November 22

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November 22 is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 39 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

In the ancient astronomy, it is the cusp day between Scorpio and Sagittarius. In some years it is Sagittarius, but others Scorpio.

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Events

498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.

845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.

1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.

1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.

1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.

1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.

1812 – War of 1812: Seventeen Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.

1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.

1864 – American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.

1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched and is one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.

1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

1931 – Al-Mina'a SC is founded in Iraq.

1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.

1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.

1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.

1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.

1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.

1963 – US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.

1963 – William Clay Ford Sr. buys the Detroit Lions for $4.5 million.

1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.

1968 – The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).

1973 – The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.

1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.

1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.

1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

1986 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.

1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.

1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.

1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.

1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.

1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.

1995 – The 7.3 Mw Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.

2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.

2003 – Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.

2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.

2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

2012 – Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths.

2015 – A landslide in Hpakant, Kachin State, northern Myanmar killed at least 116 people near a jade mine, with around 100 more missing.

Births

1329 – Elisabeth of Meissen, Burgravine of Nuremberg (d. 1375)

1428 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (d. 1471)

1515 – Mary of Guise (d. 1560)

1564 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kent (d. 1610)

1602 – Elisabeth of France (d. 1644)

1635 – Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (d. 1672)

1643 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French-American explorer (d. 1687)

1690 – François Colin de Blamont, French pianist and composer (d. 1760)

1698 – Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-American soldier and politician, 10th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1778)

1709 – Franz Benda, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1786)

1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1784)

1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-Canadian cartographer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1824)

1722 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian philosopher, poet, and composer (d. 1794)

1728 – Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1811)

1744 – Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)

1761 – Dorothea Jordan, Irish-French actress (d. 1816)

1766 – Charlotte von Lengefeld, German author (d. 1826)

1767 – Andreas Hofer, Austrian innkeeper and activist (d. 1810)

1780 – José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran journalist, lawyer, and politician, Foreign Minister of Mexico (d. 1834)

1787 – Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1823)

1808 – Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group (d. 1892)

1814 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (d. 1893)

1819 – George Eliot, English novelist and poet (d. 1880)

1824 – Georg von Oettingen, Estonian-German physician and ophthalmologist (d. 1916)

1830 – Jhalkaribai, Indian soldier (d. 1858)

1836 – George Barham, English businessman, founded Express County Milk Supply Company (d. 1913)

1845 – Aleksander Kunileid, Estonian composer and educator (d. 1875)

1849 – Christian Rohlfs, German painter and academic (d. 1938)

1852 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)

1856 – Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945)

1861 – Ranavalona III of Madagascar (d. 1917)

1868 – John Nance Garner, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1967)

1869 – André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)

1870 – Howard Brockway, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1951)

1870 – Harry Graham, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)

1873 – Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1955)

1873 – Johnny Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1930)

1876 – Percival Proctor Baxter, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Governor of Maine (d.1969)

1876 – Emil Beyer, American gymnast and triathlete (d. 1934)

1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian journalist and poet (d. 1919)

1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer, founded FC Barcelona (d. 1930)

1881 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (d. 1922)

1884 – Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani historian, author, and scholar (d. 1953)

1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (d. 1970)

1893 – Harley Earl, American businessman (d. 1969)

1893 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician (d. 1991)

1896 – David J. Mays, American lawyer and author (d. 1971)

1897 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer and educator (d. 1989)

1897 – Harry Wilson, English-American actor and singer (d. 1987)

1898 – Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)

1899 – Hoagy Carmichael, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1981)

1900 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (d. 1980)

1900 – Helenka Pantaleoni, American actress and humanitarian, co-founded U.S. Fund for UNICEF (d. 1987)

1901 – Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1971)

1901 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1999)

1902 – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)

1902 – Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist and educator (d. 1942)

1902 – Humphrey Gibbs, English-Rhodesian politician, 15th Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d. 1990)

1902 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)

1902 – Ethel Smith, American organist (d. 1996)

1904 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and illustrator (d. 1957)

1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)

1904 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese author (d. 2005)

1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (d. 1970)

1910 – Mary Jackson, American actress (d. 2005)

1911 – Ralph Guldahl, American golfer (d. 1987)

1912 – Doris Duke, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1993)

1913 – Benjamin Britten, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1976)

1913 – Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player and coach (d. 2016)

1913 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino lawyer and jurist (d. 2006)

1913 – Jacqueline Vaudecrane, French figure skater and coach

1914 – Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (d. 1995)

1917 – Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright (d. 2010)

1917 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)

1918 – Claiborne Pell, American captain and politician (d. 2009)

1919 – Máire Drumm, Irish politician (d. 1976)

1920 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (d. 1956)

1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish sailor, author, and playwright (d. 2003)

1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, rapper, and screenwriter (d. 2004)

1922 – Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani composer (d. 1984)

1922 – Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (d. 2012)

1922 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer, designed the AR-15 rifle (d. 1997)

1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian actor, director, and producer (d. 2016)

1923 – Dika Newlin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2006)

1924 – Geraldine Page, American actress and singer (d. 1987)

1925 – Jerrie Mock, American pilot (d. 2014)

1925 – Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (d. 2015)

1926 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (d. 2007)

1926 – Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (d. 2007)

1927 – Steven Muller, German-American scholar and academic (d. 2013)

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

1928 – Tim Beaumont, English priest and politician (d. 2008)

1929 – Staughton Lynd, American lawyer, historian, author, and activist

1930 – Peter Hall, English actor, director, and manager

1930 – Peter Hurford, English organist and composer

1932 – Ray Farabee, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)

1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor and director (d. 2016)

1934 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)

1936 – John Bird, English actor and screenwriter

1936 – Archie Gouldie, Canadian-American wrestler (d. 2016)

1938 – John Eleuthère du Pont, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Delaware Museum of Natural History (d. 2010)

1938 – Henry Lee, Chinese-American criminologist and academic

1939 – Tom West, American engineer and author (d. 2011)

1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician, 24th Indian Minister of Defence

1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-English actor, director, animator, and screenwriter

1940 – Roy Thomas, American author

1940 – Andrzej Żuławski, Polish director and screenwriter (d. 2016)

1941 – Tom Conti, Scottish actor and director

1941 – Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1941 – Volker Roemheld, German physiologist and biologist (d. 2013)

1941 – Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter (d. 1996)

1941 – Jesse Colin Young, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Youngbloods)

1942 – Guion Bluford, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut

1943 – Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player and sportscaster

1943 – William Kotzwinkle, American novelist and screenwriter

1943 – Mushtaq Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer

1943 – Roger L. Simon, American author and screenwriter

1945 – Elaine Weyuker, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic

1946 – Aston Barrett, Jamaican bass player and songwriter

1947 – Sandy Alderson, American businessman and academic

1947 – Sonny Geraci, American pop-rock singer

1947 – Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (d. 2005)

1947 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer

1947 – Salt Walther, American race car driver (d. 2012)

1947 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American journalist and author

1948 – Radomir Antić, Serbian footballer and manager

1948 – Stewart Guthrie, New Zealand police officer (d. 1990)

1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician and politician, 17th Surgeon General of the United States

1949 – David Pietrusza, American historian and author

1949 – Andres Põder, Estonian archbishop

1950 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)

1950 – Jim Jefferies, Scottish footballer and manager

1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer

1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

1950 – Tina Weymouth, American singer-songwriter and bass player

1951 – Kent Nagano, American conductor, director, and manager

1953 – Wayne Larkins, English cricketer and footballer

1955 – James Edwards, American basketball player

1956 – Lawrence Gowan, Scottish-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player

1956 – Richard Kind, American actor

1956 – Ron Randall, American author and illustrator

1957 – Donny Deutsch, American businessman and television host

1958 – Horse, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress

1958 – Lee Guetterman, American baseball player

1959 – Eddie Frierson, American actor

1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer

1959 – Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist

1959 – Lenore Zann, Australian-Canadian actress, singer, and politician

1960 – Jim Bob, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Carter USM)

1960 – Leos Carax, French actor, director, and screenwriter

1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress

1961 – Stephen Hough, English-Australian pianist and composer

1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer and author

1962 – Sumi Jo, South Korean soprano

1962 – Victor Pelevin, Russian engineer and author

1962 – Rezauddin Stalin, Bangladeshi poet and educator

1963 – Hugh Millen, American football player and sportscaster

1963 – Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager

1963 – Kennedy Pola, Samoan-American football player and coach

1963 – Brian Robbins, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1963 – Corinne Russell, English model, actress, and dancer

1964 – Robbie Slater, English-Australian footballer and sportscaster

1965 – Valeriya Gansvind, Estonian chess player

1965 – Jörg Jung, German footballer and manager

1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor

1966 – Ed Ferrara, American wrestler and manager

1966 – Mark Pritchard, English lawyer and politician

1966 – Richard Stanley, South African director, producer, and screenwriter

1966 – Michael K. Williams, American actor and producer

1967 – Boris Becker, German-Swiss tennis player and coach

1967 – Quint Kessenich, American lacrosse player and sportscaster

1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor and activist

1967 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-Belgian speed skater, coach, and sportscaster

1968 – Sidse Babett Knudsen, Danish actress

1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic-Canadian computer scientist and programmer, created PHP

1968 – Sarah MacDonald, Canadian organist and conductor

1969 – Byron Houston, American basketball player

1969 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian author and illustrator

1970 – Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach

1970 – Stel Pavlou, English author and screenwriter

1971 – Cath Bishop, English rower

1971 – Kyran Bracken, Irish-English rugby player

1971 – Cecilia Suárez, Mexican actress and producer

1972 – Olivier Brouzet, French rugby player

1972 – Russell Hoult, English footballer, coach, and manager

1972 – Jay Payton, American baseball player and sportscaster

1973 – Dmitri Linter, Russian-Estonian activist

1973 – Chad Trujillo, American astronomer and scholar

1973 – Andrew Walker, Australian rugby player

1974 – Joe Nathan, American baseball player

1974 – David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater and coach

1975 – Aiko, Japanese singer-songwriter

1975 – Joshua Wheeler, American sergeant (d. 2015)

1976 – Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer

1976 – Torsten Frings, German footballer and coach

1976 – Regina Halmich, German boxer and businesswoman

1976 – Ville Valo, Finnish singer-songwriter

1977 – Kerem Gönlüm, Turkish basketball player

1977 – Annika Norlin, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist

1977 – Michael Preston, English footballer

1978 – Colin Best, Australian rugby league player

1978 – Mélanie Doutey, French actress and singer

1978 – Karen O, South Korean-American singer-songwriter and pianist

1979 – Jeremy Dale, American illustrator (d. 2014)

1979 – Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer

1980 – David Artell, English-Gibraltarian footballer and coach

1980 – Shawn Fanning, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Napster

1980 – Rait Keerles, Estonian basketball player

1980 – Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian high jumper

1981 – Asmaa Abdol-Hamid (Arabic: أسماء عبد الحميد), Arab-Danish social worker and politician

1981 – Ben Adams, English-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer

1981 – Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer

1981 – Song Hye-kyo, South Korean actress and singer

1981 – Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player

1981 – Jenny Owen Youngs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1981 – Shangela Laquifa Wadley, American drag queen, comedian and reality television personality

1982 – Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer

1982 – Xavier Doherty, Australian cricketer

1982 – Alasdair Duncan, Australian journalist and author

1982 – Isild Le Besco, French actress, director, and screenwriter

1983 – Sei Ashina, Japanese actress

1983 – Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist and songwriter

1983 – Tyler Hilton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

1983 – Peter Ramage, English footballer

1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress

1984 – Nathalie Nordnes, Norwegian singer-songwriter

1985 – Austin Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and producer

1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer

1985 – Dieumerci Mbokani, Congolese footballer

1985 – Ava Leigh, English singer-songwriter

1985 – Mandy Minella, Luxembourgian tennis player

1985 – James Roby, English rugby player

1985 – DeVon Walker, American football player

1986 – Erika Padilla, Filipino actress and host

1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter

1987 – Martti Aljand, Estonian swimmer

1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer

1988 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor and singer

1988 – Austin Romine, American baseball player

1989 – Candice Glover, American singer-songwriter and actress

1989 – Minehiro Kinomoto, Japanese actor.

1989 – Chris Smalling, English footballer.

1989 – Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer.

1990 – Jang Dongwoo, South Korean singer and dancer.

1993 – Adèle Exarchopoulos, French actress.

1995 – Katherine McNamara, American actress.

1996 – Madison Davenport, American actress and singer.

2000 – Auli'i Cravalho, Hawaiian-American actress and singer.

Deaths

365 – Antipope Felix II

950 – Lothair II of Italy (b. 926)

1249 – As-Salih Ayyub, ruler of Egypt

1286 – Eric V of Denmark (b. 1249)

1318 – Mikhail of Tver (b. 1271)

1392 – Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland (b. 1362)

1617 – Ahmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam (b. 1590)

1694 – John Tillotson, English archbishop (b. 1630)

1697 – Libéral Bruant, French architect and academic, designed Les Invalides (b. 1635)

1710 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1637)

1718 – Blackbeard, English pirate (b. 1680)

1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (db. 1680)

1774 – Robert Clive, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire (b. 1725)

1794 – John Alsop, American merchant and politician (b. 1724)

1813 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (b. 1759)

1819 – John Stackhouse, English botanist and phycologist (b. 1742)

1871 – Oscar James Dunn, African American activist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868-1871 (b. 1826)

1875 – Henry Wilson, American colonel, journalist, and politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)

1886 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)

1886 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (b. 1823)

1896 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, invented the Ferris wheel (b. 1859)

1900 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer and scholar (b. 1842)

1902 – Walter Reed, American physician and entomologist (b. 1851)

1913 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shogun (b. 1837)

1916 – Jack London, American novelist and journalist (b. 1876)

1917 – Teoberto Maler, Italian-German archaeologist and explorer (b. 1842)

1919 – Francisco Moreno, Argentinian explorer and academic (b. 1852)

1920 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and author (b. 1884)

1926 – Darvish Khan, Iranian tar player (b. 1872)

1932 – William Walker Atkinson, American merchant, lawyer, and author (b. 1862)

1941 – Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)

1943 – Lorenz Hart, American playwright and composer (b. 1895)

1944 – Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and astronomer (b. 1882)

1946 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Justice (b. 1889)

1948 – Fakhri Pasha, Turkish general and politician (b. 1868)

1953 – Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani historian, author, and scholar (b. 1884)

1954 – Jess McMahon, American wrestling promoter, co-founded Capitol Wrestling Corporation (b. 1882)

1955 – Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)

1956 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American actor, ballet dancer, and choreographer (b. 1882)

1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, Austrian-German physician (b. 1905)

1963 – Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (b. 1894)

1963 – John F. Kennedy, American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)

1963 – C. S. Lewis, British, poet, and critic (b. 1898)

1967 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)

1976 – Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (b. 1936)

1980 – Jules Léger, Canadian journalist and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)

1980 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)

1980 – Mae West, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1893)

1981 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)

1986 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (b. 1910)

1986 – William Bradford Huie, American journalist and author (b. 1910)

1988 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect and engineer, designed the Torres de Satélite (b. 1908)

1989 – C. C. Beck, American illustrator (b. 1910)

1989 – René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (b. 1925)

1992 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)

1993 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1917)

1994 – Minni Nurme, Estonian writer and poet (b. 1917)

1994 – Forrest White, American businessman (b. 1920)

1996 – María Casares, Spanish-French actress (b. 1922)

1996 – Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (b. 1936)

1996 – Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)

1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1960)

1998 – Stu Ungar, American poker player (b. 1953)

2000 – Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1927)

2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (b. 1922)

2001 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay, Inc. (b. 1915)

2001 – Theo Barker, English historian and academic (b. 1923)

2001 – Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer, founded Verve Records (b. 1918)

2002 – Parley Baer, American actor (b. 1914)

2004 – Arthur Hopcraft, English screenwriter and journalist (b. 1932)

2005 – Bruce Hobbs, American jockey and trainer (b. 1920)

2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player and coach (b. 1942)

2007 – Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1929)

2007 – Verity Lambert, English television producer (b. 1935)

2008 – MC Breed, American rapper (b. 1971)

2010 – Jean Cione, American baseball player and educator (b. 1928)

2010 – Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (b. 1914)

2011 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author and educator (b. 1926)

2011 – Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-Austrian soprano and actress (b. 1921)

2011 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (b. 1938)

2011 – Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (b. 1931)

2012 – Pearl Laska Chamberlain, American pilot (b. 1909)

2012 – Bryce Courtenay, South African-Australian author (b. 1933)

2012 – Bennie McRae, American football player (b. 1939)

2012 – P. Govinda Pillai, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1926)

2013 – Don Dailey, American computer programmer (b. 1956)

2013 – Brian Dawson, English singer (b. 1939)

2013 – Jancarlos de Oliveira Barros, Brazilian footballer (b. 1983)

2013 – Tom Gilmartin, Irish businessman (b. 1935)

2013 – Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (b. 1926)

2013 – Alec Reid, Irish priest and activist (b. 1931)

2014 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (b. 1916)

2014 – Don Grate, American baseball and basketball player (b. 1923)

2014 – Marcel Paquet, Belgian-Polish philosopher and author (b. 1947)

2014 – Émile Poulat, French sociologist and historian (b. 1920)

2015 – Abubakar Audu, Nigerian banker and politician, Governor of Kogi State (b. 1947)

2015 – Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1949)

2015 – Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948)

2015 – Robin Stewart, Indian-English actor and game show host (b. 1946)

2015 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean soldier and politician, 7th President of South Korea (b. 1927)

2016 – M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian vocalist and singer (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

Arbour Day (British Virgin Islands)

Christian feast day:

Cecilia

George (Eastern Orthodox, a national holiday in Georgia)

Herbert

November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of Justice (Azerbaijan)

Day of the Albanian Alphabet (Albania and ethnic Albanians)

Earliest day on which Holodomor Remembrance Day can fall, while November 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Saturday of November. (Ukraine)

Earliest day on which Thanksgiving Day can fall, while November 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. (United States)

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Lebanon from France in 1943.

Teacher's Day (Costa Rica)

References

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