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November 11 in history

256 sourced entries recorded on November 11, from 307 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 307Following the murder of Severus, Galerius promotes Licinius to Augustus.source
  • 308The Conference of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, Galerius recalls Diocletian briefly from retirement, and they convene with Maximian. Diocletian persuades Maximian to return to retirement, and he and Galerius declare Maxentius a public enemy. Licinius is proclaimed Augustus of the west, while rival contender Constantine I is again declared Caesar.source
  • 624(9th B'ak'tun, 9th K'atun,9th year, 12th month, 3rd day) In what is now Guatemala, a stele is carved to honor a victory in battle by Kʼinich Yoʼnal Ahk I, the Mayan ruler of Piedras Negrassource
  • 824The Constitutio Romana, drawn up between King Lothair I of Italy, Louis the Pious, since 817, and Pope Eugene II, establishes the authority of the Holy Roman Emperors over the papacy of Rome.source
  • 1099Great floods around the North Sea and English Channel.source
  • 1100King Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of King Malcolm III and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside.source
  • 1202November 10–24 – Siege of Zara: The Crusaders under Boniface of Montferrat besiege and conquer Zara (modern-day Zadar) in Dalmatia. Despite letters from Innocent III forbidding such an action, and threatening excommunication. The leading citizens of Zara hang banners of crosses along the outer walls, professing their Catholic faith. Nevertheless, the Crusaders breach and sack the city, killing many.source
  • 1208Otto IV is elected by the German nobles as king of Germany at Frankfurt. He is engaged to Beatrice and travels to Milan where he receives the Iron Crown and the title of King of Italy, which continues until the end of World War I in 1918.source
  • 1215November 11–30 – The Fourth Council of the Lateran (or "Great Council") convened by Innocent III ends at Rome and approves the papal proposal for a Fifth Crusade in Palestine. The Pope promulgates a canon against clerical participation in trial by ordeal, replacing it by compurgation.source
  • 1215Echdonn Mac Gilla Uidir, Archbishop of Armagh, attends the Fourth Council of the Lateran in Rome.source
  • 1300King Edward I holds a session of the English parliament at York, then remains there until shortly after Christmas.source
  • 1330November 9–12 – Battle of Posada: The Wallachians, under Basarab I, defeat the Hungarians, though heavily outnumbered, thus making a firm statement towards the independence of Wallachia.source
  • 1347"The earldom of Ormond and its regalities was granted to James Butler, the younger, by the King."source
  • 1398Janus succeeds his father, James I, as King of Cyprus and claimant to the throne of Armenian Cilicia.source
  • 1417On St. Martin's Day, with all three previous claimants to the office of Pope gone, the 53-member Council of Constance unanimously elects Oddone Colonna to be the new Pontiff. Colonna will take the name of Saint Martin of Tours upon his consecration.source
  • 1467At the Battle of Chapakchur, in what is now the Bingöl Province of Turkey, the tribal confederation of Aq Qoyunlu, with 12,000 cavalry and infantry led by Uzun Hasan, makes a surprise attack against 6,000 troops of the Qara Qoyunlu nation, commanded by the Sultan Jahan Shah. The Sultan is decapitated in the battle while trying to flee.source
  • 1500Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.source
  • 1500The Treaty of Granada is signed by Louis XII and Ferdinand II of Aragon in secret, in which they agree to partition the Kingdom of Naples between them.source
  • 1503Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny, commander of the defeated French forces and a prisoner of war since his April 21 defeat at the Battle of Seminara, is released from Castel Nuovo in Naples after a truce between France and Spain.source
  • 1548Worawongsathirat, ruler of the Ayutthaya Kingdom of Thailand after usurping the throne on June 10, stages his coronation along with his wife, Si Sudachan. Both husband and wife had after both conspired to murder her son, King Yofta, in June. The King and Queen are assassinated on January 13, 1549.source
  • 1563The Council of Trent amends existing Roman Catholic canon law to deter unannounced marriages. In order for a marriage to be recognized by the Church, the names of the bride and groom are to be announced publicly in a chapel during Mass, and registered with the parish priests of both parties.source
  • 1569Danish General Daniel Rantzau arrives at the Swedish-held Varberg castle at Halland and orders his artillery to shell the castle with cannon fire. The Swedish defenders fire back with their own artillery and Rantzau's head is taken off by a cannonball on the first day.source
  • 1572Tycho Brahe also notices Supernova SN 1572. He will use it to challenge the prevailing view that stars do not change. The supernova remnant remains visible through 1574.source
  • 1583John na Seamar Burke is ambushed and killed by his brother Ulick.source
  • 1591King Henry IV of France begins the siege of Rouen, the Spanish-held capital of Normandy. The Spanish Navy arrives after five months and King Henry abandons the siege on April 20.source
  • 1606The Peace of Zsitvatorok is signed between the Ottoman and Holy Roman Empires. The independence of Transylvania is recognized by both sides, and Austria's annual tribute to the Ottomans is abolished.source
  • 1621The ship Fortune arrives at Plymouth Colony, with 35 more settlers.source
  • 1633the Dutch expedition of Jan Janszoon van Hoorn, against Spanish pirates in Central America, ends after six months with van Hoorn's success.source
  • 1634The Irish House of Commons passes an Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggery.source
  • 1634the Irish House of Commons passes an Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggery.source
  • 1648France and the Netherlands agree to divide the Caribbean island of Saint Martin between them.source
  • 1660imprisonment of John Bunyan in Bedford Gaol for preaching without a licence.source
  • 1673Battle of Khotyn: Polish and Lithuanian military units, under the command of soon-to-be-king Jan Sobieski, defeat the Turkish army. In this battle, which takes place one day after the death of Poland and Lithuania's monarch, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, the rockets invented by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.source
  • 1675Gottfried Leibniz makes the earliest known use of infinitesimal calculus in the breaking down of a function.source
  • 1678November 11 (November 1 O.S.) – England's House of Commons votes to begin impeachment proceedings against five Roman Catholic members of the House of Lords, Viscount Stafford, the Marquess of Powis, Baron Arundell, Baron Petre and Baron Belasyse accused by Protestant members as participating in a "Popish Plot". Viscount Stafford is convicted and executed, while the other four are imprisoned in the Tower of London for more than five years.source
  • 1685Morean War: The Republic of Venice captures the fortress town of Igoumenitsa from the Ottoman Empire, and razes it to the ground.source
  • 1688November 11 (November 1 OS) – Glorious Revolution: William III of Orange sets sail a second time from Hellevoetsluis, the Netherlands, to take over England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England.source
  • 1689The Siege of Larache in Morocco ends when the Spanish troops surrender to Mawlay Ismail and the Moroccan forces.source
  • 1701November 11 (O.S., November 22 N.S.) – The House of Commons of England is dissolved by King William III and new elections are called for all 531 seats.source
  • 1704Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar: A Spanish Bourbon special forces battalion, guided by Simon Susarte, scales the steepest side of the Rock of Gibraltar in an attempt to surprise the British defenders, and kills the English sentries who have been manning the lookout. The attack is foiled the next day when a drummer boy, who was bringing food to the sentries, spots the invaders and raises the alarm.source
  • 1709Henry Sacheverell preaches an incendiary sermon The Perils of False Brethren at St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London which leads to his impeachment by Parliament.source
  • 1718Lightning strikes the powder magazine at the Old Fortress, Corfu, causing an explosion that kills a large number of people on the island.source
  • 172318 people drown in the River Tweed near Melrose when a ferry boat capsizes.source
  • 1724Joseph Blake (alias "Blueskin"), English highwayman, is hanged in London.source
  • 1750A riot breaks out in Lhasa after the murder of the regent of Tibet.source
  • 1761The Earl of Egremont, serving as Secretary of State for the Southern Department, initiated a policy which forbids the issuing of any land grants to white settlers in territory occupied by the American Indian tribes.source
  • 1778American Revolutionary War: Cherry Valley massacre – British forces and their Iroquois allies attack a fort and the village of Cherry Valley, New York, killing 14 soldiers and 30 civilians.source
  • 1805Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8,000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.source
  • 1809the North British and Mercantile Insurance company commences business as a fire insurance office in Edinburgh.source
  • 1813War of 1812 – Battle of Crysler's Farm: An outnumbered British–Canadian force defeats the Americans, forcing them to give up their attempt to capture Montreal.source
  • 1818Anglo-Chinese College is founded by Robert Morrison in Malacca (later renamed Ying Wa College).source
  • 1828Greek War of Independence: the London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades.source
  • 1834The rare 1804 dollar coin is struck by the United States Mint.source
  • 1839The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.source
  • 1852The new Palace of Westminster opens in London as the home of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1856Taiping Rebellion: Shi Dakai arrives at the Heavenly Capital once more with 100,000 men, and demands that Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang be executed. Shi subsequently becomes head of the government.source
  • 1859Belle Gunness, serial killersource
  • 1860Kildare Street Club, Dublin destroyed by fire.source
  • 1861The Tongzhi Emperor succeeds to the throne of China at the age of 5. His mother, Empress Dowager Cixi, becomes co-regent and will be the power behind the imperial throne for almost 50 years.source
  • 1863Elizabeth Scott is hanged for the murder of her husband, making her the first woman to be executed in Victoria.source
  • 1865Duar War between Britain and Bhutan ends with the Treaty of Sinchula, in which Bhutan cedes control of its southern passes to Britain in return for an annual subsidy.source
  • 1871The last of the British Army leaves Canadasource
  • 1872U.S. government geologist Clarence King reveals the diamond hoax in Wyoming.source
  • 1874The Gamma Phi Beta sorority is founded at Syracuse University. This is the first women's Greek letter organization to be called a sorority.source
  • 1880Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.source
  • 1881The Clarkson Memorial to an anti-slavery campaigner in Wisbech (England) is completed and unveiled to the public.source
  • 1884Blackford Hill is acquired by the city of Edinburgh.source
  • 1886Heinrich Hertz verifies the existence of electromagnetic waves, at the University of Karlsruhe.source
  • 1887August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are hanged for inciting riot and murder in the Haymarket affair.source
  • 1889Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.source
  • 1889Republicans meet at the home of Rui Barbosa to plan a coup. The chief organizers are Benjamin Constant, Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, Quintino Bocaiuva and Aristides Lobo.source
  • 1891Jindandao Incident: The Chinese Juu Uda League in Inner Mongolia massacres tens of thousands of Mongols, before being suppressed by government troops in late December.source
  • 1896November 9-11 – Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas with more than 6,000 soldiers attacked the revolutionaries under Emilio Aguinaldo, resulting to the simultaneous Battle of Binakayan and Battle of Dalahican. It was the first major Filipino victory during the Philippine Revolution.source
  • 1903Treaty of Petrópolis with Brazilsource
  • 1903The Treaty of Petrópolis ends tension between Brazil and Bolivia over the then-Bolivian territory of Acre (today the Acre state).source
  • 1907Due to financial difficulties in the United States, the stock exchange in Rome, unable to reverse a downward trend, is closed.source
  • 1911The Great Blue Norther of 11/11/11: A record cold snap hits the United States Midwest; many cities break record highs and lows on the same day.source
  • 1912William Lawrence Bragg presents his derivation of Bragg's law for the angles for coherent and incoherent scattering from a crystal lattice, creating the field of x-ray crystallography, and making possible the eventual imaging of the double helix of DNA.source
  • 1913November 7–11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills more than 250.source
  • 1913November 7–11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 in North America claims 19 ships, and more than 250 lives.source
  • 1916Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, becomes Governor General of Canada replacing Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaughtsource
  • 1918Poland regains independence, after 123 years of partitions. Józef Piłsudski is appointed Commander-in-Chief.source
  • 1918End of WWI: Armistice of 11 November 1918 – Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies, between 5:12 AM and 5:20 AM, in the "Compiègne Wagon", Marshal Foch's railroad car, in the Forest of Compiègne in France. It becomes official on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. At 10:59 U.S. soldier Henry Gunther becomes (probably) the last killed in action.source
  • 1918World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiègne in France.source
  • 1918Red Week: Pieter Jelles Troelstra gives a speech calling for socialist revolution in the Netherlands.source
  • 1918Estonian Defence League is founded.source
  • 1919The first Remembrance Day is observed in the British Empire with a two-minute silence at 11:00 hours.source
  • 1919Russian Civil War: The Northwestern Army of General Nikolai Yudenich retreats to Estonia and is disarmed.source
  • 1920In London, The Cenotaph is unveiled and The Unknown Warrior is buried in Westminster Abbey; while in Paris the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is consecrated beneath the Arc de Triomphe.source
  • 1921During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by Warren G. Harding, President of the United States.source
  • 19221922 Vallenar earthquakesource
  • 1923The Fredericton Cenotaph was dedicated in Fredericton, New Brunswick.source
  • 1923Adolf Hitler is arrested for his leading role in the Beer Hall Putsch.source
  • 1926The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.source
  • 1927Kristian Prestrud, polar explorer (born 1881)source
  • 1928November 9 – 16 – Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness (published on 27 July by Jonathan Cape in London, England) is tried and convicted on the grounds of obscenity due to its theme of lesbian love, following a newspaper campaign.source
  • 1929Edmonds Band Rotunda is formally opened in Christchurch.source
  • 19298.3 in of rain falls within a single day at Lluest-wen Reservoir, a record for a place in Wales. Below in the Rhondda this month, 400 people are made homeless by flooding.source
  • 1930The Shrine of Remembrance in Brisbane is dedicated.source
  • 1931November 4–18 - Jiangqiao Campaignsource
  • 1933Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm ("the great black blizzard") strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands (one of a series of disastrous dust storms this year).source
  • 1933The magnitude 7.3 Baffin Bay earthquake occurs at Baffin Bay, Northwest Territories.source
  • 1934The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne is dedicated.source
  • 1937The Kogushi Sulfur Mine collapse, in western Gunma, Japan, kills at least 245 people.source
  • 1940WWII: German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail intended for the British Far East Command from the SS Automedon, and sends it to Japan.source
  • 1942The Turkish parliament passes the Varlık Vergisi, a capital tax mostly levied on non-Muslim citizens with the unofficial aim to inflict financial ruin on them and end their prominence in the country's economy.source
  • 1942Wealth tax (varlık vergisi) an incontestable tax to support the treasury against World War II expendituressource
  • 19451945 Yugoslavian parliamentary election: Marshal Josip Broz Tito and the People's Front win a decisive majority (90%) in the Yugoslavian Assembly.source
  • 1948Population Census is held in Israel, six months after its creation, to establish the population registry.source
  • 1951Juan Perón is re-elected president of Argentina.source
  • 1951The Egged bus company becomes a cross-country public transportation network after merging with the northern "Shahar" bus company and the southern "Drom Yehuda" bus company.source
  • 1952Ole Robert Sunde, writer.source
  • 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Last insurgents succumb to the invading Soviet army.source
  • 1959Werner Heyde, a psychiatrist who had guided the euthanizing of more than 100,000 handicapped persons in Nazi Germany, surrendered to police in Frankfurt after 13 years as a fugitive. As director of the Reich Association of Hospitals, Dr. Heyde had carried out "Action T4". Men, women and children who were mentally or physically handicapped were the victims of Heyde's "mercy killing" from 1939 to 1942, usually by lethal injection. Sentenced in absentia to death, Heyde had been practicing in Flensburg as "Dr. Fritz Sawade". On February 13, 1964, five days before his trial was to start, Dr. Heyde hanged himself at the prison in Butzbach.source
  • 1959The National Anthem "Majulah Singapura" was selected as the National Anthem of Singapore.source
  • 1961Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots.source
  • 1963November 7 – 11 German miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days in what becomes known as the "Wunder von Lengede" ("miracle of Lengede").source
  • 1964Establishment of Mauritania–North Korea relations.source
  • 1965In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares de facto independence ('UDI').source
  • 1965United Airlines Flight 227 crashes short of the runway and catches fire at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43 out of 91 passengers and crew.source
  • 1966A mine kills three Israeli paratroopers on the West Bank border.source
  • 1967Vietnam War: In a ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3 United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to American "New Left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.source
  • 1968A second republic is declared in the Maldives.source
  • 1969In the nationwide general elections held, incumbents Pres. Marcos and Vice Pres. Lopez are reelected in their respective positions, with the former as the first (and the last in electoral history) to win for a second full term as president in the presidential elections and the latter elected to a third full term as Vice President of the Philippines. The administration party, the Nacionalista Party, won 6 out of 8 seats in the Philippine Senate and 88 out of 110 seats in the House of Representatives.source
  • 1970Alfred Loesch is appointed to the Council of State.source
  • 1972Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.source
  • 1975Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr controversially dismisses the Whitlam Labor government and commissions Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal/National Country Coalition as caretaker Prime Minister.source
  • 1975Angola becomes independent from Portugal and civil war erupts.source
  • 1975The first annual Vogalonga rowing "race" is held in Venice, Italy.source
  • 1977According to MLIT of ROK official confirm announced, 59 persons perished, 1343 persons were hurt of Iri station explosion in Iksan, Jeollanam-do.source
  • 1980November 10–12 – Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn, when it flies within 77,000 mi of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high-resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.source
  • 1980November 10 – November 12 – Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn, when it flies within 77,000 mi of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.source
  • 1982In Lebanon, the first Tyre headquarters bombing kills between 89 and 102 people.source
  • 1983Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. president to address the National Diet, Japan's national legislature.source
  • 1983Menachem Mendel Kasher (born 1895), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli rabbi and author.source
  • 1984November 9–11 – The first Hackers Conference is held.source
  • 1984The Louisiana World Exposition, also known as The 1984 World's Fair, and also the New Orleans World's Fair, and, to the locals, simply as "The Fair" or "Expo 84", closes.source
  • 1984Melek Gürkan wins Miss Asia Pacific International.source
  • 1989An Islamist mob attacked Hindu shops and temples in Narsingdi. More than 25 Hindu-owned shops were set on fire and images in three temples were smashed.source
  • 1992The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.source
  • 1993United Nations Security Council Resolution 883 increases the strength of the sanctions levelled against Libya in UNSC Resolutions 731 and 748. The sanctions were strengthened due to Gaddafi's continued refusal to extradite the suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.source
  • 1994Iraq formally rescinds its claims over Kuwait, which it has claimed as a province since 1990 and had administered under military occupation until 1991 when it was ejected by an international coalition during the Persian Gulf War.source
  • 1994Duy Tan University, Vietnam's University, is established.source
  • 1995The Bilbao Metro begins operation.source
  • 1997Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom, the largest merger in U.S. history.source
  • 1999The opening of Xindian Line of Taipei Metro.source
  • 2000Bosnian parliamentary election, 2000source
  • 2000Kaprun disaster, Austria: A funicular fire in an Alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders.source
  • 2000Kaprun disaster: A cable car fire in an alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders.source
  • 2004Yasser Arafat, 75, first President of the Palestinian National Authority, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and founder and leader of Fatah.source
  • 2005Saudi Arabia becomes a member of the World Trade Organization after twelve years of talks.source
  • 2005In Kazakhstan, Zamanbek Nurkadilov, former mayor of Almaty, government minister and a political opponent of Nursultan Nazarbayev is found dead at his family compound.source
  • 2005oppositionist Zamanbek Nurkadilov is found dead in his apartment in Almaty.source
  • 2006Sony releases the PlayStation 3.source
  • 2010November 11–12 – The G-20 summit is held in Seoul, South Korea. Korea becomes the first non-G8 nation to host a G-20 leaders summit.source
  • 2012Slovenian presidential election, 2012source
  • 2018Many nations around the world, particularly ones in Europe and the Commonwealth, along with the United States, commemorate the centenary of the end of World War I with Armistice Day, Veterans Day, and Remembrance Day ceremonies, speeches, parades, and memorials.source
  • 2019The government of Botswana orders the church of Shepherd Bushiri to stop congregating in the country.source
  • 2021SpaceX launches the Crew-3 mission, carrying four Expedition 66 crew members to the International Space Station.source
  • 2021October 31–November 13 – The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Glasgow, after being postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19. A deal is agreed by world leaders, which includes a "phasedown" of unabated coal power, a 30% cut in methane emissions by 2030, plans for a halt to deforestation by 2030, and increased financial support for developing countries.source
  • 20222022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Ukrainian forces recapture Kherson, the only regional capital to be taken by Russia since the start of the war.source
  • 2022November 6–November 18 – The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) on climate change mitigation takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.source
  • 2022The cryptocurrency exchange FTX, once valued at $18 billion, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, in a collapse that affects the cryptocurrency environment.source
  • 2024Birth Anniversary of Fourth Druk Gyalposource
  • 2024November 11–22 – COP29 is held in Baku, Azerbaijan.source
  • 2025November 10–21 – The COP30 summit is held in Belém, Brazil, focusing on the role of the Amazon rainforest in climate action.source

Births

  • 990Gisela of Swabia, Holy Roman Empress (died 1043)source
  • 1050Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1106)source
  • 1082Ramon Berenguer III, count of Barcelona (died 1132)source
  • 1154Sancho I, king of Portugal (died 1211)source
  • 1155Alfonso VIII, king of Castile (died 1214)source
  • 1220Alphonse II, count of Poitiers (died 1271)source
  • 1328Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (died 1360)source
  • 1430Jošt of Rožmberk, Bishop of Breslau, Grand Prior of the Order of St. John (died 1467)source
  • 1441Charlotte of Savoy, French queen (died 1483)source
  • 144111 November Charlotte of Savoy, wife of Louis XI (died 1483)source
  • 1449Catherine of Poděbrady, Hungarian Queen (died 1464)source
  • 1474Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (died 1566)source
  • 1481Christoph von Scheurl, German writer (died 1542)source
  • 1491Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (died 1551)source
  • 1493November 11 or December 17 – Paracelsus, born Philippus von Hohenheim, Swiss physician and scientist (died 1541)source
  • 1512Marcin Kromer, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (died 1589)source
  • 1551Giovanni I Cornaro, Doge of Venice (died 1629)source
  • 1559Tokuhime, Japanese noble (died 1636)source
  • 1579Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (died 1657)source
  • 1599Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (died 1656)source
  • 1599Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, German princess and queen consort of Sweden (died 1655)source
  • 1612August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, (died 1675 in the Holy Roman Empire)source
  • 1633George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer and statesman (died 1695)source
  • 1642André Charles Boulle, French cabinet-maker (died 1732)source
  • 1642André Charles Boulle, cabinetmaker (died 1732)source
  • 1668Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar (died 1736)source
  • 1679Firmin Abauzit, French scientist (died 1767)source
  • 1684Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, English noble (died 1750)source
  • 1706Frederick William II, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, last Prince of Nassau-Siegen from the Calvinist line (died 1734)source
  • 1748King Charles IV of Spain (died 1819)source
  • 1758Caleb P. Bennett, U.S. soldier, politician (died 1836)source
  • 1785Diponegoro, Javanese Prince (died 1855)source
  • 1792Mary Anne Evans, wife of Benjamin Disraeli (died 1872)source
  • 1821Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian writer (died 1881)source
  • 1852Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (died 1925)source
  • 1869Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (died 1947)source
  • 1885George S. Patton, American general (died 1945)source
  • 1888Johannes Itten, painter and teacher (died 1967)source
  • 1904Alger Hiss, American lawyer, government official, author and lecturer (died 1996)source
  • 1922Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (died 2007)source
  • 1934Latha Walpola, Sri Lankan singer (died 2025)source
  • 1945Daniel Ortega, 58th and 62nd President of Nicaraguasource
  • 1955Friedrich Merz, German politician, Chancellor of Germanysource
  • 1974Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor, producer and environmentalistsource
  • 2008Lee Hyo-song, professional golfersource

Deaths

  • 360Abramios the Recluse, Byzantine Orthodox priest and saintsource
  • 405Arsacius of Tarsus, archbishop of Constantinoplesource
  • 683Yazid I, Muslim caliph (born 647)source
  • 700Di Renjie, official of the Tang dynasty (born 630)source
  • 865Petronas, Byzantine generalsource
  • 875Teutberga, queen of Lotharingiasource
  • 1014Werner, margrave of the North Marchsource
  • 1028Constantine VIII, Byzantine emperor (born 960)source
  • 1028Emperor Constantine VIII dies at Constantinople after a 3-year reign. On his deathbed, and without a male heir, Constantine arranges that his eldest daughter, Zoë Porphyrogenita, succeeds him and marries the Byzantine nobleman, Romanos III (Argyros).source
  • 1048Adalbert, duke of Upper Lorraine (born 1000)source
  • 1078Udo, archbishop of Triersource
  • 1089Peter Igneus, Italian cardinal-bishopsource
  • 1096Werner I, German nobleman (House of Habsburg)source
  • 1130Teresa of León, Countess of Portugal, Portuguese regent (born 1080)source
  • 1164Hugh of Amiens, French archbishopsource
  • 1189William II ("the Good"), king of Sicily (born 1153)source
  • 1189King William II of Sicily ("the Good"), having made peace with Emperor Isaac II and abandoned Thessalonika and other conquests, dies childless at Palermo. The Sicilian nobles elect Tancred of Lecce (illegitimate son of Roger II) as the new ruler of Sicily, instead of Princess Constance and her husband Henry VI, to avoid German rule.source
  • 1238Matsudono Moroie, Japanese nobleman (born 1172)source
  • 1254Gil Torres, Spanish archdeacon and cardinalsource
  • 1264Farinata degli Uberti, Italian nobleman (born 1212)source
  • 1288Beatrice of Brabant, countess of Flanders (born 1225)source
  • 1331King Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (born c. 1285)source
  • 1462Anne of Cyprus, Italian noble (born 1418)source
  • 1464Filip I is appointed by the Grand Duke of Moscow as the new List of metropolitans and patriarchs of Moscow, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, after the September 13 death of the Patriarch Theodosius.source
  • 1561Hans Tausen, Danish reformer (born 1494)source
  • 1583Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel (born c. 1533)source
  • 1583Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, is killed at Glenaginty in the Slieve Mish Mountains (near Tralee in County Kerry) by the Moriarty clan of Castledrum on the Dingle Peninsula, bringing an end to the Desmond Rebellions and resulting in the extinction of the Desmond palatinate.source
  • 1593Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (born 1537)source
  • 1675Thomas Willis, English doctor who played an important part in the history of anatomy (born 1621)source
  • 1675Guru Teg Bahadur, ninth of the Sikh gurus, is executed by Mughal rulers, proclaiming that he prefers death rather than disavowing the right of Hindus to practice their own religion. He is succeeded by Guru Gobind Singh, who becomes the tenth Guru.source
  • 1677Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (born 1619)source
  • 1778Anne Steele, English hymnwriter and essayist (born 1717)source
  • 177830 people in the Cherry Valley massacresource
  • 1831Nat Turner, American slave rebel (born 1800)source
  • 1855Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (born 1813)source
  • 1861Pedro V of Portugal, king (born 1837)source
  • 1880Ned Kelly, Australian bush ranger (hanged) (born c. 1855)source
  • 1880Lucretia Mott, American social activist (born 1793)source
  • 1911Otojirō Kawakami, actor and comedian (born 1864)source
  • 1917Liliʻuokalani, last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii (born 1838)source
  • 1960Monte Attell, American boxer (born 1885)source
  • 2004Palestinian president Yasser Arafat dies. Mahmoud Abbas is appointed as his successor.source
  • 2004Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian political leader and chairman PLO, President of the Palestinian Authority.source
  • 2019Winston Lackin, politician (born 1954).source
  • 2021F. W. de Klerk, 85, South African politician, state president (1989–1994) and deputy president (1994–1996), Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1993), mesothelioma.source