bernard Kouchner, French politician
- 1940 – Barry Sadler, American writer and songwriter (d. 1989)
- 1940 – Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, 35th Chief Justice of India
- 1940 – Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott, English academic and politician
- 1941 – Alfio Basile, Argentine football coach
- 1941 – Joe Caldwell, American basketball player
- 1942 – Marcia Wallace, American actress (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Larry Flynt, American magazine publisher
- 1942 – Ralph Klein, 12th Premier of Alberta (d. 2013)
- 1943 – Salvatore Adamo, Italian–Belgian singer-songwriter
- 1944 – Mike Burney, English jazz saxophonist (d. 2014)
- 1944 – Rafik Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician (d. 2005)
- 1944 – Oscar Temaru, French Polynesian politician
- 1945 – Narendra Dabholkar, Indian writer (d. 2013)
- 1946 – Ric Grech, English–French bass player (d. 1990)
- 1946 – Yuko Shimizu, Japanese graphic designer
- 1947 – Bob Weston, English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2012)
- 1948 – Amani Abeed Karume, Zanzibar politician
- 1949 – Bernhard Cullmann, German footballer
- 1949 – Michael D. Griffin, American NASA executive
- 1950 – Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist
- 1950 – Dan Peek, American singer and musician (d. 2011)
- 1950 – Mitch Kapor, American computer programmer and businessman

### 1951 – 1975

- 1953 – Jan Davis, American astronaut
- 1953 – Darrell Issa, American politician
- 1957 – Lyle Lovett, American singer
- 1958 – Mark Austin, English journalist
- 1960 – Tim Cook, American CEO of Apple Inc.
- 1960 – Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player
- 1962 – Magne Furuholmen, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
- 1962 – Sharron Davies, British swimmer and broadcaster
- 1962 – Anthony Kiedis, American singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- 1963 – Rick Allen, British musician (Def Leppard)
- 1963 – Kenny Alphin, American musician
- 1963 – Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer
- 1964 – Sophie B. Hawkins, American singer
- 1964 – Daran Norris, American actor
- 1964 – Kerry Peers, Welsh actress
- 1966 – Barbara Becker, German actress and model
- 1966 – Jeremy Hunt, British politician
- 1967 – Tina Arena, Italian–Australian singer
- 1970 – Igor Cvitanovic, Croatian footballer
- 1972 – Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer
- 1972 – Toni Collette, Australian actress and singer
- 1972 – Jenny McCarthy, American actress, model and anti–vaccine campaigner
- 1973 – Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress and model
- 1973 – Assia, Algerian singer
- 1974 – Emma George, Australian pole vaulter
- 1975 – Bo Rice, American singer
- 1975 – Megan Wing, Canadian figure skater

### From 1976

- 1976 – Logan Marshall-Green, American actor
- 1976 – Chad Lindberg, American actor
- 1978 – Helen Czerski, English physicist, oceanographer and television presenter
- 1979 – Luis Delgado, Angolan footballer
- 1979 – Milan Dudic, Serbian footballer
- 1981 – LaTavia Roberson, American singer-songwriter
- 1983 – Yuko Ogura, Japanese model
- 1983 – Vaclav Sverkos, Czech footballer
- 1983 – Natalia Tena, British actress
- 1984 – Macnelly Torres, Colombian footballer
- 1984 – Milos Krasic, Serbian footballer
- 1986 – Penn Badgley, American actor
- 1986 – Ksenija Balta, Estonian high jumper, sprinter and heptathlete
- 1987 – Saori Ariyoshi, Japanese footballer
- 1987 – Ileana D'Cruz, Indian movie actress
- 1988 – Scott Arfield, Scottish–Canadian footballer
- 1988 – Ai Fukuhara, Japanese table tennis player
- 1988 – Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- 1989 – Gabriela Koukalová, Czech biathlete
- 1991 – Jiang Yuyuan, Chinese gymnast
- 1995 – Margarita Mamun, Russian gymnast
- 1996 – Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (d. 2017)
- 1997 – Alex Wolff, American actor and singer

### Up to 1900

- 921 – Richard, Duke of Burgundy
- 955 – Henry I, Duke of Bavaria
- 987 – Harald Bluetooth, Danish king (b. 910)
- 1112 – Henry, Duke of Portugal (b. 1069)
- 1296 – Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230)
- 1391 – Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
- 1399 – John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
- 1461 – David of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
- 1596 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
- 1642 – Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
- 1676 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1589)
- 1678 – William Coddington, 1st Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
- 1700 – King Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
- 1814 – Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
- 1818 – Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (b. 1761)
- 1877 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
- 1888 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
- 1894 – Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)

### 1901 – 2000

- 1903 – Theodor Mommsen, German writer and historian (b. 1817)
- 1907 – Alfred Jarry, French writer (b. 1873)
- 1922 – Alva Adams, Governor of Colorado (b. 1850)
- 1942 – Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908)
- 1952 – Dixie Lee, American actress, dancer and singer (b. 1911)
- 1955 – Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
- 1956 – Pietro Badoglio, Italian military officer and politician (b. 1871)
- 1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)
- 1968 – George Papandreou, Greek politician (b. 1888)
- 1972 – Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885)
- 1977 – Franco Albini, Italian architect and designer (b. 1905)
- 1979 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
- 1982 – King Vidor, American movie director (b. 1894)
- 1982 – James Broderick, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1985 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (b. 1911)
- 1987 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1922)
- 1993 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish biochemist (b. 1905)
- 1994 – Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
- 1996 – J.R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1906)
- 2000 – George Armstrong, English footballer (b 1944)

### From 2001

- 2001 – Juan Bosch, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1909)
- 2003 – Xela Arias, Galician poet and translator (b. 1962)
- 2003 – Daishiro Yoshimura, Japanese footballer (b. 1947)
- 2006 – William Styron, American writer (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Paul Tibbets, American Air Force Brigadier General (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Jacques Piccard, underwater explorer and scientist (b. 1922)
- 2008 – Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer and actress (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
- 2011 – Dorothy Howell Rodham, mother of Hillary Clinton (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Gae Aulenti, Italian architect and designer (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Agustín García Calvo, Spanish philologist, philosopher, poet and playwright (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Mitch Lucker, American musician (b. 1984)
- 2013 – Hakimullah Mehsud, Pakistan Taliban leader (born around 1978)
- 2013 – John Y. McCollister, American politician (b. 1921)
- 2014 – Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, English politician (b. 1923)
- 2014 – Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian baseball player (b. 1920)
- 2014 – Gustau Biosca, Spanish footballer (b. 1928)
- 2014 – Thomas W. Sneddon, Jr., American attorney (b. 1941)
- 2014 – Wayne Static, American musician (b. 1965)
- 2014 – Brittany Maynard, American activist for assisted suicide (b. 1984)
- 2015 – Günter Schabowski, German politician (b. 1929)
- 2015 – Fred Thompson, American politician and actor (b. 1942)
- 2015 – Charles Duncan Michener, American entomologist (b. 1918)
- 2016 – Tina Anselmi, Italian politician (b. 1927)
- 2017 – Brad Bufanda, American actor (b. 1983)
- 2017 – Vladimir Makanin, Russian writer (b. 1937)
- 2018 – Carlo Giuffrè, Italian actor and stage director (b. 1928)
- 2018 – Theodor Hoffmann, German admiral (b. 1935)
- 2018 – Mariano Rajoy Sobredo, Spanish judge (b. 1921)
- 2018 – Ken Swofford, American actor (b. 1933)
- 2018 – Robert F. Taft, American Jesuit priest (b. 1932)
- 2018 – Yurik Vardanyan, Soviet–Armenian weightlifter (b. 1956)
- 2019 – Rudy Boesch, American Navy SEAL (b. 1928)
- 2019 – Rina Lazo, Guatemalan–Mexican artist (b. 1923)
- 2023 – Bob Knight, American basketball coach (b. 1940)

## Holidays

- All Saints' Day Christian Holiday
- Independence Day (Antigua and Barbuda)
- National Holiday (Algeria)
- Foundation Day (Kerala, Karnataka)
- Day of the Leaders of the Bulgarian National Revival
- World Vegan Day