November 14

Events 
 Up to 1965 
 1493 – Christopher Columbus lands on an island in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, which he names "Santa Cruz".
 1495 – Battle of Aguere: Forces of the Kingdom of Castile defeat a force of Guanches, the native people of the Canary Islands.
 1501 – Both aged 15, Catherine of Aragon and Arthur Tudor marry.
 1533 – Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, then part of the Inca Empire.
 1633 – Thirty Years' War: Swedish troops take over Regensburg, Bavaria.
 1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes is the source of the Nile.
 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln supports General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
 1889 – Nellie Bly begins her 72–day journey around the world.
 1894 – Tsar Nicholas II marries Alexandra Fyodorovna.
 1901 – Austrian doctor Karl Landsteiner announces the discovery of the blood groups A, B and O.
 1909 – French passenger ship La Seyne sinks after a collision with a British steamer, killing 101 people.
 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first take–off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, from the makeshift deck of the USS Birmingham.
 1916 – Billy Hughes becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a second time.
 1916 – World War II: The First Battle of the Somme ends.
 1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a Republic.
 1921 – The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
 1922 – The BBC begins its radio service.
 1940 – World War II: The city of Coventry in England is almost completely destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing.
 1941 – World War II: The HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier sinks from torpedo damage from German submarine U-81 the previous day.
 1946 – Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
 1952 – The UK Singles Chart is published by the New Musical Express.
 1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser takes over power in Egypt.
 1962 – Haile Selassie declares Eritrea to be part of Ethiopia.
 1963 – The island of Surtsey is formed by a volcanic eruption off the south coast of Iceland.
 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of La Drong begins.

 From 1966 
 1966 – Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) defends his heavyweight boxing title against Cleveland Williams.
 1967 – The Congress of Colombia declares this date as the Day of the Colombian Woman.
 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems.
 1969 – NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the Moon. Despite two lightning strikes, the launch is carried out successfully.
 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75 people.
 1971 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria is officially enthroned.
 1971 – Mariner 9 enters into orbit around Mars.
 1973 – Anne, Princess Royal marries Captain Mark Phillips.
 1975 – Spain abandons Western Sahara.
 1979 – Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the US in response to the hostage crisis.
 1982 – Lech Walesa is released from detention.
 1990 – Germany and Poland agree to the Oder–Neisse Line forming their boundary.
 1991 – Norodom Sihanouk returns to Cambodia after 13 years of exile.
 1995 – The United States Government temporarily closes over disagreements between Democrats and Republicans over the federal budget.
 1999 – Leonid Kuchma is re–elected President of Ukraine.
 2001 – War in Afghanistan: The Northern Alliance takes over Kabul.
 2003 – One of the Solar System's most distant objects, 90377 Sedna, is discovered.
 2010 – Sebastian Vettel becomes, to date, the youngest Formula One World Champion.
 2012 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas get worse.
 2015 – A French TGV train crashes into a river in the Alsace region of France, killing 10 people. There is no link to the previous night's attacks in Paris.
 2021 – An attack on a hospital in Liverpool, England leaves the attacker dead and one other person injured.

 Births 
 Up to 1900 
 1567 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
 1601 – Jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)
 1650 – William III, King of England, Ireland and Scotland (d. 1702)
 1663 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German musician and composer (d. 1712)
 1668 – Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, Baroque architect (d. 1745) 
 1719 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1787)
 1723 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter (d. 1786)
 1740 – Johann van Beethoven, father and first teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven (d. 1792)
 1746 – Giulio Gabrielli the Younger, Italian cardinal (d. 1822)
 1765 – Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
 1771 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)
 1775 – Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1833)
 1776 – Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d. 1847)
 1777 – Nathaniel Claiborne, American politician (d. 1859)
 1778 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer (d. 1837)
 1779 – Adam Oehlenschlager, Danish poet and playwright (d. 1850)
 1797 – Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist and lawyer (d. 1875)
 1805 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)
 1807 – Auguste Laurent, French chemist (d. 1853)
 1812 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d. 1878)
 1812 – Maria Christina of Savoy (d. 1836)
 1828 – James P. McPherson, American general (d. 1864)
 1832 – Henry Strangways, English–Australian politician (d. 1920)
 1840 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
 1863 – Leo Baekeland, Flemish chemist and inventor of Bakelite (d. 1944)
 1877 – Norman Brookes, Australian tennis player (d. 1968)
 1878 – Julie Manet, French painter (d. 1966)
 1878 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
 1883 – Ado Birk, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)
 1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
 1891 – Frederick Banting, Canadian doctor, won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
 1891 – Ted Meredith, American athlete (d. 1957)
 1893 – Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian writer (d. 1973)
 1895 – Louise Huff, American actress (d. 1973)
 1896 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
 1898 – Benjamin Fondane, Romanian–French poet, critic and philosopher (d. 1944)
 1900 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)

 1901 – 1950 
 1904 – Dick Powell, American actor and director (d. 1963)
 1906 – Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)
 1907 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
 1907 – William Steig, American writer (d. 2003)
 1907 – Howard W. Hunter, American Mormon leader (d. 1995)
 1908 – Joseph McCarthy, American politician (d. 1957)
 1910 – Eric Malpass, British author (d. 1996)
 1913 – George Smathers, American politician (d. 2007)
 1916 – Roger Apéry, French mathematician (d. 1994)
 1916 – Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer (d. 2011)
 1917 – Pak Chŏng Hŭi, President of The Republic of Korea (d. 1979)
 1919 – Johnny Desmond, American singer (d. 1985)
 1919 – Rudolf Kreitlein, German football referee (d. 2012)
 1922 – Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)
 1922 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian UN Secretary–General (d. 2016)
 1925 – Zhores Medvedev, Russian agronomist, biologist and dissident (d. 2018)
 1926 – Bart Cummings, Australian racehorse trainer (d. 2015)
 1927 – Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (d. 1997)
 1928 – Kathleen Hughes, American actress
 1929 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
 1930 – Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor and printmaker (d. 1993)
 1930 – Edward Higgins White, American astronaut, first American to perform a space walk (d. 1967)
 1930 – Janis Pujats, Latvian cardinal
 1932 – Gunter Sachs, German businessman and playboy (d. 2011)
 1933 – Fred Haise, American astronaut
 1934 – Dave Mackay, Scottish footballer (d. 2015)
 1934 – Ellis Marsalis, Jr., American jazz pianist
 1935 – King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
 1936 – Carey Bell, American blues musician (d. 2007)
 1938 – John Gebbia Sr., American businessman
 1939 – Wendy Carlos, American composer
 1939 – Ben Cayetano, 5th Governor of Hawaii
 1942 – Natalia Gutman, Russian cellist
 1943 – Peter Norton, American software programmer and author
 1943 – Jim Cantalupo, CEO of McDonald's (d. 2004)
 1944 – Björn Bjarnason, Icelandic politician
 1945 – Stella Obasanjo, First Lady of Nigeria (d. 2005)
 1947 – Buckwheat Zydeco, American musician (d. 2016)
 1948 – Charles, Prince of Wales
 1948 – Paul Dacre, British newspaper editor (Daily Mail)
 1948 – Michael Dobbs, British novelist
 1949 – Pierre Buyoya, former President of Burundi
 1949 – James "J.Y." Young, American guitarist (Styx)

 1951 – 1975 
 1951 – Stephen Bishop, American singer–songwriter
 1951 – Zhang Yimou, Chinese director
 1951 – Frankie Banali, American drummer and songwriter
 1952 – Maggie Roswell, American actress
 1952 – Bill Farmer, American voice actor
 1953 – Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France
 1954 – Condoleezza Rice, 66th United States Secretary of State
 1954 – Yanni, Greek–American pianist, composer and producer
 1955 – Jack Sikma, American basketball player
 1955 – Matthias Herget, German footballer
 1956 – Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer (d. 2010)
 1956 – Alec John Such, American musician (Bon Jovi)
 1956 – Babette Babich, American philosopher, author and scholar
 1957 – Wolfgang Hoppe, German bobsledder
 1959 – Paul Attanasio, American screenwriter and movie and TV producer
 1959 – Paul McGann, English actor
 1962 – Stefano Gabbana, Italian fashion designer
 1964 – Patrick Warburton, American actor
 1965 – Greg Hands, English politician
 1966 – Charles Hazlewood, English conductor
 1967 – Letitia Dean, English actress
 1971 – Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
 1972 – Josh Duhamel, American actor
 1972 – Edyta Górniak, Polish singer
 1973 – Dana Snyder, American comedian, actor and producer
 1975 – Travis Barker, American drummer, songwriter and producer
 1975 – Faye Tozer, British singer (Steps)

 From 1976 
 1977 – Brian Dietzen, American actor
 1978 – Delphine Chanéac, French model and actress
 1979 – Carl Hayman, New Zealand rugby player
 1979 – Moitheri Ntobo, Lesotho footballer
 1979 – Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian actress and model
 1979 – Miguel Sabah, Mexican footballer
 1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer
 1980 – Carlos Cabezas, Spanish basketball player
 1981 – Vanessa Bayer, American comedienne and actress
 1981 – Russell Tovey, British actor
 1982 – Laura Ramsey, American actress
 1983 – Alejandro Falla, Colombian tennis player
 1984 – Vincenzo Nibali, Italian cyclist
 1984 – Lisa De Vanna, Australian footballer
 1984 – Marija Serifovic, Serbian singer
 1985 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
 1986 – Yuna, Malaysian singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1986 – Alo Jakin, Estonian cyclist
 1986 – Cory Michael Smith, American actor
 1989 – Jake Livermore, English footballer
 1990 – Zoe van der Weel, British handball player
 1991 – Taylor Hall, Canadian ice hockey player
 1991 – Mohammed Abu, Ghanaian footballer

 Deaths 
 Up to 1900 
 565 – Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 483)
 976 – Song Taizu, Chinese Emperor
 1263 – Alexander Nevsky, Russian saint (b. 1220)
 1282 – Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist reformer (b. 1222)
 1305 – John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
 1391 – Nikola Tavelic, Croatian missionary and saint (b. 1340)
 1522 – Anne of France (b. 1461)
 1687 – Nell Gwyn, British actress and royal mistress (b. 1650)
 1691 – Tasa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)
 1716 – Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1646)
 1746 – Georg Wilhelm Steller, German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer (b. 1709)
 1749 – Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1713)
 1817 – Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian national heroine (b. 1795)
 1825 – Jean Paul, German author (b. 1863)
 1831 – Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
 1831 – Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian–French composer and piano builder (b. 1757)
 1832 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American politician (b. 1737)
 1844 – John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (b. 1780)
 1866 – King Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1802)

 1901 – 2000 
 1908 – Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871)
 1915 – Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and writer (b. 1856)
 1921 – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (b. 1846)
 1922 – Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer (b. 1843)
 1944 – Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English air force officer (b. 1892)
 1946 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
 1947 – Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1873)
 1972 – Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b. 1900)
 1977 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religion leader (b. 1896)
 1985 – Wellington Koo, Chinese diplomat (b. 1887)
 1989 – Jimmy Murphy, Manchester United assistant manager (b. 1910)
 1991 – Tony Richardson, English director (b. 1928)
 1992 – Ernst Happel, Austrian football manager (b. 1925)
 2000 – Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)

 From 2001 
 2001 – Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
 2002 – Eddie Bracken, American actor (b. 1915)
 2003 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)
 2004 – Michel Colombier, French composer (b. 1939)
 2011 – Neil Heywood, British businessman (b. 1970)
 2012 – Ahmed Jabari, Palestinian military commander, Hamas (b. 1960)
 2013 – Grace Jones, British supercentenarian (b. 1899)
 2014 – Marius Barnard, South African surgeon (b. 1927)
 2014 – Diem Brown, American television personality (b. 1982)
 2014 – Jane Byrne, 50th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1934)
 2014 – Adib Jatene, Brazilian cardiologist and politician (b. 1929)
 2014 – Glen A. Larson, American television producer and writer (b. 1937)
 2014 – Robert Littell, American politician (b. 1936)
 2014 – Morteza Pashaei, Iranian singer (b. 1984)
 2014 – Eugene Dynkin, Russian–American mathematician (b. 1924)
 2015 – Warren Mitchell, British actor (b. 1926)
 2015 – Nick Bockwinkel, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
 2016 – Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player (b. 1913)
 2016 – Gwen Ifill, American broadcast journalist (b. 1955)
 2017 – Shyama, Indian actress (b. 1935)
 2017 – Jean-Pierre Schmitz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1932)
 2017 – Wolfgang Schreyer, German writer (b. 1927)
 2017 – Gunnar Uldall, German politician (b. 1940)
 2017 – Jack Blessing, American actor (b. 1951)
 2017 – Hou Zongbin, Chinese politician (b. 1929)
 2018 – Morten Grunwald, Danish actor and director (b. 1934)
 2018 – James V. Hansen, American politician (b. 1932)
 2018 – Rolf Hoppe, German actor (b. 1930)
 2018 – Fernando del Paso, Mexican writer (b. 1935)
 2019 – María Baxa, Italian–Serbian actress (b. 1946)
 2019 – Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer (b. 1932)

 Observances 
 World Diabetes Day (after the biergday of Frederick Banting)
 Children's Day (India)
 Day of the Colombian Woman

Category:Days of the year