November 15

Events

565 – Justin II succeeds his uncle, Justinian I, as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.

1315 – Battle of Morgarten: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.

1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.

1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.

1705 – Battle of Zsibó: Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians).

1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

1791 – The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.

1806 – Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. (It is later named Pikes Peak.)

1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins Sherman's March to the Sea.

1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

1914 – Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.

1915 – Winston Churchill resigns from his Government, and soon commands the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front.

1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.

1920 – The Free City of Danzig is established.

1922 – Over 1,000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.

1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.

1933 – Thailand has its first election

1935 – Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second President of the Philippines.

1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.

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"

1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.

1951 – Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.

1955 – The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.

1959 – The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas, which inspired Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.

1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.

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.

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 declared independence. Recognized only 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.

1988 – In the Soviet Union, the unmanned 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 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.

1990 – The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.

2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.

2000 – Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.

2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China 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, killing 25 people and wounding about 300.

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 Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

2016 – Hong Kong High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.

Births

459 – B'utz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king (d. 501)

1316 – John I of France (d. 1316)

1397 – Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)

1498 – Eleanor of Austria (d. 1558)

1511 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet and author (d. 1536)

1556 – Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618)

1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (d. 1701)

1660 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and orientalist (d. 1746)

1661 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author (d. 1743)

1688 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1757)

1692 – Eusebius Amort, German poet and theologian (d. 1775)

1708 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778)

1738 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (d. 1822)

1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist (d. 1801)

1746 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer (d. 1809)

1757 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (d. 1830)

1776 – José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and author (d. 1827)

1784 – Jérôme Bonaparte, French husband of Catharina of Württemberg (d. 1860)

1791 – Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1869)

1793 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (d. 1880)

1849 – Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator (d. 1934)

1852 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (d. 1892)

1859 – Christopher Hornsrud, Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)

1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1946)

1868 – Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (d. 1947)

1873 – Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic (d. 1945)

1874 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (d. 1941)

1874 – August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)

1879 – Lewis Stone, American actor (d. 1953)

1881 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (d. 1960)

1882 – Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (d. 1965)

1886 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (d. 1951)

1887 – Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and translator (d. 1972)

1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator (d. 1986)

1888 – Artie Matthews, American pianist and composer (d. 1958)

1890 – Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (d. 1969)

1891 – W. Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1986)

1891 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944)

1892 – Naomi Childers, American actress (d. 1964)

1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)

1895 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1976)

1896 – Leonard Lord, English businessman (d. 1967)

1897 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health (d. 1960)

1897 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English author and critic (d. 1988)

1899 – Avdy Andresson, Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War (d. 1990)

1903 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 1974)

1905 – Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1980)

1906 – Curtis LeMay, American general and politician (d. 1990)

1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel (d. 1944)

1908 – Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (d. 1979)

1912 – Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2010)

1912 – Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel (d. 1945)

1913 – Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2003)

1913 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (d. 2005)

1914 – V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge (d. 2014)

1916 – Nita Barrow, Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 1995)

1916 – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (d. 2008)

1919 – Carol Bruce, American singer and actress (d. 2007)

1919 – Joseph Wapner, American lieutenant and judge (d. 2017)

1920 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1999)

1922 – Francis Brunn, German juggler (d. 2004)

1922 – David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic

1922 – Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2015)

1923 – Văn Cao, Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter (d. 1995)

1923 – Samuel Klein, Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia (d. 2014)

1924 – Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2013)

1925 – Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (d. 2014)

1926 – Thomas Williams, American author and academic (d. 1990)

1928 – C. W. McCall, American singer-songwriter and politician

1928 – Seldon Powell, American saxophonist and flute player (d. 1997)

1929 – Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer

1929 – Joe Hinton, American singer (d. 1968)

1930 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2009)

1930 – Olene Walker, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (d. 2015)

1931 – John Kerr, American actor, singer, and lawyer (d. 2013)

1931 – Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya

1931 – Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo

1932 – Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress

1932 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)

1932 – Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher, author, and academic

1933 – Gloria Foster, American actress (d. 2001)

1933 – Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author (d. 2011)

1934 – Joanna Barnes, American actress and author

1934 – Peter Dickinson, English pianist and composer

1935 – Nera White, American basketball player (d. 2016)

1936 – H. B. Bailey, American race car driver (d. 2003)

1936 – Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist

1936 – Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (d. 1998)

1937 – Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter (d. 1968)

1937 – Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter

1939 – Terry Bradbury, English footballer and manager

1939 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (d. 2015)

1940 – Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer

1940 – Tony Mendez, American CIA technical operations officer

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 (ABBA)

1946 – Vassilis Goumas, Greek basketball player

1947 – Malcolm Ranjith, Sri Lankan cardinal

1947 – Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations

1947 – Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and sportscaster

1948 – Teodoro Locsin, Jr., Filipino journalist, lawyer, and politician

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 (d. 2011)

1953 – James Widdoes, American actor, director, and producer

1954 – Kevin S. Bright, American director and producer

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 (d. 2003)

1955 – Joe Leeway, English pop singer-songwriter and percussionist

1956 – Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer

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

1959 – Tibor Fischer, English author

1960 – Dawn Airey, English broadcaster

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 (d. 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 – Pedro Borbón, Jr., Dominican baseball player

1967 – E-40, American rapper and actor (The Click)

1967 – Wayne Harrison, English footballer (d. 2013)

1967 – Dom Joly, Lebanese-English comedian and journalist

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 (d. 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 – Sean Murray, American actor

1977 – Peter Phillips, English businessman

1977 – Robaire Smith, American football player

1977 – Logan Whitehurst, American singer-songwriter and drummer (d. 2006)

1978 – Floyd Womack, American football player

1979 – Josemi, Spanish footballer

1979 – Brooks Bollinger, American football player and coach

1979 – Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist

1980 – Kevin Staut, French horse rider

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 – Sasha Pavlović, Serbian basketball player

1983 – DJ Skee, American DJ and producer

1983 – Laura Smet, French actress

1983 – Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player

1985 – Charron Fisher, American basketball player

1985 – Simon Spender, Welsh footballer

1986 – Coye Francies, American football player

1986 – Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player

1986 – Jerry Roush, American singer-songwriter

1987 – Isaiah Osbourne, English footballer

1988 – Morgan Parra, French rugby player

1988 – Billy Twelvetrees, English rugby player

1989 – Jonalyn Viray, Filipino singer

1991 – Maxime Colin, French footballer

1991 – Shailene Woodley, American actress

1992 – Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer

1992 – Daniela Seguel, Chilean tennis player

1992 – Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer

1993 – Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer

1993 – Saaya Irie, Japanese actress and singer

1994 – Bryce Cartwright, Australian rugby league player

1995 – Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player

Deaths

621 – Malo, Welsh bishop

655 – Æthelhere, king of East Anglia

655 – Penda of Mercia

1136 – Leopold III, Margrave of Austria (b. 1073)

1194 – Margaret I, Countess of Flanders

1226 – Frederick of Isenberg (b. 1193)

1280 – Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1193)

1347 – James I of Urgell, Prince of Aragon (b. 1321)

1351 – Joanna of Pfirt, duchess consort of Austria

1379 – Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1346)

1463 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples (b. 1393)

1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founded the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (b. 1510)

1628 – Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (b. 1576)

1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)

1670 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (b. 1592)

1691 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)

1706 – 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)

1712 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1658)

1712 – Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)

1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)

1794 – John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (b. 1723)

1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)

1819 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)

1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman (b. 1767)

1853 – Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)

1892 – Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (b. 1850)

1908 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (b. 1835)

1910 – Wilhelm Raabe, German author (b. 1831)

1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)

1917 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1858)

1919 – Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician (b. 1868)

1919 – Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1866)

1922 – Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854)

1922 – Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1872)

1941 – Wal Handley, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1902)

1945 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)

1949 – Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)

1949 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)

1951 – Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)

1954 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)

1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)

1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

1960 – Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)

1961 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)

1961 – Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (b. 1883)

1963 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1888)

1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler (b. 1877)

1966 – William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (b. 1887)

1967 – Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)

1970 – Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician (b. 1884)

1971 – Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (b. 1903)

1976 – Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and producer (b. 1904)

1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)

1980 – Bill Lee, American actor and singer (b. 1916)

1981 – Steve Macko, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)

1981 – Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894)

1981 – Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (b. 1938)

1982 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (b. 1895)

1982 – Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1901)

1983 – John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1955)

1983 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)

1983 – John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)

1985 – Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (b. 1913)

1988 – Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (b. 1915)

1988 – Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian (b. 1905)

1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)

1996 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat (b. 1904)

1997 – Saul Chaplin, American director and composer (b. 1912)

1998 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (b. 1941)

1998 – Ludvík Daněk, Czech discus thrower (b. 1937)

2003 – Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (b. 1910)

2003 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (b. 1925)

2003 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (b. 1923)

2003 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (b. 1924)

2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)

2004 – John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)

2005 – Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (b. 1931)

2005 – Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1959)

2006 – David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (b. 1937)

2007 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)

2008 – Grace Hartigan, American painter (b. 1922)

2009 – Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (b. 1914)

2010 – Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (b. 1932)

2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)

2010 – William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921)

2011 – Oba Chandler, American murderer (b. 1946)

2012 – Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (b. 1954)

2012 – Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)

2012 – Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (b. 1983)

2012 – K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (b. 1931)

2012 – Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (b. 1940)

2012 – Khin Maung Toe, Burmese singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)

2013 – Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (b. 1929)

2013 – Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (b. 1919)

2013 – T. J. Jemison, American minister and activist (b. 1918)

2013 – Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (b. 1930)

2014 – Jack Bridger Chalker, English painter and academic (b. 1918)

2014 – Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator (b. 1934)

2014 – Leslie Feinberg, American activist and author (b. 1949)

2014 – Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1983)

2014 – Reg Withers, Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory (b. 1924)

2015 – Gisèle Prassinos, French author (b. 1920)

2015 – Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (b. 1930)

2015 – P. F. Sloan, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)

2016 – Mose Allison, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

America Recycles Day (United States)

Christian feast day:

Abibus of Edessa

Albert the Great

Blessed Caius of Korea

Blessed Hugh Faringdon

Didier of Cahors

Francis Asbury and George Whitefield (Episcopal Church)

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)

Earliest day on which Beaujolais Day can fall, while November 21 is the latest; observed on the third Thursday in November (International)

Earliest day on which Day of the Revolution can fall, while November 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in November (Mexico)

Earliest day on which Great American Smokeout can fall, while November 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Thursday in November (United States)

Independence Day, unilaterally declared in 1988. (Palestine)

King's Feast (Belgium)

National Bundt Day (United States)

National Tree Planting Day (Sri Lanka)

Peace Day (Ivory Coast)

Republic Proclamation Day (Brazil)

Shichi-Go-San (Japan)

The beginning of Winter Lent (Eastern Orthodox)