November 26

Events
Up to 1900
43 BC - The second Roman Triumvirate alliance is formed by Augustus, Marcus Aemelius Lepidus and Mark Antony.
783 - Asturian Queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her closest family and friends from retaking the throne from Mauretagus.
986 - The French city of Montpellier is first mentioned.
1161 - Battle of Caishi in China: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze River during the Jin-Song Wars.
1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, affecting Great Britain, sinks 12 Royal Navy ships, killing over 1,500 people.
1778 - James Cook becomes the first European to navigate around the island of Maui, Hawaii, but doesn't find a suitable place to land.
1789 - A national Thanksgiving Day is held in the United States.
1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1863 - US President Abraham Lincoln declares Thanksgiving Day a national holiday, to be observed on the fourth Thursday in November.
1865 - Spanish-South American War: In the naval Battle of Papudo, the Chilean fleet under Juan Williams Rebolledo defeats the Spanish.
1894 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna marry.
1898 - A storm off New England sinks the passenger ship Portland, killing 152 people. The storm kills 450 people in total.
1901 2000
1914 - British battleship Bulwark is destroyed by an explosion off Sheerness, killing 738 people, as only 12 of the people on board survive.
1917 - The NHL is founded.
1918 - The Podgorica Assembly in Montenegro votes for a "Union of the People", declaring that it merges with Serbia.
1922 - Howard Carter enters the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
1942 - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders gasoline rationing across the United States, starting on December 1.
1942 - An earthquake in Turkey kills 4,000 people.
1943 - World War II: The ship HMT Rohna is sunk by the German Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean Sea north of Bejaia, Algeria.
1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworths shop on New Cross High Street, London, killing 168 people.
1949 - India agrees to the constitution proposed by B. R. Ambedkar. This leads to India becoming a republic two months later, on January 26, 1950.
1950 - Korean War: The People's Republic of China enters the war, launching a counterattack in North Korea against South Korea and UN troops.
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.
1970 - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe 1.5 inches (38.1 millimetres) of rain fall in a minute, which is a world record.
1976 - The Last Waltz is held.
1979 - A Boeing 707 of Pakistan International Airlines, crashes during take-off from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 156 people on board.
1982 - Larry Holmes wins the heavyweight boxing world title, defeating Randall Cobb in Houston, Texas.
1983 - In London, 6,800 gold bars, worth nearly PS 26 million, are stolen from the Brink's MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.
1990 - The Delta II rocket makes its first flight.
1991 - Azerbaijan's national assembly abolishes the autonomous State of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomus Oblast, where the population is of mainly Armenian ethnicity, and renames all its cities back to their old names.
1992 - In the night to November 27, Vienna's Hofburg Castle is severely damaged by fire.
1998 - The Khanna rail disaster in India kills 212 people.
1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to speak at the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
2000 - George W. Bush is confirmed as the winner of Florida's electoral votes in the disputed US Presidential Election, making him the next President of the United States instead of Al Gore, who had won the most votes overall.
From 2001
2003 - Concorde makes its last flight, over Bristol, England, United Kingdom.
2004 - In Ruzhou, China, a man enters a school dormitory and stabs 8 people to death, while he also wounds 4 others.
2008 - The 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks begin with killings and hostage takings in different parts of the city, committed by Islamist terrorists, of whom only one survives. The attacks end on November 29 after a stand-off at the Taj Mahal Hotel.
2011 - The New Zealand National Party, led by John Key, is elected to a second term in government.
2011 - The Mars Science Laboratory, known as Curiosity, is launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, on board an Atlas V rocket. It lands on Mars in August 2012.
Births
Up to 1900
117 - Aelius Aristides, Greek writer (d. 181)
907 - Rudesind, Galician bishop (d. 977)
1288 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
1436 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)
1604 - Johannes Bach, German composer and musician (d. 1673)
1607 - John Harvard, English-born clergyman and university benefactor (d. 1638)
1609 - Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
1657 - William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
1678 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
1703 - Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
1731 - William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
1786 - Jose Maria Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1846)
1792 - Sarah Grimke, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
1827 - Ellen G. White, American author, co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church (d. 1915)
1828 - Rene Goblet, Prime Minister of France (d. 1915)
1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
1832 - Karl Rudolf Konig, German physicist (d. 1901)
1847 - Maria Feodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
1853 - Bat Masterson, American Old West figure (d. 1921)
1857 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
1858 - Katharine Drexel, American nun and saint (d. 1955)
1864 - Edward Higgins, British Salvation Army General (d. 1947)
1864 - Eugene Pierre, French politician (d. 1937)
1869 - Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
1876 - Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor (d. 1950)
1885 - Heinrich Bruning, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1970)
1888 - Ford Beebe, American director (d. 1978)
1889 - Albert Dieudonne, French actor, screenwriter and novelist (d. 1976)
1892 - Joe Guyon, American football player (d. 1971)
1894 - James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (d. 1974)
1894 - Norbert Wiener, American mathematician and founder of Cybernetics (d. 1964)
1895 - Bill W., American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
1897 - Manuel A. Odria, Peruvian general and politician (d. 1974)
1898 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
1899 - Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
1901 1925
1902 - Maurice McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1971)
1903 - Alice Herz-Sommer, Jewish pianist, music teacher, Holocaust survivor and supercentenarian (d. 2014)
1905 - Emlyn Williams, Welsh writer. dramatist and actor (d. 1987)
1905 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1908 - Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1909 - Eugene Ionescu, Romanian-born dramatist (d. 1994)
1909 - Fritz Buchloh, German footballer (d. 1998)
1909 - Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
1910 - Aileen Meagher, Canadian athlete and painter (d. 1987)
1910 - Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)
1912 - Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
1914 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
1915 - Earl Wild, American pianist (d. 2010)
1915 - Inge King, German-Australian sculptor (d. 2016)
1918 - Patricio Aylwin, former President of Chile (d. 2016)
1918 - Huber Matos, Cuban activist (d. 2014)
1919 - Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (d. 2010)
1919 - Frederik Pohl, American writer (d. 2013)
1920 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (d. 2004)
1921 - Francoise Gilot, French painter, critic and author
1922 - Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1923 - V. K. Murthy, Indian cinematographer (d. 2014)
1923 - Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
1924 - George Segal, American Pop Sculptor (d. 2000)
1924 - Edward T. Breathitt, Governor of Kentucky (d. 2003)
1925 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
1925 - Gregorio Conrado Alvarez, Uruguayan military and politician (d. 2016)
1926 1950
1926 - Rabi Ray, Indian politician
1926 - Ray McFall, British nightclub owner (d. 2015)
1927 - Ernie Coombs, American children's entertainer (d. 2001)
1929 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian composer and musician (d. 2015)
1930 - J. Joseph Garrahy, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 2012)
1930 - Berthold Leibinger, German mechanical engineer, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
1931 - Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1931 - Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Dutch archbishop and cardinal
1933 - Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (d. 2007)
1933 - Tony Verna, American television producer (d. 2015)
1933 - Richard Holloway, Scottish writer and former Bishop of Edinburgh
1936 - Margaret Boden, English computer scientist and psychologist
1937 - Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1994)
1938 - Porter Goss, American politician and Central Intelligence Agency director
1938 - Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
1938 - Rich Little, Canadian-American comedian and actor
1939 - Tina Turner, American-Swiss singer and actress
1939 - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia
1940 - Enrico Bombieri, Italian mathematician
1940 - Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2007)
1942 - Olivia Cole, American actress
1942 - Dang Thuy Tram, Vietnamese doctor (d. 1970)
1943 - Bruce Paltrow, American producer and director (d. 2002)
1944 - Jean Terrell, American singer
1945 - Daniel Davis, American actor
1945 - John McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1946 - Mark L. Lester, American director
1946 - Art Shell, American football player and coach
1947 - Vicki Ann Funk, American botanist (d. 2019)
1947 - Susanne Zenor, American actress
1948 - Elizabeth Blackburn, Australian-American molecular biologist
1948 - Galina Prozumenshchikova, Soviet-Russian swimmer (d. 2015)
1948 - Kresimir Cosic, Croatian basketball player (d. 1995)
1948 - Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
1948 - Claes Elfsberg, Swedish television presenter
1949 - Vincent A. Mahler, Political Scientist and professor at Loyola University Chicago
1949 - Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
1949 - Martin Lee, British singer
1949 - Mari Alkatiri, 1st Prime Minister of East Timor
1949 - Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer-songwriter
1950 - Dieter Burdenski, German footballer
1951 1975
1951 - Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician
1951 - Sulejman Tihic, Bosnia and Herzegovina politician (d. 2014)
1952 - Wendy Turnbull, Australian tennis player
1953 - Hilary Benn, British politician
1953 - Shelley Moore Capito, American politician
1953 - Harry Carson, American football player
1954 - Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (d. 2009)
1955 - Gisela Stuart, German-British politician
1956 - Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
1956 - Keith Vaz, British politician
1960 - Delio Rossi, Italian footballer
1961 - Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, Indian-British entrepreneur
1961 - Ivory, American professional wrestler
1961 - Petr Malek, Czech sport shooter (d. 2019)
1962 - Chuck Finley, American baseball pitcher
1963 - Mario Elie, American basketball player
1963 - Matt Frei, German-born British journalist
1964 - Chokri Belaid, Tunisian politician (d. 2013)
1964 - Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier
1969 - Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
1970 - Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
1970 - John Amaechi, American-born British basketball player
1971 - Ronald "Winky" Wright, American boxer
1972 - Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
1973 - Peter Facinelli, American actor
1975 - DJ Khaled, Palestinian-American musical artist and DJ
From 1976
1976 - Maven Huffman, American professional wrestler
1977 - Ivan Bassi, Italian cyclist
1980 - Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor
1980 - Aruna Dindane, Ivory Coast footballer
1980 - Chris Lintott, English astrophysicist, author and broadcaster
1981 - Aurora Snow, American actress
1981 - Stephan Andersen, Danish international footballer
1981 - Ivan Basso, Italian cyclist
1981 - Natasha Bedingfield, British singer
1981 - Natalie Gauci, Australian singer
1981 - Gina Kingsbury, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 - Keith Ballard, American ice hockey player
1982 - Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby player
1983 - Chris Hughes, American businessman, co-founder of Facebook
1984 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
1986 - Trevor Morgan, American actor
1990 - Chipmunk, English rapper
1990 - Danny Welbeck, English footballer
1990 - Rita Ora, Kosovo-born English singer and actress
1990 - Avery Bradley, American basketball player
1990 - Gabriel Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1992 - Louis Ducruet, Monegasque royal
1993 - Erena Ono, Japanese singer (AKB48)
1996 - Louane Emera, French singer
Deaths
Up to 1900
399 - Pope Siricius
1252 - Blanche of Castile, Queen of France (b. 1188)
1504 - Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
1518 - Vannozza de Cattanei, Italian mistress to the future-Pope Alexander VI (b. 1442)
1688 - Philippe Quinault, French playwright (b. 1635)
1717 - Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
1822 - Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1750)
1836 - John Loudon MacAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder (b. 1756)
1842 - Robert Smith, United States Secretary of State (b. 1757)
1851 - Jean-de-Dieu Soult, French general and politician (b. 1769)
1855 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (b. 1798)
1872 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
1876 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b. 1792)
1882 - Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian lawyer and politician (b. 1805)
1883 - Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist (b. 1797)
1901 2000
1912 - Patriarch Joachim III of Constantinople (b. 1854)
1919 - Felipe Angeles, Mexican revolutionary general (b. 1868)
1926 - John Browning, American firearms designer and inventor (b. 1855)
1930 - Otto Sverdrup, Norwegian explorer (b. 1854)
1934 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b. 1866)
1938 - Flora Call Disney, mother of Walt Disney (b. 1868)
1943 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (b. 1914)
1952 - Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
1954 - Bill Doak, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1956 - Tommy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1905)
1959 - Albert Ketelbey, British composer, pianist and conductor (b. 1875)
1961 - Styles Bridges, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1898)
1962 - Albert Sarrault, French politician (b. 1872)
1963 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b. 1882)
1968 - Arnold Zweig, German writer (b. 1887)
1973 - John Rostill, British musician (b. 1942)
1977 - Yoshibayama Junnosoke, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1920)
1978 - Ford Beebe, American director (d. 1888)
1979 - Ove Joensen, Faroese rower and adventurer (b. 1948)
1981 - Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)
1989 - Ahmed Abdallah, President of the Comoros
1994 - Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
1994 - Arturo Rivera y Damas, Archbishop of San Salvador (b. 1923)
From 2001
2003 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
2004 - Philippe de Broca, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2005 - Stan Berenstain, American writer (b. 1923)
2005 - Mark Craney, American musician (b. 1952)
2008 - Edna Parker, American supercentenarian, world's oldest woman at the time of her death (b. 1893)
2011 - C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian colonel and politician, President of Biafra (b. 1933)
2012 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1919)
2013 - Cayetano Re, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1938)
2013 - Arik Einstein, Israeli singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1939)
2013 - John Galbraith Graham (Araucaria), English crossword compiler and Church of England priest (b. 1921)
2013 - Stan Stennett, Welsh entertainer (b. 1925)
2014 - Frankie Fraser, English gangster (b. 1923)
2014 - Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1927)
2014 - Gilles Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2014 - Tapan Raychaudhuri, Indian historian (b. 1924)
2014 - Angel Tulio Zof, Argentine footballer (b. 1928)
2015 - Guy Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1922)
2015 - Norbert Gastell, German actor (b. 1929)
2016 - Peter Hintze, German politician (b. 1950)
2016 - Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Dutch religious leader (b. 1928)
2017 - Hou Bo, Chinese photographer (b. 1924)
2017 - Armando Hart, Cuban politician (b. 1930)
2017 - W. Marvin Watson, American politician (b. 1924)
2018 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director (b. 1941)
2018 - Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist and animator, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (b. 1961)
2018 - Charles Huxtable, British military officer (b. 1931)
2018 - Tomas Maldonado, Argentine painter and designer (b. 1922)
2018 - Patricia Quintana, Mexican chef and writer (b. 1946)
2018 - Leo Schwarz, German Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
2019 - Cyrus Chothia, English biochemist (b. 1942)
2019 - Howard Cruse, American cartoonist and comic book writer (b. 1941)
2019 - Yeshi Dhonden, Tibetan-Indian physician and humanitarian (b. 1927)
2019 - James L. Holloway III, American naval admiral and political writer (b. 1922)
2019 - Kobi Kuhn, Swiss footballer and coach (b. 1943)
2019 - Muiris Mac Conghail, Irish journalist, writer, broadcaster, poet and filmmaker (b. 1941)
2019 - Bruno Nicole, Italian footballer (b. 1940)
2019 - Gerald Regan, Canadian politician, 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1928)
2019 - Gary Rhodes, English chef (b. 1960)
Observances
Constitution Day (India)
Day of the Covenant (Baha'i faith)
Independence Day (Mongolia)
Days of the year