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November 12 in history

209 sourced entries recorded on November 12, from 256 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 954Lothair III is crowned by Artald, archbishop of Reims, at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom. His mother, Queen Gerberga of Saxony, appoints Hugh the Great as regent.source
  • 1094Donald III mobilises his army and kills Duncan II in battle in the Scottish Lowlands, re-taking the Scottish throne.source
  • 1123In Spain, Queen Urraca of León and Castile, the self-proclaimed Imperator totius Hispaniae ("Empress of All Spain"), formally acknowledges 8-year-old Fernando Pérez de Lara as her son and an heir, after he was born out of wedlock from her relationship with Count Pedro González de Lara.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
  • 1216Great Charter of Ireland ("Magna Carta Hiberniae") issued in the name of King Henry III of England.source
  • 1216Prince Louis of France besieges Hertford Castle, held by Sir Walter de Godarville.source
  • 1216William Marshal and Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, Italian diplomat and papal legate to England, issue a Charter of Liberties, based on Magna Carta, in the new king's name.source
  • 1239Sultan as-Salih Ayyub sends an Ayyubid army to Gaza to protect the Egyptian border. At nightfall, Henry of Bar, jealous of the successful ambush of Peter of Brittany, decides to march out towards Gaza with a Crusader force (some 500 knights and 1,000 soldiers). Although warned by Theobald I, Henry sets up camp in a flat terrain surrounded by sand dunes near Gaza.source
  • 1304King Edward I summons the English Parliament for the first time in more than two years.source
  • 1323Pope John XXII issues the papal bull Cum inter nonnullos as an addendum to the December 8 bull Ad conditorem canonum, declaring that the assertion of the Fraticelli that Christ and the Apostles possessed no property (and advocated poverty as a Christian virtue) is a heresy.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
  • 1375At Brno, now in the Czech Republic, Jobst of Luxembourg (Jošt Lucemburský) becomes the new margrave of Moravia, succeeding his father Jan Jindřich Lucemburský.source
  • 1384The 12th parliament of King Richard II assembles and elects James Pickering as Speaker of the House for the fourth consecutive time.source
  • 1390King Richard II opens at Westminster, and the House of Commons elects Sir James Pickering as its Speaker of the House.source
  • 1415The English Parliament is closed after accomplishing the passage of the Money Act 1415, upgrading the penalty for importing or offering in payment "any sort of money forbidden by former statutes" to a felony.source
  • 1427To avoid further destruction of the Chinese army, General Wang Tong begins withdrawing troops from northern Vietnam's Jiaozhi region, having accepted a proposal by Vietnam without the approval of China's Xuande Emperor. The Emperor is informed of the proposal and agrees on November 20 to accept terms of peace.source
  • 1432Pope Eugene IV authorizes Cardinal Giuliano Cesarini to close the Council of Basel, but Cesarini declines to do so.source
  • 1434Bishop Nils Ragvaldsson of Sweden delivers a speech at the Council of Basel, arguing the Kingdom of Sweden and its monarch, Eric of Pomerania deserve senior rank over the Spanish delegation.source
  • 1434René of Anjou becomes the new Count of Provence and Duke of Anjou, as well as a claimant to the title of King of Naples, upon the death of his brother, Louis III.source
  • 1437King Charles VII of France and his son Prince Louis ride into Paris for the first time in 17 years after the royal family had fled from the invasion by the Duke of Burgundy in 1420.source
  • 1437Charles VII and his son the future Louis XI enter Paris in triumph following its recapture from the English during the Hundred Years Warsource
  • 1439Parliament is opened and the House of Commons elects William Tresham as its speaker.source
  • 1439Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by Parliament.source
  • 1458(6th waxing of Nadaw 820 ME) Min Khayi, ruler of the Burmese Kingdom of Arakan leads a successful defense of an invasion from the Shan State by his son, Prince Min Swe.source
  • 1459Pope Pius II issues the papal bull Inter Ceteras, founding the University of Basel in Switzerland, though the university does not begin operations until April 4 the following year.source
  • 1467Regent of Sweden Erik Axelsson Tott supports the re-election of deposed Charles VIII of Sweden to the throne.source
  • 1471Shah Suwar, the ruler of the independent Ottoman Governor of the semi-independent Anatolian Turk Beylik of Dulkadir is defeated by the army of the Egyptian Mamluk General Yashbak min Mahdi in a battle at Kars, sustaining more than 300 soldiers lost and losing most of his lands in what is now southeastern Turkey. After fleeing to the castle of Zamantu for refuge, Suwar is cornered again by Yashbak and surrenders on June 4, 1472, and executed two months later.source
  • 1501Sten Sture the Elder is elected Regent of Sweden for the second time, becoming the Scandinavian nation's chief executive after King Hans of Denmark is deposed. No replacement of the monarchy is planned by the rebel Swedish nobles.source
  • 1568Dutch rebels commanded by William the Silent defeat Spanish Habsburg troops led by Sancho d'Avila in the battle of Le Quesnoy in northern France.source
  • 1592The Collegium Melitense is founded in Malta by Bishop Garagallo.source
  • 1597Lingen capitulates to forces led by Maurice of Nassau.source
  • 1614The Treaty of Xanten ends the War of the Jülich Succession.source
  • 1694The Army of Algeria captures Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, after a siege of three months, bringing an end to the Tunisian–Algerian War. Mohamed Bey El Mouradi, the Bey of Tunis, flees southward while Prince Muhammad ben Cheker of Tunisia becomes the new Dey on behalf of the Dey of Algiers, Hadj Ahmed.source
  • 1696Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society, as predecessor to Aviva, is founded in England.source
  • 1712A riot takes place in Dublin during a performance of Nicholas Rowe's Tamerlane a play which supports the Whig view of William III as a justified conqueror of Britain and Ireland. A prologue written by the Whiggish Samuel Garth is read, which inflames Tory and Jacobite opinion.source
  • 1713The 1713 British general election concludes with the conservative Tories winning 358 of the 558 available seats in the House of Commons, and the liberal Whigs having 200.source
  • 1713Following the general election, Sir Humphrey Mackworth is replaced as MP for Cardiganshire by the Whig Thomas Johnes the elder, after a scandal involving the collapse of his Company of Mine Adventures; in the same year, forms the Company of Mineral Manufacturers which remains in business for only six years.source
  • 1716Johann Sigismund Kusser (Cousser) is appointed "Master of the Music, attending His Majesties State in Ireland".source
  • 1718Georg Heinrich von Görtz leaves the negotiations with Russia with a proposed peace treaty.source
  • 1749In response to the increasing number of starving people moving into Paris from rural parts of France, King Louis XV issues an ordinance that "all the beggars and vagabonds who shall be found either in the streets of Paris, or in churches or church doorways, or in the countryside around Paris, of whatever age or sex, shall be arrested and conducted into prisons, to stay there as long as shall be necessary."source
  • 1753Spain's King Fernando VI issues a set of 25 regulations and restrictions for theatrical performances, including a requirement that the directors of the acting troupes "take the greatest care that the necessary modesty is preserved" and that the actors should be reminded that chastity requires that "indecent and provocative" dances should be avoided.source
  • 1753A fire destroys the Emperor's Palace in Moscow.source
  • 1766John, Lord Mountstuart marries Charlotte Jane, granddaughter of Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor.source
  • 1769The Gorkhali Army conquer the last standing Malla Kingdom of Bhaktapur marking the end of The Malla dynasty in Nepal.source
  • 1789The Norwegian army retreated from Bohuslen back to Norway. During the retreat, the Norwegian army lost 1,500-3,000 men to hunger, disease, poor sanitary conditions, and exposure to continual autumn rainfallsource
  • 1793French Revolution: Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.source
  • 1793French Revolution: Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.source
  • 1796Battle of Caldiero: French forces are defeated by the Austrians at Caldiero, and pushed back to Verona. This marks Napoleon's first defeat, losing nearly 2,000 men and 2 guns.source
  • 1796Groton, New Hampshire is incorporated as a town.source
  • 1808Four large French frigates under the command of Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, including the Venus, are sent to operate from Isle de France (Mauritius) against British trade in the Indian Ocean, triggering the Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811.source
  • 1814Kendall appointed Justice of the Peace for New Zealand by Governor Macquarie.source
  • 1820Kendall is ordained as a priest by Bowyer Sparke, Bishop of Ely.source
  • 1823The first Constitution of Peru is proclaimed, albeit it is almost immediately annulled by Simón Bolívar.source
  • 1823Pedro I of Brazil closes the Constituent Assembly.source
  • 1828Anouvong, ruler of the Kingdom of Vientiane, is deposed and the kingdom is annexed by Siam. During the war, the city of Vientiane is obliterated by Siamese forces.source
  • 1833November 12–13 – A very spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed all over North America, and is the inspiration for the song "Stars Fell on Alabama".source
  • 1833November 12–13 – "The night the stars fell on Alabama": A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed in Alabama.source
  • 1834The Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg loses its independence when the estates not bequeathed to princes Victor and Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst are reunited with Hesse-Kassel.source
  • 1835Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.source
  • 1858Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, succeeds to the throne aged 18; he will rule until his death in 1929, the second-longest in European royal history and the longest precisely documented tenure of any monarch without a regent since antiquity.source
  • 1860The Victorian College for the Deaf is opened in a small house in Peel Street Windsor.source
  • 1868Archibald Tait is offered the post of Archbishop of Canterbury.source
  • 1872Dresdner Bank is founded in Dresden, Germany.source
  • 1872Dresdner Bank is foundedsource
  • 1893The Durand Line is established as the boundary between British India and Afghanistan, by a memorandum of understanding signed by Sir Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan.source
  • 1898The Earl of Minto takes office as the new Governor General of Canada.source
  • 1905Norway holds a plebiscite on the monarchy, resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.source
  • 1912'Black Tuesday', the peak of confrontation during the Waihi miners' strike. One trade unionist is killed.source
  • 1915William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg win the Nobel Prize in Physics "For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays."source
  • 1918Night Watch wins the Melbourne Cup.source
  • 1921Washington Naval Conference opens at Memorial Continental Hall Hall in downtown Washington DC.source
  • 1922Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by seven educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis.source
  • 1923Her Highness Princess Maud of Fife marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie, in Wellington Barracks, London.source
  • 1925Submarine HMS M1 sinks in the English Channel after collision with a civilian surface vessel with the loss of all 69 hands.source
  • 1927Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.source
  • 1927The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic, as the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River, linking New Jersey with New York City.source
  • 1928Liner SS Vestris develops a severe starboard list, is abandoned and sinks approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia; estimated deaths range from 110 to 127.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
  • 1931November 4–18 - Jiangqiao Campaignsource
  • 1936Temple Entry Proclamation in Travancore.source
  • 1936In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.source
  • 1938French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud brings into effect a series of laws aiming at improving French productivity (thus aiming to undo the economic weaknesses which led to Munich), and undoes most of the economic and social laws of the Popular Front.source
  • 1940WWII: The Battle of Gabon, begun on October 27, concludes with Free French Forces taking control of the colony of Gabon and the remainder of French Equatorial Africa from the Vichy regime.source
  • 1941As the Battle of Moscow begins, temperatures around Moscow drop to −12 °C, and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time, against the freezing German forces near the city.source
  • 1944WWII: Operation Catechism – German battleship Tirpitz is sunk by British Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers near Tromsø in Norway. Estimated casualties range from 950 to 1,204.source
  • 1946A truce is declared between Indonesian nationalist troops and the Dutch army in Indonesia.source
  • 1946In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank (later part of the Bank of America) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.source
  • 1946In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank (later part of the LaSalle Bank) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.source
  • 1949The Volkswagen Type 2 panel van is unveiled in Germany.source
  • 1951The National Ballet of Canada performs for the first time in Eaton Auditorium, Toronto.source
  • 1952Murder of Patricia Curran, 19-year-old daughter of Sir Lancelot Curran. Iain Hay Gordon was found guilty of her murder, but the sentence was overturned in 2000.source
  • 1954The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes permanently.source
  • 1956Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.source
  • 1960The Old National Library Building (demolished in 2004) was opened.source
  • 1963Angeles becomes a city in the province of Pampanga through ratification of Republic Act 3700.source
  • 1964Grand Duchesse Charlotte abdicates and is succeeded by her son, Jean.source
  • 1965The reestablishment of National Palace Museum in Shilin District, Taipei.source
  • 1966A total solar eclipse occurs, the 20th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 142.source
  • 1970Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to three years imprisonment for 'anti-Soviet' writings.source
  • 1970East Pakistan: The Bhola cyclone devastates the region, resulting in extreme loss of life. The poor management in the aftermath of the cyclone is considered as one of the triggers of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.source
  • 1971Vietnam War – Vietnamization: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.source
  • 1973Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee and two other leaders drove a Bullock cart to the Parliament of India on the first day of winter session to protest against fuel price hike in India following the oil crisis.source
  • 1973Bangladesh joined FAO.source
  • 1976Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son Andrew from Inverness in Scotland; this becomes Britain's longest-running missing persons case.source
  • 1978The Huanchaca street scandal occurs, when 7 young homosexuals were detained in a house located at number 352 of said street in the city of Antofagasta.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
  • 1981The Church of England General Synod votes to admit women to holy orders.source
  • 1984Western Sahara conflict: Morocco leaves the Organization of African Unity in protest at the admission of Western Sahara as a member.source
  • 1985A total solar eclipse occurs over Antarctica at 14:11:22 UTC.source
  • 1987The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Mainland China opens in Beijing, near Tiananmen Square.source
  • 1990Akihito is enthroned as the 125th emperor of Japan following the death of his father on January 7, 1989.source
  • 1990Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web.source
  • 1993London Convention: Marine dumping of radioactive waste is outlawed.source
  • 1995Adoption of Constitution of Azerbaijansource
  • 1995The Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme, a programme to implement the Harare Declaration, is announced by the Commonwealth Heads of Government.source
  • 1996Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides in mid-air with Kazakhstan Airlines Il-76 in New Delhi, India, resulting in the loss of 349 lives.source
  • 1997Mary McAleese is elected the eighth President of Ireland in succession to Mary Robinson, the first time in the world that one woman has succeeded another as elected head of state.source
  • 1999The 7.2 Mw Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people are killed and almost 5,000 are injured.source
  • 2000The United States recognizes the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.source
  • 20012001 uprising in Herat: Northern Alliance forces take the city of Herat from the Taliban.source
  • 2001SES Global completes its acquisition of GE Americom.source
  • 2001American Airlines Flight 587 crashes in Belle Harbor, Queens, on the Rockaway Peninsula shortly after takeoff, killing all 260 people aboard the plane as well as five people on the ground.source
  • 2006The breakaway state of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.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
  • 2013Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a series of portraits of Lucian Freud by the British painter Francis Bacon, sells for US$142.4 million in a New York City auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.source
  • 2014The uncrewed Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe successfully lands on Comet 67P, the first time in history that a spacecraft has landed on such an object.source
  • 20152015 Beirut bombings: Two suicide bombers detonate explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.source
  • 2017Virgin Samoa ceases operations.source
  • 2017A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the border region between Iraq and Iran leaving at least 530 dead and over 70,000 homeless.source
  • 20192019 Bolivian protests: Jeanine Áñez took power as interim President of Bolivia amidst political crisis.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
  • 2022November 6–November 18 – The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) on climate change mitigation takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.source
  • 2024Justin Welby announces his resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury following the publication of a report critical of his handling of the abuse of children within the Church of England by John Smyth.source
  • 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

  • 1450Jacques of Savoy, Count of Romont, Prince of Savoy (died 1486)source
  • 1492Johan Rantzau, German general (died 1565)source
  • 1524Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán (died 1579)source
  • 1528Qi Jiguang, Chinese military general (died 1588)source
  • 1547Claude of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France (died 1575)source
  • 1547Claude of Valois, Duchess of Lorraine, daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici (d.1575).source
  • 1559Yaza Datu Kalaya, Crown Princess of Burma (died 1603)source
  • 1579Albrecht of Hanau-Münzenberg, German nobleman (died 1635)source
  • 1606Jeanne Mance, French nurse and settler of New France (died 1673)source
  • 1615Richard Baxter, English Puritan church leader (died 1691)source
  • 1627Diego Luis de San Vitores, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Guam (died 1672)source
  • 1648Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican Hieronymite nun and polymath (died 1695)source
  • 1651Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican nun, writer and poet (died 1695)source
  • 1655Francis Nicholson, British Army general, colonial administrator (died 1727)source
  • 1655Francis Nicholson, military officer and colonial governor (died 1728)source
  • 1666Mary Astell, English writer (died 1731)source
  • 1666Mary Astell, feminist writer (died 1731)source
  • 1684Edward Vernon, English admiral (died 1757)source
  • 1684Edward Vernon, admiral (died 1757)source
  • 1729Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator and military commander (died 1811)source
  • 1755Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (died 1813)source
  • 1815Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (died 1902)source
  • 1817Bahá'u'lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (died 1892)source
  • 1817Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith.source
  • 1839Frank Furness, American architect, soldier (died 1912)source
  • 1840Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (died 1917)source
  • 1866Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary (died 1925)source
  • 1929Grace Kelly, American actress, later Princess of Monaco (died 1982)source
  • 1934Charles Manson, American cult leader and murderer (died 2017)source
  • 1945Neil Young, Canadian singer-songwriter, musiciansource
  • 1974Tareck El Aissami, former vice presidentsource
  • 2014Grunt, Thoroughbred racehorsesource

Deaths

  • 256Lü Ju (or Shiyi), Chinese general and politiciansource
  • 657Livinus, Irish apostlesource
  • 966Abu Ishaq Ibrahim of Ghazna, Samanid governorsource
  • 973Burchard III, Frankish noblemansource
  • 975Notker Physicus, Swiss paintersource
  • 1035King Cnut the Great dies at Shaftesbury, leaving the rule of England in dispute between his sons Harthacnut and Harold Harefoot. The earls of Northumbria and Mercia support Harold's claim, while Godwin (Earl of Wessex) supports Harthacnut. Harold is elected as regent (or joint ruler) of England. Cnut is buried in the Old Minster, in Winchester.source
  • 1035Cnut, king of Denmark, Norway and Englandsource
  • 1087William I of Burgundy, French nobleman (born 1020)source
  • 1094Duncan II, king of Scotlandsource
  • 1110Gebhard III, bishop of Constancesource
  • 1127Godbald (or Godebald), bishop of Utrechtsource
  • 1150Hartbert van Bierum, bishop of Utrechtsource
  • 1202Canute VI, king of Denmark (born 1163)source
  • 1209Phillipe de Plessis, French Grand Master (born 1165)source
  • 1227Al-Mu'azzam Isa, Ayyubid ruler of Damascus, dies after a 11-year reign. He is succeeded by his 21-year-old son, An-Nasir Dawud, who faces opposition from his uncle, Sultan Al-Kamil of Egypt.source
  • 1227Al-Mu'azzam Isa, Ayyubid ruler (born 1176)source
  • 1242Jocelin of Wells, English bishopsource
  • 1347John of Viktring, Austrian chronicler and political advisor in Carinthia (born 1270–1280)source
  • 1375John Henry, Margrave of Moravia (born 1322)source
  • 1434King Louis III of Anjou (born 1403)source
  • 1555Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and Lord Chancellor (born 1493)source
  • 1562Peter Martyr Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1500)source
  • 1567Anne de Montmorency, 1st Duke of Montmorency, Constable of France (born 1493)source
  • 1567Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (born 1493)source
  • 1595John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (born 1532)source
  • 1617Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy, secretary of state under four kings of France (born 1543)source
  • 1623Josaphat Kuncevyc, Lithuanian archbishop (born c. 1582)source
  • 1671Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (born 1612)source
  • 1671Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, Civil War general (born 1612)source
  • 1693Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1623)source
  • 1712Tokugawa Ienobu, Japanese Edo shōgun (born 1662)source
  • 1720Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (born 1690)source
  • 1720Peter Tordenskjold, nobleman and naval flag officer (born 1690).source
  • 1742Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician, chemist (born 1660)source
  • 1818Thomas Holloway King, the first European born in New Zealand, dies, and is buried at Rangihoua.source
  • 1832Henry Eckford, Scottish-born American shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer, and entrepreneur (born 1775)source
  • 1846William Findlay, American politician (born 1768)source
  • 1865Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist, biographer (born 1810)source
  • 1898Nakahama Manjirō, translator and castaway (born 1827)source
  • 1912José Canalejas, Prime Minister, is murdered in Madrid by an anarchist.source
  • 1969Liu Shaoqi, President of China (born 1898)source