November 15

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Template:Short descriptionNovember 15 is the Template:Ordinal day of the year (Template:Ordinal in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 46 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• 655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
• 1315 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morgarten.
• 1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day.
• 1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.

1601–1900

• 1705 – Rákóczi's War of Independence: The Habsburg Empire and Denmark win a military victory over the Kurucs from Hungary in the Battle of Zsibó.
• 1760 – The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
• 1806 – Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is later named Pikes Peak in his honor.
• 1842 – A slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation commences.
• 1849 – Boilers of the steamboat Louisiana explode as she pulls back from the dock in New Orleans, killing more than 150 people.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea.
• 1884 – The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 met on 15 November 1884, and after an adjournment concluded on 26 February 1885, with the signature of a General Act, regulating the European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.
• 1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
• 1899 – Second Boer War: Battle of Chieveley, a British armored train is ambushed and partially derailed. British lose the battle, with 80 soldiers captured, along with war correspondent Winston Churchill.

1901–present

• 1917 – Eduskunta declares itself the supreme state power of Finland, prompting its declaration of independence and secession from Russia.
• 1920 – The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
• 1920 – The Free City of Danzig is established.
• 1922 – At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsizes in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
• 1933 – Thailand holds its first election.
• 1938 – Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
• 1951 – Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 comrades, is sentenced to death for attempting to reestablish the Communist Party of Greece.
• 1955 – The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
• 1957 – Short Solent 3 crashes near Chessell.
• 1959 – Four members of the Clutter family are murdered near Holcomb, Kansas, by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, a crime later detailed by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.
• 1965 – Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
• 1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
• 1968 – The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
• 1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000–500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
• 1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
• 1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
• 1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
• 1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
• 1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence; it is only recognized by Turkey.
• 1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
• 1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
• 1987 – In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
• 1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713 crashes during takeoff from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, killing 25.
• 1988 – In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
• 1988 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
• 1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
• 1990 – The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
• 1990 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-38, a classified mission for the Department of Defense.
• 1994 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to Template:Convert high.
• 2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
• 2000 – Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
• 2001 – Microsoft launches the Xbox game console in North America.
• 2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
• 2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, kill 25 people and wound 300 more.
• 2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
• 2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
• 2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
• 2016 – Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.
• 2017 – A flood a few miles outside of Athens results in the death of 25 people.
• 2020 – Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.
• 2022 – The world population reached eight billion.

Births

Pre-1600

• 459 – Bʼutz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king (died 501)
• 1316 – John I, king of France and Navarre (died 1316)
• 1397 – Nicholas V, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1455)
• 1498 – Eleanor of Austria, queen of Portugal and France (died 1558)
• 1511 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet and author (died 1536)
• 1556 – Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (died 1618)

1601–1900

• 1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (died 1701)
• 1660 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and orientalist (died 1746)
• 1661 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author (died 1743)
• 1692 – Eusebius Amort, German poet and theologian (died 1775)
• 1708 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1778)
• 1738 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (died 1822)
• 1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist (died 1801)
• 1746 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer (died 1809)
• 1757 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (died 1830)
• 1776 – José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and author (died 1827)
• 1784 – Jérôme Bonaparte, French husband of Catharina of Württemberg (died 1860)
• 1791 – Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (died 1869)
• 1793 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (died 1880)
• 1849 – Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator (died 1934)
• 1852 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (died 1892)
• 1859 – Christopher Hornsrud, Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway (died 1960)
• 1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1946)
• 1865 – John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (died 1932)
• 1866 – Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (died 1954)
• 1867 – Emil Krebs, German polyglot (died 1930)
• 1868 – Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (died 1947)
• 1873 – Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic (died 1945)
• 1874 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (died 1941)
• 1874 – August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)
• 1879 – Lewis Stone, American actor (died 1953)
• 1881 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (died 1960)
• 1882 – Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (died 1965)
• 1886 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (died 1951)
• 1887 – Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and translator (died 1972)
• 1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator (died 1986)
• 1888 – Artie Matthews, American pianist and composer (died 1958)
• 1890 – Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (died 1969)
• 1891 – W. Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1986)
• 1891 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (died 1944)
• 1892 – Naomi Childers, American actress (died 1964)
• 1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918)
• 1895 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1976)
• 1896 – Leonard Lord, English businessman (died 1967)
• 1897 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health (died 1960)
• 1897 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English author and critic (died 1988)
• 1899 – Avdy Andresson, Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War (died 1990)

1901–present

• 1903 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (died 1974)
• 1905 – Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer (died 1980)
• 1906 – Curtis LeMay, American general and politician (died 1990)
• 1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel (died 1944)
• 1908 – Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (died 1979)
• 1912 – Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (died 2010)
• 1912 – Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel (died 1945)
• 1913 – Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (died 2003)
• 1913 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (died 2005)
• 1914 – V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge (died 2014)
• 1916 – Nita Barrow, Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados (died 1995)
• 1916 – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (died 2008)
• 1919 – Carol Bruce, American singer and actress (died 2007)
• 1919 – Joseph Wapner, American judge and television personality (died 2017)
• 1920 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1999)
• 1922 – Francis Brunn, German juggler (died 2004)
• 1922 – David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic (died 2019)
• 1922 – Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2015)
• 1923 – Văn Cao, Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter (died 1995)
• 1923 – Samuel Klein, Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia (died 2014)
• 1924 – Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor (died 2013)
• 1925 – Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (died 2014)
• 1926 – Thomas Williams, American author and academic (died 1990)
• 1927 – Bill Rowling, New Zealand politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1995)
• 1929 – Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer (died 2021)
• 1929 – Joe Hinton, American singer (died 1968)
• 1930 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 2009)
• 1930 – Olene Walker, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (died 2015)
• 1931 – John Kerr, American actor, singer, and lawyer (died 2013)
• 1931 – Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya (died 2022)
• 1931 – Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (died 2020)
• 1932 – Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1932 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (died 1972)
• 1932 – Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher, author, and academic
• 1933 – Gloria Foster, American actress (died 2001)
• 1933 – Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author (died 2011)
• 1934 – Joanna Barnes, American actress and author (died 2022)
• 1934 – Peter Dickinson, English pianist and composer (died 2023)
• 1935 – Nera White, American basketball player (died 2016)
• 1936 – H. B. Bailey, American race car driver (died 2003)
• 1936 – Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1936 – Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (died 1998)
• 1937 – Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter (died 1968)
• 1939 – Terry Bradbury, English footballer and manager
• 1939 – Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter (died 2021)
• 1939 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (died 2015)
• 1939 – Enzo Staiola, Italian child actor (died 2025)
• 1940 – Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer (died 2024)
• 1940 – Tony Mendez, American CIA technical operations officer (died 2019)
• 1940 – Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor and screenwriter
• 1940 – Hank Wangford, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and physician
• 1940 – Sam Waterston, American actor
• 1941 – Rick Kemp, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1941 – Daniel Pinkwater, American author and illustrator
• 1942 – Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor
• 1945 – Roger Donaldson, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1945 – Bob Gunton, American actor and singer
• 1945 – Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer
• 1946 – Vassilis Goumas, Greek basketball player
• 1947 – Bob Dandridge, American basketball player
• 1947 – Malcolm Ranjith, Sri Lankan cardinal
• 1947 – Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2023)
• 1947 – Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1948 – Jimmy Choo, Malaysian fashion designer
• 1948 – Teodoro Locsin, Jr., Filipino journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat
• 1950 – Egon Vaupel, German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg
• 1951 – Beverly D'Angelo, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1952 – Rick Atkinson, American journalist, historian, and author
• 1952 – Randy Savage, American wrestler (died 2011)
• 1953 – Alexander O'Neal, American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger
• 1953 – James Widdoes, American actor, director, and producer
• 1954 – Kevin S. Bright, American director and producer
• 1954 – Emma Dent Coad, British politician
• 1954 – Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland
• 1954 – Randy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1954 – Tony Thompson, American R&B, disco, and rock drummer (died 2003)
• 1955 – Joe Leeway, English pop singer-songwriter and percussionist
• 1956 – Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer
• 1957 – Gerry Connolly, Australian comedian and actor
• 1957 – Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist and composer
• 1957 – Harold Marcuse, American historian and educator
• 1957 – Michael Woythe, German footballer and manager
• 1958 – Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Australian actor and director
• 1958 – Gu Kailai, Chinese lawyer and businesswoman
• 1958 – Lesley Laird, British politician
• 1959 – Tibor Fischer, English author
• 1960 – Dawn Airey, English broadcaster
• 1961 – Hugh McGahan, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1962 – Mark Acres, American basketball player and educator
• 1962 – Judy Gold, American comedian, actress, and producer
• 1963 – Andrew Castle, English tennis player and television host
• 1963 – Benny Elias, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1963 – Kevin J. O'Connor, American actor
• 1964 – Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1964 – Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2011)
• 1964 – Tiit Sokk, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1965 – Nigel Bond, English snooker player
• 1965 – Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
• 1966 – Rachel True, American actress
• 1967 – Greg Anthony, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1967 – Cynthia Breazeal, American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic
• 1967 – E-40, American rapper and actor
• 1967 – Wayne Harrison, English footballer (died 2013)
• 1967 – François Ozon, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Gus Poyet, Uruguayan footballer and manager
• 1967 – Jon Preston, New Zealand rugby player
• 1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper and producer (died 2004)
• 1968 – Fausto Brizzi, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Teodoro Casiño, Filipino journalist and politician
• 1968 – Jennifer Charles, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1968 – Uwe Rösler, German footballer and manager
• 1970 – Ilija Aračić, Croatian footballer and coach
• 1970 – Jack Ingram, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – Alexander Kvitashvili, Georgian-Ukrainian academic and politician, 19th Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare
• 1970 – Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer
• 1971 – Jay Harrington, American actor
• 1971 – Martin Pieckenhagen, German footballer
• 1972 – Jonny Lee Miller, English-American actor
• 1973 – Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress
• 1973 – Alamgir Sheriyar, English cricketer
• 1974 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1975 – Scott Henshall, English fashion designer
• 1975 – Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Boris Živković, Croatian footballer
• 1976 – Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian, actor, and stuntman
• 1976 – Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
• 1976 – Sule, Indonesian comedian and actor
• 1977 – Richard Lintner, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1977 – Steven Miles, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Queensland
• 1977 – Sean Murray, American actor
• 1977 – Peter Phillips, English businessman
• 1977 – Robaire Smith, American football player
• 1978 – Floyd Womack, American football player
• 1979 – Brooks Bollinger, American football player and coach
• 1979 – Josemi, Spanish footballer
• 1979 – Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
• 1980 – Ace Young, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1981 – Drew Hodgdon, American football player
• 1981 – Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
• 1982 – D. J. Fitzpatrick, American football player
• 1982 – Rio Hirai, Japanese actress
• 1982 – Joe Kowalewski, American football player
• 1982 – Benjamin Krause, German rugby player
• 1982 – Giaan Rooney, Australian swimmer
• 1982 – Lofa Tatupu, American football player
• 1982 – Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer
• 1983 – Dominic Carroll, Gibraltarian runner
• 1983 – Sophia Di Martino, English actress
• 1983 – Aleksandar Pavlović, Serbian basketball player
• 1983 – Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
• 1983 – John Heitinga, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1984 – Asia Kate Dillon, American actor and producer
• 1985 – Lily Aldridge, American model
• 1985 – Charron Fisher, American basketball player
• 1985 – Simon Spender, Welsh footballer
• 1986 – Winston Duke, Tobagonian-American actor
• 1986 – Coye Francies, American football player
• 1986 – Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
• 1986 – Jerry Roush, American singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player
• 1988 – B.o.B, American rapper, songwriter, and producer
• 1988 – Quanitra Hollingsworth, American-Turkish basketball player
• 1988 – Morgan Parra, French rugby player
• 1988 – Billy Twelvetrees, English rugby player
• 1989 – Jona Viray, Filipino singer
• 1991 – Maxime Colin, French footballer
• 1991 – Shailene Woodley, American actress
• 1992 – Dylan Bundy, American baseball player
• 1992 – Sofia Goggia, Italian skier
• 1992 – Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer
• 1992 – Daniela Seguel, Chilean tennis player
• 1992 – Trevor Story, American baseball player
• 1992 – Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer
• 1993 – Arik Armstead, American football player
• 1993 – Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer
• 1993 – Saaya Irie, Japanese actress and singer
• 1993 – Melitina Staniouta, Belarusian rhythmic gymnast
• 1994 – Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russian tennis player
• 1994 – Emma Dumont, American actress and model
• 1994 – Bryce Cartwright, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 – Blake Pieroni, American swimmer
• 1995 – Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player
• 1996 – Kim Min-jae, South Korean footballer
• 1997 – Paula Badosa, Spanish tennis player
• 2001 – TyTy Washington Jr., American basketball player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 165 BCE – Mattathias, Jewish resistance leader
• 621 – Malo, Breton bishop and saint
• 655 – Æthelhere, king of East Anglia
• 655 – Penda of Mercia, king of Mercia
• 1037 – Odo II, French nobleman (born 983)
• 1136 – Leopold III, margrave of Austria (born 1073)
• 1194 – Margaret I, countess of Flanders
• 1226 – Frederick of Isenberg, German nobleman (born 1193)
• 1280 – Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (born 1193)
• 1347 – James I of Urgell, Spanish nobleman (born 1321)
• 1351 – Joanna of Pfirt, duchess of Austria
• 1379 – Otto V, duke of Bavaria
• 1463 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian nobleman
• 1527 – Catherine of York, English princess (born 1479)
• 1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (born 1510)

1601–1900

• 1628 – Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (born 1576)
• 1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1571)
• 1670 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (born 1592)
• 1691 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (born 1620)
• 1706 – Tsangyang, Tibetan dalai lama (born 1683)
• 1712 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (born 1658)
• 1712 – Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (born 1675)
• 1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (born 1714)
• 1794 – John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (born 1723)
• 1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (born 1719)
• 1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman (born 1767)
• 1836 – Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and saint (born 1750s)
• 1845 – William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (born 1803)
• 1853 – Maria II, Portuguese queen and regent (born 1819)
• 1892 – Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (born 1850)
• 1897 – Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (born 1810)

1901–present

• 1908 – Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (born 1835)
• 1910 – Wilhelm Raabe, German author (born 1831)
• 1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)
• 1917 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (born 1858)
• 1919 – Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (born 1862)
• 1919 – Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician (born 1868)
• 1919 – Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
• 1921 – Tadhg Barry, veteran Irish republican and leading trade unionist (born 1880)
• 1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1866)
• 1922 – Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1854)
• 1922 – Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1872)
• 1941 – Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer (born 1902)
• 1942 – Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Swiss author and photographer (born 1908)
• 1945 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (born 1864)
• 1949 – Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (born 1911)
• 1949 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (born 1910)
• 1951 – Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (born 1862)
• 1954 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (born 1878)
• 1956 – Emma Richter, German paleontologist (born 1888)
• 1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1914)
• 1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)
• 1960 – Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (born 1937)
• 1961 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (born 1883)
• 1961 – Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (born 1883)
• 1963 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (born 1888)
• 1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler (born 1877)
• 1966 – William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (born 1887)
• 1967 – Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (born 1930)
• 1970 – Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician (born 1884)
• 1971 – Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (born 1903)
• 1976 – Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and producer (born 1904)
• 1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (born 1901)
• 1980 – Bill Lee, American actor and singer (born 1916)
• 1981 – Steve Macko, American baseball player and coach (born 1954)
• 1981 – Enid Markey, American actress (born 1894)
• 1981 – Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (born 1938)
• 1982 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (born 1895)
• 1982 – Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver (born 1901)
• 1983 – John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and songwriter (born 1955)
• 1983 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and manager (born 1898)
• 1983 – John Le Mesurier, English actor (born 1912)
• 1984 – Baby Fae, American infant, who received baboon heart (born 1984)
• 1985 – Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (born 1913)
• 1988 – Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (born 1915)
• 1988 – Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian (born 1905)
• 1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (born 1908)
• 1996 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat (born 1904)
• 1997 – Saul Chaplin, American director and composer (born 1912)
• 1998 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (born 1941)
• 1998 – Ludvík Daněk, Czech discus thrower (born 1937)
• 2000 – Edoardo Agnelli, son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli, converted to Shia Islam (born 1954)
• 2003 – Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (born 1910)
• 2003 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (born 1925)
• 2003 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (born 1923)
• 2003 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (born 1924)
• 2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (born 1909)
• 2004 – John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1930)
• 2005 – Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (born 1931)
• 2005 – Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (born 1959)
• 2006 – David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (born 1937)
• 2007 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1928)
• 2008 – Grace Hartigan, American painter (born 1922)
• 2009 – Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (born 1914)
• 2010 – Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (born 1932)
• 2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (born 1944)
• 2010 – William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer (born 1921)
• 2011 – Oba Chandler, American murderer (born 1946)
• 2012 – Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (born 1954)
• 2012 – Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (born 1976)
• 2012 – Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (born 1983)
• 2012 – K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (born 1931)
• 2012 – Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (born 1940)
• 2013 – Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (born 1929)
• 2013 – Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (born 1919)
• 2013 – Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (born 1930)
• 2014 – Jack Bridger Chalker, English painter and academic (born 1918)
• 2014 – Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator (born 1934)
• 2014 – Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (born 1983)
• 2014 – Reg Withers, Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory (born 1924)
• 2015 – Gisèle Prassinos, French author (born 1920)
• 2015 – Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (born 1930)
• 2015 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (born 1929)
• 2016 – Mose Allison, American pianist and songwriter (born 1927)
• 2017 – Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (born 1996)
• 2023 – Žarko Laušević, Serbian actor (born 1960)
• 2024 – Celeste Caeiro, Portuguese pacifist (born 1933)
• 2024 – Béla Károlyi, Romanian-American gymnastics coach (born 1942)
• 2024 – Jon Kenny, Irish comedian and actor (born 1957)
• 2024 – Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Japanese princess (born 1923)

Holidays and observances

• America Recycles Day (United States)
• Christian feast day:
  • Abibus of Edessa
  • Albert the Great
  • Blessed Caius of Korea
  • Didier of Cahors
  • Francis Asbury and George Whitefield (Episcopal Church)
  • Blessed Hugh Faringdon
  • Leopold III, a public holiday in Lower Austria and Vienna.
  • Malo
  • Mechell
  • November 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium (German-speaking Community of Belgium)
• Day of the Imprisoned Writer (International observance)
• Independence Day, unilaterally declared in 1988. (Palestine)
• King's Feast (Belgium)
• National Tree Planting Day (Sri Lanka)
• Peace Day (Ivory Coast)
• Republic Proclamation Day (Brazil)
• Shichi-Go-San (Japan)
• Republic Day (Northern Cyprus)
• The beginning of Nativity Fast (Eastern Orthodox)

External links

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