the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
2016 - A train crash near Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 20 people.
39 – Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (d. 1571)
1560 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
1587 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1654)
1604 – Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
1618 – Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor (d. 1707)
1633 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
1656 - Georg Reutter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1738)
1689 - Jan Josef Ignac Brentner, Czech composer (d. 1742)
1718 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, British diplomat and statesman (d. 1792)
1749 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
1757 - Robert Smith, 6th United States Secretary of State (d. 1842)
1793 - Stephen F. Austin, American founder of the Republic of Texas (d. 1836)
1799 - William Sprague III, American politician (d. 1856)
1801 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
1801 - Karl Baedeker, German writer and publisher (d. 1859)
1816 - Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
1845 - Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
1852 – Emperor Meiji of Japan (d. 1912)
1856 - Marcelino Menéndez, Spanish historian (d. 1912)
1877 - Carlos Ibanez del Campo, President of Chile (d. 1960)
1879 – Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Icelandic-Canadian explorer (d. 1962)
1884 - Joseph W. Martin, Jr., American politician (d. 1968)
1887 - Samuil Marshak, Russian writer (d. 1964)
1893 – Edward Albert Doisy, American biochemist (d. 1986)
1894 - Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek politician (d. 1964)
1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d. 1918)
1896 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
1899 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist and academic (d. 1986)
1900 – Adolf Dassler, German sporting goods executive (Adidas) (d. 1978)
1901 – King Leopold III of Belgium, King of Belgium (d. 1983)
1901 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
1903 – Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
1908 – Giovanni Leone, 6th President of Italy (d. 2001)
1910 - Richard Hurndall, English actor (d. 1984)
1910 - Karel Zeman, Czech director, animator, production designer and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1912 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
1918 – Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
1918 – Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (d. 2010)
1920 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
1921 – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
1922 - Luis Villoro, Spanish-Mexican philosopher, diplomat and writer (d. 2014)
1924 - Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (d. 2019)
1926 – Valdas Adamkus, former President of Lithuania
1926 - Maurice Couture, Canadian bishop
1927 - Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (d. 2004)
1927 - Peggy McCay, American actress (d. 2018)
1927 - Odvar Nordli, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 2018)
1928 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese animator and producer (d. 1989)
1930 – Lois Smith, American actress
1930 - Bill Dana, American pilot and astronaut (d. 2014)
1930 - Phil Crane, American politician (d. 2014)
1931 - Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
1931 - Monica Vitti, Italian actress
1932 - Albert Reynolds, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 2014)
1933 – John Barry, British movie score composer (d. 2011)
1933 - Ken Berry, American actor (d. 2018)
1933 – Michael Dukakis, 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts
1933 - C. K. Jaffer Sharief, Indian politician (d. 2018)
1933 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist
1933 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
1933 - Mildred McDaniel, American athlete
1934 - Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker, English poet and politician
1935 - Abune Paulos, Ethiopian church leader (d. 2012)
1935 - Gero Bisanz, German football coach (d. 2014)
1936 - Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
1937 - Lynn Woolsey, American politician
1938 - Akira Kobayashi, Japanese singer
1938 – Jean Rollin, French movie producer (d. 2010)
1942 - Martin Cruz Smith, American writer
1943 – Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician, singer and songwriter (d. 2011)
1945 – Gerd Müller, German footballer
1945 - Nick Simper, British musician
1946 - Richard Karl, German mountaineer, photographer and author (d. 1982)
1946 - Tom Savini,American actor, stuntman, director and make-up artist
1947 - Mazie Hirono, Japanese-American lawyer and politician
1948 – Lulu, Scottish actress and singer
1948 - Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian racing driver (d. 1974)
1949 – Larry Holmes, American boxer
1949 - Anna Wintour, English-American fashion magazine editor
1950 - James E. Rothman, American biochemist
1952 – Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedienne
1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor
1953 – Dennis Miller, American comedian
1953 – Kathy Kinney, American actress
1953 – Kate Capshaw, American actress
1954 – Adam Ant, British singer
1956 – Kevin Murphy, American actor, puppeteer, producer and screenwriter
1956 – Cathy Jamieson, Scottish politician
1956 – Bob Welch, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1957 – Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor
1958 – Tony McNulty, British politician
1959 – Hal Hartley, American film producer, director, screenwriter and composer
1960 – Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
1960 – William Monahan, American screenwriter and author
1961 – Dave Hahn, Japanese-American mountaineer and journalist
1961 – David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley, British businessman
1962 - Antti Rinne, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland
1962 – Jacqui Smith, British politician
1963 – Ian Wright, English footballer
1964 – Paprika Steen, Danish actress and film director
1965 – Gert Heerkes, Dutch footballer and manager
1970 – Andrzej Juskowiak, Polish footballer
1971 – Unai Emery, Spanish footballer and manager
1971 – Dylan Moran, Irish comedian
1971 – Dwight Yorke, footballer from Trinidad and Tobago
1971 – Alison Williamson, English archer
1972 – Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer (d. 2017)
1973 – Mick Thomson, American musician (Slipknot)
1973 – Ben Fogle, British television personality, writer and broadcaster
1974 – Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player and coach
1974 – Benedict Akwuegbu, Nigerian footballer
1976 – Tom Brosseau, American singer-songwriter
1976 – Guillermo Franco, Mexican footballer
1979 – Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
1981 - Rodrigo Millar, Chilean footballer
1981 - Jermaine Jones, German-American soccer player
1982 – Evgeni Plushenko, Russian figure skater
1985 - Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
1986 - Piet Velthuizen, Dutch footballer
1986 - Paul Derbyshire, Italian rugby player
1986 - Beth Kingston, English actress
1986 - Heo Young-saeng, South Korean singer and entertainer
1987 – Gemma Ward, Australian model
1987 - Colin Kaepernick, American football player
1988 - Stephanie Inglis, Scottish judoka
1988 - Angus McLaren, Australian actor
1989 - Paula DeAnda, American singer-songwriter and actress
1989 - Joyce Jonathan, French singer, composer and actress
1990 - Joe Clarke, English slalom canoeist
1991 - Lauren Gray, Scottish curler
1992 - Stevie May, Scottish footballer
1995 - Kendall Jenner, American model
1998 - Maddison Elliott, Australian swimmer
361 – Constantinus II, Roman Emperor (b. 317)
753 - Pirminius, German saint (b. 700)
1254 - John III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1193)
1584 - Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1538)
1600 - Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
1639 - Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (b. 1579)
1643 - John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
1643 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
1793 – Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
1794 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal (b. 1715)
1858 - Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher (b. 1807)
1890 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1811)
1891 - Louis Lucien Bonaparte, English-Italian philologist and politician (b. 1813)
1914 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (b. 1887)
1917 – Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
1918 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1857)
1926 – Annie Oakley, American sharp-shooter (b. 1860)
1929 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
1933 - Pierre Paul Emile Roux, French physician, immunologist and bacteriologist (b. 1853)
1940 - Manuel Azaña, Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (b. 1880)
1949 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1861)
1954 – Henri Matisse, French painter (b. 1869)
1957 – Laika, Soviet-Russian space dog (b. 1954)
1970 – King Peter II of Yugoslavia (b. 1923)
1973 - Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1975 - Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
1975 - A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1919)
1975 - Tajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
1975 - Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1919)
1981 – Eraldo Monzeglio, Italian footballer (b. 1906)
1983 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
1990 – Mary Martin, American actress (b. 1913)
1993 – Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (b. 1895)
1996 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African dictator (b. 1921)
1998 – Bob Kane, American cartoonist (b. 1915).
1999 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
2004 - Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1972)
2006 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
2006 - Paul Mauriat, French pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2008 - Jean Fournet, French conductor (b. 1913)
2009 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (b. 1906)
2010 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (b. 1938)
2012 - Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician, 18th Governor of Gujarat (b. 1923)
2013 - Nick Cardy, American illustrator (b. 1920)
2014 - Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (b. 1950)
2014 - Tinus Linee, South African rugby player (b. 1969)
2014 - Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Egyptian actress (b. 1933)
2014 - Augusto Martelli, Italian composer (b. 1940)
2014 - Nina Timofeeva, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1935)
2014 - Gordon Tullock, American economist (b. 1922)
2015 - Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (b. 1944)
2015 - Howard Coble, American politician (b. 1931)
2015 - Adriana Campos, Colombian actress (b. 1979)
2015 - Tom Graveney, English cricketer (b. 1927)
2016 - Yawar Hayat Khan, Pakistani producer and director (b. 1933)
2016 - Kay Starr, American singer (b. 1922)
2017 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh (b. 1926)
2017 - Renzo Calegari, Italian cartoonist (b. 1933)
2018 - Mari Hulman George, American motorsport executive (b. 1934)
2018 - John Large, English engineer (b. 1943)
2018 - Sondra Locke, American actress (b. 1944)
2019 - Gert Boyle, German-American businesswoman (b. 1924)
2019 - Ian Cross, New Zealand author and journalist (b. 1925)
2019 - Yvette Lundy, French resistance activist (b. 1916)
2019 - Taku Mayumura, Japanese science fiction novelist (b. 1934)
Independence Day (Panama, Dominica, Federated States of Micronesia)
Day of Culture (Japan, after birthday of Emperor Meiji)
Independence Day at Cuenca (Ecuador)
Victory Day (Maldives)
November 03
1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on Guadeloupe.
1501 - Catherine of Aragon meets Arthur Tudor, the brother of Henry VIII of England.
1576 - Eighty Years' War: Spain captures Antwerp, Flanders.
1677 – Future queen Mary II of England marries future king William III of England.
1783 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No.
36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1786 - Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse lands on an island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, which he names after Jacques Necker.
1798 - Beginning of the Russo-Ottoman Siege of Corfu.
1828 - Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.
1847 - Scottish doctor James Young Simpson discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1852 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which later expands to become Italy.
1856 - James Buchanan is elected President of the United States.
1861 - The University of Washington is founded.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Johnson - Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars of material.
1875 - Paddle steamer Pacific collides with Orpheus sailing boat off Cape Flattery, Washington, killing 273 people.
1884 - Grover Cleveland is elected to his first term as President of the United States.
1890 - London's deep-level railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
1921 – Prime Minister of Japan Hara Takashi is murdered.
1921 - Italy's unknown soldier is buried in the Fatherland Altar in Rome.
1922 – A team of archaeologists led by Howard Carter finds the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
1924 - Calvin Coolidge is elected to continue as President of the United States, after he had served out Warren G. Harding's term.
1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first woman elected governor in a US State.
1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order from Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces to a five-month retreat.
1950 - European Convention on Human Rights is adopted.
1952 - The United States Government creates the National Security Agency.
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President of the United States.
1955 – The rebuilt Vienna State Opera is re-opened.
1956 – Soviet troops crush the Hungarian Revolution.
Thousands are killed.
1960 - In Tanzania, Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees making tools, the first-ever such observation in non-humans.
1966 - The Arno River in Florence, Italy floods at record levels, making thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
1970 - Genie, aged 13, is found in Los Angeles, having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life until that point.
1977 - The UN ends its weapons embargo on Apartheid-era South Africa.
1979 - The Iran hostage crisis begins - A group of Iranians, mostly students, invades United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran, and takes 90 people hostage, including 53 Americans.
1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States, defeating Jimmy Carter.
1984 - French Pay-TV channel Canal+ starts transmission.
1991 - Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines, is given a Presidential pardon by Corazon Aquino.
1993 - A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing  during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
1993 - Jean Chrétien becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
1994 - The first conference focusing exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web is held in San Francisco, California.
1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is murdered, being shot dead by Yigal Amir.
1999 - Ilir Meta becomes Prime Minister of Albania.
2001 - Northern Ireland: The Police Service of Northern Ireland is created, replacing the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
2005 – Nintendo's Game Boy Micro is released in Europe.
2006 - A widespread power failure affects parts of Western Europe.
2008 – Barack Obama wins the vote to become President of the United States, over Senator John McCain.
Obama becomes the US' first African American President.
2010 - Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.
2014 - US Mid-term elections are held, with the Republican Party reclaiming the majority it lost in the Senate in 2006.
2015 - Justin Trudeau becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
2015 - A cargo plane crashes near Juba International Airport in South Sudan, killing 37 people.
2015 - A building collapses in Lahore, Pakistan, killing 45 people.
2016 - The Paris climate change agreement enters into force.
2018 - New Caledonia holds an independence referendum, where a smaller-than expected majority (56%) votes to remain an overseas territory of France.
2019 - Sir Lindsay Hoyle is chosen to succeed John Bercow as Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
1448 - King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
1470 – Edward V, King of England (d. 1483?)
1575 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
1592 - Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
1618 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor (d. 1707)
1631 – Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, daughter of Charles I of England, and mother of William III (d. 1660)
1640 - Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1697)
1661 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
1732 - Thomas Johnson, Governor of Maryland (d. 1819)
1765 - Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1766 - John Adams, English mutineer (d. 1829)
1772 - François-Frédéric Lemot, French sculptor (d. 1827)
1782 - John Branch, Governor of North Carolina and last territorial Governor of Florida (d. 1863)
1783 - Gaspard Gourgaud, French historian (d. 1852)
1787 - Edmund Kean, English actor (d. 1833)
1836 - Charles B. Andrews, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1902)
1840 - William Giblin, Australian politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1887)
1845 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (d. 1883)
1853 - Anna Baverova, Czech physician (d. 1924)
1861 - Dimitrios Ioannou, Greek general (d. 1926)
1868 - La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and dancer (d. 1965)
1872 - Barbu Stirbey, Romanian politician (d. 1946)
1873 - G. E. Moore, English philosopher (d. 1958)
1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
1874 - Charles Despiau, French sculptor (d. 1946)
1879 – Will Rogers, American humorist (d. 1935)
1883 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general (d. 1953)
1884 - Harry Ferguson, British aviator and inventor (d. 1960)
1884 - George Underwood, American athlete (d. 1943)
1887 - Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist, philanthropist and scientific research patron (d. 1975)
1890 - Klabund, German writer (d. 1928)
1896 – Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines (d. 1971)
1897 - C. B. van Niel, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1985)
1899 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourg cyclist (d. 1985)
1900 - Lucretiu Patrascanu, Romanian Communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
1901 - Bangja, Crown Princess Euimin of Korea (d. 1989)
1902 - Reg Dean, British supercentenarian (d. 2013)
1904 - Tadeusz Zylinski, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
1906 - Sterling North, American writer (d. 1974)
1907 - Draga Matkovic, German concert pianist
1908 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish physicist (d. 2005)
1908 - Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (d. 1997)
1909 – Bert Patenaude, American footballer (d. 1974)
1909 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1911 – Dixie Lee, American actress, dancer and singer (d. 1952)
1912 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (d. 1978)
1913 - Gig Young, American actor (d. 1978)
1916 – Walter Cronkite, American news reporter (d. 2009)
1916 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, inventor of the Barbie doll (d. 2002)
1918 – Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
1919 - Oscar Holderer, German rocket scientist (d. 2015)
1920 - Val Heim, American baseball player (d. 2019)
1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
1923 - Gunnar Huseby, Icelandic athlete (d. 1995)
1923 - Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player
1925 - Ritwik Ghatab, Bangladeshi-Indian filmmaker and scriptwriter (d. 1976)
1925 - Doris Roberts, American actress (d. 2016)
1928 - Larry Bunker, American jazz musician (d. 2005)
1929 - Shakuntala Devi, Indian child prodigy and mental calculator (d. 2013)
1929 - Leopold Gratz, Austrian politician (d. 2006)
1929 - Athanasios of Albania, Greek-Albanian archbishop
1930 - Dick Groat, American baseball and basketball player
1930 - Dick MacPherson, American football coach (d. 2017)
1931 - Bernard Francis Law, American cardinal and former Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2017)
1932 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
1933 - Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist (d. 2018)
1933 - C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian military leader and politician (d. 2011)
1935 - Elgar Howarth, English conductor, composer and trumpeter
1936 - Didier Ratsiraka, former President of Madagascar (d. 2021)
1936 - C. K. Williams, American poet (d. 2015)
1937 - Loretta Swit, American actress
1938 - Jorge Manicera, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2012)
1939 - Michael Meacher, British politician (d. 2015)
1940 - Marlène Jobert, French actress
1943 - Marilyn Ware, American diplomat and businesswoman (d. 2017)
1944 - Scherrie Payne, American singer
1944 - Linda Gary, American voice actress (d. 1995)
1946 – Laura Bush, former First Lady of the United States
1948 – Amadou Toumani Touré, President of Mali
1948 - Alexis Hunter, New Zealand photographer and painter (d. 2014)
1951 – Traian Basescu, President of Romania
1952 - Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Coptic Church leader
1953 - Tina Theune, German footballer
1953 - Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
1953 - Derek Johnstone, Scottish footballer
1953 - Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian racing driver
1953 - Peter Lord, English animator, film producer and director
1954 - Aleksandr Aksinin, Russian athlete
1954 - Chris Difford, rock music singer
1955 – Matti Vanhanen, former Prime Minister of Finland
1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, English musician (d. 1982)
1956 - Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
1957 – Tony Abbott, 28th Prime Minister of Australia
1958 - Lee Jasper, English activist and politician
1960 - Kathy Griffin, American comedienne
1961 – Ralph Macchio, American actor
1961 – Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer
1962 - Arvo Volmer, Estonian conductor
1963 – Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer (d. 1999)
1963 – Horacio Elizondo, Argentine  football referee
1963 - Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1963 - Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Yuko Mizutani, Japanese voice actress and singer (d. 2016)
1965 - Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer
1965 - Wayne Static, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1969 – Sean Combs (P-Diddy), American rapper and producer
1969 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor
1969 - Samantha Smith, American actress
1970 - Malena Ernman, Swedish singer
1970 - Tony Sly, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
1971 - Perry Moore, American writer and movie producer (d. 2011)
1972 – Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer
1972 - Myles Pollard, Australian actor
1974 - Louise Redknapp, English television personality
1975 - Heather Tom, American actress
1976 - Daniel Bahr, German politician
1976 – Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
1976 - Alexander Popp, German tennis player
1979 - Trishelle Cannatella, American model and actress
1980 - Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2015)
1981 - Guy Martin, English motorcycle racer
1982 - Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower (d. 2009)
1983 - Anton Buslov, Russian astrophysicist and blogger (d. 2014)
1984 - Dustin Brown, American ice hockey player
1985 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
1986 - Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1986 - Szymon Pawlowski, Polish footballer
1986 - Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver
1987 - T.O.P, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
1989 - Enner Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
1991 - Lesley Kerkhove, Dutch tennis player
1998 - Darcy Rose Byrnes, American actress and singer
1411 - Khalil Sultan, Timurid ruler (b. 1384)
1652 - Jean-Claude de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
1669 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1801 - William Shippen, American physician and Continental Congressman (b. 1712)
1847 - Thieu Tri, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1807)
1847 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
1893 - Pierre Tirard, Prime Minister of France (b. 1827)
1906 - John H. Ketcham, American general and politician (b. 1832)
1918 – Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
1921 – Hara Takashi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1865)
1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
1931 - Luigi Galleani, Italian activist (b. 1861)
1932 - Belle Bennett, American actress (b. 1891)
1950 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach (b. 1887)
1951 - Ernesto Ambrosini, Italian athlete (b. 1894)
1955 – Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
1969 - Carlos Marighella, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1911)
1969 - Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (b. 1920)
1969 - Ernest W. Gibson, Governor of Vermont (b. 1901)
1974 – Bert Patenaude, American footballer (b. 1909)
1982 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1907)
1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
1988 - Kleanthis Vikelidis, Greek footballer (b. 1916)
1990 - David Stirling, British founder of the SAS (b. 1915)
1992 - George Klein, Canadian inventor (b. 1904)
1994 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
1995 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1922)
1997 - Richard Hooker, American writer (b. 1924)
1998 - Marion Donovan, American architect and inventor (b. 1917)
2008 – Michael Crichton, American writer (b. 1942)
2009 - Hubertus Brandenburg, German-born Swedish Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1923)
2010 – Eugenie Blanchard, French-Caribbean supercentenarian (b. 1896)
2010 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (b. 1934)
2011 - Alfonso Cano, Colombian FARC leader (b. 1948)
2011 - Andy Rooney, American journalist (b. 1919)
2011 - Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist (b. 1915)
2012 - Ted Curson, American trumpeter (b. 1935)
2013 - Hans von Borsody, Austrian-German actor (b. 1929)
2014 - Jeremy Dale, American comic book artist (b. 1979)
2014 - Enrique Olivera, Argentine politician (b. 1940)
2014 - Richard Schaal, American actor (b. 1928)
2014 - Eddie Stuart, South African footballer (b. 1931)
2015 - René Girard, French-American historian, literary critic and philosopher of social science (b. 1923)
2015 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter (b. 1950)
2015 - Piotr Domaradzki, Polish-American journalist (b. 1946)
2015 - Ole Knapp, Norwegian politician (b. 1931)
2016 - Jean-Jacques Perrey, French electronic music producer (b. 1929)
2016 - Mansour Pourheidari, Iranian footballer (b. 1946)
2017 - Michael Augustine, Indian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
2017 - Anna Diggs Taylor, American judge (b. 1932)
2017 - Dudley Simpson, Australian composer and conductor (b. 1922)
2017 - Tamara Natalie Madden, Jamaican-American artist (b. 1975)
2018 - Karl-Heinz Adler, German artist (b. 1927)
2018 - Manohar Prahlad Awati, Indian vice-admiral (b. 1927)
2018 - Donna Axum, American model (b. 1942)
2018 - Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, Italian architect (b. 1934)
2018 - Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, American Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1939)
2018 - Jeremy Heywood, British economist and civil servant (b. 1961)
2018 - Harris Hines, American judge (b. 1943)
2018 - Vince Manuwai, American football player (b. 1980)
2018 - Grant R. Osborne, American theologian (b. 1942)
2018 - Wolfgang Zuckermann, German-American harpsichord maker and activist (b. 1922)
2019 - Gay Byrne, Irish broadcaster (b. 1934)
2019 - Jacques Dupont, French racing cyclist (b. 1928)
2019 - Sadeque Hossain Khoka, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1952)
2019 - Virginia Leith, American actress (b. 1925)
Flag Day (Panama)
National Unity and Armed Forces Day (Italy)
Unity Day (Russia)
November 04
800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
1420 - Henry V of England enters Paris.
1640 – Portugal regains its independence from Spain.
1821 – The first constitution of Costa Rica is issued.
1822 – Emperor Pedro I of Brazil is crowned.
1824 - The United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner of the US Presidential Election after no candidate got an overall majority of Electoral College votes.
1828 - Argentine general Juan Lavalle carries out a coup against Governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
1835 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales.
1864 - Great Fire of Brisbane.
1865 - Shaw University, the first historically black university in the Southern United States, is founded in North Carolina.
1885 - The fizzy drink Dr Pepper is first served at a drug store in Waco, Texas.
1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
1913 – Crete is annexed by Greece.
1913 - The Buenos Aires Metro opens to the public.
1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1918 - Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania.
1919 - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor officially takes her seat in the House of Commons as the UK's first female Member of Parliament.
1923 – The dam of the Gleno Reservoir near Bergamo, Italy, bursts, killing around 600 people.
1934 - In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolaev at Communist Headquarters in Leningrad.
1941 - World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to begin war against the United States.
1941 - World War II: New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia signs the Administration Order No.
9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1948 - Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, South Australia, involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a rare book.
1953 - Hugh Hefner publishes the first edition of Playboy magazine.
1955 – In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1958 – Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
1958 - The Our Lady of the Angels school fire in Chicago kills 92 children and 3 nuns.
1959 – Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent.
1960 - Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested in Hamburg after being accused of attempted arson.
1961 – The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
1963 – Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
1964 – Malta, Malawi and Zambia join the UN.
1965 - India's Border Security Force is founded.
1966 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger succeeds Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor of West Germany.
1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
1971 – Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
1971 – The Indian Army occupies part of Kashmir.
1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.
1974 - TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport near Washington, DC, killing all 92 people on board.
1974 - Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of JFK International Airport outside New York City, killing all 3 crew members.
There were no passengers on board at the time.
1976 – Angola joins the UN.
1981 - Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
1986 - The Musee d'Orsay art museum in Paris opens.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1989 - A right-wing rebel group attempts to remove then-President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino from power in a failed coup attempt.
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed.
1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
2000 – Vicente Fox becomes President of Mexico.
2006 – Felipe Calderon becomes President of Mexico.
2006 – A typhoon causes landslides on the Mayon Volcano in the Philippines, burying about 1,000 people.
2009 – The European Union's Lisbon Treaty takes effect.
2012 - Enrique Peña Nieto becomes President of Mexico.
2013 - A train derails in the Bronx, New York City, on the banks of the Hudson River, killing four people and injuring around 60.
2014 - The Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab rounds up and kills 36 Non-Muslims in northeastern Kenya.
2016 - Vajiralongkorn officially becomes King of Thailand.
2017 - Japanese Emperor Akihito's abdication date is set for April 30, 2019.
2017 - The groups are drawn for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
2018 - Andrés Manuel López Obrador becomes President of Mexico.
2019 - Ursula von der Leyen takes office as the first female President of the European Commission.
1081 – Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
1083 – Anna Komnene, Byzantine princess and scholar (d. 1153)
1438 - Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1503)
1443 - Magdalena of France, French princess (d. 1495)
1521 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyo (d. 1573)
1580 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
1690 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician (d. 1764)
1709 - Franz Xaver Richter, Austrian-Moravian singer, violinist, composer and conductor (d. 1789)
1716 - Etienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (d. 1817)
1761 – Marie Tussaud, French creator of waxworks (d. 1850)
1766 – Nikolay Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826)
1785 - Victor de Broglie, French politician and diplomat (d. 1850)
1792 - Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
1823 - Karl Schenk, Swiss politician (d. 1895)
1840 - Marie Bracquemond, French painter (d. 1916)
1844 – Alexandra of Denmark, queen consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1925)
1847 - Julia Ann Moore, American poet (d. 1920)
1855 - John Evans, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (d. 1943)
1864 - Carsten Borchgrevink, Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1934)
1867 - Ignacy Moscicki, Polish scientist and politician (d. 1946)
1869 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (d. 1923)
1873 - Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (d. 1924)
1873 - Viktor Chernov, Russian politician (d. 1952)
1884 - Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
1886 – Rex Stout, American writer (d. 1975)
1895 – Henry Williamson, English writer (d. 1977)
1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
1898 - Stuart Garson, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1977)
1901 - Ilona Feher, Hungarian violinist (d. 1988)
1901 - Jane Gray, Scottish-Australian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
1905 – Clarence Zener, American physicist (d. 1993)
1910 – Alicia Markova, British ballet dancer (d. 2004)
1911 – Franz Binder, Austrian footballer (d. 1989)
1911 - Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (d. 1984)
1911 - Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (d. 1999)
1912 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (d. 1986)
1913 – Mary Martin, American actress (d. 1990)
1916 - Wan Li, Chinese politician (d. 2015)
1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1979)
1923 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
1923 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral (d. 2018)
1925 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (d. 1998)
1926 - Keith Michell, Australian actor (d. 2015)
1928 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)
1928 - Malachi Throne, American actor (d. 2013)
1929 – Alfred Moisiu, former President of Albania
1929 - Karl Otto Pöhl, German economist (d. 2014)
1929 - David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997)
1930 - Marie Bashir, 37th Governor of New South Wales
1930 – Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985)
1931 - Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (d. 1986)
1931 - George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2018)
1933 - Fujiko Fujio, Japanese writer and illustrator (d. 1996)
1933 - Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (d. 2006)
1933 - Violette Verdy, French ballerina (d. 2016)
1933 - James Wolfensohn, 9th President of the World Bank
1934 – Billy Paul, American singer (d. 2016)
1935 – Woody Allen, American director and actor
1936 - María Romilda Servini, Argentine lawyer and judge
1936 - Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician (d. 2014)
1937 – Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of Latvia
1938 - Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani politician, Governor of Sindh (d. 2017)
1939 – Lee Trevino, American golf player
1940 – Richard Pryor, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
1942 - Mohamed Kamel Amr, Egyptian diplomat
1943 - Finn E. Kydland, Norwegian economist
1943 - Kenny Moore, American runner and journalist
1944 - Pierre Arditi, French actor
1944 - A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (d. 2017)
1944 - Michael Hagee, American general
1944 - Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan-French poet
1944 - Daniel Pennac, French writer
1944 – John Densmore, American musician
1945 – Bette Midler, American singer and actress
1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer
1947 – Alain Bashung, French singer (d. 2009)
1948 – Luciano Re Cecconi, Italian footballer (d. 1977)
1948 – Neil Warnock, English footballer and manager
1948 - Themba Dlamini, Prime Minister of Swaziland
1948 - Sarfraz Nawaz, Pakistani cricketer
1949 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian druglord (d. 1993)
1949 – Sebastian Pinera, President of Chile; 2010 - 2014, and since 2018
1950 - Ueli Maurer, Swiss politician
1950 - Seiichi Sakiya, Japanese footballer
1950 - Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer
1951 – Jaco Pastorius, American musician (d. 1987)
1951 - Treat Williams, American actor
1952 - Stephen Poliakoff, British playwright and television dramatist
1952 - Ellen McLain, American opera singer and voice actress
1952 - Pegi Young, American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist (d. 2019)
1954 - Viv Albertine, Australian-British singer and songwriter
1954 - Medha Patkar, Indian activist
1954 - François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (d. 2017)
1956 - Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter and actress
1956 - Billy Stark, Scottish footballer
1957 - Chris Poland, American guitarist
1957 - Deep Roy, Kenyan actor
1958 – Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and manager
1958 - Candace Bushnell, American author, journalist and television producer
1958 - Lisa Fischer, American singer-songwriter
1958 - Charlene Tilton, American actress
1959 - Billy Childish, English singer and musician
1960 – Carol Alt, American supermodel
1961 – Jeremy Northam, British actor
1961 - Armin Meiwes, German cannibal and murderer
1962 - Pamela McGee, American basketball player and coach
1963 - Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician
1964 – Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
1965 - Peter Greste, Australian journalist
1966 - Andrew Adamson, New Zealand movie director
1966 - Katherine LaNasa, American actress
1966 - Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player
1967 - Nestor Carbonell, American actor, director and screenwriter
1968 - Justin Chadwick, English actor and director
1968 - Anders Holmertz, Swedish swimmer
1968 - Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer (d. 2015)
1970 – Sarah Silverman, American comedienne
1971 – Emily Mortimer, English actress
1971 – Mika Pohjola, Finnish jazz pianist and composer
1971 - Melanie Peres, German-Israeli model, actress and singer
1974 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer
1974 - Simon Donnelly, Scottish footballer and manager
1974 - Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboardist and producer (d. 2014)
1976 – Laura Ling, American journalist
1976 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998)
1977 - Brad Delson, American guitarist and producer
1977 - Akiva Schaffer, American actor, rapper, director, producer and screenwriter
1979 - Shinji Murai, Japanese footballer
1981 - Park Hyo-shin, South Korean singer-songwriter
1982 - Alfredo Pacheco, El Salvadorean footballer (d. 2015)
1985 – Emiliano Viviano, Italian footballer
1985 - John Coughlin, American figure skater
1985 - Chanel Preston, American pornographic actress
1986 - DeSean Jackson, American football player
1988 – Jay Simpson, English footballer
1988 – Zoe Kravitz, American actress
1989 - Barry Bannan, Scottish footballer
1990 - Chanel Iman, American model
1991 - Sun Yang, Chinese swimmer
1991 - Dion Waiters, American basketball player
1992 - Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer
1992 - Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer
1995 - Eva Boto, Slovenian singer
2001 – Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan
2001 - Savannah McReynolds, American actress
2001 - Alice Robinson, New Zealand alpine ski racer
660 - Saint Eligius (b. c. 588)
1135 – Henry I, King of England (b. 1068)
1241 – Isabella of England, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
1377 – King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
1433 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor (b. 1378)
1521 – Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
1530 - Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1480)
1580 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
1581 - Alexander Briant, English priest, martyr and saint (b. 1556)
1581 - Edmund Campion, English priest, martyr and saint (b. 1540)
1581 - Ralph Sherwin, English priest, martyr and saint (b. 1550)
1602 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese warlord (b. 1582)
1633 - Isabella Clara Eugenia, Spanish consort of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (b. 1566)
1640 - Miguel de Vasconcelos, Portuguese politician (b. 1590)
1660 - Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist (b. 1592)
1750 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer (b. 1671)
1755 - Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
1825 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
1830 – Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
1864 - William L. Dayton, American politician (b. 1807)
1866 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor (b. 1790)
1884 - William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician (b. 1809)
1886 – Emil Hartwich, German lawyer (b. 1843)
1913 - Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and writer (b. 1864)
1914 - Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
1916 - Charles de Foucauld, French priest (b. 1858)
1917 - John January, American soccer player (b. 1882)
1934 – Sergey Kirov, Soviet politician (b. 1886)
1941 - Alva B. Adams, American politician (b. 1875)
1943 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian (b. 1862)
1947 – Aleister Crowley, English occultist and writer (b. 1875)
1947 – G.H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
1954 - Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter and publisher (b. 1898)
1964 - J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist (b. 1892)
1964 - Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek runner (b. 1877)
1968 - Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer, composer and conductor (b. 1887)
1969 - Magic Sam, American guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
1972 – Antonio Segni, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1891)
1973 – David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
1975 - Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American writer (b. 1906)
1981 - Russ Manning, American comic book artist (b. 1929)
1987 – James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)
1987 - Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager (b. 1918)
1990 - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian politician and diplomat (b. 1900)
1991 – George J. Stigler, American economist (b. 1911)
1993 - Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
1995 - Maxwell R. Thurman, American general (b. 1931)
1997 – Stephane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)
1997 - Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
1998 – Bertil Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1917)
2001 - Roger Leach, British actor (b. 1948)
2004 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
2005 - Jack Colvin, American actor (b. 1934)
2006 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
2007 - Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (b. 1929)
2008 – Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
2010 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (b. 1914)
2011 – Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)
2012 - Mitchell Cole, English footballer (b. 1985)
2012 - Phil Taylor, English footballer (b. 1917)
2012 - Jovan Belcher, American football player (b. 1987)
2013 - Heinrich Boere, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1922)
2013 - Lino Grech, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
2013 - Edward Heffron, American World War II veteran (b. 1923)
2014 - Sita Murt, Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman (b. 1946)
2014 - Mario Abramovich, Argentine violinist and composer (b. 1926)
2014 - Roberto Sagastume Pinto, Guatemalan politician (b. 1944)
2015 - Joseph Engelberger, American engineer (b. 1925)
2015 - Robert E. Glennen, American academic (b. 1933)
2015 - Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2017 - Adarsh Sein Anand, former Chief Justice of India (b. 1936)
2017 - Philipp Graf Lerchenfeld, German politician (b. 1952)
2017 - Fredy Schmidtke, German cyclist (b. 1961)
2017 - Arif Dirlik, Turkish-born American historian (b. 1940)
2017 - Les Whitten, American investigative reporter (b. 1928)
2018 - Ken Berry, American actor (b. 1933)
2018 - Ennio Fantastichini, Italian actor (b. 1955)
2018 - Anwar Hossain, Bangladeshi photographer and cinematographer (b. 1948)
2018 - Scott Stearney, American Vice Admiral (b. 1960)
2018 - Stefanie Tücking, German television presenter (b. 1962)
2018 - Shoucheng Zhang, Chinese-American physicist (b. 1963)
2019 - Henri Biancheri, French footballer (b. 1932)
2019 - Shelley Morrison, American actress (b. 1936)
2019 - Lil Bub, American-bred celebrity cat (b. 2011)
2019 - Paul Sirba, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1960)
2019 - Pat Sullivan, American football player (b. 1950)
World AIDS Day
Portugal – Restoration of Independence Day
Costa Rica – Military Abolition Day
Romania – The National Day of Romania, Union of Transylvania with Romania
Angola's Pioneers' Day
Australia – First day of Summer
Iceland - Self-governance Day
Teachers' Day (Panama)
Chad - Freedom and Democracy Day
Mexico - Traditionally the date the President is sworn into office every six years, last in 2012
Saint Eligius in Western Christianity
December 01
771 – Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
963 - Pope Leo VIII is elected.
1110 – First Crusade: The Crusaders conquer Sidon.
1154 - Nicholas Breakspear is elected to become Pope Adrian IV, and is the only Englishman to have been Pope.
1259 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.
1563 – The final session of the Council of Trent is held (it opened on December 13, 1545).
1619 – 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
1639 – Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus. (
November 24 under the Julian calendar.)
1674 – Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois).
1676 – Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
1745 - Charles Edward Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the second Jacobite Rising.
1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, United States General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
1791 – The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
1829 – In the face of fierce opposition, British governor Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta (Union forces did suffer more than three times the Confederate casualties, however).
1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange movement).
1872 – The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship was abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged).
1875 – Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain.
1881 - The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
1893 - First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South African company soldiers is ambushed and wiped out by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland in present-day Zimbabwe.
1906 – Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity in the United States established for men of African descent, was founded at Cornell University.
1909 - The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team is founded.
1918 – United States President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first United States President to travel to Europe while in office.