November 14

Events

1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.

1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor & Oudinot defeated by Wittgenstein.

1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.

1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.

1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

1914 – The Ottoman Empire declares war against Britain, France, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro during the early months of World War I.

1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.

1921 – Foundation of the Communist Party of Spain.

1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

1932 – Al Shorta SC, one of Iraq's biggest football clubs, are founded as Montakhab Al Shorta.

1938 – The Lions Gate Bridge (a National Historic Site of Canada) connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.

1940 – World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.

1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13.

1941 – World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder 9,000 Jews in a single day.

1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.

1957 – The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.

1960 – Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.

1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.

1967 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".

1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.

1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.

1970 – Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.

1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.

1971 – Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria.

1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.

1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.

1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.

1975 – With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain abandons Western Sahara.

1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.

1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

1984 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.

1990 – After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.

1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.

1991 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.

1995 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

2001 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.

2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.

2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.

2012 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.

Births

1449 – Sidonie of Poděbrady, daughter of King of Bohemia (d. 1510)

1487 – John III of Pernstein, Bohemian land-owner, Governor of Moravia and Count of Kladsko (d. 1548)

1501 – Anna of Oldenburg, Regent of East Frisia (d. 1575)

1567 – Maurice, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)

1601 – John Eudes, French priest and missionary (d. 1680)

1663 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German organist and composer (d. 1712)

1719 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1787)

1765 – Robert Fulton, American engineer, invented the steamboat (d. 1815)

1771 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)

1776 – Henri Dutrochet, French physician, botanist, and physiologist (d. 1847)

1777 – Nathaniel Claiborne, American farmer and politician (d. 1859)

1778 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1837)

1779 – Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet and playwright (d. 1850)

1797 – Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist and lawyer (d. 1875)

1803 – Jacob Abbott, American author (d. 1879)

1805 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German pianist and composer (d. 1847)

1812 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d. 1878)

1812 – Maria Cristina of Savoy (d. 1836)

1816 – John Curwen, English minister and educator (d. 1880)

1828 – James B. McPherson, American general (d. 1864)

1838 – August Šenoa, Croatian author, poet, and critic (d. 1881)

1840 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)

1856 – Madeleine Lemoyne Ellicott, American activist (d. 1945)

1861 – Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian and author (d. 1932)

1863 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (d. 1944)

1869 – John Lumsden, Irish physician, founded the St. John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland (d. 1944)

1875 – Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general and politician (d. 1899)

1875 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author and activist (d. 1944)

1877 – Norman Brookes, Australian tennis player (d. 1968)

1878 – Julie Manet, French painter and art collector (d. 1966)

1878 – Leopold Staff, Ukrainian-Polish poet and academic (d. 1957)

1883 – Ado Birk, Estonian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)

1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)

1891 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)

1895 – Walter Jackson Freeman II, American physician and psychiatrist (d. 1972)

1897 – John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (d. 1946)

1898 – Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French philosopher, poet, and critic (d. 1944)

1900 – Aaron Copland, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1990)

1904 – Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (d. 1970)

1904 – Harold Larwood, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1995)

1904 – Dick Powell, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1963)

1905 – John Henry Barbee, American singer and guitarist (d. 1964)

1906 – Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer (d. 1985)

1907 – Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader, 14th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)

1907 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (d. 2002)

1907 – William Steig, American author, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 2003)

1908 – Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1957)

1910 – Rosemary DeCamp, American actress and singer (d. 2001)

1910 – Eric Malpass, English author (d. 1996)

1912 – Barbara Hutton, American philanthropist (d. 1979)

1912 – Tung-Yen Lin, Chinese-American engineer, designed the Guandu Bridge (d. 2003)

1915 – Mabel Fairbanks, American figure skater and coach (d. 2001)

1915 – Martha Tilton, American singer and actress (d. 2006)

1916 – Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician and academic (d. 1994)

1916 – Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011)

1917 – Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (d. 1979)

1918 – John Bromwich, Australian tennis player (d. 1999)

1919 – Johnny Desmond, American singer (d. 1985)

1919 – Lisa Otto, German soprano and actress (d. 2013)

1921 – Ea Jansen, Estonian historian and academic (d. 2005)

1921 – Brian Keith, American actor and director (d. 1997)

1922 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th Secretary General of the United Nations (d. 2016)

1922 – Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (d. 1973)

1924 – Leonid Kogan, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 1982)

1925 – Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)

1925 – James Mellaart, English archaeologist and author (d. 2012)

1927 – Lawrie Barratt, English businessman, founded Barratt Developments (d. 2012)

1927 – Bart Cummings, Australian horse trainer (d. 2015)

1927 – McLean Stevenson, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1996)

1927 – Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1997)

1928 – Kathleen Hughes, American actress

1929 – Shirley Crabtree, English wrestler (d. 1997)

1929 – Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player and sportscaster

1930 – Peter Katin, English pianist and academic (d. 2015)

1930 – Monique Mercure, Canadian actress

1930 – Michael Robbins, English actor (d. 1992)

1930 – Edward Higgins White, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967)

1932 – Gunter Sachs, German astrologer and photographer (d. 2011)

1933 – Fred Haise, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut

1934 – Dave Mackay, Scottish-English footballer and manager (d. 2015)

1934 – Ellis Marsalis, Jr., American pianist and educator

1934 – Catherine McGuinness, Irish lawyer, judge, and politician

1935 – Michael Busselle, English photographer and author (d. 2006)

1935 – Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)

1935 – Lefteris Papadopoulos, Greek songwriter and journalist

1936 – Carey Bell, American singer and harmonica player (d. 2007)

1936 – Freddie Garrity, English singer and actor (d. 2006)

1937 – Alan J. W. Bell, English director and producer

1937 – Murray Oliver, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)

1939 – Wendy Carlos, American keyboard player and composer

1942 – Manon Cleary, American painter and academic (d. 2011)

1942 – Natalia Gutman, Russian cellist and educator

1943 – Peter Norton, American programmer and author

1944 – Karen Armstrong, English author and academic

1944 – David Nash, English sculptor and academic

1944 – Mike Katz, American bodybuilder and football player

1945 – Louise Ellman, English academic and politician

1945 – Brett Lunger, American race car driver

1945 – Sue Williams, American actress and model (d. 1969)

1946 – Roland Duchâtelet, Belgian businessman and politician

1947 – Bharathan, Indian director and screenwriter (d. 1998)

1947 – P. J. O'Rourke, American political satirist and journalist

1947 – Nat Young, Australian surfer and author

1947 – Buckwheat Zydeco, American accordion player (d. 2016)

1948 – Paul Dacre, English journalist

1948 – Michael Dobbs, English author and politician

1948 – Robert Ginty, American actor and producer (d. 2009)

1948 – Charles, Prince of Wales

1949 – Raúl di Blasio, Argentinian pianist, composer, and producer

1949 – Enzo Cucchi, Italian painter

1949 – Gary Grubbs, American actor

1949 – Ryo Hayami, Japanese actor

1949 – James Young, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1950 – Sarah Radclyffe, English production manager and producer

1951 – Stephen Bishop, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

1951 – Leszek Cichy, Polish mountaineer

1951 – Zhang Yimou, Chinese actor, director, producer, and cinematographer

1952 – Johnny A., American guitarist and songwriter

1952 – Maggie Roswell, American voice actress and singer

1953 – Tim Bowler, English author

1953 – Dominique de Villepin, Moroccan-French lawyer and politician, 167th Prime Minister of France

1954 – Willie Hernandez, Puerto Rican baseball player

1954 – Bernard Hinault, French cyclist

1954 – Condoleezza Rice, American political scientist, academic, and politician, 66th United States Secretary of State

1954 – Eliseo Salazar, Chilean race car driver

1954 – Yanni, Greek-American pianist, composer, and producer

1955 – Philip Egan, English bishop

1955 – Jack Sikma, American basketball player and coach

1956 – Babette Babich, American philosopher, author, and scholar

1956 – Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer and manager (d. 2010)

1956 – Peter R. de Vries, Dutch journalist and producer

1956 – Steve Stockman, American accountant and politician

1956 – Valerie Jarrett, American government official

1957 – Donald Canfield, American geologist and academic

1957 – Michael J. Fitzgerald, American author

1959 – Paul Attanasio, American screenwriter and producer

1959 – Paul McGann, English actor

1959 – Chris Woods, English footballer, coach, and manager

1960 – Tom Judson, American actor and composer

1960 – Remi Moses, English footballer and coach

1961 – Antonio Flores, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1995)

1961 – D. B. Sweeney, American actor

1962 – Laura San Giacomo, American actress

1962 – Josh Silver, American keyboard player and producer

1962 – Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter

1964 – Bill Hemmer, American journalist

1964 – Joseph Simmons, American hip-hop artist

1964 – Patrick Warburton, American actor and comedian

1966 – Charles Hazlewood, English conductor

1966 – Petra Rossner, German cyclist

1966 – Curt Schilling, American baseball player and sportscaster

1967 – Letitia Dean, English actress and singer

1967 – Nina Gordon, American singer-songwriter

1967 – Leo Kunnas, Estonian colonel and author

1969 – Butch Walker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1970 – Brendan Benson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1970 – David Wesley, American basketball player and sportscaster

1971 – Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer and sportscaster

1971 – Vikas Khanna, Indian chef and author

1971 – Marco Leonardi, Australian-Italian actor

1972 – Matt Bloom, American wrestler, trainer, and sportscaster

1972 – Josh Duhamel, American model and actor

1972 – Edyta Górniak, Polish singer

1972 – Martin Pike, Australian footballer and coach

1972 – Aaron Taylor, American football player and sportscaster

1972 – Dariusz Żuraw, Polish footballer and manager

1973 – Betsy Brandt, American actress

1974 – Adina Howard, American singer-songwriter and chef

1974 – David Moscow, American actor

1974 – Joe Principe, American singer and bass player

1975 – Travis Barker, American drummer, songwriter, and producer

1975 – Luiz Bombonato Goulart, Brazilian footballer

1975 – Stephen Guarino, American actor

1975 – Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American businessman and critic

1977 – Obie Trice, American rapper and producer

1978 – Michala Banas, New Zealand actress and singer

1978 – Delphine Chanéac, French model and actress

1979 – Carl Hayman, New Zealand rugby player

1979 – Mavie Hörbiger, German-Austrian actress

1979 – Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian-French model and actress

1979 – Pushkar Lele, Indian singer

1979 – Moitheri Ntobo, Lesothan footballer

1979 – Miguel Sabah, Mexican footballer

1980 – Brock Pierce, American actor and businessman

1980 – Brooke Satchwell, Australian model and actress

1981 – Vanessa Bayer, American actress

1981 – Tom Ferrier, English race car driver

1981 – Russell Tovey, English actor

1982 – Boosie Badazz, American rapper

1982 – Kyle Orton, American football player

1983 – Guillermo Moscoso, American baseball player

1983 – Naqqash Tahir, English cricketer

1983 – Chelsea Wolfe, American singer-songwriter

1984 – Lisa De Vanna, Australian footballer

1984 – Courtney Johns, Australian footballer

1984 – Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer

1985 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer

1987 – Giorgos Georgiadis, Greek footballer

1988 – Michael Cox, American football player

1988 – Nanase Hoshii, Japanese singer and actress

1988 – Takurō Ōno, Japanese actor

1989 – Vlad Chiricheș, Romanian footballer

1989 – T. Y. Hilton, American football player

1989 – Jake Livermore, English footballer

1989 – The Ready Set, American singer-songwriter

1990 – Roman Bürki, Swiss footballer

1990 – Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (d. 2008)

1990 – Tereza Mrdeža, Croatian tennis player

1991 – Taylor Hall, Canadian ice hockey player

1991 – Graham Patrick Martin, American actor

1992 – Nathan Fox, English footballer

1993 – Hymel Hunt, New Zealand rugby league player

1993 – Shūhei Nomura, Japanese actor

1996 – Borna Ćorić, Croatian tennis player

Deaths

565 – Justinian I, Byzantine emperor (b. 482)

669 – Fujiwara no Kamatari, Japanese courtier and politician (b. 614)

976 – Emperor Taizu of Song (b. 927)

1060 – Geoffrey II, Count of Anjou

1189 – William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex

1226 – Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (b. 1193)

1263 – Alexander Nevsky, Russian saint (b. 1220)

1346 – Ostasio I da Polenta, Lord of Ravenna

1359 – Gregory Palamas, Greek archbishop and saint (b. 1296)

1391 – Nikola Tavelić, Croatian missionary and saint (b. 1340)

1522 – Anne of France (b. 1461)

1556 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian archbishop and poet (b. 1504)

1633 – William Ames, English philosopher and academic (b. 1576)

1687 – Nell Gwyn, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)

1691 – Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)

1716 – Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1646)

1734 – Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (b. 1649)

1746 – Georg Wilhelm Steller, German botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer (b. 1709)

1749 – Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 3rd Yokozuna (b. 1713)

1817 – Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian seamstress and spy (b. 1795)

1825 – Jean Paul, German journalist and author (b. 1763)

1829 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist (b. 1763)

1831 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1770)

1831 – Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French composer and piano builder (b. 1757)

1832 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American farmer and politician (b. 1737)

1844 – John Abercrombie, Scottish physician and philosopher (b. 1780)

1864 – Franz Müller, German tailor and murderer (b. 1840)

1866 – Miguel I of Portugal (b. 1802)

1907 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1848)

1908 – Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871)

1914 – Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Indian lawyer and journalist (b. 1861)

1915 – Booker T. Washington, American educator, essayist and historian (b. 1856)

1916 – Henry George, Jr., American journalist and politician (b. 1862)

1916 – Saki, British short story writer (b. 1870)

1930 – Sandy Pearce, Australian rugby league player (b. 1883)

1932 – Charles Hylton Stewart, English organist and composer (b. 1884)

1937 – Jack O'Connor, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)

1944 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and educator (b. 1873)

1944 – Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English air marshal (b. 1892)

1946 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1876)

1947 – Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1873)

1966 – Peter Baker, English captain, author, and politician (b. 1921)

1972 – Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1900)

1974 – Johnny Mack Brown, American football player, actor, and singer (b. 1904)

1977 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian monk and guru, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (b. 1896)

1981 – Robert Bradford, Irish footballer and politician (b. 1941)

1984 – Cesar Climaco, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th Mayor of Zamboanga City (b. 1916)

1984 – Nikitas Platis, Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1912)

1988 – Haywood S. Hansell, American general (b. 1903)

1989 – Jimmy Murphy, Welsh footballer, manager, assistant manager, coach and scout (b. 1910)

1990 – Sol Kaplan, American composer and conductor (b. 1919)

1991 – Tony Richardson, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)

1992 – Ernst Happel, Austrian footballer and coach (b. 1925)

1994 – Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)

1995 – Jack Finney, American author and screenwriter (b. 1911)

1996 – John A. Cade, American soldier and politician (b. 1929)

1997 – Eddie Arcaro, American jockey and sportscaster (b. 1916)

1997 – Jack Pickersgill, Canadian educator and politician, 35th Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1905)

2000 – Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)

2001 – Charlotte Coleman, English actress (b. 1968)

2001 – Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1922)

2002 – Eddie Bracken, American actor (b. 1915)

2002 – Elena Nikolaidi, Turkish-American soprano and educator (b. 1909)

2003 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1962)

2004 – Michel Colombier, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1939)

2006 – Sumner Shapiro, American admiral (b. 1926)

2008 – Kristin Hunter, American author and academic (b. 1931)

2008 – Robert E. Valett, American psychologist, teacher, and author (b. 1927)

2010 – Wes Santee, American runner (b. 1932)

2011 – Esin Afşar, Italian-Turkish singer and actress (b. 1936)

2011 – Neil Heywood, English-Chinese businessman (b. 1970)

2011 – Jackie Leven, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)

2012 – Alexandro Alves do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)

2012 – Brian Davies, Australian rugby player and manager (b. 1930)

2012 – Martin Fay, Irish fiddler (The Chieftains) (b. 1936)

2012 – Gail Harris, American baseball player (b. 1931)

2012 – Ahmed Jabari, Palestinian commander (b. 1960)

2012 – Abubakar Olusola Saraki, Nigerian physician and politician (b. 1933)

2013 – Georgina Anderson, English singer (b. 1998)

2013 – Sudhir Bhat, Indian producer and manager (b. 1951)

2013 – Hari Krishna Devsare, Indian journalist and author (b. 1938)

2013 – Grace Jones, English super-centenarian (b. 1899)

2013 – Bennett Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1965)

2013 – Reg Sinclair, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)

2014 – Marius Barnard, South African surgeon and politician (b. 1927)

2014 – Diem Brown, American journalist and activist (b. 1982)

2014 – Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1933)

2014 – Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and theorist (b. 1924)

2014 – Glen A. Larson, American director, producer, and screenwriter, created Battlestar Galactica (b. 1937)

2014 – Morteza Pashaei, Iranian singer-songwriter (b. 1984)

2015 – Nick Bockwinkel, American wrestler, sportscaster, and actor (b. 1934)

2015 – Norm Ellenberger, American basketball player and coach (b. 1932)

2015 – K. S. Gopalakrishnan, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)

2015 – Warren Mitchell, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)

2016 – Gwen Ifill, American television journalist (b. 1955)

Holidays and observances

Anniversary of the Movement of Readjustment (Guinea-Bissau)

Bal Diwas, celebrated on the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru. (India)

Christian feast day:

Barlaam of Kiev (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Joseph Pignatelli SJ

Justinian I (Eastern Orthodox and Lutheran Church)

Laurence O'Toole

Nikola Tavelic

Philip the Apostle (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Samuel Seabury (Anglican Communion)

Serapion of Algiers

November 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of the Colombian Woman (Colombia)

Mobile Brigade Day (Indonesia)

World Diabetes Day (International)