November 14

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

### From 1966 
* 1966 &ndash; Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) defends his heavyweight boxing title against Cleveland Williams.
* 1967 &ndash; The Congress of Colombia declares this date as the Day of the Colombian Woman.
* 1967 &ndash; American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems.
* 1969 &ndash; NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the Moon. Despite two lightning strikes, the launch is carried out successfully.
* 1970 &ndash; Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75 people.
* 1971 &ndash; Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria is officially enthroned.
* 1971 &ndash; Mariner 9 enters into orbit around Mars.
* 1973 &ndash; Anne, Princess Royal marries Captain Mark Phillips.
* 1975 &ndash; Spain abandons Western Sahara.
* 1979 &ndash; Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the US in response to the hostage crisis.
* 1982 &ndash; Lech Walesa is released from detention.
* 1990 &ndash; Germany and Poland agree to the Oder–Neisse Line forming their boundary.
* 1991 &ndash; Norodom Sihanouk returns to Cambodia after 13 years of exile.
* 1995 &ndash; The United States Government temporarily closes over disagreements between Democrats and Republicans over the federal budget.
* 1999 &ndash; Leonid Kuchma is re–elected President of Ukraine.
* 2001 &ndash; War in Afghanistan: The Northern Alliance takes over Kabul.
* 2003 &ndash; One of the Solar System's most distant objects, 90377 Sedna, is discovered.
* 2010 &ndash; Sebastian Vettel becomes, to date, the youngest Formula One World Champion.
* 2012 &ndash; Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas get worse.
* 2015 &ndash; 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 &ndash; An attack on a hospital in Liverpool, England leaves the attacker dead and one other person injured.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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